you understand what it s actually worth. then they auction it to their network of professional buyers get more for your jewelry with worthy .com. good morning, everyone we do begin with breaking news this morning. you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin this hour with the catastrophic destruction and rising death toll from the most recent outbreak of tornadoes here in the u. s. more than 50. tornadoes have been reported in the south of midwest. beginning yesterday afternoon. this afternoon, the death toll more than doubled. 21 people are now confirmed killed by these storms. this is do video we re receiving from when arkansas, one of the many devastated communities. take a look at this video. it s just heartbreaking. there are reports of at least a dozen tornadoes touching down in that state. the national guard in arkansas, also rolling in to help and in northern illinois. one of the storm related deaths came during a crowded concert last night
nevada, you have up and down the ballot some election deniers there, same goes for arizona. a lot at stake out west and across the country. nobody s going to sleep on the west coast tonight, back east, because, man, some of the most important races taking place. control of congress is up for grabs. republicans are favored to win the house, where they need a net gain of five seats. the smallest number of seats the out of power party has needed to flip the house since 1932. michael, let s put perspective on this again for our friends joining us on the west coast right now. in 2010, how many seats we picked up 63 house seats, which was the most the party picked up since 1928. and that was after barack obama had a massive landslide victory. right. bill clinton won in 92. 73 republicans get elected that year. and in 2018, you actually had, when donald trump was president, democrats didn t do quite as well, but they had 40 seats. so it s going to be really interest
well. it might be weeks before the tally is finalized telling us whether we see a red wave or ripple or something in between. so take a breath and be patient because a lot is already happening. we have new reporting from nbc in pennsylvania on the legal challenges already being filed regarding the number of mail-in ballots. details in a moment. from politico in arizona where christina bob, one of the trump lawyers caught up in the mar-a-lago documents investigation said in a recent interview that it will look suspicious if states fail to report electioults by early wednesday. the truth is that it s going to take time and that is normal. especially considering that turnout is expected to break records. here are just some of the lines we are seeing today. take a look. this is georgia. michigan, wisconsin, arkansas, new york, florida, and indiana. by closing time tonight, we could find 120 million people showed up to weigh in on abortion, crime, the economy, climate change, demo
the lives that are broken. people on the margins whose homes, whose jobs, even their own bodies and their health are now precarious. people who don t have the insurance or the resources to rebuild. my team down here and i went for a drive here not far from where we discovered dozens of people at a shrimping dock for whom that is the situation tonight. no one has reached them and it is not clear if anyone has tried but i saw them. and you can see them too. take a look. [inaudible] it went into the rafters, we were away up in it. it started pushing on us and, long story short, it [inaudible] took over serious water. the bone next to me, they got me going [inaudible] i didn t know if the building was gonna hold up or not. i went in hard, just seven [inaudible] my seventh hurricane. this is mature seventh? hurricane yes. [inaudible] now ian. and this is by far the worst. why? what was the worst of it? the wind, the tide. the tide surge! harvey, we had a tight surge, but
one the supreme court is about to hear a case you might not have heard of, that concerns a benign sounding theory about state legislatures. this case could quite literally and democracy as we know it. there is not been nearly enough conversation about this case, and we are gonna change that this morning. then every politico in the bell when trying to figure out how the republican overreach that landed us in this dystopian row post row reality is going to effect next month s elections. one louisiana candidate is literally embodying the shifting landscape. we re gonna tell you her remarkable story and we will meet her in the next hour. velshi begins right now. good morning, feel it is an effort in the ninth. i am a label. she just must election. they were officially in of the 2020 midterms. is the first major election since the 2020 presidential election, and the insurrection of the. capital as well into these last weeks of the election cycle, the former president s grip on t