An Ohio Special Election becomes a crucial new litmus test on Abortion Rights here in america. They voted down the effort to make it harder to amend the state constitution. Its the most political issue for women on the left. This is a wakeup call to republicans. The problems politically in a post world have not gone away. District attorney fonny willis will present her case to the grand jury next week. The prosecutor has been lining up witnesses in the investigation of donald trump and his allies who are are trying to overturn Election Results in georgia. Its trending in that direction. Im sitting in a courtroom on [ bleep ] because his Attorney General charged me. Ron desantis continue his staff shakeup. The problem is when things go badly with a campaign, you usually get blamed for it. Montgomery, alabama, Police Department identify suspects in the chaotic brawl on a boat dock. Three many white men have been charged with third degree assault. You see stuff like that on tv, but to see it live, its highly likely more individuals will face charges. The artist and rapper maega the staalon faced attacks and reported a shooting where she was the victim. A judge sentenced tori lanes to ten years in prison. The punishment fits the crime. This is accountability, finally. Good morning, everyone. Its the top of the hour. Were so glad youre with us on cnn this morning. Theres a lot of news to get to. Things happening right now. Well talk about ohio. Borgt right advocates are celebrating a crucial victory after a highstakes special election. 57 of ohio voters rejected a measure that would have made it harder to change the constitution and protect access to abortion when it goes on the ballot this november. 60 would have been required instead of a simple majority. This comes after law makers in ohio and other republicancontrolled states passed abortion bans. Critics of this measure called it a power grab. The Voter Turnout here was massive, especially for an august election in an off year. More than 1 million more ohioans voted in this election than in last years primary. Cnns chief National Affairs correspondent jeff zeleny is live in columbus. Message received from the voters there in ohio. Reporter good morning. A loud message and a rare rebuke of republican power here in ohio. Republican leaders scheduled this special election on a tuesday in august. Many critics said to try to slip this through. People werent noticing that the opposite happened. A record turnout for an august election, not much precedent for that in recent times. But suburban voters, urban voters, a coalition of independents and republicans rejected this amendment that would have raised the bar for an amendment in november to put Abortion Rights on the ballot. That will go forward. But this was also about more than abortion. Certainly, the issue was the Driving Force here, but also a minimum wage proposal that is likely coming next year. And simply just a power grab, as many critics saw it. As a Victory Party last night, that coalition had this to say. Ohio, we did it. We did it. Tonight is a major victory for democracy in ohio. The majority still rules in ohio. Together, we have delivered this unbelievable and amazing, but yes, absolutely true result of what ohioans really want. Reporter this all started because hundreds of thousands of petitions were signed to put that issue of the Abortion Ballot on the measure in november. And this was an effort to raise the bar and make it more complicated. That failed. The november billiallot issue g on. In november, this will be on the ballot in ohio, a crucial state, not to mention, in the general election. What would it change there . Reporter there was a 2019 law passed here that effectively banned abortion after six weeks of pregnancy without exceptions for rape or incest. That law has been on hold by the courts, but if this constitutional amendment on Abortion Rights would pass in november, it would simply make ohio fall in line with several other states that we have seen like michigan most recently enshrine Abortion Rights into thinsticonstitution. Saw in our National Poll yesterday that 64 of americans disagree with the Supreme Court overturning roe vs. Wade. Its the latest example where if the citizens have their say, they are voting on the side of Abortion Rights. But again, this was about more than that here in ohio. It was about trying to change the rules in the process. We dont know how the percentage here will line up with the question in november, but now they simply need a simple majority of 50 to put Abortion Rights in the state constitution. What it also means, though, that republicans certainly have some thinking to do about how abortion plays into their Party Platform because the voters here have spoken. This will be a driving issue, democrats hope, going into the 2024 election as well. Certainly, jeff zeleny for us there. Thank you. Were getting our first look at a key piece of evidence into the investigation into former President Trump and the efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. The New York Times obtained a memo written that his attorney the fraudulent elector mem mope was first mention ed in the indictment. It came down last week, but we havent seen the memo until now. While we know the contours of the fake elector scheme, this shows how it evolved and how it was discussed behind the scenes. In it, the Supreme Court would likely end up ruling that the power to count the votes does not line with the the president of the senate, meaning mike pence at the time. But even if it failed, he wrote it would do two things. Buy the Trump Campaign more time and would deprive biden of electoral votes or add to trumps column. He also suggested what he was writing here was a bold and controversial strategy. In this indictment, prosecutors say the memo shows the orchestration of a fake controversy would derail the proper certification of biden as president elect. This morning cnn has learned that fullton County District fani willis will be presenting her case against donald trump. Sources say she may seek several indictments as she eyes a racketeering case that could cast trump as operating a criminal enterprise to up end georgias 2020 Election Results. Sara murray joins us live from washington, d. C. Sara, for some time now, we have seen the barricades go up around the county courthouse. The Security Profile increasing. Now we know potentially the timing of taking it to the grand jury. Were going to get a better sense of the timing. It is looking like fani willis will make her presentation before the grand jury at some point next week. Shes already been lining up these witnesses and telling them essentially you need to be on a 48hour notice to appear and testify before the grand jury. These are people that already testified before a special grand jury that spent months investigating this case. So prosecutors already know what these witnesses are going to say. Its not about gleaning new information from them, but its about using them to craft a narrative before the grand jury that they are going to seek indictments from. People who talk about the fake elector scheme, people who can talk about the presentation, Rudy Giuliani and trump allies made before lawmakers that was riddled with conspiracies. When i was talking to legal experts for our story on this, they said, look n a case of this magnitude, her indictments are probably already written and have been done for weeks, if not months. If anything, shes making the Finishing Tweakingses and touches ahead of the grand jury presentation next week. Trump spoke about this last night at the rally in new hampshire. Pretty much what we expected him to say, yeah . Yeah, hes been very harsh in his criticism of this black democratic District Attorney from the south. We saw more of that last night. Take a listen to what he said. They say theres a young woman, a young racist in atlanta. This is a person that wants to indict me. She has a lot of problems. But she wants to indict me to try to run for some other office. Now this is nothing that the District Attorneys office or the public has not heard from donald trump before, but it obviously comes at a time where theres a heightened security presence. Shes been very clear she and her team have faced a number of threats as a result of this tenor around this investigation. They have inclined to brush off what trump says publicly, although she has said previously to reporters that she draws the line, and if trump comes out with direct threats against her, her staff, her family. Sara murray, thank you. Possible Shark Sightings shut down several beaches in new york yesterday. This is a day after a shark attacked a 56yearold woman. We got this photo of First Responders treating her on the beach. She was standing in the water, just standing there when she felt a sharp pain on her leg and fell back ward. Miguel marquez is live from rockaway beach. This is in queens. This is in new york city. Reporter there are sharks here as well. This beach is closed. You can see the beach is open, but its closed to swimming. You can see the red flags. There were two possible Shark Sightings just east of here yesterday and one confirmed sighting west of here. Those beaches shut down for a short time. Usually for an hour when they have a shark sighting. Then they open them back up. This one they have closed. They may open it up later today because they are going to have Drone Patrols over the beach. I want to show you this. This is the beach where that happened. First time in 70 years, as far as we can tell, that a shark has bitten somebody here. Look at all the birds. I dont know if you can catch that. There are lots and lots of birds out there feeding on School Of Fish and thats what brings sharks to this area. Theres very few people we saw a couple surfers in the water, which they are not supposed to be, but this is the beach. She was standing waisthigh water. The shark came up and bit her left thigh, bleeding very badly. It was a very serious injury. Thanks to the lifeguards out here, they put a turn kit on her and able to get her to emergency care. It looks like shes going to make a recovery. The question now for new yorkers, its summer. Just when you want to go into the water, are they going to be able to open up the beaches today. Back to you. Hope shes going to be okay. Really scary. Thank you. If you know somebody in neptune beach, florida, send them a text message this morning. Because thats where one ticketholder is a lot richer after winning the 1. 58 billion Mega Millions jackpot. Here are the winning numbers. 13, 19, 32, 33, 14 is the mega ball. Its expected to be the largest prize in the games history. It was sold at a supermarket in neptune beach. Thats where we find a reporter from our cnn affiliate. Aaron, i used to live there. I know that publix well. Tell us about the excitement there after selling this ticket. Reporter theres a lot of buzz here. People are just excited that theres some history that happened inside this building behind me. The doors opened about ten minutes ago. Some people didnt even know what was going on. They stopped us and said, hey, whats the excitement going on here. When they heard that Winning Ticket was sold here, some people were a little disappointed and wish it was them, but they were excited for whoever this person was. They are out there now 1. 58 billion richer. Im going to show you as people are starting to go inside shopping. Im pretty sure they are talking with each other inside and also the workers as well. But whoever that lucky person is, they have about 180 days to claim that prize there are a couple things they should do immediately. Excited. They are probably not even realizing the severity of what happened to them. Once all that wears off, theres some things they should do immediately. They should document that winning. They should take pictures of the front and back of that ticket. And store that somewhere where only they know it is. They should strongly consider hiring an attorney or some type of Financial Adviser to walk them through this process this should be someone who is a specialist in dealing with this kind of wealth. Those same people on that team should also review the Lottery Rules for this winner before they sign the original ticket. That person has 180 days to claim that ticket. They have to do that over in tallahassee, the state capital, or at the Florida Lottery head kwquart ers. They can do that in person or set up an appointment to meet with official there is to claim their ticket. In florida when it comes to the Mega Millions, you cannot remain anonymous. So well know this person, but we dont know when. They have six months or so to do it. Victor is hoping its a buddy of his. Im telling everybody to text or call your people in neptune beach. My advice for the person who won, dont answer any texts after six years away. Reporter thats right. Change that number. Aaron farrar from wjxt, the local station in jacksonville, thank you so much. Police say more arrests could be on the way after shocking video showed a group of white voters brawling with a Black River Boat Cocaptain in alabama. 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