i m victor blackwell. good to be with you. three weeks from election day, and today president biden is putting abortion rights front and center for voters. this afternoon he promised to make roe v wade the law of the land. promising to send a bill to congress to codify the law. they re hoping this could galvanize voters. if you care about the right to choose, then you ve got to vote. that s why in these midterm elections, it s so critical to elect more democrats to keep control of the house of representatives. folks, if we do that, here s the promise i make to you and the american people the first bill i will send to the congress will be to codify roe v. wade. when congress passes it, i ll sign it in january 50 years after roe was first decided as the law of the land. cnn s phil mattingly is at the white house this afternoon. what s behind the strategy here of making abortion a focus of the mid terms. polling is showing that it s not the boost it was a few weeks ago
as there was a ripple effect. there are still parts of kyiv that the electricity is out. some people don t have water. some people have low-pressure water. the mayor of the city is asking people to turn off the lights. telling people that they need to save electricity when they can, because that will prevent the country sort of using rolling blackouts, but to the west of here, and to the south and east, also power generating stations were hit there. those citizens are having blackouts, and losses of water in those areas. what we are hearing from the power generating companies here, officials are saying, when it s power lines and small transformers that get hit, we can repair that fairly quickly, 48 hours, but the problem is the power stations in ukraine were