Hello, thanks for joining me. I'm alex marquardt part in this weekend for fredricka whitfield, we begin with breaking news. President biden has been briefed on the raid which injured seven u. S. Troops and killed 15 members of the radical group isis. The raid happened thursday in iraq two of the seven u. S. Troops were evacuated from the area for further treatment, u. S. Central command manages operations in the middle east. They said that the operation targeted i. S. I. S. Leaders in order to disrupt the group's ability to plan further attacks from where we have cnn's chief international purity correspondent, nick paton walsh, joining us from london. Nick, what do we know about this american operation yeah, alex more details from the iraqi military he referred to the two months that was spent gathering intelligence ahead of this operation. And the four hideouts were targeted that appeared to be consumed camouflage of some description which would suggest yes a sort of camp of some description. This is an bar province, desert, very sparsely populated. The most of times. So we're still looking, i think possibly at some kind of remote hideout here that was hit, but 4:00 in the morning local time on thursday and those airstrikes followed up by an airraid. Essentially, soldiers being dropped in there, which left 14 i. S. I. S. Dead according to the iraqis, one less than the 15 spoken off by the americans, who they also say were heavily equipped with explosive belts. Hang grenades some stills just released. In fact, by the iraqi military is showing weapons they collected indeed, at the site, but then a 4:00 this morning local time saturday, that area was indeed survey by the rockies. You've got to the site itself able to survey the damage and arrested two other individuals on the site. There the american injured. You spoke to all this is clearly a sign of an operation that did not go according to plan five injured. It seems in the clashes and then two more by a full two of those seven injured requiring further treatment out of theater. So suggesting more severe injuries, but i should point out in this is part of a pattern of raids against i. S. I. S. Happening in iraq and syria over the past years that i've often gone unnoticed so much the biden administration's messaging now as the terrorism is no longer really a problem in daily life. And indeed outside of some rare singular examples, it isn't the same sense of heightened threat that we saw over ten years ago. And indeed in europe to instance, pop up, but these appear to be singular act as a times more oregon, europe, teenagers, but it's in places like iraq and syria, whether they do appear to be legacy groups rebuilding in number 2. 5 thousand according to recent u. S. Official statements. And indeed they'd been warning how there appears to be some sort of regrouping advice is purely down to the facts that they appear to be seeing nearly twice as many missions in the first part of this year against i. S. I. S. And they saw in the same period in the previous year at 96 the early months of this year resulting in 44 i. S. I. S. Operators being killed and 166 to ten, that's in the first six months of this year so stark numbers here showing the persistent threat and actually you ask yourself, why is this still happening? wasn't it's all taken care of in the defeat of i. S. I. S. In 2019. Well, look, we are dealing with a group whose existence wasn't purely based on the warped notions of islamism they often sprung out of parts of the syrian civil war, the uraki resistance against the american military presence in iraq and melded into this horrific califate that we saw for a number of years. But there's not been the political solution to both of those particular causes now, and clearly the extremist elements of stuck around in the desert and begun to reformulate now into this threat, which today, because it's it's confidence, confrontation resulted in seven americans being injured. Alex. All right. Nick paton walsh really appreciate all those details. Thank you. Let's get more analysis on this with me here is peter bergen, a cnn national security analyst austin host of the podcast in the room with peter bergen. Peter, thanks so much for being with us. Nic was talking about a lot of these operations going unnoticed and i do agree with him that the presence of american troops in large numbers in both iraq and syria is not very well known to the broader american public. How active are these anti operate, anti i. S. I. S. Operations in those two countries? well, yeah, the 2,500 american soldiers in iraq and 900 and syria and they're there to combat i. S. I. S. But to some degree also they're there because tensions with iran growing and iran hits around corner how i mean, it's interesting because they're on an advise and assist. Now, typically that means that you're not necessarily on the front lines. Clearly in this operation, seven people were injured too. It seems pretty seriously that implies that you are close to the front line i think most americans, when they hear this news will be i think a little surprised that americans are still fighting in iraq in it wasn't that long ago that the iraqi prime minister was here in washington. Alex, as you recall, discussing with president biden about a possible withdrawal of american troops that it's been on hold now for a bit. And i actually think the biden ministration should leave it to either the trump administration or the harris administration to deal with this question because it's sort of a lame duck at this point. You don't want to be in this situation where you've negotiated withdrawal and then you're no longer responsible for what ensues the last time. Biden negotiated withdrawal with the rockies was in 2011 with tony blinken as well? well, you know, three years later, i. S. I. S. Was at the gates of baghdad and the obama administration had to send troops back in so you don't want to sort of sidle the next administration with potentially withdrawal agreement that they it should be their decision i think the last i. S. I. S leader that most people remember was abu bakr albaghdadi, who was killed in interamerican raid during the trump administration, to nic's point about the resurgence of i. S. I. S. How worrying is that i mean, it's where it's wearing the following ways. I mean, in germany, you recall earlier this month you had a syrian stabbed to death three germans obviously that's not a cat mass a catastrophic terrorist attack. We also had the attempt to kill many people at a taylor swift concert in austria. I don't think those people were members of isis. They were just inspired by i. S. I. S. But look, if if i just takes over more territory in iraq and syria they will recruit more people. They will start recruiting foreigners and they will start inspiring people in the west to carry out attacks even if they haven't been trained in iraq and syria. And that's what we saw last time i don't think they can replicate what they did in 2014 when they controlled territory, the size of bulk area, and 8 million people at least. I mean, that would be it'd be unlikely vague. They could ever replicate that again, however, they can. This clearly is as nic said, i mean, there's disaffected people. They also probably get some money and they haven't gone away earlier this week. We heard the cia taking some credit for helping stopped though, that terror attack at the taylor swift concerts in austria the us shared intelligence with the austrians how much of a priority is this for the u. S. Intelligence? community and the europeans as well? i think, i mean, i think he's a big priority and i mean, the fact that it as the duty to warn that the cia hands and they obviously felt they had to tell the austrians that this was relatively advanced plan and look, the guy may have been sophisticated, who's alleged to want to carry out this attack ease with 19yearold. But 30 as i understand it, outside a taylor swift concert, that tens of thousands of fans who want in the arena, right? that guy, he had a call yet some sort of explosive precursors. He had other weapons. And according to the deputy director of the cia, his intent was to kill thousands of people. Now could he have carried that out if you plot hadn't been interrupted? i mean, i doubt it, but an area anna grandi concert in in manchester i mean, 22 people were killed by an i. S. I. S. Kind of recruit concerts, i mean, we saw in moscow 145 people were killed by i. S. I. S. Realize right? folks in earlier this year so it's not it's interesting because they it, seemed like, they were utterly defeated and they were, but it has but now it seems like they're percolating. It's not it's not a resurgence is kind of a mini resurgence, i think. Yeah. I mean, to your point, you have i. S. I. S. Operatives and then you have the copycats, the lone wolves and they can be extremely effective and dangerous as well. Yeah, peter bergen. Thank you very much. Breaking news from mississippi this morning, seven people were killed and dozens injured in a bus crash near jackson, mississippi, 37 passengers were transported to nearby hospitals and the crash is now under investigation. Let's get straight to cnn correspondent rafael romo with updates. Rafael, what do we know? alex, we have an update for you and the number of injured passengers. Now we know that 37 of them have been taken to hospitals in both vicksburg and jackson with unknown injuries. This is according to the mississippi highway patrol, a cnn affiliate wlbt, citing warren county sheriff martin pace is reporting that it was around 12, a. M. Local time when the bus traveling westbound, an interesting 20 went off the side of the road. The sheriff also told wfaa pity the bus turned over on its side leading to passengers being trapped six passengers were pronounced dead at the scene of the crash. That happened near a above vena over 30 miles west of jackson, a seventh person as singer, died in the hospital according to highway patrol, we have also learned that some of those who died were children, according to the warren county coroner siblings h6 and 16 are among the victims that driver of the tow truck that help recover the vehicle and some of the victims bodies said that it was hard to get to the site of the crash the traffic was hard to get to it for one, because roads were blocked but once we got there, it's about 1:00 this morning when we got the call we had to get the bus stood up to get it there where the bodies had come through the windows it was pretty much a lot of waiting game to recovery for them recovered the body and then get the most out tow truck driver, a keith ellison also told wlbt it took a long time for authorities to recover some of the victims because the bus ended up in a ditch and many passengers were rejected i don't even think about time, but probably a couple of hours by the time they were over the bodies and some of them were pretty hard to drag up the heel. So we helped with that, get them to the the corner. Other than that, it was just a long process of getting the bus keep him from flipping to get it all the way up down in a ditch? mississippi highway patrol tells cnn it is investigating the cause of the crash. A highway patrol spokesperson told us that there were several mexican identification documents that were recovered, but we don't know if they were passports or any other type of identification. We've also confirmed that the bus belonged to a company called out. The wu says rahel, montana's based then the mexican city of monterey. An employee told me the bus company transports passengers between mexico and the united states, but specified that all of the passengers go through proper immigration checkpoints and must show their passports or visas to enter either mexico or the u. S. Alex. Still lots of questions to be answered in this investigation. Rafael romo. Thanks for that report. Still ahead. 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The sports world is in mourning this weekend after nhl star johnny gaudreau, also known as johnny hockey to his fans. And gaudreau's brother matthew, were both killed well by suspected drunk driver on a bike ride in new jersey. Teams across the sports world have been honoring the brothers. They did so on friday following their tragic death that took place late on thursday, a spokesman for the columbus blue jackets where gaudreau played, announced that matthews wife is pregnant and a go fund me was that up to help his widow, madeline, and their unborn son trip the fundraiser has already raised more than $300,000 cnn national correspondent gloria pazmino is joining me now, more with more from new york. Gloria how are fans remembering the brothers? this weekend well, alex fans have laid flowers and jerseys and hockey sticks at nationwide arena. That is a home of the columbus blue jackets, where johnny greedo played and they have talked about how much he meant to them as a community. We are also during from the widow of johnny meredith, who posted on instagram today sharing photos of the family of them as a couple talking about everything that johnny meant to them she said that johnny was the best dad in the world. She shared details about their relationship, their love for one another, and said that the year she had spent with johnny were some of the best years of her life now, johnny gaudreau and his brother, as you said, his brother matthew, were killed on thursday by an alleged drunk driver adding to the tragedy of this hole well, thing alex, is that the two brothers had been scheduled to participate as groomsmen in their sister's wedding, which was supposed to take place. The following morning. We are now hearing from the i'll alkyl of johnny jim grado, who issued a statement saying that they had lost two husbands, two sons, two fathers, two brothers, two cousins, two family members, and two teammates two friends, but truly two amazing humans. He said that they want to let everyone know that they are receiving their messages of love and support. And we appreciate your continued thoughts and prayers now, as you said, alex grid, you had earned the nickname johnny hockey, not just because of the way a he acted on the eyes, but really how he carried himself when he wasn't playing a game, the way that he connected with the community, the people of columbus, ohio, who said that they felt like he was just at them. Take a listen. He loved columbus spoke highly of columbus. He wanted to raise his family and he talked about that all the time and so as a community, i felt it was important for him the for us to back him up and show him support his family support. And johnny was so important to columbus and so important in hockey community just wanted to take a walk down here. Harris backs he was an incredible talent on the eyes and off the icy was a seven time nhl all allstar. He scored more than 200 goals, over 500 as csis. And he participated in more than 763 games now, alex is the man who is accused of killing johnny and his brother as 43yearold, sean higgins. He has been charged with two counts of vehicular manslaughter, and he is scheduled to appear back in court next week. Higgins admitted to haven't been drinking gang the night of the accident, and we expect that he will appear in court next week. Alex. Yeah, it's just tragedy upon tragedy. Gloria pazmino. Thanks very much for that reporting former president donald trump flipflopping on whether he supports abortion access in florida where he's a resident. Of the harris campaign, is capitalizing on what trump is calling stay lookoking for r a way to s stre ththe dollar w with ensurere phu can cut yoyour car insururance l and d halflf, scroll t through, doesn't have p prices and d tapo swswitch onlinine. That's it. Nono phone c call and no wasasted time. . 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Com if yoyou are lol one have mesothelial not we'll send you a free book to answer questions you may have called now and will come to you 808 to 14000 reproductive rights are taking center stage in the race for the white house vice president kamala harris is now slamming former president donald trump for saying he will vote no on an amendment to florida's abortion law. And the amendment is on the ballot this november. And if enough, florida voters vote no that would pave the way for a sixweek abortion ban to stay in effect. The former president appeared to flipflop on this divisive issue in the past few days earlier this week, he seemed to indicate that he would vote to overturn florida's controversial ban when he cast his ballot as a florida resident in november. But yesterday he reversed course again after conservative republicans blast at him for waffling on his antiabortion stance. Take a listen. I think six weeks you need more time than six weeks. I've disagreed with that right from the early primaries when i heard about it, i disagreed with it. At the same time, the democrats are radical because the nine months is just a ridiculous situation that we're, you can do an abortion in the ninth month and, you know, some of the states it's like minnesota and other states have it where you can actually execute the baby after birth. And all of that stuff is unacceptable so i'll be voting no for that reason and we have to point out to trump. Trump is wrong about that. Nowhere in this country can you execute a baby after birth, killing a baby after it's born is illegal in every state. Cnn's priscilla alvarez is joining us now to priscilla. How is the trump campaign responding to this inconsistency? sorry, how's the harris campaign responding to trump's? inconsistency over the past few days while they're using it to build their own argument and trying to seize on this issue to galvanize voters, to build on that momentum. So the vice president herself, putting out a statement yesterday, said the following quote, donald trump just made his position on abortion very clear. He will vote to uphold an abortion ban. So extreme, it applies before any women even know they are pregnant and understand he has not done as part of donald trump's project 2025. Agenda, he and his allies would limit access to birth control, threatened access to fertility treatments, and ban abortion nationwide with or without congress she goes on to say, the choice in this election is clear. Now the vice president has been leading voice for the campaign and before it was the harris campaign on this very issue, she kicked off her own reproductive rights are at the beginning of the year, it was actually during that time that she coined the term trump abortion ban. And that is what we're going to hear a lot more of, especially next week, that is when the harris campaign will be launching their own reproductive rights tour. This is going to be mostly sara forgets it kicks off on tuesday in florida. So they're clearly putting a big focus on that state as especially in light of a former president donald trump said, it will include at least 50 stops. So that tells you a lot about how much they see this issue really resonating with voters. It's going to include elected officials, celebrities there's a lot of details that will be trickling out about what exactly this will look like and where they're going. But clearly, the campaign sees this as a top issue for voters and one where they can really make inroads on especially among female voters, which is something that both the harris campaign and trump campaign are really going to be trying to seize upon. And it'd be really seemed to watch florida in particular because they have this on the ballot in november, we are less than two weeks away. Priscilla from this debate and we've spent the entire week, you and me and others talking about the debate, about the debate, the rules. And that appears to still be ongoing. That doesn't seem to be settled. Yeah. I'm told that the remaining issue in dispute is the microphones and we have to rewind a little bit here because these debates were agreed upon when president joe biden was the candidate and at the time the biden campaign push for the microphones to be turned off when the other candidate was speaking. Cnn hide those rules for their presidential debate on abc's rules so far are emulating those rules, which means that the microphones will be turned off as each candidate is speaking now the harris campaign wants a different they want them microphones are on and they have been needling former president donald trump on this because he himself, this week, so that he didn't really care. But behind the scenes, the trump campaign does care, and that's where the disputing is happening as these discussions are ongoing with abc. Now this morning, the vice president going on to say hey, on twitter, quote, if his own team doesn't have confidence in him, the american people definitely can't this again, over the issue of microphones. Now, alex, of course, one of the biggest moments for the vice president in 2020 and her vice presidential debate with my parents was when she stopped him and said i'm speaking. So it is those moments that they want to see happen again with the former president whether or not that's the case is still unclear because as of today as of right now, there's no agreement on these rules just yet it can appear to be a small issue in these rules, but it really would change the dynamic of the conversation, whether you here one person or two people at a time talking over each other which creates a bit more cast. Priscilla alvarez thank you very much. 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Amishi dollar shaw, who is a senior scholar at johns hopkins university center for health security doctor. Thanks so much for being being with me when people hear that figure 30% of the people infected with tripoli dying, that that is certainly enough to make people panic how concerned you think you the general public needs to be? it all depends upon where they live. So if you live in an area where there has been cases of eastern equine encephalitis in humans and horses, or mosquito pools have tested positive. You need to be aware of that and you need to take precautions because this is not an infection. You want to get because of that 30% number. And those who do survive often have disabilities. I think if you live in massachusetts, if you live in new england, some of the gulf states also where you see this, this infection or other states like new jersey or wisconsin have had cases. You need to be aware of that, but i think for the general public that the risk is low and you mentioned precaution. What what is the best way to prevent these mosquito bites? from these insects that are carrying the illness well, it's kind the oldfashioned things mosquito repellants wearing clothing with your community where there's known to be a lots of mosquitoes. And then one thing that everybody can do is to clean up their yards, clean up their community to remove standing water because that's where mosquitoes lay eggs. Remember, mosquitoes are the most deadly animal on the planet, and we have to make our communities in hospitable to them to decrease the rates of e and other mosquitoborne illnesses in terms of response by various communities, we know that some towns are closing parks at dusk. They're rescheduling school sports to be played earlier in the day to avoid those peak mosquito hours. That's getting some pushback what would you tell the families in those communities? this is not an infection that you want to toy with. This isn't something like covid. This isn't something like influenza. This is a pretty serious illness with a mortality rate of 30% of someone becomes ill with this. So public health authorities are trying to give people the best guidance to minimize that risk. We often see he about a handful, a dozen or so cases and many of those are going to be severe. The deaths are not surprising. And if you can do something just by rescheduling a game to be a different time and you remove that risk. Why not do it? i think it really is important for public health authorities to give people tools to be able to minimize that risk. So i don't think there should be pushed back serious infection and they're giving people valuable information. Have you seen like relatively easy things for communities to do. But tripoli, of course, dr. Not the only threat when it comes to mosquitoes and not the only threat right now, west nile virus is also on the rise. Dr. Anthony fauci. He's recovering from west nile virus. That he got earlier for this month. So let's talk about the symptoms here. Common triple e symptoms include headaches, high fever, chills, vomiting, those are common for a lot of illnesses. So at what point do you think a doctor needs to be consulted? well, i think anybody that's had a mosquito bite and high fevers, chills, headaches, they need to seek medical attention because it could be west nile, it could be tripoli, it even could be covid19. So i think you have to have a very low threshold when you're developing high fevers with headaches, with this illness, with any type of illness. And i think it makes it hard because of that overlap you talk about covid19 influenza or rsv. All of them are going to have some of those similar symptoms overlapping. But they unremitting fever that headaches, neck stiffness. 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And now both the trump and the harris campaign's see an opportunity to appeal to voters in georgia. Georgia ranking third overall and presidential ad buys at nearly 100 and $75 million in campaign spending. But the state is also seeing its fair share of controversy democrats are now suing to block new election rules put in place by the state's new conservative leaning election board, even republican officials are saying that the new rules could sow chaos on election night. Cnn's brian todd has more georgia's secretary of state exasperated over the latest election controversy there, that the state election board is a mess. Brad raffensperger, a republican, is frustrated with members of his own party who are on the georgia state election board, three unelected republicans on that board recently approved measures that would give local officials the power to delay the certification of a county's election results this november now, top democrats with the backing of kamala harris presidential campaign are suing the georgia state election board, trying to block those new rules with passing this new rule, they are creating barriers to counting votes. And certifying the elections. So donald trump can once again attempt to throw our country into chaos former president trump recently praised those three board members, janelle king, rick jeffares, and dr. Janice johnston, three people are all pitfalls fighting for honesty transparency, and victory there, fighting. In an interview with cnn, one of those board members, janelle king, denied working on behalf of trump i'm appreciative. The president's support. I will ever be appreciated. Any support but i'm not working on behalf of any but democrats and watchdog groups argue that those republican election board members don't have the power to give county officials the power to contest votes. There is not any discretion that has allowed for under georgia's election law that would permit the unelected officials to inject themselves inbetween the voters and the certified results. Who does have that power? the power vast was someone who is aggrieved in the election. So fred, so as a candidate a candidate can say you know i think that i have the votes were not counted properly. This is just the latest election controversy to flare up in georgia since the 2020 campaign donald trump lost the state that year by just over 10,000 votes. And georgia was at the center of trump's attempts to overturn the election. I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more that we have no evidence was ever found to support trump's claims of voter fraud in georgia. Now, georgia democrats and voting rights advocates are calling on the state's republican governor brian kemp to investigate take those republicans on the state election board. And one democratic state senator has filed an ethics complaint against those republicans for pushing to change the rules. So close to the election governor kemp has issued a statement saying he's taking the matter up with the state's attorney general, brian todd, cnn, washington. Thanks to brian todd for that report and for more on this. Let's turn to legal counsel for the campaign legal center, jonathan diaz. Jonathan, thanks so much for joining us on this story. One of these board members, republican janel king, we saw her in that brian todd piece. She was on cnn and earlier today on first of all, with victor blackwell this morning, she was arguing that the moves being made by the border are nothing new there, just cleaning up the process. Let's listen to that we're not changing anything that has not already been done. We're not creating new laws, so it's already, it's already on the books. We're just lining everything up. So asking you to ensure that the number of ballots matches a number of voters is what you should be doing. Anyway, i'm asking you to ensure that precincts are accounting these ballots is what you should be doing anyway we're just cleaning it up, making sure it's uniformed how do you see a jonathan? you know, their she's making the argument that they're just cleaning it up i mean, i think what they're really doing is creating opportunities for the county boards of election in georgia to introduce delays and disruption into what should be a pretty routine and mandate torri process of certifying the election results when they're done, it's not the job of the county board of elections in their certification vote to do the things that she described in that clip. That's why we have recounts to make sure that all the ballots are tabulated correctly. Audits to make sure the machines are working properly. And election contests where a candidate who thinks the rules those weren't followed, can file a judicial action and we can have evidence and a court presiding over disputes over election rules. That's not the role of the certifying official. The certifying officials job is to add up the numbers and publish the official count so that all of those other post election processes can take place. We're also hearing from the georgia governor, brian kemp, republican, who's asking the state's attorney general for an advisory opinion on what authority he has as governor to address ethics complaints against the state board. Do you think that there's some action that camp could potentially take here? it's certainly possible. And i think the fact that governor and who is a conservative republican has asked his attorney general for an opinion on the scope of his authority to remove these potentially illegally acting members of the state elections board shows you just how extreme these lastminute moves by the board are and why secretary of state raffensperger called them 11th hour chaos that are going to undermine voter confidence and disrupt election administration. Yeah, we could see how upset raffensberger was there. One decision that the board made was to allow for what's being called a reasonable inquiry before certifying an election, if county election boards have questions about the results now, critics are saying that that could cause delays it's an lead to attempts to subvert the outcome. Do you agree? i think that's entirely possible. Like i said, that's not the role that the county boards are playing at that time. There are other processes that georgia, like every state has in place to verify that the election was conducted correctly but those processes have to happen on the right timeline. And if county boards are conducting their own reasonable inquiry, whatever that means, because the regulations don't define it that could introduce a lot of delays and a lot of chaos and like ms king said, the board doesn't have the authority to change georgia law and georgia law is very clear. They have a mandatory death line set in state statute by which they have to certify those results there's one more thing that the board is planning to take up. They've got another rule in just a few weeks, september 20, it's going to require all counties to conduct hand counts of ballots at the precinct level on election night is it common for states to switch up their election rules so close to election day? absolutely not and really they shouldn't and i think it's hard to remember sometimes that the election doesn't start in november in many ways, we're already in the general election early inperson voting starts in september in many of these states mail ballots will start being sent out in september in the next couple of weeks. Georgia sends its mail ballots out to military and overseas voters in just over two weeks before that state elections board meeting even takes place and county boards have to train their staffs they have to print ballots. They have a lot of work to do in the leadup to the election and changing the rules at this stage doesn't benefit election administrators. And it certainly doesn't benefit voters in georgia is such a critical battleground state that i know all of us will be watching this very, very carefully. Jonathan diaz. Thanks very much. Appreciate it. It is time to lace up the cleats and play ball on the grid iron college football is now fully back with several big games happening today. 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But when it comes to college football, so much excitement here in the states this weekend and i could just say, even on my way into work today, alex, right here into the heart of the 80 tons of georgia and clemson fans filing in to see their showdown at mercedesbenz stadium, which is underway right now, the top ranked bulldogs led by heisman trophy candidate carson beck into a matchup with the 14th ranked tigers. These two teams have combined for four of the last eight national championships. So there's a lot on the line in this one, right? and i can tell you the bulldogs leading 12 to nothing. As we speak elsewhere, eighth ranked penn state is on the road the ad west virginia leading 26 later on today, 19th ranked miami traveling up north to face their instate rivals, florida and seventh ranked notre dame visiting 20th rank texas, a. And anna, alex remember it's the first year of the 12 team playoff as well, with a title game right here, guess where, where else would he be? right here in atlanta? so on january the 20th, that is a busy saturday patrick, let's head up north to new york at the u. S. Open, a shocking defeat for novak djokovic. What happened there? i've had carlos alcaraz out of the tournament and then a day on, it would be the serbian superstar, stunning loss for djokovic. He would now won't win. His record and stand alone in 25th grand slam singles crown, not this year, at least on friday night, nearly taking on alexei popyrin. And just a terrific start from the young australian player who took immediate control of his third round match, winning the first two sets by six games to four. Djokovic did hit back to win the third been full credit to the ozzy who dug deep to win the fourth and close out the match. Djokovic trying to get the fans going there, but it wouldn't work in the len to season without a slam crown for the first time since 2017. And alex get this, this now the first time since he fastened to wrap and a vow, djokovic nor the retired suisse great roger federer. Well, none of their names associated with the grand slam singles victory in a calendar year that it itself a special piece of history. Here's they're frustrated. Djokovic afterwards you played some of the worst tennis i've ever played honestly, serving my father worst ever so yeah, if you play on a quick surface like this without you know, we'd all deserve without ability to win three points. They're very low for a cr percentage. Many double faults then you can win moscow, he is not holding back. It's all in the wnba. Another showdown last night between indiana as caitlin clark and chicago's angel reese. But this one is all calm, dropping a career hi, 31 points, making more history. First player in league history. 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