separate the cases of sidney powell and ken i.neth cheseboro. also tonight, breaking news. a new court filing reveals that the special counsel investigating hunter biden intends to indict the president s son on at least one gun charge within a matter of weeks. a pennsylvania prison just released video showing a killer s brazen escape climbing up a wall. we re tracking the week long manhunt for a dangerous murderer. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with an early and important new ruling by the judge presiding over the georgia election subversion case, playing out on live television, offering clues about critical decisions ahead, including when donald trump might stand trial. we have a team of legal and political experts ready to break it down for us. first, let s go to cnn s senior legal affairs correspondent paula reed. tell our viewers all that we learned from this very imp
i think it is both. you can see the consistency between males and females in terms of the top five. drug possession is the number one most serious offense for which people are sent to prison in ohio. 21.5% of females, women, their most serious offense for which they are sent to prison s drug possession. you can see the following numbers on the sheet. on the screen. as we take a look at this, is it a problem or is it an opportunity. the opportunity for everyone in this room, and i think our justice talked about it earlier. everyone in this room is going to have to talk about this story , and the story of your jurisdiction. i happened to be at a church about three weeks ago on a tuesday night doing a criminal andice information piece, the church was full, which is interesting thing. the church was full. it is a lot of interest. i asked a couple of preliminary questions before i started talking. the first is how are we doing in the criminal justice business? i would suggest to y
those people we afraid of because they will hurt someone or properly secured but program did not forgotten in those people that we are just mad at and don t have any other alternatives, we build alternatives in the community to deal with those folks. intervention in little. it has not been used as much, but we want to expand the opportunity. we want to give the judge an opportunity. forget about mandatory sentences. opposingnkly, we are almost all mandatory sentences. we have judges- to make decisions for let s not high their hands and say they have to send someone to prison. a person comes in and the judge says i want to be helped, or the judge convinces them and much like the drug courts we have talked about, or veterans courts or mental health courts, they enter into a program of diversion and they talk about with the judge what they need to do and they set specific times and goals and if they do it, one of the greatest things judges are great positive influences on peop
snowstorm, are you one of them? you know forecasters are calling for another round this weekend. an additional 2 to 4 inches of snow, in fact, forecast from southern illinois to new jersey, a pretty wide swath there. the storm has brought heavy rains, tornadoes, which we don t hear a lot of this time of year and high winds to several areas of the country and it s already being blamed for ten deaths. regrettable, politically motivating, saddening, statements made by u.s. officials about russia s decision to ban americans from adopting russian children. vladimir putin signed the ban into law on friday. lawmakers there cite a history of abuse of russian children adopted by american families. many believe it was a retaliation about a law signed by president obama that poses u.s. travel and financial restrictions on human right s abusers in russia. good morning. you were in the process of adopting a 13-year-old boy named and his name is daniel from an orphanage in siberia. y
good evening and welcome to kqed news room. the allegations against innovate store leeland yi of san francisco and others have generated enough drama for the popular netflix series house of cards. today in an unprecedented move, the state senate suspended yi along with two other democratic senators embroiled in scandal. yi was arrested wednesday along with suspected chinatown simon chou. the fbi probe ensnared more than two dozen people. at the center of the charges, multiple crimes including bribery, drug distribution, arms trafficking, even murder for hire. shock waves are rippling throughout california. joining me now for the latest developments are nathan haverson from u.c. berkeley. melissa lagos an investigative reporter. and scott, you were at the s meeting today when the suspension decision was made. now the governor has called for all three senators to resign. what s the mood like in san francisco? angry, disgusted, shocked. this is the second time in go two mont