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halloween. this coming as democrats hit the pause button on legislation. and the president s large spending package, well, democrats ended the week without a vote or a deal on the president s sweeping domestic agenda despite frantic negotiations and deadlines. we re following all of these developments with daniella diaz on capitol hill. daniella, let s begin with you. what s happening or what s not happening? fred, what s not happening is a really interesting way to put what happened this week, which is not much. democrats debated and tried to pass a bipartisan infrastructure bill which is what moderates wanted, but in the end, that vote didn t happen. the bill was not put to the floor and they bought themselves more time to continue negotiating on another part of biden s historic agenda. an economic bill. $3.5 trillion bill that would expand the nation s social safety. what did end up happening is they passed a 30-day funding for surface transportation. something tha ....
horizon. merck says its new anti-viral drug cuts the risk of hospitalizations and deaths by 50% for covid patients. cnn s polo sandoval joining me for more on this. dr. scott gottlieb, former head of the fda, calls this a potential game-changer in the fight against the coronavirus, simply because if you consider the potential benefits of this drug, dr. gottlieb is saying that it would potentially be effective not just for those who have been fully vaccinated and have experienced breakthrough cases, but also for americans who refuse to get vaccinated. all of that being said, experts across the board are still telling us that if approved, this would still not be a substitute for a vaccine. as early as next fall, california students will be required to be covid-19 vaccinated, says the state s governor. gavin newsom made the announcement friday saying his state is the first in the nation to add a covid vaccine to the list of inoculations required for in-person learning. ....
united states and around the world. i m bianca nobilo. max foster is off today. just ahead it is a tragedy beyond any expectation. but we are buoyed by the fact that the world has tried to lift us up and help us through this. mark meadows was not just setting up meetings. he was not arranging telephone calls. that is done by secretaries, staffers, white house operators. he is in the thick of this. i think the u.s. government probably has pretty good idea of what the kremlin wants and it is a question of whether they can make that concession. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is thursday, august 17, 10:00 p.m. in maui where at least 111 people are confirmed dead a little more than a week after devastating wildfires swept through the island and the hawaiian governor says some of the victims are children. not yet clear how many or if they have been identified. but we re told more than 1,000 people could still be miss ....
threats and calls for violence. fears today that jurors and judges tied to trump cases are at risk as the former president s legal battles grow. what we re learning about those threats and who s behind them. and we have new details about when donald trump is planning to turn himself in to face those charges in georgia as we learn he is now plotting counter programming for the first gop primary debate. plus, new focus on a power company facing lawsuits over maui s wild fires and anger growing over response to the tragedy as officials warn that 1,000 people or more could still be missing. we are following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. the fulton county, georgia sheriffs office now says it is working with other agencies to track down where the threats to georgia grand jury members are coming from. a law enforcement source tells cnn, quote, people are being threatened to be killed for doing their civic duty. ....
to be the day before the first 2024 super tuesday primaries for the republican presidential contest. this is also before the proposed trial dates for two other of his criminal trials. let s get straight to paula reed for us. walk us through the scheduling proposal here. reporter: the key word is proposal. this is her request. she said in her press conference that she wants to try all 19 defendants together, and she wanted to do that in six months. but jake, it s a pretty aggressive timeline. six months to put on a rico case? these are notoriously complicated, tend to be drawn out. and then you have 19 defendants. at least three of whom are expected to challenge this, try to get it moved to federal court. so it s unlikely this is going to be granted. she s also competing for real estate on a very crowded calendar. let s start with january of next year. there is a request by the special counsel to do the january 6th trial the first week of january. then you have the e. ....