taking calipari up on his invitation and catching a home game. love that story. i love it. cnn s coverage continues right now. good morning. i m erica hill. we begin with news just in to cnn. the u.s. economy growing in the third quarter and beating expectations. the gdp, a key indicator of economic activity, rising by an annualized rate of .6%, the first period of positive growth this year following two back-to-back quarters of decline. cnn chief business correspondent christine romans with us now. this is a little better than expectations. we were expecting to see a little bump here put it in context for us. this is american consumers, they weren t buying as many couches and tvs. they were dining out, going on trips. you saw how people were spending their money changed a little bit. it was a bounceback from the doldrums of the first half of the year. the big question is it the bump before the slump? the fed has been raising interest rates very, very aggressively. co
john, thank you very much. and you guys, everyone is not going to want to miss this. new cnn original series, giuliani, what happened to america s mayor, premiers this sunday, back to back episodes. cnn this morning continues now. i would love to know, but we re working through it and made progress today. three days into this, the longest since the 1850s. well, i have the longest speech on the floor so i like to make history. another round, but the question is, is it the last call for kevin mccarthy? good morning, everyone. caitlyn live in washington, d.c. at capitol hill once again. this is becoming my new home. i miss you guys. do i still have a chair in the studio? bring her chair back. she s coming back on monday. i swear if you re not here, we re coming there. yeah, it s remarkable. day four of the speaker s election. don, as you see what s playing out here. it certainly is. the house will be on their 12th vote when they reconvene in just a few hours. m
acres. reporter: as far as these farmers are concerned, they see americans need to decide where we want our food to be grown because the cost of growing these fruits, these vegetables is going up. if we want to know where our food is coming from, they re saying we need to be able to vote for that with what we buy at the grocery store because nay can t compete with prices coming out of other countries. nothing scheduled for that one farmer for next year. shows how scary it can be. great to see you. new day continues right n now. russia unleashing a deadly wave of kamikaze drone attacks on kyiv. i m breaianna keilar. alex marquardt in for john berman. loud explosions rocking the cap capital. so what you re seeing here in this video appears to be an iranian shahed drone coming under fire in kyiv. cnn has not been able to confirm the location. the drones were targeting ukraine s energy infrastructure just before the onset of winter. kyiv and washington have accused
focus onhis opponent s health. focused on the issues. speak let s talk about the elephant in the room. i had a stroke. he s never let me forget that. i might miss some words during this debate, but it knocked me down and i m going to keep coming back up. this campaign to me is about fighting for everyone in pennsylvania whoever got knocked down. john fetterman during this crime wave has been trying to get as many murderers out of jail as possible. his radical positions extend beyond crime. to legalize all drugs, open the border, raising our taxes. i want washington to be civil again. we needed to be less radical peer john fetterman would not bring that. todd: live with the latest on this and the other high stick debates happening overnight. john fetterman and dr. mehmet oz s long-awaited debate was not short on drama. using closed captioning after suffering a stroke earlier this year was confronted about his previous conflicting statements on fracking. listen. you hav
top of the hour on cnn newsroom. good to have you along. i m victor blackwell. and i m bianna golodryga. today s final jobs report before election day was just what the white house was hoping for. 261,000 jobs beating expectations from economists, but not too high to further drive up inflation. this goldilocks number helps the president make the case for his party in the final sprint to november 8th. former president trump is also on the campaign trail. he ll be in pennsylvania tomorrow pushing for the republican in one of the tightest races for senate that is key to determining who will control congress. pennsylvania has seen more than 1 million votes cast and is just one of several key battleground states where the early vote appears to be record-breaking. in total, more than 34 million americans have already cast their ballots. cnn s correspondents are following it all. we begin in the neck-and-neck race for senate. today is the final day of early in-person vot