joining us. i m ana cabrera in new york. fighting for every last vote. more than two weeks from now americans will hit the polls and minutes from now president biden will hit his wins in office but is it enough to keep democrats in power? the president is about to speak to the democratic national committee headquarters. the plan, rev up staffers and talk about the economic agenda. gas prices dropping. here is what he s contending with, inflation still crushing americans out pacing wage growth and mortgage rates have more than doubled. today s speech comes as the latest polling shows voters trust republicans more on the economy right now. cnn phil mattingly is at the white house. why does the president need to rev up democrats at the dnc? reporter: ana, this is as hu much a tradition that should tell you we re close to election day as anything else. when the principle whether the president or the senator, wherever the candidate visiting staffers to rally them to get them goi
unclear exactly where ian could hit the rest. forecasters say if tampa takes a direct hit, it could be like nothing seen in this lifetime. in neighboring st. petersburg, the mayor there says it could be the storm they hoped would never come. across the state, people are gassing up, emptying shelves and filling sandbags. we have live team coverage. let s get right to our meteorologist tom saider for the latest timing impacts. tom. we have a lot to talk about and it s going to continue to change in the next couple of days, and it very slightly, 20 mile an hour shift in the eye means everything in florida. typically we have an icon over the center, but we took it away so we can start to see the bright colors of purple. so that convective activity is showing near the center. we re about 100 miles to the west of the cayman islands, south of the western tip of cuba. i want to show you the radar. this is the cayman islands. you can seat the pin wheel effect starting to see the eye
reversal scheme was based on lies but proceeded with it anyway. there s no clear example of the menacing spirit that has devoured the american left and the disgraceful performance being staged by the unselect committee. the unselect s entire sham presentation is based on video that has been deceptively edited. they re taking six, eight, and nine-hour depositions and they re putting up five-second clips. this guy ludig, whoever the hell ludig is, a former judge, and he was saying pence had no choice. more lies from donald trump. in the meantime, the january 6th committee will detail how the trump team tried to get states to fraudulently change their 2020 election results. it was a pressure campaign that trump distilled into one infamous phrase. find 11,780 votes. on tuesday, the man trump said that to will give his side of the story, georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger will testify publicly along with his deputy in that office, but the plan went beyond georgia. a
you are live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington, and this just in. a moment many parents have been waiting for since the pandemic began. the cdc director has just signed off on giving the covid vaccine to children under the age of 5. per the recommendations from the cdc, kids age 6 months to 5 years old are eligible for two doses of moderna, and children ages 6 months to 4 are eligible for three doses of the pfizer vaccine. shots could start going into those little arms as soon as monday, and as we get more information on this, we ll bring it to you, but that very important information from the cdc just coming in to cnn. now to the january 6th investigation and former president donald trump lashing out at the committee after explosive hearings this week showed that trump and his team knew that their 2020 election
when you re punished just for expressing your beliefs, standing on principle and refusing to tell blatant lies. so i doubt that it was unanimous in that room. but it is proof that the republican national committee is a wholly owned subsidiary of donald trump and they will go on to endorse liz cheney s opponent in a primary which is pretty much unheard of. and that s what these two are up against. and yet, norm, we know liz cheney and adam kinzinger will not be intimidated and will not back down. they are moving forward with the work of the committee and we ve learned this committee interviewed jeffrey clark. he s the former doj official who pushed the election reversal scheme and we re told he pleaded the fifth over 100 times. but one committee member tells us they might have a way to make him talk. listen. one of the options the committee needs to look at is whether we provide use immunity