one of the few remaining swing congressional districts new york s 19th went democratic. at least far moment in time, he was a snapshot of america s political mood. a swing district won by obama and then trump and then biden voted to send democrat pat ryan to washington. ryan ran on abortion right. his republican opponent focussed on the economy and crime. and now a midterm election that is just 73 days away and once seemed a fore gone conclusion, a republican takeover of the house and the senate, is much more uncertain. as jonathan weissman pointed out the new york times this week, republicans need just five seats to win the house. and their candidates are in strong positions to win the bulk of nine districts that mr. trump would have won easily two years ago if the new maps had been in place. seven of those nine seats do not have a democratic incumbent to defend them. here is another way to look at it. the nonpartisan cook political report rates 10 democratic seats as lean
city. they want to get to work. they don t want to stay in shelters. they want to contribute to society. the hurdles keeping migrants from earning a living and the legal battle between states as officials call for the federal government to step in. plus, california is pumping the brakes on the sale of new gasoline powered cars. this is a historic moment. when the state wants dealerships to stop selling them and concerns over an influx of electric vehicles. we re going back to the moon to stay, to live, to learn. and count down to launch as america aims a return to the moon. newsroom starts right now. good morning, everyone. it is saturday, august 27th. i m amara walker. good morning, amara. great to be with you. i m boris sanchez. you are live in the cnn newsroom, and we re grateful to have you. former president donald trump is dismeing details from the affidavit used to search his mar-a-lago estate, and he s renewing calls for a special master to review t
donald trump s mar-a-lago home. in it, shocking new details. the fbi telling a judge that there is probable cause to believe that additional documents that contained classified ndi or the presidential records subject to record retention requirements currently remain at the premises. there is also probable cause to believe that evidence of obstruction will be found at the premises. the affidavit also revealing startling details about improperly handled documents that were marked with the highest levels of security clearance. as a former cia guy, it sends chills up and down my spine when i hear that there is hcs information in somebody s basement and not secured. it is really bad. hcs standing for human intelligence control system which is a classification designed to protect people working around the world for the u.s. government. in 14 of the 15 boxes retrieved in january by the national archives, 184 documents had unique classification markings. 67 marked add confidentia
kentucky. it s hard to put into words the amount of devastation that we ve seen. you know, you re talking about some really, really good people here in eastern kentucky don t have a whole lot. and a lot of them have lost everything they ve got. you can hear just sorrow in his voice. the fast rising flood waters forced many people to evacuate, but the storms ended up catching a lot of people by surprise because they happened the middle of the night. and we are learning some really heart breaking stories, like this one in knotts county, four people killed when kids and their parents were forced to go to the roof. the young ones were swept away as their parents tried to hold on. there was a house there and this trailer with this family of six. and it just washed them away. cnn s joe johns joins us live now from hazard, kentucky. you can see some of the damage behind him. joe, tell what you say the latest is. reporter: well, just let me give you an idea, sara, of wher
a busy day today the investigation of the former president and his allies. top of the list, and this is big, cnn learning right now that some members of the trump inner circle or trying to convince him to release surveillance video of fbi agents executing the search warrant at mar-a-lago, the search the turned up 11 sets of classified documents, some marked top secret sci, one of the highest levels of classification. now, we don t know what that surveillance video might show. a source tells cnn aides aren t sure if the former president himself has seen the whole thing, we don t know if it s all just a political plot. that s a safe bet when it comes to the former president, after all. but we do know that they have already seen with the fbi calls an unprecedented number of threats against agents following the mar-a-lago search. that isn t stopping eric trump from teasing a release. you still have these surveillance tape, is that correct? are you allowed to share that with the