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united states and all around the world. i'm max foster in london. just ahead -- >> after listening with him against fetterman, it's definitely oz. >> doing that debate wasn't exactly easy. >> conservative voters are rallying behind him. >> trump is not saying whether he's going to comply. >> doesn't get anymore important than mark meadows. >> she said she saw these bodies being disposed of. >> we're going to finish this one way or another. we're going to get this the answers to this. >> announcer: live from london. this is "cnn newsroom" with max foster. it's thursday, october the 27th, 9 a.m. in london, 4 a.m. on the east coast. we are now just 12 days away from election day in america. that fact isn't lost on many

voters who have already taken part in early voting or mailed in their ballots ahead of the critical mid-term elections. a huge turnout is being seen in several key states including florida and georgia. candidates now have less than two weeks to go to make their pitches and sway any still undecided voters. democrats are worried about their chances of picking up a senate seat in the critical state of pennsylvania after their nominee's shaky showing. john fetterman is overcoming from a stroke. he repeated phrases. that's when he appeared with dave mathews and acknowledged the tough time that he's been having. >> doing that debate wasn't exactly easy, you know? knew it wasn't going to be easy

after having a stroke after five months. in fact -- in fact, i don't think that's ever been done before in american political history before, actually. you know, after that stroke i got knocked down but i got back up. >> after that polls show fetterman with a slim lead over celebrity dr. mehmet oz. oz said he can now see fetterman just isn't fit for the job. >> their game plan was to run the clock out. i have been chasing down john fetterman since the general election started. to date he has never answered a question from a voter on the campaign trail. he never obviously talked to me before. i met him for the first time last night.

all i wanted to do was have him defend what i think are these eccentric and extremist ideas that would hurt pennsylvanians. they're certainly out of touch with pennsylvania values. he's not been able to defend his dangerous policies. last night i just put them out there. >> cnn's jeff zeleny spoke with some voters in spotsylvania and asked them what they thought of the vote. >> reporter: do you think he's healthy enough to be a -- >> he gets healthier every day. you see that by watching him on television. >> i was embarrassed to think that anybody with that present situation health and the way he thinks in his mind and his -- what he wants for pennsylvania would actually be running. >> after listening with him against fetterman, it's definitely oz. >> what i was picking up today was the sense of disappointment against some of fetterman's supporters. he was not able to prosecute his case against oz.

his social media accounts have been going after him about his residency, the number of homes he owns and that was not something fetterman was able to do with much success. police in phoenix are investigating a break-in at the campaign headquarters. katie holt is the current secretary of state. she's in a close battle with republican carrie lake. they say it's not clear exactly what was taken but hobbs and her staff have received hundred bes of death threats and threats of violence over the campaign. in georgia a second woman is accusing herschel walker of pressurizing her into having an abortion. the woman is being referred to as jane doue to protect her identity. she's calling walker a hypocrite for campaigning against abortion access. she says, quote, he's not fit to be a u.s. senator.

walker is calling her allegations a lie. >> they would do and say anything for power and they don't realize they messing with the wrong george began right here. this seat is too important for me to stand by, step down, so now they going to have to come through me to get to anyone else. if they can do it to me, they going to come after you next. >> a new claim comes -- the new claim comes as polling shows democratic senator raphael warnock has a modest lead over walker with less than two weeks until election day. the miss u.s.a. pageant is under investigation after allegations this year's pageant was rigged. crystal stewart-haas been suspended while a third party looks into the matter. contestants took to social media to accuse them of favoritism. they called into question a tiktok video the winner filmed

at a spa. stewart denies the allegations telling cnn, quote, the last thing i would ever want to do is discredit or deny a contestant an equal opportunity for fair competition. i would never jeopardize my dream of running an organization that empowers these young women. now to the january 6th investigation, lawyers for former president donald trump still haven't formally responded to a congressional subpoena that documents testimony of the attack on the u.s. capitol. sarah murray has the story. >> reporter: the former president's lawyers have officially received the subpoena from the january 6th house select committee. remember, the committee wants testimony as well as a wide variety of documents from the former president as far as their investigation into the attack on the u.s. capitol. they've asked for trump's team to respond by november 4th for the documents they've requested and to show up for a depo sthags can potentially last multiple

days starting on november 14th. now we still don't know how trump's team plans to respond. we asked them about the receipt of the subpoena. they did not respond to our requests. previously when they decided to respond to the former request, they said they were going to review, this analyze it and then determine how to respond. so we still wait to see how the trump team grapples with his subpoena. vare ra murray, cnn, washington. lawyers for former trump white house chief of staff mark med dose says he'll appeal a ruling that orders him to testify in another 2020 meddling case in georgia. evan perez said his winning an appeal will be very difficult. >> mark meadows is an important witness because he was part of that phone call. as you remember, he was on the call where trump was pressuring brad raffensperger in georgia to find the exact number of votes that he needed to be able to win the state, which he of course did not. he also went down to georgia to

look at one of the audits that was happening there. so this is why the d.a. down in fulton county wants his testimony. he says -- his legal team says they're studying the judge's order in south carolina and he has to comply. keep in mind, the fact that meadows and the trump allies were presenting these fraud claims has already gotten a judge -- a federal judge to say that they provided these statements in federal court as well as state court in georgia knowing they were false. so this is one reason why even if he appeals it looks like he's got a tough road ahead because the jury is expecting his testimony and this judge in south carolina says he has to give it. an american man killed in east ukraine will be returning to the u.s. soon. russian forces handed over the

remains of joshua jones to the ukrainian authorities on wednesday. cnn's clarissa ward has this exclusive report. >> reporter: on the front fliens ukraine he was known to his fellow fighters as tactical jesus. to his mom he was simply joshy. tennessee native joshua jones was just 24 years old. he was killed fighting in eastern ukraine back in august. his passport and ukrainian military i.d. showed up on russian channels. his body was never recovered. since then the ukrainians have worked to get it back. today it is finally happening. why is it important to you to recover the body of joshua jones? >> he is a hero to me like our

soldiers. we should make everything possible to give his body back to his family. >> reporter: we are driving to the front line in zaporizhzhia. we stop along the way to link up with military intelligence. in another car, a russian soldier sits slumped over. he is being released today as part of a larger swap in which ten ukrainians were already freed. the lawmakers talk with the officers to go over the plan once more. a makeshift white flag is put together for the moment of transfer and we're off again. this time to no man's land, a rare two-hour cease-fire has been agreed by both sides and time is of the essence. >> so we've just arrived at the meeting point. they're waiting now for the russians to arrive with the body. >> reporter: a team of forensic investigators get ready for the task ahead. this is as far as we are allowed

to go. actual handover will happen just beyond the hill. waiting for their return, it is easterly quiet. only the bravest dare come out in these parts. one of the transfer team captures the moment joshua jones's body is brought back into ukrainian territory as russian forces look on. it's the moment they have been waiting for. jones is now one step closer to being returned to his family. back in the car they show us his personal effects. >> this is his personal pair of clothes which he was wearing. >> reporter: what's your feeling in this snoemt you've been working towards this for a long time to try to get joshua jones back to his family? >> our feeling, we are proud of our country, of our team.

we're proud of the president and we are proud that we are saving lives. you know when even somebody is dying, his family continue to live and they cannot live normally if they know that they don't have a place where to come for their son. >> reporter: thanks to their efforts, joshua's mother, misty gossage in tennessee, will soon have the chance to say good-bye to her son. >> joshua was -- he was a soldier. he was a born soldier. he was named after the battle of jericho. he lived up to his name so valiantly and i feel like the weight of the world has been lifted off of me. >> reporter: a name and a life that will be remembered even half a world away. clarissa ward, cnn, zaporizhzhia, ukraine.

>> jake tapper spoke with jones's mother in her first interview since learning her son's body would be returned to the u.s. she told him about his decision to fight in ukraine. >> he said he had to. of course, as his mom i said, no, you don't. adamantly. he said he had to. he said, no one else is helping and i'm good at [ bleep ], mom. i'm going to do it. it's not what you do in public, it's what you do in private. his actions showed who he was. as parents, his dad and i, you know, we were hard on him and -- but we raised him to be who he was, who he is and he was strong. he was resilient. he was hilarious. >> she said she last spoke with

her son just a few days before he was killed. crowds gather outside a st. louis high school on wednesday night for a candle lit vigil to honor the two victims of monday's school shooting. their families were among the hundreds to pay tribute in a balloon release for the teacher jean kuska and 15-year-old student alexandra bell when a 15-year-old gunman returned to his high school. orlando harris was shot and killed by police. his parents were getting him mental health treatment. the weapon that was removed is the same weapon used in the attack. authorities in iowa say they're actively investigating a rural area where a woman claimed her father dumped the bodies of people he killed decades ago. the search comes after newsweek asked for a quote of lucy studey

who said her dad killed 50 to 70 people. one of the reporters who broke the story said he believes her but some things are working against the case. cnn's anderson cooper spoke with him earlier. >> for 45 years she has been telling the same story consistently. we found this in evidence of some of the earlier records we obtained. it's something the sheriff who has been leading this investigation tells us as well. why it hasn't happened is an important question. in lucy's case she has four things working against her. one, when this allegedly happened she was a child. two, she was poor. three, as she told later on, she was a woman. we understand how law enforcement in many cases dismisses the claims of women. of course the fourth thing which is we have yet to find a body or name associated with this. even though she says very correctly she saw these bodies being disposed of. you know, we have yet to find a body. >> explain what you've uncovered

about don studey, lucy's father? >> reporter: if this were 2022, anderson, it's hard to imagine he would have gotten away with the myriad of things he did. we were able to establish that, in fact, he was a gambler and that he lived a life of crime. while those things don't necessarily point to him being a murderer, let alone a serial killer, speaking to people, there is this pattern of both violence and another interesting thing, a pattern that says that he may have been connected to a criminal ring and potentially organized crime. one investigator described it, if you were to bury a body, this would be the place to do it. you go down there, there's no sound. there's no one passing through there so you have -- you have unfettered sort of access and undisturbed ability to really do what you will there. and one can imagine that a body buried there would, you know, likely go undisturbed.

>> the county sheriff says he'll continue to investigate. a wisconsin man faces a mandatory life sentence for plowing his car into a christmas parade last november. on wednesday darryl brooks was found guilty of six counts of first degree intentional homicide along with dozens of other charges. prosecutors said he intentionally drove his suv into the parade at waukesha. he struck more than 60 people killing 6 of them but less than two weeks earlier brooks was released on bail in a case where he was accused of running over a woman who claimed he had had a child with him. still to come, a day at a mitt missouri theme park turned into a nightmare when this train ran off the tracks. the latest on the injuries just ahead. plus, the white house says russia may be advising iran on how to crack down on protestors as thousands went to ma

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we're concerned that moscow may be advising to iran on best practices to manage protests during russia's extensive experience in suppressing open demonstrations. iran and russia are growing closer the more isolated they become. our message to iran is very, very clear, stop killing your people and stop sending russias to russia to kill ukrainians. >> the white house press secretary saying russia may be advising tehran on how to crack down on protesters. her death has sparked protests

and anti-government chants across the country resulting in a brutal crackdown. the u.s. is imposing a slew of sanctions against iranian authorities involved. melissa bell joins us with more on the sanctions and whether they'll work. >> reporter: perhaps it won't make much of a difference in terms of the regime. the people who have been targeted recently about the protests and the crackdown on them. it is an important signal the united states is sending. antony blinken, the american secretary of state, max, speaking that it is 14 individuals, three different entities that have been targeted. they're not the first since the death of mahsa amini. they're targeting people responsible for the repression we've seen over the course of the now more than 40 days since her death.

they include police chiefs, people responsible for some of the most notorious prisons in iran and an array of a different officials. the message is a clear one, that the united states wants these protests to be able to continue peacefully. we saw again you're showing images there of some of the protests we saw not just in tehran but in the town of iranian kerdistan where the grave is and around which the protesters gathered. what we saw, the protests once again met with clashes, with tear gas and that is exactly what the united states is trying to take on with the very day it announced its sanctions. the message about the possible cooperation not just that we're seeing in ukraine between tehran and moscow, but possibly also says the white house on the ground in tehran with the claims, the tactics used and refined in russia now being used

and passed on to iranian authorities. >> melissa, thank you. some much needed rain will fall across parts of the u.s. suffering from drought conditions but it may be more than they expected. meteorologist pet dram javaheri has the latest forecast for you from atlanta. >> good morning, max. yes, the conditions across areas of texas. they needed the rainfall. they're finally getting it. we're going to expect additional rounds of it. beyond this, generally quiet conditions. notice when it comes to rainfall here, some of these thunderstorms could produce quite a bit of heavy rainfall from dallas south ward to houston and new orleans, louisiana into later this weekend going to see some decent amounts of rainfall here. we've touched on just how dry this landscape has been. whatever we get here will take and notice over the next five days, pockets of heavy rainfall

scattered about one of the dryer regions of the u.s. the pacific northwest, the storm door is wide open with significant threat for rainfall. all of it beginning in the next couple of days. in fact, looking ahead to the first week of november the western u.s. expected to remain above average in the wet department while the eastern u.s. above average in the dry department. the temps also going to remain warm here. look at this run of temps in minneapolis. the average around 52. 57. 62. the middle 60s and stay there into the first and second of november as we go into next week. pretty much a mild, pleasant setup. across the caribbean, november 30th is the end of hurricane season. one north of venezuela, another north of puerto rico. no immediate threat for a significant event to land here. just some thunderstorm in the next couple of days but worth monitoring as the weekend

approaches. watching the u.s., temps in portland. los angeles, 75. new orleans aiming for about 74 degrees, max. >> thank you to pedram. now the vanishing water from lake mead in nevada has led to the discovery of more human remains on the lake bottom. they found earlier this month by a diver it is the sixth time skeletal remains have been found in the lake this year which has been losing water due to severe drought. investigators say some of the recovered remains are incomplete. they can't be sure exactly how many victims have been found. seven people were taken to the hospital after a train derailment at the silver dollar city theme park in missouri. video recorded by passengers shows a number of cars toppled over and several sets of wheels are still on the tracks. park officials say six guests and one employee have mild to moderate injuries.

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welcome back to "cnn newsroom." i'm max foster. if you are just joining us, let me bring you back up to speed. the head of the miss u.s.a. pageant has been suspended. they claim crystal stewart

rigged the competition. donald trump has until november 4th to comply with a subpoena to provide documents and testify to the january 6th committee investigating the capitol riots. on wednesday trump's team accepted the subpoena. it's unclear to what extent trump will comply. u.s. stocks are looking for a rebound after big losses on the nasdaq. you can see there the futures are all up currently. the dow is up half a percent. the others are up only fractionally. on wednesday the dow was basically flat. the nasdaq dropped more than 2% after disappointed earnings reports from microsoft and google's parent company alphabet. speaking of slumps, meta's stock took a major dive on wednesday falling 17% after the facebook parent company recorded a loss since the second time after going public.

mark zuckerberg said an industry wide loss in advertising and they will work to come back faster than ever. earlier this year he lost an estimated $29 billion on a single day after meta stocks tanked. the u.s. government releases its weekly jobless report today along with third quarter gross domestic product. economists estimate the board measure of economic activity will show 2.4% growth but they warn that that may be the bump before the slump meaning that things will slow down in the months to come. all of this could have a major impact on the federal reserve's decision on interest rates when they meet next week. u.s. president joe biden says his administration is working to lower costs of everyday living for families and is detailing plans to crack down on so-called junk fees. this remains top concerns ahead of the mid-term elections.

mopping the new steps is requiring that banks avoid charging junk fees and new guidance meant to curb the use of surprise overdraft fees as well. ukraine was high on the agenda when u.s. president joe biden also met with defense department leaders on wednesday. the meeting followed concerns in recent weeks that russia may resort to using tactical nuclear weapons in ukraine. phil mattingly reports. >> reporter: president biden huddled with his top military and civilian leadership in a time of increased tensions across the globe. certainly in the indo pacific, china's provocations, taiwan, north korean missile testing, the possibility of a missile test in the next day or weeks. and ukraine. they have been grappling with the escalations presented by vladimir putin in the last several weeks. a real, palpable concern that the escalations may move to the

point where putin considers the utilization of tactical strikes. they said there would be a serious response as well. u.s. officials have not seen any shift in russian posture and no moves by russian forces or leadership to go down that path. concerns of false flag operations related to dirty bombs have really only animated the discussion inside the administration, inside the white house. one thing remains very clear, the united states willingness to provide support for ukraine, that is not shifting any time soon. president biden and his team making clear there will be more defense assistance sent in the weeks and months ahead. more humanitarian assistance as well. the president making clear that the western coalition that is

coming together over the course of the last eight or nine months remains very strong. listen. >> we're going to continue to support ukraine together with our allies and partners around the world as it defends itself against russia's brutal aggression. >> reporter: even at the height of u.s. political season, this is front and center on president biden's plate, front and center for the administration. there is an acknowledgment internally for all of the domestic tumult and what the party sees itself into, the geopolitical tensions take up more time than anything else. phil mattingly, cnn, the white house. in southern ukraine the battle lines have been drawn in kherson. the heaviest of battles against occupying russian forces is coming. right now fierce fighting is

happening in the donetsk region. russian strikes hit zaporizhzhia and kyiv today. no casualties are reported there. more than 70,000 civilians have left kherson in the past few days along with officers and elite military units. moscow is sending in the newest recruits which it describes as cannon fodder. putin repeated ukraine is planning to use a dirty bomb. ukraine says that claim is a false pretexts for escalating the war. christiane amanpour asked russia's a.m.mbassador to the u about the claim. is russia trying to escalate this war? >> first of all, in his conversation, he assured every minister once again that we are not going to use nuclear weapon and there was no single statement, neither by the president or the journalists,

talks on the television. so russia is not going to use nukes. it is out of the question. >> and your president has said that too? >> he never mentioned a possibility. >> but he has. he's raised veiled trhreats and has worried everybody. >> no. there are speculations and issues that are trying to be -- which has no pronounced effect. >> cnn's claire sebastian joins us with the latest. we're trying to figure out what putin's narrative is here accusing the west of escalating effectively. >> i mean, constant reversals. it is very confusing at the moment, max. we've had weeks of escalating, very thinly veiled nuclear threats. then we have russia accusing ukraine of making a dirty bomb. the west worries it might be russia. then we have the ambassador to the u.k. telling christian it is out of the question. putin is supervising nuclear

drills and warning of high list of global conflict. clearly this is messaging directed at the west, max. take a listen to what else he had to say on wednesday. >> translator: what they are trying to achieve we see on the example of ukraine which has become an instrument of american foreign policy. the country has lost sovereignty and is directly controlled from the united states. >> reporter: a reminder that it is russia that has invaded ukraine and just recently illegally annexed it. the accusation that the u.s. and the west is trying to reverse the truth here. the reality of all of this, max, the russia is not backing away from this dirty bomb accusation and all of this puts it much further away or increasingly further away. >> the idea all of this is a pretexts for russia to be involved in some sort of nuclear attack, is there any evidence or

intelligence to back that up as far as we know? >> no, it doesn't. the u.s. reiterated that they don't see any evidence that russia is preparing for planning any kind of nuclear attack. of course, they have to take this rhetoric seriously and the fact that these nuclear drills, even though they're routine, they're taking place at the same time. >> claire, thank you very much. still to come, after getting kicked to the curb by adidas and others, rapper ye gets physically removed from another company. more on that story later this hour.

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mr. speaker, we will have to restore economic stability. we will set that out in a statement in just a few weeks but what i can say as we did during covid, we will always protect the most vulnerable. we will do this in a fair way.

>> rishi sunak is the newest leader there in his first prime minister's questions in parliament. he faced grilling from the opposition labor party leader and acknowledged the difficult conditions that lie ahead as they try to tackle the economic crisis. the british government has announced it is delaying its budget by more than two weeks. two countries technically at war cutting a deal to tap into unexplored oil and natural gas. we're talking about an area in the mediterranean sea that's been disputed between lebanon and israel. they're going to sign an agreement and they'll open the area to immediate energy exploration. it's extraordinary they reached an agreement on this. >> reporter: yeah, max. people have tried in the past and failed to get these two countries as we noted technically at war to reach an agreement. keep in mind, in lebanon you

still have hezbollah who has vowed to destroy israel. here we are the formal signing day of this agreement between the two countries. the motivating factors behind this, what's potentially changed in the past few years are a few things. for one, you have europe desperately seeking new sources of energy. israel had a gas field ready for pumping. you have lebanon desperate for new sources of income. israel also really wants to see some of that calm on its northern borders especially with hezbollah. all of this put together, the u.s. envoy managing to get it through. this morning the lebanese negotiator calling it a new era. they called it a diplomatic achievement knowing it's not every day an enemy state recognizes israel in a written snamt front of the entire community. both the israeli and lebanese sides have formally agreed to the agreements within their own

governments. now the agreement is being flown up from the israeli side to northern israel where then they will have a meeting at the u.n. base on the lebanese side called the cora. we're not sure if we will see them together in the same room with the americans because, max, although we keep talking about this agreement between lebanon and israel, each side is signing an agreement with the united states who mediated it. there's no direct agreement between the two of them. what's also notable is after that signing in the coeur, both sides will submit the coordinates of this maritime border to the united nations. this is the first time it's happened between these two countries. a de facto recognition. for israel, they hope that this will mean that there will be some calm on the northern border, especially with hezbollah. israel's gas field is ready to start pumping gas. they hope just the fact there

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not a good time for rapper ye to be around shoes. just one day after adidas terminated nearly a decade together. the artist who changed his name from kanye west was escorted from another shoe company. executives from sketch chers arrived unannounced. they have no intent for working with him who in recent days has lost multiple brand deals. musk went into the twitter headquarters he entered let that sink in. musk has until the end of the week to close his $44 billion deal to buy the tech company or

face trial. he's reportedly planning to finalize the deal on friday bringing an end to months long battles over his acquisition. roughly 37 million bottles of pine-sol products are being recalled because they could contain a potentially dangerous bacteria. they say the affected cleaners could cause harm to people with compromised immune systems or people with external medical devices. so far no injuries have been reported. the original pine scented pine-sol products are not included in the recall. for more information you can go to pinesol.com. well, this probably won't come as a surprise to many people. a new federal data shows august airline passenger complaints are up compared to pre-pandemic levels. how much they're up may or may not astound you. cnn's pete muntean has the latest on what's behind the numbers. >> reporter: max, these new

numbers show that thousands of passengers have been so fed up with the airlines that they're turning to the federal government as a last resort. this new data was just released by the department of transportation and it says passengers submitted more than 7,000 complaints to the federal government during the month of august. that is the last full month of what we call the summer of flight cancellations. they canceled 75,000 flights between memorial day and labor day. the big take away, august complaints were up 6% compared to the month before but get this, the numbers are 320% higher than back in 2019 before the pandemic. it is a lot of anger about the airlines. the data shows the top of issues was over cancellations and delays. also, issues getting refunds from the airlines. the data shows who canceled the

most. united followed by american airlines and then southwest. what's interesting, the new numbers are coming out as so many of you are considering buying tickets for the holidays. the message from the department of transportation is the airlines must perform. max? >> pete there. now fans of rihanna can thank the black panther for the latest release. her latest single "lift me up" comes out on friday and she put out a teaser on twitter. ♪ >> the song will be featured on the sound track for the new marvel sequel "black panther, waconga forever." it was written as a tribute to chadwick boseman. he died two years ago after

battling colon cancer. michael maguire is so excited to take his son to the first university of basketball game that he rushed straight from work to the game. he was covered in black coal dust but he didn't care. he didn't want to waste any time getting cleaned up first. have a listen. >> he had a blast. he was dancing. and every time they would slam dunk it, he would -- he would go crazy. i was really excited to make all these memories with my kids and my wife. pretty much either come straight there or miss half the game going home to take a shower. >> wildcats coach john calipari was so moved by meguiar's selfless devotion to his family he offered them home tickets. the powerball jackpot has

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