Wildfires. Only 3 of the disaster has even been searched. The governor calling it A Fire Hurricane that spread faster than a mile a minute. Now a new lawsuit gets the states main electric provider. Hours from now the District Attorney set to begin presenting her case to a grand jury in the Georgia Election subversion case. This means a potential fourth indictment looms over former President Trump. Cnn learns about key evidence obtained by prosecutors. And a home explodes outside of pittsburgh. Gas systems were operating as designed, according to officials. It could take months or years to figure out why. The raid of a newspaper Head Quarters in kansas is raising serious concerns over First Amendment rights. Police seizing everything. Also the lapd says a mob of people stole 100,000 worth of merchandise during a daytime robbery. Well show you what was caught on camera. Cnn this morning starts right now. Good morning, thank you for joining us. Theres a lot of news, but were starting with
Good morning, everyone. We are so glad youre starting your morning with us. Good morning. Happy monday. Its good to be back. A lot of news. A lot of news to get to, so lets get started with five things to know this monday, august 14th. Breaking overnight, 96, that is the death count so far from the hawaii wildfires and only 3 of the Disaster Area has been searched. The governor calling it a Fire Hurricane. It spread faster than a mile a minute, and now a new lawsuit against the states main electric provide r. Hours from now the Fulton County District Attorney is expected to present her case to the grand jury in the Georgia Election subversion case. This means a potential fourth indictment looms over former President Trump. Cnn learns exclusively about key evidence obtained by prosecutors. And a home explodes outside of pittsburgh killing five. Gas systems were operating as designed, according to officials, who say it could take months to figure out what happened. A new serious concern
Previously obtained by cnn shows a local election official escorting a team of pro-trump operatives in to examine the machines on january 7th. the group included scott hall, an atlanta bail bondsman. i m the guy that chartered the jet to go down to have them inspect all of those computers. they scanned all the image, equipment and scanned every single ballot. reporter: according to text messages obtained by cnn, former elections official offered a a written invitation six days prior to examine machines. that invitation shared with attorneys working with trump and others hunting for election fraud on behalf of trump s then lawyer rudy giuliani. just landed back in d.c. with the mayor. huge things starting to come together. an employee for the firm hired to access voting machines wrote in one text in a reference to former mayor rudy giuliani.
Votes. the breach of voting systems is part of the probe. sources tell cnn investigators have long suspected the breach was a top-down effort by trump s team rather than an organic effort by trump backers. and sources say they have text messages and e-mails that directly connect members of trump s legal team to that breach. did you have any sense this was tied to other operatives in the trump campaign and beyond lower level people? not initially, but there were allegations and then, as you dig down deep, more is revealed. reporter: surveillance video previously obtained by cnn shows a local election official escorting a team of pro-trump operatives in to examine the machines on january 7th. the group included scott hall, an atlanta bail bondsman. i m the guy that chartered the jet to go down to have them