miles-per-hour as it heads for georgia and the carolinas. steve harrigan is in tarpon springs near tampa. what are you seeing now? we have about a foot and a half water on this street and we re with jim who has an auto repair shop. has had it here for 30 years. behind every house, every business along this road and along much of this town there is at least a foot of water. if you want to see what it looks like we ll look inside this auto repair shop. what did you try to save when the storm is coming? what did you try and do? put cars up in the air. put our own vehicles in the air. the shop equipment. we re wading through six inches of water on the ground. he tried to get the cars up on lifts. some of his air conditioning and valuable equipment, too. i have to say it s a mess here. it is. now look, a lot of americans want to know when you got six inches of water in a business you ve had for 30 years, as we can see these cars he has tried to raise them up here. tell m
a tax expert who will do your full service visit turbotax.com today, brainpower, helping you buy better. i m natasha bertrand at the pentagon. and this is cnn the painstaking cleanup of the francis scott key bridge is just beginning huge cranes being moved in to clear the wreckage and just moments from now, we do expect to hear an update from maryland governor wes ward which we ll bring to you as we get the latest plus, using trump s attacks against him, fresh off a major fundraising haul, president biden s campaign is making a direct appeal for nikki haley s voters, how they re making their case using trump s own words and new evidence shows that putin did know about a threat from isis before that deadly concert attack in moscow. we are following these major developing stories and many more i ll coming in right here to cnn news central at any moment, maryland governor wes moore is expected to give an update on that huge cleanup operation that is happening right now a
it is good to be back with you on this second hour of chris jansing reports. at this hour, the largest crane on the eastern sea board arriving at the sight of the baltimore bridge collapse. the long cleanup ahead to clear twisted metal and debris with four victims trapped underneath. survival story, one family crediting their son and their dog with saving their lives during a man s deadly stabbing spree. the wild struggle that had them fighting him off with their bare hands and a syrup bottle. sean diddy combs, our first look at the after math of federal raids on his home, overturn drawers, wires left dangling from the halls. new details from joe biden s $26 million fundraiser with bill clinton and barack obama, including one moment when donald trump came up. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. we begin with nbc s gary grumbach who is in baltimore where that massive crane is on the scene. what s the latest, gary? reporter: hey, there,
steve rosenberg has the latest from moscow. well, many people are asking is the story of wagner, the story of prigozhin, finally over? i have to say one of the things i have learned in russia is that stories here rarely end. there are so many twists and turns here and new chapters. it is quite possible that even in death, yevgeny prigozhin could pose a challenge to vladimir putin. just look at all the makeshift prigozhin memorials that have been popping up in nearly two dozen towns in russia and russian occupied ukraine. this man had become quite a popularfigure in pro war circles, and so the widespread suspicion that the russian authorities were behind the plane crash means that the kremlin faces the danger of a backlash. the last thing the kremlin will want to have to deal with is prigozhin the martyr or cult of prigozhin. it s interesting, actually, that president putin has now ordered wagner employees and those of other private military contractors to sign an allegiance
intensify into a major hurricane. it s 10:00 a.m. eastern. i m lindsey reiser in new york in for ana cabrera. it s going to be a busy hour with not just one, but two court hearings getting under way in legal cases against former president trump. in atlanta we re watching the first major hearing in the elections interference case brought by d.a. fani willis. mark meadows, one of the co-defendants, is trying to get his case moved to federal court. willis has called on multiple witnesses to testify in this morning s hearing including georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger who we know was on the line for that infamous phone call in which former president donald trump wanted to find around 11,000 votes. in washington lawyers have arrived for the federal case into trump s election interference case. prosecutors want to get started in january. trump s team wants it to begin in april, april of 2026. joining us right now is nbc s justice correspondent ken dilanian, blayne a