what exactly do we expect to hear from him? reporter: yeah, that s right, bianna. president biden is going to be tackling head on what has become a political liability for democrats less than three weeks away from these midterm elections and that s the price of gas in the united states, which is now 20 cents higher than it was a month ago. we have seen those prices come down some over the last week, but there are still a lot of concerns, especially given the cut in production announced by opec plus earlier this month, the conflict that is still ongoing in ukraine and so president biden today trying to do something to tackle the rising price of oil and in accordance with that the rising price of gas. 15 million barrels of oil is what president biden is directing the administration to release from the strategic petroleum reserve and that is going to be the last of the 180 million barrels of oil that president biden announced last spring that the administration would release t
august to crack down on supposed voter fraud. the state of florida has charged and is in the process of arresting 20 individuals across the state for voter fraud. these folks voted illegally in this case and there s going to be other grounds for other prosecutions in the future. they are disqualified from voting because they ve been convicted of either murder or sexual assault. reporter: oliver is a convicted felon, she served 20 years in state prison for second-degree murder according to her attorney mark rankin. her attorney told cnn oliver was approached at a bus stop on the way to work by someone registering voters and she told them she was a felon. rankin says the person then told oliver she could fill out the form and if she was eligible she would get a voter registration card. he says oliver later received a voter registration card in the mail and, therefore, thought she was eligible to vote. the guy told me that i
reporter: miller a convicted felon who served time for murder also says he received a voter id card in the mail and was arrested in august for allegedly violating the state s voting laws. u.s. marshal like this. my house surrounded. reporter: and, bianna, an important detail here, here in florida in the state the law requires the state to notify local election supervisors if someone is convicted of a felony or if someone is not eligible to vote. in the five counties where these individuals were arrested, cnn checked in with the supervisors of elections and they told us that they were not notified by the state that these arrested individuals were not eligible to vote. all right. leyla santiago, thank you for bringing us that report. well, this week students in one of the florida counties hit hardest by hurricane ian are beginning to return to school.
editor nic robertson is in kyiv. we want to talk about those explosions in just a moment but first explain exactly what this martial law declaration means for the people in those four regions. reporter: it s going to be they will be under the command and direction through law of the military in those areas. for example, this morning the civilian residents, ukrainian residents of the now annexed illegally annexed kherson were told by text message that they should evacuate the city, the implication is that they need to move to safer areas inside of russia. that text message it appears now will be and we are still waiting for clarification from russian authorities on this, but oftentimes the language of these statements is shrouded in ambiguity, but it would on the face of it mean that this is no longer a request for them to leave, it s a legal demand that they get out of their homes and leave the city of kherson and some of the surrounding areas.
[ inaudible ]. like i said, i don t i don t know what happened. all i know is that you have a warrant and all it does is say you have a warrant and i ve got to go arrest you. reporter: her attorney says, quote, she served her time and got out and she got out around the time that amendment 4 was passed which affected the rights of felons to vote. her understanding was that felons had their rights restored. oliver pleaded not guilty to the illegal voting charge and has a trial set for december. these were the first arrests by governor ron desantis newly formed florida office of elections crimes and security which was an agency created to probe alleged voting irregularities. almost immediately after the charges were filed questions surfaced about whether the individual knew that they were violating the law by voting. cnn affiliate wplg spoke to one of the individuals arrested, ronald miller. i got it out the mailbox thinking that my rights were restored as the guy told me when i