[inaudible] more on this in a moment, but let s get right to the very latest on capitol hill. cnn s monumental mona is there tonight, you have some new reporting i understand with negotiations. any movement, what is going on? not quite yet, laura. all the negotiations have wrapped up for the night, the people who are in some of these key meetings have left the building, and not a single person who voted against kevin mccarthy on the house floor has said they are going to change their votes just yet. now kevin mccarthy did make an offer to these members, there is some sort of agreement on paper and some of the holdouts were invited to look at that and review it over. they have been doing that all throughout the evening, coming in and out, coming out various moments and looking at it. but looking out of all these meetings, they have been very tightlipped. so they have not agreed just yet. kevin mccarthy is still projecting confidence, he is saying they are making progress
right? it also buys time for more negotiations to take place behind closed doors after kevin mccarthy suffered five more defeats today for a total now of 11. so, what s gonna happen in just a few hours? how will that change things, he hasn t seen the progress yet? plus, we have new news on the buffalo bills damar hamlin. he is awake and making remarkable progress just three days after he collapsed on the field in cardiac arrest during monday night football. the nfl has officially canceled that game, and cnn has newly-obtained audio from the moment hamlin collapsed. i don t like how you went down. a minute everybody on-call. bring everybody. we need a helicopter, everybody. we need all of this. we never went down here. more on this in a moment, let s get down to the latest from capitol hill. melanie zanona is there for us tonight. melanie, you ve got some new reporting on the negotiations. any movement, what s going on? not quite yet, laura. all the negotiations have
this afternoon it came ashore as near category 5 strength, as a high category 4 after bidding for hours as it approached. oh, you got to be kidding me! you got to be kidding me right now! right now it is still a category 3 storm, still a major hurricane with damaging winds spanning out 175 miles from the center. oh, my god. no less troubling than the winds tonight, potentially even worse hurricane ian is still pushing a massive storm surge onshore. forecasts as high as 18 feet in places where buildings living close to the water was why so many people moved there. take a look. this is fort meyers beach, and that is a community outreach center knocked off its foundation and floating down the street. making matters worse, the flood waters affecting residents who are doing the same to rescuers. a fire station here in naples is what first responders are up against along with anyone needing emergency help. and again, these conditions are not expected to improve throughout t
multiple illnesses at once. whit johnson in houston. 12 days until the midterms. and tonight, president biden in syracuse, new york, celebrating the new numbers on the economy today. unexpected good news on gdp. the president saying the deficit caught by $1.4 trillion this year. and the semindtor company investing $100 billion in factories in central new york to make those chips in america. terry moran tonight. also tonight, in arizona, where about 90% of ballots cast are mail-in ballots, among the highest in the nation, the new images tonight, allegations of voter intimidations. voters being watched closely by groups in camo. what s going on? jon karl on this. and the moment on the tarmac today. president biden and senate majority leader chuck schumer. what schumer can be heard telling the president about the pennsylvania debate between john fetterman and dr. oz. the war in ukraine. new video tonight of a raging fire in eastern ukraine and vladimir putin s new threat t
world you re watching cnn newsroom and i ll i m rosemary church, just ahead, president biden preach as message of justice, while republicans demand answer over his handling of classified documents. a desperate act by an american detained in iran, his employee to the u.s. president ahead in a live report. and tragedy marks what should have been a celebration at the university of georgia. what we know about the accident that claimed the lives of a football player and a staff member. . live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom. with rosemary church. thanks for joining us, republican lawmakers are ramping up the pressure on u.s. president joe biden over his handling of classified documents, chairman of the house oversight committee has asked the white house for visitor logs from the president s delaware home several classified items have been found, james connor said he wants mr. biden s case to be treated just like the probe involving donald trump and his own handling of