cultural and economic fallout. we have new information on that terrifying shooting at a missouri high school and how it could have been even more tragic when a 19-year-old stormed in with a long gun and hundreds of rounds of many ain admmunition. plus it s crunch time in the midterm campaign, two weeks to go, and warning signs of piling up for democrats as key races tighten, including one that do determine who holds the senate. tonight the nation will be watching as democrat john fetterman and mehmet oz face off in the only debate for that critical pennsylvania senate race. jeff zeleny is in harrisburg and athena jones is with us in new york following a closer than expected new york governor s contest. let s first go to the action in pennsylvania. jeff, what s the pulse there right now? reporter: there s no doubt this senate race has been a marquee race of the cycle. tonight s debate is a marquee event. th th it s the only time these two candidates will come face to fac
hello. i m pamela brown. welcome to cnn newsroom. the historic storm the new york governor called the blizzard of the century has now killed 25 people in the buffalo area. and a top erie county official says that number is likely to rise. he said the conditions have been so severe, their own rescuers needed rescuing. intense winds created whiteout conditions as 43 inches of snow dropped in just 24 hours. listen to what one family with four young kids faced, after they lost power and went in search of a heated hotel room. it was very intense. we tried to keep it together for as long as possible. because we didn t want to fight. it was like looking at a white piece of construction paper. you couldn t see anything at all. like absolutely nothing until you were probably about a foot away from even cars. with their bright lights on. you just couldn t see anything. not yellow traffic signs, not traffic. you couldn t see anything. you couldn t see a traffic light. you have t
happening on the border no closer than griff jenkins in mexico right now and their side of the border, thanks are things are getting worse and rampant there. we re in mexico and witnessed multiple times this morning of smugglers moving the migrants across. i want to you see this, by the way, this is a rope that you can see that literally been tied together for the migrants in the dark hours to take into the water to go across and this over here is the u.s. side. that s where we have seen groups for the last 24 hours we ve been here crossing all day, every day. a smuggler tells me that the border is quote, open, and he also says that to cross this river about 500 to $1500 u.s. dollars, but then if you want to be picked up and taken to san antonio or houston, upwards of 9 to $10,000. let me show you a drone shot, some footage of the group that crossed right at this location several hours ago. our drone on the u.s. side eagle pass was able to get a shot of that. this is part
anita vogel. remember title 42, the supreme court weighs what comes next. those numbers are expected to surge if the policy is lifted. art del cueto says drugs and criminal cartels will explode as well. correspondent jeff paul. hi, jeff. anita, with title 42 set to expire last week, many went to the border hoping for a better chance to get in. but the supreme court announcing a hold until it hears the case, it s leaving thousands in the cold not knowing what to do next. we turned ourselves into immigration authorities, immigration expelled us because what they told us is that everything from central america is closed off. we are waiting for title 42 to be nullified. even with the frigid weather, the number is not slowing down. from friday to sunday, 16,476 encounters over the span of those three days. roughly 2100 were expelled under title 42, the remaining 14,000 were released. busiest sector was del rio, more than 4,000, followed by el paso, more than 3,000, and yuma,
governor and tomorrow in the contest for senate in pennsylvania. nearly 7.3 million people have already cast their ballots in 39 states according to one analysis. right now, president biden is making his pitch to voters. he s hoping to shift the momentum away from republicans. a new analysis of the political landscape in these final weeks shows republicans are making late gains as they try to win back control of the house. white house correspondent jeremy diamond is with us now. give us details on what the president is saying. reporter: president biden is delivering right now what he termed a closing argument here as we are just about two weeks from election day. the president, though, isn t in the battleground states where you might expect him to be delivering that kind of closing argument. he s at democratic party headquarters where he said his goal is to try to energize the organizers who are calling into those battleground states, the staff at the democratic party who