Codefendants. Also tonight, cnn has learned that Secretary Of State Antony Blinken just spoke by phone with paul wheeler, an american wrongfully imprisoned in russia. And as the death toll of the Maui Wildfire climbs above 100, there are now growing questions about the cause of the disaster and the governors response. Josh green will join us live this hour. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the Situation Room. Tonight the wheels are in motion for Donald Trumps arrest, arraignment and trial in the Georgia Election subversion case, the Fulton County District Attorney proposing some key dates amid negotiations with trumps lawyers about details of his surrender. Lets go to cnns sarah murray who is just back from atlanta where shes covered the indictment and done an excellent job. Tell us about the d. A. s proposed trial date and how it fits into this already very busy legal and political calendar for the form are prer president. As
supreme. bill: well done. dana: critical crisis along our country s unsecured southern border is getting worse month after month after month. today homeland security secretary mayorkas mayorkas will make an appearance in eagle pass, texas, he will look at the record number of migrants flooding into the united states. welcome. i have to go with michigan. bill: i ll go washington. we ll decide tomorrow. dana: are you over or under? i will go with the under obviously? i ll go with the over. $1 bet. secretary mayorkas visiting the border today days before the house homeland security committee holds its first impeachment hearing against him. the border crisis becoming a central campaign issue. watch it throughout the year as democrats wake up to the political consequences at the southern border is having on their chances. and on president biden s campaign. this graph telling the story with the migrant surge repeatedly setting monthly records. more than 300,000 encounters i
you know, breakfast club, all the john hughes movies, but somehow this one missed. and it missed for you ooh ooh the, right? rachel: i actually never saw it. i saw parts of it, not all of it, then i asked, should i watch it? you said, eh. will: i m not sure it s iconic other than the fact rachel: you know what he hasn t seen? is he hasn t seen say anything, and that one does hold the test of time. will: kuhn what it is? pete: nope. st. elmo s fire, is the song about movie or the movie about the song? rachel: i think the song is about the movie. will: yeah, i think that s right. pete: i don t know. i like the song will: say anything, i ve not seen it either, but you ve seen john cusack in that trench coat holding the box above his head? rachel: and is he s plague in your eyes in your eyes you know that song, in your eyes? he probably doesn t know that pete: in your eyes. [laughter] pete: yeah. it s a good song. rachel: the producers are, like, move on. [laughter]
zone, particularly in the southwest florida counties, your time to evacuate is coming to an end. you need to evacuate now. a life threatening category 4 storm headed right towards florida. i m john berman live in tampa this morning. brianna keilar is in washington and that is the news from overnight. hurricane ian strength jentd to a category 4 storm with sustained winds of 140 miles per hour. wind gusts of 165 miles per hour. the storm forecast has adjusted somewhat south of where i am in tampa headed right towards the fort myers area in florida about 100 miles south of here, but the threat to florida is enormous. more than 2 1/2 million people under some sort of evacuation order. yes, the wind speed is a serious threat now, a category 4 storm. storm surge where i am in tampa, they could see storm surge of 6 feet which would put the water pretty much right where i m stand going it hit the maximum levels down towards where the storm is expected to make landfall. they could
force which means maybe inflation pressures will ease a little bit. and i ll point this out, joe, and mika, the idea here, interest rates didn t move on this and neither did the expectations in the futures market for where interest rates will be by the end of the year. so, again, kind of like that goldilocks scenario. i mean, at least for this month, of course this is a month by month thing, but at least for this month, you look at everything from new jobs added, job participation rate, the wages going up, but not so high that it adds inflationary pressures on the economy. a lot of really good news in this report. and legendary tweeter duke st. journal said, i think this may be a few minutes ago, i think this may be what a soft landing looks like. if we were of course to continue to move into this direction, dom, i guess this would be what a soft landing that the fed is desperately trying to achieve would look like, right? this would be. and the reason why you have this s