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canada and all around the world. i m kim bruun hoover. we begin with breaking news with what some call a once in a half century extreme weather happening right now in florida as we speak up to 20 inches of rain has fallen in parts of south florida in the past few hours with more in the forecast. well, that led to a flash flood emergency, the highest possible level of flood warning. so what you see here is the ford lauderdale hollywood international airport, which is partly underwater and closed until at least noon on thursday , the city of fort lauderdale has activated its emergency operations center and plans to issue a local state of emergency. officials also say airboats and high water vehicles will join rescue operations in the coming hours. for the latest, we go to meteorologist separately, ritz here in atlanta, who s keeping an eye on all of this? obviously relief folks in florida used to storms , but you know what we re seeing now so unusual. take us through what they
to release a portion to the public potentially providing the documents underlying that search warrant. let s go to mark meredith now live on the scene in palm beach, florida. hey, mark. gillian, good afternoon to you. we re kind of in a holding pattern right now. as you mentioned the justice department still has a few days before they have to submit their proposed redactions to the affidavit and separately we re watching as lawyers for the former president say they re going to file a separate motion, claiming the search here at mar-a-lago a little more and a week ago would be a vie lags of the violation of the fourth amendment rates, that would be filed monday at the latest and see what it may actually say. it s pro viewed at this point. we ve been listening as the former president continues to criticize the fbi and saying the search went too far even though it was a federal judge who signed off earlier this month. and we heard from one of trump s lawyers late last night.
our ears. we heard the shocking details of all the behavior of the president of the united states on january 6 and we heard from cassidy hutchinson. she s a 26-year-old former top aid to then white house chief of staff mark meadows. i ll play a lot of what she had to stay right now. i think it s important. if you didn t see it or think someone should see it, call them and let them know. we re playing it for you. it s important for the country to see. the world to see. listen to every word she had to say. because it s like nothing we have ever heard before about an american president insisting on joining his supporters headed to the capitol, supporters by the way armed with knives, guns, spears, and flag poles. i think the last time we talked you mentioned that some of the weapons that people had at the rally included flag poles, oversized sticks or flag poles. bear spray. is there anything else you recall hearing about that the people who gathered had? i recall tony and i
on january 6 and we heard from cassidy hutchinson. she s a 26-year-old former top aid to then white house chief of staff mark meadows. i ll play a lot of what she had to stay right now. i think it s important. if you didn t see it or think someone should see it, call them and let them know. we re playing it for you. it s important for the country to see. the world to see. listen to every word she had to say. because it s like nothing we have ever heard before about an american president insisting on joining his supporters headed to the capitol, supporters by the way armed with knives, guns, spears, and flag poles. i think the last time we talked you mentioned that some of the weapons that people had at the rally included flag poles, oversized sticks or flag poles. bear spray. is there anything else you recall hearing about that the people who gathered had? i recall tony and i having a conversation with mark, probably around 10:00 a.m. 10:15 a.m. where i remember tony ment