44 million americans have already cast an early ballot. polls are now open in 49 of our great 50 states, hawaii opens last in about 59 minutes. each and every vote cast will make up a small part of what our political landscape will look like for the next two years. democrats have been facing increasingly bleak chances in the mid-term elections. president biden even admitting last night it will be an uphill battle for dems. what do you think about tomorrow, sir? president biden: i m optimistic. i m always optimistic. will democrats win the house? president biden: i think it will be tough but i thick we can. i think we ll win the senate. the house is tougher. harris: the super slim majorities in the house. 220 to republicans 212. our fox power rankings this will flip from blue to red is what it s showing. we don t know yet how many seats but that s what the fox power rankings are showing. we ll follow it as it happens. the senate is 50/50 with vp kamala harris. the
least eight and wounding dozens more. a new week, a monday. good morning, everybody. i m bill hemmer live in new york city. hello. dana: i m dana perino. this is america s newsroom. this escalation is striking at a time when people overnight the destruction of the lone bridge connecting russia to crimea happened over the weekend. a key supply line for russia. vladimir putin targeted civilians. zelensky said russia is trying to wipe us off the face of the earth. they want to destroy our energy system and they are hopeless. the second target is people. they chose such a time, such goals in order to cause as much harm as possible. bill: check out the video here. one missile left a massive crater feet away from a children s playground. dana: the first major attack on kiev since june. 1 of 10 major cities targeted in the assault. bill: the white house trying to clean up president biden s remarks from last week on the russia nuclear threat. he said the u.s. was facing
subway. somebody else slashed in the east village. this is day after day after day. there are a lot of parents, a lot of families dealing with this reality of rising crime. dana: alexandria hoff is live in washington with more. hi. hi, crime has become an issue where democrats have had to tread lightly on the campaign trail not wanting to highlight violence in cities they control or former calls to defund the police. pennsylvania s toss-up senate race dr. oz has moved into striking distance of democrat john fetterman with ads calling out homicide rates in philadelphia and pittsburgh. fetterman has had to play defense there. i m running on my record on crime. running on my record on crime. [cheers and applause] i ran to be mayor of braddock in a community that has significant gun violence. to be mayor, to fight that. moving the arizona immigration is at the center of the discussion and become one of nationwide. blake masters is vying to unseat democratic senator mark k
cardinali will react in a moment. sandra: cyber attack on u.s. airport websites reportedly coming from inside russia. more than a dozen airport websites were hacked and temporarily taken down but there has been no impact yet on flight operations. so far, at least. hello, welcome, i m sandra smith in new york. and gillian, welcome to you. gillian: great to be with you this afternoon. gillian turner in washington. in for john roberts today. this is america reports. bring you more on this cyber attack as we get it into the newsroom. the white house is defending president biden s nuclear armageddon comments. they say the stakes for americans are higher than in decades. comes as dozens of missile strikes rained down on ukraine early monday morning. at least 11 civilians have been killed so far. the capital city of kyiv suffering the worst bombing since the early days of the war. sandra: vladimir putin vowing revenge for a bombing on the only bridge linking crimea and russi
her phone recording this as the blast went off around here near the national university. a man on a pedestrian bridge in kyiv when the explosion goes off. where to go from there? he run towards the surveillance camera. ukraine s president reacting to this. he beliefs that they re using suicide drones, the russians, and that they re coming from iran. he vows he will not back down. we are dealing with terrorists. dozens of missiles. they want to destroy our energy system. now there may be temporary e interruptions with electricity. so all of this days a after president biden said that putin is not joking about the use of nuclear weapons and we have not faced the prospect of armageddon since kennedy and the cuban missile crisis. in a moment, i ll be joined by mike pompeo. perfect guest to talk about where to go from here with ukraine. first, trey yingst reporting live from kharkiv ukraine, which is on that list of cities that were hit. hi, trey. martha, good afternoon. we