Good morning, everyone. We are so glad youre starting your morning with us. Good morning. Happy monday. Its good to be back. A lot of news. A lot of news to get to, so lets get started with five things to know this monday, august 14th. Breaking overnight, 96, that is the death count so far from the hawaii wildfires and only 3 of the Disaster Area has been searched. The governor calling it a Fire Hurricane. It spread faster than a mile a minute, and now a new lawsuit against the states main electric provide r. Hours from now the Fulton County District Attorney is expected to present her case to the grand jury in the Georgia Election subversion case. This means a potential fourth indictment looms over former President Trump. Cnn learns exclusively about key evidence obtained by prosecutors. And a home explodes outside of pittsburgh killing five. Gas systems were operating as designed, according to officials, who say it could take months to figure out what happened. A new serious concern
hello and thank you for being with us. i m ana cabrera in new york. hurricane ian is taking aim and florida is bracing. the powerful storm is expected to get stronger over the next few hours. a cat 4 before the end of the day. the track is shifting a bit, but it is still expected to be a major hurricane when it slams into florida tomorrow night. tampa s mayor says that area is expecting a, quote, devastating amount of water. evacuations are under way. people are boarding up homes and businesses. schools are closing, flights canceled. let s begin our coverage with john cangelosi from the national hurricane center in miami. thanks so much for joining us. update us on where the storm is right now and the latest forecast? sure, ana, here is the latest. hurricane ian starting to pull away from western cuba, max mim winds 115 miles an hour. the storm is wobbling around but generally moving to the north-northeast at about 10 miles an hour. let me show you the latest forecast. as y
the secretary of state is back in israel trying to stop the war from restarting. secretary of state antony blinken front is and center for negotiations. can he help secure the release of the eight americans still being held hostage by the terrorist group hamas before bombs start dropping again. plus one of the innocent palestinian college students in vermont describes the moment that the gunman came after him and his friends. he didn t hesitate without a word to just run down the stairs of the porch. his family says this crime was motivated by bigotry. so why no hate crime charges? plus a gag order just r reinstated on donald trump. who keeps personally attack ing the judge and his clerk in that civil fraud trial. prompting anti-semitic death threats. the judge s new warning as trump has ordered once again to zip his lips. we start with our world lead wrrks we could be just hours away from the end of the pause in fighting between israel hamas and the resumption of t
that decision was an equal protection 14lnth amendment argument. can you equate this like that? that was saying it s not legal to have men allowed into a school. we would be in big trouble. let s make up an analogy. what if one of the lawyers submitted false information knowingly to the supreme court, data about the student body, data about applicants. now you re potentially crossing a line. the other thing that prosecutors will point to is john eastman s involvement in the fake elector scheme. the submission of these forms where trumph electors said we ae the duly elected lelectors, whih they were not. the fake electors, that s the two hooks that prosecutors are going to have to use to say this is not about lawyering. this is about criminality. as you just showed, this is not an easy case for prosecutors.
underway at the courthouse in atlanta as fulton county district attorney fani willis is expected to begin her case today. we have working for two and a half years. we re ready to go. reporter: it s the clearest sign she s expected to seek charges into election interference. jeff duncan, the former lieutenant governor and cnn contributor, confirming he s been summoned to appear before the grand jury. i did just receive notification to appear on tuesday morning. i will certainly answer whatever questions are put in front of me. reporter: it was posted on social media he s also been called to testify on tuesday. he watched in on lelectors gathered to sign an illegitimate certification for president trump in december 2020. they all marched me out of the room and posted somebody out