good afternoon. i m yasmin vossoughian. wow, three days can be believed we made it from the midterms. the actions, fast is furious on the campaign trail. candidates in their highest profile surrogates out in force throughout the country. including the democrat s most potent weapon, former president barack obama spending the day campaigning for pennsylvania senate candidate, john fetterman. i think somebody mentioned earlier we are set our clocks back to probe and our. on tuesday let s make sure our country doesn t get backs set back 50 years. and let me just say, that has to be worth 15 minutes of your time. obama is going to be sharing the stage with president biden, his former vice president in a couple hours. they are both sharing the state with the man who served between them, donald trump. set to hold a rally for dr. oz. we have a flood of nbc news co-correspondents federal cross the country and keep our ground states, of course. including chomping at the bit right n
select committee, congresswoman zoe lofgren. and the uvalde texas school board suspends its police force, and it s expected to discuss the superintendent s retirement, all following cnn s exclusive reporting on the school massacre. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with the firestorm over president biden s surprise warning of a potential armageddon following russian president vladimir putin s nuclear threats. let s get straight to our cnn white house correspondent, mj lee. mj, we ve heard the administration say they take the nuclear threat from russia seriously. we have not heard talk of armageddon before. does the white house now think americans have reason to be concerned tonight? well, wolf, anybody who was listening to the president s comments last night may have had good reason to feel concerned, because this was a pretty remarkable warning that we heard directly fro
happening now in the newsroom, on the hunt and now in cuffs. a police significance team capturing the man they say is connected to a series of six killings in stockton, california. while they say he was on a mission to kill again. plus they don t have the tanks they need. a cnn exclusive. russia rapidly running through its advanced weapons stockpile, as western sanctions eat away at their supply chain. and how the new nfl concussion protocols are reshaping the way kids play the game. you re live in the cnn newsroom. hello, everyone, thank you for joining me this sunday. i m fredricka whitfield. new this morning, an accused serial killer now behind bars. police in stockton, california have arrested a suspect for the il cannings for six men in crimes that span over a year and a half and terrorize the city. the police chief says 43-year-old wesley brownly was out hunting for a new vm when they made the arrest. as officers made contact with him, he was wearing dar
during these truly extraordinary times. we are grateful. the beat with ari melber starts right now. we will cue it. we re now really 13 days outside these mid-terms. control of congress clearly hangs in the balance. we re in the homestretch, people fighting for the votes and have this record breaking early turnout. what does it mean? we re going to go to one of the national experts who s been exactly in this position 13 days out. michael steele, look around left, right, center. he s here in one second. michael stands by. over 12 million people have now voted. that smashes the turnout totals at this point in 2018, which was the first election since trump became president. you remember how energized people were then. i can only tell you what s happening as it happens. i can t predict. but right now as of tonight we re seeing huge intensity in these mid-terms. we re also seeing reaction in isthese big debates, pennsylvania senate, new questions for fetterman and the democrats,
judges, and i m opposed to electing judges, but i have to. 12 of those judges i ve never heard of, so i look to the l. a. times website for their endorsement guidance, and all that. but it is a real hunk of homework, that we all have to do, all the way down that ballot, every single office, we see now more than ever how much a state legislatures matter, there are officers a lot of people have ignored in the past. everything matters, democracy is all over the spell of this year, you got, of potential debt realign. yes, i think there s a silver lining to all of this, conspiracy theory and fearmongering over election integrity. one of the good things we ve actually paid attention to are those down ballot races, and the importance of those. and also championing the men and women who decide to raise their hand and say hey, i can help run this part of american democracy. so in a way, it s great that it s a big pile of armor for all of us to complete our civic duties. yeah, and