Ahead on cnn newsroom, ford and General Motors announce job cuts just days a of the Autoworkers Union went on strike, how a lengthy strike will impact the auto industry. Plus, gop president ial hopefuls descend on iowa stumping for votes. The only one who didnt show is donald trump. Downed trees and power lines is part of what tropical lee left behind. No breakthrough but reasonably productive discussions at least with ford, thats on how the United Auto Workers are describing labor talks on day two of its strikes. Striking Union Workers picketed outside the Ford Assembly plant. Ford says the strike is causing a lack of parts and 2600 uaw members will be laid off due to the walkout. The union and ford, General Motors and stellantis is far apart on benefits. Now the strike is putting President Biden in a tough position and it could get even more difficult for him if it goes on for a long time. Cnns Priscilla Alvarez explains. Reporter President Joe Biden weighed in on the auto workers strike on friday as he faces the biggest labor crisis of his presidency so far. In his remarks he provided an implicit endorsement of the benefits. I appreciate the parties have been working around the clock. When i first called them on the very first day of the negotiations i said please stay at the table as long as you can, well work this out. The companies have made some significant offers. I believe it should go further with record contract. Record corporate profits which they have should be shared with record contract. Reporter he casts s him as e most prounion president. The destabilizing risk of an auto manufacturing shutdown. Leading up to the strike president and white house officials have been closely monitoring negotiations and on friday the president announced he would deploy his Senior Adviser sperling to act as the gobetween in these talks. Theyre watching it closely and what it mean for the economy moving forward. Priscilla alvarez, cnn, traveling with the president. U. S. Republican president ial hopefuls are in iowa showing the influence that state yields early in the president ial cycle. They addressed the faith and Freedom Coalition saturday four months ahead of the first votes being cast in 2024 primary contests. All the candidates except for former President Donald Trump. Hes so confident in his poll numbers that he didnt show up. Heres what some are saying. In this day and age when you do anything thats worth anything, they are going to come at you. Theyre going sling arrows at you, theyre going to smear you and lie about you, the question is, do you have the fortitude to stand in the cauldron and hold your ground and stand firm . Thats what we do in covid when we stood up against covid. I would put the target on the back of the Teacher Yuan Owens and bareak their backs. Theyre failing them in schools. My goal is how do we save as many babies as possible and support as many moms as possible. Jeff zeleny brings us the latest from iowa. Reporter with four months remaining before the Republican Caucus the field of republican candidates gathered in iowa to campaign over the weekend. They spoke at a dinner Saturday Night in des moines, reaching out to evangelical voters. Of course former President Donald Trump whos leading the race wasnt on hand. His rivals were. Former Vice President mike pence tried to take aim at President Biden and the impeachment inquiry in the house. I dont want to jump to conclusions about this, where theres smoke theres usually fire in washington, d. C. And the American People deserve the facts and im going to be out there championing and defending House Republicans as they bring the facts to the American People and hold joe biden and his family accountable. Reporter the criticism of President Biden is one thing candidates could agree there, there were differences on abortions and blocking nominations. South carolina tim scott trying to reach out to these evangelical voters. Donald trump is still in command of this contest. The question is, has the Iowa Caucuses become a race for number two or could one of these rivals catch him by january 15th. Jeff zeleny, cnn, des moines. The gop handed the former President A Win of sort in florida, republicans in that state just scrapped plans to make the president ial candidate to sign a loyalty pledge. Trump refused a pledge to back a candidate that wasnt himself. It would have helped Florida Governor desantis, now banned is a major defeat for the Desantis Campaign but trump may soon suffer a defeat over what he can or cant say even on social media. Federal prosecutors are asking for narrowly tailored gag orders. The order would prevent trump from Making Statements that are inflammatory or intimidating. More than 11,000 people in the libyan city of derna have been killed. The death toll will likely rise as Emergency Crews continue to search for the missing. So far workers have pulled dozens of bodies from the sea along derna coast. Most of the victims swept away are still in the water. The task of retrieving the bodies could become even impossible without even additional resources. Such a long path to recovery ahead, whats the latest . Reporter aid is continuing to arrive in libya from all parts of the world as survivors, theres still kind of a rescue coming. Youll find people who will still alive, so far 11,300 people have been killed according to the u. N. And in derna alone, part of the problem here, entire neighborhoods in derna were swept into the mediterranean and thats where some of the bodies are believed to remain and there were people who were killed in this catastrophic flooding that may never been found. They need more resources, as much as possible, to help here. Theyre appealing to African UnionMember States to send the support that libya needs. Part of the problem again here is the east west divide if the country between the tripoli government and in the eastern part of the country including derna thats led by the rebel leader, this falls under his region. Theyve gotten away from their divisions and are chipping in, sending aid, donating blood. Theyre aware they still live if a deeply divided country. Translator we feel sorry for those who lost their lives and we ask god almighty that he take pity on the others. Reporter the u. N. Estimates about 40,000 people have been displaced by this and as theyre moving away from derna to find shelter elsewhere theyre exposed to land mines after about a decade or more in conflict in the country. Partly why theres so Much Division in the country. After surviving a record storm, this catastrophic flooding that killed more than 11,000 people they could risk getting exposed to land mines and other after aftereffects of war this country has suffered so much. So much resources to try and rebuild. This is going to be multiple months maybe even years that people can come back here. Electricity is slowly being restored along roads in moroccan atlas mountains. Crews geared up to try to Restore Power Villages where earthquake survivors have been using flashlights to see at night. The government has promised to build some 50,000 houses for those whose homes were destroyed. It could take months or years before it gets done. All right, now to posttropical cyclone lee, it made a second landfall. Just under Hurricane Strength the storm surge caused coastal flooding, downed trees and knocked out power. Crews are Making Headway in restoring electricity. Lees expected to continue to weaken throughout the day. Cnn meteorologist karen ma ginns is here with more. Reporter these coastal areas have been extremely battered. Weve seen some high waves batter this region as well. Power outages there as well. It may take some time for that power to be restored. In the meantime lee, most poststorm lee, Hurricane Strength, can category 5 when it was in the atlantic, now weakening very rapidly. We just got an update and the wind associated with lee now sitting at about 50 miles an hour or 85 kilometers per hour, and its racing along pushing off towards the northeast, its over Prince Edward island but still impacting New Brunswick and the northern coast of nova scotia. It will move over newfoundland over the next 24 hours. It will increase over the next 12 hours. At about 22 miles per hour. Its impacts still are going to be felt. Downed trees and power lines. Also a fairly heavy surf, if you had about batten down the hatches already now the time is do so. Tropical stormstrength winds even this posthurricane or posttropical system lee. It becomes elongated with bands of Precip Titation in the cente. So this acted like a noreaster even though this is very early for that type of weather to impacted Northern New England and maritime. Karen, thanks so much. Allies are racing to keep up with ukraines demand for ammunition, coming up, cnn speaks with some of europes biggest Weapons Manufacturers about what theyre doing to fill the gap. And Texas Attorney general survives impeachment but his legal troubles are far from over. Stay with us. What if your entire day glided like dove men . Its made with a plantbased moisturizer and glides onn without irritation. So you can glide through your enentire day with confidence. Feel the dove men glide. My Heart Failure diagngnosis changed my priorities. I want time for the people i love. My heart doesnt pump. So my doctor gave me farxiga. Farxiga it helps my heart do its job better. Farxiga helps keep me ving life. And out of the hospital for Heart Failure. Farxiga can cause serious side effects including dehydration, Urinary Tract or genital Yeast Infections in women and men and low blood sugar. Ketoacidosis is a serious side effect that may lead to death. A rare lifethreatening bacterial infection in the skin of the perineum could occur. Stop taking farxiga and call your doctor right away if you have symptoms of this bacterial infection, an allergic reaction, or ketoacidosis. More time with her . Sounds good to me. Ask your doctor for farxiga for Heart Failure. If you cant afford your medication, astrazeneca may be able to help. Farxiga cnn has learned that ukrainian president zelenskyy will visit the u. S. Capital this weeking meeting with President Biden in washington following the u. N. s General Assembly in new york. Now sources say the ukrainian leader wont address congress but will meet with various lawmakers, the white house has asked congress for more aid to ukraine but resistance has stiff ened especially among some republicans. Russia claims that stopped five, Airport Operations around mosc were disrupted. Have a look at this. Video shows ukrainian sold years taking cover entering the village under constant fire. Ukraine said the territory is strategically important in retaking has been a key objection of the counteroffense. Theres been fresh criticism from ukraine about the pace of Weapons Delivery. Reporter yeah, as weve watched the progress of the counteroffensive, you showed it there with andrivka, two, three streets, thats what theyre fighting over, the debate has intensified over the sort of strategy behind the western Weapons Delivery and into that debate has weighed the ukraines National Defense has written an oped this weekend. He says the practice of dousing mil Military Assistance of provoking putin is flawed. He say these weapons shouldnt just be trickling in. Of course the bigger question, can ukraines western allies keep giving the amount of ammunition that ukraine needs, this essentially a war of Industrial Production between russia and the west as this Artillery Heavy Battle continues. Some of the top weapons producers, demand a hundred times more than two years ago. How theyre going to continue to face it. E ya, this is ammunition, without power you cannot fire this ammunition. Reporter amid the hightech displays at this sprawling interNational Defense expo, the head of germanys weapons says keep up the supplies of this artillery rounds. The life blood of ukraines defense and now its counteroffensive. We doubled or tripled our resources, our capacities, were able now to produce next year 60,000 artillery rounds. Reporter thats more six times their prewar output, not enough to clear a multibillion order backlog. We need strong land forces and this exactly what we produce. Reporter is the u. N. Doing enough, do you think they woke up quick enough to this Production Crisis . The eu made decisions, we want to invest, were still waiting at the moment for the final decisions. Reporter ukraine cant afford to wait, the government tells us theyre firing 5,000 to 6,000 of these rounds a day. Russia meanwhile is firing 40,000 rounds a day, ukraine says. Manufacturers in the u. S. , ukraines biggest backer have rapidly scaled up, not fast enough to avoid having to sub in controversial Cluster Kmunition this summer. Reporter the alternative to not having Cluster Munitions was them not having enough. We doubled our monthly output. Thats quite significant. Longer Term Investments beginning next year will start realizing additional capacity. I think were in the face right now of an industrial war where capacity is the big issue. Reporter its gone from making just a few thousands rounds a year to 8,000 a year. Were investing at some sites 50 to 20 times more than we normally do in order to be at capacity. Reporter with the counteroffensive moving slowly, it started later than planned, zelenskyy said, because Weapons Deliveries were delayed, does that concern you . To me its a major concern, of course, we see the consequence in the battlefield, i think we all in the Western Society has a common responsibility to step up the capacity. Reporter so this is of course a once in a generation challenge that these companies are facing. And the chair of Nato Military Committee warnd that inflation the cost of ammunition has gone up, even countries ramping up spending on defense that doesnt guarantee an increase in the security picture, a real warning out there. Russia of course looking potentially for new sources of ammunition, we dont know yet if anything perhaps was agreed between kim jongun to russia thats certainly part of this war as this drags on. Fascinating look at the war production. Exact number of ukrainian troops killed in the war isnt clear but its likely staggering and each one is somebody special to those who loved them. The family who reluctantly saw them to fight a war they wouldnt survive. Reporter theres been no shortage of grief in ukraine. To today, its the turn of his mother to say goodbye to her 42yearold son killed on the front line he volunteered for. How many have died, neither side will say, for ukraine the number is believed to be many tens of thousands, today, though, for his wife, her own grief is all there is. Saying goodbye too soon is part of everyday life in ukraine now. But never any easier for it. Will rest amongst his own, many like him had never fought before, all died too soon. Reporter he had been a speechwriter, a political analyst who put down his pen to pick up a gun he told his wife so that she might live in safety. Reporter everyone here describes a man who was larger than life, now his optimism and light have given way to grief and disbelief that hes gone. Reporter the priest has urged those here to forgive him for dying. Beside he says heroes never really die. And of heroes in cemeteries across ukraine theres no shortage either. Melissa bell, cnn, kyiv. All right, this just into cnn, north Korean Leader kim jon jonguns trip to russia has ended. Boarding his personal train for the trip back to pyongyang. He was given a Red Carpet Sendoff by the russians as he departed. The train ride is about 125 miles or about 20 on kilometers. Labor strikes are on the rise in america but Union Membership continues to decline, do unionized workers have enough to meet their goals . Thats next, stay with us. Flex any style. With hairspray that flexes with you. New tresemme hairspray. woman what if my Type 2 Diabetes takes over . What if all i do isnt