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let s get started! the final countdown of the election day in three of the most recent presidents are all held it out on the campaign trail. in the sand by state digging into key races just days ago. we ll go one-on-one with congresswoman debbie dingell but americans worry about political violence. plus! how are the latest lose about donald trump s potential 2024 run affect the midterms? well this country compared to election deniers on i ll pose that question to my panel of political experts. and later, elon musk lays off thousands of twitter employees. including the ones fighting disinformation. with election day just 72 hours away, is a social media company where detail without truth from lies? the all that and more coming right up! all right, good morning to you. i am sam stein. i m in for katie fang. thanks for starting your saturday with us. with more than 37 million votes already cast. candidates are getting ready for a big campaign events on this final weeke ....
and the world remember the queen. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer in the situation room as cnn s special live coverage continues. we begin with charles iii s debut as king. the new monarch facing a moment he acknowledges he s been dreading, the death of his mother, queen elizabeth. cnn s bianca nobilo is outside st. paul s cathedral where a service for the queen was held today. bianca, this has been a very, very emotional day for the british people and their new king. it has, wolf. i ve been speaking to those who attended this service. 2,000 members of the public, first come, first serve were given wristbands this morning, and they were coming from all over the world. these were people from australia, cuba, italy that i spoke to. they were going past the tourism office where they were giving out tickets to this remembrance service and service of thanksgiving. and they just happened to be in the right place and t ....
year. tropical storm warnings up for parts of texas. we re going to see some heavy rainfall in certain parts. we re going to tell you where and what that means for drought conditions. and a massive fire erupts at a boat yard in massachusetts. what we re learning about the fire and the damage that s been done. welcome to your weekend, saturday, august 20th. we re grateful to have you. thanks so much for waking up with us. great to be with you, amara. i can t believe it s august 20th. i wait for the weekends to know what the date is. i m realizing, oh my gosh, we re close to september. that s good. cooler weather, please. we were just talking about that, yes. it s almost halloween. good to be with you, boris. of course. we have a lot of news going on. we begin with the intense situation surrounding the z zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. that lies on the front lines of russia s war against ukraine. the fighting around the area have intensified so have concer ....
that and the potential for the former president to influence the races. good morning, everyone. happy saturday and welcome to your new day. it is a good day. saturday, august 20th. good to be with you, boris. always a pleasure. good to be with you, amara. we begin with the concerns about a nuclear power plant on the front lines of russia s war against ukraine. fighting around the zaporizhzhia nuclear plant has intensified, so much so that now there are concerns about a possible nuclear disaster. cnn first reported new satellite images contradict russia s claims about the facility. they say there is systemic shelling there, but the images just don t show that. vladimir putin accuses the ukrainian military of conducting repeated military strikes at the plant. a special adviser to ukraine s armed services chief says moscow can t be trusted. russia always tells two truths and a lie. you can t believe anything they say. ukraine is not firing at their own nuclear ....
desantis, picked charlie crist, a former republican himself, as their nominee this fall. also, new details surrounding former president trump s handling of classified material. cnn learned overnight that the national archives told trump s legal team months ago that it wanted intelligence agencies to conduct a damage assessment on more than 700 pages of documents found at mar-a-lago. we ll get into that. also, a big announcement expected today from the white house, sources say president biden could cancel up to $10,000 in federal student loan debt for some borrowers and extend that moratorium, the pause on loan payments through the midterms. much more on that ahead. we have got our correspondents in florida and new york covering all the angles of tuesday s primary. let s begin this morning in new york with cnn national correspondent jason carroll. jason, you were out there yesterday as voters were going to the polls. you ve got new york s 19th congressional district ....