bill to avoid a government shutdown at midnight. and with respiratory viruses on the rise and kids medicine harder to find, we ll look at how to keep your family safe during the holidays. we begin this morning with the dangerous winter storm battering much of the country that has up ended holiday travel for many americans. this morning more than 200 million americans are still under some kind of weather warning orred a size ri. the storm continues to move east expected to bring powerful winds and bitterly freezing temperatures after dumping blind ing snow on parts of the midwest. hundreds of thousands of people are without power this morning. meteorologists have categorized the storm as a bomb cyclone. the storm disrupting travel for folks looking to head out for the holiday weekend. according to flight aware, there are already more than 3,000 flight cancellations and more than 2,000 delays in the u.s. joinings us now is shaq brewster in michigan and meteorologist agie lasm
a margin of air ahead of a much anticipated debate there tuesday night. so is a gop weight on november 8 possible after all? was asked republican pollster strategist ed is a partner at the tarrance group. nice to see you again. so, first of all i want to ask you about the public mood. the right track numbers, the polling 25%. can you recall a time especially for an election when the public was in such a sour mood? there was a period in the spring we saw the numbers move slightly worse. in fact wrong track when over 70% for the first time in the 40 years i ve been doing polling and watching it. it was basically because the progressives of the democratic party had become disenchanted with the president on not moving their agenda. but when the supreme court case came out they kind of moved back in that direction. and that now seems to be hovering in this over two one margin wrong track belief by the there. which is one of the worst if not the worst i ve seen in off year electi
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they were being too fickle. for us to question every element, no, we re not doing that. she made a great point that when she was a republican she did not see that. they did fall in line more, she said. they showed up and they just voted for an r. democrats, you know, dissect and analyze. there s a color coded chart of where you fit. a flow chart and figure how it can be better. tomorrow when you tune in, you re going to hear who they would like to run in 2024 instead of joe biden. so tune in for that. it s the top of the hour with cnn newsroom, i m alisyn camerota. i m victor blackwell. flashing red warning signs suggest the risk of federal prosecution may be increasing for former president donald trump. the department of justice has escalated its probe into january 6th. the washington post reports that the doj is directly investigating trump s actions. federal prosecutors are now targeting high profile players in trump s inner circle. they ve questioned two top aid