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watching in the united states, canada and around the world. i'm kim brunhuber. ahead on "cnn newsroom," former president trump now facing a subpoena from the january 6 committee. we'll break it down. and plus we're live in london with a look at the top contenders for the next prime minister and whether boris johnson could attempt a comeback. and ukraine warns russia is setting its sights on a critical dam. we'll have a live report from kyiv ahead . the select committee has made good on its promise to subpoena former president donald trump. that subpoena was formally served on friday. compelling the former president to testify under oath is

extremely rare and it could test the limits of the law as it applies to trump in this circumstance, but the committee says it need to say hear from him to bring its long investigation to a close. the panel writes, quote, we have assembled overwhelming evidence that you personally orchestrated and oversaw a multipart effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election and obstruct the peaceful transition of power. in the subpoena lawmakers cite a long list of allegations against the former president including exerting pressure to overturn the election on the justice department, state official, members of congress and the vice president. the committee has set a november 4 deadline to receive the documents it has requested. trump's deposition is slated to begin ten days later. while trump's legal team responded to the subpoena with this statement, quote, we understand that once again the committee has publicly release a copy of its subpoena. trump is widely expected to

challenge the subpoena in court or even ignore it, but zoey love wri love ren says that they can subpoena him. >> he has a legal obligation to talk to us just as he has a legal obligation to respond to the documents that we've ordered him to produce. and all of which are important to finishing our investigation. and so let's see if he lives up to what the law requires of him. >> trump's subpoena came just hours after his former adviser steve bannon was sentenced to four months in prison for defying his own congressional subpoena. katelyn polantz has those details. >> reporter: steve bannon, that wr long time adviser to president trump, received a sentence from a judge for four months in jail as well as a $6500 fine. bannon was sentenced for

contempt of congress, he had been convicted because he did not turnover any documents and never showed up to testify when they subpoenaed him trying to understand any information that bannon had around the election of 2020, the pressure that donald trump was putting on all different parts of the government, and then finally the attack of congress that congress continues to investigate. now, today bannon's team argued that he should not apologize for his actions, that trump was giving him protections, but the judge really didn't ultimately buy it in full, he did end up with a fairly harsh sentence above what the minimum could have been here. and the judge said in my view, bannon has not taken full responsibility for his actions here. still, the judge did allow bannon to exit the court, not prepared to go to jail right away. his team has vowed to appeal and so his sentence is going to be

on hold while that process works through it. so bannon, we did watch him in court, he was much more stoic than he had been at his trial where he was convicted. he was much more smily there. but he was smirking a little bit whenever he left because is he not going to jail and there were quite a few things that his team said in court still railing against the house select committee that they disagree with so vehemently. katelyn polantz, cnn, washington. ahead of the midterms, president biden says his democratic party can pull out wins especially as the economy shows signs of improvement. friday he took credit for a drop in the federal deficit and argued that republicans would run the economic gains. >> polls have been all over the place. i think that we'll see one more shift back to our side in the closing days. let me tell you why i think that. we're starting to see some of the good new on the economy. it is mega maga trickle down.

mega maga trickle down, the kind of policies that have failed the country before and have failed it again. >> biden has also been touting his student loan forgiveness program to young voters, but on friday an appeals court temporarily blocked the initiative as it considers a challenge to it. joining me now is areva martin, a cnn legal analyst and civil rights attorney. thanks so much for being here with us. so much to dig our teeth into here. but let's start with the subpoena for donald trump. so how significant is it given that he is unlikely to comply and can basically just wait out the clock here? >> we know, kim, that former presidents have been subpoenaed by congress, some have actually come forward and testified. and donald trump said he is willing to testify if he can do it before a live audience, if he can do it before the committee and if it is televised. but we've heard him make those

kinds of claims before. it is not likely that any lawyer representing donald trump will allow him to testify because they know that he has a propensity to lie. and if you lie before congress, that would be considered perjury and he could get himself in even more legal jeopardy. so i don't think that we're going to see him testify. i think that he will run out the clock and if the republicans are successful during these midterm elections and they become the majority in the congress, we already know that they said that they will disband the january 6 committee and it is likely that they will withdraw the subpoena issued for donald trump's test testimony. so unlikely that we'll ever get his testimony before take committee. >> but he won't outright stone wall which is what steve bannon did, so which led to his

conviction. let's turn to that. steve bannon sentence todd jail time, what message does that send? >> i think it send as message that congressional subpoenastod time, what message does that send? >> i think it send as message that congressional subpoenas are very serious and you can't ignore them, you can't position yourself above the law. and if you think that you can rely on nonsubstantive arguments like executive privilege even though you have not worked in the white house no for many yea and you were acting as a private citizen, that you can find yourself like steve bannon being convicted and being sentenced to the upper limit of a sentencing guidelines of four months. we know he has a fine of about $6500. so i think that the judge in this case is trying to send a message to those other trump loyalists if they continue to stone wall, if they continue to refuse to cooperate like peter navarro, that they can also find themselves like steve bannon facing real jail time.

>> another legal development, a federal court has temporarily put the debt relief plan on hold. and i wanted to ask you a fairly broad big picture question. what does it say about the state of politics in this country that so much of it go governance is being decided by the courts? >> and we know that court, kim, is a 6-3 majority, 5-4 in some cases. and every opportunity they get meaning those attorney generals in red states, conservative activist groups, they are going to challenge absolutely everything that joe biden signs into law. not to be a surprise. republicans have made it clear that every opportunity they get, they will beobstruct whatever j biden does. but i think that the majority of

americans, majority of the people in this country, support student loan debt forgiveness, they support the infrastructure bill, they support the progress that joe biden is making with respect to climate change, they support women having the right to choose and to make their own reproductive health choices. so even though we have this pretty loud and vocal group of conservatives, the majority of americans share the ideologies, the principles and they support what joe biden is doing. >> appreciate your time, areva martin, thank you for being here with us. >> thanks, kim. britain's conservative party is moving quickly to choose a new leader. and prime minister by next week. liz truss abruptly resigned thursday amid fallout from a disastrous economic policy. now three candidates are leading the pack to replace her. former chancellor rishi sunak,

penny mordaunt is first to confirm that she's running, and also there are reports that boris johnson plans to join the race. let's bring in salma abdelaziz standing by live in london. so boris johnson i think he is supposed to land in over an hour or something like that. it would have seemed improbable a couple weeks ago, but i mean, he must be one of the frontrunners. >> reporter: this is an extraordinary turn of events. i think everyone is asking that question, is bo-jo coming back, where he try to take back the premiere ship. last my he flew back from a holiday, local media was following him on the plane, there were pictures snapped of him. takes huge moment. but i think that it will be very hard to see boris johnson as a unity figure and that is exactly what the conservative party

needs at this time, a unifying figure one that will heal divisions, one that will be able to put behind the political rivalries and lead the country. of course allies of johnson will say that is exactly who he is and that is what he is capable of doing. it is important to remember here he has not made an official bid. what he needs to do and what all of these potential nominees need to do, they need to get 100 mps to back them by monday, 2:00 p.m. and you will see a lightning speed process. the last leadership could not t contest took about three months time. and this is only going to take about a week. we should know the next prime minister by friday. and so monday 2:00 p.m., nominations close. it will be three nominees maximum. we know of one, penny mordaunt, and also reshe sunak.

and monday afternoon we'll see a vote. and that vote is supposed to narrow this down to just two nominees. there will be a second vote also on monday, that is an indicative vote that is supposed to allow conservative members to say who they want ultimately to win, who they want to be the next prime minister. and maybe sort of push that second nominee if there is a second nominee to step down so is only one person left. but if that doesn't happen, it will go to a very small handful of people, conservative party members, just 200,000 of them about around the country, they will be able to vote online on friday and that is where it will wrap up. but that is why you hear so many people upset, why the labour party is calling for a general election. this will be the third prime minister the country has this year. and many are saying look, the conservative party simply doesn't have the mandate to continue. but the rules do not require a general election, so this is it. >> we'll be watching. thanks so much, salma abdelaziz.

the uk may be waiting for a new prime minister, but in italy, the wait is over. i believe we have live pictures right now that we're seeing here. georgia maloney has been officially appointed as the new prime minister. she and her new ministers are being sworn in right now, making her the italy first female prime minister. her party claimed victor in september's general election. listen to this. >> translator: this time was short, less than a month since the elections. it was possible because of the clarity of the election result and it was also necessary to proceed quickly in view of the domestic and international conditions that demand a government and fullness of its tasks. >> china's communist party is

wrapping up its week-long national congress with xi jinping set to be named on sunday to a third term as general secretary of the party. now, general secretary is the most powerful position in china because the leader of the only ruling party also controls the government and military. one change has already been seen, highest ranking communist party official after xi, the chinese premier is not in the principal leadership list. that indicates that lee is retiring from that party role. and as we saw this unexpected moment, that is the former chinese top leader led out of the room during the closing ceremony. the circumstances surrounding the exit are not clear, but he appeared to be reluctant to leave initially. and russian mercenaries are digging in and preparing to play defense in eastern ukraine. still ahead, the long fort afory

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in ukraine air raid sirens have been heard across the country. officials say power is out at least in one city in western ukraine after reports of explosions. residents have been urged to stay indoors for now. multiple cities and towns in the south took rocket fire which left about 1,000 homes in the dark. and ukraine is raising alarm over an alleged russian plot to blow up a major river dam. kyiv says russian troops have already set up mines. if the dam is destroyed, that would cause not only major flooding downstream, but also possibly safety ricks at the zaporizhzhia nuclear plant. the story first reported by cnn, the notorious wagner mercenaries have conducted an almost 2 kilometer fortification line in eastern ukraine consisting of

anti-tank defenses and trenches built since late september. they can slow down assault, but ukrainian troops can still go around them. for more, let's bring in nic robertson. i understand there have been air raid sirens in kyiv where you are, concerns about that, concerns also on the attacks on infrastructure including fears about the strike on that dam that i spoke about and the catastrophe that would ensue. what more do we know? >> reporter: it has been quite a significant night compared to the last couple of nights in terms of strikes across ukraine. here in kyiv, we've just had the sirens go off for the third time today actually and earlier on when the sirens went off here, missiles were successfully intercepted that were flying over the city, at least one of the intercepts appeared to be near an electrical power generating facility. but elsewhere in the country, russia appears to have been able to punch through the air

defenses, at least five towns in the west of the country west of kyiv, four, five, six hours drive west of here, have been hit. they are all experiencing power outages as a result of these strikes. cities about two, three, six hours drive south of here, so towards the center of ukraine, have also been hit. they are experiencing power outages there. officials are telling people to conserve water because the water that they have in their systems may, you know, may not be running in an hour or so in the south of the country in odesa, officials there report that two missile strikes have hit power facilities there and some people in the odesa region will be without electricity. so this is part of a system of strikes we've seen coming from russia that began a week ago monday about 11 days ago. the past couple of days, strike

rates have been lower, but it appears to be up today. and this is as i say the third time the sirens have sounded over kyiv and over much of the country through the morning here. the dam that you speak about is causing a big concern for ukrainian officials, they say russians have a couple military trucks full of explosives on that dam and if they blow it, it could damage and potentially render dangerous a nuclear power plant upstream that won't be able to get the water to cool it, and could watch away people's homes and kill a lot of people. so on the front lines, there is real tension as you say, the back wagner line that has been built. bear in mind of course that the whole frontline along ukraine is probably more than 1,000 kilometers. so it is a small effort that has been put in place, but they think that it will slow down potential ukrainian advance.

>> all right. thanks so much, nic robertson in kyiv. stay safe. appreciate it. human toll of russia's war is simply staggering. according to the united nations, more than 6 #300 civilians have been killed since the war began, more than 9,000 others wounded. and u.n. officials say those are only the victims they were able to verify. the real numbers are likely far higher. and rights groups also say hundreds of civilians have been abducted from ukraine forced into russia where they have been imprisoned unlawfully. some have been released in prisoner swaps but many still missing. clarissa ward reports. >> reporter: in the kyiv suburb, normal life has started to return. but the scars of russia's five week occupation remain. this woman hasn't seen her son, a 23-year-old engineer, since russian soldiers took him from

their family home seven months ago with no explanation. they took him from our front yard and he is being held in the territory of the russian federation, she says about i know for sure he is alive because i received a letter from him. i demand russia release my civilian son. the recletter was delivered viae red cross in geneva, just three words. mom m momma, alive, healthy. did you know immediately that it was from him? he wrote it, she tells us. i know he is alive. i hope. what would you want him to know right now? he should know mama is waiting for him and mama is fighting for him. she is not the only mother fighting. on monday 108 women including 12

civilians were released from captivity in russia. according to human rights groups, hundreds of ukrainian civilians have been imprisoned unlawful there. the lucky ones are used as bargaining chips in prisoner swaps. when we first met this woman in april, she was desperately looking for her daughter victoria. the young math teacher was taken from her home by russian soldiers on march 25th. after they found messages about russian movements in the area on her cellphone. she was taken to a detention center in russia. we hope that she will get in touch, katerina says. with somebody somewhere. last month victoria was one of two civilians returned to ukraine as part of a prisoner swap.

it is over, don't cry, you're home, the other woman released comforts her. it was a moment katerina will never forget. she called me when she first crossed in to ukraine territory. i was crying and shouting. the whole neighborhood could hear. the family home now is a place of celebration. victoria tries not to dwell on what she went through. were you ever treated badly? >> translator: in the beginning when i first arrived there, yes. >> reporter: in what sense, what did they do, what did they say? >> caller: different crimes and threats about what they could do to me and how they would do it. physical abuse too. but i won't say it in front of my mom. mom doesn't have to know this. >> reporter: how does that make you feel as a mother to hear what your daughter went through?

>> translator: it is hard. so hard. >> reporter: outside and away from her mother, victoria tells us more about her detention. were you assaulted in some way when you were held captive? >> translator: yes, i was given electric shocks. they used sticks on hands and legs. really it was physical abuse. her beating me. psychologically i had prepared myself for this possibility. and i knew this could happen at any moment. i'm probably lucky that it only happened to me once. >> reporter: international law is very clear that it shouldn't happen at all. under the geneva convention, civilians are to be treated as protected persons and the act of portionfully ffu ffully foersfu transferring them to another country is a war crime. katerina is now focused on the joy of being reunited with her daughter after months of horror.

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welcome back. i'm kim brunhuber, this is "cnn newsroom." in virginia, about half of the 2,000 students enrolled in one high school are sick with the flu or suffering flu-like

symptoms. and u.s. health officials are getting more concerned that this year's flu season will hit hard. according to the centers for disease control, an early increase in seasonal flus have already been reported in most of the country, the southeast and south central states reporting the highest cases of the flu. health officials in the u.s. are concerned over an unprecedented case surge of a respiratory virus known as rsv. the rapid spread is reaching new levels and overwhelming pediatric hospitals. brian todd has more on the latest viral threat. >> the drive to the emergency room was really scary and really intense. >> reporter: this mother of a 5-year-old who was hospitalized with difficulty breathing told us of an anxious drive to the emergency room. >> things eventually got worse since we were admitted. i've seen starting last night that he is progressively having a harder time breathing. >> rsv is one of the scariest

infections to see in a child especially when it is in your baby. so you will see your baby breathing really, really fast. and you feel like there is nothing that you can do. >> reporter: around the country, doctors are reporting a spike in cases of rsv, respiratory syncytial virus, a common respiratory illness that is occasionally severe in babies and young children. pediatric hospital beds are more full now than they have been in the last two years. some children's hospitals are overwhelmed, scrambling to make space, using tents. and it is only october. why is it spiking this year? experts say one key reason is because kids are back in school after the pandemic, many children haven't built up their immune systems and masks and social distancing are a thing of the past. >> for these kids this is the first time they are seeing a lot of these viruses. >> reporter: rsv symptoms sometimes seem similar to cold and flu, runny nose, decrease in appetite, coughing, sneezing, wheezing and fever. >> you should think about bringing your child to the

emergency room when your child is having what we call respiratory distress. and that is characterized by breathing really fast and a difficulty catching their breath. >> that should be an alarm for any parent. we can see this disease rapidly progress and children need attention quickly. >> reporter: there is no vaccine and no specific remedy, but severe cases can be treated in a hospital with fluids, oxygen or even a vent later. and ice packs to bring down the fever.later. and ice packs to bring down the fever. this four month old was admitted at cook hospital in houston. >> started running a fever, not eating as much. >> reporter: doctors say to avoid rsv, clean surfaces in your home, have kids wash hands, cover their mouth when coughing or sneezing, don't share things like toys or cups and avoid kissing or cuddling. and keep a child hydrated and give tylenol if they have a fever. >> day five is the peak of

symptoms. so a child might be more uncomfortable day five and then symptoms resolve and then they get better. >> reporter: and this doctor says what worries her is that unlike in previous years when the virus was seasonal and predictable, this time she says it has the potential to circulate beyond next spring when it might normally subside and extend into next summer or possibly even beyond. brian todd, cnn, washington. for more, i'm joined by an emergency room physician and is joining me live from houston. thank you for being here with us. as we saw, cases of rsv have more than doubled in 25 states. your hospital is one of many across the country flooded by sick kids. so tell us about what you've been seeing. >> reporter: thanks for having me. it really started back in may. we see rsv kind of start around october, peak into december and

then go away as we get warmer. this past summer, we started to see case which is was odd. and we saw an increase throughout the summer and now heading in to the fall we've seen a ton of cases of rsv. and when you play the numbers game, a certain percentage of those kids will need admission and some advanced therapeutics. so we've been having to admit a lot of kids. usually we can find pediatric beds in houston which is a massive city. we have a massive medical center. but the last 7 to 10 days, i've had personal experiences and heard from numerous colleagues that there are no pediatric hospital bed this is houston and so we've been transferring children to other cities in texas and even out of state which is really rare. >> i understand it wasn't even that bad especially for kids during the pandemic. what ages are you seeing most

affected? >> kids that get the most sick are usually under one year of age and then especially the first few months of life, but that is because they have really small airways and what happens is usually older kids will have cold-like symptoms but the younger kids will have some effect on their lungs and could develop pneumonia which is why they usually need admission and oxygen and whatnot. and we've seen older kids have it in the past as well because throughout the pandemic, we were masking, we had good hygiene, so a lot of kids were not exposed to the flu, or rsv, so this is the first time they are getting exposed to that and some of those kids are getting sick as well and having to get hospitalized as well. >> is that why rsv, you know, it isn't new. we've seen it for years. so is it just because of the pandemic you think that it is so unusual compared to previous years? >> i think so.

that is a trend, there is no evidence that this is, you know, a stronger rsv that we're dealing with or anything like that. it is just a whole bunch of kids that were never exposed to it, they are exposed to it for the first time and just a certain percentage will get more sick and need hospital beds. so we're having newborns to six months that are experiencing it just like they would five years ago and then you've got kids who haven't encountered it or were exposed to it needing hospitalization. so that doubling effect is what putting us in a bind. and some kids are getting hospitalized for influenza and covid and other reasons. so there is an array of conditions that kids get admitted for. >> and that is what i wanted to ask you about because people have been warning about the triple storm. rsv, covid of course, and then they are predicting a worse than normal flu season. i guess it highlights the importance of getting all of the

available vaccines. >> exactly. without a doubt. just like rsv is a virus that lot of kids and adults are encountering for the first time, in a few years same with influenza, we have been pretty well protected in the united states. last year and a half, two year, we've seen really bad flu seasons in other parts of the world and right now vaccination rate for flu is not where it should be. so i urge everyone to get the flu shot so that that doesn't add to this wave that we're getting hit by and as we head into colder temperatures. >> i mean, anecdotally i'm wondering if people have sort of vags nation fatigue after deal being with all the pandemic. and i know from doing a story last week that many people are skeptical that the flu shot will be effective. is there any sort of visitor evidence so far that you can assure people that it is really worth doing this year? >> yes, 100% worth doing. we have seen in the past years,

2012 is a good example, that the flu shot that we got wasn't the perfect shot, a lot of people still got infected with influenza even though they got the shot, but they were prevented from getting hospitalized, they were not out of work as long as they would have been had they not gotten the shot. so similar to the covid vaccine, you know, you may get covid even though you are vaccinated but you will be protected from the severe effects. exactly the same thing with influenza. you will hopefully not get it and if you do, your symptoms will be mild as not as long. and if you are in the high risk elderly group, you will be prevented from being hospitalized. so get your flu shot and covid vaccine and you can get them both at the same time. >> great advice. thanks so much for being here with us. >> thank you. from covid vaccinations for some coming to an end soon, pfizer says as government contracts end, vaccine doses will be sold for more than $100

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demonstrators took to the streets in southwestern iran three week after dozens were killed in bloody friday protests. protestors chanted death to the dictator outside a police station prompting a call for

tougher action. and a teachers union is calling for a nationwide strike in response to recent deaths and detentions of students across the country. the human rights group says at least 27 children have been killed but they estimate that the toll is much higher. cnn can't independently verify those figures. so as the brutal crackdown continues, the biden administration is talking to elon musk about the possibility of setting up spacex's satellite internet service starlink inside iran. and this is even as some critic questioning musk's reliability, and some calling him a loose cannon. alex marquardt has this report. >> reporter: as the united states carefully weighs how much to assume the protestors in iran, cnn has learned that the white house has turned to the world's richest man, elon musk, about his starlink stat light

internet to help iranians communicate and get their story out. starlink has been critical for ukrainian forces and moscow says that it is active in iran, but it would be a major technological and security challenge to smuggle in thousands of internet terminals and use them in such an oppressive country. >> it is not just a matter of making it available, it is getting the terminals on the ground, into the country, educating people how to use them, making sure they are used in a way that is not keydetecta. >> reporter: and a senior administration official says we're interested in ensuring that iranian people can have access to the internet and starlink is one option but not the only option. >> access to the internet is very, very essential.

>> reporter: and this man fled iran after participating in the 2009 mass protests. and he worries about demonstrators getting caught with starlink. and challenges and fears are coupled over concerns about how erratic and unpre-dibtable elon musk can be. a defense official told cnn that he is a loose cannon, we can never predict. that after an abrupt 180 by musk when cnn exclusively obtained documents showing his company spacex wanted the pentagon to pick up the tab for tens of millions of dollars per month for ukraine. after cnn's report, he wrote, the hell with it, even though starlink is still losing money, we'll just keep funding ukraine government for free. musk has been thanked for his support by top ukrainian officials and says that he is pro ukraine. he also controls where in

ukraine starlink is available, meaning he has significant sway over the battlefield. while he's also been proposing a peace plan which echos kremlin talking points. thursday, he responded on twitter to former russian dmitrg about the brutal fighting in ukrainian city. >> to have somebody in the public sphere going back and forth on their position particularly when they start communicating directly with leaders of, you know, the antagonizing force, that is gravely concerning. >> reporter: while ukrainian officials have been grateful for musk's contributions, one person i spoke with familiar with the discussions between spacex and ukraine told me ukraine needs musk's technology but they don't know if he will continue to support them. this is a lot of power in the hands of a single very wealthy her curi made curial person.

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hurricane roslyn is getting ready to hit western mexico, the storm expected to skim past the tourist area of puerto vallata before making landfall a bit farther north. for the latest on the track and severity, we're joined by derek van dam in the cnn "weather center." isn't this a little late in the hurricane season for something like this? >> officially the hurricane season ends 30th of november, so it falls within the season. and rightly so. this storm means business and we're just getting some of the latest information, it is not even 5:00 a.m. eastern standard time and we're getting updates from the national hurricane center. we recognize that it has rapidly intensified, using that wording saying that this storm has

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storm surge, potential for damaging winds and also likelihood of flash floods and landslides. and this will make landfall early sunday morning along the west central coastline of mexico just to the north of puerto vallata. nonetheless, this tourist destination kind of the crown jewel of the western coastline of mexico is going to feel direct impacts from this particular hurricane or a major hurricane and that will have very big ramifications for that particular location so people need to be taking their final steps for preparation, getting in loose items from their balconies because the storm truly means business. >> we'll keep an eye on it. derek van dam, thanks so much. i'm kim brunhuber. i'll be back in just moment with

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