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and the hard yards that we need to undertake to get this right. hello and welcome to the programme. we will be live in ireland tonight, asjoe biden makes the journey south to his ancestral home. we will be finding what came of his brief visit to belfast today, and what unionists made of the speech he delivered. we ll bring you more of that extraordinary conversation between the bbc s james clayton and elon musk. plenty to disect in that, including musk s confession he only went through with a takeover at twitter, because the judge would have forced him to do it anyway. and who controls the distribution of the abortion pill in america? the us government is in court this next hour, to appeal a decision in texas to suspend the licence. we will get reaction. lets start first with president biden and the speech he gave today marking the 25th anniversary of the good and friday agreement. a speech in which the us president held out the promise of huge us investment if and when ....
around the world. max foster is on world assignment today. just ahead on cnn newsroom what happened on sunday shows that brazil is clearly a deeply divided and polarized country. this was a crowd whipped into a frenzy by a leader that refused to accept an election result. the president spechbding the day with border patrol agents and elected officials. this is the reality on the ground right now. we re anticipating some very intense weather coming in. trees down, degree in the roadways, flooding, and we ve seen people lose their lives. it is monday, january 9th, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 6:00 a.m. in the brazilian capital where hundreds of supporters of the president have been arrested after storming key government buildings including congress. the protest drawing comparisons to the january 6th riots at the u.s. capitol. hours ago the president surveyed the damage from sunday s unrest which also took place from the supreme court and the presidential ....
voting. the biggest prize the balance of powner congress. for democrats that means the ability to push forward with president biden s agenda. he will be in maryland tonight to rally for the democratic candidate for governor there. and here is a look at what is at stake. 35 spots in the senate. there for the taking and as jim just mentioned, dozens of governor votes will be cast. secretary of state and attorney general as well. voter enthusiasm is soaring into the election. more than 40 million ballots have been cast across 47 states outpacing the 2018 numbers in states where the data is available. it is still too early to know what overall turnout will be. will it reach 2018 levels could. could that be higher. we ll have to wait longer to find out. let s kick off this morning in wisconsin. hotly contested senate race there could be perhaps one of the states that is a decider for democrats in their hopes of keeping power in the chamber. luc lucy kafanov is there. ron j ....
hello. live in atlanta, 3:00 a.m. in florida. we continue to follow the path of hurricane ian. now, weaker, but still a major worry. that hurricane has finally been downgraded to a category-1 storm, but it s still moving menacingly right above the state of florida and heading northeast winds, approximately 75 miles or 125 kilometers per hour, still lashing large sections of the state.just 12 hours after it crashed in southwest florida as an almost category-5 hurricane. as you can imagine, there have been power outages with more than 2 million homes and businesses in the dark. that s about 20% of customers throughout the state the mayor of fort myers, meantime, saying, 96% of his entire city has lapsed with electricity. meanwhile, charlotte county, florida, telling cnn, rescuers can only do so much during the height of the storm. unfortunately, our dispatch continues to receive calls from the 911 center, and just like every other county, the emergency response, they ge ....
and good evening. i m erin burnett in london tonight. out front tonight, king charles iii is at westminster castle after leading his nation and the world in an emotional farewell to his mother queen elizabeth. nearly half the world watched this crucial funeral as the transition of power was symbolized with the imperial state crown, the orb and the sceptre. they were atop of the queen s coffin and they are now on the high altar. they will be given to king charles at his coronation. we witnessed history as the royal family united for its final farewell to the queen. never before had anyone in the world seen a state funeral like this broadcast live. this was the first time, and the stillness and the quiet of the city were palpable from where we sat overlooking westminster abbey, you could feel everything stop and the moments of silence. that was a solemn hour-long service that we all witnessed. the queen s casket passed just behind where i m sitting tonight. it was draped ....