friday it s going to be that fun. now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell, good evening lawrence. rachel, wednesday is going to be a friday in effect. i mean kind of. -ish. rachel, i was listening to your discussion about what s happened to high school students in arkansas who want to take the ap african american studies course at there. we are going to have a historian tonight, drew gilpin faust, as you know, the first woman president of harvard university, who i hope we have time to get to that. if not, she is going to have to come back, because she s rich in a wonderful memories that i have just loved every page of. we re going to discuss that. it puts a range of history, including a bunch of what is now called african american history because, professor faust grew up and the segregated south, the way cited line at the segregated south. she tells the truth of that in her book, which we will know might get band and some high schools in arkansas. at a time
viewers in the united states. just ahead on cnn newsroom, strong winds, mudslides and flooding in effect this hour as tropical storm hillary honors southern california. a busy week ahead in u.s. politics, the first gop primary without the front runner and donald trump set to turn himself in to authorities in georgia. what it all means for the party and former president. plus, to countries step up in their fight against russia. and for now alive report. live from cnn center. this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. thank you for being with us, we begin in southern california, which is facing the first tropical storm to hit the state and more than two decades. and tropical storm hillary has been lashing san diego and los angeles with powerful winds and record breaking rain. more than 9 million people in downtown l.a. and surrounding areas under flash flood warnings. thousands of lights also canceled or delayed at the u.s. a day, many on the storm, this is what hillary u
all of the 19 defendants in this case including the former president are expected to turn themselves into the fulton county jail by the end of the week. also tropical storm hilary drenching california with a year s worth of rain in a single day. 25 million people from southern california into idaho are now under flood watches as the national hurricane center warns flooding could be life-threatening and catastrophic as this storm moves east. plus a california store owner shot dead over a pride flag hanging outside her clothing store. the suspected gunman also dead. what authorities are now learning about the dispute. welcome to the lead. i m erica hill in for jake tapper. we again with breaking news, you are looking at live pictures of the fulton county courthouse where donald trump s lawyers just finished meeting with the fulton county d.a. he s office. at that meeting, trump s lawyers agreed to a $200,000 bond as part of the former president s release conditions render
be turning himself in for arrest or not. he seems to be seeking a meeting with the district attorney fani willis. that meeting could be to become, or attempt to become, a cooperating witness with district attorney fani willis. fulton county district attorney fani willis s indictment of what she calls at 19-member criminal enterprise run by and for donald trump s only one week old. just one week old. and the 19 defendants in the alleged trump criminal conspiracy could not make it through that first week without turning on each other. we have surely not seen the last of that phenomenon because what we are seeing is a project panic on the part of the people fani willis has indicted, and that panic will very quickly lead to more tensions and conflicts of interest among the defendants, and they will continue to turn on each other as criminal defendants in criminal conspiracies always do. career criminals, including mafia hit men who have taken blood oaths to never testify against
rivals preparing for the first primary debate tonight as a brand new poll paints a new picture of the field. heat wave in the heartland, a midwest roasting under triple digit temperatures, just as wildfires in washington state continue to threaten people and property. we ll have the latest coming up. it is 10:00 eastern, thanks so much for being there. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. we begin with breaking news out of georgia where four more of donald trump s co-defendants surrendered at atlanta s rice street jail within just the last few hours, so a total of six now booked, and we have mug shots of the first few to get booked. we still have 13 surrenders to go including trump himself as we await his surrender tomorrow. we re going to hear that rudy giuliani s trialing to atlanta. we will know this afternoon whether mark meadows will be allowed to delay his surrender to authorities. also joining us is cynthia alksne, former federal prosecutor and david aronberg,