on your wallet. president biden will announce a move to help keep energy prices down for americans less than three weeks before the all-important midterm elections. the president will announce the release of another 15 million barrels of oil from the strategic preserve. of course, in the past few days gas prices have been dropping in some areas but on average they re still up 17 cents a gallon from a month ago. of course, the cost at the pump factors into the economic worries voters will carry to the polls and could be a problem for democrats since they re the party in power. cnn s phil mattingly is at the white house. phil, what do we expect to hear from the president? you know, ana, not a lot of levers the president can pull in an international economy and global market like the oil market. this, what the president will announce is one of them. both an actual action, announcing the sale of another 15 million barrels from the strategic petroleum reserve but also in sending
partners to carry astronauts. they ll carry astronauts to the international space station. let s watch. t minus 15. 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, mission, engines full power, and lif lift-off. 1 alpha. copy 1 alpha. the vehicle is pitching downrange. stage 1 propulsion. apparent telemetry. stage 1. martin savidge as we watch this takeoff. it s majestic. i could watch it over andover. i m a bit of a space geek. walk through, again, the importance of this mission, and, again, the commander, a native american woman. that s a pretty historic thing. a cosmonaut on an american spacecraft for the first time in 20 years. an important mission and remarkable pictures. it is because of the commitment of the united states and russia despite the tensions that have been introduced into the space program. they need each other. and as a result, the reintegration now of having russians fly an american spacecraft is an important message. and then, of course, for nicole mann.
with governor ron desantis as the white house pledges more support. today hundreds of thousands of floridians are still without power, shelters filling up as homeless numbers grow. and emotions are especially high on sanibel island. today for the first time, residents are returning by boat to see what s left. entire homes lifted by the storm surge and moved. we have crews covering it all. let s go to kaitlan collins traveling with the president. kaitlan, he just arrived. the president will soon take this aerial tour. then what? reporter: yeah. he s getting an aerial tour. that s the way he s going to be able to see how much damage there is. drooirching down the roading you see a lot of it. there s no power at any of the stoplights as you make your way over to where we re standing right now. you make your way seeing what you see behind me. boats toppled in areas where boats should not be, businesses completely destroyed, wiped off their foundations, boats in yards of homes
bipartisan effort under way in congress now to protect future elections. we are covering all this from all angles. we have a team of reporters and analysts standing by. let s begin with manu raju on capitol hill. manu, tell us about this new legislation. reporter: this is the first direct response and most significant legislative response to the events of january 6th. a bipartisan group of senators just moments ago announced they have a deal to change how the so-called electoral count act, a law from 1887, works. essentially make it harder to overturn an election and what we saw donald trump try to do that s come out through the course of these hearings and before about how he tried to pressure vice president mike pence to overturn election results, pressure state officials to disregard the election, refuse to concede, claimed the election was stolen without any evidence of proof of widespread fraud. what this aims to do is make it very clear that a vice president s role in
chilling. reporter: it was incredibly chilling, ana. this was the first look we were getting at the suspected gunman. he was appearing via zoom behind me. he is, obviously, still in custody. what s so chilling is the prosecutor as they laid out the potential or actual charges so far in this case, the potential charges in the future, they started by naming the victims. those who had been killed in this attack. and as they were reading off the names, i was looking at the screen with the shooter. he sat there with no emotions. he was flanked with deputies, he looked down to the right and left, zero emotion as they read out the people he allegedly killed. tell judge in this case determined this suspect is still a continuing tlel threat to the public. he revoked bail. he will remain in custody. the next hearing is later this month. this comes as we learn chilling new details about is attack, how it unfolded. they said the suspect went to the rooftop where this parade was going o