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>> you are in the cnn newsroom. cnn has learned former president trump will likely turn himself in at the fulton county jail by the end of next week. district attorney fani willis set a deadline of august 25th for trump and 18 codefendants to turn themselves in. >> they are all charged with plotting to subvert the 2020 election results in georgia. isabel rosales joins us now with more. officials in atlanta say they will treat the former president like any other defendant, but considering that he is a former president, i'd imagine that will be quite tough to do. >> reporter: good morning. officials like the fulton county sheriff have vowed to treat trump and his associates like everybody else. this includes mugshots and fingerprinting. let me run you through the normal booking process for the typical newly charged defendant. normally they would need to wait

a couple of hours for their turn to get their fingerprinting done and their mug shot. also they are typically thoroughly searched by a jail deputy. but -- >> having a bit of transmission issue there with isabel rosales. hopefully we'll get her back. georgia officials have said in this case trump is not a former president, he's a defendant and will be treated like any other defendant. this morning we spoke with a former federal prosecutor and attorney. he explained this, of course, will not apply to everything. >> i would expect it will be expedited for him because for security purposes he won't be in with the mass of other people in a holding cell or waiting in line to be booked. it sounds like they are going to do the mug shot and the fingerprinting. i think that's a good thing. i think we've come to view some of those processes as though

it's part of a punishment for people who are, of course, presumed innocent. it's not. it's just a process. there's no reason to exempt him from the normal process, other than they have to make sure he is protected as befits his status. as we saw in the federal cases, they treated him with kid gloves in the cross. there was no fingerprinting, no mug shots. also in terms of release conditions, i'm sure his team is making sure to negotiate those ahead of time so there are no surprises. he is one with no prior criminal history, so you wouldn't expect he would be detained. but on the other hand circumstances have changed. he's now a defendant in four different criminal cases. normally there would be some thought given as to release conditions, bail, et cetera. >> this morning republican presidential candidates are in atlanta attending the gathering. >> it is a gathering of conservatives.

tim scott, nikki haley, vivek ramaswamy and ron desantis are among the republicans attending the event hosted by the conservative radio show host erick erickson. former president trump was not invited. eva, former governor chris christie of new jersey was the first speaker this morning. what did he say? who else is speaking today? >> reporter: yeah. he left the stage about 45 minutes ago. he seemed pretty confident up there going into the debate next week. he outlined his policy priorities as addressing public safety, school choice, eliminating government spending. this conference this event organizer erick erickson has said these two days are not about trump, but trump did weave his way into that conversation with christie later on after telling reporters that trump is a coward for not being that the

debate next week. christie also known for being confrontational, did ding governor desantis a little bit. >> we have folks in this race who have called vladimir putin brilliant, a great leader. just yesterday, donald trump c said he was the apple of putin's eye. i have to tell you the truth. i don't want to be the apple of vladimir putin's eye. i don't. >> reporter: you can see there the governor trying to distinguish himself on foreign policy from others in this crowded field. the only other presidential hopeful we're hear from today is vivek ramaswamy. >> eva, thank you so much. joining me is cnn senior political analyst and senior editor for the atlantic ron brownstein. good morning to you.

trump was not invited to this event by erick erickson. this might have been an opportunity for some of the other candidates to break out with the conservative base here in georgia. we heard that donald trump made his way into this conversation. what's the willingness you see from these candidates to do that, to at least make a turn coming into the debate next week? >> we're just not seeing it. with donald trump making the decision, which from a cold, hard political calculation probably makes sense for him to skip this first debate, probably skip the second debate that fox is hosting. i think his calculation will be different in the debates in the early states. that puts the ball in the court of the other candidates. they have the capacity to make him regret that decision if they use his absence to make a case against him that he's not there to rebut.

as we get closer to the debate, we don't see candidates beyond chris christie and asa hutchinson who are willing to do that. ultimately, if you want to beat someone who's ahead of you, you've got to make a case to voters about why they should bypass that candidate. so few of the candidates have been willing to do that. even it was leaked that ron desantis was instructed to defend donald trump. >> you mentioned that maybe trump's calculations will change as we get closer to the caucuses. trump in 2016 skipped the last debate, the primary debate before the iowa caucuses and then came in second behind ted cruz. do you think there is any cost to him politically to skip these first two debates so far ahead of the contest? >> not these debates. there's a clear distinction between the debates, the national debates, particularly those being held by fox and

making a statement as much to fox as he is the rest of the field, and then the debates held in the early voting states. if you skip the debates in the early voting states, it can look like you're slighting sponsors and disrespecting the voters in those states. it will be harder to stay out of the debate in iowa, new hampshire and south carolina. i'm just back from iowa, like every other political reporter in america. at that state fair and otherwise, there is a sense among some iowa voters despite his big lead in the polls, there's no doubt that there's a level of exhaustion with trump and there's an opening for an alternative. institutionally desantis is the one who's gotten the most support from other conservative leaders and so forth. didn't find that much interest in him among voters on the ground, but there was definitely a sense that these controversies are never going to end around trump. and whatever you thought about the way he performed, the desire

is among at least some voters to turn the page. >> the question is, is it ron desantis governor of florida? this is the new fox news poll out. compare the standing of these candidates today versus where they were in june. trump is still above 50%. governor desantis has dropped from 22% to 16%. the 17-point advantage he had over vivek ramaswamy in june is now down to five points. he could realistically soon be passed by vivek ramaswamy in these polls. why is vivek ramaswamy seeing this growth? >> there's a history of this in republican primaries, a candidate who on paper is not someone who you would envision as commander in chief electrifying a portion of the republican base by kind of speaking directly to the greatest ambitions of the flank

of the party. i'm not sure he can emerge as a full-scale threat, but it is also a reflection desantis has chosen a strategy that simply did not work. he has chosen to run at trump primarily from the right. he's left a lot of room among voters who have always been the most skeptical of trump in the republican coalition, economically focused, college educated suburbanites, more moderate voters. desantis has been banging his head against the wall trying to chip away trump's most conservative support, trying to pass him on the right shoulder. in iowa it was almost like a category error. the voters who seemed the most open to an alternative to trump were exhausted by all of the fighting and confrontation that constantly surrounds him and

desantis is presenting himself as another fighter. i heard from one voter that desantis is just too much like trump. we'll see if desantis can recalibrate at all, but there is room for someone else, maybe tim scott in that space, particularly in iowa and new hampshire. but there is a space. i mean, there is a space. the polls are what they are. trump is a commanding frontrunner but there are voters who are open to an alternative. >> this position of never back town, the super pac that supports him has put him in now by posting this memo online, now people who read it are going to be watching to see if he, one, takes that advice and simply follows the guidance of the super pac, or doesn't and they will be disappointed by his performance. trump has to turn himself in by noon august 25th, next friday. the reporting is that it will

happen thursday or friday. i want you to listen to jason osborne. this is a former trump campaign advisor on what he says would possibly be the scenario. >> my guess, i think donald trump is going to turn himself in either right before the debate or during the debate, which will suck all the oxygen out of the room. then fox is stuck having to air the debate whereas you and other networks are able to say, donald trump has just turned himself in. then there's tucker carlson waiting on the steps of the courthouse able to interview him right there. >> the hard core politics of this, that as a plan, what would that mean for the candidates trying to have this breakout moment? >> yeah. well, obviously it would overshadow it. some people i know have made the exact same prediction. i think that's in the air. it is a risky split screen where

if you are turning yourself in, it does allow the other candidates to say, here we are talking about the problems facing the country, the issues that concern republican voters and here's donald trump in yet another criminal indictment, if they were willing to do that. this thing is still unfolding, the entire saga of trump's criminal vulnerabilities is unfolding on a split screen. he has convinced most republican voters to see it the way he wants them to see it. it's an attack on me by a deep state that really wants to silence you. but the red flags, the yellow lights are in the general election. i mean biden's weakness, the reluctance of many voters to consider a second term for biden is keeping the race close. the majority of voters consistently say they think trump committed a crime and saying if convicted, he should

not be president again. the majority of independents saying his actions after 2020 threatened american democracy. he is wearing this as kind of like a badge of honor. that's mostly been effective so far. but we should not lose sight of the fact this may be very different if he goes on to the general election. >> a lot happening this week coming up. ron brownstein, thank you so much. this week, cnn breaks down the details of the georgia indictment of donald trump. "the whole story with anderson cooper" tomorrow at 8:00 p.m. on cnn. the death toll from wildfires in hawaii has been rising overnight. maui county leaders confirmed it now stands at 114 with possibly a thousand people still missing. the governor warns as the search progresses, that number will continue to go up. the tedious task of combing through the rubble has entered a new stage. on friday search crews brought

in heavy equipment for the first time to begin moving debris. so far 470 workers and 40 dogs have combed through about 60% of the disaster zone. more than 2200 structures were destroyed in the fires and officials estimate about $6 billion worth of damage. >> we will begin a massive recovery effort to clean up and begin to rebuild the affected areas of maui. we will rebuild lahaina. it will take years of work and billions of dollars, but we are committed to this effort, and together we will meet this challenge. >> native hawaiian community members say they need time to grieve before they could even think about rebuilding, but when that time comes, they want their voices to be heard. >> where do we go from here? we feel that the government is steamrolling this process

without consulting the leaders of our community. >> cnn's bill weir explains what these lahaina leaders want to hear from the governor. >> reporter: hawaii's governor josh green held a press conference last night, but offered no real new information on the numbers of the missing or fatalities. he encouraged visitors to come to hawaii, places not affected on maui as tourism dollars will help the island heal. the leaders i talked to in lahaina held a press conference to specifically call out the governor and say please don't reopen until we're ready, please consult us on your rebuilding plans for lahaina and be transparent on all of these plans. there is a transparency sunshine law in hawaii, the locals in lahaina imploring the governor to abide by that. so much pain and a lot of distrust around this really

traumatized community. >> for more information on how you can help hawaii wildfire victims, go to cnn.com/impact. a major hurricane is inching closer and closer to a rare landfall. >> right now the category 4 hurricane is marching toward mexico and baja, california, with winds of 130 miles per hour. hilary is 240 miles offshore, but the storm's outer bands are already impacting land. cabo is seeing intense rain. officials warn the amount of flooding could be catastrophic and life-threatening. this morning southern california is under its first ever tropical storm warning. if it makes landfall, it will become the first storm to do so in nearly 84 years. >> this storm can bring wind, rain and flooding, but also lightning. with lightning, can come fires. we're being prepared for all and any type of emergencies in this

area. >> another concern is debris flow. signs are already up warning residents near the burn scars in the san bernardino mountains. allison chinchar joins us now from the weather center. what's the latest? >> the latest is, those north american outer bands are just now starting to cross into california. the stream southern portions starting to see a few of those strong thunderstorms begin to push back in. here you can see a lot of that and also some lightning. we're not only seeing rain bands push in but also thunderstorms. this stretches from yuma, arizona over toward palm springs and it's going to continue to spread north. more and more showers and thunderstorms will fill up this area and get heavier through the rest of the day, because that storm is expected to slide north. as it does so, it is expected to weaken as it goes into much

cooler water. you're going to notice it going from a category 4 down to a 2 and eventually crossing california as a tropical storm. the main concern really isn't wind. it's going to be the rainfall. we've already started to see those bands creep in. more of that heavy rain really sets in later this evening and overnight. it will continue pretty much nonstop throughout the day sunday before finally seeing the bulk of that moisture retreat once we get into the latter half of the day monday. you're talking a good 48-hour time period of very heavy rainfall. that's why there is a very high risk of flash flooding in death valley down into southern california, las vegas, los angeles and san diego also looking at a moderate risk of heavy rainfall. most areas 2-4 inches widespread, but some of these areas could pick up as much as 10 inches of rain this weekend. >> that's a lot of rain for a region that is not used to that much precipitation.

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>> reporter: it appears university of idaho murder suspect bryan kohberger will be on trial in just six weeks. during a pretrial hearing, the judge slated jury selection for one week for the trial set to start in october, saying he expects to bring in potentially a thousand potential jurors at this point and that may not even be enough. now, one of the key issues discussed during that pretrial hearing was kohberger's alibi. his defense team has said he likes to take long drives in the middle of the night and that's what he was doing the night of the murders. now the state is saying the defense has taken too long to submit a witness list of people who may have seen him driving that night and that there's not enough time for the state to prepare for cross examination before the trial. the judge ruled that bryan kohberger has until the beginning of september to submit witnesses for an alibi, if he

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president joe biden is looking ahead to the next era of cooperation with japan and south korea after a historic trilateral summit at camp david friday. the three leaders hope to bolster ties as the u.s. works to counter china's influence in the region and north korea's persistent provocative behavior. >> their political commitments fall short of a formal three-way alliance, but the three leaders vow to consult each other during crises and threats affecting common interest. priscilla alvarez, give us more on the significance of the summit. >> reporter: this is an opportunity for biden to build out the three-way engagement with japan and south korea as they face aggression with north korea as well as military and economic aggression from china. so this was an opportunity for them to open up a new chapter. that's the way that president biden described it. in doing so, they rolled out a

series of commitments. that includes annual military exercises, intelligence sharing, setting up a three-way hotline for times of crisis for them to consult, as well as formalizing this trilateral summit to make it an annual summit. of course, this is significant because of the fraught history between japan and south korea. president biden tried to underscore putting that aside so they can work together, especially in their shared interest. he went onto call it a, quote, inflection point. >> your leadership with the full support of the united states has brought us here, because each of you understands that our world stands at an inflection point, a point where we're called to lead in new ways, to work together, to stand together. today i'm proud to say our nations are answering that call. >> reporter: now, the president went onto say that the summit

was not about china, but there's no doubt that the growing influence of china in the region certainly loomed large over it. >> in the meantime, as you know, president biden will be heading to hawaii on monday. but fema's disaster fund is already running out of money. what does the biden administration plan to do? >> reporter: they could run out of money by the end of the month. the biden administration has asked for more funding from congress in a supplemental request of $12 billion to replenish those coffers. it's part of a broader supplemental that's going to congress that could already face an uphill battle. this is because fema has had a recordbreaking year with weather related disasters. that's put immense strain on their funds. the fema administrator said they have enough funds for the initial response to maui, but

any delay could put additional recovery into next year. the other consequence of not getting these funds is they're going to have problem predeploying funds and people to an area that could have a disaster. this issue of extreme weather has been top of mind for the president. i spoke to white house officials who tell me he now receives a daily summary in the morning on the potential extreme weather that could hit the united states. now fema is going to have to get more funds to work with that. >> priscilla alvarez, thank you. in north american ukraine, officials say a russian missile struck this morning, killing at least seven people, including a 6-year-old girl. at least 90 people were also wounded in the strike that destroyed a university and a theater. president zelenskyy was in sweden asking for continued support in the war at the time. he said the attack, quote, turned an ordinary saturday into a day of pain and loss.

>> the u.s. has given denmark approval to transfer f-16 training materials there, a critical step that allows ukrainian fighter pilots to begin training, which kyiv has repeatedly requests this year. nick paton walsh has more. >> reporter: some suggests that we may be seeing programs to get f-16s to ukraine may be sped up a little after the last 48 hours. denmark saying they will begin training for the pilots in the next 13 days possibly or so. the netherlands also on board with that. it was european allies of ukraine that will be doing the training in europe. after that, the americans would assist in the supply of jets to ukraine. it's a complex situation because the americans had to sign off on the training equipment. all that paperwork appears to be dealt with now and they're moving forward.

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so parents aren't the only ones racing to get ready for the school year. school districts are struggling to find bus drivers to fill out their routes to bring students to class. >> we're talking low pay, off hours, increased competition from companies like fedex and amazon making it harder for schools to find qualified candidates. athena jones has the story. >> we are about 58 bus drivers short. >> reporter: from north carolina -- >> it's unbelievable. >> reporter: -- to louisiana -- >> they knew that school was coming, they knew the problems that they had and they did nothing to solve them. >> reporter: a rough start to the school year as districts across the country face a shortage of bus drivers. each year about half a million buses transport some 25 million children, but low pay, odd hours

and increased competition from companies like fedex and amazon are some of the factors making it harder to find drivers. >> i have not heard from our members in any state, whether it's a smaller state like montana or wyoming or the larger states like new york, georgia, north carolina, texas and others that are not experiencing the driver shortage. >> reporter: in virginia, getting rid of some bus stops. >> it breaks my heart that we had to do that. right now it is a driver shortage. >> reporter: jefferson county, colorado, creating what it calls bus hubs, combining stops in a central location. some districts using staggered schedules. >> we have four starts. >> reporter: facing a driver shortage, kentucky's largest school district contracted with a company to map out new routes, but the plan failed, leading to a disastrous first day of kindergarten and forcing officials to cancel school for

more than a week. >> it's like they couldn't get a hold of any of the bus drivers. >> reporter: that morning they waited 40 minutes for the bus before she gave up and made the 10-minute drive herself. that evening they waited more than two hours for the bus before calling the police frantic. >> that's when the police asked me what was she wearing and what does she look like. it got really real to me in that moment. >> i left at 7:30 and i went to target to buy an air tag to put on her. >> reporter: they say the bus arrived three hours late, the driver nearly missing the stop. >> i had like waved her down. i look on the bus and lily is the last kid on the bus. >> she won't be riding the bus anymore. >> reporter: the superintendent vowing to do better when school restarts. >> we made mistakes, but we're going to fix them. >> reporter: any long-term

solution may have to address drivers' paychecks. >> one of the components is compensation for drivers in salaries and benefits. it's in the workday they're having. it's in training and assistance they goet to do their jobs. it's trying to expand hours so they have a full-time job. >> thank you for bringing us that story. a hot collector's item this month in brooklyn is a library card. for 50th anniversary of hip-hop, the brooklyn public library is issuing limited edition library cards featurie ing jay-z. 14,000 new accounts have been established this month. >> members can select 13 different cards from different locations across the borough. the ceo of the library told cnn the community's enthusiastic response to this exhibition is a

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more than 80 million people are under some kind of heat alert today. cnn's allison chinchar is tracking this. a lot going on around the country. what do we need to know? >> the focus really is across the central u.s.

you've got heat advisory heat advisories or warnings from texas into minnesota. you're looking at a high of 108 in dallas. across the southern tier, it's a prolonged heat once again. dallas 108 today, 110 tomorrow. that's likely going to stick around. same thing for oklahoma city, triple digit temperatures for at least the next seven days. this heat stayed focused across the central u.s., but you're going to notice it spread farther east into the ohio valley and the southeast. the only thing that's going to break for these areas along if gulf coast is the potential for a tropical system to come in and cool temperatures down. we have that possibility with this system that could develop over the next several days. it's one of many systems across the atlantic. we also have two possible m

systems in the eastern pacific, including hilary. we'll get an update in just a few minutes. st. louis cardinals fans weren't so happy with the mets' pete alonzo last night. >> out here ruining first pitch. >> it's a tradition in baseball when a rookie gets that first hit and everybody does their best to get that ball to that player to keep that ball on a shelf somewhere. in st. louis, mason we kn makin his first hit. his family was all there in the stands. you got a nice ovation from the crowd. let's get him that baseball now, right? pete alonso said, not on my watch and chucked the ball into the stands! ♪ >> i know it sounds stupid, but it's just a bad brain fart.

i know throwing the ball in the stands robs him of kind of a really special moment. i feel really bad thinking back on my first hit and just getting the ball thrown back to the dugout. i feel awful. i feel like a piece of crap. >> he felt really bad. he apologized multiple times after realizing what he had done. they were able to retrieve that ball from the fan who caught it and they got it. it's a happy ending. shohei ohtani was up with the bases loaded in the second inning, gets a hold of this one for a grand slam, his 43rd homer of the season. this game was tied in the ninth. the rays had runners on first and third with no outs. diaz is going to get thrown out at home for a triple play.

the angels the first team since the tigers in 2017 to hit a grand slam and get a triple play in a game. they still lost 9-6. finally, a bug landed on rory mcilroy's ball at the bmw championship yesterday. instead of taking his putt and splattering it all over the ball, rory carefully used a tee to try to save the bug. he ended up missing the putt. he starts the third round in a tie for fifth. i would have just smacked the ball. >> me too. >> the bug isn't getting the hint. get off my ball! [ laughter ] they say when in rome, do as the romans do. but one tourist decided to do what she wanted to do. instead of tossing a coin into the trevi fountain, she decided to fill up her water bottle by

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