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Mark Meadows.
The former White House chief of staff for Donald Trump has
pleaded not guilty to charges of trying to overturn Georgia's election results
along with Trump and Rudy Giuliani Meadows is among the group indicted last month by
the Fulton County D A in connection with the work during the 2020 election.
Meadows entered the plea through a filing which means he
does not need to appear at tomorrow's scheduled arraignment.
He's free on $100,000 bond pending trial.
Of course,
we will continue to follow this story and bring
you any developments connected with the Georgia election case.
A federal court in Alabama has blocked a newly drawn congressional map in the state
because it did not follow a court order to comply with the Voting Rights Act
in their ruling.
The three judge panel said they were disturbed
by the state's action and wrote this quote.
We are deeply
trouble that the state enacted a map that the
state readily admits does not provide the remedy.
We said federal law requires,
the panel has given a September 25 deadline for three
map proposals that would create a second black majority district.
According to the FAA,
a brief ground stop has been lifted on United Airlines flights.
In a statement, the airline said that they were
experiencing a system wide technology issue.
Now during that ground stop, flights were halted at their departure location.
Flights already in the air were able to continue to their destinations.
United said they are investigating what led to those tech issues.
Spain's women's soccer coach, Jorge
Wilda has been fired.
The firing comes after the Spanish soccer
League's President Luis Rubiales forcibly kissed player,
Jennifer Hermoso on the mouth
during the women's World Cup final. That was on August 20th.
Rubiales has apologized for his actions and then said the kiss was quote mutual.
Now we should mention Hermosa has declined that or denied that claim.
Rubiales has been suspended for 90 days by soccer's governing body FIFA
disciplinary proceedings are underway now regarding Vida firing,
the Spanish soccer federation said this
coach was key to the notable growth of women's football and
leave Spain as world champions and second in the FIFA ranking.
First lady Joe Biden tested positive for COVID-19. Yesterday.
The White House has confirmed that in a statement, Joe Biden's office said quote,
she is currently experiencing only mild symptoms.
She will remain at their home in Rao,
Beth Beach, Delaware.
This comes up after the Bidens travel together to
Florida on Saturday to aid in the recovery from hurricane
Adalia.
The White House said President Biden tested negative and
will continue to be tested throughout the week.
The President is scheduled to travel to India this week for the G 20 summit.
Scientists have spotted a concerning new COVID-19 variant.
The B A 286 variant has been linked to 29 cases worldwide.
Preliminary studies show it is significantly different than the current dominant
strains allowing it to easily evade antibodies from vaccination or previous.
However, studies from two US, labs suggest B A 286 could be less transmissible
right now.
The dominant strain in the US is E five because
of its similarity to previous versions of the virus.
The World Health Organization says its public health risk is low.
Pennsylvania State police are still searching for
this convicted murder on your screen.
He escaped from prison last Thursday.
Police say there have been several credible sightings of Danelo Caval.
Now in a press conference just this morning,
authorities said that he was seen on trail
surveillance video Monday night in Chester County,
Pennsylvania.
You're looking at that video,
this is outside of the perimeter that was set up to catch him.
Police are now expanding their search area.
Here is what the Deputy Commissioner of operations had to say
that pressure that we've been putting on him is working.
We squeezed him hard enough over a period of a few days and he was
not able to get any relief and managed to find a place to get out.
Obviously,
I wish we would have been able to
capture him without him getting through that perimeter.
But it is also not shocking.
At least two school districts have canceled classes for today
as police expand the search for the escaped murderer.
Thousands of people are finally on their way home from burning man.
After nearly an inch of rain on Friday
caused dangerously muddy conditions over the weekend.
According to event organizers, 72,000 people were at the festival on Sunday.
Officials recommended conserving food and water as attendees
waited for the roads to dry out.
The ban on driving out of the festival was lifted yesterday this morning.
The wait time to leave. Look at that traffic was five hours.
One death at the festival is being investigated by authorities but burning man.
Organizers say it was not related to the weather
as the people of Maui continue to recover and rebuild from the deadly fires.
Hundreds are sadly still accounted for.
Hawaii's governor is encouraging people to file
a missing persons report to help investigators.
According to the governor's office,
authorities are looking into 41 active cases of missing people.
Authorities say the full list of missing people is at 385
that is down from a peak number of about 1200.
The death toll of the fire is currently at 115.
Governor Green told CNN yesterday quote,
it's not much consolation because our hearts are
broken that we lost 115 people for sure.
But it is something that we are grateful that it is not 800 or 1000
like people were projecting earlier.
And
there,
the governor has asked the attorney general to conduct a review of the
fires and the actions that could have warned residents of the dangers.