living inside the u.s. more than 40 charged for, quote, creating and using fake social media accounts to harass and intimidate dissidents of china s regime living here and seeking to suppress their free speech. the defendants remain at large. the other case sur real. two men in court yesterday, federal agents arrested them for operating a secret chinese police station in new york city. the d.o.j. calling it a significant national security matter. despite that, the suspects were able to get out on bond with just a few hours. it is new york city. one hour, one house foreign affairs republican says this is just the beginning. i think this is a coordinated plan. i this i the chinese are embedding chinese nationals throughout our country. this police force here will be a big part of making sure they can coordinate and keep them on the same page for whatever their intended goal is here. not good. i think that they are a force that is intended to coerce and intimidate those here.
to make land fall in just a matter of hours. and flooding already reported tonight ahead of the hurricane. this video just coming into us from key west florida. as you can see, one resident s basement is already flooded and there obviously many more just like it. plus, we showed you video last night of a wawa just outside philadelphia being ransacked and now we have brand new video giving us a much clearer picture of the roughly 100 juveniles some as young as ten years old causing thousands of dollars of damage. tonight how other area stores are looking to confront the increasingly rise in crime. it is a real problem across the country. and as you know we re also just days away from online applications being made available for president biden s student loan handout that could be put on hold, frankly, as there is a new legal challenge to tell you about tonight. we re going to talk to the group that has filed a lawsuit later in the show. but we begin this hour with hurricane
governor, as your senator, as your secretary of state, as your attorney general, then democracy as we know it may not survive in arizona. that s not an exaggeration, that is a fact. that was former president obama hitting the campaign trail hard for democrats talking on election deniers in battleground states. that guy is pretty good. he s good at what he does. he s got a future in politics if he decides to go that way. president biden makes the fate of our democracy a key issue just days before voters decide who will control congress and the future path of our country. also ahead, new polling in several crucial races, including pennsylvania where voters are weighing in on the only debate between senate candidate john fetterman and dr. oz. plus, there are new details in the plot by trump s attorneys to overturn the 2020 election. his lawyers had a specific justice in mind, and we ll tell you who that is. and one of former president donald trump s top advisers has
for the white house. new cnn pulls out today show president biden, trailing donald trump in critical battleground states. laces that biden won in the last election and needs to win again. with just five weeks until the first votes are cast, republican presidential hopefuls are stepping up their attacks as a new poll in iowa shows donald trump s lead is only getting bigger. and under pressure. the president of the university of pennsylvania is force out and now calls are going for harvard president to resign after her comments on the rise of anti-semitism on campus. many jewish students at harvard say they don t feel safe. it felt like a failure of leadership. i was expecting a clear statement against anti-semitism and either here is our plan or we need your help implementing this and that instead of this, when hearing the lack of response, they attempt to evade. it just made us feel like alone in this. we start today with cnn s exclusive battleground state polls. who