Bolduan. Im john berman. Big political news this morning, or huge in donald trump language. So, what happens when a candidate who calls himself a winner is no longer winning . For the first time in a long time, it is happening. A brandnew poll from cbs news and the New York Times shows ben carson surging ahead of donald trump. Carson now has a fourpoint lead nationwide. Yes, thats within the sampling error. Yes, its also the first time in a Major National poll that carson has topped trump, and another yes for you, it all happens on the eve of the next republican president ial debate. Lets bring in cnns political director, david for more on this. Whats behind the change . If you look across every Demographic Group in this poll, guys, you will see the trend you see overall nationally, which is carson is besting trump group after group after group. First women voters, among women voters you can see carson beats trump 27 to 19 . If you look where that came from in october of 2011, carson i
News. The strongest hurricane ever. Hurricane patricia being called the most powerful in recorded history. Look at this picture of the mammoth storm. This was taken from the International Space station. This is a storm defying history in almost every way, exploding overnight from nothing more than a Tropical Storm to a category 5 hurricane. That happened in just 24 hours. Now Hurricane Patricia is about to slam into the Pacific Coast of mexico, with wind speeds at about 200 miles an hour and higher. Gusts well above that. Millions of people, including an unknown number of american tourists, in its path tonight. Desperately trying to evacuate. Obviously, so little time, because no one expected this. Patricia is a catastrophic storm. Forecasters warning the possibility of death and destruction is high. Martin savage begins our coverage outfront tonight in Puerto Vallarta where the storm will make landfall. And obviously, martin, you are minutes, maybe an hour or so away. I know its very
Homeless in areas where u. S. Allies are already grappling with terrorism. And missing work. In an exclusive new interview gop president ial candidate marco rubio criticizes the habits of federal workers but says thats not the same as his own record of missing votes in the u. S. Senate. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. This is cnn breaking news. Breaking news. A direct u. S. Challenge to china in an area of the world where tensions have been nearing the breaking point. President obama gives the go ahead for an american destroyer to pass within 12 miles of chinas manmade islands in the South China Sea. The pentagon is strongly suggesting there will be more u. S. Combat raids in iraq at the same time as we get dramatic new video and new details on the rescue of dozens of hostages at an isis prison stormed by u. S. And Kurdish Forces. A Delta Force Commander was killed in the raid, the First American combat death on the ground in iraq in four years. And theres a new report th
Thanks so much for joining us. Im fredricka whitfield. Breaking news out of oklahoma, where a car careened into a crowd of people watching the Oklahoma State University Homecoming parade in stillwater. The University Spokeswoman said the accident happened at the corner of hall and fame street and main history. No word on how many people were injured yet. Paul simms witnessed the crash and joins me now on the phone. So, paul, describe what you saw. Sure, my daughter and i were watching the end of the parade and out of nowhere, to the right of us, coming southbound, was a grayish vehicle and we were on the opposite side of the street from where this happened, and all of a sudden, we saw i cant describe it anymore clearly than this. People flying in the air. And vehicles stopped shortly after colliding with the bystanders and came to rest not long after they had hit the first set of people. We walked towards the scene, not away from it, initially. And we saw one young woman in her late te
At the Severe Weather center at the cnn center. And jennifer, what has the National Hurricane center said in the very latest advisory . Well, i can tell you, wolf, it is the first time that the National Hillary Clinton Center has ever put winds as high as 200 Miles Per Hour on the advisory and it happened with patricia, and right now the winds are 200 Miles Per Hour, and the gusts of 245 and it is moving quickly at the north to 10 Miles Per Hour, a it is going to continue that track over the next couple of hours, and it is expected to make landfall later this afternoon. I will have to get my producers to help to advance the map, because the button is not working, but if it is going to be continuing through the northern track it is going to be making landfall between Puerto Vallarta and manzanillo through time, and we are talking about dumping massive rain and inkr incredible winds and storm surge will be hitting the island and folks have evacuated or found the strongest structure they