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i'm kim brunhuber. coming up on "cnn newsroom," the stakes are so high in the u.s. midterm elections that four current or former presidents are back out on the campaign trail, hoping to get their candidates in the win column on tuesday. we've got the latest from the battleground states ahead. ukraine is reacting to iran's admission it has sent drones to russia after weeks of denying it and we're live in kyiv with details. plus -- >> comes on, kyle tucker, this time they finish the job. the houston astros -- >> the houston astros clinched the title, game six of the world series. coming up, we'll show you the biggest plays. >> announcer: live from cnn center, this is "cnn newsroom" with kim brunhuber.

with the u.s. midterm elections just a few days away, several presidents have descended on a key swing state. in pennsylvania, barack obama shared the stage with president joe biden on saturday. both campaigned if democrat john fetterman in the closely watched sfl senate race and warned that democracy itself was on the ballot. on the other side of the state, donald trump stumped for mehmet oz. in a speech, the retired surgeon argued that he's the right person to heal a divided country. here he is. >> i'm not a politician. i'm a surgeon. and what surgeons do is tackle big problems and we do it successfully. in my case, fixing broken hearts by working with everybody. by making sure that we unify people in the operating room, not divide them. the same will work for our nation. >> the fact that three

presidents held rallies in p pennsylvania shows just how important that state has become in this election. cnn's phil mattingly breaks down why pennsylvania matters deeply to both parties. >> reporter: for democrats trying to beat back a republican wave or at least republican majorities in the house and the senate, there is no more important state than the state of pennsylvania. and there's no more important city than the city of philadelphia. it is where democrats run up huge numbers. it is a bastion of democratic support, and that's exactly why you saw the current president and the former president together at their first rally. and even the current president, joe biden, wanted to throw a few political jabs in his remarks. >> i lived in pennsylvania longer than oz has lived in pennsylvania. and i moved away when i was 10 years old. >> that comment in remps to john fetterman, the lmp's republican opponent. they are in an extraordinarily tight race, one the democrats think they can win, but understand that there are a lot of dynamics working against them, including very clear

republican enthusiasm that's not just pennsylvania centric, it's really across the country. that's what they're fighting against right now. that's why they were in philadelphia. it's a county that president biden won by more than 60 points in 2020. they'll need to run up huge numbers again this time around. they believe they can, but they want to get their biggest guns out, and their certainly did that. president biden, former president obama certainly have different approaches to things. we've seen it over the course of the last several weeks. the messages, they overlap. their goals seem to as well. and their view of the stake as president obama laid out, certainly. >> fundamental rights are on the ballot. truth and facts and logic and reason. and basic decency are on the plat. democracy itself is on the blot. the stakes are high.

the stakes are high. >> reporter: just a couple of days left, these vigilance, president biden and president obama will not be together again on the campaign trail, but they will be pushing forward. again, right now, democrats pretty much acknowledge behind the scenes they don't expect to win the house. they do believe that they have a very clear shot at the senate, but they also acknowledge, it would be very difficult without the state of pennsylvania. phil mattingly, cnn, philadelphia, pennsylvania. >> former president donald trump is hyping open his own political future as he campaigns for republican candidates. trump was in pennsylvania on saturday, ostensibly to rally support for mehmet oz, the republican nominee a close race for a u.s. senate seat. the rally is up with of several stops the former president will make in the run-up to election day. but much of trump speci's speec focused on repeating debunked conspiracy theories about 2020 election and teasing another run for president. here he is. >> the election was rigged and

stolen and now our country is being destroyed. i ran twice. i won twice. and now, in order to make our country more successful and safe and glorious, i'm just going to tell you, i really believe -- i'm not going to say it right now. everybody, i promise you, in the very next, very, very, very short period of time, you're going to be so happy, okay? the former president boasted of his poll numbers and took a swipe at a 2020 republican rival, ron desantis. listen to this. >> we're winning big, big, big in the republican party for the nomination, like nobody has ever seen before. there it is, trump at 71. ron desanctimonious at 10%. now, earlier i spoke with republican charlie dent a former u.s. house representative from pennsylvania and he spoke about

the possible risks and benefits of republicans and democrats bringing in big-name political leaders like former presidents trump and obama. here he is. >> in the case of donald trump, he really doesn't appeal to swing voters. i think it's a mistake to bring him in to swing states like pennsylvania nevada, michigan, georgia, arizona. not a smart move. president obama did not have a good track record when he was president in terms of midterm elections. his party was wiped out in 2010 and in 2014, they experienced significant losses. and president biden has a approval rating in the low 40s, so he's underwater. but right now, the senate race in pennsylvania is one where dr. oz seems to be surging. the polls have tightened. in fact, i think they're dead even. and in an environment like this, dead even probably will accrue to the party out of power, which is the republican. i think he's in good shape. the debate was a disaster for

john fetterman. look, we all sympathize with him because of the stroke that he experienced. but the debate, his campaign set the bar so low, they told people not to expect much, that he would mush words together, but didn't set the bar low enough. fetterman wasn't able to explain himself on various positions, whether it was on fracking for natural gas in pennsylvania with the crime issue. he wasn't able to articulate it. and i think it's caused many voters to question john fetterman's ability to serve in the senate. so that was really the issue. ordinarily, these debates dproenl probably don't matter that much. there was one candidate that looked very sharp and crisp in his responses, that was dr. oz. and the other, i couldn't tell you if it was the stroke or the fact that he wasn't a very good debater or he didn't have a great grasp on the policy issues, but whatever the case may be, it's going to cause voters to question his capacity to serve.

>> former u.s. house republican, charlie dent. new york has been reliaably blu for many years, but the close race for governor could upend that trend. joe biden will be in westchester today, to campaign for incumbent governor kathy hoechul. clinton told the crowd that this year's midterms are unlike any before. here he is. >> i want you to be scared. and i want you to be mad. and the last thing i want you to do is think. this is serious. this is serious. i know the average election rally, what to do, what to do, what to do. your life is on the line. the young people in this audience, their life is on the line. >> hochul's challenger, republican lee zeldin has been endorsed by former president donald trump, but not all republicans are happy to have

trump on the campaign trail in the final stretch of the midterms. former new york governor george pataki told cnn the outsized attention that trump's potential 2024 run is drawing has been unhelpful to republican candidates in blue states like zeldin. here it is. >> it's classic trump that it has to be about him. it's not about him. it's about the future of our states, the future of america. and i just cringe when he does whatever he can to get publicity going forward. that's not the point here. it's not about trump. it's about new york. >> first lady jill biden has also been stumping in swing states ahead of the midterms. on saturday, she held a rally in arizona for democratic candidate senator mark kelly. listen to this. >> what you're going today matters, because this race is going to be close. and the only way we can win is by voting. so put voting at the top of your

to-do list! >> now, in many states, the first lady is more popular than her husband. and she's using that popularity to get out the vote for democrats. cnn's kate bennett reports. >> first lady jill biden, one of the big names on the campaign trail in the run-up to midterm elections on tuesday, spending lots of time crisscrossing the country, going to swing states, where even president biden has not been, including georgia where jill biden spent saturday. sunday she'll be in texas, monday she'll be in virginia. first lady jill biden is speaking mostly to women voters. she's talking about issues involving families, abortion rights, and working moms. this is one of her specialties, as most first ladies try to engage female voters in the run-up to the election. don't expect to see jill biden, however, on election day. she will be where she normally is on tuesdays, in the classroom at her other day job, teaching

english at a local community college. kate bennett, cnn, washington. interest in the midterm election is high from coast to coast. more than 38 million early plats have been cast in 47 states. here in georgia, 2.5 million people have already voted. 25% more than in 2018. it's a midterm record for the state. and texas, which finished early voting on texas has had more than 5 million preelection ballots cast. and you can join us on tuesday for in-depth special coverage of the crucial u.s. midterm elections, which will determine control of congress. it starts at 4:00 p.m. eastern time. that's 9:00 in the evening in london. at least two people were killed and several people are missing after powerful tornadoes struck oklahoma, texas, and arkansas friday night. the governor of oklahoma toured the area on saturday and declared a state of emergency in four counties. the governor says the victim killed in his state was a

90-year-old man. he says more than 100 homes and businesses were destroyed, with the worst damage in ida bell, a small town just north of the border with texas. here's how the sheriff put it. >> from what i've seen, and icht seen all of it, but from what i've seen is, we've got multiple, multiple houses destroyed. and lots of damage. >> a second person was killed in texas, where at least three separate tornadoes damaged several homes. so let's bring in cnn meteorologist karen maginnis. folks in many areas still coming to terms with all of that damage. >> it has been dreadful, kim. a lot of people were seeing the damage yesterday. this happened during the late afternoon, the early evening hours on friday. and the survey crews are still going out, making their assessments, but the initial assessment on that ida bell, oklahoma, tornado is estimated to be an enhanced fujita, ef-3. the winds associated with it,

according to the survey team, was about 160 miles per hour. widespread damage across that region. they're still without power, but not just there. also, into northeastern texas, also a portion of arkansas, with that outbreak of tornadoes. now, what we're looking at across the eastern third of the united states are these exceptionally warm temperatures. very un-november-like. but this warmth will continue, not just through sunday, but also going into monday and even some people may see these mild temperatures lasting into tuesday before just about everybody will see much-cooler temperatures. just want to show you, erie, pennsylvania soared to 78 degrees on saturday afternoon. now, typically, they would be in the upper 40s or low 50s. a year ago, it was only 47 degrees. but that was just one of dozens of cities across the northeast and new england. boston, new york, into

knoxville, tennessee. atlanta, georgia, may see a record-setting high extending all the way down towards the panhandle of florida. if you're looking to get a little bit of respite, this will be the saturday to do it, because very mild. a lot of clusters of perhaps record or near-record-setting temperatures along that i-95 corridor. this is going to be interesting. the national hurricane center says there's about an 80% likelihood over the next five days we could see some development here. this development right now is a disturbance in the north central caribbean. but take a look at this particular computer model. this is the american model, brings it in. looks like a pretty strong area of low pressure. will it be a named storm? chances are it's not, but we can't rule out anything, because we are still in hurricane season.

this is the european model. what this will bring in, kim, is some pretty heavy rainfall, some gusty winds, and the rip current. but this is still five to six days out. we'll keep you updated. >> we'll be on the lookout. karen maginnis, thanks so much. now, returning to a story we're following out of eastern africa. rescuers in tanzania have pulled several survivors from a plane that crashed into lake victoria and taken them to a local hospital. it's not clear how many people were onboard. the plane was owned by precision air. tanzania's president acknowledged the tragedy in a tweet and urged calm while rescuers worked. the president said that he's saddened to hear of the crash and has sent condolences to those affected. the airline said it went down near the airport located on lake victoria's western shore. we'll keep monitoring h story a and bring you more information as soon as it becomes available. ukraine is injecting iran's new statement about supplying

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there's no letup in the anti-government protests that have gripped iran for weeks. despite violent protests and police crackdowns in southeast iran on friday, demonstrations continued saturday at several universities. people here chanting "you are the devil." cnn obtained these videos from the pro-reform activist outlet, iran wire. demonstrations began in mid-september, ignited by the death of 22-year-old maza amini when she was detained by the morality police. protests over her death have merged into a wide range of grievances against the iranian regime. ukraine's largest nuclear power plant has been reconnected to the power grid.

the zaporizhzhia power plant han without power for two days. they need it to cool their reactors and prevent their potential meltdown, but zaporizhzhia has lost that supply multiple times during the war. the head of the u.n. nuclear watchdog is repeating his call for a security zone around the plant. and in ukraine, president zelenskyy says he's not buying iran's me claim about supplying a military drones to russia. tehran did an about-face on friday, saying it sent a limited number of drones to moscow in the months before the war. that statement came after weeks of iranian denials that it provided any drones to russia. but president zelenskyy says iran's new claim is a lie. here he is. >> reporter: today, there were messages from iran, from official representatives. there, they decided to admit that they did supply drones for russian terror, but even in this confession, they lied. we shoot down at least ten iranian drones every day. and if iran continues lying

about the obvious, it means that the world will make even more efforts to investigate the terrorist cooperation between the russian and the iranian regimes and what russia is paying iran for such coope cooperation. >> for more, salma abdelaziz joins us from kyiv. salma, iran seems to be downplaying the amount of drones they have supplied russia here. >> reporter: yeah, so very curious statement from iran's foreign minister to reporters in a press conference, saying that, yes, iran did provide a limited number of drones to russia, but they say iran's foreign minister says that this was months prior to the conflict and that tehran has no knowledge that russia is using those drones here in the conflict in ukraine. but as you heard there from president zelenskyy, ukrainian officials, ukrainian forces have been shooting down these iranian drones all the time. they find the remnants of them after they can attacked the civilian areas. they have wreaked terror,

particularly here in kyiv, particularly those self-detonating drones. they can lottery over a place and invade air defense systems. they've been pretty critical to russia's fight and to its campaign to intensify the suffering of civilians across the country. and what's concerning here is that western officials say -- western sources say not only has iran provided weapons, it's preparing to send even more weapons, kim. western sources again saying that ballistic missiles and drones, hundreds of them, are on their way to russia. that's key for president putin, who's, of course, lost a great deal of his arsenal in this fight. and is preparing for that big battle in kherson. kim? >> yeah, an ominous development from ukraine. and another story we're following, salma, president putin signed a law allowing criminals to be conscripted. what more can you tell us about that? >> yes, so, let me just read you a bit of what's taking place here. so that's on friday. president putin signing that

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welcome back to all of you watching us here in the united states, canada, and around the world. i'm kim brunhuber. this is "cnn newsroom." millions of americans will head to the polls tuesday to decide the balance of power in congress. 51% of likely voters say the biggest issue on their minds will be the state of the economy, according to a cnn poll conducted by ssrs. abortion comes in at a distant second with just 15%. voting rights, guns, and immigration round out the top five. the outcome of the midterms could be decided in any one of these six states. five of them are battleground states flipped by president joe biden in the 2020 election. here in georgia, it's a tight race between the democratic and republican candidates for the u.s. senate seat. both contestants are making an all-out push to draw black voters, like themselves, in the final week before election day.

cnn's evan mccann reports. >> reporter: at churches, in barbershops -- >> he's a republican! >> reporter: even at concerts. >> shout-out to everybody who's registered to vote in here! >> reporter: in georgia and other battleground states across the country, an all-out effort to get black men to vote. >> we're going to make a difference in the world. by our vote. our vote. >> reporter: at any ttime cuts atlanta, these men say their priorities as they look towards november are tied to economics. >> number one priority for me is black man is maintaining my business. >> reporter: in a recent conversation hosted by black men decide in the atlanta urban league, they said that they feel like both parties aren't messaging directly to them. >> historically, i feel like it's kind of been the republicans that look out for business owners from a tax

perspective. >> i know if the agenda for black men works, it works for everyone. >> both democratic and republican campaigns are competing for black men through targeted message ing and. >> i'm asking people to trust me. >> in the race for georgia's senate seat, two black men going head to head. at st. phillip ame in atlanta -- >> if it wasn't for you brothers out there voting, georgia would be a different place. a final push from georgia's democratic candidate for governor, stacey abrams campaign, to highlight her black men's agenda, a plan to invest in black-owned small businesses. >> we do talk directly to black men in their areas of focus, seeing what interests them. because we can't take anyone's vote for granted. >> reporter: one voter says he senses that republicans are making gains with black men. >> it seems like a percentage of african-american males, the business sector, just a percentage, seem to be a little

ambivalent about the democratic ticket. >> reporter: even though black voters played a pivotal role in electing president joe biden two years ago, some democratic strategists share this concern. >> republicans have really spent the time to understand the issues of concern to black men, specifically those around access to capital and criminal justice reform. >> reporter: but longtime organizers suggest those worries are overstated and are confident black men will turn out for democrats in big numbers in georgia and across the nation. >> the republican party are simply exploiting in idea of, oh, we're leaning towards black men because we know they're upset and there's discontent. >> you don't think the outreach is genuine? >> absolutely not. >> reporter: races nationwide that might come down to razor-thin margins. >> the majority of black men are going to vote democrat.

but especially in georgia, tlexs are won around the edges. can you peel off enough black men to make it difficult for democrats to win? >> reporter: in just one week, those efforts to dry black men to the polls will be put to test. according to data from catalyst, about 200,000 black men have turned out during the early vote period in georgia. that's a 46% increase from the midterms in 2018. governor kemp expressing confidence in his ground game among voters of color in the state. but that is a ground game that democratic candidate stacey abrams has worked to cultivate for years. eva mckend, cnn, marietta, georgia. >> now, it's not just black voters who stand to make up a key polblock for either party, latino voters are another core group expressing less support for democratic candidates than they have in recent past elections. now, the latest surveys show that latino voters break 52% for

the democrats when it comes to their congressional district, 23% for the republican, and 21% say they support neither candidate. now, many say simply they don't see a difference in what democrats and republicans stand for. listen to this. >> the democrat party has abandoned us and taken us for granted. >> what people have to understand is that hispanic americans have blue collar working class values. who's america's blue collar billionaire? donald trump. >> joining me now is justin guess. he's the author of six books on the politics of immigration and demographic change, including most recently, majority/minority. thanks so much for being here with us. i want to start there with what we just saw. with black men, and i'll talk about latino men, as well. there's a sense of support for the democrats from black and brown men, especially, is softening. first, is that true? and second, if it is, why is

that happening? >> thanks, kim, it's a pleasure to be with you. the truth is, we really don't know yet. there are definitely some polling research that's coming out. in fact, a number of polls that are showing that support for the democratic party among african-americans and latinos is diminishing marginally. and remember that democrats already have very large margins of support among these two groups of people. but we are seeing some diminishments and any -- in an election this close, every little bit matters. but that said, there's a lot of good social science out there that is questioning just how valid a lot of this research is. it's very possible that they're missing a number of latinos and african-americans when heir doing exit polling research and it's possible there may be some bias inside of this research that is actually amplifying this effect larger than it really is. >> so much of it is anecdotal

right now, until we see all of the exit polls and so on. but help explain the paradox that we seem to be seeing from the ground, some mainstream voters, including latinos, accuse democrats of caring too much about, you know, identity and racial justice issues at the expense of pocketbook issues. but then many african-americans say that democrats aren't doing enough for them, that they've been taken for granted, they feel ignored. so they're kind of drifting away from the party. >> look, these are complicated, large constituencies that we often treat as a monolith in the united states. latinos are the largest ethnic minority in the united states today, and they're a group that is remarkably diverse ethnically, nationally, linguistically in some cases, with their different regions of origin and religiously. and socioeconomically. and so, as a result, you know, they're incredibly diverse. and what we're seeing, actually, in the trends from the polling

recently is that their politics is in some case reducing to a politics of race, that has defined american politics for so long. >> in what races then do you think that latinos and african-americans will play the biggest part? >> they're going to play the biggest part in the races where they make up the largest constituencies. at this juncture, it's a matter of numbers for democrats. and mayor elections here in the united states are really focused on turning out people and mobilizing them to get to the ballot. and latinos make up a large number of election -- electoral constituencies across a number of the swing states that so many poll watchers are focusing on. arizona, for sure, nevada, as well. and also, i would say, north carolina, and possibly even georgia, where you have growing numbers of latinos in the american south. >> so if latinos are increasingly seeing themselves along this sort of racialized lens, this trend that democrats

were counting on, that latinos, as they grow, as this largest growing voting bloc, we'll all just vote for democrats. that seems not to be the case at all. >> it's really unclear right now, kim. of one hand, we're seeing latinos that self-identify as white trend republican. and there's a number of good social science papers out there right now that show that. at the same time, it's very possible what we're actually seeing in the polls right now is more of a sort of diminishment of democrats' lead in terms of the actual share of latino voters. but the number of latino voters that might be actually voting for democrats might be larger. and so if the absolute number rises in certain key constituencies, it might wipe out any sort of national trend towards republicans. in the united states, everything is on a state-by-state basis. if democrats can turn out

latinos that support them in certain key regions, this trend of a national trend of latinos moving closer to the republican party, particularly in places like south texas or south florida, which has been very well reported, it may not matter as much. >> so then, finally, what lessons do you think both parties will learn or what trends do you think they'll be watching for in terms of the minority vote, coming out of these midterms and going into 2024? >> sure, well, democrats are counting on the continuation of large margin of victories between black voters in the united states and latino voters in the united states. if the republicans are able to shave off some of those margins, i think we're going to see democrats rethinking their appeal. you know, democrats have typically and traditionally focused a lot on immigration as a way in to latino communities in particular, and what we're seeing in polls these days is that that isn't actually reaching large numbers, large constituencies of the latino

population in the united states. reaching these voters may be more complicated than it once was, and i think it's going to lead to some kind of rethinking inside of democratic party headquarters if they start to see some slippage. >> so much at stake, so many fascinating questions to analyze after the results come in. thank you so much for being with us, justin guest, really appreciate it. >> with pleasure. the day after mass layoffs at twitter, the company is also under pressure to curb misinformation, especially with upcoming midterm elections in the u.s. only days away. cnn's brian fun has the latest. >> twitter says it's still committetted to protecting the election and nothing about its content moderation policies have changed, but civil rights leaders say that the layoffs could make it harder for them to enforce their rules. in response, civil rights groups have called on major advertisers

to pause their advertising on twitter. contributing to what elon musk has described as a sharp revenue drop for twitter. to shore up twitter's finances, muck seems to be barreling ahead with a plan to offer users a blue check mark on their profiles for $8 a month. on saturday, an app update for iphone users suggested the feature would soon live. targeting twitter's paying users in the u.s., candidate, and other english-speaking candidates. musk has argued letting anyone pay for a blue check mark will cut down on spammers by raising their costs, but election security experts worry that it won't deter threats like foreign adversaries that can afford to pay. and that could give bad actors a whole new way to impersonate election officials or news outlets. between the tumult of the layoffs, the advertiser revolt, it's anyone's guess how the chaos at twitter could affect the elections and its aftermath just days away. brian if yofung, cnn, washingto.

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china is doubling down on its commitment to its zero-covid policy, that's despite speculation that the government might loosen pandemic restrictions and cut quarantine days. the national health commission says that china is sticking with

the strict policy, because the country still faces the double risk of the virus coming in from overseas and from local spread. now, that zero-covid policy is causing a tragic situation to become more desperate by the day. children are dying from covid and other illnesses due to lockdown restrictions. as cnn's selina wang reports from beijing, these deaths are fueling more outrage at china's ze ze zero-covid policy. >> reporter: a 14-year-old girl lies in bed convulsing at a covid quarantine facility in china. someone comes over saying, the kid has a fever of 104 degrees fahrenheit and no one is coming. she died soon after. a man who says she'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 been censored in china. along with these videos of a father desperately trying to re 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 held them back. some were forced to quarantine outside in the cold in 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, and this one, the video says 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, demanding the end of a lockdown that's lasted for more than 80 days. and workers are fleeing apple's biggest iphone plant after a covid outbreak. masses of workers, carrying their luggage, walk long distances across highways through villages, even farm fields. those left behind at the factory claim living conditions are subpar. videos appear to show workers literally fighting for boxes of supplies. china's leadership xi jinping claims zero-covid puts lives above all else, but for many, it's precisely the policy itself that's ruining their lives. 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's 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. selina wang, cnn, beijing. still ahead this hour, pope francis is wrapping up his historic trip to the king doff of bahrain. we'll have details on his visit to the arabian peninsula after the break. please stay with us.

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the muslim majority country. he led mass in the stadium. the houston astros won their second world series in franchise history on saturday, defeating the philadelphia phillies 4-1 in game six. philadelphia was up 1-0 in the sixth inning when houston's alvarez turned the game around and electrified the home crowd with this three-run homer. houston's christian vasquez scored another run off a base hit and the astros never looked back. astros rookie pina was named most valuable player of the series. he had at least one hit in each of the six games. well, the los angeles football club has won the major league soccer cup for the first time in franchise history. the team was tied at three goals a piece with the philadelphia union at the end of regulation, but l.a. came back and won the penalty shootingout 3-nil to take the cup. the backup goalkeeper john

mccarthy was named the 2022 mls cup most valuable player after stopping all three of philadelphia's penalty kicks. the new york city marathon gets underway just hours from now and it should look more like it did before the pandemic. many international runners weren't able to participate last year because of pandemic travel restrictions. but this year, 50,000 entrants are expected to make their away along the 26.2 mile route through all five boroughs of the city. and turning to another story i know everybody was monitoring here. there was no big winner in the powerball lottery. that's right. the winning numbers drawn on saturday night were 28, 45, 53, 56, and 69 and the powerball was 20. now, the $1.6 billion jackpot now increases to $1.9 billion from monday's drawing. accordingers organizers say that's a new

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