hello and a warm welcome to our viewers joining us in the united states address around the world. i m bianca nobilo live from london. max foster has the day off. just ahead for you on cnn newsroom live from london, this is cnn newsroom with mox foster and bianca nobilo. and it is friday, december 8, 9:00 a.m. in london. first round of caucus voting in iowa is just a few week away. and there are legal headwinds as the election season heats up. president biden s son hunter is now facing multiple federal tax charges, a fact likely to dog the president. and former president trump has numerous federal and state court cases that will stretch well into next year and will almost certainly interfere with his campaign schedule. the justice department says hunter biden could face up to 17 years in prison if convicted of the tax charges. the investigation into the president s son was on the verge of being resolved in july when a plea deal fell apart. evan perez has the detail
were fired on the grounds of a synagogue in albany. inside, an early child care center with two dozen preschoolers, but no one injured. the suspect in custody. the incident being investigated as a hate crime. the governor ordering the police and national guard on high alert with safety concerns nationwide as hanukkah begins. also tonight, the investigation after the deadly mass shooting of the unlv campus. the gunman a professor who was rejected for a job by the university, and what we re learning about the victims. the historic ruling in texas. a judge granting a woman s emergency to bypass on the state s total ban on abortion after she lears the fetus has a fatal disease. the gaza, the war raging. richard engel with a freed israeli hostage as she finally returns home. donald trump back in court for his civil fraud trial. after skipping the gop debate, and what his campaign said today about future debates. and typing out tunes. the orchestra making music in a whole
his own defense. this is his first chance to comment on the debate last night. the latest one he skipped. we re getting new reporting on what the campaigns themselves and key insiders think might have changed after that performance. and gun fire on a college campus. three people killed. one in the hospital still. the community of unlv completely shaken. what we re learning starting to learn about the suspect. i m kate bolduan with sara sidner and john berman. this is cnn news central. you are looking at live pictures of new york city outside the courtroom there. any minute now donald trump is expected to leave trump tower and head to court to attend his civil business fraud trial. the former president is also expected to take the stand again on monday as the last defense witness. trump and his sons were already found liable in the $250 million lawsuit brought by the new york ag. this trial is being held to find out exactly how much they will have to pay in damages.
no matter where you are chances are you re dealing with heat, storms, wildfires, maybe all three. as we speak, new record temperatures are being set across the northeast. down south texas is taking the brunt of tropical depression alberto. we ll have the very latest coming up. plus, we ve been talking about it for months, now it may be happening. a new poll showing a significant number of independents abandoning trump after his conviction, and now supporting president biden. and say good-bye to something we have all gotten used to deal with. those little plastic pillows that come in your amazon box. the company is ditching them as it tries to cut down on the roughly 200 million pounds of plastic it generated just a few years ago. right now, virtually the whole country is impacted by a triple threat of deadly extreme weather. the start of record-breaking summer heat, the beginning blazes of wildfire season, and 2024 s first tropical storm. now the majority of the nation