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hello and welcome to our viewer here is in the united states and all around the world. i m michael holmes. appreciate your company. coming up this hour on the program, the home stretch. candidates making their final pitch to voters ahead of the u.s. midterms. we re following all the key races that could tip the balance of power in washington. but the shadow of 2020 still hanging over the ballot box in some parts of the u.s. why there are growing fears some candidates might not accept the election results. plus, ukraine bracing for a bitter winter as russian strikes hammer the power grid, leaving millions in the cold and the dark. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with michael holmes. and we are now just one day from the critical midterm elections in the united states, and the stakes couldn t be higher. the candidates now making their final pitches ahead of election day. up for grabs, all 435 house seats and 35 of the 100 senate seats. the outcome of thi ....
morning. that s how we we just say morning. morning. morning. i always say morn-ting. that s how he comes into the office every morning. good morning, everybody. i m don lemon alongside poppy harlow. i m not going to say her name today we re fighting today. we re fighting because there s a big thing happening, i m not talking about the election. i m talking about lsu versus alabama. did you notice she changed her mug? i noticed. i noticed. how could you not? we have to get to it, though. the candidates and their top surrogates are grinding on the campaign trail with four days left before the midterms. and cnn is with them every step of the way. this morning we ll be joined by new york governor kathy hochul locked with a republican in a tight race, lee zeldin, can you believe that? the justice department is seriously considering the appointment of a special council on multiple investigations if donald trump decides to run for president in 2024. ....
Committee chairwoman says the act of poll watching does not equal intimidation. nobody should be intimidating or breaking the law. nobody should. but poll watching is not intimidating. if you ve been at a poll place, they re simply observing. and it helps us at the end to give assurance to the voters say listen, we were there. we watched it. it went well. poll watchers are also busy in pennsylvania, where some of the most closely watched races are taking place. cnn s ali reeve reports on why ordinary americans have decided it is their civic duty to patrol these ballot boxes. so what are they training you to do, then when you re watching? observe. but what are you looking for exactly? observing. we re looking for odd ball stuff, i guess. john p. child is training to be a poll watcher, part of a wave of organizing people who believe the 2020 election was ....
reporter: so what are they training you to do then? observe. reporter: but what are you looking for exactly? observing. we re looking for odd ball stuff, i guess. reporter: john is training to be a poll watcher, part of a wave of organizing among people who believe the 2020 election was stolen. all over the country we re deploying people to be poll watchers to watch everything that s happening. reporter: generally it s a good thing when more people get engaged in their local government but some of this engagement is motivated by lies. reporter: especially the mail-in ballots. in pennsylvania there were 1.8 million mail-in ballots went out, 2.5 million come back, there s a question maybe. reporter: are you sure? it s that bad? look it up. reporter: can we google it? it s everywhere. so the first is from the a.p. ....