you don t own pads like that, do you? i was a basketball guy. i couldn t take hits like those in football. it s not my game. you are still tough. i want someone to call foul if i get hit. good morning. welcome to cnn this morning. i m amara walker. i m omar jimenez in for victor blackwell. we have lot to talk with. so glad you are back. it is back to work this week for lawmakers on capitol hill and with the dwindling number of days, their to-do list is quite long. can they avoid a government shutdown? a major question. also, right now tens of thousands of people are stuck in the desert at the burning man festival after a rainstorm turned the site into a mud pit. people are being told to shelter in place. amazon s ceo tells employees to get back in the office or their days may be numbered. they are not alone. we talk to an expert about whether whizzes and their employees can find some common ground. and college sports before to look a whole lot different.
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donald trump pleads not guilty and elects to skip a hearing next week in the georgia election interference case, while his attorneys also look to sever his case from those of his co-defendants. details on that and the looming decision on whether his former chief of staff s case gets bumped to federal court. on capitol hill, senate minority leader mitch mcconnell is telling allies and donors that he can still do his job. some colleagues are questioning whether that is the case after he appeared to freeze at a news conference for the second time this summer. we re following those developing stories and more coming in right here to cnn news central. it has been a jam-packed day for donald trump s defense team. first the former president entered a not guilty plea to 13 charges in the georgia election subversion case. this was an expected plea from trump. he has already pleaded not guilty in three other cases in recent months, and he and his lawyers have been very clear that
good wednesday morning and the breaking news we are following this morning, a significant storm, now a category 4 storm, hurricane idalia now in the extremely dangerous category, that category 4 storm designation is intensified over the hours from a category 3 now to a category 4, it is expected to make landfall onto florida s gulf coast in just hours. forecasters are calling the storm dangerous, life threatening, a once in a lifetime storm that could bring catastrophic storm surge of up to 16 feet in florida s big bend region. at 6:30, just about a half hour from now, florida governor ron desantis will be giving an update from tallahassee. we will bring you that live. desantis says if you wanted to see a press can he not. analog for a storm hitting this place at this scale, go back more than a century. sarah sanders has been there live, part of team coverage, bill weir, in florida, derek van dam in tampa. and brian todd. and we ll be speaking with local officials and the dir
trees knocked down, a fire station blown apart. i ll speak to a lifelong floridian who rode out the storm from his house boat. senator minority leader mitch mcconnell increasing mid-sentence. what his team is saying tonight about his health. let s go outfront. good evening, i m erica hill in for erin burnett. outfront tonight, breaking news. a destructive storm now making its way up the coast. idalia now hitting the carolinas. this after nearly half a million customers were left without power between florida and georgia. the rain and wind already leaving a trail of destruction across a swath of florida and, again, now into georgia and the carolinas. we are beginning to get new images here into outfront including a home in pasco county on fire, amid the floodwaters. another one on fire in that same county. officials there say some 600 homes were destroyed. meantime in cedar key, there was so much concern and conversation last night about cedar key. water levels reachin