about his mother and her journey and how she started fighting for civil rights after her son was murdered in 1955 in mississippi. >> she played a big role in the movie. >> not only executive produced the movie, she plays emmett till's grandmother as well. she talks about that and the issue surrounding race, discrimination. but she talks about a whole lot more. there's a reason she's on "the view," because she likes to give her view. >> we get to see it tomorrow? >> tomorrow. she has talked about us coming in to co-host "the view," all three of us. listen, we're a little punch drunk from the election and working the long hours overnight, but we're back. tomorrow we'll have more sleep and be better than today. we'll be greater tomorrow. thanks for watching. what happens now? >> "newsroom" starts now. >> poppy's old shift.

♪ ♪ good morning. i'm erica hill. >> i'm jim sciutto. this morning we and the country still don't know yet who will control the u.s. congress. votes still being counted in critical house and senate races. republicans poised, however, to win a narrow majority in the house. there are currently 35 uncalled races in the lower chamber, republicans leading in 11 of those. they need nine to retake the house majority. >> in the senate republicans currently have 49 seats, democrats are at 48, and control there now hinges on three states. two of those, nevada and arizona still too close to call this morning. georgia is, of course, headed to a december runoff after neither candidate managed to get 50% of the vote. our correspondents are on the ground in arizona and nevada. arizona the battle for control -- those states where battle for control of the senate is playing out.

sara sidner is outside the maricopa county elections center. the latest et mate, i believe, about 600,000 votes remain to be counted there. where are those votes, sara? >> good morning, erica. the vast majority of them are from right here in maricopa county, 400,000 to about 410,000 votes still left to be counted. they will begin counting in about two hours. they will start verifying the signatures. there are a team of people that are in this place they call the ballot vault. we have been back there to see how they do their jobs. first they sort all the ballots and then they start verifying signatures. that's why this process takes a little longer than maybe some other places. they are very diligent about doing this to make sure that they have the count correct. earlier we heard from the chairman of the board of supervisors here in maricopa county talking about the vote count and what we can expect. >> we're right there between

about 400 and 410,000 ballots left to count. we're now getting into what we call laterallies. these are early ballots that we would have received over the weekend or specifically 290,000 that were dropped off on election day at our vote centers. generally, as we move forward in the count, we're getting closer and closer to election day. >> reporter: when he says closer and closer to election day, he means the ballots brought in on election day. they're still a few days back, counting the votes that were early voting. this has been a significant number increase. the number of people who have voted in this midterm according to officials here, we know that number has jumped which is making it so the vote count is taking a little bit longer than normal, but so far all is well. there were problems with the printers that people used.

what's interesting about the printers here is people can come in without a ballot. they sign up, show their id and then they have 12,000 different ballots that the printers are able to print. some of those printers, in about a fifth of the places to vote some of those printers were not printing dark enough ink and that was a problem so people had to do a couple of different things to make sure their vote counts. they say every vote will count, but you've got to give them some time. >> check the toner cartridges, right? sara sidner, thanks very much. >> reporter: exactly. >> we've all been there. in nevada an estimated 160,000 votes remain to be counted there as crucial statewide races in nevada still too close to call. nevada could end up deciding who controls the set. rosa is in las vegas. that's where the bulk of the votes remaining to be counted are, with a democratic advantage. is there any sense of where things are leading in the next 24 to 48 hours?

>> reporter: jim, this is a nail-biter. this race is only getting tighter and tighter. when you went to bed last night, republican adam laxalt was ahead by 2.7%. when you woke up this morning, that margin tightened to 2.44%. as jim mentioned, the margins here in clark county appear to be in favor of the democratic incumbent catherine cortez masto. all these races are nail biters. it want to talk to you about the secretary of state race. that is even tighter. the challengers there are sysco aguillar. he's a former harry reid staffer. he's vowed for transparent elections. his opponent, republican jim marchant, he is probably one of the sharpest election deniers in the country. he started the america first

skr secretary of state coalition. 12 different members running across the country. their goal is day of elections only, day of voting only, going back to paper ballots. the margin in that race is less than 1% right now, it's at .89%. again nail biters. like jim mentioned, there are still tens of thousands of ballots out there that have not been counted, have not been processed. many of those right here in clark county where i am. jim, as we look forward, some of the dates that we need to keep in mind here is the fact that any ballot that was postmarked on election day, november 8th, will be counted through saturday, november 12th and then, of course, the official results are expected to be posted by law on friday, november 18th. so we'll have to see. jim. >> the waiting game continues,

rosa. appreciate it. thank you. in georgia a runoff date is set, mark your calenders, december 6. this after of course neither senate candidate reached the 50-percent-plus-one threshold. this could decide the balance of power in the senate. >> imagine that. cnn national politics reporter eva mckend live in atlanta. eva, are they making preps for this runoff who cich could deci who controls the senate. >> reporter: this has been a costly affair, this competitive senate contest. even more money pouring in this morning. we're learning the democratic senatorial campaign committee, that's a key fund-raising operation for senate democrats, they're spending $7 million to boost senator warnock. if you're wondering, well, where is that money going? it's going to things like field organizing. that's the critical ground game under way in this state.

that is the effort to really turn out more voters, direct voter contact programs. herschel walker is getting a boost. susan b. anthony pro-life america say they'll spend at least $1 million to help walker. things are well under way here in georgia. the state is prepping ballots to be sent to counties. the counties have to sign off by november 14th. there's also the absentee portal that people can take advantage of the they want to request an absentee ballot. early voting could begin as early as november 26th. these candidates haven't taken any days off. republican herschel walker will be campaigning later today with senator ted cruz. jim, erica. >> another tight race to watch. eva mckend, thank you. for a deeper dive into the numbers in georgia and nevada, john berman, we need some magic this morning.

the races are tight but we're getting indications of where they might lean in either direction. >> we need magic and we need math, which puts me at a disadvantage. this is really interesting, as rosa reported, adam laxalt leads by 15,000 votes. yesterday his lead was 23,000. why? because of mail ballot that was counted in wah show county. there were 20,000 of and catherine cortez masto won 65% of that vote. that was in washo county. in the most populous county of the state, there were 14,000 new votes processed there. 14,000, and catherine cortez-masto, she won 61% of that. that gave her the balance to close some of that. the reason i wanted to put these

percentages up for you, jim, and the raw numbers, i want to extrapolate a little bit about what's left and whether she has a chance to overtake adam laxalt. we'll put the blackboard up here for everyone so they can see. in washoe and clark combined -- the reason i'm talking about those, those are the most urban counties, that's where most of the vote that we know about is left. we think there's 110,000 votes l left. if masto wins 60% of that, which is less than the votes processed overnight, so times 60% or .60 in this case, that would give her 66,000 votes. the important thing here, jim, that would give her 66,000 votes. that would be a net, a net of 22,000 votes. 22,000 is greater than 15,000.

so if the next 110,000 votes go the way the ones that were processed overnight does, catherine cortez masto has a chance. she's on a path that could put her out in front. very quickly -- let me swipe this out -- it's a little bit of a similar situation in arizona where the democrat mark kelly now leads by 95,000. his lead was in the 80s before they processed new ballots for maricopa county here and pima county here. his lead group. there's 560,000 left to process here. a little harder to read which way they lean. arizona does things a little differently. blake masters, the republican, would have to win 58% roughly of that remaining vote to overtake mark kelly. not impossible, but a tall order, jim. >> personally, and i'm sure erica joins me in this, i'm glad you slowed the map down. it helped me understand. >> speak for yourself, sciutto.

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yesterday calling out detractors who said doubted his, quote, incessant optimism about the election. >> those comments come as biden's presidency looks to be entering a new period of divided government. >> while we don't know all the results yet, at least i don't know them all yet, here is what we do know. while the press and the pundits predicted a giant red wave, it didn't happen. >> the president says his intention is to run again but not in a hurry to make an announcement. joining us ashley allison and alice stewart, republican strategist. good to see you both this morning. ashley, let's start with you. when we look at all this, the president is still making a decision on 2024. understandably he wants to wait and see how certain things shake out. there are definitely some takeaways here for democrats as a whole. how do they need to play the

next two years? >> keep trying to get things done. i think that the reason why voters showed up was that democrats made promises in 2020 and they did everything possible to keep them. now, they couldn't get voting rights done and they couldn't get policing reform done, but it wasn't for lack of trying. it was because they didn't have enough votes in the senate, but they did get infrastructure, a lot of covid relief, a historical bipartisan gun bill passed. they took action on the executive level around student loan debt and around marijuana and around climate. so, as long as dems keep delivering what the voters want, i think we will be successful again in 204. i also think that if republicans show up, if they take the house and start shenanigans and throwing red meat out about trying to do all these oversight hearings, that's not what the people want. they said that loud and clear. dems should keep their eye on

the ball and keep delivering for the american people. >> alice, listening to that, i imagine you have a different view. you have criticized some of the more extreme voices in your party here. is there a risk? yes. they certainly outperformed expectations and particularly extreme republican candidates ended up losing, including a lot endorsed by the former president. do democrats risk not learning their own lessons from this election? >> both sides have a lot to learn from this election, jim. i think the most important takeaway is voters are frustrated, they're frustrated with the economy and want to see washington work together. i'm encouraged by what president biden said yesterday, but saying our democracy is intact. that's evidenced by the fact we had massive voter turnout. we need to continue to wait and make sure every vote is counted. i'm also encouraged by his commitment to bringing leaders from both sides of the hill to the white house shortly and talk about ways they can work together. assuming that republicans take control in the house, that's a

major step in the right direction, and this is a way we get things done. assuming republicans take control and mccarthy is the speaker, they have an agenda they'd like to get done, ways to look at addressing inflation, look at the border, look at crime. and the best way to do that is, as the president said, sitting down and having these hard conversations. the first step in bipartisanship is both sides agreeing that you have to concede certain points that you want, and you both have to want to work together. that's the message everyone should take away from these midterms. >> alice, in the "wall street journal" this morning, the note maybe the defeats are what the party needs to hear before 2024, talking specifically about donald trump from the editorial board. is this the moment that the party moves on from donald trump? is this the license that was needed, and is the will there? >> i don't see any other moment than right now for republicans

to recognize the fact that we lost the house, the senate and the white house, and we lost many key races we should have won because of trump's influence in these races. the "wall street journal," which is typically supportive of the former president, acknowledged the fact that trump's dominance has taken a hit. we're seeing other news outlets. we have the "new york post" that is very supportive with the front headline today saying trumpty dumpty. other key voices saying that, again, donald trump is not the face moving forward for the republican party. peter king, who has been supportive, saying we need to stop being a cult of personality and get back to a party of policies. i think this is a good first step. it's a huge wake-up call for the republican party. >> ashley, you hear alice making the face that trump shouldn't be the face of the republican party

going into 2024. should joe biden be the face and the democratic candidate going into 2024? >> i think there are two sides to this coin. joe biden has had a great presidency so far. he still has two more years to deliver. there's also an opportunity for him to pass the torch if he chooses to. we as democrats want to make sure we have a strong bench. i think this midterm election opens up our bench somewhat for new and aspiring democratic leaders, whether it's the new governor of massachusetts or maryland or michigan. i think that there are opportunities for a torch to be passed, a generational torch, so to say. i also think if he wants to run, he's up for the job and that's his choice. >> jim, if i could add one quick note on trump's dominance of the party, we all have to acknowledge that he did build a solid base. those votes are important. these are people who didn't feel they had a voice. the challenge is for republicans to keep that base on board and

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following, right now tropical storm nicole pounding florida with heavy rain and powerful winds causing storm surge warnings along the northeastern coastline. the storm made landfall as a category 1 hurricane early this morning, making it the first hurricane to hit the u.s. in november in nearly 40 years. >> and it is making its presence known. cnn's leyla santiago in ft. myers. chad myers is live in the cnn weather center.

leyla, let's start with you. it looks like those are some pretty strong winds. >> reporter: i think this is the strongest wind i've felt since we've been out this morning, kind of making our way north. earlier we were in melbourne, now in titusville. let's show you what it looks like in terms of the water that is rising. you can see the wind really showing in the trees, the water coming in. this is an area we should mention that saw really bad flooding after hurricane ian. so an area that was already vulnerable given the flooding that we saw just six weeks ago here. so i have spoken to emergency operation officials. they're really warning people to stay home because this isn't over yet, especially in those areas where coastal erosion has been deemed an issue just north of where we are right now in vo volusia county, they've deemed

dozens of homes unsafe given the coastal erosion. the big thing they're watching is for flooding, for the high tide that's bringing in higher levels of water as well as the impact this will have for coastal erosion as they get out to do damage assessment. you can tell, and i can certainly feel that this is far from over. >> a lot of homes there in danger on the coastline. chad, we don't see them often in november because the water srnt warm enough to generate this kind of stuff. where do we expect it to hit next? >> it's still going to hit florida for a long time. we're getting flooding in charleston from this right now. that's a long way from where the storm is. leyla hit on an important part. our coverage of ian and especially the aftermath focused on ft. myers, sanibel, and all those places that got devastated there. but the east coast dunes and beaches were completely eroded as well with the onshore flow

even though ian tracked this way, there was so much onshore flow, it ate away at those dunes at that beach. so now what we're seeing with these high tides, almost six feet above where they should have been for a time, went down a little bit at high tide. only three feet above high tide. that eroded the buildings, eroded a lot. we know of a lot of structural damage that is there. winds still gusting to 52 in daytona, even 43 in tampa. surge warnings going on here. we know there's about 8 to 8.5 feet in charleston, not above the roads, but certainly on the roads in much of charleston. that happens when you get an east wind and a high tide. we just had the full moon. that means these high tides are larger than they would be at other times of the month. there's cocoa beach at 59-mile-per-hour wind gusts there. it's a large area of wind. everywhere that you see yellow, that is still tropical storm force winds.

those numbers go down, the size goes down as the storm decreases in intensity tonight. eventually it hooks up with this cold front and gets shoved back out to the ocean. there's going to be a lot of rain and wind. there are still leaves on the trees across parts of the deep south. with winds of 35 or 40, some of those trees could come down. we have power outages through the carolinas, through georgia and even up to the northeast. it does eventually get out of here. three to four inches of rainfall possible. that's good for the water that gets into the ohio river because that would eventually get into the mississippi. many areas here don't need the rainfall. the carolinas and georgia does. the storm did decrease from a landfall of 75. >> leyla, chad, appreciate it. thank you both. some news, good news it seems on prices. key inflation data just released shows inflation cooled more than expected as consumer prices in the u.s. rose 7.7% in the most

recent period. markets here in the u.s. are just opening, up 800 points, nearly 3%. >> that is a nice thing to see on your thursday eve morning. -- friday eve. cnn's matt egan following this closely. tough to keep track on an election week. when we look at that inflation number, what's the takeaway there? >> this is a big relief, but it's cooling off. month-over-month prices up by .4%. that's flat. it was supposed to get worse. that's a good thing. year over year, 7% increase in prices. at any other point in the last four decades, this would be an alarming, terrible number. this is actually a nine-month low and a big improvement from the 9% inflation that we saw over the summer. within the realm of what was possible, this is probably about as good as we could have hoped for. none of this means sticker shock is gone. people are still feeling these price hikes. we still see big year over year

price increases in gasoline, food, represent. there also has been some improvement. month-over-month we saw prices decline for apparel, used cars, medical care. that is encouraging. wall street, as you mentioned, is loving this news. within seconds of this number coming out, dow futures spiked 600 points, 2.4% right now. the nasdaq is up more than 4%, an even bigger move over there. these are pretty significant moves. i think it reflects optimism, some hope on wall street that maybe the federal reserve can stop slamming the brakes on the economy with these monster interest rates. it's raising the risk of recession and mortgage rates at 20-year highs, credit card rates at an all-time high. that's causing pain on main street. i would caution this is one month. the fed is going to want to see multiple months of consistent improvement before they back off from these rate hikes. still, this is a step in the

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house minority leader kevin mccarthy saying he now has the votes to win the house majority and, therefore, to become speaker. >> cnn's melanie zanona is on capitol hill with more. we still don't have a clear answer on who will take control of congress, but mccarthy isn't wasting any time in his preparations. >> reporter: no, that's right. kevin mccarthy launched an aggressive campaign to lock down votes for speaker. i'm told he's been working the phones ever since yesterday calling members, asking for their support. making the argument that he's on the verge of delivering the majority, that republicans have picked up seats under his watch two cycles in a row. he's also been hearing from potential holdouts and critics, hearing what their demands are, listening to them but not making promises just yet. he tapped a team of allies to fan out across the party and make the calls and whip the support for the speakership. we saw him meeting with both allies and potential critics in

his capitol hill office here. that includes marjorie taylor greene, someone who has been critical of him in the past. she did not say leaving the meeting whether she would support him for speaker. sources tell me there are about two dozen members of the tomorrow trump house freedom caucus who are threatening to vote against mccarthy. they want to extract concessions from kevin mccarthy in exchange for their speaker vote. the things they're demanding is everything from more representation on committees, more power, promises related to investigations and impeachment. we'll see what kevin mccarthy agrees to. like i said, he's in listening mode right now. some of his allies are saying they're reluctant about the idea of him giving in to these demands because it's a slippery slope. kevin mccarthy may have no choice in the matter if he wants to become speaker. >> the house freedom caucus has made the demands before, he

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now a cnn exclusive. the u.s. observed russian naval vessels preparing for a possible test of a new nuclear-powered torpedo in recent weeks.

a senior official with direct knowledge tells me among the vessels that took part was a cruise missile submarine modified for special operations including launching unmanned underwater vehicles. that includes the poseidon torpedo, as it's known, seen here. it is a nuclear-powered unmanned vehicle capable of carrying emissions with a nuclear propulsion system that gives it virtually limitless range. the russian observers observed heading back to port without carrying out a test. the u.s. believes the russians may have encountered technical difficulties. joining me to discuss this and other news, retired major general mark hertling. general, good to have you on. >> good to be with you, jim. interesting items we're talking about this morning, isn't it? >> no question. this nuclear torpedo or really underwater unmanned vehicle here is something putin touted in the

state of the union address in 2018. how significant a weapon is this and how significant in their view that they wanted to carry out a test here but weren't able to? >> we're calling it the poseidon. the russians call it or nato calls it the status 6. it's about four feet in diameter, about 14 feet long. interestingly enough, it has the capability to go literally a couple thousand miles, first at a slow pace and then at a larger pace -- faster pace. it is designed to loiter off of major cities and carry a thermo nuclear weapon. now, what i think we're hearing from the intelligence community is seeing this being loaded up on that submarine tells me it was part of the nuclear exercise that russia so transparently advertised over the last couple of weeks. coming back into the port,

again, they may just be transporting it, see what it was like, part of an exercise. right now i don't think i would put anything more into it than that. it's not like russia in my view is preparing for a nuclear strike. >> understood. that's to be clear here. a test very different from a nuclear strike. we want to be clear about that. let's talk about -- by the way, a test without nuclear detonation device attached to it. let's talk about the battlefield in ukraine. russian forces significantly withdrawing from kherson, the only provincial capital they were able to capture in this on going invasion. how significant of a loss is that for russia and victory for the ukrainians? >> it's pretty big, jim. we've been talking about this for weeks, as the ukrainian forces have been attempting to surround the forces on the western bank of the dnipro river. that's where the russian forces decided, interestingly enough, to take up defensive positions with a large river and a wide

river at their back. think eve attempted to get across that river onto the eastern side of kherson province, and setting up multiple layers of defensive positions across that. what you've got to understand is it will certainly allow the ukrainian forces to liberate some of those cities on the western bank of the dnipro. at the same time, it would be very difficult right now for the ukrainian forces to conduct what would be the equivalent of an amphibious assault to get across that river. at the same time there's fighting going on elsewhere. all of it seems to be in the >> we have heard some public discussion now of the potential for talks to end this war. responding to those talks, you hear ukrainian officials once again saying the condition for settlement is that russia leaves all occupied territories. they're not willing to trade land in effect for peace here. do you see a change in the

attitude towards negotiations particularly from western partners and the u.s. and any unstated pressure here from ukraine to think about talking? >> i do not, jim. and i've been reading the reports in a lot of journals and newspapers and magazines as well and i think these are a lot of pundits saying there's an opportunity here. winter is coming up. russia has been beaten in several fronts . it's time for ukraine to take a look at that. i think the biden administration has been clear. mr. zelenskyy has made it very clear. he wants to regain the sovereignty of his territory, interestingly including crimea. but russia has not been very good in terms of any of the operations they have conducted. they have continued to fail in

even attempting to regenerate and move their forces around. so there could be a potential opportunity for negotiations, but again, i believe the united states is going to stand firmly behind president zelenskyy in what he and the ukrainian people want to do. >> there had been concern among democrats and frankly republicans that i've spoken with that a republican win in this election here in the u.s. would if not put an end to, make it far more difficult to get new money, new weapons systems to the ukrainians. at least get the votes to do so. to spend that kind of money. it appears the republicans will take the house here. do you think that this puts in jeopardy future financial and military assistance for ukraine from the u.s.? >> it's going to put a different -- >> we may -- we may have lost. there he is. finish your thought. >> sorry.

we have seen that politics always play a part in funding combat. funding operations. with a new political body, there may be additional discussions about that and truthfully, jim, as we know, all of the western forces have dedicated a lot of equipment, training personnel, as well as ammunition to this fight. so i'm sure a new group of politicians believing they're in charge will have more debates about this, but we've been clear about saying we need to defend this from a values based perspective and sovereignty of another country. >> major general, glad you rode out hurricane nicole. thanks for joining us. still to come, president biden heading overseas for a high stakes summit with global implications. we'll take a look at what's on that agenda.

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later tonight, president biden will head to egypt for the united nations convention on climate change. >> now much of the focus during the cop 27 summit as it's known will be those suspended climate talks between the u.s. and china. bill weir following all this for us. biden is arriving at this time, having passed some substantial domestic legislation. there's still a lot at stake here though. >> a lot. levels of co 2 in the atmosphere are at all time highs. temperatures on earth are at all time highs and it's interesting to point out the paris accords would not have happened without the u.s. and china getting together beforehand saying look, u.s. is the number one emitter of this planet cooking emission. china, you're number one currently. we get it. we're on it. since nancy pelosi went to taiwan, they're not talking to each other and there's a sense about economists that they might be pulling back saying we don't need this partnership and that's

inconvenient because solar prices have come down 90% in the last decade thanks in part to chinese manufacturering. president biden expected to announce all u.s. contractors adhere to the paris accords, that's going to be hard if you can't buy cheap chinese solar panels in the near term. there's a lot going on. he's able to go there and say america's back. we passed this act. it's a lot of inscentives. >> bill, can the u.s. and china do it independently of each other or must it be together? be some sort of agreement? >> just the two biggest economies, you know. if they're collaborating, it just makes things that much easier. if they're competitors and are pushing ideas along and are winning on a massive scale, but now if we have to set up a

relationship with vietnam or other countries, it just sort of delays things. what you see at these cops is frustration because the whole world can't come to these ideas. like the opec of wind with holland and other countries to help ramp up wind production, and costa rica just backed away from something they started along with denmark, the first country to move past oil and gas. because of putin's war, the energy crisis now, it's so much harder. the mood has changed in just a year. the strangle hold of fossil fuels is still there and the loss and damage thing is starting to move. the big countries are starting to reach for the check they promised to pay almost a dozen years ago. there's a lot for the president to do to win over parts. >> appreciate it. >> you bet.