bringing those cadaver dogs to that area. >> we did bring a couple of cadaver dogs. they looked in there or around the area and they did indicate in the area -- not going to say it was over the well or where, but they indicated in the area. >> reporter: indicating meaning it could be human remains. it could be other kind of remains. it's not 100% clear and that's why they want to bring this these other agencies and get more technology to look into that area, see if it's something that they actually need to do to start digging. so that's where the investigation stands right now. we talked to a state official who says it's very much in an infancy stage. this is something we could take for months, so we'll stay on this one. so interesting and bizarre at the same time. >> lots of questions. brynn, thank you. and it is the top of the hour on "cnn newsroom." good afternoon, everyone. i'm bianna. >> i'm victor.

nearly 12 million voters across the country have already cast their ballots for the critical midterm elections. more than 4 million of those ballots have been turned in throughout florida, california, georgia, and texas. the candidates are facing off in some of the final debates of the campaign season after the highly anticipated showdown in pennsylvania. >> john fetterman released a new ad criticizing mehmet oz's response to abortion. oz barely mentioned the debate during a gcampaign event in the last hour and says he focused largely on crime. in a race to control congress, both sides are narrowing to the most competitive races. new money is being injected from both sides as well, a sign of just how high the stakes are in these midterms. our cnn editor joins us now. where do things stand for the battle for the control of the bo what we're looking at. let's go to the map broadly.

i'm going to write on this. there are 35 seats up. 21 of those are republican. 14 are democrat. fun fact, it's actually 35 races in 34 states. oklahoma has two senate race, but that's neither here nor there. let's talk about where the races are. the senate playing field is shrinking and it's shrinking to these races. look. it's not complicated why. 0.2% average lead. you mentioned fetterman/oz, 2.3% edge for fetterman. warnock in georgia, i think everyone expects this to be very, very close. now these are the three that i think are majority makers and by the way, this is a d.c. this is an r.c. this is a d.c. 50/50 in the senate right now. where is our second tier? these are other races that could come along. j.d. vance ahead of tim ryan, but not by a huge margin. this is a race i think -- we're not talking about it as much as we should. he's running into someone named

sherry beasley. ron johnson, this surprises me. up 3.4%. why? because he was behind the lieutenant governor this summer. johnson has run an effective campaign. if we started at the beginning of the election cycle and said who is the most endangered? kelly and warnock would be the two, but kelly has maintained a solid lead here, and there are questions as to whether republicans are fully committed to the republican nominee, blake masters. if we add that up, that's three races here, four races here, seven. i think that's where the senate majority is going to get decided. >> so we got those seven races there. at this point, what races seem less likely to flip? >> victor, i call them sleeper states. i don't want to say it's impossible because i've learned covering elections over time nothing is impossible. until all the votes get counted, i don't want to say this is a loss or this is a win, but these are unlikely to flip.

new hampshire was a state -- maggie hassan had weak numbers and it was really targeted. governor chwas expected to run. he did not. michael bennett, you know, colorado is a blue-ish state, but not a solid blue state, but he continues to lead by 8%. i think that one's falling off the board. this one is stunning. chuck grassley. he has been in the senate for longer than i have been alive and i'm not that young, but there is polling out that suggests -- quality polling out that suggests he's only a few points ahead of mike franken. the overall lead he has is 6.9%. i would be stunned if chuck grassley loses and marco rubio, this state has seen massive amounts of spending, val demings has raised a huge amount of money. if you are up a solid 6.5%, it doesn't mean you can coast for the last few days.

you have to run and do everything, but you should feel pretty good. all these races, the margins are just a little bit bigger than in those races i showed you before. >> there's been a massive influgs of spendsing from both sides here. >> yes. >> where is this moneyo i alway money. i didn't come up with that. i think someone named watergate might have come up with that one, but follow the money when it comes to campaign spending. in new hampshire, i just mentioned don bolden the republican nominee. mitch mcconnell's superpac is called the senate leadership fund. they took $6 million out of new hampshire and then the next day they put $6 million into pennsylvania. now they've already -- they're already heavily invested in pennsylvania, but they put even more money in. in arizona, which you've seen -- some of these national groups have gone away from arizona. thinking blake masters can't win. trump's superpac which is newly ac active has put $1.8 million into

that, and joe biden is basically saying let's spend what we need to so we're not drastically outspent. $18 million, and i hate to say this because $1 million is a lot of money. $18 million given how much is being spent in these races is a drop in the bucket. this is one to look oat, out of new hampshire and into pennsylvania. that suggests republicans believe as we mention, we're shrinking that map down to these three. pay attention to these three. they're the majority makers or breakers. >> all right. thanks, chris. >> thank you. well, let's focus now on pennsylvania. jeff zeleny is in pittsburgh. you're following the fetterman camp. is his campaign worried about the fallout from the debate? they really lowered expectations leading up to it. >> reporter: and they certainly met those low expectations. there's no question about that, but the reality is they're trying to change the subject and they did that earlier this morning, placing a new ad on abortion really trying to draw attention to three words that

mehmet oz said during the debate last night that are still reverberating. that was local political leaders. he said that local political leaders should play a role in deciding ping abortion rights. he was talking about how the federal government in his view should not have a role in deciding this in the wake of the supreme court decision. the fetterman campaign people are up to it now. doug mastriano differs from oz, and he does not believe there should be an exception. there's no doubt the fetterman campaign is trying to change the subject because they know it was not a strong debate for their candidate. they know it simply was not enough to probably answer the question in the minds of some voters, is he fit to serve in the senate? now going into this debate watching it, voeters if they supported him, they came out likely supporters. the voter who is had questions in their mind certainly left

with questions as well. particularly look at this answer on fracking, what fetterman said last night. >> i've always supported fracking and i always believe that independents with our energy is critical. >> there is that 2018 interview thaw said, quote, i don't support fracking at all. how do you square the two? >> i do support fracking, and i don't -- i don't -- i support fracking and i stand and i do support fracking. >> reporter: so if voters were looking for an answer to how his views have evolved, they shrimp didn't get one. you can see confusion on his face. he was talking about this before, but in the moment he could not keep up with the speed of the debate at least in terms of communicating out loud. that does not necessarily mean that some voters will hold it

against him. some may. that is one of the things we'll have to wait for the next 13 days, the debate itself, and fracking is very -- a huge issue here in pennsylvania. it's a method of extracting natural gas from the ground that employs thousands of thousands of pennsylvania voters and it certainly is important, but going forward fetterman will be holding a rally here in pittsburgh tonight. the next stage of his campaign, the burden's on him to try and move the needle from last night. we'll see if they do it. victor and bianna? >> jeff zeleny for us there setting the table in pittsburgh. let's extend the conversation now with cnn senior political correspondent abby philip and scott jennings. we don't know the answer on fracking was so bad. we don't know if it was auditory processing or if he didn't have a good answer to it. the campaign wants to move on. is there any indication with the national party what goes outside of pennsylvania democrats believe about that performance if they're losing confidence?

>> well, you're right. we don't really know what went on with the fracking answer. i mean, the reality is there's not a really good explanation outside of politics for the changing of positions both for fetterman and for oz by the way on fracking, but when you try to figure out, okay. how do both sides think this debate went, just look at what they're doing. democrats are putting out ads and focusing almost exclusively on oz's comments on abortion. they are talking about that one moment where oz said it's between you, your daughter and a local politician. they're not talking about virtually anything else that fetterman said during that debate and i think that's pretty telling. on the republican side, republicans are certainly feeling like it went very well for them, but it's -- it's not entirely about fetterman's performance or his lack of ability to kind of execute the verbal part of it. i think oz went in with a clear

roadmap, and that was to hammer fetterman on crime in particular, and oz did execute on that roadmap pretty effectively if you look at just what he was trying to do outside of how fetterman, you know, actually performed. >> how big of an error was this on oz's part when he said those three words, local political leader? terms of appealing to swing voters, suburban women, undecided voters? sg >> if you watch the exchange, he was spresponding to a question about lindsey graham's legislation. he said i don't think the federal government should have a role role. . it's at a state level. they're trying to explode a moment, but a republican position which for many is that states should have this right to legislate on this matter if they so choose. i think it's a huge controversy especially in light of the facts that the state polls show abortion falling down the list

and inflation, crime, and other issues rising. that's why i think he focused so much on crime because it appears to be skyrocketing as a local matter in this race and in others where republicans are using it to stay on offense. >> listen to democratic senator chris coons. he says this. >> when i watched the presidential debate, i thought it was obvious that donald trump wasn't going to win. his answers were halting and he didn't understand the issues and he was combative and aggressive, but millions of americans voted for him because they liked his attitude. they liked his authenticity, and my gut hunch is that a lot of pennsylvanians when they say john fetterman in his hoodie, and when they see his record of what he's done in brad dock as

governor, they'll choose him. >> fetterman should not have debated. let's be honest. they knew in advance what his limi limitations were. they have been not honest i don't think about his health issue when it happened back in the primary. they told us he occasionally mushes words together and he needed this captioning system and that would make it okay. the captioning system obviously did not help him. if you watch the whole debate, that was what was supposed to make this compatible for him. it didn't work, and so -- if i were in their shoes, i would not have put him out there. they would have taken a pr hit on it, but if you talk to anybody following this race closely, they'll tell you deep down this was a huge mistake for them to do this. >> abby, clearly the fetterman camp is not being as transparent as many on both sides would like him to be releasing his medical records. it's not as if he didn't talk about the subject. he said, let's address the

elephant in the room. his message was, i'm on the road to recovery. i will get better. oz will stay the same. is that a winning message two weeks away? >> i think it's the best message that he's got. i do think that the best appeal that he has at this moment to pennsylvanians is to basically say, look. i know a lot of you understand what it's like to be, you know, in a temporary situation where you're recovering from something and you don't want people to rule you out for that reason. i think that's about as good as a message as you can get. the problem is that i'm not sure pennsylvania voters knew that that's what they were getting when they made -- when democrats in particular made him the nominee, and i don't know how by and large they will accept that in a general election. i do think there's the one thing that coons said that does seem to be a wild card in this race. fetterman has been running as the quintessential pennsylvanian, the guy who knows the state better than anybody

else, the guy who also is just cooler than you on social media, and i don't know how that's going to play to voters. i do think there is a delta though. the problem he's facing, there is a gap between who he is on social media and what voters saw on that stage, and he has to explain that gap to voters between now and and election day, and if he can't, i think that is also going to be a problem. people might think it's entertaining on twitter and what have you, with you they also want to know is that really the political figure that i'm actually getting in real life? >> scott, i want to challenge what you tweeted, what you just said that this was some massive coverup, right? >> oh yeah. >> i watched the debate last night and i watched the whole thing thinking, is this who he's been on the campaign trail up to this point? because this is not the first time he's been in public speaking. i went to the klobuchar event over the weekend and other ral l lies. i pulled something here, and

this is a bit of his conversation with amy klobuchar over the weekend which was supposed to be the test. here's john fetterman. >> he literally doesn't have a plan, other than to -- to talk, and that's been a hallmark of his campaign, just not any plans, just cheap photo ops or just empty kinds of arguments that are hypocritical about the things that they have chosen to support. >> not perfect, but much smoother than what we saw last night. i mean, let's take an unorthodox look at this. he had a bad night. he just didn't do well. it's not auditory processing because i watched that event and what happened over the weekend with amy klobuchar looked nothing like what we saw last night. >> charitably there's a difference between being questioned by a friendly surrogate and being in a live fire debate situation. >> but that's the point. >> by the way, i thought they did a great job of moving the

debate along. we're asking you tough questions, asking you to defend your record, answering questions from your opponent. that's what you to as a u.s. senator. you go there to debate and you're engaged in sort of a daily back and forth. you're not always being questioned by, you know, some friendly person like amy klobuchar or you're just not always asked to give a three-minute speech as a rally. i think the issue is not the health. it's the honesty or transparency about this. they have undersold this guy's limitations from the beginning. at the beginning, it was he has a health hiccup and we're in october and they're needing this accommodation which clearly didn't help him and right orening wrote, these debates are a right of passage for senate or gubernatorial candidates. i don't know how you could have watched that and said, this was the smart, tactical move to stick him out there. frankly, this guy's campaign, this guy's family, i question why they shoved him out there.

>> first of all, i'm not sure that senators are in the live fire situation all the time. a lot of times they're standing on the floor and giving long speeches, but i will say the contrast, part of the problem for fetterman was the contrast with oz. he is a polished television figure. >> right. >> he understood pretty clearly how to do the 30-second pitch, the 60-second pitch and debates in this kind of format are really, you know, memory exercises. you're taking your talking points and spitting them out and oz did that extremely effectively, but he also comes from a background where that is what he understands to do. he also prepared according to our reporting, extensively for that. i think fetterman, this was never going to be his strong place, and the contrast also hurt him, you know, made if he were up against a different kind of political figure, it would have been perceived differently, but i think the contrast hurt him. >> thank you both. >> thank you.

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the remains of an american man who died fighting alongside ukrainian forces has now been returned to the ukrainians. >> the russian military returned the body of joshua jones who died in crossfire in the zaporizhzhia region. his father was told that news of his body being returned lifted a burden for his family. he is one of a number of

families who have been captured or killed in ukraine since russia's invasion. >> happening right now president biden is sitting down with pentagon leaders. >> it's a routine meeting, but of course, it comes amid worsening tensions with russia along with concerns about north korea and china. cnn's senior white house correspondent phil mattingly joins us now with more. plenty for them to discuss. what more did we learn? >> reporter: there are no shortage of tensions around the world right now, particularly in the indo-pacific region. this was not a meeting scheduled for any specific purpose according to white house officials. a regular meeting the president has with the department officials, but the myriad of concerns that the president is grappling with right now is significant. i don't think there's any question about that. there are no u.s. troops on the ground in ukraine, but u.s. forces are critical in the supply efforts for the ukrainian military. that is certainly an element here the president has himself

made clear several times, his concerns about the potential for as he noted the armageddon-type scenario if russia should ramp up even further in a most catastrophic of way and what the u.s. response would be. something officials have secretly given russian officials an indication of what that would be, but also we have seen over the course of the last several weeks north korea continue missile launches and what a lot of u.s. officials believe is a leadup to another nuclear test, the first in several years, and there's probably no more pressing issue not just in the defense department's kind of agenda at the moment, really across the biden administration than china. obviously the president has made clear the conflict with china. h he believes it's a competition-type scenario, but the situation as it relates to taiwan, there's just a continuing hardening of positions over the last several months. the tensions in that relationship have only risen and the contact between the u.s. and their chinese counterparts simply has not matched that over the course of the last several

months. no shortage of issues for them to deal with. >> phil mattingly at the white house. thank you, phil. joining us now is retired u.s. army general james spider marks. thank you so much for joining us. let's talk about that and specifically what russia is saying, claiming that ukraine is about to do, and that is detonate a so-called dirty bomb. we've heard a lot about this for the past few days. president biden was asked about it and he seemed to answer a question regarding a tactical nuclear weapon. give us the details of what exactly a dirty bomb is. >> well, a tactical nuke by comparison is a nuclear weapon in this particular case, the definition of tactical is low yield, shorter distance, but it could be gravity-dropped, you know. you could drop it from an airplane almost anywhere. it's notn necessarily related t where the front line of contact is. a dirty bomb on the other hand

is uranium, but it's not highly enriched, so it's not nuclear weaponized, but it's uranium plus conventional weapon explosives that are used together to cause a real problem because you can have the same radiation kind of effect. >> i guess the concern -- first of all, russia is known for these false flag operations and what's alarming is the leadup to the invasions itself and now we're seeing russian officials from military officials to president putin today, once again claiming that this is what ukraine is about to do. another thing that's alarming about this threat is that unlike a nuclear bomb, you can see the preparation for that, and you hear from u.s. officials that they are following that and thus far they see nothing that would suggest russia's about to deploy a nuclear weapon. that's not the same in terms of a dirty bomb. how concerning is that?

>> well t very concerning. so what you do in instances like this, without the leading indicators, the intelligence that tells you be prepared for this type of a nuclear explosion, is what you do is you put your forces in a certain protective posture which means in terms of where they locate, how they locate protective gear, et cetera, in it to that possibility, and if it happens you're in a better protective position, but it may not occur and so you end up conducting military operations with that enhanced protection. that's okay. that's being very proofed. that's happening on the ground in ukraine. i can guarantee it. >> john kirby was monitoring it best as they could in terms of any movement as far as russia deploying a dirty bomb. western officials have said that the use of a nuclear weapon would then not only instigate a bigger response, but perhaps even more of a conventional response from western militaries

involved in that region, perhaps even going and fighting in ukraine. we didn't get a specific answer as to what the response would be if russia deployed a dirty bomb. what should that response look like? >> if russia deploys either a dirty bomb or -- or it can be determined to be a dirty bomb, or nuclear-capable weapons system whether it's tactical or yield, et cetera, the nato alliance must respond incredibly -- with a very discernible, very precise, very conventional response. there should not be a nuclear escalation. look, in any type of nuclear environment you want to de-escalate. you don't want to push this thing to the point where you now are in end of times, strategic releases and you have multiple nations that can be involved, right? what you want to do is de-escalate on the nuclear side, but nato would need to be involved conventionally.

you would need to have a nato alliance, forces on the ground in ukraine, not entering into russia with ground forces, but certainly potentially with fires, you know, that's the use of artillery rounds, et cetera, and aircraft, et cetera. this would be a three-dimensional fight, n nato-led, u.s.-led, and the russian forces would suffer gre greatly in a very, very short amount of time. >> they conducted their first nuclear exercise since invading ukraine. nato is doing the same, but there's nothing normal about what's transpiring right now. are you watching this closely, and are you worried about any miscalculations at all here? >> well, that's the problem is miscalculation. the beauty or -- not the beauty. i apologize. the advantage of a nuclear weapon is in its deterrence. that's why the soviet union created so many back in the '60s and '70s, why the united states had so many, and china decided

they were to have very few at all. the deterrent factor is what makes nuclear weapons systems effective. you use the nuke, you lose the deterrence and now the lid is off the jar and there are almost limitless possibilities. most of those are horrible, horrendous. they should be avoided. of course, this is incredibly troubling. calm heads need to prevail. open dialogue is essential. the president talked and the secre secretary, et cetera. everybody at multiple levels needs to be communicating on this. >> it's also alarming they're issuing these false flags about a possible, you know, detonation of a dirty bomb on the part of ukraine. spider marks, great to have you on. thank you. today a judge ruled that former trump chief of staff mark med dose will have to testify in that georgia special election

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the upper end of that scale would make vast swaths around the middle of this world uninhabitable and you're seeing the effects here at 1.1. i'm covering the mississippi river which is at record lows which is jammed up barge traffic, and it'll make up economic stories for the years to come. at the bottom of the world we're hearing they're going to officially list the emperor we think win as endangered species because the sea ice there is melting so rapidly there's nowhere to lay eggs, raise chicks and krill is being affected by warming waters down there. the warning signs are really everywhere, no matter where you look, and by these indepenicati it'll only get worse from here. >> you make a point we're not on the precipice of this crisis, it's now. bill weir for us in baton rouge. thank you so much. well, a top senate democrat is warning the federal reserve to not attack inflation too

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the federal reserve is expected to raise interest rates again next week. this would be the fourth major rate hike this year, trying to choke out inflation. >> that aggressive approach is not sitting well with senate banking committee chair sharod brown. he fired off this letter warning that for working americans who already feel the crush of inflation, job losses will make it worse. we cannot risk the livelihoods of millions of americans who can't afford it.

joining us now, cnn's matt egan. what do you make of it? >> well, we have obviously heard criticism from the left of the fed. senator elizabeth warren has taken powell to task over this risk of causing a recession. what's different is that this is coming from brown who supported powell's renomination to re-lead the fed. this speaks to this growing concern in washington over just how much the fed is doing to try to squash inflation. before june, the fed hadn't raised interest rates by three-quarters of a point since 1994. as you mentioned, now they are on the furverge of doing it fou times in a row. it's sort of unthinkable. i ask you don't forget your responsibility to promote maximum employment and that the decisions you make at the next

meeting reflect your commitment to the dual mandate. lately, the fed has been focused on the price stability part of that. that makes sense because prices are anything but stable. brown is saying, we need you to also remember that you are supposed to have a very strong jobs market. the concern is that the fed is going to be so focused on inflation that it forgets about jobs. i do think that if the jobs market starts to slow down in the coming months, which a lot of economists say is going to happen, then we will hear more lawmakers come out and share brown's criticism. >> there's even an argument that some economists are saying it's an overcorrection because they waited too long to raise rates at the start. we are getting warnings, economic warnings from earnings this week, particularly in the tech sector. what are we hearing? >> not even silicon valley is immune to this slowdown that we are seeing across the economy. both microsoft and google owner

alphabet are seeing their share price sharply lower today. they both reported weaker than expected results. they are still making gobs of money, just not as much as they had been. google, their core add business barely grew last quarter. youtube declined. this is further evidence that companies are starting to hunker down as they prepare for a potential recession. microsoft also, they reported their weakest quarterly sales growth in five years in large part because pc sales have slowed down. that is a reflection of some of the concern from consumers there. i think that investors broadly are worried we might hear more of the same when facebook owner meta reports quarterly results in the next few minutes. >> what's going on with a bag of hall halloween candy? >> okay.

no surprise, halloween prices are going up. candy prices, according to s&p global, they are projected to increase by 14% this halloween. that is the most since s&p started tracking this back in 1999. as you can see on the screen, some of the price increases vary. butterfinger prices are up 7%. that's about in line with inflation. look at that, starburst, 35% more expensive. skittles, 42%. if there's a silver lining -- i'm not sure there is -- maybe we will save on dental costs. >> i don't know. >> try telling that to kids. right? here is an apple because we can't afford candy. if all this recession and inflation talk is bumming you out, here is something you can do. win the powerball. it's a huge jackpot. look at this. $700 million on the line.

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