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Let's take a look at this morning's need to know headlines. Yesterday evening, former President Trump surrendered at the Fulton County jail in Georgia on charges that he conspired to change the outcome of the 2020 election while it's Trump's fourth surrender this year yesterday, he became the first US president to have a mug shot photo taken. He posted a photo on X formerly Twitter, his first post since being banned from the platform in January of 2021. After completing the booking process, Trump was released on a $200,000 bond and the former president addressed the charges before he got on the plane to fly back to New Jersey. What has taken place here is a travesty of justice. We did nothing wrong. I did nothing wrong and everybody knows that we did nothing wrong at all and we have every right, every single right to challenge an election that we think is dishonest while all 19 co defendants in the case have until noon today to surrender or face arrest, heavy rains across parts of the Midwest cause roads to flood flight delays. It also left nearly 700,000 households without power. In Michigan. The National Weather service reported an extremely dangerous tornado hit a rural area about 85 miles west of Detroit last night. That comes after an earlier round of thunderstorms flooded the Detroit Metro Airport. Nearly half of the day's flights were delayed. And as the storms crossed into Ohio, 10 people needed to be rescued from their cars after heavy rain and flooding overnight, Wednesday. And according to power outage dot us as of this morning, more than 400,000 people in Michigan and over 200,000 people in Ohio are currently without power. Maui County has released a list of 388 people who are still missing. Two weeks after those deadly wildfires hit the island. Authorities are asking anyone who knows any information about the people listed to call or email. The FBI County authorities also confirmed an additional 700 people who were originally listed missing have now been found safe. Maui County also filed lawsuits yesterday against Hawaiian Electric and three related electric companies for allegedly failing to shut off power lines despite the risk of wildfires and not properly maintaining their equipment. The county is seeking compensation for the damages. And in a statement, Hawaiian Electric said we're very disappointed that Maui County chose this litigious path while the investigation is still unfolding. And the Kremlin is saying it had no role in Wednesday's plane crash that's presumed to have killed Wagner mercenary group leader Yevgeny Prasin, a Kremlin spokesperson flatly rejected the allegations that the Kremlin was involved. Calling them a complete lie. Russian leader, Vladimir Putin expressed his sincere condolences to the families of the victims. Speaking about Pergo who attempted a mutiny against Putin back in June, Putin described him as a talented man who made serious mistakes in life. A preliminary US intelligence assessment found that an intentional explosion caused the crash. An official told the associated press that the assessment finds Pogos was very likely targeted. And the Pentagon said yesterday that it's going to train Ukrainian pilots to fly F-16 fighter jets to help with its defense against Russia. The training will take place in October at Morris Air National Guard Base in Tucson, Arizona. Ukrainian pilots will also receive English lessons next month in San Antonio, Texas in order to be able to operate the US made aircrafts while President Biden spoke to Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky yesterday to mark 18 months since Russia's invasion and discussed training the pilots. The Netherlands Denmark and Norway also announced that they would supply fighter jets to Ukraine and diabetes and weight loss drug will go improves the quality of life for people dealing with obesity and a common form of heart failure. That's according to a study published today in the New England Journal of medicine. The study shows people living with a heart condition, experience fewer symptoms connected to their heart condition. They also experienced less shortness of breath fatigue and also had a better ability to exercise. The year long trial showed people who took the drug also lost about 13% of their body weight. The study was funded by drug maker Noor Nordisk, professional wrestler Bray Wyatt has died at the age of 36. WW announced his death yesterday saying it was unexpected. Wyatt whose real name was Windham Rotunda was the son of WW Hall of fame wrestler Mike Rotunda. WS Chief content Officer Paul Triple H Levesque posted about Wyatt's death on ask, formerly known as Twitter, saying our thoughts are with his family and we ask that everyone respect their privacy at this time became a WW champion in 2017 and wrestled using multiple characters during his career, including a member of the Wyatt family and as the, the the location and cause of his death was not disclosed. Spacex and NASA mission that was supposed to launch into the orbit early today was called off abruptly yesterday, SpaceX teams were to launch a falcon nine rocket with four Astros on a half year voyage to the International Space Station. The reason for the delay was not immediately known, but SpaceX did post on X saying they are now aiming to take off tomorrow morning. SpaceX elaborated in the post saying quote, the new launch date provides teams additional time to complete and discuss analysis. The vehicles remain healthy and crew is ready to fly. The four astronauts who will be aboard on the crew seven mission include a NASA mission commander, a Danish astronaut representing the European Space Agency and two more from Japan and Russia.