details about a halloween knife attack that left more than a dozen injured on a train in tokyo. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. good to have you with us. well, world leaders will be gathering in glasgow in the hours ahead for a summit set to tackle the urgent challenges of climate change. the u.n. s cop26 conference is kicking off just as the g20 meeting wrapped up in rome on sunday. leaders there ended their summit with an agreement on climate, but no firm pledges. several key goals included ending coal financing by year s end, and containing global warming to 1.5 degrees celsius above preindustrial levels. now, the pressure is on for cop26 to deliver more than just the usual empty promises on climate. the british prime minister is expected to say it s time to move from aspiration to action to limit rising temperatures, and take concrete steps to phase out coal. among the key goals for cop26, secures global net zero by mid-century, and
scientists say it s a crisis. a success is enough emission reductions to keep warming below 2 degrees. good evening. i m jessica dean in washington. pamela brown has the night off. a major test for democrats in the post trump era. terry mcauliffe and glenn youngkin are blitzing virginia. it could provide valuable insight about voter sentiment ahead of the midterm elections. the race right now is neck and neck even though joe biden won the commonwealth by 10 percent taj points a year ago but the approval rating is sliding. just 42% of americans are okay with the job performance. eva, let s start with you. right now this evening what is youngkin saying to win the last undecided votes? reporter: youngkin centered the parents matter message as a strategy. he is sort of speaking to parents who are frankly exhausted. many who have never felt so isolated from the schools, especially during this time of the pandemic. some voicing frustrations with mask mandates. others part of
Are blitzing virginia. the outcome could provide valuable insight about voter sentiment ahead of next year s mid-term elections when control of congress hangs in the balance. cnn s arlet saenz has more. reporter: democrat terry mc mccullf making his case directly to the state president biden won by 10 points years ago. now he s in an incredibly tight race with his gop opponent. he touted his record as he served as a former governor here in the state pointing to the jobs he created while he serves as governor. but he also slammed his gop opponent glen youngkin calling him clueless and dangerous for the commonwealth.
It is a sprint to the finish in virginia. making the closing arguments on why they should be governor. on day one i will absolutely declare that virginia s open for business. do you really want parents here sending the child to first grade without the teachers vaccinated or wears a masks? no! that s what you ve got with him. president biden wrapping up meetings in italy. what we have seen here again in rome the power of america showing up and working with an i lies to make progress in issues that matter to all of us. rising temperatures. extreme flooding. drought. sign t
Donald trump captured the region by nearly 70% but still traveling everywhere because this is about turnout and neither candidate can turn a stone unturned. now arlette, macauliffe is campaigning against trump and how much is president biden casting a shadow on the campaign, as well? reporter: that s a big question of this election is whether this will be a referendum on president biden s first year in office, particularly with those independent voters who may have sided with him and now viewing the prospects of another democratic governor coming into office if mcauliffe pulls out the election and spent the weekend trying to promote the governor here in virginia, the jobs created and gone after the