u.s. president donald trump rallies supporters in the final days before what some experts say will be one of the most polarized elections in american history. plus, thousands of iranians march against the u.s. after president trump slaps iran with renewed sanctions. we'll have a report from tehran. also this hour, simulated battles to tackle cyberhacking. one city is testing fake scenarios of spreading misinformation that could become real. hello and welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm bianca nobody lilo in londo.

this is "cnn newsroom." the 2018 u.s. midterm election campaigns are down to the wire with just two days left before tuesday's voting. president donald trump and key figures from both parties are crisscrossing the country for their respective candidates, hoping to get voters to actually vote. former president barack obama will be in indiana and illinois on sunday to rally the democrats. president trump has no fewer than five scheduled events between now and election day. now, historically turnout is low for midterms. but maybe not this time. as of late friday, more than 27 million americans have gone to the polls or sent in absentee ballots. messages from both sides could not be more stark. >> this is one of the most important elections of our entire lives.

this election will decide whether we build on the extraordinary prosperity that we have achieved or whether we let the radical democrats take control of congress and take a giant wrecking ball to our economy and to the future of our nation. >> trying to convince us that honesty is relative, depending where you stand. truth is truth. truth is truth. honesty is honesty. >> president trump has two campaign events on sunday. one in georgia in the afternoon and another later in tennessee. cnn's boris sanchez is traveling with the president and has this report from the campaign stop saturday in florida. >> reporter: president trump kicked off his rally in pensacola, florida, en saturday, with a different note, joke about coverage he watched on television about some of his previous rallies and dismissing criticism he heard that he spent too much time talking about

immigration and not enough time talking about the economy. so the president went deep discussing jobs numbers and talking about how a booming economy would help floridians here in the panhandle recently affected by hurricane michael. he talked about rebuilding those parts of florida that weren't hart hid by the hurricane saying that the entire country was hit with those people hurt by the hurricane. the president then went after democrats, suggesting that democrats would take a wrecking ball to the booming economy and turn florida into venezuela. listen to this. >> they'll impose socialism on the state of florida. welcome to venezuela. and they'll erase america's borders, we have to have a border if we're going to have a great country, we have to have a great, strong, powerful border. >> reporter: of course the

president did go back to the issue of immigration yet again, calling members of the caravan moving through central america toward the united states invaders, though there are indications that most of the caravan is made up of women and children seeking refuge from political and economic crises in central american countries. the president was joined on stage by representative ron desantis, running for governor here in florida, and by the current governor rick scott who is running for senate. high praise among those three, of course. the president is popular in the state of florida, he has a 47% approval rating and calls it his second home. ultimately whether those candidates succeed in tuesday's election or not may be a referendum on how well the president is doing in the sunshine state. boris sanchez, cnn, traveling with the president, in pensacola, florida. >> as you mentioned, president trump is going all-out this weekend, and monday, crisscrossing the country, rallying support for republicans, running for house and senate seats. cnn's u.s. congressional correspondent phil mattingly

says the president is hitting places where his party is most in danger of losing ground in the senate. >> reporter: a couple of days out from election day no question about it, all of the campaigns are hot and heavy and all the top surrogates are out as well, including the president of the united states. if you want to know where his emphasis is, look at where he's traveling. he's traveling to senate battlegrounds. why is he traveling to senate battlegrounds, if you look at the map, look at the seats the democrats have up now and the seats that democrats think they might have an opportunity to take over, well, a lot of those seats are in trump country. talking about indiana, you're talking about west virginia, you're talking about missouri, north dakota, montana. these are the types of areas the president not just won in 2016, but in the case of west virginia, he won by 42 points. one of the big questions as president trump travels, his administration travels to ramp up the base vote here is can democrats fight back against this tide? take a look at west virginia. this is where joe manchin will be going up against patrick morrissey. you look at what joe manchin did

in 2012, look at the blue, a lot of blue there. this say republican state, joe manchin, won this state handily, by 25 points. what did president trump do in the state? there is no blue. that's a good indication of where the state turned over the course of a couple of cycles. can joe manchin fight back against that? democrats feel confident about that race, but if you look at a couple of others here, that's where democrats are a little bit worried. talk specifically about missouri, talk specifically about north dakota, these are races right now that democrats are very concerned about. so you know where democrats have to defend seats, the real question is, where can democrats pick up seats? there are four states that democrats are focused on as potential pickups. again, keep in mind, democrats only need to flip two seats if they hold on to all of their own to take the majority in the united states senate. so what are those seats? you have tennessee, you have texas, you have arizona, you have nevada. in tennessee, you have bob corker who retired, the incumbent republican, phil bredisen, well liked, bipartisan

is how he's viewed, trailing by a couple of points, that's a pickup opportunity that democrats hope will come more on line in the days ahead. texas, beto o'rourke raised tons of money, garnered tons of national interest, can he overcome which over the course of the last couple of decades has been a clear republican advantage in this state? that is an open question too. the top two democratic targets for pickup without question are arizona and nevada. arizona, jeff flake, the republican senator, he's retired, now you have two congresswomen up for the seat, martha mcsally on the republican side, kirsten cinema on the democratic side. can democrats pull out in a state where they haven't been able to win state wide in years? still an open question. move over to nevada, this is where an incumbent republican dean heller is running. democrats have long believed he was the most vulnerable senator on the map. can they make inroads in nevada do what they have done in presidential elections, 2012, 2016, hillary clinton lost and won this state. that is an open question, one

that will largely be answered here, clark county, 70% of the vote comes in right here, this is where we have seen democrats voting like gangbusters in the early vote. can they run up enough early vote to actually win this state? that will be the open question in the days ahead. so that's where the senate lands. >> and joining me now to talk more about the midterms is a professor of international politics at city university london. thank you very much for being with us. so in many ways people with talking about these midterms as being historic and particularly eventful. one of those reasons is the fact that turnout is expected to be at a record high. what are the main factors driving that? >> president trump knows well, like any other president that midterm elections are the governing party's voters don't tend to turn out very much, they're happy with the party who won. and what president trump is fighting against was that kind of lethargy and complacency. and he has certainly riled up

the gop's voting base. much more highly likely to vote this time than in previous terms. so this is -- he made it a referendum on the trump presidency, on the whole message that he's sending, but making america great again at home. the kavanaugh hearings did that. and this week with the caravan, and the kind of ramped up messaging about birth right citizenship being abolished, and now with this ad, which was very open, the kind of playing the race card about a mexican immigrant who has committed some murders, i think he's using that to try to rile up his base to get them out. i think that's probably the principle reason why it is going to be so high. >> do you think as it did for him in 2016 the immigration platform particularly strong, as you mentioned not only is there the issues of the caravan sending troops to the border, talking about asylum rules and birth right citizenship, do you feel like the republican party is convinced that's an incredibly strong and persuasive platform for them? >> i think trump and bannon --

steve bannon worked it up many years ago. anti-immigration was the one big message which galvanized a much broader range of the republican electorate than anything else. and i think they're preying on that particular card ruthlessly. and the most open way possible. people have compared the most recent ad to willie horton way back in the 1990s, but actually this -- willie horton ad left something to the imagination. this leaves nothing to the imagination, this particular there saying he's going to kill police and so on and is being blamed on the democrats, actually one of the -- some of the allies of the trump party which allow this person back into the united states in the first place. >> so immigration, a key platform for the republicans, conversely what are the democrats standing on here and what is the outlook for midterms? >> i think the democratic party is probably most interesting to have studied very closely. the democrats are clear that they have shifted to the right. 30 of their candidates for the

house are either serving or recently serving fbi, cia, military, who are wearing that as a badge of honor and they can defend the state against the threat. more gop donors are giving money to the democratic party than they have historically. and there is a general desire among many candidates, especially where trump won the state, back in 2016, where they're effectively not even mentioning the opposition to trump, they're saying they can work with donald trump in the -- if they were to be elected. what this suggests is that the democratic party has shifted to the right, so the whole ground of american politics it would appear has shifted to the right under trump and even a vote for the democratic party does not necessarily signal a massive change in the kind of governance we are likely to see going forward into 2020 and then there after. >> and just quickly before we go what are some key battleground states we should be looking out for? >> i think clearly if you look

at the trump itinerary in the last few days, west virginia, florida, ohio, wisconsin, and elsewhere. he's going to go for those places where you're likely to get a defeat, but also where he's going to put something in the bank for 2020, loyalty, you need to show loyalty to me. i think he's fighting the good fight for the gop and he's remade that party in his own image. he's had a massive effect on american politics, not only on his party, but on the opposition. it suggests there is a new consensus emerging which is probably going to shape american politics well after trump has left office, either in 2020 or even 2024. >> thank you very much for joining us. well, join us tuesday night for extensive coverage of the u.s. midterm elections. it starts at 5:00 p.m. eastern time and goes until all the results are known. now, protesters gather in iran, just one day before u.s.

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u.s. is reinstating sanctions that had been lifted under the 2015 nuclear deal. president trump pulled the u.s. out of that deal earlier this year. iran's supreme leader ayatollah khomeini says president trump disgraced america. >> translator: the u.s. is much weaker today than it was 40 years ago when the revolution was victorious. the power of the u.s. is on the decline. this is the important point. most of the world's politicians and global affairs analysts believe that the u.s. soft power has worn out, it is being destroyed. >> u.s. secretary of state mike pompeo laid out the administration's case for reinstating the sanctions. he tweeted on november 5th we'll place top sanctions on iran's ruling regime. our aim is to compel iran to abandon its destructive

activities. the sanctions will target the regime, not the people who have suffered the pain of their government's mismanagement, theft and brutality. the measures take aim at iran's ports, ship builders and crucially its oil sector. also targeted, transactions by foreign financial institutions with the central bank of iran, as well as underwriting services and insurance. senior international correspondent fred pleitgen joins me now from tehran. you've been at some of the demonstrations. tell us what the mood is like there and what is the message for president trump. >> reporter: yeah, i would say there is a clear message for president trump, baufrianca, an and defiance. there were a lot of poster and flyers depicting president trump getting beaten by the iranians. very interesting demonstration happened earlier today in tehran. today is not only a day before

the sanctions kick in, but also the anniversary of the storming of the u.s. embassy in tehran where the protests took place earlier today. that same message of defiance, of standing up to the united states, that's something that the hard-liners, the religious conservatives who were out there today wanted to display. the main speaker there is the ahead of iran's revolutionary guard corps, the elite unit that does stand up to the united states. so very much in line with that message of iran is going to stay strong, no matter how tough these sanctions are going to get. now, there are, of course, a lot of people in iran who feel differently about all of this, especially the more moderate people, and the business people as well. they already have been suffering a great deal under new u.s. sanctions since the u.s. pulled out of the nuclear agreement and they believe that they're going to suffer even more when that oil and gas sector gets hit, a lot of iran's state finances depend on money from oil and gas exports. at this point in time, a lot of people feel a lot of uncertainty a lot of people have taken a

financial hit and people feel things could get worse. >> fred pleitgen for us in tehran, thank you. let's now discuss u.s. sanctions against iran further with our monitors. thank you very much for joining us in london today. first of all, could you elucidate the u.s. strategy here, one of maximum pressure it seems? >> it is very closely resembles what the saudis and uae did to qatar. they present 13 demands saying here are today's -- or not any solution. it is very much about surrender and capitulation, the negotiation. >> now historically there is a long -- many examples of iran resisting this type of pressure. do you think this strategy is likely to work, especially now that it is not multilateral? >> just brought up a very important point, unlike the previous run of sanctions on president obama, you have russia, china, india, and major economies saying that we're not

going to adheres to these sanctions. as a result, u.s. cannot impose this kind of pressure they did back in 2012. >> now, if we step back and take a longitudinal perspective here, how severe is the strain now? >> well, i mean, we had sanctions for 40 years. so it is not anything new. i think the iranian strategy at present is to wait out trump. they're going to say we're going to engage with the other parties of the nuclear deal, eight signatories, they're saying that we're at the negotiating table, but the other seven countries and we're willing to wait for the united states to get its house in order and get back to the table. >> now, mike pompeo, said the sanctions target the regime, not the people. the people are going to be impacted. talk to me about the economic context of the sanctions being implemented. >> there is a lot of talk about the sanctions, pushing iran to

the table, at a situation where it constitutes about one-third of the government's budget. in addition to that, they have over $100 billion in foreign exchange services. as a result, i think iran is well positioned to weather the storm. i think they can hold out much longer than the u.s. expected. as a result of that, i think that the impact of the sanctions in terms of changing policy is not going to happen the way trump imagines it will happen. >> let's sanctions on the banking sector, what impact is that likely to have? >> what they're trying to do between iran and european union, first and foremost, is something called a special purpose vehicle. a new kind of mechanism to make sure that banks are not used directly in transactions. so you have a mechanism in which you have a -- not a barter kind of situation, but it will be very difficult, the united states sanction that mechanism in itself. >> our senior correspondent fret plead again was tapleitgen was g about conservative sources within society and more moderate

sources this is a topic you know incredibly well. talk to me about the nuance of opinion that exists in iranian society toward the u.s., or is it just broadly at the moment because of the sanctions and because of the attempts at economic strangulation very negative? >> you had a situation in the past where, say, the more moderate forces, the reformists were saying let's sit down and talk with the united states. because we should engage, we should try that option. that option has now been tried, a deal was reached and the u.s. reneged on that deal. as a result, not only are the hard-liners more strengthened, more empowered by virtue of having said we said the united states is going to renege all along, you cannot trust the united states, now it is far more difficult for the moderates including president rehaouhani say let's sit down with the united states again, mindful a deal was reached after 12 years of negotiations. just two years ago. and it is -- reneged on already. it is much more difficult for the moderates to sit down with the u.s. and hard-liners are

basically -- are saying we were right all along. as a result, engagement with the u.s. will be far more difficult this time compared to last time. >> who are the most influential voices to your mind within the trump administration on these issues? >> i think national security adviser bolton is having a major impact on iran policy. and pompeo. i think the one person who maybe ironically now is being sidelined as a soft -- is mattis, the secretary of defense, who under obama was sidelined from being too harsh on iran. >> shows you the shift. >> exactly. >> thank you so much for joining us today and giving us your insights. thank you. the christian woman was acquitted of blasphemy charges this week by pakistan's top court. her husband tells a german broadcaster that he fears she may be attacked in prison before her release. he also says his family must

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welcome back to our viewers in the united states, the united kingdom and across the world. you're watching "cnn newsroom." i'm bianca nobilo in london. here are the headlines this hour. american troops are massing on the u.s. border as president trump has ordered. a labor union for border patrol officers posted these photos on social media. they show u.s. troops installing barbed wire on the river and port of entry. a caravan of central american migrants, men, women and children, are traveling through mexico now to claim asylum in the u.s. iran's leaders were holding anti-american protests one day before u.s. sanctions go into effect. iran's supreme leader ayatollah c khomeini is slamming the u.s. for the sanks snor the sanks s s for the sanks sanctions.

mayor from the u.s. state of utah was killed in afghanistan while serving with utah national guard. initial reports indicate brent taylor was killed by a member of the afghan national defense and security forces on saturday. the attacker reportedly was then killed by other afghan soldiers. an american envoy says a u.n. humanitarian convoy with enough aid for 50,000 people has finally made it to a refugee camp in the desert in syria. the u.s. and russia had accused each other of blocking the aid delivery to the camp. the u.n. says the situation there has been desperate for months. the u.s. midterm elections are just two days away. and the stakes are enormous. president donald trump and former president barack obama are crisscrossing the u.s. for their respective candidates. on sunday, mr. trump will be in

georgia and tennessee. mr. obama will be in indiana and illinois. ultimately tuesday's outcome will be seen as a referendum on the trump presidency. all indications point to a record turnout. more than 27 million americans have already made up their minds. and taken advantage of early voting in their states. in the u.s. state of georgia, polls show the race for governor is about as close as it is possible to get. and it is attracting wide attention. president trump visits georgia later today to campaign for republican candidate brian kemp. meanwhile, democrat stacey abrams has some big names supporting her bid to become the nation's first african-american female governor. correspondent kaylee hartung is in georgia and reports on the state of the race. >> this tuesday, i believe it may be the most important election of our lifetime. >> reporter: in the final days of georgia's contentious

governor's race -- >> i'm kind of a big deal too. >> reporter: -- the leading candidates bringing unprecedented star power to the state. >> i've been watching what's been going on down here. y'all got to make some history down here. >> reporter: stacey abrams and brian kemp are deadlocked in the polls. early voting ended friday with a record number of ballots cast, more than double the amount at the same point in the last midterm election. >> i'm very, very excited that we are getting the national attention that we're getting because i hope that it is actually encouraging the local people to be involved. >> i have my vote shirt on, i'm going to do it today. >> reporter: with few undecided voters left, these big names continue the campaign long mission, appeal to the candidates polarized bases. >> let me make you a promise, with president donald trump in the white house and brian kemp in the state house, we will never abolish ice.

>> you can't think there is anything proper about ripping immigrant children from their mother's bosoms at the border. >> reporter: georgia's race garnered national attention, over claims that kemp is suppressing voter access, putting more than 50,000 registrations on hold in his capacity as secretary of state. kemp's office says the registrants, nearly 70% who are african-american, will be able to vote if they bring the proper i.d. but still, voting rights a battle cry for abrams supporters. >> every single one of us has something that if done in numbers too big to tamper with cannot be suppressed and cannot be denied. >> reporter: vice president pence leaning on familiar lines of attack from kemp ads that say abrams is out of touch with georgia. >> i got a message for all of stacey abrams liberal hollywood friends, this ain't hollywood.

this is georgia. >> reporter: what is notable is not just who is delivering these pointed messages, but where. abrams' surrogates in metro atlanta area where they hope to motivate first time and minority voters. team kemp focuses on more rural areas of the state, eyeing the same path to victory that president trump took to win it in 2016. >> she's not qualified. >> reporter: trump voiced his opinion on this race from afar. sunday, he'll do it on peach state soil. kaylee hartung, cnn, atlanta. the republican party's majority in the u.s. senate is just two seats. president donald trump and the rest of his party are, of course, scrambling to make sure it stays that way. now one of the most competitive senate races is in tennessee, a state that is usually solidly in the republican corner. martin savidge explains. >> reporter: even as the new cnn poll shows a slight republican lead, tennessee senate race is still remarkably close.

but how does a democrat manage to be so competitive in such a conservative state? where president trump won 60% of the vote? phil bredesen is not your typical democrat, widely known and popular as mayor of nashville, he's credited with bringing prefection ining profe teams to town. >> fwhoeb is nobody is going to how to vote. >> reporter: he said he agrees with president trump on some things and pledges to do that is best for tennessee, not the democratic party. >> i think if you ask people for characteristics about me, they'll say moderate. but they'll also say he gets things done. and that's what's really letting me be competitive in a state like this. >> reporter: his centrist message, what should have been an easy victory for republican marsha blackburn into a struggle. she's a fiery conservative who

served in congress since 2003. she's in the as popular as bredesen, but knows someone who is. >> we love the president in tennessee! >> reporter: blackburn's a staunch trump supporter, the president twas cahas come twice tennessee to campaign on her behalf. the president railed against the caravan of migrants headed for the u.s., blackburn put the issue front and center in her own campaign. >> gang members, known criminals, people from the middle east, possibly even terrorists. >> reporter: we reached out to the blackburn campaign for an interview, but never got a response. some political watchers suggest blackburn is relying too heavily on trump voters. >> trump is still very popular in this state. but i'm not sure that it is a good assumption that every trump voter is a very conservative or

even republican voter. >> reporter: being too trump could turn off independents and moderate republicans. voters blackburn still needs. we found several republicans who say they voted for bredesen. >> he -- the issues that i am interested in, and much more aligns with my beliefs and i don't see that from the other candidates. >> reporter: he's an unabashed moderate, centrist, right down the middle. does that appeal to you? >> you bet it does. we need more of that. >> reporter: david blue is a pharmacist, as well as a republican. >> this was an extremely difficult decision for me to make. >> reporter: he's a fan of trump's economy, and worries about losing control of the senate, he just couldn't vote democrat. >> it is an extremely close race. i believe in the end blackburn will take this race. that's my gut feeling on it anyway. >> reporter: ultimately for tennessee voters in today's polarized political climate, how

they vote may hinge on what matters more. a chance for moderation, or party loyalty. martin savidge, cnn, knoxville, tennessee. >> a significant storm system could impact election day voting for millions of americans living in key battleground states. meteorologist derek van dam has the details on the forecast for the u.s. derek, this is fascinating. you think about voter turnout, you don't necessarily think about the environment and whether you think about platforms, you think about electoral competitiveness, but actually weather could be a huge import here. >> absolutely, bianca. there has been some linkage between voters being suppressed in terms of the weather, and terrible weather conditions. we know there is linkage to that. no one wants to stand an hour in line, outdoors in the rain, let alone severe weather. tuesday, election day is turning out to be a rather tumultuous day for some key battleground

states. so maybe we'll actually have battleground weather taking place in tennessee and ohio. this is what is shaping up for election day on tuesday. we have two different air masses that are going to collide in this part of the country. so cold air from the north, warm humid air from the gulf of mexico, that sets the stage for severe storms. and unfortunately as this cold front marches eastward, it is going to create what is known as a moderate risk of severe weather, right into western tennessee, parts of mississippi, alabama, all the way to kentucky and even southern indiana. but look as it advances eastward through the day on tuesday, election day. again, that's from monday night to tuesday. that's when we expect this cold front to move eastward. this is where we're sending our storms up for -- to take place on tuesday evening. from atlanta all the way to the nation's capital, that's where the potential for isolated tornados and potential for hefty rainfall and even larger hail as well. just kind of timing this out for

you again. monday, nashville, oxford, jackson, this could last to monday evening. that's a potential problem. but then on tuesday, for actual election day, look out north georgia through the carolinas and the delmarva peninsula. one thing is for sure, the ohio river valley to the tennessee river valley, that's where we'll see the area that -- with the most heavy rainfall and then behind it enough cold air filters in where we change our precipitation into snowfall. we have the potential for full on blizzard for the plains states and the middle of next week. check this out, cold air behind it, that will set the stage for wintertime temperatures into places like chicago and new york city. check out the temperatures and look at that rainy forecast for the windy city. >> derek, thank you so much for bringing us the latest weather update for what it is looking like for tuesday's big voting day. thank you. now, when we come back, new details are emerging about the man who opened fire in a florida yoga studio. some online videos may provide clues, details on that and the

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welcome back. one week has passed since the deadly synagogue shooting in pittsburgh, pennsylvania. over the weekend, communities around the world held services and memorials for the victims. in one sermon, jeffrey myers slammed politicians for divisive rhetoric which he believes led to the attack. he said he delivers that message to donald trump when the u.s. president visited the site on tuesday. alisyn camerota spoke with the

rabbi recently. >> are you scared when you see this building? >> no. i'm not scared. i'm angry. how dare you defile our holy space? i'm a witness. i'm a victim. i'm a survivor. i'm also a pastor. i'm also a human. i stand here and i'm in pain. >> meanwhile, mourners in israel held a vigil on saturday in a show of solidarity for the victims. several people there had personal ties to pittsburgh. in new york, a 26-year-old man has been charged with hate crimes after anti-semitic messages were found in a brooklyn synagogue. the suspect, james polite, is currently undergoing an evaluation in hospital. the graffiti was found on four floors of the union temple thursday night. the messages written in black marker included violent threats and hitler references. bill de blasio strongly

condemned the act. >> we do not tolerate hate. we do not accept it in any form. we will never accept anti-semitism in new york city and we stand shoulder to shoulder with our jewish brothers and sisters in this hour of real need. >> the latest incident is part of a string of anti-semitic attacks across the u.s. swau swastikas appeared in brooklyn, bucks county, rochester, new york. also in irvine, california, an anti-semitic message was spray painted on a synagogue early wednesday morning. we're learning more about the man police say opened fire at a florida yoga studio. two women were killed friday in the shooting and five people were wounded. police say the 40-year-old suspect had been accused of harassing young women in the area. new york times reports he posted several racist and misogynist videos online in 2014. diane gallagher has more now.

>> reporter: federal, state and local authorities are still trying to figure out what the connection is between the 40-year-old gunman and the people who were simply practicing yoga on a friday evening in tallahassee. now, according to authorities, 40-year-old scott beierle posed as a customer, that he was going to go in, take a class, and then began firing a handgun indiscriminately at people in that hot yoga studio. they say that some of the people who were in there tried to attack him before he turned the gun on himself, killing himself. now, there were six people who were shot, one person was pistol whipped and two of those victims died. 61-year-old nancy van vessem, she was a doctor, an internist, the chief medical director at capital health plan, she also was part of the fsu faculty. and maura binkley, a 21-year-old double major, english and

german, at florida state university. her sorority tri delta posting on the page that she embodied the tri delta woman, brave, bold and kind. she is from the atlanta area. she graduated from dunnwoody high school just three years ago. and, again, they're trying to determine right now why. they do know he lived in deltona, florida. that he had served in the military in the past, and had attended fsu as well. in fact, tallahassee police had dealt with this man before, with phone calls and complaints about harassing young women there. he lived in deltona, florida. a four-hour drive to tallahassee, got a hotel room in tallahassee, and, again, at this point, police do not know why he came into the yoga studio, they're going through his social media, his electronics, and his home back in deltona to try and find the connection. >> our thanks to diane gallagher

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welcome back. britain's prince charles and the duchess of cornwall are attending a church service in ghana. the royal couple are touring commonwealth nations in west africa. it is the prince's first tour since he was named the nechlxt d of the commonwealth in april. they're taking part in several cultural events. here you can see prince charles playing a small instrument called a cal bash with a dance performance on saturday. earlier the couple visited giamga gambia and will wrap up in nigeria. there has been talk about russian meddling in the u.s. voting process. to make sure that doesn't happen in the upcoming midterms, cybersecurity companies and the u.s. government are working overtime to protect the vote. but it is a daunting task. >> reporter: high above boston, a game is under way. two teams in glass walled

conference rooms locked in a simulated battle, which many believe could easily become real. >> for now, close the bridge. so that it just gives the impression of isolation. >> reporter: this is the red team, hackers trying to disrupt an election. >> all we want to do is keep people away from the voting places. >> reporter: down the hall, the blue team, the police, trying to make sure the voting goes smoothly. >> we need more resources into the area, not only police, but fire and ems. >> reporter: they're former and current law enforcement, including ex-boston police commissioner ed davis, who is in charge during the marathon bombing. and what the hackers are throwing at him today he's never seen before. >> i've never heard of this happening, so i don't know what the solution to it is. >> reporter: this simulation hosted by security company cyberreason is designed to show the wide ranging damage hackers can do. not to the more obvious targets like voting machines and election infrastructure, but to an entire city on election day.

>> take the traffic system and shut down the traffic systems and two, three, five and nine. >> turn all lights to off. >> why don't we do the whole city? >> shut off everything. >> just drain the law enforcement, drain public services. >> reporter: next door, the blue team struggles with the barrage of attacks from all angles. >> suspend the voting process temporarily until further notice. >> reporter: tying up traffic, bomb threats, evacuations, taking over social and local media to spread false information and causing unrest and exhausting police resources. >> what that did for us made it look like the police were suppressing the vote, conspiracy theorists will go nuts. >> reporter: after the simulation, the hackers claimed victory. blue team admitting in the real world, it is a relentless game of catch up.

the stuff that the ahackers wer throwing at you was not hard to do. >> it is low budget and effective, it can influence public opinion extremely effectively. >> reporter: the potential to threaten not just voter turnout, but shape confidence in the democratic process as a whole. >> i think they're woefully underprepared. and in those scenarios, i believe local government lacks the funding or the ability to attract the talent or the resources to build the defenses necessary to defend the public against those types of attacks. that say significant problem. >> reporter: alex marquardt, cnn, boston. one of the big talking points in the run-up to the midterms has been the migrant caravan heading for the u.s. from central america. coverage has been less than friendly and "saturday night live" took notice. it took on fox news' depiction of the migrants before election

day. >> who is in this caravan? >> everyone you've ever seen in your nightmares, laura. it has got guatemalans, mexicans, isis, the menendez brothers, the 1990 detroit pistons and several -- >> if they walk at a normal pace of 300 miles a day, they could be here in time to vote on election day. >> are they moving that quickly? >> well, let's look at this aerial footage of the caravan. >> my god. those are humans? >> basically, yeah. >> keep watching "cnn newsroom." i'm bianca nobilo in london. for viewers in the united states, "new day" is up next for you. for everyone else, stay tuned for "african voices." first, i'll be back with the headlines in just a moment.

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