it s being called the mission to save humanity. we ll take you inside nasa s plan to crash into an asteroid . we begin by tracking two dangerous storm systems. first, tropical storm ian churning across the warm, energizing waters of the caribbean right now. the latest forecast shows it strengthening to a category 4 hurricane over the gulf of mexico before slams into florida next week. it could be the first major hurricane to hit the state in four years. president joe biden has declared a federal emergency in the state. florida governor ron desantis declared a state of emergency as well. residents from the florida panhandle to the florida keys are being urged to prepare for storm surge, hurricane-force winds, and heavy rain. we want everyone to ensure that their emergency equipment, their hurricane shutters, their battery-operated radios, battery-powered, that they re all in good working order and that sufficient emergency supplies are on hand. seven days of perishable foo
keeps moving and moving and even friday, saturday, sunday. doesn t matter what day. aren t you exhausted? aren t you exhausted by the con constant of it all? look, i am 17 years old. look at me since i ve done this show. the past eight and a half years 17 again. good for you. it s been rough. the entire over the entire cycle with the administration, the entire news cycle has changed and you never know what s going to happen. you re rolling with it. you re doing a good job. it s fri-yay. she s like don, stop talking to me. i m ready to get out of here. enjoy your weekend. take care. you, too. this is don lemon tonight and we have a cnn exclusive because our sources are telling us here at cnn the former president s legal team is fighting a secret court battle to block a federal grand jury from getting information from his ex aides about his efforts to overturn the not a secret. we saw through of his lawyers coming out of court yesterday so more on that in a
coming out of court yesterday. so more on that in a moment, but it has been a no good, terrible, very bad week for the ex-president and his legal team. his own hand picked special master telling him he can t just declassify documents with his mind. he s got to have proof. he can t just make wild accusations the fbi somehow planted evidence during that search of mar-a-lago. he s got to say exactly what he claims they planted. and oh, there is the new york state attorney general filing a monster civil fraud lawsuit against trump, three of his adault children, and the trump organization, one that could cost them a quarter of a billion dollars. remember that? it s been quite a week. and there s more. tonight the intelligence community has restarted its review of the potential damage from those classified documents being moved to mar-a-lago. and ahead of the january 6th committee hearing next week committee member jamie raskin says they have more to reveal about roger stone as w
hurricane. meantime, hundreds of thousands of people now without power in canada, as fiona makes landfall there. this powerful storm is not letting up after you may recall it left a wave of destruction in puerto rico. we re going to have the latest on that storm s track. and it sounds like something out of a sci-fi thriller. nasa gets ready to slam a refri refrigerator-size spacecraft into an asteroid. we ll tell you why and give you the latest details on this fascinating mission. it is finally here. the weekend. thank you so much for sharing part of it with us. saturday, september 24th. great to be with you, amara. great to be with you. and yes, everyone, thank you so much for waking up with us. we ve got a lot of news to get to. and a lot of storm coverage. two major storms to talk about this morning. first, hurricane fiona now a post-tropical cyclone making landfall in eastern canada. and we re seeing our first images of the storm as it make the landfall this m
23 people are dead, including three children. plus, a dead wife, a dead son, a botched hit, an alleged fraud scheme. murder charges have now been filed against a once prominent south carolina attorney in this case that has more twists than a country road. welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper. president biden s first trip to the middle east being overshadowed in a controversial sit-down that s not yet even happened. president biden stood side by side with israeli prime minister and promised iran will never get a nuclear weapon. how to go about that? that s where they public disagreed. i continue to believe that diploma city is the best way to achieve them. words will not stop them. diplomacy will not stop them. he was pressed by reporters as to whether or not he ll bring up the murder of the journalist with leaders in saudi arabia. the leaders responsible for his murder. at we report from jerusalem, president biden stopped way short of making any such commitment. r