newsroom. this morning early voting location are open across the country and preliminary election data is already showing more than 17.5 million americans have cast their ballots so far. with ten days to go before election day, candidates are bringing out big-name surrogates in their final push for votes. president biden and former president obama are on the campaign trail for democrats in key states. over the next week, former president trump also holding rallies in support of republican candidates across four states. the infusion of political star power is underscoring just how many of these key races are neck-and-neck. in georgia, the senate race between democrat raphael warnock and herschel walker has some in the democratic leadership concerned. here is senate majority leader chuck schumer caught on a hot mic talking about that race. going downhill in georgia. that race in georgia crucial to the democrats chances of holding on to their 50/50 majority in congress. i
dana: i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. the prime minister making the announcement moments ago outside 10 downing street. this after she failed to overcome a flurry of criticism from her own party. alex hogan is following all of this from london. hi. good morning. this has been a very contentious day here in london after a contentious two months of british prime minister liz truss time in office. she announced her resignation earlier this morning. speaking for a minute 30 seconds. very brief. take a listen. we set out a vision for a low tax, high grade economy that take advantage of the freedoms of brexit. this comes after a shaky day yesterday at downing street. another member of her government left the job. home secretary resigned. she was a popular figure in the conservative party. she has been replaced by grant sha p. he is a supporter of the former p.m. candidate who lost to truss. he quickly addressed the need to get to work. truss had only serve
newsroom . i m jim acosta in washington. we begin with breaking news in south korea where 59 people are dead and 150 others are hurt. that is in seoul, the capital. and it happened at a halloween festival. i want to show you some of the scene. we have to warn you this video is graphic. it is an incredibly chaotic scene. you can see people performing cpr on some of the victims on the scene. it is unclear what caused people to collapse in these kind of numbers. will ripley is at the keep. will, you re right there. this is just unbelievable what s occurred. what more can you tell us? when we arrived, people were on the phone, sobbing, calling their loved ones to let them know they were okay. that chaos has turned into a stunned sense of shock in the nightclub district of seoul where tens of thousands of people have come to celebrate halloween. they were packed so tightly into some of the side streets. in fact, the party that was happening was at a hotel just behind me. we a
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.
get this done. democrats are going to hold the senate? have to send a very clear message to washington. we want less radicalism and more balance. neil: well, are you ready for this? it is on. the voters lining up in the final hours to make their voices heard. this hour it s all about turnout, my friends in pennsylvania, in georgia, in arizona and nevada and so many more states and cities and districts. you have all of congress up for grabs. a third of the u.s. senate and both parties hoping for a surge to put them over the top once and for all. meanwhile, investors may be hoping for something else. stocks up because they think in this new environment to come, nothing gets done. i ll explain that in just a bit. welcome, everybody. i m neil cavuto. so much happening and so little time to get to it. so in the next hour, we re putting it all in perspective including that run-up in stocks that has some investors hoping that maybe with democrats and republicans continuing a