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a shuttered prison as a temporary shelter, officials desperate to find room. we are following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to "cnn news central." the 45th president booked on criminal charges four times now, and that last one makes him the first ex-president to have his mug shot taken. donald trump called his experience at the fulton county jail last night, terrible. that didn't stop him from using the mug shot to sell campaign merchandise. as he tries to profit off the case, several of his codefendants are trying to get out of it. and they're doing it by pointing the finger right at trump, saying they were just following his directions. katelyn polantz is at the fulton county courthouse for us. katelyn, tell us about the next steps in this? >> reporter: for donald trump and for all the other 18

defendants here in this case in fulton county, georgia, they're on the path to trial now. and that is starting with arraignments. now that they've all been arrested, they have the ability to start making filings in this case. and also they have the ability and the need to enter their initial pleading. so, it's very likely that many of them will plead not guilty if not all. donald trump, of course, is expected to enter a pleading of not guilty to start things off in this case and hold that the whole way through trial. he wants to go to trial. and that's the next thing they're going to be talking about very likely, when a trial would happen. will it be all of these 19 defendants together or however many end up going to trial ultimately? or will the case get split up in different regards, either having some people tried earlier, some people tried later? potentially some of the proceedings here happening in federal court. that's the other question on the table too. there are several different people who say that they had a

role in the federal government or they were acting at the direction of the federal government fake electors, mark meadows, the chief of staff, jeffrey clark from the justice department. all of those defendants are seeking ways to get their case moved somehow to federal court. that is going to be teed up in a hearing on monday for mark meadows. but we are going to be watching and seeing just how this plays out. the dynamics between all of those defendants one by one making their own decisions and donald trump. does he keep them all in the fold? so, this case moves together as one monolith? or does it get split up? >> yeah. that will be a critical question that maybe we'll get some answers to on monday. katelyn polantz, thank you so much. i want to go now to nick valencia. he is just a short distance away at the fulton county jail, where the final two surrenders happened this morning. there is still a lot of activity

where you are today. >> reporter: a flurry of activity is what we've been calling it. the last of the 19 codefendants turned themselves in. and they waited essentially until the 11th hour. earlier today, it was trevian cutie, who worked for r. kelly and kanye west. both are from illinois, both have been charged in this rico indictment as well as attempts to intimidate ruby freeman. it was just a short time ago that pastor steven lee left the jail. he was the last one to turn himself in, waited about an hour before the noon deadline. it was as he was released that i tried to catch up with him and ask him some questions. >> mr. lee, do you have any regrets? mr. lee, do you have any regrets? do you believe the election was still stolen? >> i'm going to get out and i'm going to go have a little -- >> oh, okay. >> reporter: no comments from pastor lee.

but shortly after that exchange, his attorney did stop to speak to reporters and seemed to suggest that his client was merely in atlanta from illinois to knock on the door of ruby freeman. freeman, though, was so scared by that exchange, she called police. i did ask the pastor's attorney if he knew the president. listen to what he had to say to that question. >> do you regret attaches his name to the president? >> my client has never met the president. he's had no association with the president. he's never met him. to my knowledge -- >> what do you make of being a codefendant now with the president? >> he didn't attach his name to the president. fani willis attached his name to the president. >> reporter: now, with all codefendants who have surrendered, taking care of their legal obligation, we look ahead to monday where the former chief of staff for the former president has a federal court hearing. he's trying to get his state hearings moved from state court to federal court in hopes of getting the charges dismissed.

>> nick valencia live for us in atlanta. thank you. jim? >> let's dig into the law here with georgia state university law professor clark cunningham. gentlemen, thanks so much for joining. you now have three codefendants saying in court filings that they were following the direction of then-president trump now that this is part of an argument to push their cases to a federal court. of course trump a federal official at the time. but to those arguments saying, hey, he had this plan, he told us to carry it out. is that dangerous for trump himself? >> i think so. i think its dangerous in a couple of ways. one, it puts the responsibility back on him. the codefendants are starting to turn on one another, blame one another, assert responsibility. on top of that, they are saying they were federal officials. at some level he was acting in his capacity as president. mark meadows, though, his chief of staff, said the same thing. >> clark, so, i've been told

that the d.a., fani willis, has an incentive here to wrap up some of these cases before trial, to get folks to plea before trial. does the fact that some of them are saying, hey, trump did this, does that offer an opportunity for her to do just that? and if she's able to do that, what dangers does that pose for the president's own prosecution here? >> well, it seems to me that there are three of the so-called fake electors that are in the indictment. and we now have them. stills and schaffer. and it seems to me they're already cooperating with the district attorney. they should have taken a plea deal earlier, as their fellow electors did. each of them are saying exactly what the district attorney wants to hear them say, which is, we were directed by president trump. we were directed by him. we were following his direction. so, it makes their arguably

illegal acts his responsibility. so, yeah, this is very bad for the former president, in my opinion. >> as you say, you have folks who have already pled in advance, in effect, to that. last night, we saw the president leave, and he did speak to the press, and he did speak to a television show. and we might expect him to do similar going forward. as you're aware, the judge has put restrictions on the former president, said, you cannot, say, attack witnesses in this case. you cannot attack public officials involved, intimidate them, et cetera. didn't seem to do that last night. but how close did he come to the line? and who's watching? >> well, look, you know that donald trump has a hard time keeping his mouth shut generally, right? but when it comes to his own personal liability potentially here, right, he's going to lash out. there's almost -- he can't help himself, right? he did it on twitter just a few weeks ago, right? that's what caused the judge to

put this order in place. it's what caused the judge to put other orders in place as well. he's going to have a very hard time, if he continues to talk to media, to restrain himself from going after witnesses, the public officials involved. it's going to be very difficult. maybe he's going to find a way to do it. i'm pretty skeptical. >> clark, you know georgia pretty well, how it operates there. you do have one trial set to begin on october 23rd. that's because kenneth chesebro, he's requested a speedy trial. the others are certainly not and might be, like trump, requesting the opposite of that. they want to drag this out as long as possible. if you were a betting man knowing how this operates, is trump's trial in this georgia case likely to happen before the election? >> before the election? i think there's a very good chance of that. i think it's not beyond the realm of possibility that donald trump will be on trial here in fulton county by october 23rd. that's exactly what the district

attorney wants to have happen. and it could happen. >> do you, jammal, see that as likely as well. >> donald trump is going to make it as hard as possible. they don't want a speedy trial. it's unusual for a defendant not to want a speedy trial. in this case, the president, his colleagues, his codefendants, see some avenge with the exception of kenneth chesebro. i think chesebro's trial will put a lot of pressure on the other defendants because they're going to be called out. they're going to look likely to cut deals. the more pressure there is, the harder it is for the president to avoid it. that being said, i'm skeptical the trial goes forward. >> we'll be watching. the other big question, as you know, clark cunningham, is not the timing but the place. you have meadows and others trying to move this to federal court. we've had lawyers on our set before say it's unlikely they win that argument. what's your view? >> you know, i think that the district attorney is making a

very powerful argument against the mark meadows atemp to move his case to federal court. with luck, we'll here mark meadows on the witness stand under oath being cross examined, which will make monday a really remarkable event. the district attorney makes a really good point, which is that everything that mark meadows is accused of doing, she says was actually illegal under federal law because it's illegal for a federal employee to use their official position to try to influence an election. and his whole argument is everything he did, he did as chief of staff. well, that's true, he was breaking federal law. it's a really strong argument. >> notable. clark cunningham, jemel jafr, that's so much. this is probably not the last time we discuss. >> it's always great to be with you. coming up, how former president trump is fundraising with mug shot merch. plus lawsuits leveling blame

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value in having that mug shot and recognizes how much they can fund raise off it. and that's why you're seeing so much attention from his team being put on this, including the former president, joining x or rejoining x, formerly known as twitter, to share a shot of that mug shot. but, again, privately, behind the scenes, brianna, i know he wasn't happy yesterday. he loathed having to go to georgia and having to go through that process. he admitted as much during an interview with "news max" last night. let's take a listen. >> a terrible experience. i came in, i was treated very nicely, but it is what it is. i took a mug shot, which i never heard the words mug shot. that wasn't -- they didn't teach me at the school of finance. and i have to go through a process, election interference.

>> reporter: so, brianna in that interview, you are hearing donald trump use that rhetoric we've heard use time and time again when talking about the charges he's facing. he calls it election interference, as well as you're seeing him continue on social media to attack the people who are prosecuting him, including the fulton county district attorney, fani willis. i want to say i was in the motorcade yesterday, and i rode with donald trump's team. many of the former president's aides were with me in the motorcade. and the vibe i got from that was they were uncertain of how it was going to go. i can tell you in my conversations in the hours after the surrender, they do think it went as well as it could have. they are pushing a lot of media attention around that mug shot and still trying to fund raise off of it as much as possible, brianna. >> beer koozie for $15, although it is a set of two. it's $7.50 each.

thank you so much. jim? russian investigators say they have now recovered flight recorders from the plane wreckage from the crash that is believed to have killed yevgeny prigozhin. the cause of the crash remains under investigation. u.s. officials say there are no signs that it was shot down by a missile, either a surface-to-air missile or air-to-air missile, as we reported yesterday. but the u.s. does believe the wagner chief was on that plane and is now dead. russia says genetic testing is underway to confirm if that is the case and that ten body versus been recovered from the wreckage. cnn pentagon correspondent oren liebermann joins us now. the u.s. is watching this somewhat from afar. tell us what they're learning so far and how far they're willing to go in terms of their confidence as to what happened here and whether even prigozhin is indeed gone. >> reporter: of course, jim. and this information, it's important to caution, is based

on the early assessments and early indications. this isn't conclusive. it's not 100%. and officials have cautioned us that it may never be because it's not like they can get investigators on the ground there outside of moscow to take a look at what's there. crucially, officials told both you and i, jim, that they do not believe it was a surface-to-air missile or air-to-air missile that downed yevgeny prigozhin private aircraft. the question of course then, what did down it? the pentagon said yesterday they do believe prigozhin himself was on that flight. i pressed the pentagon to find out why they believe that. it can't just be based on russian statements. those have been viewed with a healthy amount of skepticism. here is what the pentagon said. >> i'm not going to go into the specifics of how we gather information other than, again, our initial assessment based on a variety of factors is that he was likely killed. >> but not just based on russian statements, i would imagine. >> based on a variety of

factors. >> reporter: so, if the intelligence community and the u.s. have been largely able to rule out the possibility of some sort of missile, surface-to-air, or air-to-air, what other things are being examine snd the possibility of an explosive or explosive device being looked at as well as the possibility of something happening on board. in the last minutes of the flight, there were erratic climbs and descents. jim, for the most part, pretty wide open and certainly not definitive now. >> so, the kremlin speaking out about this in public. and as you say, take anything that comes out of that building or those leaders with a healthy dose of skepticism. they're denying they were behind it. does the pentagon have a view? >> reporter: the pentagon hasn't commented specifically on what we heard from russia. it was demetre peskov called it an absolute lie to imply that in any way vladimir putin or the russian administration were involved in this in some way.

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for the first time, an entity of the hawaiian government has sued over maui's wildfire disaster that has killed at least 115 people, lists nearly 400 people still unaccounted for, and caused an estimated $5 million in damages. maui county just filed suit against hawaiian electric, known as heco and its subsidiaries. the suit alleges heco's negligence and recklessness --

hours before the flames decimated la high know saying that heco still, quote, kept their powerline energized. they do not have a formal shutoff program. and about a week after the wildfire, its president said this. >> it's worth noting that even in places where this has been used, it is controversial, and it's not universally accepted. it's seen -- it can be seen as creating a hardship for those customers that have medical needs, that are high risk. >> joining me now is john fiske. he is the attorney representing maui county in its lawsuit. john, thank you so much for being with us. i want to explain a little bit what the post is reporting here because it's so critical to our discussion that we're going to have here today. this is reporting that is based on court documents and records. and it says that heco removed downed power lines, may have

compromised evidence, before agents before the atf arrived on the scene and after lawyers for families who are suing the utility separate from your suit twice asked that they preserve the scene. a spokesman from hawaiian electric told "the post" that it's, quote, in regular communication with the atf and local authorities and are providing attorneys as well as people affected by the wildfires with inventories and access to the removed equipment, which we have carefully photographs, documented, and stored. they have stored it, by the way, someplace different, in a warehouse. do you think that hawaiian electric's behavior here amounts to a cover-up? >> i believe we're going to have an evidence inspection on monday and tuesday of this upcoming week. i think we're going to learn a lot more about which evidence was collected and which evidence was preserved.

i do understand that hawaii electric did hire a reputable company to store this evidence and these materials. so, i do have confidence that the evidence is in safekeeping now. i think what would have been a better protocol or a better procedure is if hawaii electric had notified the lawyers representing the victims and maui county and atf prior to removing any evidence to ensure that there are no claims of what we call spoil yags of evidence in a civil suit. >> are you confident that they have taken photographs of where these poles may have fallen, where they could have ignited something? and as you understand it, is that as good as actually being able to be at the scene and being able to look at what could possibly have been the beginning of ignition somewhere? >> the proper way to handle this would be to notify officials

engaged in the official investigation, notify lawyers representing fire victims, notify the county, notify the atf so that they can participate and have their experts present while the evidence is being removed, a, to ensure that there's nothing intentionally spoeliated, and b, to ensure there's nothing uninten unintentionally -- as a result of high voltage lines creating evidence and material on street signs, on the ground, on power poles, on guy wires. so, while that evidence is being collected and picked up off the ground and taken to a warehouse, it's important for everybody who is a stakeholder in this case to have been able to observe that. that being said, we don't know

what was and wasn't taken yet. so, i don't want to jump to conclusions. >> so, you're going to see that on monday. but do you think that hawaiian electric, heco, should have known that, considering the parallels that we are seeing here between this fire and the campfire and the potential liability of a utility? do you think they should have known that they shouldn't be moving things? >> the number of parallels between hawaii electric and what has been going on in california, unfortunately, with pg&e and with southern california edison, are all too familiar. and in fact, that is the basis of our negligence lawsuit, which is that, a, hawaii electric should have had a public safety power shutdown. b, their equipment failed, so clearly they had many multiple points of failure at different areas and different types of

equipment. and c, they had lines that were energized, creating a fire to the extent that they should have followed appropriate protocol in removing the evidence. that would be another line of parallel between what has happened in previous cases. they should know that in previous cases, you know, in california and around the country, this would be evidence that is necessary to review for any sort of official investigation or civil case. >> i think some people look at this and they say, wait, how did it even get to this point where the electric company was the one on scene removing stuff? why was this not secured? but as "the post" points out, maui county doesn't have an authority like calfire in california where you have authorities coming in and securing the scene. does that need to change for hawaii? >> well, that's a very large policy question. whether or not they're going to,

you know, create an entirely new department or agency. i do know that in california and other states on the mainland, either u.s. forest service or calfire moves in very quickly to communicate with the utility. it is not uncommon -- in fact, i think it's relatively common that the dwutility is the entit that removes the equipment or has a contractor remove the equipment for certain safety concerns. however, it's usually done in coordination and in communication with a lot of these stakeholders involved, especially the investigating agencies. >> and obviously, you know, forest service not involved here. this was a different situation, which is why atf is involved instead of forest service. have you been in contact with municipalities in california who were devastated in the campfire that swept through paradise and killed more than 80 people there in 2018? >> so, i have been lead counsel

95 different times in entities in utility-caused wildfire cases. one of my clients is the town of paradise, which, as you mentioned, suffered severe devastation in the 2018 campfire. i also represented butte county in that same fire. i represented sonoma, napa county, los angeles county, santa barbara county. and these types of civil lawsuits are very regular for counties who are trying to recoup civil damages, which are really taxpayer and public resources in the aftermath of a utility-caused wildfire. >> we should note, as well, as "the post" reports, heco, i believe, has hired the law firm that represented pg&e. with you in play and them in play, we're seeing some of the same players here. do you think criminal charges may be warranted here? >> you know, i have no comment on that. i'm a lawyer hired for recovery of civil damages, taxpayer and

public resources. the official investigation is a separate process that occurs outside of our private law firm representing the county. >> john, we really appreciate your time, and we will certainly be checking back in with you on monday, following that opportunity that you will have to see what this evidence is that has been taken offsite but preserved in a separate place to see what you think about it then. john fiske, thank you so much. >> thank you very much. >> jim? coming up, new york is asking the biden administration for help with an influx of migrants. the white house has just responded, coming up. your wyndham is waiting... to help you check things off your bucket list... ...and his. with 24 trusted brands by wyndham to choose from,

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welcome back to "cnn news central." here are some of the other headlines we're watching this hour. officials in gariville, louisiana, are urging residents to evacuate, as a massive fire burns out of control at a marathon petroleum refinery. officials are asking anyone within a two-mile radius of the blaze to leave the area. firefighters say the flames are contained within the refinery, and no injuries have been reported. also, a tough mutter in california just got a lot tougher for some of the participants. many are complaining about sudden rashes spreading on their body. multiple complaints about bacterial and staph infections after taking part in the popular obstacle race.

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arrived there in the past year. and just as new york faced a historic heat wave, migrants have been forced to camp out on the sidewalks. this month, hundreds have waited outside the roosevelt hotel, which has been turned into a migrant center to try to secure temporary shelter. on randall's island, a second round of temporary housing has been built. this is a growing crisis that governor hochul says started in washington. >> this crisis originated with the federal government, and it must be resolved through the federal government. until that happens, we'll continue to need funding from the federal government to help cover the massive, massive expenses of sheltering tens of thousands of people. >> paulo sandoval is joining us with the latest. how is the white house responding today? >> what you just played for our viewers is telling of what has become an uncomfortable game of hot potato between new york

city's mayor, the state governor, and president biden. in this latest saga, kathy hochul submitting this letter calling on president biden to act on executive action on at least four fronts. at the top of the list, to deal with this backlog of work applications. there's also this call to increase funding, not just for housing but also to help play for the deployment of the national guard throughout new york state. they've been helping at city shelters. and then calling on the use of more federal facilities to turn into temporary housing for migrants. the federal government saying that it's really not that easy. i'll tell you why. but first, there's a reason why those work permits, brianna, are number one on the list. i have heard time and time again from city officials who say that that is a key component of the city's exit strategy, as they manage the care of well over tens of thousands of asylum seekers. now, the white house, for its part, telling our colleague

priscilla alvarez that at this point they say only congress can provide additional funding for these efforts, which the administration has already requested. and only congress can fix the broken immigration system. so, it is clear, brianna, that this issue is not going anywhere any time soon. and it's certainly going to lead to a tense relationship between the mayor of new york city, the governor of new york, and of course the commander in chief of the white house. >> yeah. certainly is at a critical time. polo sandoval, thank you for that. and ahead, has tipping gone too far? we will dive into that. [son deflates] awh, use priceline. they have package deals no one else has.s. [son inflates] we c can do it! ♪go to your happy price♪ ♪priceline♪ i have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. thanks to skyrizi, i'm on my way with clearer skin. 3 out of 4 people achieved 90% clearer skin at months. and skyrizi is just 4 doses a year

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the screens are everywhere. coffee shops, sports stadiums, online travel sites and even self-service kiosks asking customers that question, do you want to tip? if you're confused about when and what to give, well you are not alone. cnn's vanessa yurkevich reports. >> reporter: this screen is stressful for many. >> does the flip of the screen feel like a lot of pressure. >> it does. and they give you option like 10, 15, 20, and grub hub and everything is tip, tip, tip. >> do you think that tipping has gotten out of control? >> yes. >> reporter: today more and more americans are con fronted with the question, would you like to add a tip? >> if you're at the coffee shop or the hair stylist or a taxi, i don't know the rules then and i

often don't know what to tip. >> reporter: a recent study found that those presented with a tip screen had more negative emotions to the payment experience than those that didn't. and it wasn't even a real world scenario. >> let's say you go to a coffee shop and they twist around the laptop and it is why am i tipping. >> reporter: but more often than not, they do end up tipping. >> i put a dollar or two. as long as it is not a lot. i'm helping out other people. >> reporter: this is provisions on state. a butcher shop. there is no table service, no cooking or servicing, yet they ask if you would like to tip. >> a flip screen in a butcher shop. i don't think i've seen that before. >> yes. >> how did you decide to do that. >> >> these men and women have a knowledge base that they're sharing and taking care to share with guests that come through the door and they're not pressured to tip because they

want to because they're paying for a service provided. >> reporter: emily owns the butcher shop and two restaurants in new haven, connecticut. at the restaurants, her front of house staff make the minimum wage, $6.38 an hour, tips bring them to $40 an hour on average but the back staff make half of that and aren't eligible for tips. >> this movement, are you for it or against it? >> i'm against it. and think it is frankly kind of clueless. >> reporter: eight states have abolishished the tipped minimum wage which for some is as low as $2.13 an hour. the national restaurant association is calling it a top issue. >> that is money that will come out of my pocket and take away from people that aren't getting tipped and i need to raise my prices which caused pushback from guests. >> reporter: but the group one fair wage is moving ballot measured to end the tipped minimum wage in 25 other states

including illinois. >> that is how i live. is with tips. >> reporter: destiny fox worked in two chicago restaurants. she's saving up for school. she makes just about the state's tipped minimum wage. taking home $9.40 an hour. tips add 80% to her take-home pay. without it -- >> it wouldn't give me the means to live. to -- to pay my bills, to eat and to do the things that i'm planning on doing. school and, i mean, it is everything. >> reporter: and a little tip i learned about those tip screens, brianna, the person serving you doesn't know if you're tipping or how much. so that may take a little bit of the pressure off. as far as who is most generous tipping generation, baby boomers. 83% say they tip all of the time, with gen z, just 35%.

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