Good morning and welcome to the final day of the third week of Donald Trumps criminal hush money trial, where the former president just reentered the courthouse here in manhattan. Were you all again go before the prosecution as they are going to bring a witness back on the stand, a witness that we saw yesterday . Should i stillman that older testimony when court ended, soon again, trump will be part of that captive audience that is going to be listening to the prosecutions version of a trump tale, a sexual when counter with the Adult Film Star that the former president allegedly tried to keep hidden. From american voters. Yesterday for the first time, the jury actually got two hear trumps boys and thats secretly recorded audio tape. Good morning. Im Kaitlan Collins here in new york thank caitlin. Im John Mccarthy austin here in washington. And you are watching cnn Special Coverage of Donald Trumps hush money cover up, trial in minutes from now, testimony, resumes and zeros in on trumps
Shore lets go to meteorologist the kathy orr live from cape may, kathy . Reporter kate, beaches have been crowd today but life guards have been pulling everybody close inner because of the is your f it is increasingly rough because of the swells, due to hurricane arthur. Take a look, not many folks out there right now especially in the water, guards go offduty 59 30. We will feel impact. Down beach you can see swells building and they will continue to do so right through tomorrow morning when the storm comes, to us and it is closest point here in cape may within a 150 miles. And then accelerates out to sea. Here is arthur from space, radar view and distance, right now 425 miles to the South Southwest of cape may, new jersey. You can see, it impact in the North Carolina coast right now. We are tracking arthur as it will pass closely to or over the the North Carolina coast late night and strengthen, to a category two storm, and then it will accelerate out to sea and begin to weaken to a
Hopefully giving the family a little bit of closure in this case. The Oakland Police are acting pretty quickly as the shootings and. Three more arrests have been made end the abreast of the death of chyemil pierce. A third arrest was made with a woman who might have been an accessory to the shooting. But prosecutors say that they most likely will not be filing charges against her. This is all stemming from ms. Pierce being gunned down at her home due to regain land on gunfire in her area. in this case shows that the community was provided officers with information to help move the case forward. Were talking about for individuals in connection with this tragic, site of a mother lode was trying to ulster like try to protect children. Were looking forward to any other information for anyone else that may have been involved in the shooting. Reporter this comes just a few days after the arrest of 19 yearold sam some suffered a gunshot wound from the gunfight that he was again. Allegedly. Th
Maryland bureau chief brad bell is live with the plans to reduce that backlog. Brad . Brad this has been a problem for years. What happens is a woman suffers a rape. She goes to police and then is sent to the hospital where a specially trained forensic nurse looks for d. N. A. Evidence. The womans body actually becomes a crime scene. When they find evidence its put in something called a rape kit. Now, the problem is that in many cases, across the country, those rape kits sit for years so thats why today, the Vice President of the United States along with senator Barbara Mikulski toured the Maryland State Police crime lab in pikesville to see what is going on there in the way of work but also to announce that they have secured 41 million out of the federal budget that can be used by jurisdictions across the country to improve their faculty to test to eliminate that backlog. Senator mikulski says it is vital. Senator mikulski various jurisdictions have more resources than others. Thats w
I had to turn away. I couldnt aint. When youre wrong youre wrong. And if you make a bad decision, dont care if youre behind the shield or just a citizen on the street, you have to live by that decision. Reporter the video is graphic. Police say slager fired eight shots at an unarmed scott on saturday in North Charleston. Its not nice to say. I dont like to see anybody get hurt. Reporter this neighbor asked us not to to be identified but says the slagers were his friends when they lived in this mt. Laurel neighbor. We moved here when he was about 12. He left about, i dont know, five years later. He went into the coast guard. But he was a nice kid i was the whole time he lived here. Reporter he said slager was friendly and joined the coast guard before becoming a member of the North Charleston police department. Wednesday night a group held a peaceful demonstration in North Charleston supporting Walter Scotts family. If convicted Michael Slager could face 30 to life in prison even the De