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might s ancient sequoias as wildfires close in. i m standing right in front of the grizzly giant and we ve got a sprinkler system set up in front of it. i m pamela brown in washington. you re live in the cnn newsroom. we want to take you right now to mariposa, california as evacuations are under way as fires threaten the ancient sequoias. our nick watt has just arrived on the scene. nick, how serious is the season there, and what are they doing to protect these incredibly special trees? reporter: well, we just have heard that the fight is going in the right direction, but it is still a huge fight. the flames are within a mile or two of mariposa grove which is home to about 500 of these giant, beautiful, ancient sequoia freeze, so the way that they are trying to contain the fireworks the way they are trying to keep those trees safe, they have 360 personnel on the ground, including hot shot cruise who are digging trenches around mariposa grove, a kind of break to ....
ahead for all of us. plus, after months of crying out for accountability, the police chief who led that botched response to a school shooting in uvalde, texas is fired. hear directly from parents naming other officials they want removed. if you check into a hotel knowing that a chance toof your neighbor to the left and right is a homeless person. that plan to house homes people and the sfeers debate surrounding it. it is saturday, august 27th. we re so grateful that you re starting your weekend with us. good morning, amara. good morning. up first, the new details in the documents. we are learning more information from the affidavit authorizing the search of former president trump s mar-a-lago residence. the heavily redacted affidavit revealing that classified documents found at the residence includes some of the country s most sensitive secrets. according to the filing, authorities had probable cause to believe that classified national security materials w ....
ndi, meaning national defense information. let s get to jessica schneider. the biggest revelations from this redacted affidavit? so, a lot of intricate and quite frankly startling details about the hundreds of pages of documents that the national archives worked for months to get back from mar-a-lago. so, most of this 37-page affidavit addresses the 15 boxes of material they finally got back in january of this year. 14 of those 15 boxes contained classified information. here s how it is broken down. 184 unique documents bearing classification markings, 67 of those marked confidential, 92 marked secret. 25 marked top secret. particularly alarming to the intelligence experts we ve been hearing from is there were, in fact, hcs markings on some of these documents, meaning that s information actually greened from human sources, that if that information is revealed, it could endanger the lives of people secretly working around the world for the government. these documents ....
kate bolduan in for erin bu burnett. going, quote, medieval, that s steve bannon. bannon is defiant on his podcast. pray for our enemies, okay? because we re going medieval on these people. we re going to savage our enemies, so pray for them. who needs prayers? not maga, not war room, and certainly not steven k. bannon. after leaving court today, bannon spoke briefly to reporters. listen. look, it was a very good first day. it was a long day for jury selection. and so it goes. now bannon faces two criminal charges for his failure to comply with a house january 6th investigation. it s been ten months since he received a subpoena from the committee. the case is a major test of how much power congress really has when a witness defies a subpoena. bannon, one of the biggest purveyors of trump s election lies was a key figure in the lead-up to january 6th. days before he was outlining trump s plan win or lose. in his words then, trump is just going to declare victory ....
particularly on the left. the school board finally deciding to fire pete arredondo. they have been waiting for some accountability, any accountability, for now going on three months. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. it is thursday, august 25, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 a.m. in washington and florida and we could see be learning more about why the fbi wanted to search donald trump s mar-a-lago estate. the u.s. justice department is facing a noon deadline to finalize their redactions to the affidavit that led to that search. and then a judge will decide what parts of that document should be made public. evan perez explains the process. reporter: we don t know what the judge is going to do. we know he is obviously he knows what is in this affidavit. he is very familiar with it. and he said that he is very comfortable with what he approved. we ll see whether the justice department will at least perhaps unredact some of the things tha ....