world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. president biden s ability to help democratic candidates is being tested tonight with just 19 days to go before the high stakes midterm election. cnn national politics reporter, eva, has our midterm countdown. democratic senate nominee, john fetterman, getting a boost tonight. john, thank you very much for running. president biden visiting battleground pennsylvania. appearing alongside the state s lieutenant governor to tout the administration s signature infrastructure law. this law is about more than rebuilding our infrastructure. it s about rebuilding the middle class. something john knows a lot about and talks a lot about. and to fund raise for the democrat who is running in one of the most competitive races in the country against mehmet oz. with the clock ticking toward election day, some campaigns taking a sharper approach like in georgia. for you, herschel walker wants to ban abortion. after weeks
hello again. thank you for joining me again. i m fredricka whitfield. russia said it will suspend its participation in the grain export deal with ukraine. ukraine s foreign minister telling russia to stop its hunger games . nic robertson is in kyiv. nic, what s the significance of this move? reporter: this is very significant. russia says it has suspended the deal for an indefinite period. this was a deal that was struck by the u.n., two parallel deals, one with ukraine and one with russia, at the end of july. and it was struck because, since russia invaded ukraine, all the grain that ukraine produces, and it produces a lot for the world, was stuck in its ports on the black sea, piling up, nowhere to go. and the third world countries this grain was destined for desperately short of food. the prices were going up. after the deal was struck, the anticipation was about 20 million tons of grain could be shipped out of ukraine to these third world and other countries. now, wh
a horrific chain of events and fast rising death toll in the capital city. 120 people confirmed dead by officials in seoul. we have to warn you this video we re about to show you is very graphic. you can see complete chaos and terror on the scene there. you can see people performing cpr on some of the injured and maybe the dead who are on the ground where they fell. it s not clear what happened, what caused folks to collapse. will ripley is on the scene. will, incredible work being there as all of this is unfolding. what can you tell us? what more do we know? reporter: yeah, jim, as we were talking last hour, they were holding a briefing. we learned the death toll more than doubled. another is set to get under way any minute now. if we get any new numbers of casualties because we were told they are expected to go up considering a lot of people brought to area hospitals were in bad shape when you talk about cardiac arrest, their heart stopped. we ll keep you posted on that.
john: begin america reports this thursday afternoon with 19 days to go now until the midterms. president biden out on the campaign trail today as the pennsylvania senate race comes down to the wire. hello, i m john roberts in washington. sandra: 19 days out, hard to believe. here we go. sandra smith in new york. the president travelling today for his only campaign stop of the week. he ll talk infrastructure before heading to philadelphia to stump for john fetterman. john: happening as polls show republican dr. oz closing the gap against john fetterman, and republicans also gaining ground in contests thought to be democratic strongholds. sandra: our panel standing by. mollie line is standing by in deep blue rhode island. so first to bryan llenas on the ground in philadelphia, expecting to see the president a short time from now. hi, bryan. hi, sandra. $167 million have been spent in the pennsylvania senate race. it s the second most expensive race in the nation beh
very real possibility that democrats could lose the house and lose the senate, not to mention multiple major gubernatorial races across this great country of ours. this weekend, barack obama, bernie sanders, first lady jill biden are hitting the campaign trail hard in a desperate attempt to salvage some of these races. but not joe biden. the president is just not up to the task. it s more than he can handle at this point in his life, so he will spend the weekend in delaware with his granddaughter. so much for needed rest and relaxation. after all, it was a busy week for joe. public events almost every day. needless to say, the struggle was very real. yesterday, for example, biden seemed to think that he s inherited $5 a gallon gas prices and you the american people should be thanking him for coming to the rescue. he said it. take a look. today the most common price of gas in america is $3.39. down from over $5 when i took office. we need to keep making that progress. sean