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
what exactly do we expect to hear from him? reporter: yeah, that s right, bianna. president biden is going to be tackling head on what has become a political liability for democrats less than three weeks away from these midterm elections and that s the price of gas in the united states, which is now 20 cents higher than it was a month ago. we have seen those prices come down some over the last week, but there are still a lot of concerns, especially given the cut in production announced by opec plus earlier this month, the conflict that is still ongoing in ukraine and so president biden today trying to do something to tackle the rising price of oil and in accordance with that the rising price of gas. 15 million barrels of oil is what president biden is directing the administration to release from the strategic petroleum reserve and that is going to be the last of the 180 million barrels of oil that president biden announced last spring that the administration would release t
we are live in the cnn newsroom, i m jim acosta in washington. it s the final days before the midterm elections, today is down to 16 if you are counting. president joe biden is planning a rare stop to stump for democrats in florida. the president has kept a relatively low profile on the campaign trail this season as his party fights to win a few crucial races in several swing states, a prominent senator was on cnn earlier this morning warning that democrats need a messaging shift. is the abortion issue important? yes. but we have also got to focus on the struggles of working people to put food on their table. i am worried about the level of voter turnout among young people and working people who will be voting democratic. and i think, again, what democrats have got to do is contrast their economic plan with the republicans. and cnn s joe johns joins me now from delaware where the president is spending his weekend. joe, you ve covered these stretches many times before, w
voting because they have been convicted of either murder or sexual assault. reporter: oliver is a convicted felon, she served 20 years in state prison for second-degree murder according to her attorney mark rankin. her attorney told cnn oliver was approached at a bus stop one day on the way to work by someone registering voters and she told them she was a felon. rankin says the person then told oliver she could fill out the form and if she was eligible she would get a voter registration card. he says roll every later received a voter registration card in the mail and therefore thought she was eligible to vote. the guy told me that i was reinstated to go vote. i don t over nobody nothing. like i said, i don t i don t know what happened. all i know is that you have a warrant and all it does is say you have a warrant and i ve got to go arrest you. reporter: her attorney says, quote, she served her time and got out and she got out around the time that amendment 4 was passed which
the tampa bay time provide a glimpse in a statewide operation in florida to clamp down on voter charge. they re in the process of arresting 20 individuals across the state for voter fraud. these folks voted illegally in this case and there s other ground for prosecution in the future. they are disqualified from voting because they ve been convicted of either murder or sexual assault. oliver is a convicted felony, she served 20 years for second degree murder according to her attorney. her attorney told cnn oliver was approached on a bus stop by someone registering voters she told them she was a felony. the person then told oliver, she could fill out the form and is if she was eligible she d get a card. he said oliver later received the card in the mail and