Allow a citizen initiated constitutional amendment. The political rhetoric from the no side is going to be what it is going to be. This is a common sense thing for ohioans to say we own our constitution and it shouldnt be for sale to out of state special interests. So jake, this is also about more than Abortion Rights. Its also about minimum wage. There is a proposed constitutional amendment next year that could have ohio Voters Decide minimum wage. So the proponents of this are trying to change the rules if you will to make it harder to amend the states constitution. Jeff, how much money has been spent in this special election . Outside money, jake, has been flooding in this summer. This has been a pretty short campaign. And more than 26 million has been coming in. Again, this is crossing more than just normal party lines. But democrats, if you look at it that way, are spending more on Television Ads than republican aligned groups. There has been an ad war in Television Campaigns as w
presidential candidate ron desantis plans to campaign next week. big announcement. and policer he called 911 for help. his family says they want justice. ahead, details on the boy s condition and a planned protest in mississippi. new research suggests the pill form of drugs like ozempic would work as well and obviously without the shot. what that could mean for this whole new world of weight loss drugs. this is cnn news central . this morning, if a tree falls in the woods on twitter but twitter doesn t work, does it make a sound? that is the question swirling around the political world as the big campaign announcement from florida governor ron desantis glitched. we have new reporting on how husband campaign is dealing with all this this morning. yes, he got into the race in a way no one has, yes, he raised a million bucks in an hour but also earned tough reviews when his conversation with elon musk on twitter wouldn t start for 25 minutes. the complete failure to launc
why he s taking the risk talking to cnn s christiane amanpour in an interview be behind bars. new details about mitch mcconnell, treated for a concussion in a d.c. hospital now after a fall. i m jake tapper. we begin with putin s brutal war on kroukraine. strikes reaching nearly every corner from kyiv to lviv, the worst russian barrage since january, punctuated by a variety of russian missiles, including six rare hyper sonic missiles, eluding air defenses. officials say in total, 84 missiles were launched. at least 11 people in ukraine were killed. russia claims the strike was retaliation for what it calls terrorist actions by ukraine in a western russian town last week. cnn cannot independently verify russia s claims or confirm evidence of such an attack. for the sixth time, renewed fears of a nuclear catastrophe. europe s largest nuclear power plant in zaporizhzhia shelled, forced to run on backup power. cnn s ivan watson is on the ground in ukraine s capital for us, wher
to our viewers in the united states and around the world, welcome to the situation room. happening now, a sixth memphis police officer has now been relieved of duty after the deadly beating of tyre nichols and the release of chilling videos of his arrest. our experts are breaking down the evidence and the growing calls right now for federal police reform. also tonight, cnn is on the front lines in ukraine amid fierce fighting in the east and the south after nearly a year of war, we re told some battles are worse than ever before. u.s. secretary of state antony blinken is on an urgent mission in israel and the west bank amid a new outbreak of violence, meeting with prime minister benjamin netanyahu and urging a deescalation of tensions. i ll discuss these high-stakes international conflicts with key white house official john kirby. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s get straight t
going on behind the scene. russia is respond to go this news. the russian ambassador to germany says berlin s move brings the conflict, quote, to a new level, as creme len spokesperson peskov says russia will destroy ukraine s tanks. natasha, is the u.s. s view this is a game change r? in a way. they re not going to hit the ground immediately, it could take as many as three, four months for the ukrainians to even be trained on them, but what we are told is that this could potentially be game changing in terms of breaking through russia s defensive lines in ukraine. they want to take the fight directly to the russians so they can take back that territory versus striking them with longer-range equipment that the u.s. has given them. they re still asking for the extremely long-range missiles, but in terms of a grinding fight that allows them to break those russian lines, they say this could be game changing. the reason would you the u.s. has been pushing jerchy for weeks,