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hello again, everyone. thanks for joining me. im fredricka whitfield. just over two weeks until the midterm election decides who controls congress. voters are turning out in big numbers across the country to cast their ballots early. so far nearly 6 million people have already voted in the midterm elections. and in georgia, more than 660,000 voters have already cast their ballots. that number is not far off the early voter turnout for the 2020 presidential election and more than a quar...

rival, reasserted communist party control over every aspect of chinese city. what we know is tomorrow when we see his top advisers revealed, is that hes going to be stacking it with his closest advisers and loyalists. so in this next term, expect xi jinping to double down on his ironclad rule, so a more authoritarian china at home and a more aggressive china abroad. fredricka? >> possibly more surprises. selina wang, thank you so much. all right. hello again, everyone. thanks for joi...

before the midterm elections. and we are in the final stretch, as candidates work to reach still undecided voters. in the senate race in pennsylvania, its all about swing voters in the suburbs. democratic lieutenant governor john fetterman is up against republican mehmet oz. the outcome of the race there is critical, if democrats want to keep their razor-thin majority in the senate. cnn national reporter dan meriga is live for us in philadelphia there today. how tight is this race this...

place for 24 counties in the storms path, and is urging people across the state to start getting ready. we have team coverage tracking tropical storm ian. cnns carlos suarez is covering storm preparations and meteorologist allison chinchar is in the weather center. you have a new update from the national weather center? >> we did. a good look now, sunlight for several hours, what this storm looks like on visible satellite. its starting to come together. you see signs that the storm is ...

you are live in the cnn newsroom. we are monitoring two storms this morning. we begin in florida where in 24 counties there is a state of emergency. tropical storm ian is moving through the caribbean and could grow to a category 3 hurricane before it hits florida next week. >> residents from the florida panhandle to the florida keys are being told to prepare for storm surges, hurricane-force winds and heavy rainfall. meanwhile, hurricane henfiona i moving through eastern canada. you se...

you can see sustained winds are still 45 miles per hour gusting up to 60 miles per hour, still trying to get itself fully organized, but it is going to be heading into a more favorable environment in the next 24 to 48 hours, lower wind shear, lower sea surface temperatures. you have tropical storm watches for jamaica but hurricane watches for areas of the cayman islands. thats because in the short term we anticipate that storm will strength sboon a category 1, maybe a category 2 as its...

>> russian men being wrenched away to fight. terrified. loved ones being sent to kill or be killed in ukraine. im pamela brown in washington. you are live in the "cnn newsroom." well, what had been a sleepy atlantic hurricane season is now roaring to life and millions of americans are right in the path. this is tropical storm ian churning across the warm energizing waters of the caribbean. its expected to strengthen to a hurricane before slamming into florida next week and if forecas...

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And competition from china, among plenty others. There were punches and jabs, counter points and cross talk. But with front runner donald trump sitting out the debate for the second time running, no one on the stage was in a position to deliver a knockout blow. The question will be, which of the candidates put in a Strong Enough performance to win over some voters. Florida Governor Ron Desantis was asked who should be to blame in the event of a Us Government shutdown. He took at aim washington i...

very fast moving developments. first, the u.s. fighter jets striking an iranian weapons storage facility in syria again. the growing call to respond harder to 46 iranian sponsored attacks on u.s. soldiers. this time to expand the counter attacks, not to proxies of iran outside iran but iran inside and inside iran. we have knox team coverage on the growing iranian threat. jacqui heinrich on the u.s. ramping up their response to that threat and former defense secretary mark esper on if e...