With the founder of structural engineering partnership. David, we ll start with you. Your teams have retreated for this demolition. What are you hearing about the time line of when this can go down? and i m sure your rescue teams understand why this is happening, but are they discouraged at all that they re unable to keep going right now? i wouldn t categorize it as discouraged. They understand the importance of the demolition and the time line that it s going to take to accomplish that. They stand poised, ready to engage. As you heard in the press conference, as soon as the building comes down, teams will be able to move right in and resume their search and rescue efforts. We are maintaining a presence on the site of what we consider rapid intervention teams in the event anything happens with the building while these demolition crews are doing their job. Okay. Joel, from an engineering point of view here, what is involved in taking this structure down? well, as engineers we try to des
Meaning we ll learn exactly what charges the former president s company and the top executive are facing. The chief financial officer surrendering to prosecutors this morning. And he is vowing to fight, not flip, but could the charges change that? we know prosecutors have been investigating a mult dude of potential violations. We are told attorneys have narrowed their focus, specifically on cash bonuses. And whether the organization properly paid taxes on those and other benefits. While we wait for these indictments to be unsealed, i want to bring in former assistant u. S. Attorney for the southern district of new york and cnn chief political analyst. Good to have you both here. Ellie, if these charges are solely related to whether taxes were paid on bonuses, that seems pretty small. It s my understanding prosecutors rarely do this. If this is where two plus years of investigation has led, what does that tell you? if this is all prosecutors have, it s not much. Now, the key thing to lo
time they arrived. todd: brooke singman joins us live with more. brooke? ashley: they were already dead by the time the authorities arrived on the same here at two victims eric james williams survived the horrifying kidnapping and are back in the united states. all four traveled south carolina to mexico so maggie could get a procedure. this update, she is doing okay but she was crying, watched two of them die in front of her peer of the held hostage in this small shack located in a rule part of mexico and got lost and mistaken members of drug cartel. the mexican police arrested a 24-year-old mexican national in connection with the violent kidnapping. the suspect identified as jose guadalupe jose guadalupe a accused of guarding for shack world victims were found. authorities didn t say whether involved with the cartel. the kidnapping was caught on surveillance video that some find disturbing and all four victims dragged into the back of a pickup truck. you can see the susp
like a freight train. we re seeing record-breaking and terrifying storm surges throughout florida and ft. myers, the water is so high pickup trucks are almost completely submerged. water levels have risen more than 6 feet in the last switch ho seven hours. let s get to tom sater in the cnn weather center. an updated forecast should come any minute now. what should we expect? it was just handed to me. forgive me for reading off. we still have a category 4 hurricane and five miles east of punta gorda. it will stay at hurricane strength through orlando. this will rake the entire peninsula. we had grove city a gust of 128. when we talk about the southern kind here, a better picture on radar will give an indication what we re looking at. here is the new track. keeps it as a 4 of course now moving inland but notice it s a category one. it will lose strength now that it s interacting with a land mass. that s typical. however, the winds have expanded now as these storms do. in fa