cultural and economic fallout. we have new information on that terrifying shooting at a missouri high school and how it could have been even more tragic when a 19-year-old stormed in with a long gun and hundreds of rounds of many ain admmunition. plus it s crunch time in the midterm campaign, two weeks to go, and warning signs of piling up for democrats as key races tighten, including one that do determine who holds the senate. tonight the nation will be watching as democrat john fetterman and mehmet oz face off in the only debate for that critical pennsylvania senate race. jeff zeleny is in harrisburg and athena jones is with us in new york following a closer than expected new york governor s contest. let s first go to the action in pennsylvania. jeff, what s the pulse there right now? reporter: there s no doubt this senate race has been a marquee race of the cycle. tonight s debate is a marquee event. th th it s the only time these two candidates will come face to fac
on the asteroid. i was telling alex before when we were talking about this, when i kept hearing this incredible story yesterday about smashing into the asteroid, come on, what was i thinking. i was thinking aerosmith i don t want to miss a thing, hear the news story i don t want to close my eyes it was incredible. willie, stop him. a sappy summer movie. they tried to do this last night. you got bruce. you throw affleck in there, mika, if you don t know what we re talking about, this was a huge movie 25 years ago, with the plausible plot they trained oil drillers in a matter of days to become nasa astronauts and effectively do what we saw yesterday in real life, they knocked a rocket with a ship the size of a refrigerator, they knocked an asteroid off its course yesterday, nasa did this in real life. no liv tyler, now they know if something is barrelling toward earth, they have a decent chance of knocking it away. scientifically, the movie, i don t think it w
so rare to see anything like this. a protest in china, especially protest directed at xi, who is about to secure an unprecedented third time in power. ac 360 starts now. good evening. you are going to see a number of extraordinary things over the course of this next hour. it is very rare that we see history happening in realtime. we ve all seen the images what happened outside the capitol on january 6th of the capitol being breached, people wandering around, destroying property. that was historic. but it is even rarer to see what was happening behind closed doors where the people in power were making decisions. and that is what you re about to see tonight. in this hour ahead, one of the most consequential moments in living memory in a way you ve never seen it before. footage from january 6, 2021, obtained exclusively by cnn as the attack on the capitol unfolded, showing how congressional leaders, speaker nancy pelosi and others were supposed to flee the capitol from their
remarkable conversation reportedly between putin and the world s richest man. and mitch mcconnell says he s sticking with herschel walker in georgia. john fetterman in pennsylvania opens up about his long recovery after suffering a stroke. plus, another cnn exclusive. a protester in iran speaking out about the atrocities on the ground. let s go outfront. good evening. i m erin burnett. out front tonight, more u.s. weapons in ukrainian hands. ukraine s defense minister tonight saying four of the highly coveted himars that have turned the tide of the war in ukraine s favor, just arrived from the united states. this as russia warns the u.s. of payback for coming to ukraine s aide. the u.s. is, quote, defactor involved in the ukraine war. russia may take, quote, countermeasures against the united states. president biden tonight speaking out to cnn saying putin knows exactly what he s doing. here he is moments ago with our jake tapper. do you think putin is a rational ac
it s a contrast that the president will be taking to prime time on thursday with a speech in front of independence hall. the theme, a battle for the soul of the nation. the theme which he kicked off his 2020 campaign. democrats begin to gain momentum trying to shut down republican hopes of a red wave this fall. joining us now is nbc news white house correspondent mike memoli, senior national political reporter saheel carop, eugene daniels and julia torusa scranton joe is back with a prime time address. what do we expect toer hear from him today, thursday night, and the labor day parade in pittsburgh, which is my annual opportunity to watch mike memoli trying to run as fast as he can dodging the secret service agents. reporter: it might be a little harder this year. i i did bring my luning shoes as we re on the road with president biden. you can hear the marine corp. band all also here with the president today. we have been talking about the fact that white house advisers wa