midterms. plus charges against a major company and a guilty plea for financing isis. and actor kevin spacey is back on the stand today defending himself against sexual assault allegations. this is what we re watching at this hour. thank you for being here. i m kate bolduan. president biden is making a move today to try and put abortion rights back in the spotlight and back on the ballot. with the midterm elections three weeks from today. the president is speaking soon at a dnc event in washington where he is expected to make a promise that his first move in the new year will be to codify roe v. wade, that is if democrats don t lose power. this is one of the many topics that candidates debated last night in key races across country. but let s get to the white house. jeremy diamond is standing by. what is the president laying out in this speech. reporter: well president biden is trying to put an issue that he and his advisers believe is advantageous to democrats front a
I wanted to touch on real quick. Go ahead, but we just use seconds oh, okay. The army kept sending him there knowing this was going on. The violence and stuff and they kept sandi him back south korea so i just wanted Jones Outbreak will continue to stay in touch with you. Thank you so much for joining us tonight. And thank you all so much for joining us. Cnns Special Coverage of that solar storm starts right now on Newsnight Historic Event is underway tonight as a dazzling display of solar flares are right now painting the sky. Welcome to a Special Edition of newsnight. Ive abby phillip in new york alongside bill. Were and it is a first in nearly two decades, a warning from the government would and there, whether watchers, the solar storm that is now rated a g5 or extreme as of right now on the east coast is underway. This is a blast of Solar Energy Ricocheting across the United States. A rare moment where you can look up and see the Northern Lights visible from coast to coast. Normall
As we reach the top of the hour, the mayor of new york, bill de blas blasio, is tweeting about all of this and mentioning the Fire Department and the city agencies are responding and trying to get this power outage fixed here in new york city. It was all due to a manhole fire that took place earlier this evening. The disruption is significant. And we do say good afternoon and good evening, everybody, if youre tuning in at 9 00 p. M. Eastern. 6 00 p. M. On the west coast. A massive power outage that has taken place about 6 45 p. M. Thousands of people are without power. Weve been watching new yorks times square where you can see to the left of the scene. Many buildings are without power. They have not been restored of yet. Con ed is telling us that full power will be restored by 10 30
p. M. Eastern. The other big story is Tropical Storm barry. It is moving at eight miles an hour, slowly making its way me andiering through new orleans. It is Dumping Rain On Ruining Rouge Biffle the time
the place where we re staying at, at this area have gone to their homes, i was speaking last night to a lady who lives in a mobile park home, and they re just saying this is the only place we have. now, there s been a lot of information out. people have been told they have to leave this area. this is an evacuation zone and many have but many have decided to stay. what i can tell you, willie, is that in a matter of seconds we re going from pretty peaceful as far as rain is concerned with some wind to all of a sudden these feeder bands coming in and it is just horizontal rain and horizontal wind. so far we took a power hit 30 minutes ago. there s about 60,000 people here in the state of florida, mostly obviously on the west coast that have lost power. the governor is expected to hold