be too dangerous at this time. trey yingst with the latest. u.s. special forces entered the capital and the u.s. department says around 100 staff members at trust embassy were evacuated along with a small number of people from allied countries including canada. we are learning more about the details of this mission. u.s. officials say 3 helicopters took off before landing in ethiopia to refuel and the choppers flew to conduct the rescue. douglas simms described clean and fast. simms stressed the evacuation was planned for the past week and conducted without the help of parties on the ground. other countries like france and britain have started to evacuate personnel and some civilians. the british took diplomats to airfield before flying them out of the country while some to have french nationals headed in convoy to the port of sudan. reports indicate french convoy was targeted by gunfire and one person was injured. evacuations 8 days after fighting in army with rapid suppor
and welcome to your new day. i m boris sanchez. good morning, boris. i m amara walker. we have new details on the violent attack of nancy pelosi s husband. we have new information and indications about the suspect s motive. and it is the final sprint of the midterm elections with both parties bringing out their closers. their messages and last-minute concerns in some of the key races. plus, the urgent message from the cdc about this year s flu vi virus, and why they re urging everyone to get vaccinated now. and pediatric hospitals pushed to the brink by a surge of rsv patients. your new day starts right now. good morning, everyone, and welcome to your new day. it s saturday, october 29th. always great to be with you, boris. i still don t know what to do with a 50% chance of rain forecast two days from now. give me 40% or 60%. what do i do with that? i m surprised they re not going to take an umbrella with you. i think you re going to be drenched. i m g
election day. we will be back everything what, willie? all of this is wrong. tomorrow morning we will have it right. a special show before a live studio audience and we will break down the results and the races that will likely still hang in the balance. we will also have some very special guests. that s at 6:00 a.m. eastern time right here on msnbc. josé diaz-balart picks up the coverage right now. good morning. 10:00 a.m. eastern, 7:00 a.m. pacific. i am josé diaz-balart from new york. today election day. polls are open in most of the country with polling places just opening in california and nevada. voters are making decisions in races that will determine the balance of power not only in the nation s capital, but in states, towns and cities across the country. when it comes to congress all 435 seats in the house of representatives are up for election and 35 senate seats. and republicans need to pick up five house seats and one senate seat to take control on c
bermuda before moving out to sea. let s get right to puerto rico. you just got back from touring some of the serious damage with the national guard. what all did you see? reporter: we actually got our first chance to get into the interior part of the island. we went where we could see mud slides were blocking the road and keeping some communities out there isolated so we went in with the national guard as they tried to clean that up. where i am right now, ana, we are in the southern part of the island and the cleanup here continues. take a look at the mud on the van as the cars go by what folks in an area that was completely inundated just a few days ago are dealing with now and that is because of the water. let s talk about the power because that s something that the governor just addressed minutes ago in a press conference. he says that he feels pretty confident that a good chunk of the island will have power by the end of tomorrow. one exception the south where we are ri
governors flying asylum seekers to the northeast. a migrants advocacy group just filed a federal lawsuit against florida governor ron desantis. and in ukraine right now cnn is on the ground with rare access to the front lines of a heated battle between ukrainian defenders and russian mercenaries. stay tuned for our report from the war zone. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. our top story tonight, the trump legal team already at odds with the special master it requested, refusing to provide evidence the former president declassified documents seized from his florida home. cnn s justice correspondent jessica schneider has the latest on the mar-a-lago investigation. reporter: tonight the special master bringing together trump s lawyers and attorneys for the juls s department to hammer out how to proceed with the review of the 1 # 1,000 documents taken from mar-a-lago including 100 docum