at the white house, marking the 30th anniversary of the family and medical leave act. let s listen. i had my brother and sister and chris knows them both well. i asked them to come into the incoming governor. we elected an incoming governor. we hadn t had a progressive senator in delaware for a while. it was very conservative. used to be a red state. we didn t call it that then. and so but a group of senators who were really so good to me, saved my sanity, starting with mike mansfield and the distinguished senator from south carolina fritz holings, they said come and stay six months. at the time i thought they they said you have to help us organize. we had 58 democratic senators. that shows you how smart i was. but the point was that i started commuting every day, 260 miles a day on the train to come home with my kids. that s because i was really, really lucky. i had a sister who is my best friend and a brother who s my buddy, five years younger. they gave up they liv
evacuations of towns with mudslides. bill: good morning, i m bill hemmer. good morning. the storms will roll in for at least the next two weeks it looks like in the forecast. the latest storm in a parade of severe weather began a week ago leaving more than a dozen dead in california. 200,000 customers have no power. firefighters rescuing two people trapped in a car at the bottom of a sinkhole in suburban los angeles. the entire seaside community of montecito ordered to get out five years after a mudslide killed 23 and destroyed more than 100 homes. very intense. i mean it almost doesn t seem real with that going on. it s unbelievable. i had ptsd from the last one for a couple of years and it is just bringing it all back. bill: senior national correspondent william la jeunesse live in l.a. to bring us up to date on what s happening today. hello. good morning. we have a slight separation of the bands of rain that i had coming in this morning. the irony is last year
epic cleanup. several senate lawmakers are at the border right now getting a close-up look at the real crisis, looking for real answers. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. one group, a bipartisan delegation led by texas republican john cornyn, and arizona independent kyrsten sinema making stops in their home states focused on finding solutions. what is happening now is happening on our doorstep and we need to work together to try to address it in the best way we can. a repeated failure by administration after administration to manage this crisis. the way i see for us to do that is work together by putting partisanship aside and listening to local folks and working together to find solutions. harris: we may be getting a peak from the curtain why she left the democratic party. they weren t doing that. this from the front lines. face and center hour by hour, minute by minute agents catching two illegals as they crossed across the border. we have fresh
34-year-old singer aaron carter found dead in his home. how family and friends are remembering the former child pop star. plus, candidates in toss-up races across the country are hoping to catch the momentum in this 11th hour. cnn takes you live to pennsylvania, georgia, new york, and florida. and later did you check your tickets? well, no worry. you didn t win the powerball. but nobody else did either. we ll tell you how much the next expected jackpot will be worth. hello, everyone. thank you for joining us this sunday. i m fredricka whitfield. we begin this hour on the campaign trail. just two days remain until the midterm elections and the stakes couldn t be higher as candidates make their final pitches to voters. key battleground states of georgia, nevada, arizona and pennsylvania could tip the balance of power to either party in washington. many voters have already made up their minds. more than 38 million early ballots have been cast in 47 states. joe biden and fo
candidates and top ranking party officials making last-minute pitches to voters. in just about two hours, president biden will hold a campaign event in yonkers, new york, while former president trump will be in miami, florida, hosting a rally there. the dueling stops coming just a day after a high-powered saturday of rallies in pennsylvania. that state could hold the key to a u.s. senate majority, as democrat john fetterman and republican mehmet oz are locked in a razor-thin race. the stakes couldn t be higher, as voters make their voices heard on tuesday. cnn is covering all twists and turns on the campaign trail. and let s get started with cnn s kristen holmes live for us in miami, where former president trump is campaigning for senator marco rubio later on today. kristen, what impact could the former president s presence make in this race between rubio and his democratic challenger, congresswoman val demings. reporter: well, fred, that is a really good question, and on