president biden is set to lay out his plan to once again bring down sky high cost of gasoline at the pump. once again, by tapping into the nation s emergency oil reserves, even as it brings the needle even closer to e. i m john roberts in washington, happy wednesday, sandra. sandra: and that s a visual for you, starting to look like that, right? the president will announce that release of 15 million more barrels of oil, rounds out the 180 million draw down the president committed to earlier this year. john: the releases have brought the supply to the lowest level since ronald reagan was president. likely bring down gas prices for a brief period of time, but critics say biden is using the emergency stockpile to play politics. midterm elections now just 20 days away. former vice president mike pence will join us to discuss what all of this means for the elections. sandra: looking forward to that. begin with fox team coverage. marc thiessen ready to sounds out, and one way
midterms. and in georgia 1 million preelection ballots have been cast. let s bring in cnn s eva mckend live in a polling place in georgia. eva, what are you seeing? reporter: well, a common answer from voters when you ask them why they are turning out early is because they want to take advantage of the opportunity. they don t want work to maybe get in the way on election day. so they are exercising their right early. been record turnout daily since early voting began lasweek. secretary of state brad raffensperger says that this illustrates that georgia has among the best election systems in the country but this democratic opponent still says that voter suppression is alive and well in georgia staking issue with the state s voting law, take a listen. i would put our election system, i would put our georgia election system and our voters up against any other state in the union. we re seeing record turnout. and i anticipate we ll continue to see midterm records broken. j
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classroom. i was just scared so scared that i won t get her back. o donnell: big news tonight from juul. the e-cigarette maker agrees to pay nearly $440 million over marketing to teens. our exclusive interview with hillary clinton. what she says about her future. would you ever run for president again? and, american triumph at the u.s. open. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening to our viewers in the west and thank you for joining us on this busy tuesday night. tonight, extreme weather from coast to coast. torrential rains and flooding here in the northeast, to record heat and deadly wildfires in the west. more than 58 million people are under excessive heat warnings and advisories in seven states. multiple wildfires are burning across california, as firefighters battle the flames along with brutal heat. temperatures have topped the century mark for the seventh straight day, with the state capi
for maryland and was appointed by former president trump. i strongly believe that the normal processes of this department can handle all investigations with integrity, but under the regulations, the extraordinary circumstances here require the appointment of a special counsel for this matter. this appointment underscores for the public, the department s commitment to both independence and accountability in particularly sensitive matters, and to making decisions indisputably guided only by the facts and the law. now earlier, president biden confirmed that more classified documents from his time as vice president were discovered. this time at his wilmiwilmingto delaware home. they were locked in his garage. another document was found inside the house. now the attorney general revealed that the justice department learned of the second set of documents in december as this timeline shows here. it was in november when the president s attorney found classified documents in a d