his aides attempted to delete surveillance video. here are tonight s headlines. donald trump s lawyers meet with the special counsel s team for an hour, as a possible indictment over election interference looms. and the breaking news, a third defendant added in the mar-a-lago case. heat alerts are in effect for 35 states and washington, d.c. it is going to be hot. it is going to be humid. james: and tonight, we are tracking severe weather with reports of tornadoes. the crane collapse in hell s kitchen, we are learning more about what may have caused the crane to catch fire. the preliminary cause may have been hydraulic fluid that leaked onto a hot plate near the engine of the crane. james: the new concerns about mitch mcconnell s health after we learn he has fallen multiple times this year before he froze midsentence at a press conference. the evasive action a pilot took to avoid a midair collision with a plane full of passengers. the cdc wit
tuesday night is $1.05 billion, the fourth largest prize in mega millions history. good luck. hello again, everyone. i m fredericka witfield. we begin this hour with the growing legal problems for former president trump. the special counsel is charging trump with three new counts in the classified documents investigation. those charges include one additional count of willful retention of national defense information and two additional counts of obstruction. trump now faces 40 felony charges in the case after originally being indicted on 37 counts last month. cnn s paula reed has more. reporter: former president trump facing new legal peril. a florida grand jury returned a superseding indictment thursday, adding two charges against trump for an effort to alter, destroy, mutilate or conceal surveillance footage at the heart of the prosecution s case. trump reacting in a new interview right after the charges dropped. it shouldn t even be a case. reporter: prosecutors a
and vice president kamala harris taking on iowa s abortion ban just days after blasting florida s black history curriculum. our reporters are following all of the latest developments and we begin with new charges brought against former president trump in the mar-a-lago classified documents case. nbc s ken dilanian is reporting from the justice department, what s in this new indictment, ken? this indictment really describes a sorted obstruction of justice conspiracy between the former president of the united states and two lower level employees. now, these are allegations, these men are all presumed innocent, but what it says is that donald trump got a subpoena last june, june of 2022, demanding surveillance footage from mar-a-lago, and he immediately called this new codefendant, carlos de oliveira, who is the property manager at mar-a-lago, and then constituently, walt nauta, the other codefendant, trump s butler makes an unscheduled trip to mar-a-lago, and then he is in co
document case as prosecutors alleged the former president s aides attempted to delete surveillance video. here are tonight s headlines. donald trump s lawyer meet with the special counsel s team an hour as a possible indictment over election interference looms. and the breaking news, a third defendant added in the mar-a-lago case. heat alerts are in effect for 35 states and washington, d.c. it is going to be hot, it is going to be humid. james: and tonight we are tracking severe weather with reports of tornadoes. speak with a crane collapse in s kitchen, we are learning more about what made have caused the train to catch fire. hydraulic fluid that leaked onto a hot plate near the engine of the crane. james: the new concerns about mitch mcconnell s health after we learn he has fallen multiple times this year before he froze midsentence at a press conference. the evasive action a pilot took to avoid a midair collision with the plane full of passenger
first named storm of the season. we will hope for a miracle. norah: plus we get the first hand look at the destruction of the deadly wildfires in new mexico still burning out of control. we have certain areas of town where every home has been taken out. norah: and most of the united states bates under a massive heat wave. we got it all covered. cbs evening news starts now. sweltering, dangerous heat here in washington, at across the east coast tonight. and that s just 1 of 3 life-threatening weather threats facing americans right now. good evening. i m norah o donnell, and thank you for being with us. out west, wildfires are reaching, leaving behind scenes like this: melted metal, chard cars, smoke still rising, and a new mexico town that lost more than a thousand homes and buildings. to the gulf coast, which is fueling alberto s fury tonight, the first named storm of the season is bringing heavy rains, flooding, and high winds to texas. and more than 80 million