and welcome to your new day. i m boris sanchez. good morning, boris. i m amara walker. we have new details on the violent attack of nancy pelosi s husband. we have new information and indications about the suspect s motive. and it is the final sprint of the midterm elections with both parties bringing out their closers. their messages and last-minute concerns in some of the key races. plus, the urgent message from the cdc about this year s flu vi virus, and why they re urging everyone to get vaccinated now. and pediatric hospitals pushed to the brink by a surge of rsv patients. your new day starts right now. good morning, everyone, and welcome to your new day. it s saturday, october 29th. always great to be with you, boris. i still don t know what to do with a 50% chance of rain forecast two days from now. give me 40% or 60%. what do i do with that? i m surprised they re not going to take an umbrella with you. i think you re going to be drenched. i m g
biggest mid-term election issue is chaos. full coverage on fox. dana: rich edson is diving into some key races we re watching and playing close attention to the next 19 days. conservative supreme court eliminating the right to abortion and proposals from republicans in congress to enact abortion restriction democrats focused their campaigns on protecting abortion. voters are more concerned about inflation and gas prices than abortion. some democrats are making the case the issues are all tied together. abortion is an economic issue. it has been reduced to this idea of a culture war. for women in georgia this is very much a question of whether they will end up in poverty in the next five years. having children is why you are worried about your price for gas and why you are concerned how much food costs. democrats are calling republican abortion extremists. republicans painting democrats on the extremists as well. in pennsylvania democrat john fetterman says he is aga
john: begin america reports this thursday afternoon with 19 days to go now until the midterms. president biden out on the campaign trail today as the pennsylvania senate race comes down to the wire. hello, i m john roberts in washington. sandra: 19 days out, hard to believe. here we go. sandra smith in new york. the president travelling today for his only campaign stop of the week. he ll talk infrastructure before heading to philadelphia to stump for john fetterman. john: happening as polls show republican dr. oz closing the gap against john fetterman, and republicans also gaining ground in contests thought to be democratic strongholds. sandra: our panel standing by. mollie line is standing by in deep blue rhode island. so first to bryan llenas on the ground in philadelphia, expecting to see the president a short time from now. hi, bryan. hi, sandra. $167 million have been spent in the pennsylvania senate race. it s the second most expensive race in the nation beh
during halloween festivities. the husband of speaker nancy pelosi remains in the hospital recovering from a violent attack inside his home as police say this was not a random attack. plus record early voting continues across the country. in georgia, almost 1.5 million ballots have already been cast. and an 8-year-old has accomplished what no other kid his age has ever done before. climbed to the top of el capitan. you re in the cnn newsroom. we begin in the south korean capital, seoul, where a halloween celebration went terribly wrong. the death toll is now up to 149, and many others are injured. some of the video we re going to show you, it is very disturbing. many of the victims, they are young adults looking forward to their first big halloween party since covid restrictions were lifted. it appears they were trapped in a crowd crush in a packed and popular nightclub district. investigators are trying to piece together how this tragedy happened. south korea s pres
the polls have just opened in hawaii meaning voters in all 50 states are making their voices heard. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. and i m erin burnett and this is cnn s continuing coverage of election day in america. take a look. we ve got live pictures. this is a polling location we re showing you just outside the philadelphia. so far only minor glitches with officials reporting no major voting issues so far, wolf. here s what s at stake today, erin. all 435 seats are up for grabs, republicans need to turn five seats red to take it back. over in the democratic controlled senate, 35 of the 100 seats are also in play today. all republicans need there is a net gain of one seat to change the balance of power in the u.s. congress and here in washington. as always we have our correspondents all over the map covering all the key races along with our entire cnn election team. let s get straight to pennsylvani