welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. it is friday, october 21st. i m christine romans. a big question right now after the sudden resignation of british prime minister liz truss. the biggest of all, who will replace her. the ruling conservative party wants a new leader in place in days. truss s campaign took eight weeks which turned out to be longer than she spent in office. cnn s scott mcclain is live. where do things stand right now? reporter: christine, there are no candidates who have officially declared themselves in the race, but the leadership race is well underway happening though largely behind closed doors. that is because candidates will be horse trading, negotiating, trying to persuade their parliamentary colleagues to support them. it will take the support of at least 100 to get into the race. this does not favor more minor candidates with a certain wing, this favors the known quantities already, people who already have a well-establ
erin incredible details talking about firing rifles and, worse, the harsh reality in stark contrast to what we saw from putin today. breaking news. a top trump ally appearing before the grand jury investigating the mar-a-lago classified documents as we learn tonight that trump s former white house counsel testifies. another major investigation involving the former president. a couple trying to vote in arizona allegedly filmed and photographed by a group accusing them off being a, quote, mule. this is beginning of a terrible and ugly election? let s go outfront. tonight, i wouldn t let any of us out there. those are the brutally honest words from a russian soldier sent to the front lines in ukraine. in a phone call with his sister, the soldier revealing the pathetic state of vladimir putin s army. it s important to hear his voice. translator: whatever we wear here, we bought ourselves. they re forcing us to go on camera to encourage the mobilized not to be afraid t
well, did remain longer than liz truss. the lead starts right now. liz truss resigns as prime minister only 44 days in, making history for shorten newer at 10 downing. you ll never guess who is vying for her job. president biden hitting the road for the midterms. he s in pennsylvania touting infrastructure alongside democratic senate candidate john fetterman but would it be better for democrats if biden stays at the white house? then breaking news for the search for a missing princeton university student. police have recovered a body. hello and welcome to the lead i m john berman in for jake tapper. and we begin with our politics lead as president biden hits the campaign trail with just 19 days until the election. biden making a road trip to pittsburgh, pennsylvania today. his 18th trip to the commonwealth since he became president. and the 19th is next week. this week it was to highlight how the bipartisan infrastructure law is rebuilding the nation s crumbling roads
watching in the united states, and around the world, i m anna coren. this hour on cnn newsroom, we are seeing millions of people across america casting their vote in the midterms and election day is more than two weeks away. coming up, why so many are voting early this year. and former british prime minister boris johnson could be vying for his old job. ahead, why the tories may support the boris or bust campaign. we re live from london. and later the symptoms of the viral respiratory illness known as rsv that parents need to be aware of and what to do if their child has it. in just over two weeks u.s. voters will head to the polls and determine which party will control the house and senate. with so much at stake politicians have been hitting the campaign trail with urgency trying to clinch dozens of seats up for grabs. 218 seats are needed to control the house. right now it looks like republicans have a slight lead with 212 likely wins. in the senate three seats are
political. cancer doesn t care if you re republican or a democrat. everyone can come together to fight this and he compared it to the moonshot saying you have to harness the resources of u.s. scientists and doctors and technology to be able to do this. elizabeth, in general since 1991, cancer deaths are down 31% according to the american cancer society. a lot of that is because of prostate cancer deaths down 50%, breast cancer deaths down 40% but a lot of that, i have to say, is because of screening, early screening and preventive measure, not necessarily curing the cancers itself. how feasible, how realistic is it to cut cancer deaths in half in 5 years? i reached out to a variety of experts asking that question this afternoon. i thought they d say, i don t know about that. they actually were quite positive and pointed to the statistic that you just pointed to, in 28 years they went down 32%. whatever reasons there were, we can do more of the same and they pointed to sev