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it is election day in america. hello everyone i m anderson cooper welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. you are looking at live pictures of voters lining up to cast their ballots. polls are open in a majority of states. at this hour six more states are opening their doors to voters. the big question who will control congress. dozens of house races are considered toss ups, republicans need to win 30 competitive seats to win the majority. in the senate the race is likely to determine control are very tight. republicans need a net gain of one seat to clinch the majority from democrats. more than 40 million americans have cast their ballots in early voting ahead of today. it all comes down to turnout today and the issues. the only certainty is that voters will decide who they elect and who controls congress. we have this consequential midterm election covered for you from coast to coast. i want to begin with our coverage with cnn s jason carroll li
newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we re following breaking news out of south korea. a horrific chain of event and a fast rising death toll in seoul. 146 people are confirmed dead. this happened a t a halloween festival. the video is graphic. it s a chaotic scene on the streets of seoul as people perform cpr. the fire department chief says the cause is presumed to be a huge controllable crush of people. we do not know what led to that crush of people. the white house, at this hour, is weighing in. jake sullivan wrote the reports out of seoul are heartbreaking. we are thinking thof those who lost loved one. the united states stands ready to provide the republic of career with any support it needs. let s get to will ripley who has been covered this. what more are you learning about what happened? reporter: the number of people and families affected by this continues to grow. you re talk about 146 people, at least killed. that s a death toll that has almost tripled since
ohio talking, right? so, they clearly there is no love lost between these two. this has been a testy campaign throughout. this is the second debate. the first debate was no less contentious. you know, one of the things that i think is important to see here is what they re each doing is trying to paint the other as extreme as possible. tim ryan was just trying to say jd vance equals marjorie taylor greene. that s his approach here as they re both trying to court the vast middle of ohio, which is how you would win an ohio election. and, of course, on the other side, vance does the same and tries to portray ryan as completely left wing extremism from his party. part of what the dynamic you re seeing here, you noted or john noted at the top, this is a state donald trump won twice by eight or nine points. pretty red place. keeps trending red, no doubt about it, a pretty red state. and there is such a spending disadvantage on the airwaves right now. since labor day, jd vance
i m kim brunhuber. coming up on cnn newsroom, the stakes are so high in the u.s. midterm elections that four current or former presidents are back out on the campaign trail, hoping to get their candidates in the win column on tuesday. we ve got the latest from the battleground states ahead. ukraine is reacting to iran s admission it has sent drones to russia after weeks of denying it and we re live in kyiv with details. plus comes on, kyle tucker, this time they finish the job. the houston astros the houston astros clinched the title, game six of the world series. coming up, we ll show you the biggest plays. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. with the u.s. midterm elections just a few days away, several presidents have descended on a key swing state. in pennsylvania, barack obama shared the stage with president joe biden on saturday. both campaigned if democrat john fetterman in the closely watched sfl senate race and w