yo your body, but this is the latest from here. i ll send it back to you, jake. bill, thank you so much. now to west new york, new jersey, that s the name of the city, west new york. maria, tell us what the air is like where you are. reporter: yeah, it has been very, very bad throughout the day. things have improved in the last hour, but like the governor of new jersey said in your show earlier, it gets really bad depending on where you are. i want to show you what it looks like. we are really west of new york. that is midtown manhattan across the hudson river right now. you can kind of make out the buildings at this point. earlier today, you couldn t see anything. it was so dense and thick with smoke that it was completely white. it also got very dark hours earlier, to the point where the street lights, as bill weir said, turned on here. the authorities in new jersey are recommending that people stay indoors, that they limit their outdoor active tis. and here in this p
millions over the holidays as a potential travel nightmare awaits. this is cnn news central. this morning, big news out of russia. opposition leader and chief putin critic alexei navalny has been found after simply disappearing for two weeks. now, the head of his anti-corruption foundation now says this morning that navalny is in a penal colony in the far reaches of northwestern siberia, thousands of miles from the jail where he was last known to be located. he was moved from the detention center near moscow where he was serving a 19-year sentence. cnn is following these developments. what is navalny s team saying about this move, how he is, whatever they ve been able to gather? reporter: look, we re getting more details about the situation that alexei navalny is now facing, as you mentioned, he has been moved according to his lawyer and colleagues to the new penal quality in northwestern siberia. there has been mounting concern around the conditions faced by navaln
joining us. i m ana cabrera in new york. fighting for every last vote. more than two weeks from now americans will hit the polls and minutes from now president biden will hit his wins in office but is it enough to keep democrats in power? the president is about to speak to the democratic national committee headquarters. the plan, rev up staffers and talk about the economic agenda. gas prices dropping. here is what he s contending with, inflation still crushing americans out pacing wage growth and mortgage rates have more than doubled. today s speech comes as the latest polling shows voters trust republicans more on the economy right now. cnn phil mattingly is at the white house. why does the president need to rev up democrats at the dnc? reporter: ana, this is as hu much a tradition that should tell you we re close to election day as anything else. when the principle whether the president or the senator, wherever the candidate visiting staffers to rally them to get them goi
take pictures on what it looks like, because it does look like a very eerie movie scene. people who have been working outdoors, we have seen construction workers leave the area, because it s gotten so bad. it s very difficult to breathe. i myself have felt the scratchy throat, the dryness in my throat, and like the authorities say, the best thing you can do at this point is wear a high quality mask if you have to be outside. jake? maria santana in the town of west new york in new jersey. thank you so much for track thing dangerous storm. it s causing flight delays and sending people indoors. meteorologist jennifer gray joins us now. where is the smoke heaviest right now, jennifer? really, the new york area is where it s at its worst. you can see visibility is at 1 1/2 miles. we have seen it down to less than a mile at some points in the afternoon. you can see syracuse under a mile. so really, this area right here
who that will be. also, how long it will take to get her confirmed. the legal and political aspects of that. supreme court reporter ariane de vo vogue. there s an interesting two track thing. he stays until the end of the term but start the process now. right. well, for years, the process was usually between two to three months. there was the pick and then the vet and the nominee would go and visit with all the senators but all that changed, remember, with justice amy coney barrett. the republicans really pushed it, compressed it from announcement to confirmation. it was about 30 days. so you could see here the democrats moving very quickly. they could have hearings, they could even have a vote and then the president wouldn t sign off on the commission until after the term, right? when breyer has finished on the term. on the other hand, timing is interesting because this hearing