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>> i'm amara walker. in the dark, intensified attacks by russia leave more than a half a million people without power in ukraine and this morning there are no signs that the attacks are letting pup we'll have the latest. plus, full speed ahead on student debt relief. the white house doubling down against the legal challenges facing a signature program for the biden administration. what it means for millions across the country. a shooting at a hospital in dallas leaves two people dead. we're going to have the latest on the investigation and tell you what we know about the suspect. nasa getting ready to launch a new study on ufos. what could their research reveal? we'll talk about that ahead. it is the start of a new week. happy sunday, everyone. it is october 23rd.

thank you so much for waking up with us. we are awake, right, boris? how are you doing? >> we're awake. we're getting there. warming up. >> we are warming up. that's right. >> great to be with you. we're following several developing stories this morning. first, a wave of russian attacks. attacks focused on ukraine's electrical grid that left 1.5 million in the dark as officials are left to scramble. more than a third of ukraine's power structure has already been destroyed in earlier strikes but the latest round has raised fears that ukraine could be in for a deadly winter, struggling with electricity and heating. russian forces continue to hit civilian targets. in the northeast a kindergarten was damaged after the sumy region was hit nearly 150 times

by rocket attacks yesterday. let's go straight to cnn's senior correspondent frederik pleitgen live on the ground. let's talk about the infrastructure and how much of ukraine's power grid is still operational? >> they're saying it's definitely a very difficult situation. right now, the ukrainians are saying about 1.5 million people here in the country are without power as their services are trying to restore that power as fast as possible. i spoke to a senior ukrainian official last week, and he told me when the strikes happen they have forces out there that go quickly and repair things. as long as the strikes continue to happen, in many cases it's too dangerous to work and tend to be overwhelming. last night after the massive strikes that happened on saturday the ukrainians are saying that they took down 16 of those iranian kamikaze drones, just this past night. those mostly used to attack that

energy infrastructure. so certainly it's still very much going on. there are a lot of people without power right now and there's also a lot of power rationing going on in many cities around ukraine where the government is saying look, people need to use as little electricity as possible right now because they're in such a crunch at the moment to get to power as many people as possible. the main power outages that we're seeing in ukraine right now after the big attacks yesterday are in the west of the country, but certainly the situation where i am further to the east is very little better than it is in other parts of ukraine. guys? >> definitely attack on the civilians. a very difficult time. frederik pleitgen, appreciate your reporting. the white house is encouraging people eligible for student loan debt relief to keep applying online. >> yeah. that's even after a federal appeals court put a temporary hold on the program. several republican-led states you might remember are suing to stop the government from

canceling those loans. let's bring in jasmine wright who joins us now. the program was scheduled to begin today but faces an uncertain future. >> reporter: yeah, that's right, boris. sunday was when the white house identified was the first day that some borrowers could start to see their debt canceled. obviously, that's not going to happen, as a court of appeals has given the white house until monday, tomorrow, to respond to that hold and then those states who brought the challenge have until tuesday to respond to the white house, pushing the white house's timeline for folks to have relief closer to the midterm elections just under three weeks now. now the white house has encouraged people to continue to apply, really reaffirming that they are not backing down from this issue. instead, they are moving forward. secretary of education, miguel cardona, he was really forceful in an op-ed that was published in "usa today" yesterday, really slamming the republicans for

what he called hypocritical or basically that outlining as hypocritical actions. i want to read you some. the same republican attorneys general and officials didn't file lawsuits when 58.5 billion in pandemic relief loans were forgiven for their state's business owners. they didn't oppose $2 trillion in tax cuts to the highest earning businesses as part of the trump tax giveaway and didn't complain when members of congress got millions for their own paycheck protection program loans forgiven by the federal government last year. it is only when relief is going to working and middle-class americans that these elected officials have a problem. so again, from the white house here, no sign that they are backing down, despite the temporary hold, as they believe that this issue galvanizes voters, young voters, and young black voters, ahead of the elections. >> jasmine, this is going to be a big part of the midterm messaging for the white house.

thank you so much for the reporting. and with less than three weeks until election day, early voters are turning out in pretty big numbers as candidates across the country are making their closing pitch. >> and one of the most closely watched races this year is in pennsylvania, where republican mehmet oz is gaining on democrat john fetterman in a bare-knuckle race that could ultimately determine the balance of power in the senate. cnn's dan merica has more. >> reporter: that's right. john fetterman held an event here in key chester county on saturday night. he spoke at length on stage with senator amy klobuchar. it is a unique event for fetterman, as you noted, had a stroke in may, returned to the campaign trail in june, has mostly headlined rallies where he had a stump speech, litany of things he wanted to hit. this is a different event. he was up there. he did not have necessarily notes, was kind of led in the

conversation by fetterman. he acknowledged he used closed captioning technology which allowed him to read what klobuchar was saying as she spoke. everything in pennsylvania is pointing to the debate on tuesday between oz and fetterman. that debate is going to be key because of the oz attacks on fetterman's health and closed captioning technology will be used at that debate. that's why in many ways this event was almost a dry run for the debate. fetterman and klobuchar spoke on a number of issues including abortion, economy, their personal back grounds, but bun of the fiery moments came on crime when fetterman released on the oz campaign. >> he literally doesn't have a plan. other than to duck and that's been a hallmark of his campaign. just not any plans, just cheap photo ops or empty kinds of

arguments. >> reporter: it's not happenstance we're here in chester county around philadelphia. this is a critical county to delivering the white house to joe biden in 2020. it helped deliver democrats the house in 2018. as recently as 2012, this county voted for a republican presidential nominee in mitt romney. he and his aides know this is going to be a critical county if they are going to defeat oz in november. hanging over this, the fact that polls have tightened of late and closed over the summer when fetterman had a double-digit lead. they're neck and neck in pennsylvania between oz and fetterman and that ratchets up the tension as we head into the debate on tuesday. >> dan merica thank you for that. let's talk about that race and other pivotal political stories now with cnn political analyst and managing editor at ax os margaret. great to see you bright and early at the start of the week. >> good morning, boris. >> there's a new series of polls

showing that race in pennsylvania as much tighter than it was when john fetterman had a double-digit lead earlier this summer. do you think democrats should be panicking in pennsylvania? >> panicking is probably a strong word, but they should definitely be uncomfortable and they are and you're beginning to see sort of pulling out of all of the stops. former president obama now on the air in pennsylvania with an ad. there's a few things going on, boris. one is just that nationally the race you tightening and the momentum appears to be back with republicans. it looks like abortion sort of peaked early as an issue back in june. it hasn't sustained itself. it has never quite caught up with inflation as a driving issue. some of the arguments about crime have picked up steam. then, of course, between like fetterman and oz you've seen two things -- oz moving away from donald trump, which has helped him in the general election race, and to the attention on

fetterman, both on questions about, you know, has he recovered from the stroke, but also about his past record and positions towards crime. republicans semi successfully making an argument liberal or progressive attitudes towards crime have enabled crime rates to get worse, that's the argument. all of that is coming to play in the closing weeks. >> fetterman and oz will meet for their first and only debate later this week. what are you going to watch for? >> i think everybody will be watching for fetterman's responsiveness to questions and whether it's fair or not, and there's been a big debate about this in medical as well as political circles, advocates saying there's nothing wrong with using closed captioning. people shouldn't treat this like anything more than a health challenge that there's technology to work around, but i think voters will be watching that and we'll also see like how

fast each of them are in responding to criticisms. i think this event has been building for a long time because fetterman had postponed until now this debate and so it's made the stakes much higher in those closing days. >> how well do you think fetterman's campaign has responded to that line of attack from critics that his health is a question? >> i mean, i think because mehmet oz is a doctor, a tv doctor, but a doctor, fetterman has -- and his campaign strategy has been to say why is a doctor not treating this like a medical issue? the question is whether that issue, whether that answer is going to resonate with voters and how many -- like it's two things. voters will be paying to this if fetterman stumbles it could be a problem for him. the challenge with debates and you're seeing this play out, this cycle, is that, you know, campaigns have real questions about whether debates can help a candidate. i think in this case if fetterman emerges strong from

this debate it will help him. the question is just will it help him enough to counteract the tide. pennsylvania went for biden and pennsylvania went for obama strongly in his two elections. trump did win pennsylvania the first time around, but by really narrow margin. abortion rights actually really do matter in pennsylvania, more than in many states, and so it is really a close race. the really is. there are probably a couple democratic contests that are closer. this would be a flip for democrats if they won it. it's just hard to say exactly how things fall within the margin of error. it's hard to predict what's going to happen. the next few days matter so much. i think it's why you're seeing obama focussing on pennsylvania, just anything to turn out those base and younger voters of color, independent voters across the state. >> republicans are also pulling

out all the stops. the nrsc just committed nearly a million bucks in ad spending for oz. how critical is this race for republican hopes to retake the senate? >> well, certainly republicans don't want to be losing control of any states while trying to pick up control of other states. there's just a handful of states, pennsylvania is one of them, that republicans want to hold. georgia is one they're trying to flip. nevada increasingly looking like a target for republicans to flip. they thought new hampshire at one point. new hampshire seems to be receding and republican money moving out of new hampshire going back into the other states, into georgia and nevada and into pennsylvania. there's one more state we haven't talked about, north carolina, has been thought of for a while now as a sleeper state, but these are areas that republicans have to protect if they have a real vision to flip

the senate. they're increasingly hopeful they have one state. if they lose pennsylvania, they need two states. it's really a numbers game now as just a handful of races. republicans have mathematically an easier road. they need to flip one to switch party control. so if there's five on the map and they need to flip one, the math suggests that's easier for them, but which one is it going to be and can they hold pennsylvania? >> these races getting more intense as we get closer. margaret talev, appreciate your perspective. >> thanks, boris. still ahead, a suspect is in custody after two people are killed in a dallas hospital. we're going to tell you what we know about the investigation and the suspect. it took a lifetime to build and a day to wash it all away. we're going to show you how some senior citizens are coming to the grim reality that they may never be able to rebuild after hurricane ian.

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two hospital employees are dead after a shooting at methodist dallas medical center in texas. >> police say the shooting happened inside the hospital late saturday morning. an officer opened fire on the suspect, 30-year-old nestor hernandez, injuring him. he was apparently taken into custody and transported to another hospital for treatment. dallas police say hernandez is on pa rolle for aggravated robbery and wearing an ankle monitoring at the time of the shooting. police have not determined a motive in this case. meantime public safety is the priority as new york officials roll out their new strategy to clamp down on subway crime which includes added police officers and more enhanced surveillance. >> new york governor kathy hochul has plenty at stake with

less than two weeks until the gubernatorial election. gloria passmino has the details. >> reporter: the number of violent incidents that have taken place in the city's transit system in the last year has significantly increased and governor kathy hochul and mayor eric adams are getting together to announce a plan to address public safety on the city subways. they they're going to surge the system with additional officers. the governor said she will be deploying additional security guards to stand guard at the turn styles like the ones you see behind me, all in an effort to make sure that riders are feeling safe when they are riding the subways. >> we want to have a more significant presence, visible presence. people want to see there's an officer there when they need help. it's also an incredible deter

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homes they bought for retirement. cnn's gabe cohen talked to several survivors about what's next for them. >> reporter: more than three weeks after hurricane ian made landfall in floridaed. >> here's your truck. >> reporter: johnny is still sleeping in his pick-up truck. >> i just read my bible. it's all good. >> reporter: the storm flooded his house outside fort myers. there's little left beyond this damp couch on cinder blocks where he rests his back after long days of cleanup. >> it helps me feel like this is still a home and it's my home. probably more of a symbol than anything that says that i'm here and it's coming back. >> reporter: the 74-year-old bought this home for retirement. >> it breaks your heart. it breaks your heart. >> reporter: as he picks up the pieces, he says he has no insurance to help. >> i'm not leaving. >> do you know how you're going to afford to rebuild? >> we have fema out there and so

i'm hoping to get some help there. >> reporter: a sprawl of destruction lines so many streets in southwest florida. the remnants of wrecked homes, waiting to be hauled away, thousands of floridians are just starting their recovery and relief groups say seniors were hit especially hard. >> florida is where people come to retire. there's a large elderly population facing their darkest hours. >> reporter: lisa's home in arcadia is gutted down to the studs. >> the water level was up to here. >> reporter: the items that made this house a home are piled by the curb. >> i can't replace that. the house is a house, but those things, i still have the memory, though. so it's okay. >> reporter: the 62-year-old and her boyfriend are living in their friend's rv, expecting the rebuild could cost as much as $80,000 and take months, at least. >> have you thought about

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his loyal allies. >> we have new video of a rare unscripted moment in what is usually a highly choreographed ceremony in china. this is the so far unexplained moment that hu jintao, the former top leader of china, was approached by security personnel and led out of the room by the arm, right out of the communist party's closing ceremony. at one moment he nods to the current leader xi he was sitting next to. he tried to speak to him on the way out by xi nods. high drama at the ceremony. >> what was going on there and what was said? cnn's lena wang is in hong kong for us. what happened there? ha do we know? >> yeah. stuff like this just doesn't happen during the party congress. this is a once in every five-year meeting as boris said and meticulously planned, highly

scripted. that's why this was a bizarre and astonishing moment. if you take a look at the video again, the man next to xi jinping, that's hu jintao. there are several confusing moments in the close-up he appears to be very reluctant to leave, and then he is led out. now, he also appears to say something to xi jinping, we don't know what, and then pats the shoulder of the premier li qiang. after this a firestorm of speculation overseas and chinese state media said this was because of health reasons. i've been talking to several experts who say they don't buy that explanation, especially because of the timing here. this dramatic moment happened after journalists were allowed in the room and that's why all of this is caught on camera. but regardless of the explanation here, this is a highly symbolic moment. it is the physical manifestation of the exit of a man, of a leader, who represented an era of collective rule. xi jinping, he's all about one man rule. at the party congress earlier today we saw him get formally

reanointed for that unprecedented third term as a country's supreme leader general secretary of the communist party, and then we got the big reveal of who his closest advisors are and they're all his closest allies and all xi jinping loyalists. we've seen him even further consolidate his near absolute power. what does this mean? this means that in his third term in the next five years and beyond that because potentially he's being set up as ruler for life, he's going to further increase his ironclad authoritarian rule. expect more tensions with the u.s., more intimidation of taiwan, the reality is the world is dealing with a more confident and aggressive china. >> yes, as you may recall, i think it was back in 2018, when president xi removed the two-term limit on the presidency allowing him to be president for life. yeah, just i'm glad we talked about that moment, and it can't be good when escorted like that out of the congress

unexpectedly. sell lin na wang, thank you from hong kong. to protests gripping iran today more than a month after a 22-year-old woman died in the custody of so-called morality police. it is their job to enforce strict dress codes for women like wearing the compulsory head scarf and new video shared with cnn which we cannot independently verify, appears to show stores shuttered in a large area of the current as workers strike over individual freedoms in the islamic republic. meantime the iranian government now accusing the u.s., and its allies of stoking unrest and fomenting anti-government anger, an accusation that has been reiterated many times before. joining us now is the research director at the national iranian american council and also the author of "state of resistance, politics, culture, and identity

in modern iran." really appreciate you getting up for us early this morning. first off, just give us a sense of where the protest stands right now. are they still gaining system steamy? >> they're certainly still going at universities and amongst students. what these protests started as was sparked, obviously, by the killing of mahsa amini a 22-year-old kurdish iranian woman for her alleged inappropriate wearing of her hijab, but, of course, those protests have manifested from a women's-centered movement around women's rights to something that goes to the core of the system. you hear chants of death to the dictator death to khamenei who is iran's supreme leader and the youth aspects of the protests can't be understated. you have this new generation of iranians that have come to the political screen at least, the

genzers, leading the protests and we're seeing so much of it occur on university campuses where you see young people. but the addition of strikes and the labor movement that, by the way, predates what we're seeing right now, there have been ongoing labor protests and strikes in iran for several years, human rights watch was reporting on them earlier this year, but if they're combined with these protests, that really leads to -- that will help sustain movement. >> yeah. it's fascinating, assal, we're seeing the younger generation really driving these anti-government protests because usually you would think that this age group would be disaffected when it comes to, quote, unquote, politics of their country and the iran's revolutionary guard corps says the average age of people week arrested is 15 years old. why are we seeing this wave of young people? is it less fear? the fact that they don't have any relation to 1979 with the iran revolution? >> i think it's all of those

things. certainly the fact that iranians, for many decade, have engaged with the system in hopes that they could reform it from within. that's mostly been the work of millennials, a post-revolutionary generation or those much closer to the events of 1979 who endured the war of the 1980s with iraq, and so now you have, you know, now you have people who were born long after those events. they're not as tied to those events. at the same time, and this is true of every gen-zer in the world, a new generation that has come of age with the internet. they have been raised with social media. while iran is a country that may have been cut off from the world in many years, for many years, the internet has closed off that gap and so you have young people who are on tiktok, on instagram, seeing the world through the internet and they can juxtapose the world that they live in iran, the closed off society, with the world that they see outside of that. i think that, combined with their youth, being less risk

averse, the fearlessness that we're seeing, the fact that you have acts of civil disobedience we haven't seen in previous iterations of protests, such as women taking off their hijabs or acts of civil disobediences, young, older women going outside doing their normal daily activities without their hijab and abiding by the compulsory attire. >> i have to ask you this before we go because the iranian government can downplay these protests as much as they want but this is, in fact, the greatest challenge to the islamic republic to this government, at least since 2009. the anti-government protesters they want radical change and regime change. what kind of change do you actually see happening, especially when you see on the ground there really isn't an opposition leader that's emerged, right? >> well, so far these protests have been leaderless, but i've tried to say this in other places as well, when you look for leadership in iran there are

leaders in iran and unfortunately many of the people who can take that kind of the man really inside prison. there are activists who have long been on the scene for political rights for, sore social rights and that's why you see these wider crackdowns taking any form of dissent and even in these protests you have mass arrest, 12,000 people have been arrested, you have deadly force being used, nearly 250 people that have been killed according to rights groups, those numbers likely higher, while the state is going to use every form of oppression to try to squash these protests, i think what you'll see and when contextualize this in iran's history, this is something that has gone on and iranians want a government that serves its people and have attempted reform and where this state has refused reform they'rers forced into a position where toppling the government is the only viable option. whether or not the state wants to respond to it, this is what they want, this is what they are

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tomorrow, nasa will begin a highly anticipated independent study to uncover more details about unidentified aerial phenomena, better known as ufos. a group of 16, perts, astronomers, biologists, former pentagon officials and one retired astronaut scott kelly will study unclassified data on ufos and recommend ways nasa can better use that data. let's discuss with janet ivy, the president of explore mars and the ceo of janet's plan net, good morning janet. always great to have you.

how does nasa go about collecting this data and then what application does it have? what can be done with it? >> sure. now, to be clear, this is unclassified data, so this will be data that has been garnered from civil agencies, from the public, and there was a report that came out back in 2021 from the office of director of national intelligence stating they didn't have enough information on at least 143 of 144 accounts of uaps that had come in since 2004. what they're going to to do, remember, data is the language of science, it doesn't sound very exciting, but it helps make the unexplainable explainable. nasa will take that data, it will look at it. are these natural occurring phenomena? if they are not do they have techno signatures, biosignatures? they're looking to make a very concise, clear, data collection

with some of the best and brightest minds and then take that information and see, you know, does this have applications for national security or air safety, especially as we get ready to launch more and more into outer space >> okay. so then what? they look at this data. are they first trying to -- i'm trying to make sense of this. are they trying to confirm that, you know, ufos actually do exist? >> you know what -- >> or they're already there? they believe they do exist? >> there are many who believe they exist. nasa has made a point to say there is no evidence that unidentified aerial phenomena are any contact from extraterrestrials. this is mainly to say -- again, we want to see, is this -- let's ensure our military safety, is this spycraft or something else going on that we need to be clear of? remember a couple weeks ago we were celebrating world space week and space and sustainability. there's lots of space debris so

figuring some of that out is how do we start mitigating that space debris, what are these things? can we get a clearer picture? unfortunately that is the thing of science, amara, is that it is like, it is slow and methodical and it's like collecting this data, having the best 16 eyes -- they have artificial intelligence practitioners taking part in this. there will be algorithms and data that hopefully will paint a better picture of what has been seen and they're really, i think it's a statement, they're taking very seriously these reports and unclassified reports of things that really, truly can't be explained. >> it's one of those things in the last few years that is sort of unsettling. we focus so much on everything that's been going on here on earth, and the pentagon just kind of puts out these videos and like yeah, we don't know what these are. it might be extraterrestrial

life or not. janet ivy, appreciate the perspective. >> always keep looking you. >> thanks, janet. >> we definitely will. a quick programming note for you, don't forget to watch an all new episode of "stanley tucci searching for italy" premiers tonight at 9:00 here on cnn. stay with us because coy wire has your "bleacher report" in just a few moments.

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the world series matchup could be set by tonight. the astros and phillies both just one win away after impressive performances in these playoffs. >> speaking of impressive, coy wire is here with this morning's

"bleacher report." hi, coy. >> good morning, lovely people. good to see you. the astros and phillys are clicking and looking like we're headed for an epic world series. the astros could sweep the yankees with a win today. there was miscommunication early in game three. yankees aaron judge and bader, we could see bader saying i got it, the pop-up dropped, judge took blame for it for what would be the third out. the next batter says see you later. houston up 2-0. 335 feet the shortest playoff homer in five years. new york had three hits in the game, batting .161 the worst average in mlb history in the playoffs. houston wins 5-0, looking to make their fourth world series in six years. phillies-padres in south philly, a slug fest. neither pitcher made it out of the first inning. san diego had a big lead early but reese hoskins ties it with a

two-run shot and bryce harper rolls one into the gap, scoring j.t. realmuto. philly winning 10-6. a 3-1 series lead looking to take them to take to the first al pennant in 13 years. college football, boris' undefeated syracuse orange putting number five clemson on the ropes. jahad carter taking dj's fumble for 90 yards. he would be benched later in the game. syracuse up at halftime but here comes will shipley and the tigers. 50 yards for the go ahead touchdown in the fourth quarter. orange had a chance late but garret schraeder's pass is picked off by r.j. mickens. clemson holds on 27-21. look, syracuse still 6-1, going to be ranked in the top 25. i hate to do this to you, boris. >> thank you. >> but a lot to be proud of. keep your head up.

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