pouring in. the pressure is on and the gloves are off. john, obviously i wasn t clear enough for you to understand this. here s a man that spent more than $20 million of his own money to try to buy that seat. you and donald trump were the masterful covid deniers. you re poorer and less safe because of kathy hochul and extreme policies. with 13 days left, candidates from both parties are scratching, clawing for every last vote. and there s going to be a lot of votes if the pre-election day ballot numbers are any indication. let s start in pennsylvania today. democrat john fetterman and republican mehmet oz facing off in their only debate, some accommodations were made as fetterman recovers from a stroke but both candidates had some bumpy answers. cnn s jessica dean is in harrisburg for us. how are the candidates cleaning things up today? reporter: even more than cleaning up the two are zeroing in on where they think the weaknesses are for the other campaigns from l
decides with another group of passengers to rent a car drive 20 hours to their destination together. that is exactly what some of our guests tonight did. in a little while, i will introduce you to this group of total travel total strangers, who had a quite an adventure when they decided to drive from tampa to cleveland together and they reported their trip and it went viral. meanwhile, ten billion people across the south are under freeze alerts. and the death toll from the storm is dry saying. at least 49 people have died across the country. 27 of those are in the buffalo area. authorities fear that they will find more bodies in cars as they begin to dig out from what is being called the worst storm in the region s history. you can see some of it there. while police have their hands full with rescues, stores are being looted. i will talk to a supermarket messenger who spent christmas eve washing his store who got broken into. i want to bring in now cnn s miguel marquez, he s
multimillionaire rupert murdoch is at the center of a journalistic empire, and he clearly is in the united states to stay. rupert murdoch is emerging as the biggest newspaper baron the world has ever known. if i didn t know what sensationalism was, i would soon find out. more journalists, more publishers should be in television. nobody was thinking as big as rupert murdoch. the largest single broadcast station transaction in history. murdoch has become sole owner of 20th century fox. rupert has laid out that he wants one of his children to succeed him, but he doesn t say when, who and how. it s going to have to be fought out between them. two minutes till the official start of the race, and there the boats looking like the sydney hobart race in australia, it s a big deal. it s kind of their super bowl. lachlan had done a lot of sailing, and he eagerly signed up for the 98 race. he sailed on board the boat sayonara. they want to get all the crew on s
my opponent has a problem with the truth. [ applause ] reporter: the highly anticipated georgia senate debate in the books. on abortion, i m a christian, i believe in life. i ve never pretended to be a police officer. [ cheers ] it s not a problem. this is real. four bodies pulled from an oklahoma river near an area cyclists were reported missing last week. all four bodies were submerged in water for what appears to be an extended period of time. i do suspect foul play. here in the kyiv region, critical power infrastructure was struck by those kamikaze drones. reporter: at the same time, we are hearing that ukrainian forces are moving forward in the southern direction around kherson. there s a race here to prepare new positions so they can t be seen by russian drones. i m pamela brown in washington, and you are in the cnn newsroom . and we begin this hour with a breakthrough for police and a sigh of relief for people in northern california. the city of stockt
quite strong, jobs still going up. wages up again too. but inflation is going up faster. it s a complicated picture and we know it is issue one as we close this midterm campaign. plus, big shifts toward republicans in house races. democrats though still in play to hold the senate and oprah wants to help. the tv mogul who made dr. oz a star says she would vote for his democratic opponent in pennsylvania. if i lived in pennsylvania, i would have already cast my vote for john fetterman for many reasons. and big political news that connects to important planning at the justice department. aides say donald trump could announce a 2024 presidential run just ten days from now. that won t stop the investigations but it could change how they are managed. now in order to make our country successful and sa safe glorious, i will probably do it again. get ready. that s all i m telling you, very soon. get ready. back to that story a bit later. up first new data on your number one is