Our nbc News Reporters are following all of the latest developments, and we begin with that Court Appearance in florida for Carlos De Oliveira. Nbcs ken dilanian following all the latest developments for us. Ken, break down what happened in the courtroom and whats going to happen between now and next week. Reporter good afternoon, chris. Mr. De oliveira made his first appearance in Federal Court to answer for these charges but wasnt able to enter a plea or have an arraignment because he didnt have local counsel licensed to practice in the Southern District of florida. So he will have to come back and do that. The real significance of this case is not really mr. De oliveira whos a lowlevel employee at maralago. Its that this new Superseding Indictment makes an extraordinary allegation against the former president , alleging that he conspired to destroy evidence that was under a Grand Jury Subpoena. It says essentially he ordered these two lowlevel employees, nauta and deol oliveira, to
his own special prosecutor to, quote, go after the president. he s got a scorched earth political strategy. do his lawyers have a legal strategy equal to special prosecutor jack smith s case. shoved out of the headlines by trump s indictment and impending trial, so how do they regain the political spotlight? the commuting nightmare for those in and around philadelphia, forced to find a new way to work after part of a major interstate collapses. the effort to fix it as officials say it could be out of commission for months. we begin with those new details about how former president donald trump plans to fight 37 first-of-their-kind criminal charges both in court and in public. he s flying to south florida at this hour for tomorrow s arraignment. where we ll see the case begin to play out in realtime. first, with that arraignment in miami, followed just a few hours later by trump s first major fund-raiser of the 2024 campaign. the public response has been typical trump, s
reaches the third round of the world darts championship. good morning from the cotswolds. this is a reindeer herd, we are surrounded by christmas trees. today is less windy than yesterday, some rain in the forecast and some snow largely in the hills of the north east of scotland but at lower levels in the northern isles. all of the details throughout the programme. it s friday the 22nd of december. our main story. the czech republic has declared a national day of mourning tomorrow after a gunman killed 14 people and injured 25 at a university in prague. police say the gunman was a 24 year old student at charles university and was later found dead. police were already looking for the gunman, after they discovered his father s body hours earlier. our eastern european correspondent sarah rainsford reports. the centre of prague was suddenly transformed into a major crime scene. armed police rushed towards a university building as a gunman stalked the corridors there. at this poin
by hamas. the lead starts right now. three hostages shot and killed today. tragic news, plus, verdict watch at a dc courthouse that any moment we expect the jury will return a verdict, one that could cost and cnn exclusive. the case of the missing classified binder. once in the hands of donald trump, how did this notebook with top secret material on russia just vanish? poof. in the final hours of the trump presidency, and could the information now be in the wrong hands? welcome to the lead. we start this hour with an exclusive from a team of cnn journalists that report a binder containing highly classified intelligence on russia s attempts to in the election, disappeared in the final days of donald trump s presidency. there s many theories of where it might be. and who may have taken it. one theory is from cassidy hutchison. who wrote about mark meadows taking the file in her book. i watched him climb into the limo, noticing the binder tucked under his arm. it s a
i am mj lee at the white house and this is cnn. we continue to follow the breaking news out of israel and its war on hamas. the israel defense forces says that it accidentally shot and killed three israeli hostages in northern gaza who were mistakingly identified as a threat. two of the vn victims identified. this is what idf spokesman lieutenant colonel jonathan told me just this last hour. we are looking into how it happened, how it came about that these hostages were out, trying to understand how that happened, whether it was intentional by hamas, or it wasn t intentional. and what we have told our troops is to exercise this when being confronted with people. part of the complexity, we are fighting in a civilian environment where almost all of the rpg crews that have been attacking our troops have been dressed in civilian clothes. it creates a very dynamic and challenging environment. what we have told our troops is to be extra vigilant and do one more safety