please, call now, or you can go to lovesshriners.org. thank you so much for lets us into your homes during these truly extraordinary times. the beat starts right now. welcome to the beat. i m ari melber. you know what time it is. we re inside one week to the mid terms. the record-breaking turnout is happens. the latest numbers show more than 29 million americans have already voted, competing those trump mid terms of 2018. we re in full gear, and it s a tense backdrop for the races. there are active federal warnings about threats and attacks on poll workers and the voting process itself. we have seen records of these self-appointed poll watchers showing up in tactical gear, like that shot out of arizona. and election deniers are running for office, it s not normal. threats to lawmakers have increased tenfold over the several years over the trump era. more campaigns will turn on the question of whether candidates will honor democracy itself. these are truly unusual stak
languishes on capitol hill and americans struggle with sky high gas prices. we are all paying the price. i m sandra smith in new york. great to be back with you. john: john roberts in r washington. the president will speak in massachusetts, stop short of declaring a climate emergency. biden facing pressure from the far left to get something done after senator joe manchin shut down his plan in congress. sandra: and a drain on wallets every time they fuel up and gas prices in massachusetts have more than doubled since the summer before biden took office. rick scott will join us in moments. john: jacqui, why did the president not use the trip to declare a national climate emergency? jacqui: we don t know. speculation maybe it s tough timing to roll out the announcement on the trip to the middle east, and concerns about gas prices, state of the economy, recession fears. even some talk and speculation maybe they are holding off with some shred of a hope to get senator joe
Left on foot or in a vehicle. But many are determined to stay. Our Correspondent Reports from just a kilometre over the boundary with gaza. Its been over one week since hamas launched its unprecedented attack on israel. Some of the perpetrators are still just hundreds of metres away. Israels wave of air strikes has been the deadliest on gaza. And now they are prepared for a ground attack. It is hard even to imagine what were witnessing in gaza. This is the north where a Ground Invasion is expected to begin. Thousands left their homes in this area and gaza city to the south. A large number of the population still refused to leave. More than 2700 people in gaza have been killed. And whole neighbourhoods reduced to rubble. Thousands have fled after telling civilians to leave to the north. But many say they cant or wont leave. This man is one of them trying to squeeze the last drops from the cities water system that has been cut off for days. Translation we will not leave even if they dest
drinking water and land mines, a huge amount of danger. and zelenskyy is accusing that they are continuing to shell the city of kherson even in this disaster. and also ukrainians using drones in a humanitarian capacity as they say every life matters. clare, thank you so much. and rishi sunak will meet with joe biden at the white house. he is in the u.s. to enforce stronger economic ties with washington. and he met with democratic laurps on wednesday. british leaders hope to sign a full free trade deal with the u.s. but it hasn t happened though. and secretary of state antony blinken is in. [ inaudible question ] he is in saudi arabia for talks with golf leaders. and blinken says the u.s. is committed to its golf partners and aims to make the region more
and i mean club quite literally, because they have signed pledges. that may sound extreme, but nordquist s powerful groups has won that policy battle in his party. a conservative activist named grover nordquist. americans for tax r, noted for the afternoon-tax pledge. he also has the hear of powerful golf leaders who won t act unless he s signed off. he s an libertarian ideologue, that believes washington is controlling our lives. we want it down to the size, to where we fit in the bathtub, and then we can worry about what we re up to. joining me is wilbur