starts right now. hi. thank you so much. i am ari melber and whoop there it is. election day within three weeks. early voting has begun, including in new key states. and we begin with something special. i m not going to hide the ball. i m going to show you the two chairs. howard dean who ran the dnc. michael steele who ran the rnc. in our opinion, no two better people to walk us through and it, they are here right now. let me tell you the context. 2 million people cast ballots. when we say election day, it s like rhetoric. this is election month. early voting is showing records smashed in certain states. fluid dynamics. new polls show the house leaning slightly towards republicans, depending on what happens. democrats believe they are still in a strong position to hold the senate majority. and as we ve told you, we cannot accurately cover 400 plus races at once. we will bring you the highlights, the context, the facts and the music. but i will show you some of the deba
declaration in north carolina. this is as the state is bracing for up to six inches of rainfall. we are going to talk about it with the democratic candidate for senate in north carolina, jerry beasley. and we are talking about the state of the race, less than 40 days until midterm elections. i am simone sanders townsend, and i have something to say. unprecedented, biblical, just a few words to describe the impact of hurricane ian. now taking its place as one of the worst natural disasters in our country s history. in just a few minutes, we are expecting an update from florida governor ron desantis, which we will bring you live. this week, hurricane ian slammed into florida s west coast, just shy of a category four hurricane. with winds of 155 miles per hour. ripping through south florida. then, coming back to slim south carolina and now, north carolina. we are hearing from residents who survived. we shouldn t be alive right now. we shouldn t be alive right now with that sto
into chaos and create a showdown where the next president will be decided by a vote in the republican -controlled house of representatives. history suggests that democrats are all toward a midterm shacking, as president obama once called it. the party in the white house has few exceptions traditionally lost seats in congress. democrats are expected to perform poorly. there s almost a punchline at this point. yes, president biden s all-time low pole time certainly not helping his party on senate majorities. the true picture is, it s more complicated than that. there s a brand-new shiny budget reconciliation possibly on the horizon, with more money for health care, prescription drugs and the climate, there s also new polling this week suggesting that things might not be as weak for democrats as they first seemed. despite biden s 33% approval rating and the fact that 80% of the voters think the country is headed in the wrong direction, recent polls also show a slight majorit
From maine to maui, thousands of High School Students across the country are getting in on the action by volunteering in their communities. Chris young action teams of High School Students are joining volunteers of america and Major League Baseball players to help train and inspire the next generation of volunteers. Carlos pea its easy to start an action team at your school so you, too, can get in on the action. If you were a hippie in the 60s, you need to know. Its the dawning of the age of aquarius. Yeah, and Something Else thats cool. What . Osteoporosis is preventable. All osteos preventable . Right on if you dig your bones, protect them. Well, donald trump is moving like a storm front through the republican primaries and caucuses. Last night he won in nevada with marco ruby and ted cruz way back. Heading toward super tuesday next week, trump has more delegates than his rivals combined. And dean reynold is in las vegas. Reporter the confounded Republican Party establishment may fer
Jersey, including washington, d. C. , and philadelphia. This is the same system that brought death to the south last night and well begin our coverage with chip reid. A tornado just came through right on 460 right now. It tore the place the pieces. Reporter this facebook video shows the path of destruction after an apparent tornado ripped through the small town of waverly south of richmond, virginia, this afternoon. State Police Confirm that three people have died. Late today a tweet from cbs affiliate wtvr in richmond said, sadly one of the three confirmed deaths was a young child who died when mobile home was hit. The station also reported eight others were injured. Everything is destroyed. Unbelievable. I mean, unbelievable. Reporter the debris field is three miles long. Dispatch reporter Michael Campbell photographed this mobile home ripped open, cars flipped over, sheet metal twisted around telephone poles. Tree, power lines and piles of debris were torn from homes. And take a loo