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Let's get to this morning's need to know headlines everyone yesterday, former President Donald Trump was indicted for his attempt to overturn the 2020 election and block the transfer of power. The four felony charges include conspiracy to defraud the United States and obstruction of an official proceeding. Here's what special prosecutor Jack Smith said about these charges. The attack on our nation's capital on January 6th 2021 was an unprecedented assault on the seat of American democracy. As described in the indictment. It was fueled by lies, lies by the defendant targeted at obstructing a bedrock function of the US government. The nation's process of collecting counting and certifying the results of the presidential election. The indictment focuses on Trump's unlawful attempts to stop the certification of the 2020 election on January 6, citing multiple co conspirators who allegedly helped the former president spread misinformation about the election results and attempt to stop the process. Trump is due in court tomorrow in Washington. This is the third criminal indictment for the former president. We will have much more on this coming up in just a few minutes elsewhere ahead of firefighters in California and Nevada battled the fire worlds yesterday. That's a vortex of smoke and flames as they attempted to contain a massive wildfire in the Mojave National Preserve. The York fire spans over 80,000 acres making it the biggest in California that we've seen this year. As of yesterday, rainfall helped get about a quarter of the blaze under control. And along the US Canadian border, another wildfire triggered evacuation warnings over the weekend. The Eagle Bluff fire currently spans 15,000 acres in the US and is 0% contained. So we'll have more on these fires coming up a little bit later in the show and the suspect in multiple murders at Long Island's Gilgo Beach appeared in court yesterday, suspect Rex Heman did not speak during this very brief hearing. The focus of the court date was discovery as prosecutors walked through over 2500 pages and four hard drives worth of evidence. That evidence includes hours of video footage and photos taken from investigations of Hoer's home and office. Homans attorney said that his client maintains his innocence will not accept a plea deal and plans to go to trial Hoer's next pretrial court appearance is scheduled for September 27. And the suspect in the fatal stabbing of the cash app founder, Bob Lee is going to stand trial for murder. A judge determined yesterday tech consultant Mima Moi's defense argued in favor of a lesser manslaughter charge arguing that the evidence didn't indicate that crime was premeditated. The defense claims surveillance video showed the two men seemed amicable together on the night of the murder saying that Lee's death could only have resulted from a sudden heat of passion quarrel in his decision. The judge cited expert testimony that Mai's DNA was present on the night that killed Lee and Mai's next court appearance is scheduled for August 15. An FBI led sweep targeting sex traffickers has rescued more than 200 victims of trafficking and found 59 missing Children. The FBI announced the results of the nationwide enforcement campaign yesterday. An investigation called Operation Cross Country. The agency worked with state and local police departments as well as the National Center for missing and exploited Children to help identify and find the victims. 194 people suspected of child sexual exploitation and human trafficking were arrested. 68 of those arrests were suspected sex traffickers elsewhere, hundreds of childbirth units have shut down at us hospitals over the past five years. That's according to a report published yesterday by the nonprofit March of Dimes which has been tracking the closure since 2018. About 300 birthing units have closed since then. And the report found more than 5.6 million women live in counties with little to no access to maternal health care. Found that more than a third of us counties were maternity care deserts and Ohio had the most women impacted by overall reductions in access to care. Lizzo has been sued by three former dancers who have accused the singer of sexual harassment and alleged she and her production company created a hostile work environment. The lawsuit filed yesterday in Los Angeles claims Lizzo pressured dancers to engage with nude performers in Amsterdam's red light district. It also claims Lizzo reportedly shamed one of them for gaining weight before firing them. One of the judges on Lizzo reality show, Lizzo watch out for the big girls is also accused of imposing her Christian beliefs on dancers. Lizzo representatives have not yet responded to these allegations. Hannah, well, no one won the mega millions jackpot last night. Again, the jackpot now climbs to an estimated 1.25 billion lottery players will have another chance to win in the next drawing on Friday. The last mega millions win happened on April 8 with the lucky winner taking $20 million home in Syracuse, New York mega millions winners can opt to collect a lump sum payment which after taxes comes out to about 527 million or choose to collect payments annually over 30 years.