soledar is important more than anything as a symbolic victory after months of defeats in and around kyiv, kharkiv region, and kherson as well. so for them, after suffering these defeats to take soledar would be a victory, a symbolic, if not strategic victory. ben wedeman, thank you very much. appreciate that. cnn this morning continues right now. lisa marie presley, good morning, everyone, friday, january 13th and we are remembering lisa marie presley. looking back at the life of elvis only daughter. she was so young. we ll look at her life. also a special counsel now appointed to investigate joe biden s classified document scandal. who is robert hur and what does this mean for the president? in just a few moments senate majority leader, chuck schumer is going to join us at the desk. what he thinks of the president s handling of classified materials. we begin with more than 30 tornados have torn through the south with georgia and alabama hit the hardest
rolling out a new lawsuit to protect abortion access. why that is a significant moment for this administration. we ll go live one-on-one with one of the top homeland security advisers on that drone strike that killed a top al qaeda leader. we have a lot to get to in the next 60 minutes. let s start off in washington. with our team of responds following every move as voters are voting. vaughn hilliard is in phoenix, and shh keel kweel brewster is out there. we have so many people looking at arizona. this is a thing that everyone will be talking about tonight. is dlt dth going donald trump going to be able to sweep in arizona? s tell me what you re seeing on the ground. reporter: the polling right now indicates that kari lake, finchom for governor and attorney general are top front runners. but the big question is from both camps on every one of these campaigns i have talked to is there are a lot of questions about who ultimately shows up here in this final 24 hours. there
and explosions and sirens burglary throughout the night as palestinian fire rockets in response to deadly air strikes. we ll go live to southern israel for more on the escalating tensions. well, the crucial part of president biden s ledgislative agenda appears to be closing in on the closing line. it s set to begin today in the senate. the so-called inflation reduction act includes a $369 billion investment in energy and climate programs. it s the largest in u.s. history. the democrats are still waiting to find out if they can even pass this with a simple party line vote. and it all comes after a week of big achievements for the biden administration. cnn s jeremy diamond explains. today we received another outstanding jobs report. reporter: tonight president biden hailing another strong jobs report and promising more relief to americans struggling with stubbornly high prices. today there are more people working in america than before the pandemic began. in fact, there
crisis firsthand. mayor adams declared an emergency in response to 4,000 asylum seekers coming to new york city over the past three months. he says they are straining the city s shelter system. but, according to governor abbott, that is nothing compared to what texas is dealing with. public officials across the country, they do need to realize the magnitude of the chaos created by biden s open border policies. they re up in arms about a few thousand people coming into their communities over the past few months? listen, in any one sector in the state of texas, we have more than 5,000 people coming across that sector every single day. and so, listen, we re full in the state of texas, our committees are overrun and i started bussing people to washington, dc when local officials could not handle the number of people that had come across their border. we have team coverage, david spunt at the justice department with breaking details about the biden administration forcing ill
Budge, he shouldnt give in because of the people that voted for him, the people that voted for him the majority of the people in this nation understand that we need to be sovereign. We need a ball and this is the chance to get it done. We already have sections of the border with walls. Gangs go over them, they tunnel underneath, they go around. Drugs actually come right through the checkpoints. I want to hear from dhs and the people who are actually on the ground. Above all, weve got to open the government, leland. Youve got to open the government paid thats with the American People want. Laura live in washington with more on this. Hi, kristen. Hey, lori. Its day 11 of this partial Government Shutdown. It appears we are no close to a compromise. Democrats are refusing to fund the president s border wall and the president is continuing to say that he wont sign off on any deal to reopen the government without wall funding. They put out their plan to open the government, and they intend t