but a yes to a future without the virus. no is not the only thing that was expressed tonight. i want to focus on what we said yes to as a state. we said yes to science. we said yes to vaccines. we said yes to ending this pandemic. leading up to tuesday s vote, republican front runner larry elder had hinted he would contest the recall results. instead he did the opposite, acknowledging defeat. my opponent, governor gavin newsom [ booing ] come on, let s, let s be gracious, let s be gracious in defeat. and, by the way, we may have lost the battle, but we are going to win the war. democrats across the country were watching the race very closely. of course, it was the first major political contest since democrats took control of the white house and congress just eight months ago. a potential litmus test for the party s messaging ahead of the midterm. cnn s stephanie elam is following it for us. they did not end the night with the typical celebration. reporter: no, h
emergency. that s a subway tunnel there. subway service is coming back this morning after it was suspended in a scene like that last night. imagine, hundreds are still stranded in stations across the city, and new york city saw rainfall worse. 50,000 olympic-size swimming pools in the course of just five hours. this is not normal, folks. these are live pictures from new jersey. that is flooding. communities up to their doors and windows, and that is a live rescue underway. first responders in an inflatable there going door to door, seeing if people need rescue at this hour. a tornado ripped through parts of gloucester county, new jersey. newark had its wettest day on record. records are being set virtually every day, folks. again, this is not normal. nearly all transit rail service has been suspended in new jersey. this morning united airlines says it is suspending operations from its hub in newark. that has tremendous repercussions for travelers across the country. all of th
streets, homes and, as you can see here, the subway. at least 13 deaths were reported in new york. most of the victims were found in basements that flooded before rescuers could reach them. the streets of new jersey were filled with water. look at this. these are rescue operations happening. this is happening in new jersey there in newark. also, this is in boundbrook. we have live pictures up for you now. you can see just at the edge of flooded roadways there. we know in new jersey and pennsylvania, delaware as well, there are rescue operations happening. we have seen people stranded on roof tops. crews are using excavators, rafts to pull people trapped in their homes. president biden outlined earlier the federal help that he s deployed across several states. and i want to express my heartfelt thanks to all of the first responders and everyone who has been working through the night, well into the morning to save lives and get power back. there s a lot of damage, and i mad
children as some parents lose their minds over masks. welcome to lead. i m john berman. a look now at what s become the deadliest path of hurricane ida and the death toll keeps climbing. at least 23 people killed in the last 24 hours in the northeast. hundreds more rescued. scenes like this just aren t supposed to happen. that s floodwaters rushing through a home in montclair, new jersey. in new york, the rain fell so fast it could have filled 50,000 olympic-sized pools, and this is what happened when all the water pumps and the barrier walls and the sewer lines couldn t keep up. watch. that s just unreal. one river near philadelphia rose so high today it floated awfully close to traffic passion on the bridge above, and look at this. this is a minor league baseball stadium in bridgewater, new jersey. the water, at least five rows high. we want to go live to cnn s miguel marquez in new brunswick, new jersey. miguel, this is one of the most trying days so many people around
the nation, this law bans abortions before many women know they re pregnant. it also allows private citizens anywhere in the country to sue abortion providers or anyone who assists a woman in texas seeking an abortion after six weeks. it could be someone driving them to the clinic as well. this as the supreme court is set to rule on the constitutionality of another abortion law in mississippi in the upcoming term in october. lots of big decisions coming up. cnn supreme court analyst joan biskupic. joan, not only is it set at six weeks before many women know they re pregnant, but no exception if the mother is raped or a victim of incest. the country received a high point last night at midnight and a low in the abortion wars. roe v. wade and precedent that followed roe v. wade said government could not interfere with a woman s choice for an abortion before the fetus was viable, could live outside the woman. that s usually at 22, 24 weeks. this is six weeks, as you said, befor