a week and a half after the deadliest wildfire in modern u.s. history, hundreds of people are still missing. the death toll is in the triple digits. we still don t know what sparked it all. and a little later, we ll talk live to an emergency room doctor who jumped into action to save survivors, and why he says it felt like a war zone. and later on, seized but not silenced. a small town kansas newspaper raided by police is back in business and not backing down. i ll talk to the papers attorney about why this is being called an attack on freedom of the press. all of bathrooms more is coming up. and a good saturday morning to you all, i m katie phang. we start this hour with two sobering moments for america, and the arrest warrant is out for a former president of the united states, and he could have a mugshot by this time next week. donald trump and his 80 codefendants have until friday at noon to voluntarily surrender at the fulton county georgia jail. but he is trying to
a line across. it you ll see moderators, lights, cameras all the normal stuff. a number of candidates with varying degrees of presidential potential will be lined up with their best flag, pins, and prepare lines ready for that debate. the days leading up, we ve been watching all of these candidates do the things candidates normally do. they re giving their speeches, shaking hands with voters, making the rounds at the iowa state fair. visiting swing states, but no matter how much they try to cling to a sort of, alternate reality, where this is any primary. and any of the meld a bag full of a bunch of hopeful presidential candidates. that s pretty disconnected from the situation here back on planted earth. and it s a weird one of the situation is a weird one. it s one where the front runner has has been indicted four times, in four months, and has to turn himself into jail this week, this week, the same week of the debate. reportedly maybe even the day after the debate. it s
the january 6th insurrection. this is american voices . we begin in the southwest, where people are frantically preparing for hurricane hilary. the latest update from the national hurricane center hilary has been downgraded to a category two storm. it is making its way north alongside mack mexico s baja coastline. heavy rain is expected to impact california in arizona starting sunday. the national weather service is calling the storm rare and dangerous. and here is why. parts of the california desert are forecasted to get three years worth of rain in just 48 hours. let s get an update from priscilla thompson in palm springs, california. priscilla, how are people where you are preparing right now? yeah, alicia menendez, folks here are frantically filling those sandbags, hoping to protect their homes and businesses as that rainfall is expected to move in here in the coming hours, really. and this operation has been going since about 6 am local time. that s 9 am easte
friend, ana cabrera. right now prosecutors have given the ex-president and his codefendants until next friday to surrender. 19 men and women charged with 41 counts in a sweeping 98-page indictment accusing them of trying to overturn georgia s 2020 election results, and accusing them of violating georgia s riccio act, something reserved for gangs and mobsters. it could be the televised trial of the century. if convicted, this could be the only case that trump s indictment so far he could not pardon himself for if he takes back the white house. we have a jam-packed hour filled with reporters and legal analysts, and it starts right now. let s get right to our reporters on the ground in atlanta. msnbc news correspondent, blayne alexander, and garrett haake, and senior legal correspondent, laura jarrett here with us in new york. you have been so closely following this investigation. what unanswered questions are you still looking into? reporter: well, josé, we are looking
welcome back to the weekend everyone. special prosecutor nathan wade has officially stepped down from the georgia election interference case. his resignation coming hours after judge scott mcafee found there was no actual conflict stemming from nathan wade s relationship with fani willis and the prosecution of trump and his codefendants could continue as long as either nathan wade or fani willis resigned. joining us to discuss it all is our friend, katie phang, attorney and host of the katie phang show right here on msnbc and our other friend, justice and legal affairs analyst, anthony coley. coley is a former senior advisor to attorney general merrick garland. anthony coley wrote a piece for msnbc.com talking and has tweets. that without sufficient evidence that the district attorney and the prosecution, you talk about willis making a strong argument for why she said stay on the case against trump but she needs to remove her team, the attorney from whom she had a persona