WABE's Week In Review: Chesebro, Powell cases severed from Trump and Atlanta flash floods cause chaos

September 15th, 2023

Bernard Johnson retrieves his belongs from his flooded rental car in downtown Atlanta, Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

A Fulton County judge ruled Thursday that former President Trump and 16 others will be tried separately from two defendants who are set to go to trial next month in the 2020 election interference case. #gapol https://t.co/Y6cBpz3mNa
— WABE News (@wabenews) September 14, 2023

King Center, Georgia NAACP call for voters to have a say on training center…

Voting and civil rights groups stood on the steps of Atlanta City Hall this morning to demand that it let voters decide on the construction of its 85-acre, $90 million public safety training center. Here’s Georgia & Atlanta NAACP President Gerald Griggs. —@wabenews pic.twitter.com/j8C6etptFZ
— Chamian Cruz 🔎 (@xchamian) September 14, 2023

Judge to weigh Georgia voting maps…

A trial challenging voting district maps in Georgia concluded Thursday with the state arguing that court intervention on behalf of Black voters isn’t needed, while the plaintiffs argued that Black voters need federal help to get a fair shot. #gapol https://t.co/NoohtZsXdy
— WABE News (@wabenews) September 15, 2023

Flash flooding hits Atlanta

The aftermath of Thursday night's flash floods at Ashley Scholars Landing apartments in Atlanta's West End. WABE's @Julien_Virgin was on the scene. pic.twitter.com/wIlT35wA30
— WABE News (@wabenews) September 15, 2023

The quest to understand “long Covid”

3+ years into the pandemic, and there are still more questions than answers about long COVID. But researchers from @EmoryUniversity @MSMEDU, @GradyHealth, the @AtlantaVAMC and @KPGeorgia are working to discover potential treatments. @jessicamador reports.https://t.co/S3qUgipTj0
— WABE News (@wabenews) September 12, 2023

Ossoff pushes to keep Congress from playing the market…

Georgia democratic U.S. Sen. @ossoff is introducing legislation that would ban all members of Congress and their households from directly trading stocks, preventing them from using inside information that they have access to as part of their office.https://t.co/bLCTTOOEYy
— WABE News (@wabenews) September 15, 2023