good morning to you, it saturday, january the 20th. i m ali velshi. three days, three remaining candidates for the republican nomination are gonna face off in the new hampshire primaries. ron desantis, nikki haley, and donald trump. they re all holding offense throughout the state this weekend. and in the normal presidential election year, the race would really be ramping up right now. we would be talking about momentum from iowa and how the independents would line up in new hampshire and who would last through south carolina and to make it to super tuesday? this isn t a normal year. this is a post trump era of american politics, and anyone who s been tank attention to the republican party and as long as it s concluded the try some piece multiply indicted experts wouldn t will be the last man standing. that s how thoroughly he has taken over the gop. the former presidents decisive victory in iowa on monday resulted in the republican party consolidating its support for him eve
Everyone. Welcome to cnn this morning. Im amara walker. Im omar jimenez in for victor blackwell. You woke up, youre here. You didnt scare me off. It was intimidating but we made it. We want to start with, look, we have a lot to talk about. Lawmakers getting ready to return to capitol hill. Will they be able to avoid a Government Shutdown . Plus, stranded in the desert. Tens of thousands of people stuck at the burning man festival in the Black Rock Desert after torrential rain in the area. They are being told to shelter in place and conserve food and water. And those scorching hot temperatures just wont let up. How hot its going to get if you are heading outside for labor day and when you could see relief. This week we will talk to an expert about the impact on the opioid crisis. Congress is getting ready to work and hit the ground running. Senators are back in d. C. On tuesday followed by the house the next week. Both chambers are facing a time crunch on a number of key issues. On octo