u.s. midterm elections and each of the last three u.s. presidents is on the campaign trail to rally voters in hopes of winning power in congress. record heat across the u.s., over 70 high-temperature records are expected to be broken across the country on monday. a surprising admission by iran, how they ve helped russia with the war in ukraine, after weeks of denial. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with laila harak. they may potentially shift the balance of power in congress after voting. this tuesday, every single seat in the house will be at play while in the senate, 35 positions are up for grabs. right now, democrats controlled both chambers by a thin margin and if republicans take control of either one, they could restrict president joe biden s agenda for the next two years. the outcome could be decided in any one of these six states. five of them are battlegrounds that mr. biden flipped in 2020, including georgia where early voting numbers have been
meanwhile, quite a scary seen as you can see. the attack has been turned into a rallying cry for reform after the suspect was released under new york state law as congressman zeldin predicted. other big stories, president biden continuing his recovery at the white house after his covid diagnosis and the world health organization sounding the alarm over the monkeypox outbreak declaring the global emergency. we have live team coverage. christina coleman has more on this. we will start with alexis mcadams who has the latest. reporter: breaking moments ago the man who attacked leaves eldon is facing federal charges for assault after he spent a few hours in handcuffs and didn t post bail in new york even though the entire thing was caught on camera. what is he doing? reporter: you hear people shocked wondering what was going on. he is republican candidate for new york governor was on stage in rochester when a man tried to stab him, pulled out a sharp object. zeldin says he h
griff jenkins. jacqui: i m jacqui hinrich. they re battling brutal summer heat and steve has the latest for us, hey, steve. 104 degrees yesterday, it s supposed to be 100 all week and that hasn t slowed down the stream of mar grants crossing illegally. we ve seen small groups here in the morning and several pregnant women making that crossing. in recent days, large groups as well, sometimes 300 strong crossing the river together. many of the towns along the border region, overwhelmed by the numbers and it s been the recent policy of text s governor abbott to bus some migrants to northern cities. that s drawn the outrage of a number of mayors, including the mayor of washington d.c. and new york city. not only the federal government, but we need some of those states that have been giving people one-way tickets, we need them to understand that, this must be a partnership in this country, new york is going to do its share, but we have been overburdened shelter system now.
Jihadi messages online and he was allowed to come back to america. A jihadi came back and planted bombs, immigration and terror. Trump implies that his extreme vetting would keep rahami out. Hillary clinton says that trumps position helps the terrorists. And no change in the migrants, obama repeated it. A migrant surge, janet yellen speaks and a very hostile congress. Its a big show for you. Varney company is about to begin. Now, the market is not focusing on terror or the riot in charlotte, its what the worlds central bankers are up to. Thats what counts today. There is a new policy from the central bankers in japan. They want to get Interest Rates back up. I repeat, back up to zero. How about that . And this afternoon, janet yellen will announce Interest Rate policy from us here. Take a look at the prices. Were opening higher for the stock market. Oil 44 a barrel. The latest read on supplies comes at 10 30 and that could move the markets again. 44 a barrel, slightly higher. Now this,
President trump in ukraines president. Has repeatedly said it was a perfect call and that hes done nothing wrong. We have fox coverage. Mike emanuel live on capitol hill but first, Gillian Turner reporting live. Chairman adam schiff just released that transcript of george kents testimony as you mention from a 350 pages long about 5 minutes ago. We have a team on the ground here going through it quickly. Going to tell you what we do know about his testimony before even opening this transcript. According to sources familiar with the testimony he gave for ten hours behind closed doors to the Intelligence Committee, he raised red flags about how the Trump Administration was managing u. S. Foreign policy towards ukraine. And that he began doing so over six months ago. They also say he flagged to Rudy Giulianis role in conducting official u. S. Policy towards ukraine despite the fact that Rudy Giuliani was not a Government Official at the time. Im going to read you an excerpt from the chairm