it s the harshest sentence handed down for involvement in the january 6th attack on the capitol. the leader of the oath keepers just told he ll serve 18 years in prison, and the judge didn t mince words. there is one week to go until the nation potentially defaults on its debt, and still no deal. lawmakers are huddling in the capitol, trying to hammer out a last-minute agreement. no, that s not what is happening. most of them are headed home for a long holiday weekend. and not before adding some last-minute demands that could complicate the entire process. we ll break down what they are. and this story, more than a decade after being paralyzed, he can now stand, walk, even climb stairs. we ll tell you about the implant that has now reconnected his brain to his spine. could this technology become accessible to anyone? we are following these major developing stories, all coming in to cnn news central. longest sentence yet for a january 6th defendant. the leader and foun
we have teams on the ground as we prepare for the eventual landfall. we are in florida, and carlos suarez is in tampa in gulfport, and carlos, as we ve been discussing, tampa, that is where the real worry is because they re worried about storm surge and a lot of the residential areas there are vulnerable. reporter: that is exactly right, jim and poppy. the concern is the forecasted five to ten foot storm surge with hurricane ian. we are in gulfport. that is about a half hour drive outside of tampa where a number of businesses right before the barrier islands have already boarded up. they have their plywood out and sandbags in place. other business owners, they re about to start doing that right now. in fact, mike jackson, you own a shop out here. you ve got your sandbags almost in place but you have to start doing some work out here. we have to board up the windows and try to cover up these windows an the door. we still have to sandbag our door after we put some spray foa
breaking news out of georgia, democrat raphael warnock and democrat jon ossoff has won the senate runoff election. this is the new georgia. this is a state changing like the country is changing. this is a new georgia project. you have black genius in grassroots genius on display, and black joy. we vote! we win! welcome to the new georgia, welcome to the blue georgia. republicans taking another step to prevent what they believe is voter fraud at the polls. 48 states have introduced bills to reduce voting. the senate seats flipped from red to blue. republicans in georgia want to make sure that doesn t happen again. any time a political party abuses their power to actually put laws in place so whoever does not vote for them, they could prevent them from voting, that in itself is political corruption. we are fighting for our lives. we are fighting for our votes. we are fighting for our democracy. something s got to give. something s got to change. the old
2018. obviously, a lot of sophisticated electronics. they re not sure what the damage is, but a big blow once again to the russian navy. you pointed out an important detail. as the video is running, you can see those little flashes of water in front, which appears to be someone on board the russian trip trying to take it out before it hits. when the other ship went down last year, drones played a part in the successful missile strike in terms of distracting the defenses. fred pleitgen, good to have you there. keep yourself and your team safe. coming up, with just one week to go until the nation defaults, a group of republicans is making 11th hour demands. what they want added to any potential deal. plus, the newly official presidential candidate ron desantis was just asked if he would pardon january 6th insurrectionists. hear his answer to that. and an 11-year-old boy shot by an officer that he called for
significant stroke last may and stopped campaigning for several months. the question was whether he would be able to conduct the debate and most people were, at least feel for guy who had a stroke, hoping he would be able to talk and show up. s performance was much lower in terms of his ability to speak and form sentences than anybody expected. this is a close race at the moment. what effect will it have? dr. oz conducted a strong debate, didn t really refer to fetterman s condition. simply argued his case. most interesting thing was dr. oz kept coming back to the issue of fracking for natural gas. this matters in western pennsylvania. it is an issue and fetterman when pressed on it had his worst moments when he had to deny that he had ever come out against fracking in 2018.