the 2022 congressional elections take their place i the history books right afte the 1934 congressional elections, because 2022 was th first time since 1934 that a first term president saw every senator in his party reelected every senator who is running in 1934, first term democratic placid and franklin roosevel sought every democratic senato running for election get reelected. president biden saw the same thing this year. and the democrats added a seat for their control of the senat when john fetterman one in pennsylvania, a very difficult state for democrats to win, as is arizona and georgia but, democratic senate candidates won in those states to for my race in arizona, i had support by republicans republican mayors and county supervisors, business leaders, law enforcement. you know, they ve come up to m frequently but also endorsed me republican mayors. because, you know, they re tired of what they ve seen ove the last, well, six years now. and they just want to ge thi
the 2022 congressional elections take their place i the history books right afte the 1934 congressional elections, because 2022 was th first time since 1934 that a first term president saw every senator in his party reelected every senator who is running in 1934, first term democratic president franklin roosevelt sought every democratic senato running for election get reelected. president biden saw the same thing this year. and the democrats added a seat for their control of the senat when john fetterman won in pennsylvania, a very difficult state for democrats to win, as is arizona and georgia but, democratic senate candidates won in those states too. for my race in arizona, i had support by republicans republican mayors and county supervisors, business leaders, law enforcement. you know, they ve come up to m frequently but also endorsed me republican mayors. because, you know, they re tired of what they ve seen ove the last, well, six years now. and they just want to ge t
keep coming. willie? yeah. start in florida, though, this hour, mika. millions of residents are bracing for hurricane ian as that powerful storm barrels towards the state getting stronger by the hour. just this morning it became a category 4 hurricane expected to make landfall in the southwest coast of florida as early as this afternoon. the center of the storm forecast to move over the central past of the state with winds reaching more than 130 miles per hour. the national hurricane center also warning of dangerous storm surge and flooding with up to 18 inches of rain expected in some areas. more than 2.5 million people under evacuation orders along parts of coastal florida. the powerful storm passed the florida keys last night causing a couple of tornadoes and some damage there. officials say there also is significant flooding across that area. yesterday the hurricane battered western cuba knocking outing the island s electrical grid, causing a nation-wide blackout. offic
, welcome to a holiday edition of the last word. 1934 congressional elections, because 2022 was the first time since 1934 that first term president saw every senator in his party reelected. every senator who is running. in 1934, first term democratic president franklin roosevelt sought every democratic senator running for ev election get reelected. president biden saw the same thing this year. and the democrats added a seat to their control of the senate when john fetterman won in pennsylvania. a very difficult state for democrats to win. as is arizona and georgia. but, democratic senate candidates won in those states to. from my race in arizona, i had wide support by republicans. republican mares and county supervisors, business leaders, law enforcement. you know, they ve come up to me frequently. but also, endorsed me. republican mayors. because, you know, they re tired of what they ve seen over the last, well, six years now. and they just want to get things done, an
in flash flooding last month. we need to get back to better to where we were and the legislation has been bipartisan leap past and it is a way to do it. a covid outbreak leaves more than 80,000 tourists stranded in the popular chinese resort city of sanya. and in birmingham, eleven days of competition have come to an end, at the closing ceremony of the commonwealth games. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news it s newsday. let s start with some breaking news. in the past hour, former us president donald trump has issued a statement saying that the fbi has carried out a raid on his florida home at mar a lago. he was not in florida at the time. mr trump said that a large number of agents arrived at the compound with a search warrant. he said while there, they accessed his safe. let s speak to our north america correspondent peter bowes. i know that you are still making sense of the scene but can you tell us exactly what we know about the initial reaction from th