pivotal midterm elections. in a little over 24 hours results will begin pouring in, with huge implications for the direction of the country and the future of the biden agenda. also tonight, two election exclusives. cnn sits down with republican leader kevin mccarthy to preview his plans if the gop wins the house. and speaker nancy pelosi opens up to anderson cooper in her first interview since the brutal hammer attack on her husband paul. cnn reporters and kr correspondents are on the campaign trail covering key races, the house and senate and governor s mansions across the country as well. all are at stake. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. first let s go to cnn s kate baldwin standing by just outside of philadelphia. control of the senate could come down to pennsylvania. both mehmet oz and john fetterman are spending the final hours getting out their closing messages. what s the lat
pivotal midterm elections. in a little over 24 hours results will begin pouring in, with huge implications for the direction of the country and the future of the biden agenda. also tonight, two election exclusives. cnn sits down with republican leader kevin mccarthy to preview his plans if the gop wins the house. and speaker nancy pelosi opens up to anderson cooper in her first interview since the brutal hammer attack on her husband paul. cnn reporters and kr correspondents are on the campaign trail covering key races, the house and senate and governor s mansions across the country as well. all are at stake. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. first let s go to cnn s kate baldwin standing by just outside
this is hillside new jersey west of newark. there could be power lines in the floodwaters. it s ironic, look at this police car in newark alone six police rescues getting people out of their cars that were stuck in stranded roads because of this water. that s incredible. the force of the water can t be underestimated. it s amazing how it could probably move like that picture demonstrating, moving that park bench. why they call it flash flooding. it s pretty significant. this alone, 6 inches is drown a person. alexandra steele. thanks very much. for now, welcome back. top of the hour and we want to bring you up to date on this tropical storm irene. i m fredericka whitfield. the storm is chaurning over new england and upstate new york pounding the area with wind and rain. it hit little egg inlet in new jersey and weakening to a tropical storm, it hit land at coney island, i rerene s march accompanied by death. 15 people are dead acrond more n 5 million without power
i ll ask about red hot democrats. stay here and hear how it plays out. i m wolf blitzer here in the situation room. we ve been expecting the house to vote on raising the debt limit. but it has not happened yet. the debt deadline is looming larger than ever. the deal would raise the debt limit $900 billion in the short term and green light spending cuts of roughly the same amount over ten years. offset dollar for dollar by more spending cuts. there s a lot of huge ifs involved in making all of that happen. let s go to capitol hill. kate baldwin is standing by. what are we toll about when it will take place? of. the timing is very fluid, wolf. the question is, will this compromise bill pass the house? speaker john boehner in a press conference wouldn t answer the question when i asked him if he had enough votes. but the paul ryan seemed pretty confident this afternoon. listen to him. some have various concerns, whether it s going to prevail. i think we have a majority o