i m ari melber. here is how you know we re in new territory in this year s midterm home stretch. look who it is. barack obama will be visiting, georgia, michigan, wisconsin, today adding nevada. the former president is the surrogate most in demand in his party right now, but there are other names who we know can galvanize crowds like this. you re looking at some of the large young and often diverse crowds that we saw gather for bernie sanders on his campaign trail. you see this is him out back on the presidential primary. i want to give you the context of why some democrats are excited about this announcement. when you look at crowds like that in so many parts of the country, bernie announced today he ll hit eight states for 19 events in this last stretch. the 81-year-old showing his stamina. meanwhile republicans siamak crow trends they think can matter far more than any surrogate or any big crowd. massive economic problems continue to top voters minds. forecasts favor repu
bitter conflict among house republicans. former minority leader kevin mccarthy is being opposed by landful of lawmakers who are refusing to support him. a number that increased by one on the last balloting for speaking. chad pergram has been following this all day minute by minute. he tells us where things stand tonight from a chaotic capitol hill. good evening, chad. bret, as you say. the most chaos for the beginning of a congress in 100 years. it marked a foreboding start for a g.o.p. majority which promised big things in the midterms. the house voted all afternoon. kevin mccarthy lacks the votes to become speaker. mccarthy and his allies are determined to keep voting and wear down his opponents. are you going to stay in the race, leader mccarthy. yes. i m not going anywhere. look, i have the record for the longest speech ever on the floor. i don t have a problem getting a record for the most votes for speaker, too. there were only five g.o.p. members officially opp
lifetime. we made the decision we were going to get out and go take some somewhere else. we were going to go to a hotel, i dobt have the money to go to a hotel, this was our best bet. todd: tampa international airport will suspend all flights 5 eastern tonight in preparation for the storm. carley: janice dean is tracking the storm andin jos us now. janice: this is a strengthening storm, about to move over the western portion of cuba, strengtheneds to category three storm and has a lot of warm water ahead of it. i m concern this is already a strong storm and fact it has all of the environmental conditions conducive to more strengthening. let s take a look, i m sorry, have problems with my map. here is what we know, ian continues to intensify to major hurricane in the last hour in cayman islands and cuba and those along the florida panhandle, don t want you to say this is not going to hurt me, this will impact the whole state of florida over next 24 to 48 hours. wat
the honoring kevin mccarthy of the state of california has received 203. [applause] the honoring jim jordan of the state of ohio has received 19. [applause] no person having received the majority of the whole number of votes cast by sur name of speaker has not been elected. for what purpose does the gentleman from louisiana rise? madam clerk, i rise to nominate kevin mccarthy for the position of speaker of the house. the gentleman is recognized. [applause] the gentleman is recognized. thank you, madam clerk. we all came here to get things done. to get big things done. to solve the problems. i hope when we get through today that all of the members on both sides of the aisle will join together with us to solve the problems, to address inflation that is crushing middle class families, to get control over spending that is driving unflagrants will the gentleman yield? will the house be in order? and we all know what those problems are. we ve been talking about them for
the department reports it has now recovered more than 320 classified documents from mar-a- lago. prosecutors essay some documents were likely concealed or removed from storage in an effort to obstruct their investigation. the court filing casts serious doubt on a statement by trump s attorneys that all classified material had been returned. the justice department also argues that trump lacked legal standing to request a special master, since the documents belonged to the government, not to him. the court filing came with this photo, showing documents taken by the fbi, from a container in trump s office. more now from cnn s sarah murray. reporter: the justice department weighs in with its side of the story of what happened in the run-up and aftermath of the search at mar- a-lago. this is all a part of the court battle playing out over whether there should be a special master, an independent third- party appointed to review the documents that the fbi sees when they searched m