i m yasmin vossoughian here in new york city. you hear the music. you have seen the ads. you maybe have gotten one of those text messages, campaign text messages. it means we re almost there. one day away from the midterm elections. this morning with just hours left to make the final pitches, candidates, they are hitting the trail across the country. 42 million americans have already early voted. but it is election day turnout that could make all of the difference. and in a topsy-turvy election year, the issues driving folks run the gamut. the main thing is we vote for people who are willing to accept the results at the ballots. abortion, firearms. inflation. just all the policies and the changes. just cutthroat. try to vote for the lesser of two evils is my way of thinking about it. that last point there, the lesser of two evils, that mind-set can make all the difference. our final round of nbc news polling showing that democrats and republicans are now neck and ne
line, the stakes could not be higher. republicans need to pick up one senate seat and five house seats to take control on capitol hill. a new nbc news poll finds registered voters are tied at 47% when it comes to which party they want to control congress. the poll also finds democrats are closing the enthusiasm gap in this election. voters from both parties highly interested in the elections. we have already seen the enthusiasm play out as more than 41 million americans have already voted by mail or in person through early voting. but that s not stopping the heavy hitters from hitting the campaign trail for one last effort to rally support. president biden will travel to maryland to push for democrats, while former president donald trump will rally republicans in ohio. we re also keeping a close watch on two states that could determine control of the senate. pennsylvania and georgia. that is where we begin this hour. i want to bring in nbc news correspondent mora barrett from
of donald trump s top allies now says he s ready to testify. plus, president zelensky message to russia on a deadly strike in an apartment building in ukraine. live from cnn, this is cnn newsroom. thank you for joining us, japan is preparing to form a leader just hours after his party won big in parliamentary elections. a private wake will be held about three hours from now, followed by funeral service tuesday afternoon. u.s. secretary of state anthony lincoln made an unscheduled trip to tokyo to pay his respects. during his time in office, he really took the relationship between our countries to new heights. as i share with our colleagues we saw in him something rare. a man who had the vision and the ability to realize that vision. but mostly, i came because more than allies, we are friends. and when a friend is hurting, other friends show up. in the meantime we are learning new details about the suspect and his anger over an unnamed group he thought they were conn
You think . I thought it was a heart attack, i thought somebody had a heart attack. I thought somebody had a heart atta attack. I cant do this. Im feeling really sick. Can you tell us when you saw him stop, what happened . Oh, man. I stopped, he was going, he was going on i was shaking, i couldnt deal with this, he kept going people were getting hit, one after the other. I saw people getting hit one by one. Where did you see him climb the sidewalk . Right on the sidewalk. Where did he get on the sidewalk . He started from around here. Its the first one, started over there. Oh, my god, wow i cant do this any more, im sorry. Thank you so much for that. Ali was about 100 meters away. This is incredibly difficult to listen to these different eyewitnesss, describe what has amounted to a gruesome scene in toronto. Careening down the sidewalk. Were going to come back to this in a moment. That waffle house suspect is in custody. Theyre about to brief the press on how they got him. At 1 07 this
it will be the last such eclipse until 2025. it happens when the moon, earth and the son are aligned and the moon passes into earth s shadow. total lunar eclipses are known as blood moons because of the red coloring caused by the earth s atmosphere. it will last from just after 5:00 a.m. to almost 7:00 a.m. eastern. if you get a chance to see it, see it because it won t happen until 2025. that wraps up the hour for me. i m jose diaz-balart reporting from new york. thank you for the privilege of your time. yasmin vossoughian picks up with more news right now. good morning, everybody. we re here. we have made it. one day out.