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Have news of helium will send you a free book to answer questions you may have call now and well come to you 800 a31, 3,700 reproductive . Rights is taking Center Stage in the election. As Vice President Kamala Harris makes a Campaign Swing through georgia shes set to speak about an hour from now as the first inperson votes are cast in the president ial race, plus fallout from that Bombshell Cnn Report about Mark Robinson in North Carolina, republican gubernatorial candidate refusing to quit the race. Were going to speak with a former governor of that state about the impact in a state that both president ial campaigns covered and baseballs new goat, Shohei Ohtani shows out on the base well, diamond and leeds some to wonder if he can be the best player of the modern era. Were following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to Cnn News central right now, voters are Casting Ballots in what polls show is one of the tightest president ial races in modern american history. Free states started early inperson voting today, virginia, minnesota, and finally, south dakota, where an abortion Rights Initiative is on the ballot. And in the next hour, reproductive freedom will be front and center, and Theyll Battleground State of georgia, Vice President Kamala Harris is set to speak in atlanta. And sources say shes directing her campaign to go to the Peach State after propublica revealed how to mothers died in georgia, likely because of abortion restrictions there, their names, amber thurman, seen on the left, and Candi Miller on the ride. Propublica said their deaths are the first to be publicly tied to an Abortion Ban. And they were efficient surely deemed preventable. Lets take you now, live to atlanta with cnns priscilla alvarez, whos covering the Vice President s trip. Priscilla, what should we expect to hear at this Campaign Stop . Well, boris, if you want any indication as to what the Vice President is going to say, you only have to look at the signs behind me which say one in three women lives under a trump Abortion Ban. Trump Abortion Ban being a phrase that the Vice President coined during a stop in arizona earlier this year when she was warning talking about abortion restrictions in states. Now of course, this is the type of rapid Response Travel that the Vice President did multiple times over the last year and sources tell me that she was the one that directed her team to take this detour to georgia before heading to wisconsin later tonight, of course, that was the only only traveled she had until she added this in because of this devastating Propublica Report which has the stories of those two women, one of whom the family was in the Crowd Yesterday during the Vice President s event with oprah. Take a listen to that moment. Youre looking at a mother that is broken. Ambers mom shared with me that the word over and over again in her mind is preventable. These Abortion Bans have been passed that criminalized Health Care providers in a couple of States Prison for Life Oprah Prison for life, and a couple of states for a Doctor Or Nurse who provides Health Care harris advisers tell me that these are the moments that campaign is trying to seize on elevating an amplifying issues like reproductive rights when they can. And that this stop for her was a natural succession of what she did do over the last year going to tennessee, florida, arizona, among other cities, and states. And of course, boris reproductive rights, top of mind for this campaign because it is also top of mind for voters according to polls and they see it as being the galvanizing issue, especially in a state like georgia, a crucial one, a battleground one for them to clinch in november for us. Priscilla alvarez live for us in atlanta. We will of course, bring you the Vice President s remarks as they happen. Brianna. All right. Lets listen now to a little more of What Harris said last night about medical personnel in the dilemma that they face in states that have Abortion Bans Mothers Life is in danger. Heres the problem with that heres the problem with that so she on Deaths Door before you actually decide to give her help youre on deadline, literally a doctor or a nurse has to say she might die any minute. Better give her now care. Because otherwise i might go to prison for life. In some cases joining me now is dr. Nisha of irma and Obgyn Practicing in georgia. She is also a Senior Advisor for reproductive Health Policy and advocacy at the american college of obstetrics and gynecology, which is a professional association, a Doctor Thanks for taking the time to speak with us today. Tell us about what Vice President harris if thats accurate, is that how youre seeing it play out in georgia, this dilemma thank you so much for having me. So i have been able to practice as an obgyn in georgia before and after Georgia Sixweek Ban went into effect and things were far from perfect before the six Week Ban wanted to affect. We were dealing with multiple other restrictions on access, but they have gotten much much worse and what Vice President harris said is absolutely correct. We are grappling with these really difficult situations where were trying to figure out when in this continuum of care we can intervene there is not a line in the sand. Where someone goes from being completely fine to acutely dying. Its often at cannes believe what the right thing to do is we train for years and years and years and years to be able to take care of that individual person in front of us. But its really unclear youre based on that law, based on that exception for medical emergencies, when we can intervene in each particular situation, so you testified before the senate giving details of what happened to your patient, m, who gave you permission to tell her story, what happened to her . She was a patient to broke her water around 17, 18 weeks before that baby could develop lungs to survive outside of her uterus she decided with her husband, her family that the right thing to do for them was to move forward with a Dilation And Evacuation procedure to remove that pregnancy. However, based on georgias law, she was unable to get that care and i want it because this was a highly desired pregnancy. M had told me that she had gone through ivf. This was their final embryo. This was a very desired pregnancy and before the law, we would have been able to provide care for her and her husband and her family after the law, there was a lot more confusion. She had broken her water. This was not a pregnancy that could continue to term and result in a baby but we had to ask those same questions. Do we have to wait for her to get sick to develop an infection in her uterus or to start bleeding, or for that pregnancy to no longer have cardiac activity and as you know, all of that is going on and were trying to figure out how sick does she have to get . At that that delays care, right. And thats a really difficult situation for patients and families to be in, for doctors to be. And we want to take care of our patients. We want to intervene, we want to do whats best for them, what they are asking for. Our patients are the experts on their lives and they in know, we provide medical evidence. They let us know what the best course of action is for this patient. That Dilation And Evacuation was what she needed and we were unable to do that. And she was put in this situation. She told me how devastating it was to be told that she has to get sicker before she can get i care. And how much that exacerbated her suffering in this already terrible situation. In the case of this Propublica Story about amber thurman, she had taken Abortion Pills in neighboring North Carolina where it was legal at the time that she took them. She didnt expel all of the fetal tissue from her body that created sepsis. She needed did that lifesaving dnc went to doctors to get it in the er and it took them 20 hours to operate when clearly they should have done it sooner there was no even nonviable at that point. Fetus or there was no fetus that had a Heartbeat Or Anything inside of her at that point . But these kinds of instances doctor, if you can speak to this, what should a woman in these states like yours or their families due to advocate for themselves, what can they do in this situation to try to make sure if they can, you know, that they remain safe and cared for anything what happened to ambra is absolutely devastating. This is a patient who should have been able to get care in her community in georgia and who shouldnt have ever had to leave the state. That is as the law is to blame for that. She should never have had to leave the state for care. She should have been able to get that with us and patients should not have to be afraid to go into the doctor until theyre very sick Doctors Shouldnt be afraid to care for patients because again, this law that has nothing to do with medicine are science. I think getting out to vote is important. I think that this law is very dangerous. Its got to go and i know i also think that doctors and patients can both continue to advocate for themselves for doctors being able to provide the maximum amount of cash here that we can under these really terrible laws. And for patients to know to try to advocate as best they can for that maximum level of care. But it is incredibly restricted under this law and we practicing in this environment of Fear And Confusion that makes it hard for everyone in our city. Date. Yeah. Were seeing it play out to devastating effect in some of these cases like amber thurmans dr. Nisha verma. Thank you so much. We appreciate it thank. You, for having me, boris. Were also following another story that could have serious implications on the election in georgia. The states republican controlled Election Board just ruled to require that ballots cast on Election Day be hand counted a step that could delay the results from the Battleground State and notably georgias republican Attorney General previously warned that board that this controversial move is likely unlawful. Lets get the latest from cnn political director david chalian. David, you perhaps more attentively than most are eagerly watching Election Results as they come in how could this reshape the way we see those votes come in and george . So lets be clear, boris, even before this Rule Change in georgia was passed by the Election Board the likelihood that were going to have an actual result to the election on Tuesday Night of electrolyte. Very low, right . Its just if you look at the seven Battleground States that are going to decide this race. Georgia being one of them. And you look at how they count their votes. There are several pennsylvania, arizona even wisconsin sort of goes into counting into wednesday morning, unlikely that we would ever result. But now it becomes even more unlikely because him counting is a slow for process, right . And so obviously there are politics behind this decision because this, this is tied to Donald Trumps election lies in 2020. This is, this is all a response to that because remember brad raffensperger, the secretary of state, the republicans, secretary of state in Georgia Who Donald Trump infamously called and said, find me the votes he was removed from this Election Board by the republican controlled legislature at Donald Trumps urging in the aftermath when he was still and still is pursuing that lie about the 2020 election so now we have an Election Board that has three trumpsupporting allies and two that were opposed to this. And they were able to change this rule, as you note, the Attorney General says in the state, this is probably going to be impermissible. Clearly, theres going to be legal action. But if you have to hand count the ballots that are cast inperson on Election Day that is going to take a longer time and its one of the seven states that will decide the election We Saw in 2020 the dynamic known as the red mirage. The idea that republicans were going to hold this huge advantage early on in counting and then eventually as more ballots were counted, that would sort of dissipate and the race would be more competitive is this part of an effort to sort of grabbed the narrative before we know that vinod have results. So i i dont know the answer to that. I dont know that that is the answer is clearly that is part of the larger conversation inside how the parties are assessing how these votes are going to be counted. But by the way, in some states, there was a red mirage. In some states there was a blew. It depends how each state counts. Their votes, what we do know are dead democrats tend to vote in greater numbers early and absentee republicans tend to vote greater Numbers Inperson on Election Day so you can imagine if you have to hand count the inperson on Election Day some of those republican votes, itll take a little while to get counted. And if all youre looking at are democratic early absentee votes, you may have a not fully accurate picture of what is going on in the state as the votes are coming in on election night. Obviously, lots of Democrats Vote and Election Day two. But that is the pattern that we see. And that could have an impact we have to keep a close eye on this one because as you noted, theres likely legal action to come, david chalian, appreciate that update. Thanks so much still ahead on Cnn News central Mark Robinson, the republican gubernatorial candidate in North Carolina vowing to stay in the race despite being engulfed in a scandal over Racist And X rated online posts on earth exclusively by cnns kfile team. 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And when discussing and then President Barack Obama in 2012, wrote quote i take hitler over any of the, thats in washington, right now. It even goes beyond that. Another disturbing post, robinson defended slavery, writing quote, slavery is not that bad. I wish they would bring slavery back. I would certainly buy a few, all of these comments and many others that you can read on cnn. Com that we couldnt even show on air. Were made on the Message Board of a Porn Website called Nude Africa. And brianna, in addition to those posts, he also expressed views on Nude Africa that sharply contradict his current policies as a socially conservative candidate. For governor. For example, he has been vocally antitransgender, but look at What Robinson wrote on the porn Message Board a decade ago writing that he liked quote, watching transgender porn, adding quote, thats ef in hot and cold himself a quote, perv in another thread that was disgusting. The story of a woman who the said she was raped by her Taxi Driver while drunk. Robinson wrote quote, and the moral of this story, dont eff, a drunk white batch so i mean, its appalling. Its even more appalling what you cannot put on the screen there. He wrote all of this years ago when he was just an ordinary citizen before he got into politics, how do you know its him . Well, brianna, We Robinson consistently used this same username, minisoldr that he used on Nude Africa in pretty much all of his Social Media. You can see it on Pinterest Black Plan at u2. He even previously use this as his twitter handle, his full name was actually all so listed on Nude Africa along with an email, we found that he was using on Nude Africa, that he used on several other websites. The biographical data from multiple websites along with new and africa using the Username Minisoldr also matches robinson exactly, including his date of birth, his hometown, the fact that his mom worked at an hbcu even that his favorite episode of the Twilight Zone is number 22 so what is robinson say about all of this you talked to him so robinson, he calls the story trash. He says its not him. We asked the campaign for comment. We gave them 24 hours to respond. That deadline was yesterday morning, and thats when Lieutenant Governor Robinson agreed to do a Brief Interview with us. Here is just a little bit of that Lieutenant Governor Robinson. Thank you so much for being willing to talk to us, i think well just jump right into it. Do you deny that this account is you will first, let me say thank you so much for allowing me to come here and clearly here, we absolutely i do. I do this is not us. These are not our words and this is not anything that is characteristic of me nor has it ever, has it ever been the people here of North Carolina know i have been completely transparent about my history. All the wards and we put them all out. We let folks know about it but the folks here also know my character. They know who i am, they know my voice whats so to speak that this is not my voice is not things that we would ever say or even think. So absolutely we do. How do you explain all of the matching details on this profile . The profile on Nude Africa lists your full name as Mark Robinson, the email listed on the account is an email that you used us. Have used else its where on the internet, including with your photo, you have used that name many soldier on multiple Social Media accounts, including twitter, pinterest, black planet, and youtube. How can you deny with all of these matching details that this is you . Look, im not going to get into the minutia of house on my manufactured this all these salacious tabloid lives. But i can tell you this. Theres been over 1 Million spent on me through ai by Billionaire Son whos bound and determined to destroy me. But things that people can do with the internet now was incredible. But what i can tell you is this, again to, not my words, this is simply Tabloid Trash being used as a distraction from the substantive issues that the people of this state are facing we have addressed it. We have said its not true and we wish we could move on and get busy with the business of the people of the state okay. Well, these posts, they do take place over a fiveyear period from 2008 to 2013 you mentioned ai. Are you saying that somebody was somehow manufacturing biographical details to exactly match you using your username . I have no idea how this was done. I have absolutely no idea how it was done. And i have five weeks left in this campaign to focus on the substantive issues that nor karelinas price. I do not have time for Tabloid Trash. There have been rumors that some of your Campaign Staff have have quit. Can you tell us if thats true or not absolutely not. And we are not getting out of this works. There are people who are counting on almost a win this race because again, we dont want a governor whos going to be a person that cant be counted on to tell The Truth. And i can assure you my opponent has been taken to court for not telling The Truth in campaigns and hes been completely dishonest. It is ads against me. This camp is so desperate. Two destroyers. Its just like Clarence Thomas mossad years ago, this is a Hightech Lynching and back long years ago, they used to use wrote nauta using Table Brianna i just, want to clarify one thing. I said we gave them 24 hours. We actually gave him 48 hours, reached out to them tuesday morning. They got back to us thursday morning, we interviewed Governor Robinson in the afternoon on Thursday Thats that interview you just saw. And then after our interview, he released a Video On X shortly after that underscoring that he plans to stay in this race. Andrew kaczynski, great reporting. Thank you so much. We do appreciate it. Boris we want to discuss this story with a prominent voice in North Carolina Republican Politics joining us now is the former governor, pat mccrory. Sir, thank you so much for being with us. I just want to point out to our viewers that you did not endorse robinson, former President Donald Trump has though, youve actually been vocal for years now, warning that unsavory details about now robinson would come to light. I see you smiling you lamented that those warnings were ignored. Why do you think they were because he was probably one of the most effective populist dangerous speakers that ive ever seen on a campaign trail. And he appealed. He told people what they wanted to hear, not that what they needed to hear. And people responded to them and therefore, the past chair of the North Carolina Republican Party, michael watley, whos now chair of the national Republican Party, ignored many known flaws that many of us knew about him and just assume theyd be brushed over but this has been a ticking Time Bomb for several years now. And frankly, a lot of the things that have come out during the past year by conservative blogs about his Business Dealings along with his wife as raved raised enough issues that would disqualify many people for any elected office, whether youre Republican Or Democrat. So its very disturbing. And but hes been a powerful voice with the base and no one wanted to challenge him. In fact, from a personal standpoint, he participated in Tv Ads against me, a us Senate Race in favor of Ted Budd sponsored by the conservative club for growth, which were very, very effective and very convincing. They were not truthful but this shows the power, powerful voice that hes had. Hes an individual that came out of nowhere where to become Lieutenant Governor based upon a youtube video, which shows the way politics is going at this point in time. But it was just a matter of time. And this story that has come out at a terrible time for the Republican Party because its now, its too late as of yesterday to replace him on a campaign that are election thats starting in weeks regarding early voting i wonder if you think hes going to hurt other republicans on the ballot and whether you would call on him to drop out well, i think he probably should have not even run based upon the record, he knew he had and based upon the Business Record alone of some nonprofits that he and his wife are being investigated on at this point in time yeah. I think whats going to happen as people are deserted him, people it used to begum to be on the same podium as he are now just going to walk away and President Trump and his team, basically, were avoiding him during the last month or two. Some of the videos of him being with him or older videos. But i think they even knew anyone in the circle they are North Carolina knew that there were a lot of rumors about him about to be broken and let the public knows he hasnt been transparent with almost everything that comes out about him. He then admits to them, but only after hes caught and thats not good for North Carolina. Its not good for the political system, whether youre Republican Or Democrat do you think he should step down as Lieutenant Governor . Well im in the media now with the pbs show called funds. So i reluctantly but i never endorsed them before i started doing that because i had strong questions about him. And i think the Party Yall to make some stronger actions about what he has said in the past and some of these new revelations that have come out and even some of the strongest supporters of him like senator Ted Budd and im glad to see ted come out and say he needs to prove is that these are not factual statements should Donald Trump resend his endorsement of robinson dont think hes qualified to be governor, but that was even before these statements were made and again, hes not the type of politician that looking forward and i dont think the trump people knew a lot of these factors before he did that. They saw that he was a powerful speaker. But again, a lot of this Information Wasnt known and in defense of the Trump Campaign i knew they were trying to walk away from him a while back and not wanting him to be on the stage so but this should be as no surprise the party and with all due respect to michael watley, whos now chairman of the party of the national party when he was North Carolina chairman, they should have done a better Vetting Job for such an important job, you can get away with this when running for Lieutenant Governor, where theres very little batty but when you run for the governors office, believe me, people are going to check into your background. Its a very, very important job honored to serve and i knew i was vetted and some of its bad betting, but you better be ready and cir he obviously is not ready. Quickly before we go, i want to ask you whether you think this might hurt up ballot if you think this controversy might hurt Donald Trumps chances of winning the state of North Carolina well, North Carolina is known for close elections and so anything that divides the Party Ticket doesnt help the Republican Party. And but republicans in North Carolina also have a reputation of dividing their ticket. Im an example of that. I lost my reelection by 10,000 and votes at a 4. 6 million. And that was due to a very small percentage dividing their vote and splitting their ticket. And so it does work to the democrats advantage and probably does work against President Trump. Because most of our president ial elections in the past have been were a purple state. Its going to be always one or 2 at the president ial level and at the gubernatorial level with a few exceptions, including my first election. I won by eight or 9 . But when you lose by less than 1 , every vote makes a deal. Difference. 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Coventry direct redefining insurance is now claiming that it assassinated a top Hezbollah Military Commander in todays deadly strike in southern lebanon, the idf says the target Ibrahim Aqil was part of the terror groups elite unit, the rod one force, but the strike flattened a residential building, killing at least 12 people and injuring more than 60 others, according to lebanons health ministry, some of the wounded trapped in the rubble, the White House saying that it wasnt aware of any Advance Notice from israel ahead of the strike. We have Cnn Senior International Correspondent Ben Wedeman joining us now from lebanon. Ben, who was Ibrahim Aqil is somebody who has been a member of hezbollah back to its founding in the early 1980s. Now according to the u. S. State department, justice department, he was involved in the April 1983 bombing of the u. S. Embassy In Beirut that left 63 people killed. He was involved in the October 1983 bombing of the u. S. Marine barracks In Beirut that killed 241 people. And hes also wanted here in lebanon for a suspected involvement in an Assassination Attempt against the former prime minister. Now, more recently, he is believed to be the head of whats known as the rod one force which is hezbollahs elite commando force. Now, the israelis claim he has been assassinated. I must stress, however, we have yet to hear either from the lebanese government or his butler as to whether he is actually alive or dead. Now the israelis claimed that octyl was actually involved in the planning of an October 7 Style Attack on israel. However, all of this information is coming from israel and we cant confirm it, but clearly he is he is or was a very senior figure in his butler, brianna ben, this is really starting to look like it is evolving into something more than it has been. What can you tell us about that . Well, lets just step back a minute and look at what happened over the last four days. Weve had these Pager Attacks in lebanon that killed ten people, wounded thousands, including civilians. And among the dead know 12 people hes among the dead were two children. Then wednesday the walkietalkie attacks killed 20 people wounded more than 600. And now today on friday we have this attack. I mean, clearly israel has decided to pull out all the stops is bar is pursuing his butler as a as an organization. But clearly the effort is causing real worries that lebanon and israel are about to be dragged into a fullscale war. These attacks also the text of this week and also going back to the late July Assassination of these senior commander of hezbollahs military wing all underscore what is clearly a infiltration by israel, a compromising of israel, of his bullets, internal security, this organization has never been as exposed as it is now bianna. All right. Ben wedeman live for us In Beirut. 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