much for watching. i'm wolf blitzer in "the situation room." "erin burnett outfront" starts right now. out front next, booted from offense, a judge removing a january 6th participant from his elected position because of his actions that day in a law that hasn't been used in over 100 years. could other lawmakers be next? plus it was wrong, trump's former attorney general slamming federal judge who sided with trump and his request for a special master. who is the judge behind this controversial choice? america's fight over abortion rights firing up female voters. i'll talk to one democratic strategist who said he has never seen anything like it in a multidecade career. let's go out front. good evening, i'm erin burnett. out front tonight, ousted.

for the first time in more than 100 years -- in more than a century -- an official in the united states has been barred from holding office and barred under the constitution's ban for insurrections. the founder of the cowboys for trump, roy griffin to be removed from his position as county commission, he's been convicted of participating in the january 6th riot. the court concluded that january 6th, 2021, mr. griffin became disqualified under section 3 of the 14th amendment from serving. accord together the department of justice, griffin was there on the capitol steps, well within the restricted area on january 6th when he made this video. >> the people have shown that they've had enough. the people are ready for fair and legal elections, or this is what you're going to get. you're going to get more of it. >> this is what you're going to

get and you're going to get more of it. this is, though, a history making decision by this judge. the last time a public official was removed based on this clause of the 14th amendment was in 1869. that is according to the liberal watch dog group which took part in the lawsuit. griffin tells vice news, quote, all they're doing with me is laying the groundwork to do this with other people including president trump. that is the big question tonight, whether the history making move in new mexico, the county commissioner, is this the butterfly flapping its wings, it becomes the hurricane. is that what ends up moving the needle on donald trump. the former president called people like roy griffin to washington, summoned them to violence. the former president is still defending what happened that day. >> i met with and i'm financially supporting people that are incredible and they were in my office two days ago. it's very much on my mind. it's a disgrace what they've

done to them. if i decide to run and if i win, i will look very, very strongly about pardons, full pardons. >> and that's now. it comes as we're learning more today about attempts by trump and his supporters to overturn the 2020 election. there's more to be learned. it keeps coming up. cnn obtaining surveillance video which shows a local republican official escorting two pro trump operatives in a county elections office. that took place on the very same day a voting system in that office was breached. the officials seen on camera is under criminal investigation for posing as a fake elector in the 2020 election. evan perez is out front live in washington. i prefaced this as is this the butterfly flapping its wings. what could this ruling in mexico mean for other pro trump officials who helped him try to

overturn the election. >> it's something you're going to see at least attempted in other parts of the country. we know this group, which is citizens for responsibility and ethics in washington, they have tried, and other groups have tried to disqualify other people including members of congress in georgia, in north carolina, trying to use the fact that they voted or they tried to overturn the election results to try to have them disqualified from office. those efforts have failed. in this case the judge simply said that what he did, what griffin did was essentially griffin. he cited that his involvement in the stop the steal movement where griffin talked about this is a war to keep former president trump in office. he cited the as a matter of fact that he seems to have no regrets about what he was doing. this is a unique situation that happened in new mexico. we also have somebody who this

summer declined to certify the election results in the primary election in new mexico. that's all of the things that led to this decision by this judge in new mexico. we don't know whether those same circumstances will apply in other cases because, keep in mind, he was present at the january 6th riot. that's the other part of the circumstance that i think played into this judge's decision, erin. >> evan, thank you very much. let's go to elie honig, cnn's senior legal analyst and stephanie grich sham, former press secretary for then president trump. let me start with you as evan is explaining this. how significant is this ruling that coy griffin, a county commissioner, is now barred from holding office specifically because of his role on january 6th citing the constitution? >> erin, it's historically significant. we haven't seen a judge make a ruling like this or a politician be disqualified under the 14th amendment going back over 100

years. the 14th amendment was passed during reconstruction after the civil war in 1868. it was ratified. the idea was let's keep confederates away from holding office. understand, this is not over. their absolutely will be an appeal. the problem here is e, yes, the 14th amendment tells us that any public official who engages in insurrection is disqualified from holding future public office. the constitution doesn't tell us who has to make that determination. is it congress? is it state legislatures? is it federal judges? is it a state judge like we saw in this griffin case? is it a jury? all this remains an unknown. it's a certainty that griffin will appeal. this is the farthest any of these cases have gotten in well over a century. >> as you point out, historically significant. stephanie, the reality of it is, every time something like this happens -- i'm thinking like this, this is obviously

extremely unusual, hasn't happened in 100 years. you have one part of the country say final, final something is happening, and then the other part, the trump loyal supporters, they get even more energized, just like mar-a-lago. you get the sense of mar-a-lago and they're more energized. how much would any kind of a legal effort or more legal efforts like this for other trump-backed officials who backed trump or trump himself, any efforts to block him from running for president again, how much would that just energize his base? >> i find the entire thing fascinating. in listening to elie, too, that gave a lot of context, of course it will energize the base. it will be something that trump and all his minions to decide to play victim and fundraise off of. i think what's important, we're never going to chase the base's mind. we're never going to change that maga extremist section of the republican party.

i do think it's interesting. even for me, i thought immediately as a citizen, wow, that shows there are consequences to your actions, the fact he was at the january 6th siege on the capitol and now there are some real consequences. and i think that will really resonate maybe with independent voters and maybe center right voters. >> elie, coy griffin told vice news, he said in part, all they're doing with me is laying the groundwork to do this with other people including president trump. there's been a lot of talk out there, elie, about that, whether there's going to be a push to ban trump using the same thing or whether he would do some sort of a plea related to what is going on at mar-a-lago which would involve not running for office again. what do you think this goes? >> well, i think he's right. i do think that other groups will try to use the 14th amendment to disqualify other members of congress and office

holders. evan alluded to this in the opening, to disqualify margerie taylor green and madison cawthorn in north carolina. this individual, griffin, he pled guilty to one of the january 6th cases. what he pled guilty to was trespass, that's it. a misdemeanor. what the judge did in this case, the state judge in new mexico, looked at all the factors, looked at the video and said, yes, he pled guilty to trespass, but i look at all the facts and conclude this is insurrection or rebellion. it's still a long shot. we have to keep this in perspective that all this stands up and is applied more broadly to higher ranking federal officials including donald trump. you can bet this will spur on, no pun intended with cowboys for trump, inspire future efforts to try to disqualify others. >> stephanie, it is in the context of many supporters of trump wondering how permanent the law and all this will be baugs judge hasn't just praised

the members of the mobs that stormed the capitol, he promised pardons. here he is just recently. >> if i run and if i win, we will treat those people from january 6th fairly. we will treat them fairly. and if it requires pardons, we will give them pardons. >> january 6th defendants are having these lives totally destroyed and being treated worse than terrorists and murderers. if i become president, some day, if i decide to do it, i will be looking at them very, very seriously for pardons. >> it's a disgrace what they've done to them. if i decide to run and if i win, i will be looking very strongly about pardons, full pardons. >> stephanie, how much of an impact are those words having right now? >> well, they disgust me. i can tell you that right now. again, it goes back to what i

said earlier, i believe that is something he's saying to rile up the base. he's getting out in front of that crowd. they love to hear that kind of talk, that kind of rhetoric, love to hear him act like he's a king and bandy about pardons like they're not that big a deal. in the end i have to believe that would back fire. if that were to become a nominee, that wouldn't sit well with women voters, center voters and into dents. you cannot treat pardons like it's candy you pass out at a parade. it's ridiculous and disgusting. i believe that like-minded calm-thinking, rational people see that. >> thank you both very much. next, trump's attorney general blasting the decision by a federal judge to appoint a special master in the mar-a-lago investigation. >> it's deeply flawed in a number of ways. >> so who is the trump-appointed judge who made that decision. plus the post roe voter

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tonight donald trump's former attorney general says the doj should appeal a federal judge's ruling -- a judge's

ruling, ordering a special master to review documents taken from mar-a-lago. bill barr says they should do that and they would win. >> the opinion i think was wrong, and i think the government should appeal it. it's deeply flawed in a number of ways. i think if doj appeals eventually it would be overturned. >> barr joins a number of legal experts, all questioning the decision by eileen cannon, the 41-year-old judge appointed by trump. leyla santiago is "outfront." >> my sincere thanks to the president for the honor of his nomination. >> reporter: that's what eileen cannon said at her senate nomination two years ago. now a federal judge, he ruled in trump's favor this week. >> the federal judge granting the former president's request for a special master. >> reporter: trump appointed cannon to the bench. the 41-year-old granted his request for a third party attorney to examine documents,

some marked classified seize friday his florida home last night. item rarely halts the justice department's review. she took part in greek life, a member of delta delta delta, graduated from duke university, part of the federalist society and national network of right-leaning lawyers and member of a yacht and country club in florida. sh she's worked for the u.s. department of justice and as an attorney for private firms and the u.s. attorney's office, she wrote she handled a range of cases from firearms and narcotics to government investigations. but before the senate committee -- >> on behalf of senators rubio and scott from florida, to introduce eileen cannon. >> she focused on her personal story. she's a mother, wife, a woman born in colombia to a mother

from cuba. >> at the age of 7 has to flee the castro regime for freedom and security. thank you for teaching me of the blessings of this country and the importance of the rule of law for generations. >> reporter: the senate confirmed her by a vote of 56-21, only democrats and an independent voted against her. two u.s. senators fro florida, both republicans, publicly praised her nomination. she states in he questionnaire, it was senator marco rubio's office who first reached out to her about first being considered for the nomination. she donated to governor ron desantis in 2018. when it comes to trump, the judge was specifically asked during the nomination process if she'd had any discussions about loyalty to president trump. cannon replied no. we should mention we reached out to judge cannon on multiple

occasions. she has not responded yet to our request. one of the things, erin, i found interesting to her responses to the senator's questions during her nomination process was that at one point she was asked about president trump's past comments and whether or not she agreed with them. her response to that was that it was inappropriate of her to comment on any political statements made by an elected official. erin. >> of course all now seen with context, it matters. i want to go to ryan good man, former special counsel at the department of defense, co-editor in chief of the just security legal blog and professor at nyu school of law. as you've been following this in such detail, bill barr comes out and joins you and many others who have said this ruling does not add up. he's saying the department of justice should appeal it and try to get this special master ruling overturned. he says they'll win. do you agree? >> i basically agree with him.

i think they need to do an urgent appeal to especially lift this injunction, this hold she's put on the justice department using any of the materials that came out of the search. i think that's kind of intolerable for the investigation. there's -- >> there's a thing they can do that would speed up the appeal? they can actually do that? >> they can do that, but the court of appeals gets to decide. he says how long could this take? it could take months. it's their choice. what they're deciding, they could put in place this order that says do not worry about what she said to you with respect to this very unprecedented idea that they could not even use the material in the meantime. >> let me ask you about that. as you point out, she didn't say, okay, have a special master. she says the criminal investigation has to stop while the process is under way. the special master process obviously could take a period of time. how long does this delay in a

scenario where there is a special master and in the scenario where there's appeals that you say could go months? >> that the $100,000 question. it's damned if you do, damned if you don't. we've never in this country had a special master reviewing documents for privilege. they can call balls and strikes. here it's totally uncharted. her order is really remarkable. she doesn't put any boundaries. she doesn't say what she means by executive privilege, how the special master should apply a framework. who knows? all of that could be litigated when the special master tries to decide and the parties contest what they think is special privilege or not. that part could be really long. who knows what the results are. the other process is appeal it to the 11th circuit. then they might take a very long time to decide. while all this is going on, the federal government is trying to

investigate an espionage case and the intelligence community is trying to do a damage assessment from the leaks. that's also hampered by the ruling. >> the country is entering midterm elections and after that a presidential election cycle. incredible. ryan goodman, thank you very much. next, republican senate candidate dr. mehmet oz changing his tune. he referred to abortion during the primary as murder, but now this. >> strongly pro-life, but i have three exceptions. >> are hard line anti-abortion stances putting republicans at risk of losing november. an emotional day as teachers and students return to school in uvalde, texas.

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tonight an unprecedented surge in women voters. that's what one democratic political strategist found after analyzing voter registration data after the supreme court decision to overturn roe v. wade. here's the thing about the surge. it isn't just unprecedented. it isn't just happening in red states like kansas. voters there overwhelmingly rejected an abortion ban last

month. it's also in swing states including pennsylvania, michigan and wisconsin. there are now nine weeks until these crucial midterm elections. the question is what was once seen as going to be sort of a republican surge and wave, could this now be the opposite? out front now, tom bonyer, the democratic political strategist behind this along with abby phillip, senior cnn political correspondent. tom, you have been doing this for nearly 30 years. you say the surge you are seeing in new women voters is unlike anything you have ever seen. what stands out to you the most about the trend? >> well, really it's exactly what you said. if you think of the context of this election, this was supposed to be a red wave election, and there was that expectation really after even the dobbs decision. we didn't see anything changing

until, as you mentioned, we saw the kansas results. a lot of people, myself included, were very surprised not only by the win there for the pro-choice position but the margin of the women. we set forth to look at that and better understand it. the number we saw there was absolutely shocking. when you look at after dobbs in kansas, from june 24th when the decision was handed down, women were outregistering men in kansas by a 40 point margin, accounting for almost 70% of registered voters. i've never seen anything like that in my career. it's clearly what drove the victory. as you said, we're now seeing that repeated across the country including in red states. >> it is pretty stunning. 40 points. abby, you're seeing this now in politics on the ground. pennsylvania republican senate candidate dr. mehmet oz made it clear earlier that he doesn't have strict abortion views, or he's trying to say that now.

here is how he is putting it. >> there shouldn't be criminal penalties for doctors or women. i have three exceptions, life of the mother, rape and incest. >> abby, he's giving exceptions and saying there should be no criminal penalties. he had earlier referred to abortion as murder during the primary. i'm just giving him as an example. we have seen republican candidates scrub their campaign websites of past hard line anti-abortion views. are republicans worried right now, abby, that overturning rd could basically do what they expect at the midterms? >> i think they absolutely are worried. months ago, after the dobbs draft was leaked, even democrats weren't convinced of how much of an effect this would even have on the midterms. i think that both what we're seeing here is not just that it's having an effect, but the magnitude of the effect is far greater than either party really

expected. the problem for candidates like dr. oz, people like blake masters, blake masters in arizona, is these candidates are not going to be able to separate themselves from what the far right wing of their party has been saying for 50 years when it comes to abortion, and that is that they want it to be outlawed. the exceptions for rape and incest and life of the mother, that's not necessarily going to be enough to undo what has become common knowledge in this country. you don't have to go that far to explain this issue to american voters. it's everywhere they go. i think that's one of the reasons you see it resonating so deeply and so widely across the electorate. >> tom, the big question is you talk about kansas and nobody saw that coming. you went and looked. a 40-point margin in terms of women outregistering men after the dobbs decision. you're seeing this women surge

in pennsylvania, michigan and wisconsin, swing states. this could be an incredibly significant thing. what are you seeing in those swing states? >> what we're seeing is that the surge isn't just more women registering which by itself is significantly impactful, but the women who are registering are much younger. when we look again at the kansas results but seeing the same state that in states like pennsylvania, wisconsin, ohio, michigan, is that the women under the age of 25 especially are really surging in their registration n. kansas, they account for about a third of the new registrants before dobbs. after dobbs, 52%. these younger women are more likely to register as democrats. certainly in terms of landscape potentially being reshuffled in the final nine weeks, that data suggesting that is what's happening. >> abby, it is pretty stunning when you think about that in that context. president biden is not really

talking about it. speeches yesterday on labor day touting legislative wins didn't mention abortion. should he be doing that or does the math, the numbers that tom is talking about show that he doesn't need to? >> reporter: i think one of the things you're seeing is this is a state by state strategy. democrats are executing a strategy of talking about abortion explicitly in the places they think will make a difference, in the places where it's basically in the ballot, in pennsylvania where the next governor can decide how abortion laws are written in that state, in michigan, in wwisconsin, in other places like that. you're seeing that executed in districts and states. but at the national level, biden is talking about it in general terms. >> abby, tom, thank you both. next, more office, more monitors, an eight-foot fence. that's what they're doing in the elementary school in uvalde where parents say it's not

enough. students and teachers are returning to school today. ukraine stepping up the counteroffensive. russia is now asking north carolina f-- north korea for help.

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school. the director of texas's department of public safety he tells his employees, quote, when a subject fires a weapon at a school, he remains an active shooter until he is neutralized. we know officers waited more than an hour outside the elementary school in uvalde. police say they did that because they considered the gunman to be a barricaded subject and not an activated shooter. the school district is also ramping up security. some students, though, say it still is not enough to make them feel safe. ed lavandera is "outfront." >> reporter: before walking to school, celeste and her two daughters held hands in school. >> usually prays that my grandpa, my dad, will protect her, that the shooter won't come for her, he won't hurt her. he won't take her and for her to have a good day and come back

home. >> reporter: this isn't just any other first day of school. aubrey was a third grader at robb elementary: this year she's walking the a new school building. the new walk hasn't escaped the horrors of the last school year. >> i bought toys, everything, colored pencils, everything cute for them. they didn't care. usually they do, no today. >> this doesn't really feel like a normal first day of school. >> no, at all. >> reporter: celeste says the members of the day have let her daughter struggling with nightmares and depression. when she heard the gunshots, she hid inside a bathroom that the gunman walked past. >> she's literally having a panic attack and putting chairs on the doors. she's like literally asleep crying that he's right over her. >> reporter: the uvalde school district put up eight-foot fencing around some school campuses. more officers will be stationed

at campuses around the city. on the day before school, parents like celeste were struggling with sending their children back to school. >> i know she needs to go to school. at the same time, do i send her and lose her or keep her home and she doesn't get to study or any of that stuff. >> reporter: as uvalde students return, a group of artists spent the summer ensuring that the memories and names of the 19 students and two teachers who were killed are never forgotten. the port rats of each victim are breathtaking. abel ortiz organized it. >> for me the murals take us on that positive path towards that definition of our community. >> i don't know what this is called. >> this is called globe. >> a globe. >> >> reporter: also at robb elementary last year, and this this school year he'll be more than 130 students staying home

an attending school virtually. his dad turned his man cave garage into a classroom. >> i told him, you know, they're going to have more cops, they're going to have higher fencing. he wasn't having it. he said it doesn't matter. they're not going to go in the class if it happens again, they're not going to protect us. >> whoa. >> reporter: at home he feeds his chickens. he also has a new guinea pig his parents say has helped him emotionally. he feels safe here. >> what scares you the most about going back to school in person? >> i had a friend who got killed. >> you had a friend who got killed? i'm so sorry. >> i just don't want to end up like that. because i love this family that i have right now. >> i can't imagine how it felt

having that conversation with that child. i know you did speak to some of the children when they left school just a little bit ago. how was the first day? >> reporter: all in all, we heard from a couple different students, and some of them were very nervous going in. the two students we spoke with this afternoon said they had a wonderful day at school. they look forward to coming back tomorrow. it was interesting they both told us there was no mention of what happened on may 24th, and the murders of 19 children and two teachers. that was interesting. erin, i should also point out this afternoon, just a short while ago, we heard from the uvalde school district with enrollment numbers, they said total enrollment was 90% of what they expected. also, the number of people attending virtually is actually 59, not the 130 we mentioned there in the story. i want to clarify that because we just got those updated numbers. >> more ended up going in. ed, thank you very much for that report. actually, a significant part of

this here is what we're about to discuss. katherine schweit joins me now, retired fbi special agent who created the active shooter program after the sandy hook school massacre in 2012. ed is updating the remote learning. fewer kids than expected. you heard the boy in uvalde who is doing virtual learning because he's afraid. he doesn't think the new fencing, that additional officers will protect him if a gunman tries to get on campus. when you think about this in the macro, do all these additions, eight-foot fences, things like that, make a difference? >> fences, more police officers, locks that really lock, keys that the students actually -- teachers have keys to their own classrooms which many of them didn't have, those are physical security matters that can make people -- that can provide safety. safety is really two things.

safety is being safe. maybe that's the locks and the fences, but it's also feeling safe. it's going to take a long time for people to feel safe because it's such an illusive thing once you lose that feeling of safety. it's going to be a challenge, because i think they also need to make sure that they think about long term. this is great. but how long is that eight-foot fence going to stand up? how long are those other officers going to be standing by. >> you can't have those things in perpetuity. you talk about safety, it is top of mind across the u.s. right now. children are going back to school. what should parents be telling their children about how to respond? i thought it was interesting that head said it wasn't mentioned in uvalde today. but what should parents say? >> well, in uvalde they taught lockdown. a lot of schools in the united states teach lockdown. the federal government advocates run, hide, fight. the hide part is the lockdown.

i would urge every parent send ag kid to school to have a conversation with their own children going to school and say you can be safe in school, but remember you can leave the school, you can run if you need to, because we do have so many schools that just teach the hide part, and that is exactly what we heard in uvalde, and we heard in other places. parents can have those conversations with their children today even if their school isn't having them. >> really significant. katherine, thank you. next, russia's weapons likely running so low that russia -- putin is turning to north korea for ammo. as we hear from a former u.s. marine who chose to fight on the ukrainian front line. devastating images out of pakistan. floodwaters stretching as far as the eye can see. people are dead. tens of millions are displaced. this is pakistan, and the situation is getting worse. .

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counteroffensive to push russia out of the south. sam kiley is out front with an exclusive report you might find disturbing. >> go, go, go, go. no panic, no panic. this normal, this normal. >> reporter: among the most forward troops in ukraine's latest counteroffensive, this really is normal. when the crunch of incoming artillery is this intense, casualties in this reconnaissance unit, which includes three foreigners, are inevitable. marquez, a britton, was lightly wounded on day one of the offensive. on day two, he was more seriously wounded in the leg by artillery, alongside michael, a fo former marine from kansas.

they met fighting isis in syria. >> i am fine. go. >> reporter: they've been in the fight to recapture kherson. >> i remember looking to my left and pop. i couldn't see anything for a bit. everything looked the same. everything came to. looked at my left, looked fine. looked at my right, okay. i'm [ bleep ] there, [ bleep ] there. okay. to the hole, to the hole. >> reporter: it's going to be a slow grinding fight, they say, whatever the claims of ukraine's government. this counteroffensive is being billed as kind of a quick process. do you think that's -- >> no, definitely not. it won't be quick. i mean it's hard, slow-fought, meter by meter, position by position because we haven't got resources to do a massive blitzkrieg. >> reporter: u.s. weapons and other nato equipment have proved useful, but not decisive as ukraine has captured a handful

of villages since the counteroffensive began. here, russian troops wave a white flag of surrender after precision artillery strikes by u.s.-supplied howitzers are monitored by a unit with a drone. russia has motivated its troops with false claims that they're liberating ukraine from nazis. >> so you feel sorry for the russians? >> no. no. not at all. it's not like ukraine has invaded russia. they've invaded ukraine. they're here killing civilians, killing our soldiers. i've got no sympathy for them whatsoever. >> reporter: ukraine's imposed a news blackout on the southern offensive and keeps his casualty numbers secret. but for these men being wounded isn't the end of combat. it's an interruption. >> are you going to go back? >> yeah, once everything heals on my body probably within three to four weeks.

i should be right back out there. >> reporter: there have also been some limited successes in the longstanding counteroffensive around the northern city of kharkiv, but this is a 1,500-kilometer front line that is absorbing large amounts of troops and as we heard at the top of that, new weapons or new material coming in from north korea as the russians, at least, urgently resupply themselves. >> sam kiley, thank you very much, live in the south of ukraine in odesa tonight. next, the catastrophic flooding that we're seeing right now. more than a third of the country of pakistan is underwater. people displaced. 50 million people displaced, thousands dead. and now fear of the flood and snakes and mosququitos and more. for a chance to win big! bubbles bubbles

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tonight, 58 million americans under heat warnings and advisories as temperatures break records. california residents warned again to prepare for rolling power outages. extreme weather across the globe, including pakistan, where a third of the entire country is under floodwater. anna coren is outfront. >> reporter: stretching to the

horizon and beyond, an expanse of endless brown, murky water dotted with tops of trees and roofs of houses. never before has pakistan seen this scale of flooding as water now covers one-third of the country. this climate change-induced disaster has been months in the making. with more than double the amount of rain falling since may, in what the u.n. has referred to as a monsoon on steroids. last month's deluge unleashing even more misery as violent f torrents of water damaged crops. the sheer volume unable to drain away. >> the land where they had their house is totally flooded. they don't have anything more than what they're wearing. >> reporter: 33 million people have been affected. that's around 15% of pakistan's

population. more than 600,000 people have moved into displaced persons camp, but some of the most vulnerable have been left stranded. on this tiny strip of land are a number of families, their surviving livestock, a few belongings, and 24-day-old shamal. her mother is sick, exhausted and struggling to care for her sixth child. she's marked the baby's forehead to ward off evil spirits. "i want my baby to survive, but it's god's will if she dies," she says. "we cannot afford to move from this area. we are at the mercy of nature because we are poor people." she says she labored with the baby through the rains. the world health organization says 1.2 million pregnant women are among those displaced across pakistan. a few bags of aid have been dropped off, but it's not enough to sustain the familiies

according to its 70-year-old grandmother, who has witnessed three floods in her lifetime but nothing quite like this. "we keep our eyes on our children after sunset. they could fall down into the water and drown. we have one meal a day. we have to save food for our kids. god, please help us." but it's not just a lack of food they're worried about. mosquitos, venomous snakes, and waterborne diseases are a constant threat. the w.h.o. says cases of typhoid, malaria, and die reel diseases are risierising. aid is trickling in. samantha power and u.n. secretary-general antonio guterres are due to arrive in pakistan this week in a desperate bid to ramp up international assistance and support. >> pakistan, looking forward, is

very dire. we've got to be there for the long term. we've got to be there for three or four months at the minimum in order to save lives. >> reporter: but for these people, mere survival is a daily struggle, and these clear blue skies aren't expected to last long. more devastating monsoonal rains are days away to further terrorizing a traumatized country. anna coren, cnn, hong kong. thanks for joining us. ac 360 starts now. good evening. there's new video tonight from the attempt to overturn the 2020 election that could foretell trouble this fall and potentially 2024. with exactly two months to go until midterm elections t is sobering to think 2020 still has so much to say. here is the new video. it shows a republican county official in georgia, who was also a fake presidential electorate the time, escorting a team of operatives into the coffey county elections office. these operatives were working