kaitlan -- >> sorry, i'm reading at which timer. >> here you go, kaitlan, what happened this weekend? do you want to wear the jersey or the hat? >> it says a lot about how you act when you win. gloating. gloating. >> i did not gloat when we beat -- >> don called me within 30 seconds of the end of the game.

>> did i gloat? >> there was a little bit of gloating. >> he did send a video, too. >> the play calling was not great, it was a struggle for alabama. >> you guys had referees on your team. you had extra men on the field. thanks for watching. congratulations. go, tigers. "cnn newsroom" starts right now. good monday morning to you, i'm jim sciutto. >> and i'm erica hill. polls open around the country in less than 24 hours and right now candidates trying to take advantage of those final moments, making their final pitch to voters, hanging in the balance of course is control of congress. entering the midterms democrats have just the slimmest of majorities in both chambers and that leaves pretty much all outcomes on the table. just a reminder here in the house all 435 seats on the ballot in the senate you have 35 seats up for grabs. 36 states will also be voting for governor. >> it's a big election.

interest in the midterms has been high from coast to coast. more than 30 million pre-election ballots cast in 47 states, plus a cnn exclusive this morning, cnn sits down with house minority leader kevin mccarthy who take the speakership if republicans win the house tomorrow. >> can you give a prediction for how many seats you think republicans are going to pick up on tuesday? >> at least enough to win the majority. we're going to fight for every single one possible. >> we are following the latest across the campaign trail. we begin, though, in georgia. cnn national politics reporter eva mckend is there. georgia pivotal for both parties' hopes, particularly of controlling the senate. what are the candidates focusing on today and is there any sense of momentum with more than 2.2 million ballots cast already? >> reporter: yeah, jim, listen, incumbent democratic senator rafael warnock is working to stave off a really aggressive

challenge from political newcomer former nfl star, republican, herschel walker. central to walker's argument as we are following him on the campaign trail this weekend in athens, and other places, is that warnock is too closely aligned with president biden. that the past two years he has been more focused on washington democrats than the people of georgia. but senator warnock says that can't be further from the truth. he has really characterized himself as a bipartisan bridge builder. over the weekend mentioning the late republican senator johnny isakson saying that he admired him and really trying to fashion himself as that type of lawmaker. he also spends a lot of time running on his record, talking about how he has worked to lower the cost of insulin. so these candidates cannot get any more different but, yes, this state could determine the balance of power in washington. take a listen to how they make these arguments on the trail.

>> you should ask yourself if the person you are voting for has actually demonstrated any interest in the subject matter, and you can tell if you listen to him talk. and i think character matters. >> people are going to ask me why i'm running. i'm running because i'm sick and tired of this. and right now i want reverend warnock to know don't let that door hit you in the backside as you walk out of the people's office. that's what you got to do. it's time for you to go. >> reporter: so more than 2 million georgians voted during that early vote period, the last two weeks, and that indicates that people are paying attention here. lots of engagement, enthusiasm and that many have their minds made up, but georgia is a true battleground state. so right now just the day before votes are counted, senator warnock, herschel walker still trying to convince those fence sitters, those folks who have not made up their minds yet, those independents, those moderates to support them. jim?

>> eva mckend with the latest for us. thank you. now to wisconsin where senator ron johnson is the only republican senator running for reelection in a state that president biden won in 2020, though it was tight then. he is arguably the chamber's most vulnerable gop incumbent. >> his showdown with mandela barnes could prove critical in determining the important balance of power in the senate. omar jimenez live in milwaukee for us. in these final hours of the campaign what are the candidates putting out in terms of messaging? >> reporter: both of these candidates are really campaigning on the future of this country being at stake and with polls showing no clear leader between these two both of them are flying to find an edge in really these final hours. now, the incumbent senator ron johnson has tried to paint his opponent, lieutenant governor mandela barnes as someone who hates this state and the people in it. he's basically honing in on previous comments that barnes

made where he describes institutionalized racism as scarier than what some might see as traditional racism. he even coined it conceal carry racism. johnson has jumped on that. usually to mostly if not all white audiences, especially in some smaller towns here in wisconsin. take a listen to some of what he's been saying. >> he's talking about racism in wisconsin. said it's actually scarier than down south because we have institutionalized it here in wisconsin. we've just figured out how to conceal t he called it concealed carry racism. that's what he thinks of you. kind of makes you scratch your head. i mean, why would he want to represent people who have institutionalized racism. >> ron johnson is running a completely negative campaign because he doesn't have a record to run on. he spent 12 years serving himself. >> reporter: now, barnes obviously believes the framing by johnson is ridiculous and he has called senator johnson the

worst senator the state has had since joe mccarthy of the '40s and '50s. barnes is busy today making multiple campaign stops but he's told me in this final stretch their strategy really is to try to meet as many people as possible, try not to take any votes for granted, especially on these major issues. senator ron johnson will also be out and about today campaigning with former governor and u.n. ambassador nikki haley. bottom line, we are past the marathon mindset and in the final sprint here in this crucial state of wisconsin that as you all mentioned could determine the balance of the u.s. senate. >> lots of final sprints today, omar jimenez in milwaukee, thanks so much. in arizona an investigation is under way after a suspicious white powder was found in an envelope sent to the headquarters of republican gubernatorial candidate kari lake. a source familiar with the investigation killing cnn several items have been sent to a lab in arizona for testing. >> we are in dangerous times.

this is not the first time we have been -- we've been threatened. i've been threatened many times. our tires have been slashed. we've had screws drilled into our tires so that our tires will blow out when we are on the road. we are living in dangerous times and that's why we need to elect somebody who is strong and a fighter and not a coward. >> arizona has been a hot bed of extremism, threats leveled against political and election officials from both parties there. the president and first lady are making a final push on the campaign trail today as well. president biden in maryland for gubernatorial candidate wes moore there. jill biden is in virginia speaking at an event for congresswoman jennifer wexton. >> mj lee joining us this morning from the north lawn. busy countdown here for the president and first lady, they've been going strong the last few days. what are you seeing hearing from the white house in terms of those priorities in these final hours? >> reporter: yeah, it's been a

very busy final stretch for the president who was on the campaign trail over the weekend and today will make a final stop in maryland. you know, the president is covering a whole lot of ground in his closing pitch. he is obviously trying to sell his agenda and the democratic party's accomplishments. he's also trying to draw that contrast between democrats and republicans who he says stand for extremist policies and one central theme of course that has emerged is the theme of election integrity. you know, if you look at where the president has been in the final days, you can see pretty clearly that he is stumping for democratic candidates who are running against republicans who are election deniers or election skeptics. whether it is doug mastriano in pennsylvania, lee zeldin in new york or later today dan cox in maryland, and over the weekend we heard the president again talking about how he believes democracy is at stake tomorrow. take a listen. >> these deniers are not only

trying to deny your right to vote, they're trying to deny your right to have your vote counted. no, i'm not joking. i'm not joking. with these election deniers, there are only two outcomes for any election, either they win or they were cheated. >> reporter: now, he does go back to maryland tonight for his final event before election day. this is the state where he kicked off his midterms campaigning earlier this summer and this is also the democrats wanting the president sort of to end things on a high note. democrats are feeling very good about wes moore winning the gubernatorial race there, so this would be a state essentially where they're able to if all things go their way, turn the governor's mansion from red to blue, but we are going to see if the question of the economy and the inflation which we know and have talked about so much is top of mind for voters, whether that ends up being an issue that democrats pay a price for come tomorrow.

>> we will see when the votes are counted. mj lee, thanks so much. tonight former president trump is headed to ohio to rally for republican senate candidate there j.d. vance who are squaring off against tim ryan. often at those events trump injecting his own campaign hopes into his message. >> they tend to sometimes be a little bit more about donald trump. the former president was in florida last night, he was there to stump for senator marco rubio and governor ron desantis. >> the people of florida are going to reelect the wonderful, the great friend of mine, marco rubio to the united states senate. and you're going to reelect ron desantis as your governor of your state. and you're going to elect an incredible slate of true maga warriors to congress, many of whom are here right now. >> so there was a little change in tone there if you were perhaps paying attention over the weekend. he had taken a jab of course at desantis during a rally in

pennsylvania calling him ron de sanctimonious as he continued to tease a white house run in 2024. a one on one interview with kevin mccarthy who could become house speaker if republicans win control of the house. >> indeed. though he nice face challenges himself. melanie zanona sat down with the minority leader on the trail today in texas with more. republicans they are favored looking at the polls heading into tomorrow. mccarthy made a number of predictions. i wonder what he told you. >> reporter: well, i can tell you kevin mccarthy is feeling very confident right now about his chances of winning the majority and also his chances of becoming speaker. if you remember in 2015 he had to drop out of the race for speaker amid opposition from the conservative house freedom caucus but he told me this time around he's going to have support from that wing of the party and also from former president donald trump.

take a listen to some of his other predictions. >> i know all the pollsters said last night we would lose 15 seats, we ended up beating 13 democrats. we are going to work and run hard and if we win the majority i will run for speak sthoor do you think you will have the votes for speak. >> reporter: >> i believe i will have the votes for speaker, yes. >> can you give a prediction for how many seats the republicans will pick up on tuesday? >> at least enough to win the majority. we will fight for every single one ponl. >> what do you see as a red wave? what will be a red wave on tuesday night? >> i think anywhere over 20 is a red wave. >> reporter: now, mccarthy has been barnstorming the country in the run up to the midterms. last night he was here in mccallen campaigning for republican hispanic women, tonight virginia beach where he will campaign for another key race in the battle for the house. >> i know you also asked him for more specifics about if republicans do, in fact, take back the house what are the

plans. what did he tell you? >> reporter: yeah, he did. i pressed him for specifics and he offered some broad plans for how republicans plan to tackle crime, by funding the police, providing grants for police officers, and also to bring down inflation by reducing spending and also by making america energy independent. also mccarthy highlighted that gop investigations into a biden administration are going to be a top priority. take a listen. >> you first do a very frontal attack on china to stop the poison from coming. you control your borders and take control of it down here. you don't keep it wide open. you provide the resources that the border agents need but you also provide to make sure the cartels aren't controlling the border in the background. there are a number of provisions we have that we will move forward on and then you also make sure that fentanyl in time anybody who wants to move it you can prosecute them for the death penalty because that's exactly what it's doing. >> will there be an immigration bill on the floor it republicans win the house?

>> i think the first thing you will see is a bill to control the border first. you've got to get control over the border. >> i know you said not going to predetermine the outcome but is impeachment on the table? >> do you know what's on the table? accountability. shouldn't we know where the origins of covid actually started? they didn't have one hearing on it. shouldn't we know what happened in the last 60 days of afghanistan? so we would never repeat that again. we wouldn't have 13 new gold star families that should have never happened. shouldn't we know why the doj would take it upon themselves to go after parents that would go to school board meetings? and shouldn't we know where the tax payers' money is being spent? i call that accountability. that's a responsibility for congress regardless of what -- whosever party is in the white house. >> reporter: now, mccarthy did not suggest that he has seen any evidence yet of an impeachable offense, but he did leave the door open to launching potential

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the oath keepers will be back on the stand in the seditious conspiracy trial against him and four other members of that far right group. >> the defense expected to wrap up its questioning of stewart rhodes then it will be the prosecution's turn to cross-examine him. cnn's jessica schneider has been following the trial, she's outside the courthouse this morning. what have we learned from his testimony so far? i know on friday there were tearful words from the defendant. >> reporter: yeah, you know, jim, stewart rhodes is trying to lay out his own story here, that's exactly why he has taken the stand in his own defense. there is a lot remaining for this testimony from stewart rhodes. he was up there for a bit on friday, that direct testimony continues this morning and then after that he will get cross-examination from lawyers for the four defendants as well as prosecutors from the justice department. stewart rhodes on friday began by laying out his own personal history, personal story. he talked about the fact that he was honorably discharged from the military, he then went to

yale law school and then he talked about the fact that he founded the oath keepers in 2009 in his words to reach change and inspire americans about what exactly their rights are under the institution. he pushed back against this idea that the oath keepers are a racist organization. he mentioned the fact that they actually went to ferguson, missouri, when the unrest there was happening to protest minority-owned businesses, and then he pointed out -- and this could be crucial to his defense -- he says that oath keeper rules bar anyone, any member, from advocating for the overthrow of the u.s. government. but of course that's exactly what prosecutors have to prove here, that stewart rhodes and the other defendants in this case conspired to overthrow the government on january 6. the prosecutors have presented their case for five weeks now. now it is time to hear from the defendants. we're hearing that from stewart rhodes this morning, but it is somewhat of a lofty charge here, guys. seditious conspiracy, something that isn't typically charged

from prosecutors here. jim and erica. >> jessica schneider at the courthouse here in washington. thanks. today critical deadline for former trump white house chief of staff mark meadows. >> the house select committee investigating the january 6th attack is expected to respond in court to meadows' efforts to fight off a subpoena. cnn's senior legal affairs correspondent paula reid joining us now. paula, what are we watching for in this latest little bit of back and forth? >> just as you noted, it's just the latest in this fight that has been going on for over a year. for over a year meadows has been fighting this subpoena from the house select committee and in this latest round investigators make it clear they still want to depose the former white house chief of staff and they're also after his phone records. now, last week a federal judge dismissed meadows' challenge to the subpoena and investigators wasted no time reaching out to verizon to try to get ahold of his personal call and text logs. lawyers for the committee also made it clear that they still wanted meadows to sit down across from investigators and

answer questions. now, in response meadows' lawyers asked a federal judge to put a pause on that while they continue to litigate these larger issues and the house committee has until midnight tonight to respond to that. now, it's really interesting because this case does raise some legitimate questions about the protections that a white house chief of staff, even a former white house chief of staff, should enjoy in an investigation like this, but for right now the strategy from meadows' attorneys is to delay, delay, delay in the hopes that the house changes hands and this issue becomes moot. >> paula reid, appreciate the update. thank you. still to come here, don't be fooled this election day. conspiracy theories are swirling ahead of the midterms. donie o'sullivan -- if i only i could say his name -- donie o'sullivan is here, he will tell us what we need to watch out for. stick around.. this house says start with deep search f filters on realtor.com. and all the missing socks, are bebehind the dryer.

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attention. so what should we be looking out for? we know there are different falsehoods out there related to election day, some set to go viral on that day and this is where there's an important distinction between misinformation and disinformation and this is why we need donie o'sullivan one of the many reasons. donie here to help us differentiate between this. so first let's take a look at misinformation if we can. i know there's a really clear example that you have from 2016. >> yeah, so the difference between miss and disinformation is that misinformation is people might share false information mistakenly by accident, disinformation is false information that is created to deceive. we had a good example of misinformation on election day 2016, when a guy who had a problem voting in philadelphia -- in pennsylvania he just tweeted a picture, a video of his voting machine and he claimed that it wouldn't allow him to vote for trump. that video went super viral, people said, you know, cheating, et cetera, but we tracked him down, we spoke to him, he said,

well, actually, yeah, after i posted that i asked an election worker, this he helped me out, i wasn't using -- i was using the machine falsely and he was quite upset that his video was being used in a way to undermine election integrity. it's a good reminder while you might have good intentions while posting on social media it can be weaponized. >> disinformation is deliberate. one of the most sort of sad phenomenons is in 2016 most of that disinformation came from outside the country and now sadly a lot of it comes deliberately from inside this country. tell us just how quickly this kind of thing can spread on social media. >> yeah, i want to show you this part of a video of so-called burning ballots, right, on election day 2020 we saw this video circulate online that supposedly showed ballots for trump being burned, even the then president's son eric trump shared it. it was totally false. it was disinformation created to deceive, but just a couple of

days later we were in pennsylvania and we spoke to a voter hobbled the election was stolen and one of the first reasons she said why was that video. have a listen. >> i've seen too much pieces of different evidence so far that shows that at this point i would be okay with a revote. >> really? >> yeah. absolutely. when you have video footage of people taking bags of ballots and showing that they are for donald trump and lighting them on fire -- >> i helped write a fact check on cnn on that particular video. the election officials said that video has been going around for a few days, they are printout ballots, they are not real ballots. >> so you used the information of the election officials. >> somebody like me comes along, tries to research t tries to fact check it and then i fact check it, you will come back and say, well, the election officials would say that. >> but wouldn't they, though? that's the thing, though. question everything, right? >> yeah, and that was november 2020 of course, it was a sign of

things to come. look, there are going to be problems at some polls tomorrow, we will hear about them, we will report on them, but also just be very, very mindful that people are trying to mislead and trying to paint a picture of far more chaotic picture than might actually be the reality. >> there's misinformation, disinformation and donie information and that's stuff in my experience you can trust. >> i will sign up for that one. >> thanks so much. joining us to discuss david gergen former adviser to just four former presidents. david, always good to have you. listen, to donie's report there, disinformation is a real issue and of course the principal form of disinformation is 2020 election definism and you have a lot of candidates on the ballot many of whom are going to win tomorrow who still deny the results of that election. that's a real danger, a real problem. i wonder, though, in terms of a winning message, was the democracy in peril message very well -- may very well be

substantial but was it the winning political message for this cycle or should democrats have focused more on the economy? >> definitely should have focused more on the economy. i'm among those that really worry about the threats to our democracy that have arisen, but when it comes right down to it in the voting booth people are looking at questions -- they are looking at questions of, you know, cost of gas, how much are groceries and where is this all going. it seems to be -- we seem to be on the precipice or edge of a potentially deep recession and i think that's having an enormous impact. i will say one other thing, what's also very disturbing is that this campaign, this strategy of disinformation on the republican side seems to be working. >> yeah. >> you know , it swung out for while favored the democrats, swung back pretty sharply and i think a lot of that comes from the fact that all of this disinformation that's being deliberately spread around is having an effect.

>> there's also the very real possibility based on what we're seeing that there could be a significant number of election deniers who could win their races. >> yes. >> who could now be in power. >> absolutely. >> how much appetite is there within the party -- i think i know the answer, i'm just curious your take -- how much appetite is there in the republican party to push back on that and to call them out especially after they're -- if they're now, let's say, in the house sitting next to not election denier republicans, how does that play out? >> it plays out i'm afraid that if this is a big night for republicans and they think it's going to be, that donald trump will be a major, major victory for donald trump and for his -- his followers will be greatly energized if they come up with anything like the kind of victory -- you know, if they turn two or three, four seats in the senate, they control the senate, they control the house, that's going to be seen -- it's going to be hard to stop trump

within the republican party. he will be in effect the very likely nominee of the party if they have a good night tomorrow night. >> what does that mean, then, for the biden agenda if republicans win both or just one, frankly, house of congress, that the house seems to be most likely, is the biden agenda dead in the water? >> it's dead in the water for getting much done. not that the ideas will disappear. and biden may make a come back, but, you know, jim, i think if this does not come out well for the democrats tomorrow night, then biden is going to be under some growing pressure to step back and to look at who else might be available in the field. i mean, he needs this victory as much as trump does. >> do you think there's still room for surprises tomorrow, david? >> yes, i do, and i'm really glad you brought that up. i do think there are some individual states that could

surprise us. say in north carolina it could surprise the democrats and capture that, a black woman running that race, beasley, who has run a good race. there are some others out there, in ohio, i think, that -- i wouldn't count out ryan against vance. everybody thinks vance is going to win this, ryan is complaining -- but even so ryan is still, i think, competitive. i can't -- frankly, i can't remember an election with so many undecided, so many close calls, so many ones that are unpredictable. >> yeah, it's a good point. listen, that's the one constant in election recent cycles is that there are surprises. you say if republicans win this will be seen in the party and by trump himself as a win for trump. you've worked with a lot of presidents, you've seen a lot of politicians come and go. are you surprised that less than two years after january 6, after the senate majority or minority leader i should say mitch

mcconnell said on the floor that trump was responsible, the republican speaker said trump was responsible, that he would have had such a come back? >> i'm hugely surprised. i think it says something about trump but it also says something about the hunger for -- among voters for something different, for something that actually works in their lives, and they will forgive trump, it appears, on a variety of different fronts if he can deliver in getting the inflation rate and the job rates up. he is seen, you know -- democrats generally are given more confidence votes for their capacity to deal with the economy and i think here, though, it's because of trump's strength, his personal strength and the fact he's so defiant so often, somehow he appeals to a segment of the voters in this country that many of us don't know. they're not particularly on our

set and we find it confusing and it's almost as if we could wake up wednesday morning and under what country we're living in. >> wise analysis, david gergen as always, thanks so much. >> thanks, jim. still ahead this hour, a source tells cnn that elon musk will now delay the new pay model for those twitter blue checks until after -- at least until after election day. why? and musk's new promise to make twitter the, quote, most accurate source of information about the world.

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well, just days after twitter's new owner elon musk laid off thousands of the company's employees bloomberg news is now reporting that twitter is actually asking some of those fired workers just days ago, mind you, to come back. >> according to the report some of those employees were apparently let go by mistake and they're desperately needed right now to keep the company running. cnn chief business correspondent christine romans joining us now. i mean, this is a big oops. >> yeah, it sounds like the wild west over there at twitter, doesn't it? this is an owner, elon musk the world's richest man that wanted to buy t didn't want to buy it, reluctantly bought it and now is changing it. we are starting to see what twitter will look like under elon musk. huge cuts to the public policy and trust and safety teams. turns out, you know, as the new

day dawned they need some of those people. they also started to realize they cut people who could eventually be helpful in some of these projects that elon musk has hinted that he wants to do in the future, some kind of new avenues for twitter so they're trying to say, hey, can you come back? they just cut so far and so deep, whole teams were eliminated by the way, some of them with important roles in election coverage. so just days before an election you've got all these people whose job it was to cure rate the content, to make sure you elevate real things and down play things that are fake and misinformation, those people lost their jobs. >> musk also tweeted this morning, quoting here, that twitter needs to become by far the most accurate source of information about the world. that is our mission. how does he plan to deliver on that plan? >> that is the million -- or the $44 billion question in this case. at this point it feels as though they're going backwards before going forwards. one of the things he is talking

about doing because the company is losing he says something like $4 million a day, he says he's going to charge $7.99 for a verif verification, for paid verification of a twitter account. over the weekend all these people were impersonating him and impersonating other people trying to show you just can't buy legitimacy on this site if that's what he is planning on doing. they have now paused that we're told until after the election. so, again, just the wild west, total chaos, you know, i read one quote a media watcher saying that this is an elon musk category 5 hurricane inside twitter right now and twitter is an information source, a place -- you know, a social center, a town hall, if you will, where people turn to for information about things like elections. so it's a really unfortunate time. >> and it doesn't sound like there is -- it doesn't sound like that cat 5 is calming down anytime soon with so much uncertainty and the way decisions are being made.

good luck to them. >> it was their plan, right? it's their management plan. >> and will people pay $8 for that blue check? the blue check which is supposed to -- i thought always meant that really is erica hill or jim sciutto or christine romans. that is an actual verified person. can you just sell that legitimacy to anybody? is that the business model? and how does that help democracy and making sure, as he said in his mission here, that he wants the most accurate source of information in the world. >> and that's what you saw over the weekend, absolutely, it will be really interesting to see how this plays out. we have another couple days now to keep thinking about it, christine, appreciate it, thanks. authorities are searching for an iowa teenager convicted of can i go her alleged rapist when she was 15 years ald snow officials say now 18-year-old pieper lewis escaped from custody friday after cutting off her electronic tracking device, she was serving five years probation at a residential corrections facility after she pled guilty to killing

37-year-old zachary brooks. cnn's adrienne broaddus joins us now. tell us the latest on the search. any idea where she is and what happens if and when she's found? >> reporter: authorities don't know where she is right now, jim. she walked away friday morning according to a spokesperson can the department of corrections in that region. as you mentioned, she cut off her ankle monitor. so what's next? well, right now there is a warrant out for her arrest and authorities are requesting that her probation, which she was serving, as you mentioned, be revoked. here is a little more details about this case. she is now 18. she had a birthday in september. she was 15 when she admitted to killing a man who she says was raping her repeatedly. that man was a 37-year-old. she was sentenced to five years probation and this is a story that captured attention of people all across the country, in particular because of this last sentence on your screen.

she was ordered to pay $150,000 restitution to the family of her alleged rapist. many supporters of hers said that was unfair and that in her case justice was not served. there was a gofundme account created raising thousands of dollars to help this teenager who now is missing. jim and erica? >> adrienne broaddus, we know you will continue to keep us posted on this. thank you. still to come here, ukraine's capital preparing for the, quote, worst-case scenario if continued russian attacks leave the city with no power or no water. we're live on the ground for you in ukraine next.

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this morning, fears of a complete blackout in ukraine's capital of kyiv are growing. officials are warning the country is facing further power cuts both scheduled and unscheduled due to attacks on power plans and critical infrastructure. >> these are attacks designed to impose suffering on people. salma is near cramma toresque, ukraine. what are you seeing there. >> i'm actually in kyiv in the capital and here millions people have been without power for hours at a time every single day. the officials here are imposed the scheduled blackouts. they last about three to four hours. there is a couple of them every day and emergency blackouts as well. so it is not uncommon to hear of a family here in the capital that goes half a day without any

electricity, without being able to heat homes or make a warm meal and it is getting colder and colder by the day. now the mayor said they have to prepare for the worst case scenario, the potential that all of the city's energy infrastructure could collapse because of the sustained campaign by russia to dismantle kyiv's power grid with these missiles that keep coming. so in that scenario, they're setting up emergency space where's family could go that would be powered by generators and telling people if you're family is outside of kyiv, maybe consider staying with them if they have running elect risity. they're trying to conserve energy as much as they can when they can. they believe that president putin wants people to freeze to death this winter. but i want to point out many ukrainians see this as a weakness, the fact that he's targing soft targets like civilian infrastructure, trying to inflict suffering far from the front lines, trying to break the will in the resistance of

the ukrainian people and they say it is not going to work. yes, we suffering and in the cold and dark of the winter but that only makes us stronger, jim and erica. >> salma, thank you very much. still ahead, coming on the eve of election day in this country, cnn has learned more than 3400 mail-in ballots in the battleground state of pennsylvania, seen as one of the most hotly contested of senate elections might be rejected. why? we'll have more nextxt. help you find and unlock opportunities in the mararket with powerful, easy-t-to-use tools power e*trade makes complex trading easier react to fast-moving markets with dynamic charting and a futures ladder that lets you place, flatten, or reverse orders so you won't miss an opportunity

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good monday morning. top of the hour. i'm erica hill. >> and i'm jim sciutto. one more day until midterm elections. tomorrow voters will make their choices. many hav