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>> it's a choice, a choice between two fundamentally different versions of america. >> in order to make our country successful and safe and glorious, i will very, very, very probably do it again, okay? >> i'm not here to compare anyone's atrocities or tragedies their families have dealt with. i'm here to continue to expose sins that our world continues to put in darkness. >> live from london, this is "cnn newsroom" with max foster and bianca nobilo. well, it is friday, november 4th, 8 a.m. here in london. that's 4 a.m. in new york. >> and 1 a.m. in california where u.s. president joe biden will be waking up today just four days until the mid-terms. mr. biden spoke at a campaign event near san diego on thursday

night. this weekend he'll appear at a pennsylvania rally with his old boss, former president barack obama. >> across the u.s. candidates are making their final pitches for control of congress and dozens of governorships are on the line in texas where democrat beto o'rourke is challenging greg abbott. voters talked about their biggest issues. >> this is my first time voting. >> i'm voting for me, my little sister, my mom, you know, everybody. >> i have daughters so it's huge in my household for the reproductive rights of women to make their own choices. >> president biden is telling voters that this will be the most important vote of a lifetime. he leaves southern california he'll head to chicago. >> on thursday he stumped for the governor. he. he had this message about

republicans retaking the senate. >> republican extremism isn't limited to social programming and the economy. they're going after your right to vote and how -- no, not a joke. mark my words. they're going after your right to vote and who's going to count the vote. >> this week, maga, inc., spent millions of dollars on additional advertising in three key senate races, arizona, pennsylvania and georgia. cnn's senior date at that reporter spoke with erin b burnett. >> if they reach 50% plus 1, that will ultimately determine control. john fetterman up by the tiniest little bit.

any money that goes in there i think would be welcome news from mehmet oz, the republican candidate. >> thursday night in iowa trump kicked off a campaign sprint. >> and the rally was the first of four events headlined by trump in the run up to election day. >> trump is working with the iowa governor. kim reynolds and senator grassley. >> at that rally trump hinted at another bid. >> thursday night in iowa make a 2024 run seem increasingly likely. have a listen. >> in order to make our country successful and save and glorious, i will very, very, very probably do it again, okay? very, very, very probably. oh, that's nice.

well, get ready, that's all i'm telling you. get ready. get ready. >> pretty clear isn't it now? join us tuesday for in depth special coverage of the crucial u.s. mid-term elections which will determine control of congress. starts at 4 p.m. eastern time, that's 9 in the evening here in london. donald trump faces serious legal jeopardy on multiple fronts and that could have unexpected consequences if he does decide to run for president. if he does, the u.s. justice department may decide to hand over the special investigations to a special counsel. cnn's sarah murray explains why that might be necessary. >> reporter: with dump getting closer and closer to decide whether he is going to run for president again in 2024, the justice department is weighing whether a special counsel may need to be appointed to oversee two investigations dealing with the former president.

the first is the mar-a-lago documents probe and the other is the aftermath at the january 6th riot at the capitol. this is what the justice department is telling us. it's an indication though of the conversations as they gear up for a potential donald trump presidential run and don't want to send the signal that the current president joe biden's justice department could be going after someone he may be running against. right now the justice department is in its quiet period. there's still a lot going on behind the scenes. grand jury subpoenas, secret court battles to get folks to testify. that is always going to ramp up after the mid-terms. the justice department is already staffing up as it prepares to make some big decisions including whether to indict some allies or whether to bring an unprecedented indictment. in addition to the legal roads the president faces, he faces an investigation in georgia. that is a criminal investigation and the district attorney says she wants to wrap up her probe

by the end of this year. sources tell us the indictments could come as early as december. sarah murray, cnn, washington. now less than an hour ago we learned twitter employees have filed a class action lawsuit against the social media giant after his owner sent a staff warning that layoffs will begin today. >> the lawsuit says the job cuts are a violation of labor law which requires large company to provide 60 days' advance notice to a mass layoff. >> musk's earlier memo said they will be notified through emails which will arrive by noon eastern time friday. >> and it adds that company offices will be temporarily closed in the interest of safety. musk has already fired top executives and dissolved twitter's board of directors. major companies are hitting pause on their twitter advertising according to a wall street journal account. they include general mills. volkswagen and pfizer.

>> general millotors was the fi to pump the brakes. they are concerned it will become a haven for rampant hate speech and misinformation. we are hours away from the opening bell on wall street and the u.s. stock market is looking to rebound today. less than 1%. dow, s&p and nasdaq futures up now in anticipation of the jobs report that comes out at 8:30 a.m. eastern time. they'll be looking closely. expect 200,000 jobs added in october, down from 263,000 a month ago and the unemployment rate ticked up slightly to 3.6%. >> but on the up side, mortgage rates fell after topping 7% for the first time in 20 years last week. the 13-year fixed rate mortgage averaged 6.95% on thursday and that's still more than double the fixed rate a year ago which sits at just 3%. mortgage rates have been rising

almost weekly since august when the federal reserve began raising rates to tame this white hot inflation. yesterday the fed raised rates another 3/4 of a percentage point. now to the threat of severe weather in the plains and southeastern u.s. >> about 35 million americans from northern missouri to the gulf coast of texas can see severe storms this friday. let's bring in meteorologist derek van dam. hi, derek. >> yeah, we've got a long day of keeping an eye to the sky especially across the nation's hearth land. we have a collision of air masses that will set the battleground for stronger storms to develop later today. cold, dryer air from the northwest interacting with warm, humid gulf air. that collision zone right here, eastern texas, eastern oklahoma, portions of arkansas, louisiana and missouri. that is ground zero for the storm. it's shaded in orange.

level 3 of 5. damage willing winds, large hail and a couple of large tornadoes used expolice sidly in some of the language. this includes the dallas fort worth as well as shreveport, louisiana. encompasses oklahoma city as well as houston. look at the timing here. by this afternoon and evening, thunderstorms will fire. after sunset tonight some of the thunderstorms could form. that means nocturnal tornadoes are possible with this line of thunderstorms that moves through and ultimately develops. they are particularly dangerous because they often catch people off guard not prepared for tornadoes in the middle of the night when we're typically sleeping. the storm prediction center has highlighted the area as the greatest probability of tornadic development later today. we'll keep an eye to the sky. the highest tornado potential across eastern texas and into western louisiana and oklahoma. on top of the tornado threat there's also a potential for flash flooding as some of the

slow-moving thunderstorms produce anywhere from 2 to 4 inches of rain locally across some of the areas hit hardest later today. max? >> derek, thank you very much, indeed. now it took a while but nba star kyrie irving has finally apologized after he appeared to produce anti-semitic content. south korea scrambles 80 fighter jets. plus, new u.s. data about the use of alcohol during the pandemic and its deadly consequences.

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about making sure that the money that is being spent here for military support, for budget support, for humanitarian relief is needed. it is. it is being well spent. it is. and that we will continue to support the ukrainian people and the united states has long been a nation that fights for freedom and this is the most important fight for freedom in the world today. >> zelenskyy said they spoke about russian strikes on ukraine's energy system which deserves a strong global response. that might be the message the congressmen want to send. they were discussing the mid-terms and saying that donald trump supporters and some republicans seem like they're less willing to support the war in ukraine, that it's hurting america's bottom line, it's hitting them economically. they think changes might happen if there are more republicans elected. >> the last time trump was elected he was seen as being

supported by russia and putin. it could be the other way around this time? >> uh-huh. >> it's a huge election, this mid-term, isn't it, ahead of the presidential election. on the front lines, ukrainian troops are facing a big question as well. could it be a major victory or a dangerous trap? >> ukrainian forces have been advancing towards the southern city of kherson. a top pro russian official has suggested they will likely pull out of the strategic city. ukrainian officials say they are not necessarily buying that. it could be a statement to lure their forces into a trap. for more, selma abdelaziz joins us live from kyiv. there are mixed messages on this. we've heard from russsian officials they're planning to leave kherson. the british russian military said they could be shooting troops that dessert from kherson. what do you understand about the

plans and what they might be? >> reporter: ukraine is accusing russia of muddying the waters a little bit here, max and bianca. they say they're spreading disinformation, if you will. we saw the russian-backed official saying most likely troops, russian troops, would pull back from the city of kherson towards the east of the kherson region and we did see the main flag, the main building in kherson city, the russian flag taken down from there on a social media video. this is just a trap. yes, we've seen some troop movement and some checkpoints have been cleared but there's absolutely no mass withdrawal. you wouldn't expect a mass withdrawal. the city is absolutely a strategic prize for president putin. it is critical to the bridge, the land bridge that he's built connecting crimea to the rest of the russian occupied territories. it is the one and only regional

capitol russia has been able to take. it's part of the illegally annexed regions. you cannot expect the kremlin would back down easily. i know it's difficult for us to get a picture, there's tough reporting restrictions on the ukrainian side. very few have gotten access to the front lines. it's very hard to see what's happening if you can't see it ourselves. our colleagues who have been there say there's a sense so both sides are fortifying their position for a battle. don't expect anything to change overnight. this is an important city and a very difficult fight for ukraine. >> and also where you are, it's becoming difficult, isn't it, to operate increasingly. i read about half the households were out of power at one point. >> yes, max. you really feel the city here and all across ukraine just bracing for a very cold, dark winter ahead. there's been scheduled power outages taking place for hours at a time here in kyiv and also

in other cities. now there's emergency power outages that are happening as well. you can assume that's because people are trying to heat their homes. look, we don't have the ability to provide this electricity to our consumers. everybody needs to conserve energy as much as they can. i think the worrying part here is the infrastructure has become so weak, so fragile that every time a missile lands it weeks ever more havoc. this week we saw the water pumps stop working in the city. that meant there was no running water. that's extremely concerning to the families to think they can sit through the winter months without power, without heat, without potentially water. everyone really bracing, again, for a very tough winter month. >> it's going to be hard. selma, thank you very much indeed. talking about energy, ukraine's top energy nuclear power plant is offline again after alleged new russian artillery strikes. at the same time the u.n.

nuclear watchdog is debunking the thought that they're going to use a dirty bomb. >> claire sebastian is here to talk with us about that. >> this is the grid connection that connects the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant to ukraine's national grid. this is according to the uk ukrainian nuclear agency. they say they've switched to diesel generators to keep going. to the best of my knowledge, the reactors are all in cold storage. they're not producing nuclear power. they need electricity to continue to cool and take the day-to-day activities. they're running off of generators. russia wants to do this because as you know, putin signed a

decree to bring zaporizhzhia under russian control. they say the allegation is that they want to disconnect from the ukrainian grid so they can connect it to the russian grid. this deserves a lot of attention. this is a vulnerable installation here. the shelling is continuing to go on. it's close to the front line. the iea has been calling for a safe protection zone around the plant. they've expressed frustration it hasn't happened yet. still a very vulnerable installation. >> russia accused ukraine of using a dirty bomb and ukraine denied it. >> this is ukraine's attempt to get independent verification to debunk the claim. they said they've found no evidence of any sort of undeclared nuclear activity oral

materials. they've taken environmental samples. that's good news for ukraine. this is not the biggest fear. the biggest fear is this is a russian false flag. those fears remain because they are on the back foot. it's heavily contested. that is a strategic, important area. when it's on the back foot, that's when the nuclear fears start to rise. >> thank you. israel's outgoing prime minister has congratulated the country's longest serving prime minister on his imminent return to power. he's instructed his whole office to prepare for a transition.

netanyahu's party will take 64 seats. the party that works for either leader is getting five seats. >> paul pelosi, the husband of u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi, is out of hospital and recuperating at home six days after he was violently attacked at his home. >> u.s. capitol police say the home was not being actively monitored at the time because the speaker was in washington. pelosi required surgery for a skull fracture but is expected to make a full recovery. cnn's sanjay gupta explains how they would deal with this kind of injury. >> when we talk about a skull fracture, the bone is broken, it can bend sort of inward. part of the reason the doctors would be so optimistic, they would do scans to see if there was bleeding underneath the bone on top of the brain or within

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scrambled dozens of fighter jets in response to a large number of north korean military aircraft detected near the south korean border. about 180 million north korean airplanes were trapped. they were put in a readiness posture to respond to any potential threat. meanwhile, the u.s. ambassador to the united nations says the u.n. security council will meet today to discuss the worsening situation on the korean peninsula. blake essig is joining us live here. we're hearing a lot stimulated by north korea's actions. what efforts are being made to decrease these tensions? >> reporter: look, bianca, as you mentioned, there haven't been any missiles flying back and forth between north and south korea today, but the

tensions continue to escalate. perhaps in order to ease those tensions there is hope that perhaps that u.n. security council meeting will help change the tensions, the continued esz ka lating tensions on the korean peninsula. it lasted four hours and took place at the same time as the now extended joint drill between the united states and south korea. it's called vigilant storm. it was extended one day extra. only supposed to last five days, going to last six now following yesterday's failed intercontinental ballistic missile. the hwasong icbm which kim jong-un showed off in a highly produced propaganda video earlier this year. it is believed to have failed mid flight after the second phase separation. even if the icbm did fail, progress was clearly made since the last time it was tested back in may.

in may according to the south korean government, it's believed the icbm only flew to an altitude of 540 kilometers. yesterday it reached an altitude of 2,000 kilometers. the key here is that no one single test is special on its own. north korea gains knowledge from each and every weapons test it is conducts. the more you practice, the better you do. when talking to experts they say north korea's aggressive pace of testing is what's most concerning. now as for what could be next, experts say icbm and nuclear tests are set and with the u.s. mid-term election and g20 coming up, a nuclear test could be coming out soon especially with north korea's tendency to conduct events to move itself up the agenda. >> blake essig, thank you.

for the first time in six years the cdc is easing the guidelines for doctors prescribing opioids. >> it's a significant move away from the most strict parameters. it made it too hard for patients suffering from serious pain to get the medicine. elizabeth cohen has the details. >> reporter: max, bianca, the new opioid guidelines from the u.s. centers for disease control and prevention are seen as a course correction to guidelines given out in 2016. those really are now seen as being too rigid. obviously something needs to be done about the opioid problem in the united states but those guidelines were seen as sort of putting all patients in one basket when in some ways some patients really do benefit from opioids. for example, some cancer patients. before we get into the guidelines, let's take a look at who is experiencing pain in the united states. about 1 in 5 adults have chronic pain and about 1 in 14 adults

have experienced pain nearly every day over the past three months that limited their life or work activities. the cdc essentially is saying for some of these patients opioids might be appropriate for some perhaps not. let's take a look at specifically what they're saying. the cdc is recommending nonopioid therapies for sub a kutd or chronic pain. in other words, if the pain is not acute, non-opioid therapies would be preferred. if you are going to prescribe opioids, they tell doctors don't discontinue them abruptly. also if you're going to prescribe opioids, consider offering naloxone at the same time. it's an antidote and if you are going to be giving someone opioids, you should consider giving them naloxone at the same time. max, bianca. >> thank you to elizabeth. in the u.s. death caused by drinking alcohol spiked during

the first year of the coronavirus pandemic. according to the centers for disease control and prevention, alcohol use killed 49,000 people in 2020. the alcohol induced death rate increased 26% between 2019 and 2020. that's nearly the same jump in one year as over the decade before. the cdc says that alcoholic liver disease was the underlying cause of more than half those deaths and it says that the death rate was higher for middle age men 55 to 64 years old. >> many people predicted it, didn't they? the sales were going up so much. now china's strict zero covid policy and lockdown causing a tragic situation to become more desperate by the day. children are dying from covid and other illnesses due to lockdown restrictions. cnn's celina wang has more from beijing. >> reporter: a 14-year-old girl lies in bed convulsing at a covid quarantine center.

someone comes over saying the kid has a fever of 104 degrees fahrenheit and no one is coming. she died soon after. the man who says he's the girl's father posted this video online filming his daughter's body. he's demanding justice. i beg the communist party to investigate, he says. cnn hasn't been able to independently verify the videos. they've bensen sored in china. along with those videos of a father desperately trying to revive his 3-year-old son, he can't get his child to the hospital fast enough because of covid restrictions. the boy later died. enraged residents took to the streets. swarms of armed police have been back. in lenzo city, some forced to quarantine outside in the cold in the parking lots. this viral video which cnn could not verify shows others forced

to stay in male bathrooms sleeping under urinals. in year three of the pandemic. every positive case and close contact is still sent to government quarantine facilities like these. this one, the video said it's a quarantine site for kids. a little boy jumping on bricks to avoid the pool of dirty liquid. this is where they use the bathroom. distraught parents crowd outside to protest. protesters rush to the streets in tibet to demand the end of a lockdown. and in the city workers are fleeing apple's biggest iphone plant after a covid outbreak. masses of workers carrying their luggage walked long distances across highways, through villages, even farm fields. those left behind at the factory claim living conditions are subpar. it shows workers literally fighting for boxes of supplies.

china's leader xi jinping claims zerocovid. this woman sobs on the ground crying that after she was caught with her mask pulled down, the government suspended her business for 30 days losing a month income. metal spikes, which the man filming says were installed on a compound gate to prevent residents from leaving or red plastic barriers. this one separating a father from his daughter. the little girl worried asks her dad how he's going to get home but her father, like millions across china, likely has no idea when he can go home or when all of this will end. celina wang, cnn, beijing. a u.s. basketball star apologizes after he tweets about a movie described as anti-semitic. that just ahead.

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welcome back. u.s. basketball star kyrie irving has apologized on instagram hours after his team suspended him for at least five games. the brooklyn nets initially disciplined the point guard after he tweeted a link to a documentary which was criticized as anti-semitic. the team and irving also agreed to give anti-hate groups a half million dollars. >> later the team said it was dismayed while talking to reporters on thursday. now irving has apologized to jewish groups saying he wants to focus on healing and to learn and grow from controversy. cnn's carolyn manno is here to discuss all of this. i think what's frustrating people is the apology came after he was suspended so it seemed like a reaction to that. >> reporter: yeah. there is an idea here that this is damage control and that much wasn't done at the beginning of

this controversy to avoid all of this. kyrie irving's been described as mercurial and complicated but the fact of the matter is, this is very simple. he offended an entire group of people and failed to apologize and failed to say, i am not anti-semitic. the nets hoped he would have taken that time to apologize but it took way too long. he was given multiple opportunities to do that. yesterday seemed to be the breaking point for the team when he met with reporters for the second time this week and still did not apologize. this is what he said at that time. >> so i take my full responsibility, again, i'll repeat it, for posting something on my instagram or twitter that may have had some unfortunate falsehoods in it but i also am a human being that's 30 years old and i've been growing up in a country that told me i wasn't

worth anything, i was from a slave class and i come from a people that are meant to be treated the way we're treated every day. >> reporter: after that availability which went on and on brooklyn suspended him. such failure to disavow anti-semitism when given an opportunity to do so is deeply disturbing. it constitutes conduct detrimental to the team. shortly before midnight an apology finally. irving posting to instagram to all of the jewish communities, i am deeply sorry to have caused you pain. i initially reacted to being unjustly calledanti-semitic. the larger picture here is that athletes are allowed to participate in democracy here in the united states. everyone is allowed to feel certain things and have different point of views but, you know, this is very

clear-cut. you have to be very careful what you say and what you promote on a social platform that reaches millions of people, especially in such a divisive time where there's hatred to be found just about anywhere. his failure to grasp that and to apologize for that was alarming. it seems he's come around. if he didn't, i can't envision a scenario where he will be able to stay with the team. >> caroline, how's that been any other fallout from kyrie's inflammatory post? >> you mentioned earlier the nets and kyrie said they would donate half a million to hate groups. unfortunately the antidefamation league says they cannot accept that money in good conscience. nba commissioner adam silver, who is jewish, said yesterday that he plans to meet with kyrie and it's an opportunity to have a discussion. irving and the nets have had a lot of drama over the last

couple of years. his decision not to get the vaccine and problems with other teams. this is the latest example of him struggling to figure out how to make all the pieces come together. >> carolyn manno, thank you. now former pakistani prime minister khan is in stable position after being shot in the leg in what his political party calls an assassination attempt. a gunman opened fire at a political rally killing one person and wounding khan and several others before being detained. khan a former cricket star was on the seventh day of a nationwide tour calling for new elections when the shooting happened. >> protests broke out after the shooting began. he accused of the shooting.

the pope has been experiencing knee pain. he's been walking around with a cane. he asked members of the press core to speak with him whilst he was sitting down. >> translator: thank you very much for your work. i would like to greet you one by one, but the problem is that today i have a lot of pain and i'm not up to moving around the plane so i'll sit down and you come to me. i greet you from here. thank you. >> the trip is aimed at improving ties with the islamic world. pope francis will also say mass for the catholic community in bahrain. still ahead, it's been a very good week for the houston astros. they are now just one game away from winning it all. e role of a. one sore throat. but she had enough. she took mucinex instasoothe sore throat lozenges.

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rapper eminem supported his first commercial success which makes him eligible for this year's class at the rock and roll hall of fame. the induction ceremony will be held sunday in los angeles. >> what's the link between eminem and downing street? >> thank you very much, max. when i'm at downing street and it's very cold and my cheeks freeze, i rap eminem songs to myself in one of the little stoops. >> tell the cameraman to record that and put it onto the social media feed. >> nobody wants to see that, i don't think. >> who's your favorite out of that list? >> i have some crossover from my 11-year-old son on eminem. he didn't believe me -- >> is he of your era? >> yes. >> okay. cleared that up. >> yes. on to major league baseball before she pursues that any further. one night after pulling off only the second no hitter in world series history houston has taken

the lead in the fall classic. astros led off the phillies 3-2 in philadelphia. >> center fielder making a stellar catch in the ninth that broke thousands of philly hearts. the astros have now won three games in the best of 7 showdown. the series shifts back to houston on saturday for game 6 where the astros could win it all. they're already billionaires and two of the most successful men in america now music mogul jay z, another one who sometimes i rap at downing street and amazon owner jeff bezos may be looking at buying the washington commanders. >> it comes months after a u.s. house oversight committee investigating owner dan snyder accused him of fostering a toxic workplace. the outlook for the holiday season suggests shoppers won't skimp on gifts for loved ones.

>> there are a number of people on that gift list, maybe smaller than last year as families struggle for high inflation. >> people buy less. now online shopping is expected to jump 10 to 12% and industry analysts say shoppers are more likely to use credit cards or dip into their savings to pay for those holiday gifts. >> have you started christmas shopping? >> no. but we do do it quite early because i get very -- you know, you want that specific thing, don't you? it's never available at the end. >> i used to be really good and make a spreadsheet throughout the year of items people in my close family said that they wanted. >> wow. >> because i'm very bad at impromptu gifts. >> do you keep that snup. >> no, i got distracted.

>> and rapping? >> got nothing. >> talking about holidays, this could be right for beer lovers. it's a christmas tree stand, obviously, designed to fit around a keg of miller light beer. the u.s. beverage company is describing it as an ultimate way to enjoy the pills ner. >> the whole idea is to make a holly jolly christmas. the company is also selling christmas ornaments or beernaments. see what i did there? they fit snugly around a can of brew but can also be later used to -- >> has anyone expressed concern? >> i think looking at santa, i don't want to be judgmental. he looks like he's no stranger to a keg. >> we don't want to slow him down. he'll be sitting there getting drunk. >> thanks for joining us. i'm max foster. >> i'm bianca nobilo.

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