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welcome to our viewers joining us in the united states and all around the world. i'm bianca nobilo. >> i'm max foster joining you from london. ahead on "cnn newsroom." here in maricopa county, the tedious work of democracy continues. >> thank you for fighting like the devil to make sure that we had a free and a fair election. this is actually a 9-month low for annual inflation and it is a big improvement from the 9% inflation we saw over the summer. there is not enough money in any country in the world to actually solve this problem. it is friday, november 11th, 9 a.m. here in london, 4 a.m. in washington where control of both the senate and the house of

representatives remains in limbo. the final outcome of the mid-term elections undecided now three days later. >> votes are still being counted in two crucial states. democratic senator mark kelly is extending his lead over blake masters and the same for katie hobbs in the high stakes repu republican kari lake is a die hard election denier. >> right now democrats hold 48 senate seats. republicans have 49. just two short of the 51 seats that they need to take senate control. >> in the house democrats have won 198 house seats so far. republicans have 211, 9 short of a majority. >> cnn is on the scene in both critical states out west. we'll hear from gary tuchman

from las vegas, nevada. we begin with kyung lah. >> reporter: here in maricopa county, the tedious job continues. 78,000 vote results were released this evening by maricopa county. didn't really change the races all that much percentage wise, but the democrats who are currently on a razor lead, razor thin lead, they got just a bit more vote cast. this is a slow process and it is a careful process. what we're hearing though on the edges are some of the republicans on this ballot who are frustrated, have been talking about some of these election officials might be doing this on purpose, releasing this slowly on purpose and we got strong pushback by election officials here. >> quite frankly, it is offensive for kari lake to say

that these people behind me are slow rolling this when they're working 14 to 18 hours. so i really hope this is the end of that now. we can be patient and respect the results when they come out. >> reporter: the count continues. the election is not over in maricopa county. election officials are looking to start to zoom in on some of those election day ballots. kyung lah, cnn, phoenix, arizona. here in the largest county in the state of nevada, clark county, the clark county election center we can tell you that the tabulators are done tabulating for the evening. they will resume on friday. in these 17 counties in the state of nevada the democratic candidate for senate who is an incumbent, the democratic candidate for governor who is incumbent are making up ground with the mail-in ballots. tens of thousands still need to

be counted. catherine cortez masto has made up 7,000 votes and is behind by 8,000. steve sisilac has made up 7,000 votes and is behind by 27,000 votes. here in clark county alone, the largest county in the state, there are at least 50,000 ballots still to count. these are not ballots done in person, they were mailed in or dropped in drop boxes on election day. the ballots can come until saturday. that's the rule here in nevada. they're not counting because it's close, they're counting because that's the law. as long as they're postmarked by tuesday, it could arrive by saturday and be counted. this will continue until at least saturday. the counting will continue to last until saturday and we still don't know who the winners of the very high profile races will be. this is gary tuchman, cnn, las vegas. joining us is associate professor of political science

thomas gift. let's talk about former president donald trump and the backlash that we've seen against him. what impact do you think that these mid-term elections have had on his future prospects? >> it's great to be with you. i would say a couple things. first of all, i do think donald trump's position in the republican party remains very strong among a certain percentage of the population. 30 to 35% of americans are going to back trump no matter what, but i do think among more establishment republicans there's really even greater concern and consternation than there was before tuesday. i think they really want to move past donald trump. they're trying to look forward to a different direction for the party. finding a candidate that has broader electoral appeal and that is not simply focused on galvanizing the base but they can make some in roads. >> if you look at some of the

tabloids, daily news, new york post, you have fox news anchors coming out in support of desantis effect 2ivelyeffective. that's negative for trump. why is that important? >> ron desantis has been the big story in an election in which republicans under performed nationally. a lot of conservatives are looking at florida as a beacon saying it didn't have to be this way. ron desantis made such in roads to the latino community. flipped a lot of previous democratic strongholds. fox news, i think they are playing to where their audience is and to the extent that they are seeing where the trend lines are going, it's maybe not surprising and that's good news for ron desantis. >> if we consider florida to be a bit of an anomaly in those respects, do you think that the story of the mid-terms is one of the democrats doing better than expected? obviously for an incumbent

governor, first term, this really isn't bad at all, or the republicans under performing? >> i think it's the republicans. the reason i say that is typically in a mid-term election the president in power in the majority party is not going to do as well. you have just so many counter veiling pressures that looked like they were going against democrats. highest inflation in four decades. >> yeah. >> you had a surge of immigration at the u.s./mexico border. all of these kinds of problems. you would have thought joe biden would have had a really bad night. they didn't. i do think republicans need to do soul searching and figure out why they didn't do well. i think it comes down to candidate quality. republicans put too many candidates who were election deniers, had fringe positions. >> does feel that way heading towards deadlock if the republicans do swing the house,

then you've got the democrat president. we don't know what's going to happen in the senate but that system doesn't necessarily work in this situation, does it? >> exactly. i think gridlock is going to be the watch word on capitol hill for the next two years. so even though democrats didn't do as poorly as they anticipated, it's still the case that if republicans are able to control the house, they can do a lot of damage and stymie that agenda. there are two areas. joe biden's legislative agenda is dead on arrival. looking at investigations and consuming time and winding down the clock. republicans are going to lay it on joe biden and his associates focusing on everything from hunter biden's laptop to covid-19 to charges of a politically motivated justice department to even withdrawal from afghanistan. it's very difficult for joe biden to navigate.

>> thank you for coming in. >> thank you. u.s. stocks posted their best day in over two years on thursday after new government data showed the price increases eased last month. >> investors cheered the news which could mean the federal reserve's interest rate hikes may finally be getting inflation under control. >> the markets closed well in positive territory. the dow jones was up 4%. nasdaq gained more than 400%. >> while thursday's inflation was warning, we'll get the latest from cnn's richard quest in new york. >> reporter: it is always dubious to take one month's numbers and extrapolate it into a trend, but that's what the market is doing today. the welcome news that inflation was down 7.7%, a long way lower

than more than 9% in june, gave the market the view that perhaps the fed would now slow down in increasing rates, but the next meeting may be 50 basis points, possibly even 25 basis points instead of the 3/4 percent we've seen so far. that would be perhaps a step too far because economists one and all pretty much agree the fed is not done yet, that inflation has not been calmed and what we're seeing with the exuberance of the market could well be washed away in a few days' time. for the moment everyone knows there's a wall of money waiting to come back in the market and the first sign of light that inflation may be turning is welcome news, indeed, but it's not over yet. richard quest, cnn at the new york stock exchange. if you are planning to do your holiday shopping with

credit cards, gift giving could cost you more than ever. the fed's interest rate hikes have driven the average credit card apr up to 19.04%. the number has risen by 2.74%, a point since january. the biggest single increase on record. people looking to buy a home are looking pinched with 30-year fixed rate mortgages. back above 7%. that's a dramatic increase from a year ago when the rates were something like 2.98%. >> the 4% increase is severely compromised by the purchasing power by driving up monthly payments. a typical $500,000 home will cost you $1,000 more per month. that sent home sales dropping. a u.s. federal judge has struck down president biden's student loan forgiveness program. the justice department says it will appeal the ruling.

nearly 26 million student loan applications have been submitted but the biden administration has been banned from canceling any debt due to a separate legal challenge. payments on federal student loans have been paused since march of 2020 due to a pandemic related benefit and they're set to resume in january. president biden arrives in egypt in the coming hours with the cop27 summit. john kerry is there speaking with cnn and we've got a live report. hurricane nicole takes a toll across parts of florida destroying homes and leaving thousands without power. hi, derek. >> that's right, max. creating a tornado threat and flash flood threat. i will highlight it on the eastern parts of the u.s. coming up. stick around. there's just still so much to discover.

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at least two people have died due to what was hurricane nicole. the powerful storm made landfall early thursday along florida's east coast. >> dozens of beach front homes and hotels being declared

unsafe. more than 52,000 homes and businesses are still without power. >> nicole has now weakened to a tropical depression. still producing significant rainfall. >> let's get the latest from derek van dam. where is it moving to next? >> still churning across the southeastern united states. i want to take you to daytona beach, florida, where hurricane maria -- excuse me, hurricane nicole did what hurricane ian did but just basically finishing the job. you remember hurricane ian was from the end of september. it compromised so much of the coast line of the florida peninsula. all we needed was another category 1 hurricane to come in and erode some of the coast line away taking and threatening these businesses and homes. can you imagine if this was your house falling into the water, sweeping away your priceless memories? that's what residents have had to deal with. all thanks to hurricane nicole. there are still coastal flood

alerts for both the big bend of florida and east coast of florida. that extends into the coast line of georgia as well. now here's the remnants of what was hurricane nicole, now tropical depression churning across central georgia. i want you to notice this as well. we have our tornado watch in effect for much of south carolina. there's a tornado warning for the florence region that will expire in the next 15 minutes. very typical to spin up brief, weak tornadoes. that is the threat we have going forward. anywhere you see the shading of yellow, that includes the mid-atlantic. this is all part of the remnants of nicole going forward. believe it or not, would you believe it if i said that it's actually going to merge with a storm system that created a blizzard across the northern sections of the u.s. biz bismarck, north dakota, and the

energy being absorbed into the remnants of nicole. it will create a wet, soggy weekend for much of the third of the country. double check your flight. d.c., new york, syracuse, pittsburgh, you have a potential for flight delays. certainly travel headaches. this is basically interstate 95 inland. we're talking about the potential for 2 to upwards of 4 inches of rain. as the system moves through, combines with what was a winter storm across the upper midwest. weather prediction center including pittsburgh, charleston and syracuse. the rain will pond up on the roadways quite quickly. we have lots of wind associated as well. look out for the potential of more power outages. >> thank you very much, indeed. world leaders are working to address global warming in egypt. >> u.s. president joe biden is on his way right there.

set to arrive in the coming hours. mr. biden will meet with egypt's president and deliver remarks about the importance of continuing the fight against climate change. cnn has reporters on the ground in schaar mel sheik. we have david mckenzie and kevin liptak. the president has committed billions of dollars to develop clean energy. is he going to be able to deliver that after the mid-terms? >> reporter: yeah, well, certainly president biden feels like he's coming into this conference with a lot to talk about. remember, it was only a year ago that the president arrived to last year's climate summit in scotland just as his climate provisions were all falling apart. the president has $370 billion

included in a domestic spending bill set aside for combatting climate change. that's the largest in history. he'll try to use that as leverage to try to convince other leaders to make similarly ambitious pledges to spend money to combat climate change. he'll talk about new proposed rules about government contractors cutting carbon emissions, new meth then rules. the president will call on leaders to keep their eye on the ball. there is a dilemma that a lot of other foreign leaders are focused on something else at this summit which is the issue of climate reparations. they are calling on wealthy nations like the united states, one of the top emitters, to pay up on the damage being done in the low income countries when it comes to floods, fires, other extreme events due to climate change. that is not really politically

feasible. if republicans do take control of one or more chambers of commerce, this is the last piece of climate legislation. nancy pelosi is also here. speaking yesterday she said when it comes to climate change, mel still feel it's a hoax. that is the dilemma the president is confronting as he embarks on this around-the-world trip. his message is that america is back. it's resuming its commitments. certainly the biggest threat to that is president trump and it does appear to be politically weakened right now. on the other hand, if republicans take control of the senate, much of the president's agenda will be solved. that is kind of the dynamic. the president's aides say he is

heading into the trip with the wind at his back. he feels confident into heading into this around-the-world trip. that dynamic will be at play while he's on ground. >> with president biden set to touch down in the coming hours, david mckenzie, who is also at the summit for us, you've been getting inseatsights into objecs and expectations. >> that's right, bianca. of course, climate change isn't a hoax. it is a huge catastrophe for the planet and we are behind the curve. president biden, as kevin said, will try to show u.s. leadership one way that the u.s. government has announced it's trying to help developing countries is to announce a carbon offset program. that has come under criticism. people say if they can offset their carbon then they won't make their tough choices to

reduce emissions themselves. i put the question to the chief climate envoy to the u.s., secretary john kerry, here's what he had to say. >> once the rules get fully worked out and everybody is in a comfort place, hopefully this will be implemented because we desperately need the money. there is not enough money in any country in the world to actually solve this problem. it takes trillions and no government that i know of is ready to put trillions in this on an annual basis. that's what the scientists and the u.n. finance reports say we must do. 2.5 to 4.5 trillion every year for the next 30 years. >> reporter: here's the problem. it won't be solved at the margins. it will be changed with the way we run industry and the way

governments do business all over the planet. right now the evidence is such that that isn't happening at these climate meetings despite the calls from scientists and activists. whether the talk can move to action, i'm skeptical that will happen in the short term but we will see if president biden can help show u.s. leadership at least on this issue and whether the tough choices will actually be made by leaders in the coming months. bianca, max? >> we shall see. thank you both so much. after leaving the cop27 president biden heads to the asean conference. we'll go live to beijing for a preview. a new study estimates that a virus called rsv is responsible for 1 in 50 deaths for children under the age of 5 worldwide. the virus is common around the world and is currently surging

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newsroom." i'm max foster. if you are just joining us, let me bring you up to date. control of the u.s. congress still up in the air as vote counting continues into the weekend across several states. republicans seem to be close to taking the house with a majority. it may take weeks to decide the senate. >> so let's take a look at the historical importance of this mid-term not being a red wave. most of the time the sitting president's party loses ground in mid-term elections. history certainly seems adamant that the opposing party will win the national popular vote for the u.s. house and gain seats there but as with any rule, there are exceptions. so let's look back at the key shifts against previous presidents during the mid-terms. according to data from the brookings institution in 1994 here president clinton lost 54

seats. in 2010 president obama lost a whopping 63 seats as the tea party handed the democrats a shellacking. president biden said this mid-term defied history and the pundits. take a listen. >> here's what we do know. we lost fewer seats in the house of representatives. we had the best mid-terms for governors since 1986. experts said we couldn't beat the odds but we did beat the odds. >> joining us from new york is timm mcfarley. he's the former director of the nixon presidential library. thank you so much for joining us. >> my pleasure. >> it's for the likes of you to decide, you know, how this election will go down in history. where would you place it?

>> well, it's a reminder of the extraordinary times that we live in. a president has not done this well in his first mid-term since george w. bush after 9/11 or john f. kennedy after the cuban missile crisis. president biden's polling numbers, his personal popularity was so low and inflation was so high that most analysts assumed, and the republican party assumed, that there would be a red wave, that the republicans would not only take over the house but they would win 30 to 40 seats at least and that they would take over the senate and they may still take over the senate and if they do it will be 51/49, but we're not there yet. yes, they'll probably take the house, but they might only have

a majority of 4 or 5 seats. so what has happened here is the american people have shown that they are moved by issues other than inflation. the supreme court decision in dobbs that made abortion illegal throughout the lands, a federal issue, it's now up to the states to determine, that has had an enormous effect in getting out the vote for the president's party. the reason that mid-terms generally spell bad news for a president is that his party, sometimes her, his party is not as energized to get out and vote. that's why americans don't usually vote in large numbers. this particular mid-terms we saw record numbers of people voting in mid-terms. that was unusual. it's because in this case there are issues that are motivating democrats to vote, dobbs, dislike of trump, concerns about

democracy that many pollsters underestimated when they were thinking about what would have happened or what was going to happen on tuesday. >> tim, lots more to ask you. cnn has arrived in a ukrainian town that's been liberated from russian troops over the past 48 hours. nic robertson joins us. he's the only journalist reporting from there. nic, tell us about where you are and what's happening right now. >> reporter: it's quite incredible. everyone's telling us we are the first reporters here. literally the ukrainian troops only arrived here yesterday, as you drive into town here, everyone's waving and happy. people we talked to here have horror stories to tell about the treatment by the russians particularly over the last few

days. i'll give you an idea what you're seeing behind me. you see a couple of young teenagers here with ukrainian flags on their shoulders. they were the first to raise the flag when the russians left even before the troops arrived. a pre-liberation by teenagers here. they tell us a month ago somebody had been shot here, shot and killed for raising a ukrainian flag. in the middle of the crowd here everyone is gathered in the center of the town outside of the administrative buildings here. that's the regional governor. he's visiting here, just arrived. he's explaining how they're going to get support from the ukrainian government, they're going to be bringing humanitarian aid, supplies and support. the situation for people here is really difficult. there's no electricity. there's no gasso they've had a very difficult time just in terms of surviving under the russians but what's happened in this town over the past few days

is the russians knew that they were going to pull out. there was widespread looting. vehicles looted. we've been to the bank here. it's completely ran sacked and looted. the police station here we're told was used as a base of torture. people would be taken here and tortured and if they want to extract more information, then they would take the 45 kilometers on to kherson. i spoke to a young girl. i'm telling you a lot of things here, everyone wants to talk. everyone you speak to at the roadside wants to talk. this young lady, 15 years old, she told me, her mother confirmed her story, in the past few days of the russians being here, she was taken away, kidnapped, a hood put over her head. she was afraid of being raped. she was released yesterday. this is a town that is only just now getting to grips with the idea of liberation, of what it means to be free, not to have

russian rule here. we are seeing people meeting on the streets, hugging each other in tears. but i think also there's a sense of, okay, what's going to happen now? we're free. we're liberated. i want to give you a slightly bigger sense of the town and from the crowd. this is a very small town. among one of the things you notice here, there are very few cars on the road. look down the street here and if you could see, that's sort of looking into town here. there are very few cars because the russians looted so many of them. that's what people here are telling us. there were some army soldiers around, but mostly what we're seeing is that the troops are pushing forward. this area is liberated and they're now moving more towards kherson. i think what we're going to see

here is going to be replicated through these areas as ukrainian forces move in and liberate them here. i'd love to be able to talk more with the people in the crowd here on camera with you but very few people here speak particularly good english for me to interview them. the conversations we've had here at the side of the road is relief that they are free again and wanting to tell us the difficult times they've had. another lady we stopped to and talked to at the market was literally in tears. she just didn't know what to say about having the fears lefted from her of possibly being picked up on the streets. for people here now it's just a sense of relief and coming to terms with a new reality.

>> incredible to see the reaction there, isn't it? it says so much about the situation, where the loyalties continue to lie there. >> thank you. thank you very much. people are just genuinely -- it's rare that you walk into a town and people are genuinely so happy to see you. you do become overwhelmed with the situation, the sadness, happiness, too. >> thank you. thank you. thank you. everyone is so pleased and happy. this is a new time and new chapter. >> how quickly do you think you'll be moving, nic? you tell people when you arrive in these places, not what your plans are. it seems military is moving

quickly to kherson. is it your feeling they are into kherson now? >> we understand they're moving carefully and cautiously. we have military shells. the mines have been removed. this population here, they're isolated. i think you'll see the military come back and make the roads into here secure. we saw a lot of troops this morning in small groups going out down further down the road. you are going to see them moving further and further towards kherson as they try to take control there. >> i'm looking, nic, at the

smiling faces behind you. what's life been like for them in recent months? what must this feel like to them? >> reporter: it's been one of exceptional uncertainty. they've been close to the front line. some of the city has been damaged due to shelling but not much. there's been uncertainty of food supplies. this is one of the things russians have said about kherson, they couldn't get adequate food supplies in. the market, the shops, we've seen one shop open. they're buying food from stalls beside the road. it's not a market, they are just places with a few products to buy. it's been very tough. it's clear when you speak to people how emotionally difficult

it's been to not know if you are going to be taken away for questioning, possible torture. that has happened to a lot of people here, they have been taken away. some of them haven't come back. so this has been this uncertainty here for people. perhaps that uncertainty under the russians and what they say happened in the last two weeks, when the russians realized they were leaving, they bought in. the level of violence and looting. the past couple of weeks when it looked like ukrainian forces were going to come in have been exceptionally precarious. then when one tries to pop one's self in the position people must have gone through, they were going to be uncertain, these are

the experiences people are sharing, that is worn on people. there's a relief but i'm not sure people here -- they know that they're free but it's still very muted. there are a lot of emotions that are still suppressed here, max. >> nic, thank you so much. i can only imagine what's going through their minds, can't you? >> the best we can do is just seeing the looks on their faces, which is quite incredible to see nic there and how delighted they are to share their relief and joy with him and whoever is watching. >> and the history for that area. something you only get on cnn, those moments when we are pushing together with the military and opening up those areas. we'll be back with nic throughout the day. of brainin health. to help kekeep me sharp.

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welcome back. we want to bring our guest back on the mid-term elections. we were speaking to him before we went to nic robertson on the ground outside of kherson. tim, let me ask you. one of the main arguments the democrats was making was the fact democracy itself was on the ballot. it was in peril. from the longitudinal historical perspective, was that true? >> well, what we've seen is a huge turnout in many of the battleground states and it shows that both parties wanted to participate in the democratic party. the election deniers, those are the ones that were won by donald trump and not by joe biden, that those deniers would win. some of them did win but most of them have not done well in the

positions that might affect future elections. in many ways democracy did extraordinarily well, not only by the participation of people, but by the fact that election deniers who could have been very powerful in certain states lost on tuesday. >> in terms of what's going to happen now, we're talking about the deadlock that would happen in washington if republicacacaca take the house but also if they take the senate as well. what's that mean for the wider world? does that mean that big decisions won't be taken which will affect the world? >> if the senate stays with the democrats, i think we can expect the u.s. commitment to the war in ukraine to continue. the house is going to be a problem for the president regardless of the size of the mandate that the republicans get

but for the world, the fact that donald trump and trumpist and election deniers did not do as well as they expected is a good sign for those who are worried about extreme nationalism around the world. trumpism is now under some pressure by republicans in the united states because this mid-term should have been a cake walk for republicans and it wasn't. so i think for the world the weakening of donald trump is an excellent sign. joe biden has his challenges ahead of him but he will still face a much easier congress to deal with than we expected on tuesday. >> tim, like you said as far as the republicans are concerned, it should have been a cake walk. one state that should have been anomalous was florida. ron desantis was roaring into the public consciousness globally. ron desantis, people are starting to pay attention to him. when we look at desantis, yale,

harvard educated. military background. perhaps more acceptable face of certain trumpist values. what do you think his chances are at becoming the nominee? >> his chances are much bet djere than they were on tuesday. he's not a very charismatic man. i'm not sure he will excite voters in the same way donald trump did on the right, but what's very important now is to see the extent to which trump and desantis go head to head. donald trump has been acting like desantis is his main opponent. desantis has not been acting that way. he's been focused on winning big in florida. over the next few weeks we'll see how desantis plays the game. if big donors move, that will make 2024 much more interesting.

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after nearly 20-year quest an archaeologist believes she may be close to locating the lost tomb of cleopatra. she uncovered tunnels that led to the mediterranean sea and sunken treasures. she says her excavation revealed a collection of coins portraying cleopatra and alexander the great. more than 1500 plus objects, statues and golden pieces. everyone wants this to be true. >> it would be the archaeological discovery of the 20th century. >> why? >> this would be the next big one. the death of cleopatra is

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