based on a fox news poll, the field has catching up to do. how is this race shaking up? let s go to julia manchester, kristen hahn and gop pollster lee carter. lee, start with you. governor desantis getting ready for a week where he will go to iowa, new hampshire, south carolina. they sound familiar. how important is it that he makes traction in those states? it s critical. he s message has to get big traction. it didn t last week. he s got a big job ahead of him. he has in many ways to reset his campaign. the last two months, he s been dropping in the polls. his excuse, he s not finally run yet. this is not official. now he has to make the case that he s the right man for the job. he has to focus on the economy, focus on inflation and stop focusing on the woke wars. that s what hurt himself the last two months and this will be chris call for people hearing him in a different way. julia, that underscores the challenge for governor desantis. the woke wars are probably crit
lexi, it s such a powerful statement, and the little girl, the little girl who survived by bathing herself in the blood of her best friend who had been shot already to survive. garrett haake, what are your thoughts? reporter: i mean, calling it gut-wrenching doesn t do it justice. miah, the girl who survived, participating remotely from texas having made the decision not to travel here to testify, to me it s the little details of each of those witnesses that kind of caught in my throat, whether it s miah talking about hiding behind the backpacks in the classroom, as though that would do anything, and the doctor talking about treating a girl in a lilo & stitch shirt covered in blood. and lexi won the good citizenship award on the morning she was shot in her classroom. for many people it s too easy to think about these issues in these very broad ways. hearing parents talk about those kinds of specific details, the doctor talking in those specific details, i think that s what
And you can bring your own device. Oh, and all on the most reliable 5g Mobile Network nationwide. Wireless that works for you. Its not just possible. Its happening. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to cnn this morning. It is saturday, september 30th. Yes, the last day of the month. Im a. Mara walker. And the last day of the month going out with a bang. Im omar jimenez. Thank you for spending part of your morning with us. Were watching a lot. We are hours away from a potential Government Shutdown. Lawmakers still cant agree on a deal to fund the government past midnight. The lastditch efforts are underway to keep that from happening. Submerging cars, Disrupting Mass Transit and opting water rescues. Well show you the damage left behind and where were tracking more rain this morning. Border security has become a major Sticking Point in the fight over a Government Funding deal. Were joined by one congressman who is seeing the impacts of the Migrant Surge firsthand and says the city is in d
a greater risk to civilians. what u.s. intel is saying about how many are being used. and in about face for the former new york mayor. rudy giuliani backing down from testifying at his defamation trial. closing arguments underway as we speak. following these major developing stories and more all coming here to cnn news central. counterterror agencies have been on high alert in wake of the hamas attacks on october 7th and the ongoing war with israel. today, officials of several european countries have made terror-related arrests. details are still coming in, but here is what we know as of right now. german authorities say they have arrested long-standing hamas members for an alleged terror plot. officials in denmark have apparently made what they call unrelated terrorists. let s bring in cnn s fred pleitgen in berlin. there are so many moving parts here, it s a little confusing. tell us what we are learning from germany about all of this. reporter: first of all you
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