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are one day away from the all-important mid-term elections in the u.s. we'll break down the key races, and we're live in one state that could tip the balance in the senate. red battle lines being drawn in florida. donald trump and ron desantis both on the campaign trail after the former president launched a volley at his fellow republican. and the war in ukraine is not on the ballot but a ukrainian mp joins me this hour to share her concerns if a new congress were to cut funding. >> live from cnn center this is "cnn newsroom" with rosemary church. good to have you with us. well, the critical mid-term elections are just one day away in the united states, and already more than 40 million americans have cast their ballots in early voting, a number that's outpaced the early

turnout four years ago. candidates in crucial contests have ramped up their campaigning in the lead up to tuesday's election in an effort to sway undecided voters and get their base to the polls. and they've been getting help as president joe biden and former president donald trump both hit the campaign trail in a final push. and the stakes couldn't be higher. across the nation 36 states will be electing governors, and all 135 house seats and 35 sen seats are up for grab. it's unclear if they'll be able to hangoon to power especially in the house. that is where race ratings by inside elections shows republicans appearing to have the advantage. a party needs 218 seats to control the chamber, and with 20 seats rated as a toss up republicans would only need to win a few of those to take back

control. but in the senate it's still anyone's game. of the 35 seats on the ballot seven are either toss-ups or tilt toward republican or democrat. and cnn's athena jones is in pennsylvania where one of those critical races is playing out. good to see you, athena. so let's start with that very close race in pennsylvania. >> as you said all eyes are on pennsylvania. this is one of the states where democrats see their biggest opportunity to pick up a senate seat. the current seat is held by retiring gop senator pat toomey. so that's why you have an open seat with lieutenant governor john fetterman versus tv dr. mehmet oz on the republican side. and polls suggests fetterman is still a little ahead in this race, but of course the polls that matter are the ones on election day, so we'll see how it turns out in the end. and what turnout is like of course this is challenging

environment here in the state of pennsylvania just like all across the country with voters disapproving -- more voters disapproving of president biden's job performance than approving of it. and also people concerned about the economy, concerned about rising prices but as i said turnout is what it's going to come down to. both campaigns have had big names like former president trump, former president barack obama, also president biden. oz campaigned in bethlehem and bucks county. fetterman was also in bucks county and harrisburg. here is some of what they had to say in their closing argument this weekend. take a listen. >> dr. oz wants to now portray himself a moderate after going very right, right, right, far right during the primary. now he's trying to pretend -- you know, there's no moderate --

if you're willing to share a stage with somebody like doug mastriano. >> i'm not a politician. i'm a surgeon. and what surgeons do is tackle big problems. and we do is successfully in my case fixing broken hearts by working with everybody, by making sure we unify people in the operating room, not divide them. >> so interesting arguments there. you heard from fetterman there first talking about how dr. oz is not a moderate. you heard him stumble a bit, oak echoes of the debate where fetterman had a bit of an odd performance due to the stroke.

and also over this weekend with former president trump. and so a lot going on in these final days as both sides try to get their votards to the polls. >> all right, and everyone watching very closely. athena jones joining us live from pennsylvania. many thanks. another one of the most closely watched senate races in the country is in the state of georgia. incumbent democratic senator rafael warnock is neck and neck with republican opponent herschel walker. if neither candidate gets more than 50% of the vote, there will be a runoff election. walker had this to say about president biden's take on the fate of american democracy. >> if you heard a president the biggest threat to democracy oo to vote for someone in the republican party, is he crazy is the biggest threat to democracy is to have him in the bhous, is it not.

>> meanwhile warnock was trying to mobilize voters. >> the question is who's going to stand up for ordinary people, and i think i've demonstrated my commitment to doing that by capping the costs of insulin for folks on medicare, by capping the costs of prescription drugs, and by giving medicare the ability to negotiate the price of prescription drugs. >> joining me now from washington is doug hye, a republican strategist and former republican national committee communications director, and in atlanta theron johnson, the president and ceo of paramount consulting group and former south regional director for the obama 2012 campaign. welcome to you both. >> thank you. >> all right, and so just one day away from the mid-term elections, and of course we need to remind our viewers the mid-terms are generally a referendum on the government in power. and yet these 2022 mid-terms are

proving pretty competitive to fight for control of the senate likely to be decided in about seven key races. and one of the those is the georgia senate race where democratic incumbent senator rafael warnock and gop challenger herschel walker are in such a tight race that it will likely go to a runoff election next month. so with inflation so high why isn't herschel walker further ahead doug hye? he should be running away with it. >> mitch mcconnell got in trouble with his own party when when he complained some of the candidates we nominated weren't necessarily the highest caliber. georgia is a red state. it's getting a little more purple than it used to be. it's one republicans certainly expect to pick up if not on tuesday then in a runoff. the problem is we dont know what kind of role donald trump may

play if there's a runoff. we should have won last time and donald trump made sure we didn't essentially. republicans are optimistic and also very nervous at the same time. >> and is a runoff election between these two inevitable for this very tight senate georgia race, and what do you expect will happen if it comes to that? >> well, it's really going to come down to election day. in georgia we've had 2.5 million people cast their early votes already. that's a record breaking number. and so we see that enthusiasm as far as democratic voters turning out early. it's definitely on senator warnock's side. i just believe that senator warnock has done a good enough job going to the u.s. senate, actually fighting for georgia voters, working with republicans and democrats to deliver key results when it comes to public safety, health care, and also dealing with our economy. but democrats, we want to close this out. we don't want it to go to a runoff. it will be a four-week runoff

this time unlike what it was in 2021 when it was a nine-week runoff. i've talked to some of the senators, people in his campaign, they feel enthusiastic, spent money wisely, have a great ground game. but herschel walker is tightening in the polls and so we have to wait to see what happens on election day. >> of course the other seat is the open senate seat in pennsylvania where two candidates are so close and of course the crowds went wildly particularly with obama's star power. can mehmet oz win? the guy obama calls a snake oil salesman and the candidate even oprah winfrey who made him a star won't support? >> he can win. that's why we're talking about this. if this was a race over we wouldn't be talking about it. there's been a lot of races not nearly as close that don't get a

lot of attention. we could talk about north carolina, for instance, being from north carolina and having worked there as well. it's a very winnable race. either one of these candidates can win. right now i think the momentum is slightly on dr. oz's side but it's really hard to gauge momentum in the last couple of days. believe it or not we're not seeing the amount of polls in the sunday before the election we're used to. what we're seeing is ultimately there aren't a lot of places joe biden is on offense. most places he's playing defense. he's gone to new york. tomorrow night he's going to be in maryland for westmoore who's running for government. he's a terrific candidate and absolutely going to win. he probably doesn't need joe biden's help. if joe biden isn't in a lot of these really close races except for georgia -- excuse me, pennsylvania. >> what does your research tell you about what fetterman needs to do to overcome the optics of that very bad debate he had with

dr. oz due of course to his stroke recovery? >> well, i think lieutenant governor fetterman is going to definitely do okay. the debate performance was something we saw dr. oz, he did get a bit of boost in the polls but also lieutenant governor fetterman raised a lot of money in that debate because he unfortunately suffered a stroke. when you have former president barack obama going into a state like pennsylvania which he's won in the past with a message basically having someone like mr. fetterman in the u.s. senate is very important. and lastly when you look at the governor's race going on there, you have a democrat, josh shapiro, the current attorney general running for governor, he's actually able to pull out a great deal of voters quite frankly don't turn out in mid-term elections. i think ultimately, look, rosemary, when you've got oprah winfrey endorsing you as a person as you mentioned worked with dr. oz, that tells you a

lot what she thinks. i think that the people in pennsylvania are going to do the right thing and they're going to send him to washington. >> we'll see how far her endorsement goes. so, doug, former president donald trump took a shot at florida governor ron desantis while campaigning for senator marco rubio in miami, calling him wrong desanctimonious, but later changed his mind calling on supporters to vote for desantis. as republican did you cringe when he said trump saying that about his own team members? >> rosemary i've done more than cringe about a lot of things donald trump has said and done over the past few years. but, look, obviously he's telling people there are some things that make him nervous and ron desantis is one of those. and it's why he took that shot. i think most democrats would tell you -- democrated elected officials if donald trump gives

you a nick tham that's a badge of honor for you. for ron desantis it says donald trump is nervous about you, and maybe he should be if desantis decides to run. clearly trump doesn't want to do too much to help him because he's got those concerns not only playing the due difference but might actually be able to beat him as well. >> inflation is of course the big issue for most voters, but has president biden talked about that issue enough and explained that high inflation is a global problem resulting from the pandemic, supply chain issues, the war in ukraine because most republicans are getting a lot of mileage out of fooling less disturbing voters into believing the government has absolute control over inflation, which we all know is not true. >> you're absolutely right. i mean, just go through the order you just described. i mean, the war in ukraine so basically dealing with supply issues, also dealing with some of the tax cuts that donald trump gave to a lot of his rich

friends when he was in office. all these things combined has led to this issue we were having in this country dealing with inflation. but i think what democrats are talking about going forward to election day is we've had a lot of job growth in this country. we just had a really good third quarter jobs report. we know that wages are up. people are actually working. gas prices are going down. and so i think we will continue to be on the offense when we talk about ways that we are actually dealing with this around inflation. but ultimately you're absolutely right. this is not something president biden created on his own. there were a lot of things that happened before he took presidency, particularly the tax cuts happened, the trillions of dollars of spending donald trump and his administration basically led, but ultimately dealing with a lot of things the economy -- what you can't control. so ultimately we've got to get on the offense, talk about job growth, talk about ways we're going to lower inflation in this country. >> all right, just one day away

from finding out the winners and the losers. thank you both of you for joining us. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> thank you. and join us tuesday for in-depth special coverage of the crucial u.s. mid-term elections that will determine control of congress. that's starting at 4:00 p.m. eastern. and still to come, some u.s. lawmakers argue americans are tired of sending money and aid to ukraine amid the war. why one ukrainian lawmaker says that's simply not the case. plus ukraine's president says russian forces are attempting to knock out power across the country. the weapons he says they're using to do it just ahead.

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democrats have pulled out their biggest political messengers ahead of tuesday's mid-term elections. on saturday president joe biden and barack obama came together in pennsylvania to rally for senate candidate john fetterman. they urged people to vote for their parties saying democracy

itself was at stake. one of the people in attendance was a member of the ukrainian par parliament, and she tweeted this image of the event. since the start of 2021 the u.s. has committed more than $18 billion in assistance to ukraine especially since russia's invasion in february that includes artillery, vehicles and medical supplies. but not every u.s. lawmaker wants that aid to continue. earlier i discussed that topic with a member of the ukrainian parliament as i mentioned. i had her listen to what republican lawmaker had to say at a recent rally in iowa. take a listen. >> democrats have ripped our border wide open, but the only border they care about is ukraine, not america's southern border. under republicans not another penny will go to ukraine.

our country comes first. >> and here's how she responded to those comments. >> in ukraine we do not manufacture weapons. we have $5 billion debt in our budget every single month. and we depend on our allies because we need to win this war. if we have the support decreased this winter will be extremely hard. it will be a winter that we may not survive standing up to vladimir putin and his forces. all their victories and all the success we had so far was because of the bravery of ukrainian people but also because of their supplies and weapons and finance we received from the united states and european countries. and the price of the decreasing

support will be crucial. and basically stopping support to ukraine would mean that it is okay for the united states to accept that in the 21st century it could be possible that one country is annexing territories of another country, committing all kinds of war crimes, breaking all international laws, and the united states as the leader of democratic countries would be just standing aside and saying, yeah, we are okay with that. and i'm asking are you really okay with that? and i don't think so. i've been to those rallies. i spoke to people both republican and democratic rallies, and i do not believe this is what people want. people are saying they're supporting ukraine and they are standing with ukraine. and i think politicians need to be speaking on behalf of their people. and i do believe the american people care about democracy and care about ukraine and people who are dying there to protect the values that they believe in. >> and you can see my full

interview with her next hour right here on "cnn newsroom." ukraine's president warns russian forces may try to disable the country's infrastructure with missiles obtained from iran. president volodymyr zelenskyy made the claim during his nightly address on sunday. millions of people in cities like kyiv already have seen electricity and water knocked out by russian air strikes. now president zelenskyy worries an additional supply of weapons from iran could spell disaster. >> translator: the whole world will know that the iranian regime helps russia prolong this war and therefore prolong the effect of those threats to the world provoked precisely by the russian war. if it was not iran supplied weapon tuesday the aggressor we would be closer to peace now. >> and cnn's sal muabdel aziz

joins me now from the latest from kyiv. zelenskyy there saying russia plans to use missiles on the infrastructure. what more are you learning about this? >> and president zelenskyy's allies including the united states agree. intelligence sources say that iran is sending hundreds more weapons, drones, and ballistic missiles to russia helping them replenish their supplies used up here in ukraine and helping them to bolster not just their fight on the front lines but this very sustained campaign against civilian infrastructure, knocking out power grids, the water systems, trying to make life for average families even far, far from the fighting very difficult. and we heard more on that last night from the mayor of can he have. he's preparing for a very difficult winter, rosemary. he went onto say he believes russia is going to continue to

hit the power grid just to explain millions across this city experience rolling blackouts every single day. they spend without power, without being able to cook food, without being able to light their living rooms. and this really fragile, really precarious system of infrastructure across this country so fragile now that every time a missile lands it just creates a devastating impact. so the mayor, again, saying they're making these plans. if you have relatives outside the city advise maybe you'd prefer to stay with those relatives if they have running water, running heat. that might be better. we also know officials are creating emergency centers, basically big centers people can go where there'll be heat,o the every district if power is knocked out for a very long time. but, again, everyone really bracing for the impact of this winter as these russian missiles

continued to be fired. one last note, rosemary, it's really bred a sense of resistance of solidarity. people really binding together, standing behind troops saying they feel this is part of their fight. rosemary? >> just incredibly brave people. many thanks, joining us live from kyiv. and still to come this hour competing rallies in florida by two top members of the same party. why this could be a preview of the 2024 presidential race, plus a suspicious envelope is found at a republican candidate's campaign head qquarters and pole are investigating. we're following that story next.

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we are now just one day away from the critical mid-term elections in the u.s., and the stakes could not be higher. all 435 house seats and 35 of the 100 senate seats are up for grabs. while democrats currently hold a slim majority, it remains unclear if they'll be able to hang onto power. in addition 36 states will be electing governors. candidates in key states have ramped up their campaigning in the lead up to tuesday's election in an effort to sway undecided voters and get their base to the polls. president joe biden and former president donald trump have also hit the campaign trail in a final push ahead of the crucial vote. already some states have seen a huge turnout in early voting. according to data from election officials more than 40 million

preelection ballots have been cast in 47 states. meantime former president donald trump and state governor ron desantis held competing rallies in florida, and trump who was campaigning for state senator marco rubio once again pushed his false election claims. cnn's kristen holmes has the latest from miami. >> in the final days before the mid-terms former president donald trump delivered a dark message during the rally with senator marco rubio in miami. the president focused on crime particularly crimes committed by legal immigrants, drug dealers, murderers. but all those messages we saw similar when he ran for president in 2016 resonated with supporters. supporters stood cheering for him even as torrential downpour started outside the rally. perhaps the most surprising remarks that came from former president trump were those in support of senator marco rubio. he praised the senator.

usually during these rallies he focuses much more on himself and his political future. however, he heaped praise on rubio there. one person who was noticeably missing among top elite florida republicans was florida governor ron desantis. he was not invited by former president donald trump to this rally. desantis is largely considered trump's most formidable opponent in 2024 should both of them run for president. as we reported last week former president trump is likely to announce in the two weeks between the mid-term elections and thanksgiving as when he's eyeing announcing a third presidential run. kristen holmes, cnn, miami. >> an envelope containing suspicious white powder was sent to the campaign headquarters of kari lake. the republican nominee for arizona governor. a staffer opened the envelope one saturday and is now under medical supervision.

so far no reports of injuries. that envelope is one of two that were confiscated by law enforcement and sent to professionals for examination according to a campaign spokesman. lake condemned the incident and thanked authorities for investigating it. >> we're in dangerous times. this is not the first time we've been threatened. i've been threatened many times. our tires have been slashed. we've had screws drill into our tires so the tires would blow out on the road. we're living in dangerous times and that's why we need to elect somebody who's strong and a fighter and not a cowered. >> lake's democratic opponent katie hobbs released a statement that red in part political threats, violence and intimidation have no place in our democracy. i strongly condemn this behavior directed at lake and her staff. and join us tuesday for in-depth special coverage of the crucial u.s. mid-term elections that will determine control of

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warming under 1.5 degrees s celsius. cnn's david mackenzie joins us now from egypt. good to see you david.

so what all can we expect to come out of this summit, and what's the latest? >> reporter: rosemary, i wish i could give you better news but in fact the world is facing a catastrophe and it's right on our doorstep. we've seen these climate emergencies throughout this year including in pakistan, heat waves in parts of europe, and just a short time ago another private jet flew overhead. the leaders are streaming into this critical meeting, the cop27 climate meeting where many will try to hash out some way to get us out of this mess. because if you look at the numbers it's sobering reading. we're nowhere near reaching the 1.5 threshold that was agreed upon at the paris agreement some years ago. already we're at 1.2 degrees centigrade warming, which will lead to catastrophic impacts on biodiversity and on the planet and how we live. there needs to be a massive ramping up on emissions cuts.

more than 45% cuts in current emissions needs to happen to get anywhere close to that 1.5 degrees. and as it stands now the pledges that have come in particularly from developed countries will get us to more than 2 degrees centigrade warming, and that is certainly catastrophic. i know you've been using that particular word a lot. you can become inert to the dangers of climate change, but it's with us now. if you look at the floods in pakistan, the situation in nigeria and even south africa this year developing countries need to do more. developing countries at these meetings are asking for more. on saturday and sunday they hashed out a deal to get loss and damage onto the formal agenda on these meetings. >> all right, looks like we've lost our signal. david mackenzie there covering the cop27 summit. well, north korea is

defending a recent series of missile launches that have sparked international condemnation. the country says last week's tests were in response to a military drill that the usa and south korea held together. pyeongyang is claiming to have a fired more than 80 missiles to counter the exercise which it called an intolerable provocation. it is also threatening more action if washington and seoul hold future drills. 19 people are dead after tanzanian commercial flight crashed. there are 24 survivors. bad weather may have played a role in the accident as the area wud was under heavy rainfall and strong winds at the time. i do want to thank you for joining us at this hour. i'm rosemary church. for our international viewers

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welcome back, everyone. well, voters across the u.s. will be casting their ballots in the high stakes mid-term

elections, taking place just one day from now. all 435 house seats, 35 senate seats, and 36 governors offices are up for grabs. control of congress is at stake, of course. and so is president joe biden's agenda. cnn's john king and dana bash take a closer look what to look for on tuesday. >> let's start in the house. >> 435 races in all under new lines because of the census two years ago, the redistricting process. as you know better than anybody they're not all competitive. we've identified working with our partners at inside elections. 82 competitive seats heading into election day. and as you can see they are coast to coast. another way to look at it just to understand democrats are on defense. 57 of the competitive seats have republican incumbents. almost three times as many.

democrats are on their heels defending much more territory in a tough year. that's one way to look at it. now let's bring up the big question is who can get to 218, right? and in our rankings right now we already have republicans favored in 216 seats. now some of those are just barely favored if you see the lighter red on the map. but republicans have a huge advantage going into election day. these toss up races go coast to coast and one of them you focused on in the show i show it to you here, virginia, too. >> the incumbent democrat she told me when we traveled there and did sort of a look at this race that she considers herself and this race it will be the clencher, the decider as to who gets -- >> if that's the case you're in the eastern time zone, and this is one of the races we'll look at on election night for a key clue. can she hold on sphif she's losing that gives you a big

sign. she's right about how competitive and important that district is. again, they go from coast to coast. you go from virginia on the east coast all the way across the country and you have tilting democrats still. elaine lori's district tilting republican. katie porter, so the challenge from the democrats they go from maine to southern california and everywhere in between and they're back on defense. >> it's going to take a while before we learn obviously what these races look like because it's california and three hours earlier. >> remember 2018 it was days, more than a week in some cases before we're near the final number. republicans taking the house, is it a ripple, a red wave, but the final details will take days. >> let's look at the senate because this is obviously right now 50-50. it could go so many different ways. >> the chess game here you can game it out reasonably democrats winning here, republicans winning there, but 35 elections in all. again, we've worked would our partners here to identify the competitive seats. eight elections of the senate we

view as competitive. it could be more. of these eight they're easily divided now. best way to look at this is come into the balance of power. democrats enter the election 50-50. the vice president of the united states breaks the ties, so democrats can't afford to lose essentially. so you have the states on the map if we come in how we rank them, the gold or toss up states, one is a republican held state, no incumbent, pennsylvania. democratic incumbent georgia. you were just out there in november. this is where the chess gets fascinating. >> and so many -- you're saying these yellow are -- may be the tightest, but that might belie what we're actually seeing on the ground, which is a wider swath of really, really tight races. >> right, it is possible -- we know these races are competitive but we still tilt new hampshire democrat, we stilt arizona democratic, republicans think that's within their reach.

republicans say keep an eye on everything, so you conceivably could get republicans to 52 or 53 and also get the democrats to 51 or stay status quo at 50. again, this race could decide the senate in the end. does anybody get above 50 or -- >> or are we going to standing here. >> on december 6th, but you were just out here. they view cortez masto -- democrats would love to pick up pennsylvania as a safety, an insurance policy against maybe losing out in nevada. >> it is going to be a long and exciting night maybe week. jonathan, thank you. >> thank you. well, some americans are wary of trusting the election results amid bogus claims of voter fraud and rigged elections. but one group is working to restore that trust. cnn's nadia romero has details. >> reporter: the carter center founded by former president

jimmy carter is an organization that's known for its human fairian efforts in other countries being poll observers to watch elections and places to help them with that democratic process. for the first time they were asked by georgia state entities and fulton county, the county here in the city of atlanta to be poll observers here in our election, in domestic elections. this is very new and very different. some of those poll observers have already been working throughout the early voting process in georgia in fulton county, but they'll also be out on election day in various polling locations as well. now, there are poll observers which are nonpartisan volunteers not to be confused with poll watchers who have been brought in from different political parties or candidates to be in those polling places on their behalf. and if you remember back in 2020 the trump campaign filed multiple lawsuits alleging that these poll watchers were not allowed into polling locations

or that there were more democratic poll watchers or republican poll watchers. and we saw those lawsuits being tossed out, dismissed by judges across the country as well. the co of carter center says their role is to observe, listen to her complain the significance of what they're doing some tuesday. >> poll watching is not intended as a gotcha measure. it's intended to actually validate a system where citizens who are actually the poll workers are doing their job, and citizens who are voting are able to do it in a free, fair, and transparent way. we're nonpartisan. we're not talking to anyone. we don't have a conversation. we're only looking at the credibility and validity of the election. >> now, these poll observers who are nonpartisan are not supposed to interfere or intervene in the election process tuesday. instead we should expect the carter center tells us they'll be releasing a report on all its findings in mid-december. nadia romero, cnn, atlanta. >> and as americans gear up for

election day there are two proptle disturbances in the atlantic one of which may bring troubling weather to florida on tuesday. let's turn to our meteorologist pedram javaheri who jienz us now from the cnn weather center. what are you seeing? >> across portions of of the south certainly could see a few thunderstorms. with this disturbance you noted there should remain from florida until later on, possibly through wednesday at the earliest as you see slowers work their way in that direction. for now we think tuesday looks to be generally dry across this region, temperatures above average and maybe a few showers monday evening, but when it comes to election day looking quiet. temperatures about the middle and upper 70s across portions of of the south and washington and philadelphia, temps dropping from the 70s down to the 50s, so a significant shift there from mild to much cooler weather and across the western u.s. battleground states of nevada into arizona multiple systems

working their way across this region and bring with it gusty winds and wet weather going monday into tuesday. and a lot of people wondered has weather played a role when it comes to election turnout. there's been studies done over the last few years. wet weather, republicans, leaning voters typically turn out more than democrat ones according to studies and when it comes to tapy conditions. so if it is rainy republican turnout typically seems to be higher and voter participation in general is dropped about a percent. now, warmer temperatures, the southern u.s., portions of of the eastern u.s., big time warmth is in place. and voter turnout is increased by 0.14% according to a study done back in 2007 for every 2 degrees temperatures are warmer. we know temps across the eastern parts of the u.s. will be 2 to 10 degrees warmer and we know

warmer temps, again, increase the likelihood voters keep the incumbent party in power as well. looking at voter turnout and participation and warmer weather definitely plays a role, it seems. and when it comes to wet-weather it does decrease democratic leaning turn out across the united states. rosemary? >> very interesting. all right, pedram javaheri, many thanks on bringing us up-to-date. appreciate it. well, the power ball jackpot is continuing to grow. saturday night's $1.6 billion jackpot was the largest in history. that is according to the folks at guinness world records. as people continue to buy tickets the jackpot is now $1.9 billion and could very well reach a staggering $2 billion by monday's drawing. and whoever wins the power ball should be able to sleep easier not having to worry about bills but so will about 6,500

customers of the man known as mattress mack. a furniture chair owner bet $10 million that the houston astros would win the world series. he collected $75 million when the team did just that. it's believed to be the largest payout in sports betting history, and a lot 06of the mon is going back to his mattress stores. >> it was very exciting and we had a promotion if the astros win the world series you buy a temperpedic mattress you get your money back. as well as 6,500 customers are getting back $3,000 or more on the astros promotion, and almost all of it is going back to our great customers, and they are thrilled. >> i'm sure. and the astros will celebrate their world series win with the city on monday. the new major league baseball

chance will hold a parade that stretches 3 miles across houston's down town. schools have canceled classes so students can join in the party. the astros defeated the phillies in game six saturday to win their second world series title in the franchise's history. thank you for joining us. i'm rosemary church. i'll be back with more news after this short break. you're watching cnn. do stick around. in a recent clinical study, patients using salonpas patch reported reductions in pain severity, using less or a lot less oral pain medicines. and improved qualityty of life. ask your doctor about salonpnpa. it's good medicine.

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