Trump to be booked at Fulton County jail, faces $200,000 bond
Former President Donald Trump faces a $200,000 bond as he awaits trial for election interference in Georgia. The bond includes terms that prohibit him from obstructing justice and intimidating witnesses, including through social media posts.

The restrictions related to witness intimation follow Trump and supporters having released the personal information of the grand jurors involved in the latest indictment. Trump, his attorneys, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, and Fulton County Superior Court judge Scott McAfee have signed the bond agreement, which stipulates that the restrictions "shall include, but are not limited to, posts on social media or reposts of posts made by another individual on social media."

The August 24 booking follows Trump's most recent round of indictments by a state grand jury in Atlanta. The indictment pertains to alleged crimes aimed at overturning the 2020 presidential election and includes 18 co-defendants, including Trump's attorney and former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, and Trump's former chief of staff, Mark Meadows.

Trump has until Friday at noon Eastern to surrender or face arrest.

Judge McAfee has yet to decide the trial date. Prosecutors have requested March 2024, while Trump's defense team has asked for a trial date in 2026.

Southern California faces first tropical storm in 84 years
Tropical Storm Hilary made landfall Sunday night, dumping heavy rains on a region that has not seen such conditions since September 1939.

Hilary first slammed into the northern portion of the Baja California Peninsula in Mexico. Initially a category 4 hurricane, it was downgraded to a tropical storm shortly after landfall. Though Hilary dissipated Monday, remnants from the storm brought heavy rain, including flash flooding and mud and rockslides. Hilary dropped 10 inches of rain over a desert region that is normally dry. Some parts are expected to receive the equivalent of half their average annual rainfall.

Damage to infrastructure was minimal. As of Monday there have been no reported deaths or injuries due to the storm in the US. One man in Mexico died when Hilary made landfall.

Weather scientists attribute Hialry's unusual path to warmer-than-average water temperatures in the Pacific Ocean, where this year's El Niño has warmed surface water 3.5 to 5 degrees higher than normal. According to the Associated Press, UCLA Western weather scientist Daniel Swain explained that this is how Hilary intensified so rapidly as to gain 75 mph wind speeds in less than 24 hours.

Jim Kossin, a former National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) scientist, explain to the AP that "for a storm to intensify the way Hilary did, the conditions would have to be ideal." These include warm water that runs deep, and no crosswinds to disrupt the storm at higher altitudes. In a rare combination of events, all of these conditions were present in the Pacific, where waters tend to run much colder.

As of Monday, the remnants of Tropical Storm Hilary have moved into the desert regions of Southern California, Arizona, and Nevada, where they continue to drop heavy rain. Palm Springs saw three inches.