democracy, will all be decided today. the candidates have made their final closing arguments to rally an american public that is at once anxious, angry, and exhausted. are you ready to win this election? i m sick of talking about american decline. i think it s time we started to do something about it. please send me to washington, d.c. we re winning this. we ain t talking about no runoff. we re winning this. i believe in democracy. i certainly believe in a free and fair election. this is a transformative election. it s going to send a loud message to washington. we ve always done democracy better than anywhere else. and we are not going to stop now. y all ready to close this thing out? today we stand united as one voice. and i feel thean a massive vict shocks the world. i m ready for it. are you? well, now it s up to the voters. with millions heading out to cast their ballots today, we re keeping an extraordinarily close eye on the voting process nationwid
case to voters. among the former president barack obama is rallying in wisconsin right now for this after he made her stop in michigan earlier today. in a moment we ll talk with susan on with the former president will be a difference maker in the home stretch. but first fox news team alive it covers the battleground states that include pennsylvania were critical senate race is now in a statistical tie. rich edson is live in philadelphia with more that when a rich. hey good afternoon, eric. john fetterman the democrat is trying to get out of space. try to get democrats about here. he met with union members earlier this morning. on than just this afternoon at temple university to try to get students out to vote. had a rally here in the student center pre-temple is a north philadelphia which is where he spent a good chop of the afternoon. his campaign themes pushing access to abortion, increasing the minimum wage and ripping republican challenger dr. oz for his wealth and focu
united states and around the world. it is wednesday, october 19th. i m christine romans. we should hopefully know the winners of the mid-term election. the latest cnn polling shows the economy and inflation are the top issues for voters. later today president biden will announce the sale of 15 million barrels of oil from the strategic petroleum reserve. that will happen in december. mr. biden s aim is to ease gas prices. the move fulfills the administration s decision back in march to release a total of 180 million barrels from the reserve over a six-month period. we get more now from cnn s phil mattingly. reporter: president biden and his top economic officials have for several months made trying to do something, anything to dampen skyrocketing gas prices a central priority, if not the top priority both politically and economically for the administration. over the course of the summer they had a pretty good run, three months of consecutive drops. a run that was put into qu
president biden moving to keep gas price s down with the critical midterm elections fast approaching. good morning, it is wednesday, october 19th i m brianna keilar with john berman. today the president is expected to announce he s authorizing the release of 15 million more barrels from the u.s. strategic reserve. the draw down first announced in march to release 180 million barrels. and on the inflation front, millions of americans could see a bump in paychecks next year thanks to an inflation adjustment in the tax code. this comes as president biden and democratic candidates lockdown midterm messaging. the focus now, economy and abortion. president biden was speaking trying to rally voters still angry about the supreme court decision on roe v. wade, pledging to protect abortion rights if more democrats are elected to congress. right now, we re short a handful of votes. if you care about the right to choose, then you got to vote. that s why these midterm elections are
and we ve just heard they re evacuating civilians from the line there. and russia continues to target critical infrastructure in ukraine, triggering power and water outages. overnight, central ukraine was hit, quote, all night long by russian attacks. also a new round of kamikaze drone strikes. ukraine claiming it shot down 13 drones in the mykolaiv region. clarissa ward is live with the latest. can you tell us what you re hearing happening near kherson? reporter: it s an interesting picture. one we didn t expect to see quite this quickly but what appears to be happening is the mass evacuation of civilians to the sort of left bank, if you will, on the dnipro river. to try to, in the words of russian authorities move these people to safety because there s a huge ukrainian attack anticipated. although ukrainian authorities are saying that s propaganda and they aren t planning any kind of attack, particularly not on civilian infrastructure or tarts. but nonetheless we do sta