Today for to 79 at cardiac. Com or amazon. This is cnn the Worlds News Network thank you so much for joining me this saturday. Im fredricka whitfield, and we begin this hour with our breaking news. Vice president then Kamala Harris has accepted an invitation from cnn to debate former President Trump on October 23. This would be their second meeting on a public like Debate Stage and would take place in the final few weeks of the campaign. After initially rejecting a second debate with harris following his September 10 showdown with her in philadelphia, less quick, trumps suggesting he might be open to another debate saying im quoting him. Maybe if i got in the Right mood and quote the Cnn Debate would mirror the June Debate between Biden And Trump with a similar format in which trump and this time harris would field moderators questions for 90 minutes without a live studio audience. And it would take place at the networks studios in atlanta. Weve got a team of correspondents and analyst
Jessica dean in New York and we begin today with Vice President Kamala Harris agreeing to a october 23rd. Of course, just days before the election, harris is now challenging her political rival to another facetoface showdown. But its trump up for more. Were going to have more on that just a moment. Also Day Trump is campaigning in the key Battleground State of North Carolina as the republican candidate for governor in that state faces a major scandal. With just 45 days to go until Election Day. Cnns Steve Contorno is live in wilmington, North Carolina, where trump just wrapped up that rally. See first off, what did trump say about the possibility of this second debate with Vice President harris . Jessica Donald Trump wasted little time telling this crowd what he thinks of our offer for another debate. He said no, thank you. He said its way too close to the election. And while Vice President harris is eager to debate because shes called losing badly, he sees no reason to do it. Take a l
Developments here, One By one, these states came forward throughout the week to say that they got envelopes that were mailed to them that contained some substance that they thought was concerning some places had to be evacuated the fbi so far has said that it seems to be relatively innocuous, but its got people rattled and worried. This is what were talking about when we say over and over that election, workers are facing threats like never before thankfully, no one got hurt and the fbi is looking into it to try to figure out who was responsible but officials from both parties have said that this is just making it harder for them to do their jobs, right . Marshall cohen. Thank you so much. The next hour of Cnn Newsroom starts right now. All right. Hello again, everyone. Thank you so much for joining me on Fredricka Whitfield and were following major new developments in the race for the White House moments ago, former President Donald Trump rejected another debate with Vice President Ka
Thereve been fresh explosions in the lebanese capital, beirut, and elsewhere in the country. The Health Ministry says nine people have been killed and more than Three Hundred injured. The lebanese News Agency says that todays explosions involved Walkie Talkies made by The Japanese company icom. As for Yesterdays Wave of blasts, iran has blamed israel for them. And hezbollah, has vowed to retaliate, and the Un Secretary General has warned of a serious risk of a dramatic escalation in the region. While the region waits for hezbollah and Irans Response to this extraordinary development what are the recent events that led to this . The day after hamas gunmen crossed Into israel from gaza on October 8th last Year Hezbollah fired at israeli positions to show solidarity with the palestinians. 8,000 rockets according to israeli officials, have since been launched at northern israel and israeli positions on the golan heights. Israel retaliated with repeated strikes at hezbollah positions in leb