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what exactly do we expect to hear from him? >> reporter: yeah, that's right, bianna. president biden is going to be tackling head on what has become a political liability for democrats less than three weeks away from these midterm elections and that's the price of gas in the united states, which is now 20 cents higher than it was a month ago. we have seen those prices come down some over the last week, but there are still a lot of concerns, especially given the cut in production announced by opec plus earlier this month, the conflict that is still ongoing in ukraine and so president ...

August to crack down on supposed voter fraud. >> the state of florida has charged and is in the process of arresting 20 individuals across the state for voter fraud. these folks voted illegally in this case and there's going to be other grounds for other prosecutions in the future. they are disqualified from voting because they've been convicted of either murder or sexual assault. >> reporter: oliver is a convicted felon, she served 20 years in state prison for second-degree murder according to her attorney mark rankin. her attorney told cnn oliver was approached at a bus stop on the way to wo...

>> reporter: miller a convicted felon who served time for murder also says he received a voter id card in the mail and was arrested in august for allegedly violating the state's voting laws. >> u.s. marshal like this. my house surrounded. >> reporter: and, bianna, an important detail here, here in florida in the state the law requires the state to notify local election supervisors if someone is convicted of a felony or if someone is not eligible to vote. in the five counties where these individuals were arrested, cnn checked in with the supervisors of elections and they told us that they were ...

Editor nic robertson is in kyiv. we want to talk about those explosions in just a moment but first explain exactly what this martial law declaration means for the people in those four regions. >> reporter: it's going to be they will be under the command and direction through law of the military in those areas. for example, this morning the civilian residents, ukrainian residents of the now annexed -- illegally annexed kherson were told by text message that they should evacuate the city, the implication is that they need to move to safer areas inside of russia. that text message it appears now ...

[ inaudible ]. >> like i said, i don't -- i don't know what happened. all i know is that you have a warrant and all it does is say you have a warrant and i've got to go arrest you. >> reporter: her attorney says, quote, she served her time and got out and she got out around the time that amendment 4 was passed which affected the rights of felons to vote. her understanding was that felons had their rights restored. oliver pleaded not guilty to the illegal voting charge and has a trial set for december. these were the first arrests by governor ron desantis' newly formed florida office of electio...