Staff, mark meadows, and his postelection attorney, Rudy Giuliani. They are accused of engaging in a conspiracy to commit crimes intended to reverse trumps loss in georgia in 2020. The 98page indictment lists 13 State Charges against trump himself including racketeering as well as false statements. Prosecutors claim trump and his codefendants, quote, refused to accept that trump lost and knowingly and willfully joined a conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome of the election. District attorney fani willis wants the trial to start within six months. And unlike in Federal Court that trial could be televised. Lets begin at the courthouse in atlanta with cnns sara murray. And sara, this is a much more sprawling case both in terms of the number of defendants but also the nature and scope of the charges than what we saw in the Special Counsels case. Help lay it out for us. Reporter yeah, i think thats absolutely right. In these other federal cases we have seen donald trump largely charge
We have a new look now at the epicenter of the devastation in maui, and also now are learning that only a handful of the 106 confirmed dead have been identified. Any day now former President Donald Trump and his 18 codefendants are expected to go to jail after being booked in georgia. We are live outside with the very latest. For the first time north korean Officials Say they are holding u. S. Army private travis king. They claim hes seeking refuge because of racial discrimination, they say, in the u. S. Military. Im john berman with kate bolduan and sara sidner. This is cnn news central. Lets start with the new video coming out of maui. A camera crew travelled in with fema to get a first look at portions of the Historic Town of lahaina that had been blocked off until now. The oncevibrant paradise now the epicenter of devastation. The death toll is that 106 People Killed and only about a third of the fire zone has been searched by recovery crews. The governor says until now most of the
welcome to a special edition of cnn tonight. and we begin with the art of the deal that never was. tonight the washington post reports that donald trump rejected efforts by his lawyers to cut a deal with the justice department to avoid his second arrest in just ten weeks. the post reports that one of his attorneys, floated the idea of quietly approaching the feds last fall to take the temperature down on the classified documents case and to try to find a way to avoid charging the former president, but that never materialized because trump listened to other advisers and pundits pushing him to take a much more aggressive approach. now, cnn reported last fall that trump had conservative activist tom fitten in his ear telling him that returning records to the archives was a mistake. and so now as a result of all of that, trump faces 37 criminal counts for allegedly keeping and hiding those documents and of course obstructing the investigation. and behind the scenes, cnn is
shimkus. todd: i m todd piro. look at that, two dogs reportedly hurt after an animal shelter was destroyed. fox weather meteorologist is here with the fox weather forecast. britta, january has been active. it has been, every week we ve had a severe weather outbreak. this was close to downtown houston, where i used to live, so it is heartbreaking to see the damage, especially to the animal shelters. waking up this morning, threat of severe weather, massive storm system. look at evolution of thunderstorms ripping through the south and we have a snow component. the threat is presents, we have a tornado watch until 11:00 in the morning that stretches into the florida panhandle. a lot of the reason of why we have seen so much severe weather, todd and carley, is the warm weather. the map hasn t looked like january, we have had record-breaking highs, that is an important part of this ingredient list, that much heat gives way to powerful storms. that is what we had yesterday and