building a $90 million training center. the project that s drawn fierce opposition which has repeatedly descended to violence. protestors torching construction equipment. 35 arrested and yet again police say many were from out of town. we continue to see a number of individuals not from atlanta, georgia, present tonight undertaking criminal activities. actions such as this will not be tolerated. when you attack law enforcement officers and damage equipment, you are breaking the law. this wasn t about a public safety training center. it was about anarchy and the attempt to destabilize. dana: it s six weeks since a riot in downtown atlanta prompted by another incident at cop city where a protestor shot an officer and police responded with deadly force. charles watson with the fallout this time. the story live in atlanta. the atlanta police department is describing sunday s clash with protestors as a coordinated attack against law enforcement and this video released
2020 meeting in the Sedition Case against five oath keepers on trial for plotting to block the peaceful transfer of power. This as a sitting republican senator warns Political Violence is escalating. That senator says this. I wouldnt be surprised if a senator or a house member were killed. Up first for us, though, we count the midterm votes five weeks from tonight and there is a Blockbuster Development today in one of the senate races critical, absolutely critical to the Balance Of Power here in washington. The Daily Beast Reporting Monday Afternoon that georgias Republican Senate nominee, Herschel Walker, paid for a womans abortion back in 2009. Walker calls this accusation untrue. It is a flat out lie. And now you know how important this seat is. This seat is very important that theyll do anything to win this seat and lie because they want to make it about Everything Else except what the true problems that we have in this country is. This inflation. The border wide open. Crime. They
mykolalv. critical infrastructure including power facilities have also been hit. part of putin s reply after an explosion hit a bridge. our reporters and guests are standing by to bring you the latest. let s begin this morning with if he had drinkfred pleitgen in uk. i know you went out to see some of that destruction firsthand. what did you see? reporter: hi there, bianna. it was several hours of blasts we witnessed and heard ourselves. it happened or started happening in the early morning hours, i d say about quarter past 8:00 local time which is about 1:15 in the morning where you guys are. there was a big blast sort of quite close to our location as we went out there were several other explosions that we were able to hear. we went to one of the locations where in the vicinity of there a playground had gotten hit by a missile, luckily there don t appear to have been any children there at that time. but then we also got to an intersection that was also hit by a russian
tonight. there s new cnn polling of likely voting in two key senate races in wisconsin and pennsylvania. wisconsin showing no clear leader in the showdown between incumbent republican ron johnson and democrat mandela barnes. pennsylvania with document lieutenant governor fetterman narrowly ahead of mehmet oz. we learned late today that former president obama will be campaigning there along with president biden on the final weekend before election day. a party official familiar with the planning telling cnn they ve got appearances scheduled for pittsburgh and philadelphia with the possibility of adding more. early voting is under way there and in 38 other states. so far turnout has been heavy on pace with the record 2018 midterms with nearly 7.3 million ballots already cast. with it, we ve already seen multiple reports of voter intimidation, including two armed men dressed in tactical gear sported at a ballot drop box in mesa, arizona, friday night. attorney general merrick ga
minister and a wake-up call for america s schools, how far behind kids have actually fallen during this pandemic. this is what we re watching at this hour. thank you for being here. i m kate bolduan. it is 15 days to election day and the numbers show there has been a surge in early voting so far. already 7.3 million americans in 39 states have cast their ballot. another state, florida, is kicking off early voting as we speak. today. that state is also set for a very big debate tonight between ron desantis and his democratic challenger charlie crist. this is the first and only debate of the campaign. so let s get started in florida. cnn steve canner is in florida. what are people expecting with this big debate tonight. the takes tonight could not be higher. 1.2 million people have already voted by mail in florida. that is almost half as many as we saw four years ago for the entire election or as you said early voting starts today and this is the only debate so the states