Cnn reporters are on the ground for us, tracking all the biggest races in the country. Lets start in florida. Home to two of the most contentious races. Rosa flores is in hialeah, florida. What are you seeing on the ground there . Kate, good morning. Slow and steady. Thats what were seeing here in hialeah, florida. Take a look over my shoulder. You can see some of these lines are slow but steady here in florida. Now, there are multiple florida races that are being watched across the country. One of those, of course, the governors race between ron desantis and Andrew Gillum. Our cameras were rolling when ron desantis voted this morning in st. Johns county. They were also rolling when Andrew Gillum went to vote this morning in tallahassee. And then he made these remarks. Take a listen. Us winning tonight, i think, will send a message to mr. Trump and mr. Desantis as well that the politics of hatred and of division, of separation, that they have come to an end. At least in this election t
Sadly, in the midst of all this, a 12yearold girl was hit by a stray bullet. Just a harrowing between there. What more have you learned . Yeah, jim. It really is. And especially this was a fight. This wasnt someone who walked into the mall and started shooting shoot ing inchris. They reopened at 6 00 this morning. People have been inside doing their black friday shopping. I want to update you on how those victims are doing. That 12yearold girl was shot one time. She is in stable condition. She underwent surgery this morning. She is expected to be okay physically of course. The 18yearold who the gunman shot police say twice in the stomach area is still in serious condition. He was taken by ambulance to the nearest hospital. Of course it is also under investigation. Theyre not sure who shot the little girl at that point, where that gunshot came from. Theyre trying to look into this now. But i want you to listen to what some of the people who were there described as the chaos and the fear
What is the president doing with his platform, with his voice this morning . Launching fresh attacks against the media. Cnn correspondent joining us live from pittsburgh, jean casarez. You spent a lot of time there. It is a sad, heartbroken time in that community. Tell us whats happening this morning. Reporter as the morning continues and this entire community, the reality is that this is a federal court case. We are right here in front of the federal court in pittsburgh. The initial appearance of this defendant is at 1 30 today. Should be a very short appearance, but extremely important because it is of a constitutional nature. The charges will be read. He will be asked if he understands the charges. He can be represented. And then the case will go on from there. Now, this is being prosecuted as a hate crime. There are 29 charges. And what makes this a potential Death Penalty case is the following charge. The intentional obstruction by force in the free exercise of religious beliefs r
This actually did happen in 2016 where a Foreign Agent was paid for by a Political Party to gather Opposition Research. All those things are wrong. Its real important to explain exactly what Lindsey Graham is saying here. Hes talking about the socalled steele dossier which is a series of memos prepared by Christopher Steele, a former british intel agent who at the time was working for fusion gps which is a washingtonbased Opposition Research firm, and the Washington Free beacon, a conservative organization financed some of this and as it moved into the general elects Clinton Campaign hired fusion gps and contained and continued this Opposition Research against President Trump, then candidate trump. Its worth noting that after election day the late senator john mccain came into possession of this information, of the steele dossier and under the advice of his friend and colleague Lindsey Graham he turned it over to the fbi. Lets bring in Sunlen Serfaty on the hill. Lindsey graham thought
Smollett for staging his own attack. And today, the shocking reversal with smollett still maintaining his innocence. Ive been truthful and consistent on every single level since day one. This has been an incredibly difficult time, honestly, one of the worst of my entire life. Im a man of faith and im a man that has knowledge of my history and i would not bring my family, our lives or the movement through a fire like this. Now id like nothing more than to just get back to work and move on with my life, but make no mistakes, i will always continue to fight for the justice, equality and betterment of marginalized people everywhere. And then in a joint show of force, Chicagos Police superintendent and mayor rebuked the decision by prosecutors to drop those charges. My personal opinion is that you all know where i stand on this. Do i think justice was served . No. Where do i think justice is . I think this city is still owed an apology. He did this all in the name of selfpromotion and he us