it s 8:00. it s 8:00. good morning. goes by quickly when you have this much news. don lemon, poppy harlow, kaitlan collins. monday, november 7th, election eve. excited? yeah. i m excited. a lot to get to this morning. one more day for the candidates to make their closing arguments before the people decide. we will hear from voters across the country today to see what is on their mind. also some very troubling developments over the weekend. suspicious white powder send to kari lake s campaign headquarters in arizona and opened by one of her staffers. now the arizona republican is speaking out. industries across america are laying off workers in a very uncertain economy. we ll tell you how airlines are responding to the volatile. we have the ceo of delta in this hour. first, the final days of the campaign trail, we ll talk about that. president biden stomping for democrats who have one notable thing in common. they are all taking on republican opponents who
stories this morning. the last jobs report out just this morning. just before the midterms showing the u.s. economy added 261,000 jobs in october. and the economy and inflation major concerns for voters with the elections now just four days away. so far across 46 states, more than 30 million americans have already cast their vote in early voting. this weekend several notable names are hitting the campaign trail. including a joint rally with president biden and former president obama in the crucial state and it is tight there of pennsylvania. former president trump, he ll be in florida. and new this morning, details about trump s own political ambitions for the next election. cnn has learned he s eyeing the third week of november for a 2024 announcement. our reporters and correspondents and analysts standing by to bring you all of the headlines. let s begin with kristin holmes about trump s 2024 plans. talk about what the next election is going to look like? what do we know.
. what do you think of the testing the faa has done so far? i don t think it reflects real world standards. reporter: senator tammy duckworth who lost both legs serving in iraq introduced legislation that would require testing. if there s a rush for the exits i don t think i could fight my way out in an orderly manner and that s my real concern. reporter: more than 26,000 people filed comments about the size of airline seats. the word torture appears more than 200 times. six other u.s. senators said that testing s most glaring flaw was not accounting for real world conditions. we re going to try to minimize the variables to the ones that are important for this particular test. reporter: that meant solely looking at different seat sizes with able bodies adults in groups of 60 who have no bags and face no obstacles. it s going to slow down evacuations when the rows in seats are closer together and smaller. reporter: captain sully
i know you said delta has not made their seats smaller. right. the faa you believe this is ultimately up to them. should they regulate the seat sizes? the faa already tests seat sizes and compliance. anytime you change anything on aircraft the faa has to approve it. right. delta hasn t changed seat sizes in years. the only changes we have made is to make them bigger, extra room. every plane we are taking today and this year we will take probably 75 planes, we are having one-third of our planes with extra large seating, delta one, comfort plus. that s where the economy is going. if there was a lesson, you re talking about lessons from the pandemic one of the real lessons is people value their experience on our brand and so and by the way they re willing to pay a premium for that. did you think you would be able to get out of when you were leading during covid i know there were days you were wondering what is going to happen here. did you think you would be sitting here
american they see oil companies making record profits, airline prices going up but yet they see you on here saying we re doing well. we re doing well on revenue. we are not anywhere close to record profits, i just want to be clear of that. we are down meaningfully in terms of profits because we don t have our full demand set back in terms of the utilization of the aircraft and fuel prices are really high. the talk about possible inflation is that hurting you at all? on the margin. the thing with inflation is also there s currency effects. so the other thing we re seeing is we re seeing more demand in europe amid possible recession. sorry, go on. the possibility of a recession, is that again, i think it s more of a business traveller that would be mindful of that, but business travel is already down. the other thing with the recession is that typically when recessions hit oil prices start to subside. right. so we re a bit hemgd for that. quickly, can we ask you