house, only one seat to flip the senate and all eyes are on key battleground states. brooke singman has the latest, brooke: good morning, it is 5:00 a.m. and election day has officially begun, 34 million ballots have been cast by mail or in person at early voting centers according to the associated press. republicans are looking to flip both chambers of congress, 35 seats up for grabs and 435 house seats are up for election and all eyes on the battleground as republicans hope today is reverend up on failing democratic policies and could come down to pennsylvania, georgia, nevada and arizona, just four states. senate candidates speaking at rallies yesterday in one final effort to garner support. too many extreme positions in washington, too much out there pulling us away from where the real answers lie. i will bring balance to washington, but john fetterman will bring more extreme. dr. oz will still be a fraud, i need every one of you to get out to vote. so i can get to
thinking about it. pierre thomas with late reporting. in russia tonight, panic following vladimir putin s plan to call up 300,000 reservists to fight in ukraine. tonight, flights out of moscow booked for several days out. russian authorities detaining protesters, some of those protesters now drafted to fight. tom soufi burridge in ukraine tonight. the protests in iran tonight. martha raddatz with the scenes unfodding in iran. here in this country, the midair scare. a united airlines flight taking off from newark, circling over the atlantic for nearly two hours after sparks are seen shooting from the plane. debris falling from the sky. you will hear air traffic control alerting the cockpit. b meantime, the chaotic scene onboard an american airlines flight. the passenger accused of punching a flight attendant. tonight, alex jones, who said the sandy hook shooting was a hoax, that parents of the children who died were actors. he was in court today, and what happened. t
is just ahead. and a live look at wall street. futures board is back in the green following a volatile session yesterday. we ll look at the challenges the fed chairman now faces in trying to bring down inflation. good morning. welcome to way too early thank you for starting your day with us. there is a lot to cover this morning after a stunning day in washington and new york. first, we learn that new york attorney general latisha james filed a lawsuit against donald trump, the trump organization and three of trump s adult children. accusing them of fraudulent financial practices. we also learned of new developmentes from the house select committee investigating the january 6th insurrection. the wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas has agreed to speak to the panel in the coming weeks. and finally, a major victory for the justice department and federal investigators. an appeals court is allowing the doj to resume its criminal probe of classified documents seized
calls staggering business fraud over a decade. we ll have the response from team trump in just moments. we re also watching blowback in russia to vladimir putin s plan to mobilize more troops to fight in ukraine. more than 1300 people were detained in rare protests. the desperate measures taken by some russians facing a potential draft. also a significant update in the january 6th investigation. a source telling nbc news it is agreed it has reached an agreement to interview conservative activist ginni thomas, the wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas. what that could mean for the panel s next hearing next week. we start with the latest on the multiple investigations into donald trump. joining me now is vaughn hillyard from trump tower in new york, justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian, charles coleman, the former new york prosecutor and andrew weissmann, former fbi general counsel and senior member of the mueller probe. charles and andrew fortunate
toss-up in the senate. everything the american people care about is on the ballot. issue after issue, democrats are fail the american people. nikki haley is incredible governor. what is your name again. stoops to a new low it nikki haley using a fake name. there are some of us that can be camille yans and decide not to embrace our ethnicity. deplete left field. there it goes. will james judge has tied babe ruth with 60 home runs. good morning, everybody. 6:00 a.m. here in new york city. 1:00 in the afternoon in moscow. and we start with a fox news alert. russian president vladimir putin now threatening to use nuclear weapons and putin says i m not bluffing. ainsley: saber rattling comes as president biden is heading to the united nations. that happens later today to address the general assembly about the war in ukraine. brian: putin is humiliated already. what will he do? we can t tell. we have kevin corke to bring us up to date on what s at stake. kevin