away and amara, we can see the finish line now. yes, we can. it feels like it s been a long last several weeks. we are finally here. this is the last weekend of campaigning before tuesday s elections as the candidates and their surrogates make their final push for votes. in the battle for control of the senate it comes down to a handful of key states, including pennsylvania. president biden, barack obama and donald trump all campaigning in the state today. the president keeping his focus on democracy and the economy. he says he is optimistic about the midterms, but polling has indicated that the momentum is on republicans side. another race that could decide who controls the senate is in georgia between senator raphael warnock and former football star herschel walker. millions of voters have already cast their ballots. in fact, early voting is up compared to the 2018 midterms. almost 35 million people in 47 states have voted early. and our reporters and correspondents
the belief among democrats that a horrible political climate is improving some. plus, a high stakes trip. multiple officials now tell cnn the house speaker nancy pelosi will touch down in taiwan, ignoring dramatic warnings from china. and this week, democrats promised to put a vets bill back on the floor a second time. that after republican rejection prompts angry viral protests. we begin the hour, though, with death and devastation and sadness in kentucky. more heavy rain coming tonight and adding to the already historic and destructive flooding. at least 30 people are dead, including these four children, 2, 4, 6, and 8 years old and swept away when strong flood waters ripped them from their parents. the governor says they will, quote, be finding bodies for we weeks. certainly the deadliest and most devastating of my lifetime. we can now confirm we have lost 30 kentuckians to this flooding and that is going to grow. we know about additional bodies beyond these 30 confirmed
donald trump has convinced his supporters agencies nonpartisan public servants are out to get him. after the fbi search false claims about records stored at the national archives facility. set aside for use of president obama s presidential library. sitting a person familiar with the situation, a report quotes on friday the hoffman estates, police departed increased patrols around the building after a spike online chatter regarding the facility. this comes after the fbi the department of homeland security warned the spike in threats to federal law enforcement and the days after the mar-a-lago search. republicans continue to defend trump s actions and congressman adam kinzinger called out their loyalty and had this message for trump supporters today. the hypocrisy of folks in my party that spent years chanting lock her up about hillary clinton because of some deleted emails or quote unquote wiping a server are now out there defending a man who very clearly did not take the
the material was marked with the highest levels of classification that exists, material that is meant to be held only in secure government facilities not at a private club where basically anyone can pay for membership and wander around. arguably, the agent s most alarming finding that we were able to see in this redacted version was that the boxes contained classified information that came from human intelligence sources meaning if the documents were mishandled, leaked or transmitted they could compromise the identity of american intelligence assets and the affidavit also lays out why doj had good reason not to believe or trust trump and his lawyers knowing that back in february of this year, after the archives notified congress that there was classified material and what they got back from mar-a-lago, trump put out a statement that very fact. investigators write this, quote, there is probable cause to believe that additional documents that contain classified national defense