Newsroom. Hi everyone. Jessica dean in new york, breaking News Coverage is tropical Storm Debby approaches floridas northwest gulf coast. Debbie is forecast to rapidly strengthen over the next few hours, becoming a category one hurricane that storm has about 125 miles west by southwest off tampa. Its forecast to make Landfall Tomorrow Morning near the big Bend Region of the State Flooding has already begun. Officials there urging people to prepare the biggest threat and most widespread threat is going to be the heavy rainfall and the potential for considerable Flooding Flash and urban flooding across portions of florida and into the coastal Southeastern United States from today all the way through thursday and there will be the possibility of River Flooding in many locations as well as that heavier rainfall falls on drains into River Basins cnn Meteorologist Chad myers is tracking debbie in our weather center. Chad, what are you seeing . Whats the latest on the storm . Well, the Radar
50 republican senators, some who, along with trump, perpetuated that big lie, some who acted as shells for President Trump as he tried to toss aside democracy. Big question today for House Democrats, will their prosecution of the former president include witnesses . Another big question, what will the president s defense look like . This morning there is rare consensus across both aisles that the president s legal team blundered its way through their opening presentation, rambled, disor disorganized, embarrassed, terrible. Those are how republican senators label the performance of the president s two lawyers and their performance reportedly enraged the former president. Also breaking news into cnn this hour, prosecutors in georgia have opened a criminal investigation into then President Trumps phone call to Election Officials there. In that call the president tried to strongarm officials to, quote, find sufficient votes to reverse his loss in georgia. Well have more on that in a moment
, the venue for an american 1st 100 center street in downtown manhattan, playing host to a new chapter in u. s history. today the arrest and arraignment of donald trump. former president trump is back in the city that made him famous. but this time to face a new reality, the first ever former president to face criminal charges. good afternoon to our viewers around the world. i m anderson cooper, new york and i m jake tapper in washington, d c. we re just hours away from the opening gavel. of the people of the state of new york versus donald j. trump this is the scene, the manhattan criminal courts complex for mr trump. will surrender. we re told and then where prosecutors will drop and indictment spelling out multiple charges against him at this very moment, we still do not know exactly what those charges are and how many there are connected to mr trump s alleged scheme to buy the silence of adult film actress and director stormy, daniels said a pivotal 2016 campaign moment.
welcome to the lead. i m dana bash in for jake tapper. we begin with our politics lead. donald trump today invoked his fifth amendment right in a deposition with a new york attorney general who is investigating the trump organization s finances. this deposition lasting more than five hours. in a lengthy statement, the former president claims he had no choice, saying he s the target of an unfounded politically motivated witch hunt. this from the man who once asked if you re innocent, why are you taking the fifth? this is one of at least seven criminal, sifcivil, and congressional investigations trump is facing. that includes the probe that led to the fbi search at his mar-a-lago home on monday. that was died to the doj s investigation into the handling of classified documents cnn s sara murray has more on today s derailed deposition against the backdrop of the extraordinary legal jeopardy trump faces. what s your message to your supporters? as donald trump s legal woes
popularity of women s american football as a new series in the sport gets under way. and we have the weather. the weather does not look particularly inspiring this weekend. there will be a lot of cloud around and it will be fairly blustery as well. all the details in 15 minutes. first, our main story. motorists should think long and hard before buying a diesel car, that s the message from the transport secretary, chris grayling. he s urging drivers to consider a less polluting vehicle instead. four in ten cars on britain s roads are diesel. under labour they had been billed as the clean alternative to petrol with reduced fuel taxes. now they re said to be one of the reasons for increasing levels of air pollution. let s get more on this with our correspondent nick quraishi who s in central london. these comments by chris grayling in the daily mail are a complete different to what labour did when it was in power. in 2001, gordon brown reduced tax on low sulphur fuel. that had t