You for your time. Appreciate it. That is all in on this tuesday night. Good evening, alex. What is happening in springfield, what is going on in ohio? how can the senate race be so close, but here we are. We showed you those numbers. His ability to outperform the top of the ticket in that state is one of the most remarkable anywhere in the country. Political tenacity is sherrod brown s middle name. Thank you, my friend. More than 5. 5 million people are under voluntary or mandatory evacuation orders in florida tonight as the state braces for the impact of hurricane milton. Polls were waived and highway shoulders were opened to try to ease clogging as florida residents took to the roads to get out of the storm s way. Hurricane milton is expected to make landfall late tomorrow night or early thursday morning and while anything could change in the next 24 hours, milton is expected to drive straight through central florida. The first direct strike by a hurricane in areas like tampa in mor
Thats right. So the question this morning is, what does this all mean for you . Obviously, these numbers are going to give people some pause in terms of choosing perhaps this vaccine. Dr. Fauci says vaccines, though, still, whatever you can get, the best way to keep this virus from evolving further. Officials in South Carolina also have just confirmed the nations first cases of the south africa variant. The new model shows the pandemic could claim nearly 654,000 lives by may 1st. Lets begin with the j j breaking news. Our senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen is with us. Can you explain what that means for everyone watching . The bottom line is, if the Johnson Johnson vaccine gets authorization from the fda and you are looking for a vaccine, and youve looked for moderna and pfizer, which are better, theres no question, but you cant find them because theres not enough of them but you can get Johnson Johnson, experts are telling me, get it. Do not hesitate to get it. It is still a
campaign, biden called them a pariah state. today he said a meeting is in the u.s. interest to help normalize gas prices. chief white house correspondent katilan collins is in saudi arabia following president biden. do we know if the president has raised the murder of khashoggi to the prince? we don t know and don t have a guarantee if we are going to find out because when white house officials were pressed on this earlier given they had not given a clear direct answer on whether he was going to definitely bring it up. they said it s up to whether or not president biden wants to tell reporters that afterward because they want to keep some of this conversation private. they just took reporters in briefly at the top of that meeting. so it will really be up to president biden whether or not we find out if he actually brought that up with the saudi crown prince. of course, we know a reporter did bring it up when they were taken into the room just briefly. this is how mbs respon
you are live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. just days after the january 6 committee exposed a president whose actions were a disaster, there is little evidence that donald trump has lost his mojo with the far right of the republican party. in fact, he was greeted with a hero s welcome last night in florida. watch this, complete with video and pyrotechnics. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the 45th president of the united states of america, donald j. trump! and i m proud to be an american where at least i know i m free and i won t forget the men who died who gave that right to me and i gladly stand up next to you and remember still today but unlike the lyrics to that lee greenwood song, trump didn t gladly stand up to defend the country on january 6. he sat watching tv fo 187 minutes while the insurrection happened and even last night he wasn t letting go of his bogus election grievances. if i stayed home, if i announce that
the results was illegal. but they pushed anyway. listen to former trump white house lawyer eric herschmann on his conversation with eastman. i said are you out of your effing mind. i was completely blunt. i said you re crazy, you re going to cause riots in the streets. and he said words to the effect of, there s been violence in the history of our country to protect the democracy or protect the republic. testimony revealed even after the capitol riot, eastman pushed for delay in certifying the election and later asked for a pardon. [ crowd chanting ] the committee also outlined just how close rioters were to the then vice president and pointed out that some of them had seen president trump s tweet at 2:24, saying that pence lacked courage. recent court filing by the department of justice explains the confidential informant from the proud boys told the fbi the proud boys would have killed mike pence if given a chance. some of those rioters came within just 40 feet of