starts right now. hi. thank you so much. i am ari melber and whoop there it is. election day within three weeks. early voting has begun, including in new key states. and we begin with something special. i m not going to hide the ball. i m going to show you the two chairs. howard dean who ran the dnc. michael steele who ran the rnc. in our opinion, no two better people to walk us through and it, they are here right now. let me tell you the context. 2 million people cast ballots. when we say election day, it s like rhetoric. this is election month. early voting is showing records smashed in certain states. fluid dynamics. new polls show the house leaning slightly towards republicans, depending on what happens. democrats believe they are still in a strong position to hold the senate majority. and as we ve told you, we cannot accurately cover 400 plus races at once. we will bring you the highlights, the context, the facts and the music. but i will show you some of the deba
is nothing compared to what southwest florida woke up to today. shreve seeflorida woke un house others carried away by brutal storm . carried away by brutal storm surge surge and debris, including cars ending up in bays. in some circumstances, the destruction is almost unimaginable. circumstance steve harrigan, by the grace of god , rode out the storm as close to the impact zoneow as anyone else. and tonight we find him inrigh placita, which is right acrossci the causeway connecting i the barrier island of bocasl grande. steve , you ve seen some justrii horrific destruction.de what can youstruct telion, whatc how the search and rescue attempts areue unfolding in the dark? there? ar they are going on . they are continuous. h they ve carried ouavt more than seven hundred rescues and they really got started just aftether 1:00 o clock in the morning.as o as soon as the winds die down belomow forty miles per hour, they were out there really risking their lives to try to save
tonight we have kennedy, kagin, minkow, haggen and jimmy garoppolo. you re a long way from. okay, okay. i hope you had a good week. i did.i and no thanks to howard stern,eo drew. the new york posest reported tht stern hit a chic restaurant in nyc with a crew of a listers include putting jimmy kimmel, jennifer aniston, jon hamm,m, justin thoreau, jason bateman, i was not invited, i guess, because my first name doesn t begin with the letter j. did you notice that?gs to but it s okay. i had other things to do that evening. thank you for being great. traveled down the road back again. but imagine the conversation with that crew. so how s your health?heal six packs is ttho boosters and n and i only got covid fouri only times. oh yeah, i did got a tripl ce pu packs and an iv booster trip. plus i gave dr. fauci a reach around. nd he was like, come on , jimmy , don t worry about your sofa.t yr i m not a super spreader. but the dinner isn t the story . later on his radio show,
are release video surveillance of the search. uphill battle for liz cheney, voters in wyoming go to the polls on primary day, robert costa is the only correspondent dl as the congresswoman casts her votes withance a country we are facing challenging and difficult times. o donnell: the staggering number of americans who are unhappy at work. this job is not fun and we re not getting paid enough to deal with the stuff he with have to deal with every single day. o donnell: cbs s elise preston on why that is costing companies trillions of dollars. this is the this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. good evening, thank you for joining us on this tuesday night. we begin tonight with severe water cuts that will impact tens of millions of americans. and puts a fine point on how dire the crisis is in america s west. a mega drought is drying up the colorado river and depleting the nation s largest manmade reservoir laker mead.
Hello and welcome to our special, new york versus donald trump. Im ari melber. We have breakdowns on this riveting testimony. Including fridays moment for hope hicks. This is one of the weeks where prosecutors are putting together Stormy Daniels and Karen Mcdougalls lawyer, Keith Davidson. A damning story will come from Michael Cohen but theyve done it to confirm it for the jury before they hear from cohen. Corroborating all of that, with what weve told you about, the receipts, the checks, the contracts, and then ending this week with a rare view inside Donald Trumps upper most senior aides and brain trust. Longtime trump aide hope hicks taking the stand and bringing jurors into these meetings. As the access Hollywood Tape broke as trump and aides assessed its damage. Hope hicks you see there with donald trump. That is a coveted post in any campaign and especially in his, someone who is up on the stage and in his ear and on the plane. That is the role she had. So this was important tes