Startling morning from a former russian minister saying putin is so desperate to get biden out of office and hes looking to do something in summer or early we fall to harm bidens reelection chances. Lets go out front and good evening. Im Erin Burnett Outfront tonight. The Breaking News, there are new aftershocks, just rocking the northeast, the tremors following what was the strongest earthquake to hit new york and 140 years buildings across americas largest city were shaken by the quake. It was four the tremors, so powerful at one point that you can actually see the statue of liberty swaying. Good, certainly feel them through your body, but just move that statue gives you a signal of the power, the epicenter of the quake was just west of the city, and that is where some of the most dramatic pictures are coming into cnn. As of tonight, there have been 11 formal aftershocks prompting officials in new york city tonight to advise people to remain indoors called 911 if injured in new jersey, some people have been forced to evacuate their homes over fears of structural damage todays earthquake also disrupting transportation across the northeast for hours of flights were grounded, flight circling in the air, unable to land. Dring a ground stop at newark and trains along amtrak busiest line were delayed while crews inspected the rails to make sure there wasnt serious damage. And tonight, officials are warning the aftershocks are not over adjacent carroll is live in new york for us. Chad myers is the Weather Center tracking the aftershocks as we are feeling them. And i want to begin first with you, jason. We all did just experienced a fourt 4. 0 aftershock where you are where i am what was that like . Where youre standing well, its pretty much been Business As Usual here in times square, but thats not to say there havent been a few rattled nerves you mentioned that after a shock, we heard from the mayors office, theres spokesperson said that they felt the aftershock where they are aftershocks, something thats pretty common during an earthquake. Just not something thats commonly felt here it shook pictures off walls in this home in middlesex, new jersey and had many dogs and at least one cat running for cover and had some east coast residents like this one in bridgewater, new jersey questioning exactly what had happened the magnitude 4. 8 quake hit at 10 23 a. M. According to the Us Geological survey, its epicenter near lebanon, new jersey, located did about 50 miles west of new york city. It was the strongest to hit new jersey since before it was even a state 17, 83 the year the us defeated gray, britain and won the Revolutionary War does this serve quake . The quake felt as far north as maine residents also reported feeling it in pennsylvania vermont, new hampshire, connecticut, and Washington Dc the tremor temporarily caused a ground stop at all three major airports surrounding new york city. Three homes in newark, new jersey had to be evacuated due to structural damage image, though no reports of major damage or injuries in the tristate area in new yorkers should go about their normal day First Responders are working to make sure the city safe, the event, anything but Business As Usual, for people in a city and region of the country, not a huston to the ground suddenly shifting beneath their feet. Man, my colleague on the 83rd floor of 30 hudson yards. And so weve got a pretty good shape and theyre trying because let me those very weird to feel given the vast Critical Infrastructure of the region, new yorks governor says Structural Engineering teams, dispatched to inspect the citys bridges, tunnels, and subways. We are going to be reviewing all potentially vulnerable Infrastructure State Sites throughout the state of new york that is critically important in the aftermath of a of an event like this and while the quake didnt last long, ten seconds or so by some accounts, it left an impression with those who felt an arid it should be noticed that so far there have been 11 after sox, most of them too small to be felt like anyone. But again, its another reminder that there are fault lines on the eastern seaboard and they do move aaron. Thank you very much. Jason carroll, chad myers, as i mentioned, standing by a forest as well. So chad 4. 0 magnitude aftershock is coming eight hours after the initial 4. 8, which was felt as, as, as many of us felt it right throughout the northeast so could more aftershocks becoming and could they be big i think four is probably as big as were going to get the rest will be likely smaller, but its not out of the question that we could go to 4. 5. And then if we go higher than that, then this doesnt become an aftershock, it becomes the fore shock here, because obviously now it could be larger than this. Weve got 4. 8, but it was only three miles deep. It means that earth really shook. This felt like if you werent there, it felt like writing an old wooden Roller Coaster. It was just a violet little shaking and not that rolling thing. Were buildings are really swaying. Yes, this was truly a shaking like dry grabbing your by the back of the neck and just giving you a big shake. But tell you what worldwide we get so many thousands of earthquakes that are this large every single year, like 13,000 even on this map, there are 765 between 4. 0 and 5. 0 on my map right now, in the past 30 days. But look they are the ring of fire. And then all of a sudden there is one little guy there in new york city. Its a rare, rare event even though we get thousands of these a year, not here in this area. And it was the largest for a very long time, the third largest, although im not sure back in the 1700s, what kind of equipment they truly had. Lot of people felt some shaking you know, right, right an important an important point to make chat. All right. Thank you. And i liked the Roller Coaster analogy from chad. I described the chat is sort of to me it felt like its sitting on top of a Washing Machine when it was on spin. Yeah all right. One rug in it . It right. Yeah. Right exactly. All right. Chad, thank you very much. I want to go down to maureen long, a seismologist, and maureen as chad was pointing out, it appears at this point that he was like you could get an aftershock up to four or five. Mostly theyll get smaller and that if something really comes along bigger than what we france today would have been a for shock, which makes people watching pause. I would think what is the possibility of Something Like that yes. So the Us Geological survey put out a forecast of aftershocks this morning shortly after the magnitude 4. 8 at the time they were predicting there was about a 50 chance of an Aftershock Chalk of magnitude three or larger. And as we saw about an hour ago, we did indeed see a magnitude 4. 0 aftershock, the most likely scenario is that we will see some aftershocks continuing in the days, maybe even weeks to come the most likely scenario is that that 4. 0 aftershock that we felt just recently will be the largest one. However, there is a small chance that there will indeed be a larger earthquake, an earthquake larger than that 4. 8. That is not the most likely scenario. The chance of that happening is less than 1 but it is something that folks in the area should be aware of and we should all know what to do if we feel strong earthquake shaking so let me ask you about Something Else that stands out about this because when you say theres less than 1 chance people look at that map of the ring of fire and then this one random dot and they say, okay, well something really unexpected that it really shouldnt be happening like this just happened. So what, what should i think . I mean, obviously by Global Standards as chad pointed out, this is not a big earthquake, right . Its nothing compared to what they just went through and taiwan as another example, but you also have one today, there was in our all this, people may not have noticed and tanga in the pacific, there was a fivepoint six earthquake at some people are linking all of this together is there any reason to believe theres any connection between any of it . Lets certainly a good question and a very natural question to ask. But the answer really is no as youve noted already, there, the earth experiences a lot of earthquakes. And this was not the biggest earthquake in the world today, not, not by a long shot. It is, of course unusual for this region, which is why for those of us who, who live in the Greater New York area, and i felt the earthquake myself and new haven, connecticut. It feels very unusual because it is unusual for us, but on a global perspective magnitude 4. 8 earthquake is is not unusual and certainly in places like california or taiwan, as we saw with the magnitude 7. 4 earthquake earlier, earlier this week, those are places that are used to more earthquakes than c here at eastern north america. Absolutely. And i wanted to play something for you that the seismologists, marco brian, hes from the university of attack i go in new zealand before this happened, but recently in the past couple of months, he didnt interview with npr and he was talking about whether the Severe Weather events that have become what youre going to have Severe Weather out west. You had Severe Weather this week in the east whether theres any relationship between that and some of these other events. And heres what he told npr increasing recurrence sorties weather events the subconsciously increasing natural disasters like quake some locations. But its totally different system what do you think marine well, this is a question that scientists certainly are studying. But as yet, we do not have strong evidence are really much evidence that whether directly affects tectonics and this, you know, this really this event was a tectonic unlike event. And we would expect theres really no indication that, that weather affects that. Theyre there are some mechanisms where weather and climate can affect earthquakes, for example, in places where we are Pumping Groundwater out of the earth very, very quickly, say that can sum times change the stress state and trigger small earthquakes. However, for this particular earthquake that we saw today, theres every indication that this was a tectonic earthquake and was not affected by the weather or climate. All right. Well, maureen, thank you very much. Really fascinating. And learn a lot. Just having the conversation. So thank you of course, good to be with you. All right next, we have more Breaking News. Trumps legal team has just come out with a new filing, trying to remove the judge in his new york Hush Money Case, which is set to go to trial and just days theres specific reason hes trying to do it. Were going to explain. 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Lets how safe can many kids be in that environment i had no idea what i was saving my son from a house. So horace right just screamed everything that had been happening to me quiet onset an id True Crime Event Stream on macs Breaking News, a new court filing by former President Trump just made public. Trumps team arguing the judge in trumps criminal Hush Money Case should be recused. Among the reasons judge Juan Merchans daughter, who trump has been focused on for more than a year now i have a trumphating judge with the trumphating wife and family whose daughter worked for Kamala Harris and now receives money from the Bidenharris Campaign and a lot of it the merchans daughter has been employed by a company that did work for Democratic Political candidates. It is unclear what role she played out front now, ryan goodman are legal analysts, basil, michael, former Executive Director of the New York State democratic party, and david urban. Trumps 2020 Senior Campaign adviser. All right, thanks to all of you. So ryan, let me just start with you because youve had the chance to go through the exact allegations that are being made by trump as to why juan merchan should be recused because of his daughter. What do you make of it . I think the motion is on a road to nowhere part of the reason is that the core of the motion is the idea that its not that she directly financially benefits err is human unrelated to a party to the case, but rather her companys clients sent out solicitations for money that refer to the case. So its not even her company, but their client companies. Client . Correct. Just to make state the obvious, thats something her company does not control what they do. Yes, theres no direct link. And the notion second is all of those, almost all of their solicitations occurred way back in 2023 the lawyers actually in mid2023 already tried to get the judge to recuse and they said in that very motion, oh, the clients of the company could refer to the case. So theyve made the argument, the idea that there would now make the argument on the eve of the trial about to start again i think the judge would refuse it out of hand almost. In fact, i have to make arguments as to whats changed. What are the circumstances that have changed, and they dont refer to the fact that the solicitations are new or their discovery is new because they cant. So all right. So youre saying it just simply doesnt add up and it doesnt add up under new york law or near precedent nonetheless, david trump is making a play, right . That this will his effort to do this will matter, at least in the court of Public Opinion yeah. Lets i think ryans probably perhaps correct on the legal aspects here. But lets not forget what judge marsha and did do in the past that he should probably recuse himself force three donations that he made and i just want to make sure i get them correct because theyre important one to the progressive Turnout Project to biden for president , and then three free to an organization stop republicans, which describes its purposes resisting the republican party. And Donald Trumps rightwing legacy, right . So he did make those three donate. He didnt now, hold on. 1. 8. Let me just let me just add just for the full thing i