Jeremy diamond in tel aviv. And this is cnn moment in American History tomorrow for the first time, prosecutors will present Opening Statements and a criminal trial of a former President Donald Trump will walk into a manhattan courtroom tomorrow morning, where he will hear the states case against him. Hes facing dozens of charges related to an alleged Hush Money Payment to Adult Film Actress Stormy Daniels made before the 2016 election this is the first of four criminal cases against trump to go on trial. Cnns Marshall Cohen joining us right now with more on all this, marshall walk us through what the trial just might look like. Hey fred, its History In The Making with Opening Statements scheduled for tomorrow morning in new york. This is the very first time in our nations history that a former president will sit for a criminal trial. Lets just zoom out fred and remind everybody how the heck we got here donald trump is facing 34 felony charges. These are state charges brought by the ma
Im fredricka whitfield. And we begin this hour with Tropical Storm ophelia. Just hours after making land fall in north carolina, heavy rain, coastal flooding, and high winds, are hitting much of the Eastern Seaboard today. North carolina, maryland, and var are all under a State Of Emergency right now. And the storm is already knocked out power to more than 50,000 homes. And businesses. With those outages expected to grow. Allison chinchar is Tracking Ophelia from the cnn Weather Center and Polo Sandoval is in pelican island, new jersey, watching the impact and feeling it there. Lets begin with you, allison. The National Hurricane center issued a new advisory moments ago. The biggest change that we noted is the sustained winds have calmed down ever so slightly, dropping down now to 50 miles an hour. Still gusting up to 65. Look at the scope of this storm. You have so many of these Outer Rain Bands far away from that center point. And the center is still over north carolina, and you have
Possibly also some of those Air Defence missiles that they say they need so badly on the front lines, but also to protect cities like the one that i am in right now, fredreka all right. Fred pleitgen in kyiv. Thanks so much. And Priscilla Alvarez from washington are lets get more analysis now on these developments, Ambassador A. Bill taylor is the former us ambassador to Ukraine And Vice president of Russia And Europe at the Us Institute Of Peace at great to see you ambassador. So what do you expect the immediate impact . Might be once this bill gets final passage through the senate and then eventually signed by the president. So frederick is exactly as youve been reporting. This is a big Morale Boost for the ukrainians and us military is ready to go with this equipment and this ammunition that youve been talking about, it we will go very quickly. In fact, is i imagined for rca that the ukrainian military has been holding back because they werent sure this was coming now that they know
bodies, quote, it s hell. i was on the ground in aleppo just a couple days ago. i think one thing we need to make clear to viewers is the firepower that s been unleashed on those areas is much more than we ve seen even by the standards of syria s civil war. it was battles that were ongoing. there was no stop, there were very heavy weapons being used and that s why it s so difficult to come by any information, especially right now, as those syrian government forces move in. a lot of the sources of information we ve been getting, really, they re offline at this point because many of them are on the run, carol. so frederick, who is responsible for this target killing of civilians in aleppo? you know, the u.n. says they have reports that it s pro government forces that are doing this. there s a lot of different groups fighting on the side of the syrian government. you have the syrian military itself. you have a shiite forces from iraq.