We are back live in the cnn newsroom. Im jim acosta in washington. We are tracking hurricane hilary. The system just weakened to a category 2 storm with winds of 110 miles per hour. The historic and potentially catastrophic storm is barrelling toward the southwestern United States, triggering the first ever Tropical Storm warning for millions of people in Southern California. The San Bernardino county Sheriffs Department just issued an Evacuation Warning for some areas in that part of Southern California. Thats just east of los angeles in the mountain and foothill areas. Hilary could bring a years worth of rain in a single day to parts of california, arizona, and nevada. Lets go straight to the cnn weather center, Meteorologist Derek Van Dam has been following the hurricanes path. I suppose its good news that the hurricane is weakening at some point, but that doesnt necessarily mean that people in that part of the country can let down their guards or folks in mexico as well. We should
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morning joe starts right now trump indicted the first ever criminal indictment of a former president of the united states came down yesterday when a new york city grand jury convened by the manhattan district attorney s office took the unprecedented step of voting to charge donald trump. because the indictment is under seal, the exact charges are unknown, but we do know they center around that $130,000 payment trump allegedly made to porn star stormy daniels just days before the 2016 election, to keep her silent about an affair she claims the two had a decade earlier according to the star witness in the case, trump s own former lawyer, michael cohen, the trump organization tried to cover up the payment, falsely claiming it was a legal expense. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is friday, march 31st along with joe, willie and me, we have the host of way too ea early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire the host of politics nation, presid
three more people charged with murder after a virginia man died in custody, his family calling for justice after seeing video of his last moments. and growing legal problems for donald trump. thousa now dozens of staffers at mar-a-lago are receiving subpoenas. here we go, friday, st. patrick s day, welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. we begin with china s president xi jinping set to meet with vladimir putin next week in russia. the kremlin says the two will discuss strategic cooperation. this is amid fears that beijing might provide weapons to russia for its war in ukraine. kristie lu stout in hong kong for us. what else do we know about this meeting? reporter: chinese leader xi jinping will be traveling to russia to meet with vladimir putin from march 20th to the 22nd. according to a spokesman earlier day, they will discuss bilateral relations, regional issues, while drawing a blueprint for the two countries relation