Debate prep for days, holding mock debates. In a new interview, the Vice President saying former President Trump is, quote, not burdened by telling the truth. Tonight, how Donald Trump is preparing in these final hours. And the new poll just out tonight, showing this president ial race is a dead heat. Mary bruce, rachel scott, and Rick Klein on this new poll just in, all here in philadelphia tonight. The news breaking late today. Legendary actor james Earl Jones has died. One of americas most distinguished performers. A powerful presence on stage and screen. No. I am your father. D David Steve Osunsami with the tributes coming in. Also tonight, tropical Storm Francine gaining strength. The storm expected to become a hurricane tonight, as it now takes aim at the u. S. Ginger zee with the new track. The Wildfire Emergency at this hour. Thousands of evacuations outside logs angeles. Flames burning across more than 20,000 acres. Dozens of large fires burning in the west. Tonight, the urgen
this after the u.s. justice department informed the former president he s a target, a target of the probe. also tonight, washington, d.c. monuments are shrouded in haze as wildfire smoke from canada drifts to the nation s capital. we re tracking this air quality emergency as it moves into the mid atlantic and threatens the health of tens of millions of americans. and the flood disaster in ukraine grows even more dangerous as the region is rocked by shelling and the kyiv government accuses russia of shooting at rescue workers. i ll acquit white house official john kirby about that devastating dam collapse and the broader state of the war right now. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with donald trump apparently in imminent legal peril. once again, the u.s. justice department moving toward a final decision on indicting trump in the classified documents probe after alerting the for
of mar-a-lago. but they chose to do that only in recent weeks, which tells us a lot. it tells us they are near a decision to bring possible charges against the former president. obviously, jack smith, the special counsel, works under attorney general merrick garland, who could at the last minute decide to intervene. but what this tells us a lot and the reason why you see the trump lawyers very concerned is that this signals that the special counsel is heading towards an indictment and the question is when that indictment might come, who else might be under it, and certainly the former president should believe that, you know, at this point he has the option to go to the prosecutors and say he wants to speak to the grand jury to present his own evidence and to try to persuade them at the last minute that they should not bring that case. we do not expect that donald trump will do that, jake. no, we don t. katelyn, the special counsel s enlisted a second grand jury, this one in
keeping his economic commitments abroad while managing a debt crisis at home, president biden says the best use of his time was to cut shows h histropy asia. we ll have the latest on that search. and the governor of montana thinking there s enough threat from china to ban tiktok, but how will he force it out of the hands of teenagers. all these stories are coming in to cnn news central. today in hiroshima, president biden was peppered with questions did the debt default, which really want supposed to be on the agenda. he s already cut his trip short, so he can get back to finalize a deal. leaders in washington have about two weeks to avert a potential disaster. let s take the live to japan for marc stewart . reporter: i cannot stress enough if there s a u.s. daylight, not only likely would it put the u.s. economy into recession, it could create global financial shockwaves. that s relevant for the g7. policy decisions, positions relating to the war in ukraine. money i
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