Welcome to the lead. Im jim sciutto in today for jake tapper. We begin today with breaking news in the world lead. Seemingly out of nowhere Hurricane Patricia has exploded. Now the largest hurricane ever recorded. It is just seconds away from slamming a tourist mecca in mexico 200mileperhour sustained winds, 245mileperhour gusts, 20 inches of rain. And with a pulverizing wall of water that could leave the coastline drowned and devastated. The u. S. Not out of danger at all with this monster threatening to team up with another storm that has already flooded parts of texas and sent mobile homes floating away. Cnns Martin Savidge is live inside Puerto Vallarta. Martin, i mean really an incredible storm as we listen to these warnings. What are the conditions there right now . Reporter well, you know whats fascinating, jim, is the fact you look out here and this is looking on the old part of Puerto Vallarta, this is that calm that is before the storm. The air is incredibly still. Light rain
Tomorrow night. Hillary clinton on center stage and Bernie Sanders and three other democrats. What might the second tier candidates do to grab the spotlight . And what is the chance an extra podium will be added for joe biden . Jim acosta has more. Reporter two days and counting until the democratic debate on cnn. You can see the stage is just about set. Five podiums on the stage. The middle one for former secretary of state Hillary Clinton. The obvious frontrunner. To her right is Bernie Sanders. Senator sanders has given clinton a run for her money in the polls. The other candidates will have a breakout moment. Former governor Martin Omalley and lincoln chaffee. The flash points with Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, one will be on the iraq war and the last 24 hour, sanders has reminded supporters he voted against the iraq war in 2002. Sort of echos of the battle roya royale. That was the vote that cost Hillary Clinton in 2008 with the democratic party. Meanwhile, the x factor is V
For us now from jerusalem. Ben, whats the very latest . Reporter well, the latest is that the situation now has been pretty much cleared up. The israeli authorities are also quite often quite good at doing that. But this was the first attack of the day. So when we went well into the afternoon with no events happening, people started breathing a sigh of relief after yesterday, there were five attacks in jerusalem and elsewhere in israel, leaving at least three people dead, many more wounded. Now, we did arrive to see, as the medical personnel wrapped the body in a back plastic body bag and carried it up the stairs. Im going to step out of the way so you can see the scene better. You see those men down there are using water and a broom. They are removing the last traces of the blood of the attacker who, of course, is dead. He took at least a dozen bullets by the many Israeli Police and Border Police who are stationed here. Now, there was a rather odd somewhat disturbing scene a little wh
Things starting on the strip. It has arrived. The first democratic president ial debate tonight here behind me at the Wynn Las Vegas on cnn. Hillary clinton will be center stage. Bernie sanders next to her. Can he convince a wider audience to feel the bern. Martin omalley and Lincoln Chaffee and jim webb. Hillary clinton at a union rally outside a donald trump hotel. A doubly advantageous moment for clinton. She can bash donald trump and appeal to organized labor. A group she needs in nevada and across the country. Senior Political Correspondent Brianna Keilar has the story. Reporter good morning, john and christine. Hillary clinton arrived here in las vegas and almost immediately went where . The donald trump hotel. She joined Union Workers picketing outside the hotel co owned by donald trump. The Culinary Union trying to make a splash as Hillary Clinton came into town. Some people think mr. Trump is entertaining. I dont think it is entertaining when somebody insults immigrants, insul
Rubio is serging somewhat but both are trailing trump and carson in that state. Lets bring in athena jones from waterloo, iowa where trump has campaign stops. And trump has to be pleased with these new numbers. Reporter good morning. I can tell you that as much as weve heard trump follows the polls very very closely, surely hes going pleased and i bet were going to hear him mention these latest poll numbers at todays event. The latest polls will give pause to people who thought trump was fading. His numbers had slipped a bit in recent National Polls and his lead has come down to just five points in recent polls out of New Hampshire and right here in iowa. But now you have these three other state, florida, ohio and pennsylvania, where hes clearly out on top and of course as you mentioned, hes leading both rubio and bush in their own states in florida. They are not even in second place. They are in third and fourth. So these are certainly a good numbers as far as trump is concerned, ana.