people, till midterm elections, really two weeks from today we ll know a lot more. anyway i ll move on. the midterms are coming in 13 days and you ve got mayors and law enforcement officials who are getting a new warning sadly about election intimidation. you ve got extremists looking to disrupt midterms at the local level targeting voters, candidates, election workers according to axios. let s bring in our panel. cnn chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst john miller, new york democratic congressman jones and senior political analyst ron brownstein. when we think of extremism, i think we think in terms of january 6th , the insurrection, something on a national scale. locally there are all sorts of examples of people being intimidated and just awful things happening. here are a few examples coming from axios. in 50 out of 67 pennsylvania counties election chiefs have left because of threats, harassment and intimidation. in idaho protesters hung an effigy at a republ
floods. and the iaea says a team is traveling to ukraine s nuclear power plant amid a looming catastrophe. we ll bring you the latest on the attack with those fears. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom, with rosemary church. good to have you with us. for nearly 50 years since apollo 17, nasa is taking its first steps to sending astronauts back to the moon. you are looking at live pictures of the launch pad at kennedy space center in florida, where the scheduled launch window for the artemis one window is a few hours away. the unmanned mission to the moon is the first of several in the years ahead. eventually the goal is to return astronauts to lunar surface for the first time since the final apollo mission in 1972. and ultimately, nasa hopes to some day land the first humans on mars. as of now, scientists are aiming for 2025 for that return to the moon surface. a mission which would include the first woman to make the voyage. cnn s rachel cain shows us, the capsule
ivanka, the latest trump to take the witness stand. what donald trump s eldest daughter just said about her father s allegedly inflated net worth and various financial statements. and the u.s. warning israel against re-occupying gaza. so who should govern the palestinian people if israel is successful in eliminating hamas? and a, quote, complete failure. some top republicans blasting party strategy after last night s elections. we are following these major developing stories and many more, all coming in right here to cnn news central. in just a few moments, ivanka trump is expected to re-take the witness stand, testifying in the trump organization s $250 million civil fraud trial. so far, she s faced about 2 1/2 hours of questioning from a new york attorney general s office, with a major focus on her father s past financial statements and how he allegedly inflated them to get favorable loans. let s get an update with cnn s chief legal affairs correspondent, paula reid. c
And clover flex, for when you need to take credit cards is dropping precipitously. The industry bracing for huge when no one carries cash. Losses. Dozens of schools also shutting down across the country. Or requesting a call to help get a new credit card Major Companies like facebook one that hasnt followed the family goldfish. And amazon telling tens of thousands of employees not to come to work, to stay home and do their work from there. Pnc make today the day. The president s claims about the virus clashing with the science. Contradicting both the World Health Organization and the cdc about the death rate of coronavirus. Were covering this story from coast to coast. Lets begin with our correspondent dan simon. He joins us in San Francisco. What can you tell us . Poppy, jim, ive been talking to some of the passengers on board that grand princess cruise ship. Most seem to be taking things in stride. Some are feeling anxious not knowing what the immediate future is going to look like.
Has undermined local leaders stayathome orders and thats just for starters. Nbc news correspondent bill neely is with us from rio. Bill, did we get that about right . You did, brian. And i should explain where i am, first of all, we are at a cemetery in rio de janeiro, with the permission of the authorities and with the permission of the families, six funerals have taken place in about the last hour and just about to be buried is Oscar Stearns from boston. Hes lived here for 50 years, hes 64 years old, and he is one of 807 people in brazil who have died of coronavirus in the last 24 hours, making brazil the country with the highest daily death toll in the world. As you say, it has just overtaken the United States in the last 24 hours. And i was struck, brian, by what one of your guests said just a few minutes ago, that the actions of a president are important, because they set an example to people in that country and as youve outlined, president bolsonaro says, forget about the lockdow