line. we re going to have the latest for you from the campaign trail. and it is said to be the largest lottery prize in history, $1.6 billion is up for grabs in tonight s powerball drawing. it is saturday, everyone. thank you so much for waking up with this. good morning, boris. thanks to our producers for that reminder that the powerball drawing is coming up. i ve got to get my lottery tickets. are you playing? i am now. thanks for the reminder. appreciate that. we begin this morning with the final sprint to the midterm election. the candidates and their surrogates are making the final push with just three days to go before election day. and the battle for control of the senate it comes down to a handful of key states including pennsylvania, barack obama, president biden, and president trump also campaigning in the state today. republicans heading into tuesday s elections, though, with a slight edge. but millions of voters have already cast their ballots. every
democrats need good news on the jobs economy. and mass layoffs at any moment. thousands of people who work at twitter this morning might not work there anymore by noon. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. just four days left now until the high stakes mid-term election control of the house. senate and dozens of state governor s offices are on the line. president biden waking up in california. he s on a swing across the west coast trying to rally democrats in key races. mr. president, is your message getting through to the american voters? yes. tonight the president will be in chicago for another campaign event. former president trump also on the road. he held a rally there in sioux city, iowa, backing republican candidates. all but upstaging them with big hints about his plans for 2024. get ready, that s all i m telling you. get ready. get ready. let s begin with the president and cnn s jasmine wright. jasmine,
filed to make the trustee riley and her brother benjamin, who is no longer with us, and that means basically that pricilla presley is challenging her granddaughter s, you know, validity to be the person who is now dealing with her mother s estate. i just say that in these kinds of cases where you have these huge celebrities, it s not that unusual that the family ends up in a big public dispute, she s saying the signature doesn t look like lisa marie s, she s saying she was not informed of this change to the trusteeship but she s claiming that she want to amend the trustee of that will. so there s going to be a lot of money at stake here, but really is pitting a grand mother against a granddaughter.
lake will win. reporter: we ask the the maricopa county board chairman to address some of the concerns i think i want to ask about the extent they can verify ballots mailed out are actually filled out by the people they were intended for and returned by them and not filled out by anybody else. on the envelope itself they fill out an affidavit and sign an affidavit that indicates it was them. if the signature doesn t match the signature in our voter registration records we will call them up and try and confirm. did they actually do this? i think there are some election officials who have gone through fbi type training to look at signatures and compare them, right? yes. absolutely. so many eyeballs are looking at this. do we have people who are trust worthy who have gone through thorough background checks we can put in securely knowing our elections, both
anybody else. on the envelope itself they fill out an affidavit and they sign an affidavit that indicates that it was them. and then if that signature doesn t match the signature that we have in the voter registration records, we will call them up and try and confirm did they actually do this. i think there are some election officials that have gone through fbi-type training to look at signatures and compare them, right? yes, absolutely. wolf, there are thousands of hard working election officials and volunteers all across the country working hard to make sure these elections are secure. don t let a few false viral videos undermine that. it s a good day on any day on social media to take a breath and that goes for tomorrow on election day. we ll have more news on the mid-term elections just ahead. and we ll go live to ukraine