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there was also a lot of news, as there has been all week. there s more today. let s get started this friday, august 18. this breaking overnight, hurricane hillary intensifying in the pacific. it is now a major category 4 hurricane that s expected to bring flooding and rain to california and the southwest over the weekend. more breaking news, maui s emergency management administrator quit abruptly a day after he defended not sounding the island s sirens as deadly wildfires tore through la hadhaina citing health reasons. and also this just in, fema s disaster fund is slipping into the red and hurricane season hasn t even peaked yet. now pressure is on for congress to pass a spending bill. former president trump wants to push back the trial date in the federal election subversion case by a lot. the special counsel wants january, months from now. trump s team wants april of 2026, about three years from now. and federal prosecutors are recommending the toughest jan ....
we re breaking down the historic summit that just wrapped up at camp david a short time ago. also tonight, we re learning more about donald trump s plans to skip next week s republican presidential debate. sources saying an interview with former fox news host tucker carlson is now in the works as trump aims to steal the spotlight from his rivals. and a category-four hurricane lashing mexico and is posing an unprecedented threat now to southern california. the region is under its first tropical storm watch ever, and potentially facing a year s worth of rain in a matter of hours. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. wolf blitzer s off today. i m alex marquardt, and you re in the situation room. the camp david summit is our top story this hour. president joe biden working to strengthen ties with japan and south korea as the three countries face urgent threats from china and north korea. cnn s arlette saenz is at camp da david ....
the man behind the art of the deal says not to expect one in atlanta. in atlanta. so the ever-expanding and extraordinary logistical and political challenges ahead for trump and his 2024 rivals. i ll be talking to republican presidential candidate will hurd next. also this hour, the monumental task ahead in hawaii, now the site of the deadliest wildfire in modern u.s. history. the death toll likely to climb as crews search the ruins with the gruesome task of identifying the remains of the missing. stories of heartbreak and anger as locals face questions about what they say was a lack of warning by the authorities. where were you guys? where were you guys to try to get us out, evacuate us? we re mad. we re mad. we didn t just lose our homes. we lost our town. what the rescue and recovery mission looks like coming up. but we begin in fulton county, georgia, where a jury can vote on a possible fourth criminal indictment in the next 48 hours. the new york times ....
hello, everyone. thank you so much for joining me. i m fredericka witfield. the southwestern u.s. is bracing for potentially catastrophic flooding as hurricane hilary churns off the pacific. we just learned moments ago that the storm has weakened just a bit to a category 3 storm with 125 mile an hour winds. it s lashing mexico with strong winds and high waves right now. forecasters warn it could dump more than a year s worth of rain across parts of california, nevada and arizona. the storm is expected to weaken as it moves north, but the threat is so severe, a tropical storm watch has been issued for california, the first ever for that state. people there are trying to prepare as best they can. cnn meteorologist allison chinchar is joining us. a new advisory has just been issued. while it may have been downgraded a little bit, that s still very threatening. right. keep in mind the weakening was forecast. we knew as it slid into cooler waters, this was going to happen. ....
to face allegations he and 18 other people were behind a criminal racketeering enterprise to reverse the 2020 election results in the state of georgia. i am giving the defendants the opportunity to voluntarily surrender no later than noon on friday, the 25th day of august, 2023. tonight, georgia officials said it s expected that trump and his codefendants will be booked at the fulton county jail. the 41 count indictment, unsealed late, late last night, describes a wide ranging plot that went beyond the infamous find me 11,000 votes phone call. according to da fani willis, it also included the appointment of fake electors, efforts to access voting machines, harassment of an election worker, and attempts to try to reverse the results in other battleground states. tonight, a former trump white house lawyer commented on the indictment. i think it was important to georgia and, certainly important to her, to have trump as a defendant. the core of this against trump and ....