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a member of the far right group pays the price for violently trying to block the nation's democratic transfer of power and another sign of the legal fallout for other 2020 election deniers. we are following the walls of justice closing in. plus on trial and on your tv, a georgia judge ruled the former president's fight in court will be as public as it can get, but can donald trump turn the courtroom drama into campaign gold? and a trip to the titanic has turned into a major legal battle. an expedition says they have the right to salvage items from the site of the titanic ship wreck but the feds are saying not so fast. why the government wants to stop the mission in its tracks. we are following these developing stories and many more all coming in right here to c"cn news central". a major development

happening in federal and state torts, all tied to former president trump's attempts to overturn the 2020 election. soon one more member of the far right proud boys group will be learning his fate. prosecutors are having asking a federal judge to sentence ethan nordean to 17 years in prison after he and three outer proud boys were convicted of seditious conspiracy and other charges related to the january 6 attack. just moments ago a fifth member, you see him here using a police shield to break a window at the capitol on january 6, he was sentenced to ten years in prison just moments ago. he was the only one convicted in the case, not found guilty of seditious conspiracy, but he was convicted on seven other charges, and there are significant developments in the election subversion case in georgia. a key ruling on mark meadows, trump's former white house chief of staff, meadows asking to have his charges moved from georgia to federal court.

we have learned that trump's trial will be seen both online and on tv assuming it does indeed stay in fulton county, georgia, the presiding judge there saying all hearings and trials in his courtroom can be live streamed, can be televised. that will also apply to trump's 18 co-defendants. today one of the 18 co-defendants entered a not guilty tree, kenneth chee brow. first we start in washington, d.c. where another member of the proud boys will be sentenced minutes from now. we have evan perez who is covering the story for us. what more are we learning about this sentencing, evan? >> reporter: brianna, we are now about halfway through the five members of the proud boys who are going to be sentenced over the next few days. in this case he is the only one of the five who was not convicted of seditious conspiracy.

prosecutors were asking for 20 years, he was seen in that now infamous video you were showing just now, he was the one that broke the window and really helped lead the crowd into the capitol that day. we heard today a statement that was read in court from a police officer who was on duty that day and was being assaulted by the mob, this is what he recounted that that day, he said he was pinned down from multiple assailants, pinned down about while simultaneously being choked by the chin strap of his helmet. he said i felt my life fleeing my body. the most vivid vishlg of my own funeral. these were his words that were read into the record in the courtroom. jim timothy kelly said that pezzolo was the tip of the spear that allowed the people to get

into the capitol that day, that was one of the reasons why he gave a sentence of ten years, not as harsh as what prosecutors having asking for. in many of the cases prosecutors have been asking for 30 plus years for some of these men, the members of the far right group the proud boys, you pointed out ethan nordean is facing his sentencing in the next hour or so, also at the federal court. he is a member from seattle who was a leader of the group, again, one of those who was convicted of seditious conspiracy, brianna. >> evan, thank you for the latest on that. we do appreciate it. all right. joining me now is cnn's sara murray, and michael moore. share let's start with today's not guilty plea by kenneth chesebro, the architect of the fake

electors plot in the trump campaign. how significant is this not guilty plea? >> it would be surprising if he decided to plead guilty. every signal so far is that he is intending to fight this. he is the first person who asked for a speedy trial. we've seen another filing from his team essentially nudging the judge to encourage district attorney fani willis to hurry up and start providing discovery in this. he's taking an aggressive tactic in terms of the timeline and approach to start fighting the charges that he is facing in georgia. >> michael moore, chesebro is the first georgia defendant to have a scheduled trial date, that's on october 23rd. now, today his lawyer asked the judge to force the district attorney to speed up production of the necessary evidence. a trial date that's just seven weeks away, is that realistic? >> well, i'm glad to be with both of you. it's realistic because it's required by the law. he opted to take advantage of

the georgia speedy trial act which means that he has a right to have his case tried that term of court, the term after his indictment. the da had nothing to do with it, the court had nothing to do with it. if they did not set the trial, if the court had not scheduled the trial he would have been automatically acquitted and judged not guilty. the speedy trial is what it is. the motion he's asking for about discovery he still has a right under the constitution to have this information. he has a right to have his lawyers under the sixth amendment be in a position to be prepared to provide an effective defense tore him. so this is basically a nudge to the court saying, okay, we told the da we're ready to go, she cannot get outside of her obligations to give us this discovery material in time to prepare. that will have to be turned over, it's going to be a lot of documents, but, again, he opted for this right to have the case, you know, tried quickly. so now it's just going to be an expedited process to go through pretrial motions, turning over discovery and that type of

thing. we will see in the next few days. >> now we're learning that these georgia proceedings are going to be televised. the fulton county judge whose name is scott mcafee he is said he's following precedent in terms of allowing cameras into the courtroom. michael, do you think that the judge is on solid legal ground if that is challenged by trump or one of his 18 co-defendants? >> he is on solid legal ground. we have had cases in fulton county, a murder case i can think of right now that was aired completely from beginning to end. so there's no prohibition on having these proceedings televised. remember that this cuts both ways for trump. on the one hand being on tv every day sitting in a courtroom will remind people that he is a defendant in a criminal case, on the other hand it gives him essentially from a political angle an ongoing campaign ad because we know just looking at public polling and things that his numbers seem to go up with the indictments.

think about this, too, i mean, remember the pageantry of his arrival to surrender at the fulton county jail, it almost looked like an inauguration parade as he was going in there and he has maximized that. it cuts both ways. i don't think you'll see any success if somebody tries to say we don't want to have this thing on tv. there's good precedent here and pretty much it's up to the judge in the case to make that decision. >> to that point, sara, do you expect the trump campaign to make hay out of this? we saw -- before he even had this fulton county mugshot they put out merchandise with a fake mugshot then the real mugshot came along, they fund raised off of that. do you expect them to fund raise off of images of him in the courtroom? >> if this does go to trial in state court they would be using the fact that he is on camera as a way to fund raise and as a way to campaign. when this does go to trial if it were to go before we get through

the presidential election that would be a way to stay in front of his voters. this is a big question whether this will go ahead in state court. with he expect his team to try to move this to federal court. >> we see mark meadows the former president's chief of staff leading that charge to move it to federal court. >> michael, some of the co-defendants alongside the former president they're turning to public fundraising efforts to help cover their mounting legal costs and there's no sign that the former president is really helping or offering any financial help to them, he's even distanced himself from a number of them. do you think that that's a smart strategy for trump? >> it probably is a smart strategy right now. sometimes there's a benefit to having sort of the people stay together and that is, you know, to say, well, i'm providing a defense or there is a joint defense agreement or we're going to fund it through this pac or whatever. but in this case because of the allegations he's probably been

told by his lawyers step back, let's not have the argument made to the jury that you're still controlling these people and their testimony and any actions, that's what they're trying to say anyway and let's show that this is not an enterprise that's paying the funding -- the legal bill for all of these folks. i mean, they're trying to get away from the rico statute or rico means that there's a criminal enterprise, a corrupt enterprise this. he want to remove that stigma by disentangling themselves from each other. one way to do that is not have one person paying the legal bills for everybody else. >> those legal bills are going to grow. on mark meadows we have seen this effort that he's trying to get his case moved out of georgia into federal court. we are expecting a ruling from the judge at any moment now. is there an expectation that the federal judge will side with meadows? >> i think meadows has a good shot in this case. even reading through the district attorney's filings they're making the best case

they can that this should be playing out in state court, essentially with the other defendants, but even in those filings they acknowledge it's not a particularly high bar that meadows has to meet in order to move this to federal court. they are still saying they don't believe that he's met it, but i don't think that they would be surprised if meadows prevails on this case. but again it's up to the judge. he's had some questions about the law around this and it's not entirely clear where he's going to fall. >> he's arguing that everything he did was in the scope of his role as the president's chief of staff not part of the campaign. sara murray, michael moore, thank you very much. did the fed just get the news it needed to stop hiking rates? what a new jobs report is telling us about the labor market and what is ahead for this economy. plus today new information releasing on the number of people who are still missing after those catastrophic wildfires on maui. why the governor believes the number could fall from the hundreds now to double digits. and a federal judge blocks a law in arkansas that would have required age verification for

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those numbers were actually revised down. 100,000 fewer jobs were actually added in those two months than previously expected, so a softening over those two months. the unemployment rate, though, ticking up to 3.8% and that is because you have greater labor force participation. people in the market right now looking for a job. here are the industries that added the most amount of jobs in the month of august, you have gains in health care, you have gains in leisure and hospitality and in construction. the sectors that saw declines are sectors that have been in the news recently, in trucking, you saw a loss of 37,000 jobs, that's because a trucking company, yellow trucking here in the u.s. went bankrupt out of business, that was a loss of 30,000 jobs for those employees. you see that factored in right there. and then the ripple effect of the actors and the writers that have been on strike for so many weeks, you see that reflected, down 17,000 jobs in motion

picture and sound recording. and, brianna, one thing that economists are looking at here is wages. they wanted to make sure that they didn't see wage growth increase too much because if wages increase people have more money to spend and that ultimately fuels inflation. in the month of august we saw a decline in wages which is not great for people's pocketbooks, but it's good for the fight on inflation and there are federal reserve as you mentioned, brianna, going to be meeting later this month. we're going to be looking carefully at this report to decide whether or not they're going to be raising interest rates in september or their next meeting of november of this year, brianna. one economist saying that this report might be enough to put a pause on interest rates, of course, the fed really targeting that 2% inflation. we are still above that at 3%. so work to be done, but remains to be seen if that's going to be happening, preen na, still this year because of this report. we will be looking for that,

vanessa. i want to bring in catherine rampell, a columnist for the "washington post." i spoke to the chair house of the white house council on economic advisers yesterday and he's saying when you look at these numbers they're seeing people spending more and saving less because the job market a hot not because of inflation. can they keep singing that tune when he see the job market is cooling? >> there are a number of signs that the overall economy is cooling and that's what the fed wants, right? we want to see more sustainable levels of job growth, more sustainable probably slower levels of consumer spending growth. so i would anticipate going forward that we may see a slowdown in consumer spending, not only because you see it a little bit less job growth month

to month, as much as the white house likes to talk about continued job growth but also because it's gotten more expensive to borrow. that is the whole goal of raising rates. the reason why the fed is raising interest rates is to cool demand, make it a little bit less likely that people, businesses and others will spend quite as much money. you will see interest rate hikes take effect most likely within consumer spending amongst other areas as well as a number of other policies, potentially weighing on consumer spending going ahead, for example, things like the restart of the student loan payments. >> let's look at the big picture we got this week on job growth, unemployment inflation indicators. is it likely the fed holds off on another interest rate hike later this month? >> certainly markets seem to think so. the fed has signaled in its forecasts from a few months back that they were going to raise rates at least one more time this year, whether it's in

september, november or december. if you look at where markets think things are based on how treasuries are priced they don't believe the fed. they think essentially that rates are going to stay about where they are through the end of the year or at least that's the most likely scenario. and it may well be. as you've discussed, inflation has come down quite a bit, the job market remains relatively stable, slowing down, but, you know, not -- you're getting less of that mismatch between the number of jobs available and the number of workers available, so there are a number of reasons to think that the fed may, in fact, decide to pause on raising rates any further, especially since we don't know yet whether the rate hikes they have already put in place have fully worked their way into the system. >> that will be good news to many people looking to do things like buy homes or cars or the like. katherine, thank you so much. always great to have you. alex? shortly after those numbers were released president joe biden headed into the rose

garden where he said that these major gains are no accident. he highlighted recent accomplishments of his so-called bidenomics plan. cnn's kayla taushe is live at the white house. >> reporter: when month after month some of these strong labor games get posted the biden administration takes a victory lap and says it's because of the policies they are putting in place. the administration, top advisers and aides have been saying that slower and steadier growth is going to become the norm even as the labor market and economic growth figures continue to be bright spots. even today speaking from the rose garden president biden said some of the less rosy parts of the jobs report, namely the fact that the unemployment rate rose

slightly even that was because more people are feeling confident enough to look for work. here is the president. >> we've recovered all the jobs lost during the pandemic. we've added a million more new jobs. more than 700,000 people joined the labor force last month which means the highest share of working age americans are in the workforce now than at any time in the past 20 years. >> reporter: and it's those 700,000 people who are now looking for work after months on the sideline that are attributed to that slight uptick in the unemployment rate. there are headwinds to be sure, today is the first day that student loan interest begins accruing for the first time in years for student loan borrowers, you have high interest rates on mortgages and cars making affordability out of reach for many americans and then you have the fact that there is a sleefr slowdown in the economy in china which

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investigators in hawaii will be releasing some new information today on the number of people who are still reported missing in the maui wildfires. the governor is telling cnn he expects the number to drastically drop from triple digits to below 50. right now 115 people are confirmed dead at this point. crews still removing hazardous materials and debris to make it safe for families to return to their homes, but the recovery process is fueling mistrust between the community and government officials. cnn's natasha chen is here with an update for us. natasha, why does the governor believe that this number is going to be much lower, which certainly is very good news? >> reporter: brianna, last week we heard that the list was 388

people. he said that quickly dropped to 300 when they figured out there were certain people incorrectly reported or incarcerated actually and that there were just over 100 actual missing persons reports filed to the police department. of those he said half of them were immediately found as either unfortunately having died in the fires or in the hospitals. so he hopes that number will be below 50 when that is updated today, brianna. >> that is very good news. the maui county mayor shared a video statement online last night clarifying what he called misinformation. tell us a little bit about that. >> reporter: yeah, earlier during a press conference on tuesday there was a tense exchange with reporters about what he knew and when and when the communication was delivered to the state level. he issued a video statement last night saying that he was in the emergency operations center during the course of the fire

and did not learn of deaths from the fire until the next day, august 9th, and shared that with the lieutenant governor. now, even during the tense press conference exchange the -- a state-level major general told the press that had they known about the deaths on the day of the fire there may not have been a lot that they could have done because of the very challenging conditions that fire was moving a mile a minute. here is the mayor in that video statement last night. >> we will be tested as others try to divide us and even turn us against each other. however, we can be steadfast in working together and in this time of -- our strength is our care and our compassion for one another. >> reporter: and the statement

was made during a press conference earlier this week as well that by the time everyone had situational awareness, it was unfortunately too late to help some of those people who later were found dead from this fire. just extremely tragic, as you mentioned, 115 confirmed dead at this point and we are going to hear that update on the number of unaccounted for later today, brianna. >> we will be looking for that definitely. natasha chen, thank you for that report. alex? in florida crews are racing to restore power to tens of thousands of people in the aftermath of hurricane idalia. the powerful category 3 storm made landfall as the most powerful storm to make landfall into the big bend region in more than a century. 110,000 homes and businesses across several counties in that area of florida as well as parts of georgia are reporting outages. all of this coming as temperatures in florida are expected to hit the high 80s with a heat index over 100

degrees in some areas. the region could also see up to 4 inches of rain today and into saturday which could complicate recovery efforts in areas that are already water logged from idalia. the hurricane damaged thousands of homes, ripping off roofs, toppling trees and dumping waist-deep floodwaters on to roads. president biden declared a major disaster in florida yesterday making federal funding available to those impacted by the storm. now, biden is set to visit those battered communities tomorrow. brianna? a new titanic recovery expedition is being planned but the u.s. government is trying to stop it. we're going to tell you why and we're going to speak with the president of the company planning the expedition next. and a roadway spill leads to the release of 5 million bees in canada. ahead we will show you what's being done to get out of the sticky situation.

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self-defense. in arkansas a law that would require parental consent for minors to create social media accounts will now not go into effect today as originally planned. this comes after the law was temporarily blocked by a federal judge yesterday. that judge citing concerns about whether the restriction is constitutional. similar laws in texas, louisiana and utah are scheduled to take effect next year. and take a look at this, a sticky situation in canada as authorities rushed to capture 5 million bees after they spilled out of their crates and on to the road. authorities say the straps attached to the crates carrying those bee hives came loose on a roadway near toronto. it took more than half a dozen local beekeepers about four hours to get those bees back into their hives. police are saying one beekeeper was stung repeatedly but thankfully no other injuries were reported. brianna? right now a legal battle is

brewing over a titanic expedition. the u.s. government is pushing to bar a salvage trip planned for 2024 and they're cite ago law that protects the ship wreck as a grave sight. with me is jessica sanders the president of the company at the center of this fight rms titanic incorporated. thank you for being with us. your company previously has been given exclusive salvage rights to the titanic in the '90s but the government is arguing under a new 2017 law you must obtain authorization from the secretary of commerce to launch this expedition. why not just do that? >> well, thank you for having me. actually there's two issues at the center of this, one is more of a philosophical concept and that is whether or not you should recover artifacts at the wreck site at all, that's more of a philosophical conversation, the other part of it is what does the law say.

we've been the possession for pretty much 30 years since our last expedition there has been in legislation put in place and also an agreement put in place that seems to call into question what's required of us as salver to exercise the rights given by a federal judge. it's more of a question of clarifying how this legislation affects us as salver that's where we're at. >> okay. so according to the court filing, the expedition is planning entry into the hull sections and the described activities in this expedition, quote, are likely to physically alter or disturb the wreck, meaning that approval is required. do you think that description is accurate? >> well, actually the way that we're designing the expedition is really not to alter it. we were looking -- the initial plan to recover the -- included cutting sections off and recovering the marconi that

way -- >> i want to be very clear so that people know -- i want, jessica, for people who aren't as steeped in this as you or i the marconi is the radio that was used to telegraph distress signals and this is really something that you guys would like to get not far from the grand staircase. continue on because the initial plan talked about maybe if you couldn't get through a sty light cutting through a corroded section of the hull. >> correct. and this is part of what's teeing up this argument. so one of the things that the government is pointing to and i will back up to help. one of the things that the government is pointing to is an agreement and it's an international agreement and it says that the preferred method for protecting artifacts for a wreck site is to leave it alone, but also in that agreement it says, and i quote, recovery is justified by educational, scientific or cultural interests including the need to protect the integrity of rms titanic and

or its artifacts by significant threat. we know there are decks collapsing and we observed that the roof over the marconi radio room, the marconi was used to telegraph and call the car faith i can't, it was the last voice of titanic, responsible for saving the passengers that survived the tragedy. we have noticed that there is degradation in the roof and we felt that that artifact was at risk and was something we could reasonably get. we applied for the court to be able to get that. unfortunately because of covid we were never able to do the expedition but also it brought up to the forefront this section 113 and also this international agreement. so now as we are planning to go back in next year and do some imaging, we contemplated accessing -- doing some imaging in areas that have now have -- because of deterioration not cutting into the ship, but there's a hole now in the side

of the ship if we can take a camera in there and take some imaging then we can see areas we weren't previously able to see. so imaging, we contemplated artifact recovery and as far as the marconi was concerned recovering components that wouldn't require detaching anything. >> jessica, if you could, talk a little bit about this philosophical question, which is should this hallowed site, a gravesite for so many souls should it be disturbed? obviously this comes less than three months after that ocean gate submersible disaster, it's not legally related to that but that renewed this conversation about what is appropriate commerce around this gravesite and that is sort of at least the public atmosphere that i think this conversation is being had in. do you think that's weighing at all on what the government is saying here or no? >> well, the truth is -- and as

many people know, one of the people that were on that submersible was our employee, a colleague and a friend and he believed that all people had the right to see the wreck site and had the right to see the artifacts and not just a select group of people who were specifically trained or who could afford to go there. he spent his life with that belief and died with that belief. the company has spent millions of dollars and decades recovering these artifacts, conserving them, putting them in exhibitions and we believe that is what serves the public interest. the u.s. government believes it's best to just leave it alone and we feel like there's only a handful of people who could ever see that. if it were anyplace else it would be accessible but it's not. we believe the public's interest is best served by -- and the legacy for titanic is best served by recovering these artifacts and telling these stories.

we tell real stories about real people using real artifacts and allow people to connect with the story in a really special way. >> well, listen, this is something that is going to pique the interest of so many people, there are so many people interested in the titanic and what it symbolizing and this is about that philosophical question, it's about history, it's about the judiciary versus, you know, congress and we're going to see how this all shakes out and if it does ultimately go to the supreme court, that's entirely possible. jessica sanders, thank you for being with us, we will continue to follow this. >> thank you so much, brianna, for having me. >> alex? well, menthol's days have been numbered for quite some time and despite missing a dead looun the fda is insisting that the flavored cigarettes are still very much on its radar. and then millions of americans are now hitting the road for the labor day holiday, despite high gas prices. ahead, we have the warning for anyone planning to travel today. raise the jar to flavors

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. the deadline to pass a ban on menthol tobacco products has now come and gone. the fda was supposed to announce new rules last month, but it missed that target date. the fda is now under immense pressure to roll out the new policies. studies have long shown that flared cigarettes are more addictive than non-flavored ones. in 2009 the u.s. banned the tone

co-industry from adding flavors to their products, but 14 years later menthol is still local in the united states. the fda is saying that a ban will be announced in the coming months. cnn health reporter jacqueline howard is now joining us live. jacqueline, what is going on with this fda deadline? >> reporter: well, alex, it looks like the fda is simply behind schedule. what i can tell you an fda spokesperson confirmed to cnn that there are plans to finalize this ban, like you said, in the coming months, so we can expect to hear more from the agency soon. what exactly this rule says is that it will prohibit flavored cigars and menthol flavor in cigarettes. the fda says that it's proposed this rule to really help prevent kids from smoking. we know that flavored products are real attractive to children and it's estimated that nearly half of kids who smoke use menthol cigarettes. we also know that historically tobacco companies have aggressively targeted black and

brown communities with marketing menthol products and just in general nationally we know that smoking cigarettes is still the leading cause of preventable death and disease in the united states, so, alex, it will be interesting to see once this rule is finalized what will happen next, when it will go into effect, how tobacco companies may respond. previously they have sued in response to rules like this, so that will be the next interesting step to see what exactly happens, alex. >> and it will be very interesting to see what kind of impact it has on smokers. jacqueline howard, thank you very much for that report. brianna? >> it is the last summer holiday, and people are racing to pack in that final vacation. tsa says this labor day will be one of its busiest travel weekends. a record 14 million plus passengers are actually expected to pass through u.s. airports, and today is supposed to be the busiest with 2.7 million flyers. so let's get to our cnn aviation

correspondent pete muntean. he is, as he almost is, at reagan national airport. pete, this is it, right? this is the final notch on a record-breaking summer travel season. how are the lines? looks like lots of people behind you. >> reporter: a lot of people, brianna, but so far it's been relatively smooth on this kind of climax, this crescendo to a huge summer for air travel. when you add in the two numbers that you mentioned, 2.7 million today, 14 million people through wednesday, according to the tsa, then you get this really big number, 227 million people, passing through security at america's airports all summer long since memorial day, a summer that's really been mark by a lot of frustration for travelers. the numbers for cancellations have actually gotten a little bit better when you compare this summer to last summer. we saw 50,000 flight cancellations between memorial and labor day last summer. so far we've seen about 41,000,

so about a 20% improvement, but i want you to listen now to transportation secretary pete buttigieg who says that things are on the mend and we're trending towards getting the cancellation rate back to what it normally was over the last decade. listen. >> this year we have seen significant improvement. that doesn't mean that the system was immune from some tough travel days this year and this summer. most of the rough days that we did see this year had to do with storms that affected hubs which then had cascading effect. >> reporter: brianna, we are seeing some delays already in vegas, san francisco, seattle, also in florida. we'll see how the day develops. you know, a lot of people may want to drive, and the big superlative here, essentially half of all americans traveling for this holiday weekend. brianna? >> that is a lot. pete muntean live for us from

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