kevin mccarthy lost the vote 11 times. do not, do not just show up at the border. president biden with a message to migrants as he gets ready to see the crisis up close. and the wrong moves made by the accused idaho killer. what investigators secretly watched him do and how it helped crack the case. all right. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. happy friday, everybody. i m christine romans. the house of representatives reconvening again just hours from now without a speaker and no known path to picking one. lawmakers have tried and failed for three straight days to elect a new leader. the longest that has taken in, get this, 164 years. will it be kevin mccarthy in the end? he s the choice of most gop lawmakers, but even after making major, major concessions to his hard right opponents, mccarthy can t seem to lock in the 218 votes needed to win. no, no, i m not putting any time line on it. i think we have progress going on. i think we v
democrats need good news on the jobs economy. and mass layoffs at any moment. thousands of people who work at twitter this morning might not work there anymore by noon. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. just four days left now until the high stakes mid-term election control of the house. senate and dozens of state governor s offices are on the line. president biden waking up in california. he s on a swing across the west coast trying to rally democrats in key races. mr. president, is your message getting through to the american voters? yes. tonight the president will be in chicago for another campaign event. former president trump also on the road. he held a rally there in sioux city, iowa, backing republican candidates. all but upstaging them with big hints about his plans for 2024. get ready, that s all i m telling you. get ready. get ready. let s begin with the president and cnn s jasmine wright. jasmine,
hello again, everyone. thanks for joining me. i m fredricka whitfield. we begin with california facing a severe weather threat yet again right now. 25 million people are under flood watches. some areas saw more than six times the normal rainfall in just the last two weeks. today s storms raising concerns for more flooding and possibly landslides. cnn meteorologist allison chinchar is tracking the storm for us. also cnn s natasha chen is in fairfax, california, where we begin with you. what are you seeing? all right. we don t have audio of natasha. we ll try and work that out. it s not your television sets. let s go to you, allison. what is california bracing for? they ve already been through so much. they have. they re bracing for two more rounds, one that is currently ongoing and the next round that arrives 24 hours from now with not much of a break in between. the first round already here. you can see most of the real heavy rain and snow is across portions of northern and
with the people. right now on early start what president biden calls a defining moment for democracy. air raid sirens pierce the air as north korea tries and fails to test a missile. it all adds up to baseball history. here we go. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. president biden about to head to mexico to campaign with the governor and other democrats. expected to strike the same fee. american democracy is under dire threat and laying the blame at the feet of his predecessor. you know, american democracy is under attack because the defeated president of the united states refuses to accept the results of the 2020 election. he refuses to accept the will of the people. cnn s jasmine wright live in washington. good morning, jasmine. so nice to see you. the president, president biden veering from the democrat s 11th hour focus on the economy. zeroing in on the threat for democracy. what s the thinking? reporter
we ve called on the dprk to refrain from further provocations and engage in a sustained and substantive dialogue. this is something we ve proposed going back many months. if they continue going down this road, it will only increase the condemnation, increase the isolation, increase the steps that are taken in response to their actions. let s go live to cnn s paula hancocks in south korea for us. another missile launch overnight. what do we know about this strike group being moved into the waters between japan and the korean peninsula? reporter: well, christine, the information we are getting at this point is coming from the joint chiefs of staff here in south korea. they say that the u.s.s. ronald regan is back in korean waters and has been carrying out naval drills with the south korean and japanese destroyer this afternoon, this thursday. now it was just last week when there were naval drills which angered pyongyang and they are now back in the waters just up the east