cnn is on the scene of cleanup and recovery efforts as president joe biden is now set to visit the disaster zone. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. wolf blitzer is off today. i m alex marquardt, and you re in the situation room. we begin with new legal maneuvers by donald trump s defense as his criminal prosecution in georgia is now moving forward. let s get straight to cnn s sarah murry. so sarah, walk us through what happened today including trump s request to separate his case. let s start with donald trump entering his not guilty plea officially, saying he is going to waive his arraignment. he now joins about a handful of folks in this sprawling 19 defendant case who have entered their pleas on paper, not guilty pleas those include sidney powell, attorney ray smith and attorney el. he s not going to have to show up in this courtroom i will february 6th. attorneys say they want a speedy trial. donald trump s team is making clear
election. let s reassure people and get to the polls and elections. the sooner we get rid of this conservative government, the better. they re letting people down, taking people for granted. and i think it s all about boris johnson, it s about getting rid of the conservative party. have you concerned about the state of british politics? there have been four prime ministers in six years. people seem to checked out of politics to some extent because they feel detached, and very tthey have so many of their own party. the conservative leaders have gotten the kwcountry into the ms that they re in. that s why people don t want to listen to these people. in the bielections, liberal democrats beat the conservatives. and we found, talking to people that life-long conservatives were saying no more. we re not going to put up with this conservative party anymore. they don t listen to us. they re taking us for granted, and we want a change. so we ve already got quite a lot of e
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category 4 storm could hit florida in just hours. forecasters are saying they haven t seen anything like this in modern times. nearly 300 people dead after the storms rampage through haiti. meanwhile, more than 200,000 homes along the coast from florida, to north carolina at risk tonight from the storm surge alone. that number likely to go much, much higher than that. tens of thousands of people already without power. there is a lot to get to and we ll cover it all for you live here this evening. cnn s reporters are in full force all across the storms zone for us this evening. cnn s michael homes is in palm bay florida tonight. mike michael, good evening. what s happening on the ground where you are? reporter: it s starting to pick up here as you would imagine, don. by midnight here, the winds are going to be about 45 or so-miles-per-hour, and then within an hour or two of that we ll get to 75 by about 4:00 a.m., it s going to be 100-miles-an-hour, we re told and you can se
executive order. the secretary of state rex tillerson says it will make america safer. this revised order will bolster the security of the united states and her allies. the new order removes iraq from the list of majority muslim countries, included in the ban. six other countries remain on the list. we ll explain why and tell you about other changes. wiretap claims. the fbi is calling on the justice department to refute the claims, but the white house is calling on congress to investigate. let s get the latest for the white house correspondent sarah murry. the white house press secretary sean spicer called on congress to investigate reports of wiretapping, but as the administration provided any evidence at all to substantiate the claims made by the president? wolf, they haven t, and a number of administration officials have been asked about this. we ve continued to press them on this over the weekend, and this morning to say what evidence does the president have that he