hello and warm welcome to our viewers joining us in the united states and all around the world. joinings you live from london, just ahead on cnn newsroom. we all know in our bones that our democracy is at risk. i know the democrats want de democracy on the ballot but joe biden is on the ballot and the american people are on the ballot. i believe that we are the land of opportunity. i believe we re the land of plenty. wake up, show up, and speak up and vote red. vote american. i will probably have to do it again, but stay tuned. it is monday, november 7th, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 a.m. on the u.s. east coast. we re a little more than 24 hours away from polling opening across america in election where the stakes couldn t be higher. this will be the first major vote following the pandemic, the january 6th capitol riot and the reversal of roe versus wade and one that comes as the state of the economy remains a top issue. fououour presidents past and pr
hurricane ian, and now questions are growing about why officials waited to order mandatory evacuations. and the person who helped recruit the migrants is a former u.s. army counterintelligence agent. so who is she? let s go out front. good evening, i m erin burnett. out front tonight, putin s chaos. this video shows one of the ambushes destroying three russian tanks. and videos posted online by ukraine s defense ministry show one town after another being liberated. you see the flags flying over the key city of lyman. the losses are leaving putin s forces in a state of chaos in. a story you ll see first out front, russian recruits are revealing the reality of putin s war. some claiming they were given no training before being shipped. and his commander telling the new recruits that it doesn t matter if they have hernias or plates in their heads, they re if fit to fight. putin throwing them in the line of fire as his options narrow. he s growing more desperate, threatening
this morning millions of americans are waking up waiting and wondering where is the help they need? where is that covid relief bill? the short answer, still making its way to the house with the senate expected to send it over as soon as today. when we expect the final vote and when you can expect a check to hit your bank account. i don t know how i would have survived without the extra amount. it s a godsend. president biden promising to sign it as soon as he gets it and getting ready to make his first prime time address as president. marking one full year since the country shut down. and we are live in minneapolis inside this courtroom, day two of the murder trial of former police officer derek chauvin, with jury selection set to start for real this time any minute. the drama over whether to add to third degree murder charge and the controversial defense that led george floyd s sister to walk out. that is where we start live in minneapolis where jury selection is set t
went from voting in person to voting early absentee has everything to do with the fact that in the 2020 election, we were in the middle of a pandemic. and people did not want to go stand in a school auditorium in line with other people and catch covid. so, that was the genesis of this. but trump turned it into something that no one ever thought someone could turn it into, which is an attack on the absentee ballot process. and he was clearly looking for some storyline to protect him if he lost the election. and the result, or it s looking likely these midterms will result in a divided government. that means back to the future? political gridlock? battles over the debt ceiling? political brinkmanship? and is there a way for joe biden to avoid? that is they are run around for him? it s interesting. because the margin in the house of representatives is clearly going to be very small. it will most likely go to the
so those can get signed off on by november 14th. the absentee ballot process also open if people want to vote that way. lastly, we have learned that early voting could begin here as early as november 26th. so people actually won t have to wait until december 6th. they will be able to vote early if they choose. that was really key in the general election. we saw more than 2 million georgians get out and vote early. very popular to do so here. so georgians will have the opportunity to do so then. i think everyone is asking the question of where did those 2 plus percent of votes that went to the libertarian candidate, where did they go, right? did they go to war snok do they go to walker? i wonder what people on the ground are saying. so it s impossible to know for sure. typically libertarian candidates more in line with republicans but this is really a turnout game. this is what it is about. these campaigns now are assessing looking at who turned