From CNN, I'm Ifeoma Dike with the five things you need to Know for Friday, April 19th.

A panel of 12 jurors and six alternates has been seated in former President Donald Trump's hush money trial. Opening statements are expected to start Monday. A Sandoval hearing took place after jury selection was complete. It's a routine process to determine to what extent Trump's criminal past can be brought up in the current trial. It also assesses how much prosecutors can ask Trump if he testifies. The judge told lawyers he'd reach a decision by Monday. Outside the courthouse, police say a man in his late 30s from Florida poured accelerant on himself and then set himself on fire. Police say Maxwell Azzvarello first walked into the center of a park and threw pamphlets containing conspiracy theories out of his backpack. Here's fire Commissioner Laura Kavanaugh.

As the chief mentioned, the victim is in critical condition but is alive and intubated at Cornell Burn Center. At this time, there were four three NYPD officers and one court officers of four officers who had minor injuries from their exposure to the fire. They are all fine. They are stable.

A motive is unclear, but police say they're reviewing security protocols around the courthouse.

While the House is expected to vote on a foreign aid package tomorrow, that includes sending aid to Israel and Ukraine, the Senate is trying to pass a key surveillance bill before tonight's deadline. On the floor today, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said lawmakers are struggling to reach a deal to reauthorize part of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA. The bill allows the government to collect large internet and cell phone data on foreign targets. Some Americans information is incidentally lumped into the pile during that process, and then accessed each year without a warrant. Senators are working on making amendments to the FISA bill to address their concerns. But the program could lapse if the process drags into the weekend.

'The Federal Aviation Administration has announced that air traffic controllers will be guaranteed at least 10 to 12 hours off between shifts. An expert panel, established after a string of near collisions on U.S. runways, recommended the change. Even Thursday, there was another near-collision at Reagan National Airport, but the National Air Traffic Controllers Association said the proposed changes could actually exacerbate the issue by making employees work overtime to fill resulting scheduling holes. The FAA's most recent figures, from almost a year ago, show that the agency has 3600 controllers short of its staffing goal. Fatigue and staff shortages were just two of the 60 issues the panel asked the FAA to work on.

'An 18-year-old Maryland high school student accused of planning a school shooting is being held without bond until his trial in June. Police arrested him on Wednesday and he's been charged with threat of mass violence, according to the teen's arrest warrant. He showed online writings which he called fictitious, to a friend. The friend, worried a school shooting was, quote, "imminent," notified police. The warrant also states the teen was hospitalized in December 2022 for, quote, "threatening to shoot up a school." The student was then hospitalized for five months last year at Johns Hopkins Pediatric Unit for, quote, "homicidal ideations."

Coming up, could unions get a foothold in the South?

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This week, workers at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, voted on whether to join the United Auto Workers Union, and the results are expected tonight. The plant has 4300 hourly workers and could revolutionize the U.S. auto industry, which has not seen a new automaker unionize in nearly 50 years. They voted on unionizing before last time in 2019. That year, a slight majority of 52% of workers voted against a union. The plant has more than doubled its eligible employees since then.

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