Its the biggest election day of the year so far. Welcome to cnns Special Coverage of super tuesday im wolf blitzer in washington and im kate bolduan in new york. The first polls are closing in just a few hours from now. And turnout in states like North Carolina is strong as millions of americans and six next extreme states are now voting for republicans. It is a big day, 865 delegates are at stake. Donald trump expected to win most of them making the republican front runner almost unstoppable potentially. By the end of this light tonight, trump is expected to be within striking distance of the 1,215 delegates needed to win the republican president ial nomination, which raises the big question, what does nikki haley do next . Our less than an hour will be getting our first early clues about the outcome of tonights vote. Thats where we get the first results from our exit polls. We have our reporters fanned out across the nation right now is better. Voters are heading to the polls. I want
good evening, i am abby phillip in washington. tonight, just one sentence from the supreme court may trigger eight train reaction for jack smith, donald trump, and every single voter in the 2024 election. the nine justices only required 11 words to turn down special counsel s request to rush and provide an answer to any central question. is donald trump ultimately immune from prosecution? the high court s decision to take special counsel case off the fast track ushers in a world of uncertainty. the special counsel now must go through the regular process. he and trump s lawyers will make their arguments before the d.c. circuit in january. on january 9th, just six days before the iowa caucuses. now, today s choice by the justices almost certainly guarantees that the trial, scheduled for march 4th a day before super tuesday, mind you will like and are we on schedule. and if the supreme court decides to take the case, and no one knows of course right now if that will ha
food prices too have gone up. nothing s being done about it. it s going to kill the people, these diesel prices. they have no i have no choice but to fill up my tank. there s no other choice. definitely too much. and it has to change, hopefully soon. neil: it is the story of the week, and right now it is hitting americans hard. i m talking about inflation, and it is still out of control. here s how bad things are getting. we re grateful if the rise isn t as dramatic as we had experienced in just the prior month. that is the state of things now with prices spiking at near 40-year highs. the last time we saw that is when jimmy carter was president. concerns that we re seeing the same thing roll out now and rolling around hoping for relief. good luck on that front. but kelly o grady on how customers and you are feeling. kelly. reporter: hi, neil. well, week we saw new inflation data with april s consumer price index out. the 8.3% year-over-year number was worse than ex
government here says they already have 21 more such cases ready to go. finally, russian president vladimir putin got a call from finland s president today informing him of the country s intention to join nato. the president told putin how finland s security environment had changed since russia s invasion of ukraine. and, neil, allegedly not related to this nato move russia today pulled the plug on electricity it supplies to finland. luckily for the finns, russia only provides about 10% of its juice. still it s not mice to to mess around with the folks in moscow. back to you. neil: to your fine point, that doesn t look like coincidence. thank you very much. be safe, greg. greg palkot following all those developments in kyiv, ukraine. in the meantime here, we re focusing on this planned protest outside the supreme court, up to 20,000 could be marching later afternoon.
could you see the possibility that he votes against this and this doesn t happen? well, yes, i know erdogan well. i first met him with joe biden in december of 2002 when biden and i were in the middle east and he had just been elected, his party just been elected and swept up 90% of the parliament. i ve known him a long time and dealt with him and he s a bit volatile and erratic, in the end because much of this is about, you know, the pkk, kurdish group up in the northeastern part of syria, they ve been at war with the turks for many, many years and erdogan has maintained that the countries of finland and sweden have been spots where they welcomed these pkk members and they ve helped them.