about half firearms. about half of all u.s. households have at least lea one gun at home, and many have. much more than that. plus, they have ammo, billions and billions of rounds of it. those are all real numbers, butg they are hardly an argument forn gun control. they re an argument, in fact, against ask yourself what would it require to confiscate allmmuo those guns and all that ammunition in turn, the united states into disarmed nation like turkmenistan or north korea? wellrea., it would take a police state and it would end in civil war. nono sam sane person wants eithr one of those things. but thankfully, we don t neehinn the fact that so manyirearm americans have a firearm withi n reach but never commit violence that gtbe that guns are no the problem. just as we can this country can be trusted with an ar-15, just as we can be trusted with cars and light aircraft t in andand electricity, basebaw and insecticide and chainsaws and pruning shearsct and countless other objec
the fda has just authorized the first updated booster vaccine targeting the omicron variant. americans could get the new shots as soon as friday. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. wolf blitzer is off today. i m pamela brown, and you re in the situation room. let s get straight to the latest developments in the mar-a-lago investigation. the trump legal team under deadline to respond to last night s explosive new filing from prosecutors. i m told by a source familiar that they are expected to meet that deadline. i want to bring in our senior justice correspondent, evan perez. he has been on the story around the clock, shall we say. evan, trump s attorneys have until 8:00 p.m. to file their response. the justice department is accusing the trump team of trying to obstruct an investigation and they re using a photo to help make their case. that s right, pamela. that photo certainly was a bombshell. what it does is it shows the number of docume
abortion even though her fetus was diagnosed with a fatal condition. i want you to imagine what it s been like to continue this pregnancy for another six weeks after this diagnosis. the woman at the center of the controversy shares her story. meantime, nasa s most powerful rocket is set for monday s moon mission launch. artemis is on the launch pad and ready to fly. now we re going back to the moon to stay, to live, to learn, to build. and a missouri school district reinstates paddling as punishment. but would you want your children spanked at school? it s something we don t anticipate using frequently. this is an opt-in only option for parents. i m pamela brown in wash washington. you re live in the cnn newsroom. and just into the cnn newsroom, a federal judge has scheduled a thursday hearing to consider donald trump s request for a special master to oversee the fbi s review of evidence. she says she has preliminary attempt to make that appointment. just on
president of ubecki becki-stan-stan, i m going to say i don t know, do you know? the least of herman cain s problems now but they are causing trouble. i ll explain. then, new studies confirm what we know. america is slipping behind in education worldwide. we take an in-depth look with the secretary of education and bill gates. first, here s my take. i ve been thinking about occupy wall street which is now occupying a number of other cities in america. and wondering what is it really about. the protesters don t like bank bailouts, they feel the 99% have been hard done by it, and they re protesting what they see as inequality. but america has always had more inequality than many countries. i think the underlying sense of frustration is over a very unamerican state of affairs, a loss of social mobility. americans have so far put up with inequality because they felt they could change their status. they didn t mind other being rich as long as they had a path to move up, as
when they find out their bank statements were mixed up and sent to someone else s house. good morning you to, happy, happy friday, it s october 21. i m carol costello joining you live from new york. wild jubilation among libyan in their homeland and around the world on the death of moammar gadhafi. gadhafi was captured alive yesterday, pulled from a drainage pope in his hometown in sitter. his final moment in sirte. his final moments were bloody. the transitional government said gadhafi was killed in crossfire after his arrest by rebel sources. one senior international correspondent, dan rivers, is in libya with more. we want to report you, though, his report includes some graphic image. reporter: this was how it all ended for moammar gadhafi cornered and injured. the former dictator was apparently trying to escape sirte. he appears bloody but alive here, but died soon afterwards according to ntc official. his golden gun brandished in wild excitement by ntc troops w