Newsroom starts right now. Live from washington, im paula reed in for pamela brown tonight. The top stories, surging cases of a respiratory illness are forcing some hospitals to create tent cities just to deal with all the patients as Health Officials say they have seen more cases now than in the past two years. Plus, an underground network sending Abortion Pills from mexico to women in states where the procedure is now illegal. And chinas former president seated right next to the current one is shockingly yanked from the room as the communist Party Congress party comes to an end. Youre in the cnn newsroom. First tonight, breaking news, a deadly shooting in a hospital in dallas, texas. Details are still coming in to cnn, but so far police are confirming that at least two people are dead, both employees at the hospital. I want to get right now to cnns camila bernal. What are you hearing so far . Reporter so this shooting took place at Methodist Dallas Medical Center. According to author
the united states and around the world. welcome to cnn newsroom. the final stretch. 16 days to go until the u.s. elections, the candidates are pulling out the stops and pulling in high-profile support. xi jinping secures an unprecedented third term, cementing his iron grip over china s future. we re live in beijing and taipei with the latest. and ukraine s power grid under attack with frigid winter just around the corner. russia takes aim at critical infrastructure. a live report from kyiv is just ahead. the u.s. is just over two weeks away from the tightly contested and deeply consequential midterm elections. at stake this november, control of congress. and by extension, the president s political agenda. joe biden s democratic party currently holds 220 seats in the house, and to keep its majority, it must hold on to 218 of them. right now, though, republicans have a slight lead in the polls with 18 seats still up for grabs. in the senate, 35 seats are in play. cnn
newsroom starts right now. live from washington, i m paula reed in for pamela brown tonight. the top stories, surging cases of a respiratory illness are forcing some hospitals to create tent cities just to deal with all the patients as health officials say they have seen more cases now than in the past two years. plus, an underground network sending abortion pills from mexico to women in states where the procedure is now illegal. and china s former president seated right next to the current one is shockingly yanked from the room as the communist party congress party comes to an end. you re in the cnn newsroom. first tonight, breaking news, a deadly shooting in a hospital in dallas, texas. details are still coming in to cnn, but so far police are confirming that at least two people are dead, both employees at the hospital. i want to get right now to cnn s camila bernal. what are you hearing so far? reporter: so this shooting took place at methodist dallas medical c
rsv nationwide, in familiar when it comes to kids having to go to the hospital. they are taking drastic measures to deal with the surge. you re seeing some institutions putting up tents. things have gotten worse since we were admitted. it was just about six weeks ago that boris johnson was leaving downing street in disgrace. i want you to know how sad i am to be giving up the best job in the world. now, the u.k. is abuzz with talk of a boris comeback. i m paula reed in washington. pamela brown is off. you are in the cnn newsroom. the balance of power and the power of the vote. in just over two weeks the midterm elections will determine which party will control the house and the senate. the high stakes mean high turnout. nearly 6 million americans have cast early votes in 39 states. in georgia, which tipped the senate to daemocrats two weeks ago, it has been a week of record breaking turnout. 660,000 people have cast early votes with more than 140,000 yesterd