reporter: hi, good morning. yeah, we will likely hear from the former president today as prosecutors allege that he went beyond keeping the documents in his home, going so far as to show them to people and had the bulk of them spread out in random storage spaces throughout the estate and at that residence. trump is the first former president to face federal charges. he s accused of violating 7 broken down into 37 counts including 31 counts of willful retension of national defense information, withholding and concealing documents, making false statements and conspiracy to obstruct justice. some of these individual penalties max out at 20 years per count. special counsel jack smith said yesterday e that his office will seek a speed eauty trial. speedy trial. we have one set of laws in this country, and they aloo to everyone. very important to note that the defendants in this case must be presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law. re
forecasters say will increase before it gets better. air quality reaching hazardous levels in new jersey, washington, d.c. new yorkers were faced with the worst air quality in the city s history, yesterday. the smog, the smell. i feel i am getting a headache. feel it in my eyes. my must is more compromised than i am. asthma. when i got back from school my head was hurting. i was having bad headaches and my nose started bleeding. gillian: look at the time lapse that shows how bad things really got in the big apple yesterday. over the course of just a few hours, you can see the world trade center disappearing into an orange haze. winds are pushing that toxic cloud that was over new york further south where it will smother even more states. all that smoke is affecting major league sports. the yankees and phillies postponed their games last night. wnba scrapped the liberty s indoor game because of poor air quality. the new york post cover with the old joke today bla
and raising concerns about his age and ability to endure a grueling election cycle. we will watch the news conference live and dig in. fog, the smell, the smog, it s it s like out of like a disaster movie or something. yeah, it s really surreal. this is unbearable, and seems like apocalyptic. definitely have a headache, it s pretty hazy out here and my eyes are burning a little bit. john: people living in the northeast reacting to surreal scenes of smoke-filled cities as smog from raging canadian wildfires drifts to the united states leaving more than 100 million americans under air quality alerts, and the hazy conditions could be sticking around into the weekend. john roberts in washington, and good smoky thursday afternoon to you as well. aishah: coughing here and there. this is america reports, thanks for watching. time lapse video showing how the new york city skyline changed over the span of a few hours yesterday, the skies turning the orange-tinted color
of mar-a-lago. but they chose to do that only in recent weeks, which tells us a lot. it tells us they are near a decision to bring possible charges against the former president. obviously, jack smith, the special counsel, works under attorney general merrick garland, who could at the last minute decide to intervene. but what this tells us a lot and the reason why you see the trump lawyers very concerned is that this signals that the special counsel is heading towards an indictment and the question is when that indictment might come, who else might be under it, and certainly the former president should believe that, you know, at this point he has the option to go to the prosecutors and say he wants to speak to the grand jury to present his own evidence and to try to persuade them at the last minute that they should not bring that case. we do not expect that donald trump will do that, jake. no, we don t. katelyn, the special counsel s enlisted a second grand jury, this one in
firefighters rescued a woman trapped in an area still standing. at least nine people were saved after the collapse, but there are still people unaccounted for, and the authorities say that the building has to be demolished soon. adrienne broaddus, what are people saying about the demolition? they are standing outside of the building, rahel, they are saying save our friends and family, and keep the building standing. they are using the voice to appeal to officials as folks handling the demolition are trying to determine the exact timing of it. and a man said he heard from his cousin hours before the collapse. listen in. my cousin said that he had just came home at 5:00, and he was tired, and when he get up, he is coming to the family gathering. so like three hours or more after that, the building collapsed, and we have not seen my cousin brandon covin since then, and his clothes are hanging up in the closet right there if you can see it. it is still hanging, and the clothe