country and giving us an early read on what they re thinking as the nation is heading into an unprecedented, unprecedented presidential election year. the contest american democracy as it s never been tested before. this is cnn s coverage of america s choice 2023. i m erin burnett. and i m jake tapper. we are about to get the first results of the night possible clues about the political trends in 2024 and the potentially historic and divisive rematch between president joe biden and former president donald trump. polling places just closed in the eastern half of kentucky. the commonwealth has one of two governors races tonight. new measure of the democrats strengths and weaknesses on republican turf. popular democratic governor andy beshear is fighting to keep his job in kentucky, where president biden is in louisville, kentucky. let s go to king in columbus, ohio. she s tracking the state s abortion rights ballot measure. king has there been last minute campaigning on thi
spree and to meet with leaders in the asian american community, as well. this comes as the president also meets a major goal today, way ahead of schedule. 100 million covid vaccinations in his first 100 days in office. that is 42 days early. also today, the cdc is expected to announce new social distancing guidelines for children in schools. but as more states begin to ease restrictions, experts are warning of a potential psspike cases. several states are seeing an uptick as officials race to get more shots in arms. let s begin with our colleague, natasha chen. she is following the investigations into these shootings in and around atlanta. natasha, good morning to you. the atlanta police department with some new details this morning. reporter: jim and poppy, the fulton county medical examiner has now released the names of the four people who were killed at the two spas in atlanta, which police say the suspect had frequented before. here are those names. 75-year-old as you
while the number of those vaccinated keeps going up. but u.s. health policy leaders warn that was a that scenario was for several european countries. who are now suffering a surge in cases amid the variants, and easing restrictions too soon. they are now returning to tighter mandates including in some cases a lockdown. now, the cdc director and other health officials urge that restrictions remain in place but at least 16 states now have no mask mandate and the tsa says its screeners just broke a pandemic record with more than 1.4 million people traveling through airports nationwide. on thursday. there is no progress on vaccinations. president biden marking today the 100 millionth dose, two months ahead of the goal he set. in total more than 115 million vaccinations have been injected into arms. more than one in five in the u.s. have received at least one dose, and more than one in ten in the u.s. are fully vaccinated at 12.3%. my next guest says that her coronavirus vaccina
39 kilometre time trial. The welshmans chances of winning the race were effectively ruined by the crash a couple of days ago, but the Team Sky Rider rode strongly on the lumpy terrain in the sagrantino wine growing region near peruguia to move up to 11th in the overall standings. Olympic silver medallist tom dumoulin was 49 seconds quicker, and stormed to the top of the general classification. He now leads the race by over two minutes. Thats all from sportsday. Coming up in a moment, the papers. A good day for arsenal, Manchester City and motherwell. Not such a good one for andy murray. Good night. Hello there, and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me baroness alterman, the former pensions minister, and a columnist at the london evening standard. How is the new boss going down . Well, he is the new boss going down . Well, he is making all of these changes. is making all of these Changesli Wa Nt is making all of these changes. want all of th
past time for them to speak up. what you are seeing is republican candidates, you recognize that the party still believes that january 6 was a catalyzing event, that donald trump wasn t wrong. so all these other candidate z fear crossing trump. ron desantis earlier in the day said trump should have done more and then had to walk it back when you see his statement saying he shouldn t have been charged. i think these candidates are making statements that forge their own profiles not trying to draw a profile of donald trump because they know it is emresponsible to take e take a christie route in this primary and actually succeed. and desantis has been losing i don t understand in the polls and cutting staff. tuesday he unveiled a plan to, quote, rip the woke out of military. we had max rose on earlier this week and he said he believes desantis problem is that he is trying to run a campaign even further to the right of trump. do you agree, is that why desantis doesn t seem ton connectin