court. will trump follow suit? and just in, police releasing new surveillance video showing the jacksonville killer moments before he opened fire, targeting black shoppers. this as we re learning more about why he was forced to abandon what may have been an original plan. and prepare for evacuate. warnings now up for florida s gulf coast as tropical storm idalia rapidly intensifies. it is expected to be a major hurricane by the time it makes landfall. let s go outfront. good evening. i m erica hill in for erin burnett. outfront tonight, trump on trial. a federal judge announcing his 2020 election interference case will begin in march of next year. that is two years sooner than trump s team had requested. they wanted it pushed out to april of 2026. judge tanya chutkan saying it will actually begin in six months on march 4th, to be exact. that s one day before super tuesday. and while we re keeping track here, it also comes just two months before the start of his classi
world. i m rosemary church. ahead on cnn newsroom, drama unfolds on two fronts as the cases against donald trump and his allies enter a new phase. we re tracking a tropical storm headed towards florida. and expect it to strengthen into a hurricane before it makes landfall this week. plus an emotional vigil in jackson florida after a mass shooting motivated by hate took the lives of three people. live from cnn center. this is cnn newsroom. with rosemary church. thanks for joining us. a hurricane watch is in effect for portions of florida s gulf coast where tropical storm idalia is expected to make landfall as a hurricane later this week. some counties announced school closures and voluntary evacuation, latest updates the storm is strengthening quickly. it s expected to bring hurricane force winds to forewestern cuba monday and make a put bee line for the western side of florida s panhandle. cara mcguinness is monitoring the storm for us, karen what s the the latest on this
the county jail is now center stage for one of the most high-profile legal battles in history. law enforcement on high alert across atlanta because hours from now former president donald trump is surrendering. the former president will leave his new jersey golf club for the fulton county, georgia jail where he ll be booked on charges that include conspiracy and racketeering. and in a last-minute shake-up trump replaced his top georgia defense lawyer. we re following all of those details, jim. we are also outside the jail, where trump supporters and protesters have begun to gather along with an increased police presence. and we ve learned that security has ramped up at the prosecutor s offices as well. we ll have more on those precautions. but first, cnn s katelyn polantz has some breaking news on a potential trial date for trump and his co-defendants. katelyn, what do we know? reporter: we just saw a filing from the district attorney here asking for an october 23rd trial
a post-election trial in the georgia elections case, and that could actually happen. we ll have expert legal analysis for you straight ahead. meanwhile, a codefendant in that case is taking a different approach. we ll explain the strategy for trump s former chief of staff, mark meadows. meanwhile, president joe biden was on the road yesterday talking about everything but the latest indictment for his predecessor. we ll show you what he was focused on instead. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, august 16th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. the clock has begun on the ten-day windowt that former president trump and his 18 codefendants have to voluntarily turn themselves in. fulton county district attorney fani willis announced a sweeping election interference indictment on monday night and gave everyone charged until august 25th to surrender to authorities. if and when they appear they ll do so at the fulton county jail i
frustrations over poll numbers. what he is facing heading to 2024, as the 11th hour gets underway on this monday night. greetings, everyone. i am symone symone sanders townsend, in for stephanie ruhle. tonight, donald trump s extreme rhetoric ramps up as he campaigns with four weeks to go to the iowa caucuses, the first big test this week, the republican front-runner appeared before supporters in new hampshire, nevada, and said this about immigrants coming to the united states. when they let, i think the real number is 15, 16 million people into our country, when they do that, we got a lot of work to do. they are poisoning the blood of our country, that s what they have done. they are coming to our country from africa, from asia, all over the world. they are pouring into our country. when i m reelected, we will begin, and we have no choice, the largest deportation operation in american history. this is an invasion. this is like a military invasion. drugs, crimin