4:00 a.m. on the u.s. east coast and 9:00 a.m. here in london where a new leader is set to takeover today. liz truss ready to take over as prime minister. just a short while ago, outgoing prime minister boris johnson urged the entire country to get behind truss. he delivered some final remarks as prime minister outside 10 downing street. on the subject of bouncing around in future careers, let me say that i am now like one of those booster rockets that is fulfilled its function and i will now be gently reentering the atmosphere and i will be splashing down in some remote and obscure corner of the pacific. and i am returning to my plan. and i will be offering this government nothing but the most fervent support. truss will be facing a number of major challenges she needs the support she can get, promising a plan to cut taxes, build growth and tackle the energy crisis. we ll get more details when she s appointed prime minister, heads back to london and gives her outline of
coy, nice to see you. thanks for joining me. i m christine romans. new day starts right now. new evidence, new testimony. i m john berman with brianna keilar. that is the promise from the house january 6th committee as it holds its last public forum before the midterm elections. it comes as there s new reporting in a separate investigation. the mar-a-lago documents case. cnn is told donald trump directed an employee to move boxes at mar-a-lago after he received a sup pena for classified documents. and we re told, the committee is going to hammer home that trump remains a clear and present danger to the united states. sarah murray has more. we re expecting this to be their closing argument. reporter: that s right. while we are not expecting to see live witnesses at the hearing, we believe we ll see new video as well as new emails from the secret service. the house select committee investigating january 6th preparing its closing arguments ahead of the midterms. ther
you, i m abby philip in new york. with the political heavyweights ready to go, we are following the key races across the country and the big names rallying behind candidates who could shift the balance of power in washington. let us start in the state of florida where the president is headed today. cnn s jeremy diamond is out there for us. so president biden is bringing a new message, the extreme maga republicans to florida, but privately his aides are telling you and our other colleagues that this is not necessarily about making these two races, the senate and the gubernatorial races competitive this fall. reporter: a spoke with democratic strategists who say they do not have high hopes that the president s visit will shift a race that appears to be heading in the governor s race and in the senate race in republicans direction but a week from election day we are very much in the closing argument phase of this election and the president s advisers have told me that they se
top of the hour on cnn newsroom. i m victor blackwell. and i m bianna golodryga. president biden is in florida to rally democrats ahead of the midterms. meantime two major developments in the two separate investigations involving the former president the supreme court has just rejected senator lindsey graham s request to block a subpoena into the 2020 election in georgia where a district attorney is demanding that he testify before a grand jury. the committee investigating the january 6th insurrection they could be one step closer to getting former president trump to testify. the committee s in discussions with president trump s attorneys, and he has an obligation to comply and we, you know, treat this and take this very seriously we haven t made determinations about the format itself but it will be done under oath, it will be done potentially over multiple days, we have significant questions based on the evidence that we developed and as i said what we know already
still cut off from the mainland. search and rescue operations are still under way. serious questions are being asked about whether evacuation orders came too late for some. nearly 2,000 people have been rescued so far according to the florida governor. thcht is footage from sanibel island, blue skies overhead. a neighborhood still flooded to the point that only way out is by chopper. we have two reports tonight. the first is from ft. myers beach and our randi kaye who is among the first reporters to get in and witness the enormous destruction and still on going rescue operations up close. this is what she saw. this is our first look from the ground at ft. myers beach, hurricane keyian s winds combined with the storm surge, chewed through homes and businesses. sparing nothing in its path. massive devastation. something somewhat used to my first deployment was hurricane katrina. so, you know, a lot of hurricanes over the years. this certainly is a big, big disaster. repor