russia and north korea now talking about a weapons deal? welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m omar jimenez. idalia is still causing havoc. now a tropical storm, idalia is bringing widespread life threatening flash flooding to southeastern north carolina as it slowly heads offshore. allison chinchar is live in the cnn weather center. what is the latest from the national hurricane center at this 5:00 a.m. forecast? obviously this hurricane now trap tropical storm has changed a lot over the last 24 hours. indeed it has. yes, the latest update still has the winds at 60 miles per hour, but they are gusting up around 70 miles per hour. the forward movement still pretty quick at about 21 miles per hour. we still have quite a significant amount of people without power right now. overall the bulk of them are across georgia and florida, but even through the carolinas, if you add all of it together, you are looking at roughly 300,000 people. they
the 2020 election. 18 others charged as well, including big names. rudy giuliani, measuring meadows, with that many people, does it make it more likely that someone could flip. prosecutors call it a criminal enterprise and they are leaning hard on racketeering laws to make their case. i m kate bolduan with john berman and sara sidner. this is cnn news central. donald trump and 18 codefendants have 10 days to turn themselves in and surrender in georgia. in a 98-page indictment, the former president, who is also the current front runner for the 2024 republican nomination is accused of plotting against the very constitution he swore to protect. and the office he hopes to hold again. fulton county district attorney fani willis argues all 19 defendants refuseed to accept that trump lost and knowingly joined a conspiracy to change the outcome of the election. i make decisions base d on te facts and the law. the law is completely nonpartisan. that s how decisions are made
pair of legal bombshells here in washington today that could have huge ramifications for the 2024 election. last hour, attorney general merrick garland announced a federal prosecutor who is raiding hunter biden has been special counsel, at his question. david weiss requested the status change. garland did grant that. this comes just a few hour after trump s lawyers and special counsel prosecutors appeared for the first hearing in the election interference indictment. a key ruling could come down at any moment. we re on top of this. let s star with the hunter biden news. kara, tell us about this special appointment. merrick garland announced this a little less than an hour ago, that david weiss, overseeing the investigation into hunter biden, requested special counsel on tuesday. garland said he agreed to grant that. what this special counsel status means is david weiss, the u.s. attorney for delaware, will have authority to investigate this case anywhere in the u.s. t
here are tonight s headlines. water rescues underway in tennessee after more than 10 inches of rain falls in under 24 hours. literally everything in our yard, it floated away. john: mass chaos in new york s union square after crowds gather for a giveaway of gaming consoles and computers. we have seen at least a dozen people being arrested. john: school shooting reenactment. investigators fire dozens of rounds as part of a trial against the parkland, florida, resource officer, who never entered the school. he is still guilty of running away from our children. the victim in the decades-long gilgo beach murders investigation has been identified. authorities say jane doe number 7 was karen vergata. i think it is important that we remember and honor not only miss vergata, but all of the victims on gilgo beach. john: as the writers strike nears hundred days, the widespread effect it is having as a multibillion-dollar industry sits at a standstill.
document case as prosecutors alleged the former president s aides attempted to delete surveillance video. here are tonight s headlines. donald trump s lawyer meet with the special counsel s team an hour as a possible indictment over election interference looms. and the breaking news, a third defendant added in the mar-a-lago case. heat alerts are in effect for 35 states and washington, d.c. it is going to be hot, it is going to be humid. james: and tonight we are tracking severe weather with reports of tornadoes. speak with a crane collapse in s kitchen, we are learning more about what made have caused the train to catch fire. hydraulic fluid that leaked onto a hot plate near the engine of the crane. james: the new concerns about mitch mcconnell s health after we learn he has fallen multiple times this year before he froze midsentence at a press conference. the evasive action a pilot took to avoid a midair collision with the plane full of passenger