will his strategy work as many americans are more focused now on the economy. i ll ask the white house press secretary. and the cnn, cnn gets an exclusive, firsthand look now at a massive attack drone that s part of putin s arsonal. we ll go to kyiv where a critical situation is unfolding as russia strikes again and again. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin this hour with our midterm countdown and the crucial choices facing voters. with just three weeks to go. three weeks before the election day. cnn national politics reporter, eva, is following some of the hottest races out there beginning in the key battleground state of georgia. with three weeks until the midterms, voters are already flocking to the polls in large numbers. in georgia, the state set a midterm turnout record for early voting with more than 130,000 voters casting ballots monday. on the trail today, republican se
ukraine is not directly claiming responsibility, but the fire has was hardly extinguished by the time ukraine began trolling russia. the ukrainian government s official twitter account tweeting sick burn. it was featured in a russian rom com. now ukraine is giving its own hollywood treatment you might say. ukraine has new stamps with figures of leonardo dicaprio and kate winslet in their famous pose from titanic tierchg tita instead they re on the kerch bridge. there was a video tweeted of marilyn monroe famously singing happy birthday to jfk. take a look. happy birthday to you happy birthday to you happy birthday mr. president happy birthday that is epic trolling. fred pleitgen has the latest from the ukrainian capital kyiv. fred, what s the latest from where you are? reporter: i hi there, we see the russians and ukrainians blaming each other for what happened on the kerch bridge, on the crimean bridge. a senior adviser to russian president vladimir putin comin
also tonight, the hurricane is forcing the january select committee to postpone the hearing that was scheduled for tomorrow. this as the panel had some big decisions to make and some new questions to answer. plus, russia is claiming victory after the sham annexation votes. what is vladamir putin s next move as russians protest and thousands plea his military draft? welcome to the situation room. i m pamela brown. let s get to the newest forecast for hurricane ian and the damage it will be doing by this time tomorrow. jennifer, what is the latest on ian s power and path? pamela, we are within that 24-hour window where this storm will make landfall as a category 3, winds of 120 miles per hour, but gusts are up to 150 miles per hour now and moving to the north at 10 miles per hour. this storm is going to run parallel to key west within the next hour or so. you can see very close right there, so they are going to get the worst of the weather. but the worst is to come, b
[ gunshots ] police tackled the gunman. now described by police as a 41-year-old unemployed man. police say this man has admitted to the shooting. state broadcaster nhk is quoting police who said that he used a homemade gun. we ll take you live to tokyo for updates in a moment. what a shock for that country, for the world. right now here at home, former white house counsel pat cipollone is on capitol hill for closed door testimony today, speaking to the january 6th select committee. we are watching that closely. first, our top story japan s former prime minister shinzo abe, the longest serving prime minister, assassinated during a campaign speech. cnn senior correspondent will ripley joins us now from taipei, taiwan. the circumstances of this particularly in a country with so few instances of gun violence just shocking. what more do we know about the shooter and the circumstances? reporter: yeah. you re talking about a country with half the population of the unite
including some marked as top secret, and meant to be only available in special government facilities. a list of items removed from the property shows fbi agents took around 20 boxes of items as well as binders of photos, at least one handwritten note and a document about pardoning trump s ally, roger stone. also included was information about the president of france, according to the three-page list. that list contained in a seven-page document also includes the warrant to search the premise which was granted by a federal magistrate judge in florida. the list includes references to one set of documents marked as various classified tssci documents, an abbreviation that refers to top secret sensitive compartmented information. it also says agents collected four sets of top secret documents, three sets of secret documents and three sets of confidential documents. the list didn t provide any more details about the substance of the documents. to the extent that anybody is back to