i m yasmin vossoughian here in new york city. you hear the music. you have seen the ads. you maybe have gotten one of those text messages, campaign text messages. it means we re almost there. one day away from the midterm elections. this morning with just hours left to make the final pitches, candidates, they are hitting the trail across the country. 42 million americans have already early voted. but it is election day turnout that could make all of the difference. and in a topsy-turvy election year, the issues driving folks run the gamut. the main thing is we vote for people who are willing to accept the results at the ballots. abortion, firearms. inflation. just all the policies and the changes. just cutthroat. try to vote for the lesser of two evils is my way of thinking about it. that last point there, the lesser of two evils, that mind-set can make all the difference. our final round of nbc news polling showing that democrats and republicans are now neck and ne
we are in it now, the final full day of campaigning in the last hours of this election, as we come on the air, with our nbc news team, all across the country, covering it all this hour, live, we ve got reports from our campaign correspondents, with the candidates talking to voters, and breaking new reporting on the races that are going to decide the balance of power in washington. a balance of power that tens of millions of people are already weighing in on. you ve got some 40 million ballots already cast, right? sure, election day is tomorrow, but a lot of people are not waiting. this comes after lawsuits are already coming in over absentee and mail-in votes and a potential first for congress, the new faces who could be headed to washington, and why there s never been anybody like them in congress before, we ve got a look at that later on in the show. i m hallie jackson with you now from our election headquarters in new york city, we ve got our nbc news team set up across th
gathered here in new york for this united nations general assembly talking about the death and destruction russia caused in ukraine and wants action, specifically that court dedicated and created by the united nations dedicated to punishing russia and holding them accountable and also he wants russia to be denied its veto vote it has right now on the united nations security council. special should be created to punish russia for the crime against our state. this will become signal to all would-be aggressors that they must value peace or be brought to responsibility by the world. reporter: and, wolf, those are comments president zelenskyy made just a few hours after president biden himself spoke. he stopped short of calling for russia to be expelled from that security council where they have used the power of that veto vote to block action when it comes to russia s own actions and when it comes to ukraine though he did issue his own warning message. you cannot seize a na
the escalation by the rush slan l russian leader today. what does the french president think? he will be here live with his response. your money and the cost to borrow. historic move by the federal reserve, raising interest rates yet again in an effort to get inflation under control. welcome to the lead. we start on the extraordinary legal trouble for donald trump. there s a sweeping lawsuit against trump, three of his adult children and the trump organization, alleging they were involved in a decade-long financial scheme that allowed trump to fraudulently inflate his net worth by billions of dollars, allowing him to leverage the system for his own personal gain at the expense of others. white collar financial crime is not victimless. when the well connected break the law, to take in more money than they are entitled to, it reduces resources to working people, to regular people, to small businesses and all taxpayers. attorney general james campaigned on a promise of
ukraine. tom soufi burridge in ukraine tonight. mary bruce traveling with the president here in new york. the category 4 hurricane barrelling up the atlantic. winds up to 130 miles per hour. now moving thwart bermuda. a trail of destruction in its wake. the east coast soon feeling the affects from florida to maine. rob marciano in bermuda tonight with the new track. and we re watching the next potential threat. could it be coming to the gulf? tonight, the battle against inflation here in the u.s. the federal reserve today hiking interest rates another three-quarters of a percent. how this will effect credit cards, car loans and new mortgages. rebecca jarvis breaks it down. tonight, news on the nba owner suspended an fined $10 million for racist and missomething nis remarks. what he plans to do. the washington monument vandalized. after months of waiting, the $1.3 billion mega millions mystery slved tonight. turns out there isn t just one winner. and tonight, the n