america. abortion rights, the biden presidency and elvis presley s second cousin all facing tests today. israel is making new advances against hamas near gaza city. new reports of more tunnels being taken out and the israeli prime minister for the first time really talking about what comes after this war. ivanka trump set to take the stand in the fraud case against her father s business. the admissions that donald trump made in his testimony that could leave a mark. i m john berman with kate bolduan, sara sidner is off. cnn news central starts now. it is election day in america once again, my friends. thank you. you want to know where the country is headed in 2024? pay attention to today. candidates and issues on the ballot in key states that could be a barometer of what is to come. abortion rights have been a huge issue since the supreme court overturned roe v. wade, a winning issue for democrats. today, ohio, a red state, will decide whether to enshrine abortion rig
and receiven recently in relation to tikrit it significantly helped us regain reduce collateral damp and alsoage and make sure control of the air and on the ground it is there with the support of the allies. we very much appreciate that. more to do. our prime minister was in that region yesterday. talking to the allies and talking to iraqis tribal and military. so there s more to do there, but we think that the u.s. support is very much appreciated, and it will constantly be needed moving forward. as we re all watching ambassador, thank you for your time and being with us this morning. thank you for having me. before we take a break, we want to let you know that the emirate s plane diverted to manchester england from dubai has landed safely. apparent layly a medical situation. the flight will continue on to new york in about an hour. up next weather alerts 65 million people are at risk of seeing severe storms today. packing high winds, heavy rain
it? ohio chokes. it is amazing. you know, wishing for someone to choke seems so unsportsman like. who do you think will win the national title? have a prediction? i just thought about something. i ve been talking about mother goose. this is mother like cat in the hat. if anybody can beat auburn, it has to be florida state. florida state, they have just been crushing people this year. average margin of 30 points a game. until someone proves they can beat an sec team, national championship game. you got go with the sec and they won the last receiven in a row. go with the team that is sprinkled by pixy dust. that s auburn, by the way. pixy dust or confetti there. honoring the best football player. ballots are due tomorrow. 5:00. florida state quarterback, heavy favorite.
torate we saw in 2008 and 2012 seems like it ll play a huge role in opportunities in the south. not only that, if you look at the actual numbers, for instance, in arkansas, we would only have to flip two seats in the house for it to go democrat. three in louisiana. four in mississippi. receiven in alabama. if you start looking at those numbers, and you look at the democratic demographic shields happening all across the south, i plef it is a great opportunity for us a to build out our beach, start with legislative races, down ticket races, where literally a small amount of money can mean a lot. i think if you consider a state like north carolina where it is part of the new south and we had seen real changes answers sin we have republican legislature, dramatic shift? the other direction. i think your point about focussing on the state legislative races makes a tremendous. a sense and people don t think of that as part of building the bench. talk about that. many times what we do
when the mayor did this type of sting in other states, receiven in total, those states put stricter gun controls on gun shows as a result of the sting operations. megyn: that s his real beef with the gun shows versus the gun shops. apparently the and dairsd more lax at a gun show. they are trying to show if you have got a firearm that came from the civil war you can do that more easily at the gun show, not a gun shop. i get that. but last time i checked he was mayor of new york city. the fact that we wants citizens here in new york to be benefited by gun control laws. if i have $100,000, which is what he spent to effect this operation. if he saved one life, bravo to the mayor for doing it. it s one life worth that