nearly 12 million voters across the country have already cast their ballots for the critical midterm elections. more than 4 million of those ballots have been turned in throughout florida, california, georgia, and texas. the candidates are facing off in some of the final debates of the campaign season after the highly anticipated showdown in pennsylvania. john fetterman released a new ad criticizing mehmet oz s response to abortion. oz barely mentioned the debate during a gcampaign event in the last hour and says he focused largely on crime. in a race to control congress, both sides are narrowing to the most competitive races. new money is being injected from both sides as well, a sign of just how high the stakes are in these midterms. our cnn editor joins us now. where do things stand for the battle for the control of the bo what we re looking at. let s go to the map broadly. i m going to write on this. there are 35 seats up. 21 of those are republican. 14 are democrat. fu
families who have been captured or killed in ukraine since russia s invasion. happening right now president biden is sitting down with pentagon leaders. it s a routine meeting, but of course, it comes amid worsening tensions with russia along with concerns about north korea and china. cnn s senior white house correspondent phil mattingly joins us now with more. plenty for them to discuss. what more did we learn? reporter: there are no shortage of tensions around the world right now, particularly in the indo-pacific region. this was not a meeting scheduled for any specific purpose according to white house officials. a regular meeting the president has with the department officials, but the myriad of concerns that the president is grappling with right now is significant. i don t think there s any question about that. there are no u.s. troops on the ground in ukraine, but u.s. forces are critical in the supply efforts for the ukrainian military. that is certainly an element here the
to evacuate the civilians. we have seen it in the past. we have seen ukrainians along those exit corridors engaged as targets. so my primary concern is when the russians say, yeah, this is what we re going to agree to to end the nato with the use of the supply efforts that has been in place have to be in a position to enforce that and ukrainians understand that. they re not going to listen to the russians and believe what they say. they have to be able to get the behavior that matches what their commitment is. and there have been new deadlines after deadlines imposed by the russians, guaranteeing that these troops, these injured troops and civilians, will be safe and their lives will be spared and they ll be taken care of if they meet the deadlines. thus far you re saying the troops say no, we ll continue to hold down the fort here. how much longer can this battle continue until russians gain
economic corner. take a listen here. our policies are working and we re getting results for the american people, which is what it s all about to state the obvious. record job creation, record unemployment declines, record wage gains. more and more americans get jobs as they do, it s going to help ease the supply efforts. it s good news for our economy and it means our economy is gone from being on the mend to being on the move. reporter: so there we heard from the president as he takes an optimistic tone. as we celebrate this success, he still talks about the high price of gas and high inflation rates. americans are paying more for everyday goods, but still the white house is really putting this as a notion that his economic policies are working as though he combats these lower
partners with both the state and federal government have been in communication with us. i believe we will see the first c-130 of supplies in within the next couple of hours at the naval air station in key west the state and federal government are really stepping up to the plate. now, it is complicated by the fact that many of the rescue efforts and supply efforts will be by air. and up until almost this very time they would have to fly through a hurricane to get here because the hurricane moved on up the state. so, yes, we re very happy with the response. the navy, as you heard, is sending a carrier that has tremendous capability. it will probably be standing off key west. david rice is the mayor of