contests in two critical battleground states, arizona and nevada. plus unfathomable. simply unfathomable horror in thailand. an attacker uses a gun and a knife to murder at least 24 children while they sleep. and another new claim against herschel walker. the woman who told the daily beast walker paid her to have an abortion now says she is also the mother of one of walker s children. the georgia republican senate nominee says it s a lie, a smear. i ll say the same thing i said, that i know this is untrue. i know it s untrue. they keep telling me things like that. totally, totally untrue. i know nothing about any woman having an abortion. and they can keep coming at me like that. and they re doing it because they want to distract people. i know that. back to that story in a moment. but we begin the hour with new numbers. remacable new numbers that speak volumes about how competitive key races are with just a little more than a month to go in this incredibly consequential
roger stone openly calling for insurrection violence. one democratic congressman says what happened in two pennsylvania districts will tell us everything about which party controls the house next year. we begin the hoyer with hurricane ian and florida now bracing for its arrival. the cat 3 storm on a direct path for the sunshine state. already packing maximum sustained winds of 115 miles per hour. ian expected to strengthen over the next 24 hours. local officials making urgent pleas for people to evacuate. the storm did make landfall this morning in cuba. heavy rains and winds hammering the area. forecasted storm surges up to 8 feet. the current track puts ian s center ten miles from st. pete. if that holds true, it will be the closest path to tampa for a major hurricane since 1950. carlos suarez live on the ground outside tampa. first let s get to the weather center and cnn s chad myers. the 11:00 advisory came in and the american model came in in the past ten minutes.
the same issues are clearly on voter s minds. the economy definitely is the issue. between inflation with every, like prices of everything going up, especially rent and gas. reproductive rights is like my top issue. the big thing is the border policy, that s awful. i think there needs to be a crackdown on crime. our educational system, with the kind of education problems we are having, the focus, seems to be on far more than what it should be, it s not on the usual reading, writing, arithmetic. even more worried about the young families. how can they have the gas what it is and the price of meet. the food is expensive, everything is going crazy, and stressed out. john: an issue across america. virginia governor glenn youngkin. start off by saying democrats had been closing the gap in the generic preference poll but republicans seem to have found some new momentum in recent days. this new commitment to america that kevin mccarthy unveiled last week, do you be
2020 meeting in the sedition case against five oath keepers on trial for plotting to block the peaceful transfer of power. this as a sitting republican senator warns political violence is escalating. that senator says this. i wouldn t be surprised if a senator or a house member were killed. up first for us, though, we count the midterm votes five weeks from tonight and there is a blockbuster development today in one of the senate races critical, absolutely critical to the balance of power here in washington. the daily beast reporting monday afternoon that georgia s republican senate nominee, herschel walker, paid for a woman s abortion back in 2009. walker calls this accusation untrue. it is a flat out lie. and now you know how important this seat is. this seat is very important that they ll do anything to win this seat and lie because they want to make it about everything else except what the true problems that we have in this country is. this inflation. the border wide
morning. we re probably still another three to four days left in search and rescue and recovery, so that s a rough time frame that could go in either direction. these are not numbers. this is family members, people didn t just lose their homes. we can rebuild a home. we can get another boat, but when you lose a loved one, there s just no words that can describe how we feel for that family. so we hope and pray those numbers stay as low as possible. more than 430,000 people remain without power across florida, and some in places like fort myers beach and sanibel island could be without power for more than a month. crews are already trying to reconnect the hurricane ravaged barrier islands to the mainland, a temporary gravel bridge to pine island could be done by the end of the week. cnn s boris sanchez is there in lee county. boris, we know that it will take months, if not years to put these communities back together. what s the latest on that path that you know now? re