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weeks. also tonight, hundreds of homes in colorado are gone. consumed by this vicious wildfire that forced thousands to flee. we are gerting new details on the fast-moving disaster. beloved actress betty white has died just shy of her 100th birthday. we ll look back at her remarkable life, her iconic roles and how she became a pop culture phenomenon late in life. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. wolf blitzer is off today. i m poppy harlow. this is the situation room special report. let s begin with the covid-19 surge and the grim pandemic forecast for the start of the new year. senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen has the latest. good evening to you. how much worse could this get as we head into the first few weeks of the new year? poppy, it s going to get worse because omicron is such an incredibly transmissible variant. we are just seeing cases skyrocketing. let s take a look. if we look backwards at the peak fo ....
murphy, eking out a win. much closer than expected. cnn has just projected the win for murphy, by more than 22,000 votes. even though this is a big surprise, if it holds, you do have to give murphy a little bit of a nod. because he will be, would be, the first democratic governor to get a second straight term in four decades. but because this was so close, when polls showed murphy leading comfortably, it has to add to the concerns for democrats. you have this, you have virginia, and you have other strong signals that they need to listen to. now, i am going to give you something a little different, all right? i ve been watching the coverage all day just like you. i m not here to beat up on the democrats. they do that far too well themselves. and i m not here to say we learned something new last night, like so many in the media. because we didn t. here s what i see. the simple rules of politics still apply. democrats were given a mandate to get things done. they haven t. ....
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sick and tired of us putting weak people in washington representing you and they re not doing it. in november we re not just going to see a red wave. we re going to see a tsunami. i ve been pushing to take the republican party in a different direction. that s why i got in here. i could not sit back and watch this train reck happen. my motto of one georgia is not a gimmick. it is a guarantee. i m confident about my chances tomorrow. and because i stood on the truth. let s begin the hour right there. democracy at work as we speak. polls open in georgia, texas, alabama, arkansas, minnesota. all holding primary or runoff elections. two trump grudge matches here in georgia. they get the most attention, but the power of the bush brand tested in a texas runoff. we ll get clues about the shifting politics of abortion rights from a house runoff in southwest texas. i hope you ll stay with us throughout the day. this race here, this georgia republican primary for gov ....
i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. in a moment where to break down with ellison barber, and georgia political reporter greg bluestein as well. this hour follows later on international efforts to fight the baby formula shortage here at home, with the first flight from overseas arriving today and a week after the buffalo shooting, i m a talk to a pastor about how the community is in fact healing. how do they move forward. and then some perspective on how american teenager can get radicalized by hate, from someone who has seen the same kind of extremism up close, covering foreign wars, that s coming up as well. we begin though, with the critical race in georgia were less than 48 hours until voters head to the poll in the states critical primary election, so far there s already been a record turnout. more than 850,000 georgians have cast ballots, the majority in person, all of this happening after more restrictive voting laws, imposed by sta ....