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live from studio 7 at the cnn center in atlanta, i'm michael holmes. thanks for your company. they have seen some dramatic changes in vote results over the past several hours in two key senate races in arizona and nevada, both favoring democratic candidates. cnn now projects incumbent democrat mark kelly will win re-election in arizona against republican challenger blake masters. the governor's race still too close to call, but hundreds of thousands of ballots remain to be counted in that race. final results not expected until early next week. in nevada that senate race is virtually tied. have a look at those numbers there. republican adam laxalt has watched his narrow lead slip away to democrat catherine cortez masto. election officials say all votes will be counted by early next week. kelly's projected win in arizona will give democrats 49 seats in

the senate, a win in nevada would secure democratic control of the senate. a democratic win in the georgia runoff would give the party an outright majority without needing the vice president as a tiebreaker as has been the case for the last few years. democrats have also picked up more house seats, though republicans only need seven more to retake control of the lower chamber. let's get straight to arizona with cnn's kyung lah in phoenix. >> reporter: the vote count here in maricopa county is still continuing, but cnn is now projecting that senator mark kelly, the democratic incumbent, will defeat a challenge from republican blake masters. the vote count here is 82% complete as workers here you can see are still going through the ballots. about 265,000 to 275,000 votes still remain to be counted. the masters campaign had hoped

that this latest vote result would be the turn around, clearing a path, a possible path to victory where he could catch up and overtake the democratic senator. that simply did not materialize. senator kelly released a statement after multiple news organizations projected that he would indeed win saying, quote, i'm humble by the trust our state has placed in me to continue this work, and we're also getting reaction from republicans here in the state of arizona. the party here increasingly has seen a divide between the moderate mccain republicans and the trump wing. republican analysts and operative barrett marcin tweeted, quote, arizona is a conservative state but not a trump state and voters keep telling us that. kyung lah, cnn, phoenix. >> and with us now from phoenix is mary joe who covers state politics for the arizona

republic. appreciate you sticking around for us. obviously a massive result for mark kelly and the democrats as they try to keep control of the senate. so how do the counts play out? what's been the reaction there in arizona if any yet? >> you know, sort of depends where you stand, but a lot of relief, you know, from the kelly camp and its supporters. they see this as making a statement about where arizona is on common sense government. they don't want fringe politics coming into their senate representation. and of course on the republican side a lot of disappointment. this would have been a big win for them. it would have helped to give the republicans control of the senate. as you've noted. and now they're knotted up even steven and all eyes turn to nevada and georgia. >> and you make -- republicans had viewed the mark kelly seat as a pickup opportunity not so

long ago, but what went wrong for them? >> i think it's the tone of -- you know, blake masters was the trump endorsed candidate. voters have not been kind to some of those candidates during the election. i mean in the primary, yes, they did very, very well. but with the general electorate you know kelly has led election night. masters was able to close that but apparently not enough to seal it deal. >> i'm curious your thoughts on this because donald trump not only endorsed masters, he campaigned for him. did that work against him in a state like arizona? >> perhaps, yes, i think there's been a little bit of a blow back but kelly's been fairly popular. he's tried to put some distance between himself and president

biden, notably biden did not come to this state to campaign for the democrat. it was former president barack obama who did a week ago to sort of rev up the base. and kelly has just not been seen as a far-left extremist, which also helped -- he's more in the mold of that moderate they like to call themselves common sense democrats in the mold of kyrsten sinema. >> still more counting to be done in the governor's race. what are you seeing there trend wise? >> interesting there was the first two weeks of ballots from those 292,000 early ballots that were dropped off on election day. there's been a lot of speculation about who those votes are going to favor. there's a lot of messaging that republicans should perhaps return their ballots in person. don't trust the mail, don't trust drop boxes. but these ballots that come in on election day come from people

who start procrastinating and wait to see how things play out. the first traunch of votes released tonight benefitted the democrats much to the surprise of many people who expected that it would benefit the republicans. it's too early to say that sets any kind of a trend, but it bumped up the lead for katie hobbs, the democrat in the governor's race. and it put kelly over the top as well as adrian fonte who's arizona's secretary of state and now arizona's next secretary of state. >> republicans try to focus by and large on the economy and biden's handling of the economy. the democrats focus a lot on abortion, and a lot of people thought that might have been a mistake. was it a mistake when it comes to arizona? how much did that play into

this? >> i haven't seen any good exit polls out of arizona, but certainly looking at broader polls it did seem like abortion remained top of mind for many voters. i think hanging over all this is the sense is, you know, democracy in peril? a lot of people approved that notion. but it appears it's stuck in the back of voters minds. let's get rid of some of this crazy stuff which the trump era characterizedch. >> what perhaps surprised you or did not surprise you in these arizona races? >> sure, good question. i mean i've been surprised by how republicans so far are still trying to play catch-up. i do think they will especially for many of the down ballot races. but even in our state le

legislature which is almost evenly split but controlled by republicans there are still some races yet to be decided and a slim chance the democrats could take control or at least share power, something that has not happened in this state for decades. >> terrific to get your analysis and your perspective there on the ground. mary jo, thanks so much. >> thank you very much. the ukrainian city of kherson is enjoying the first full day of freedom after months of russian occupation. still to come ukrainian rejoicing as you see thereafter russian troops leave their city. we'll be right back. a flexible y designed to balalance growth and guaranteed income so you can enjoy the lifee you've created. that's the planning effect. frfrom fidelity.

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about it. that's how people in the city of kherson welcomed ukrainian troops on friday following months of russian occupation. hours earlier moscow announced it pulled out from the west bank of the dnipro region. ukrainian troops also swept through other towns in the area as you see there holding up the ukrainian flag to mark the end of russia's occupation. at the same time they also displayed ammunition and other military gear the russians left behind, contradicting claims that they took all their equipment with them. ukraine says russian troops destroyed critical infrastructure on their way out, however, including at least seven bridges. president vaud mere zelenskyy saying ukrainians endured hardship because they always knew the invaders would be driven out. >> translator: people of kherson

waited. they never repudiated ukraine. they were right to pin their hopes on ukraine, and ukraine always retains its own. i'm glad to see those people despite all dangers of repression and suffering believed in ukraine. >> cnn was quick to get into some of the newly liberated areas in southern ukraine. nic robertson, the first reporter to arrive in one town less than 48 hours after the russians left. he found that residents there were overjoyed the occupation is over. >> reporter: their long awaited liberation sweet, savored with the soldiers who gave it to them. moments for all those who survived russia's impressive rule in kherson to celebrate, a day like no other. putin's forces vanquished across the river. freedom like this coming in cities and towns all around. arriving on the road to kherson,

remnants of russia's rapid reverse under fire two days ago. lots of unexploded ammunition here, deadly mortar rounds, indications they could have fought longer if they hadn't been told to retreat. driving in everyone waving, so many feelings all at once -- celebration, relief, and traumas relived. it was terrible, she tells us. the russians threatened to kill me, to smash out my brain. raw emotions everywhere. tearful relatives embracing, knowing each other survived. and those stories of survival bone chilling. a few days ago the russians kidnapped me, this 15-year-old girl tells us. they put a hood on me, took me to a house, asked me about the ukrainian troops, told me they would cut my fingers off. i thought i was going to be

raped. they behaved like animals in the last few weeks, she says. they took people away for interrogation and beat them, accusing them of being ukrainian spies. they stole cars and looted, too. at the town's bank the security doors ripped off, the cash, too. you can see inside here the bank is completely trashed, looted. there are money boxes there forced open. at the town square people gathered part in jubilation, part in uncertainty. the city without water and electricity for months. the newly arrived ukrainian administrator telling them humanitarian supplies are on their way. on the outskirts of town residents benefitting from russia's rapid retreat abandon ammo cases collected for winter firewood. nearby the bridges to the south destroyed. the russians blew these bridges

up just two days ago trying to slow down the ukrainian's advance south towards kherson. the tactic doesn't seem to be working. ukraine's advance has been cautious, pauses to regroup and reenergize, but still relentless. >> translator: everything is happening according to the plan. russians are leaving so fast they're losing their boots on the run. we'll take kherson in two or three days. >> reporter: it may be even sooner. seconds after we talk, they get the call to move forward. on their way, it appears, to join the liberation and celebrations in kherson. nic robertson, cnn, ukraine. the u.s. president joe biden is on the next leg of his international diplomatic mission. he's in cambodia preparing for meetings with asian leaders. we'll have the latest in our live report from will rippley in

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welcome back. u.s. president joe biden says the climate crisis is a matter of human, economic, and national security and that the world must rise to the challenge. these remarks came at the cop27 climate conference in egypt friday. mr. biden highlighting his administration's recent environmental victories as evidence of the u.s. is ready to be a good partner in that fight. >> the united states is acting. everyone has to act. the united states government is putting our money where our mouth is to strengthen accountability for climate risk and resilience. >> mr. biden also met with egypt's president during the

visit. he's now set for summits in asia and will have a meeting with the chinese leader xi jinping next week. will rippley in cambodia where president biden will attend the asean summit of southeast asian nations in the hours ahead. tell us about his program, his schedule, and the priorities on this trip. >> reporter: well, first up on the agenda it will be basically a meeting with the cambodian prime minister. they are obviously the hosts this year, and it's interesting because you have this big meeting coming up at the g20 next week with xi jinping of china. and the cambodian premier met with him yesterday and meeting with the u.s. president today. you can walk around and see examples of chinese businesses that are popping up, chinese owned enterprises. and so as china kind of solidifies its economic influence here, it also gives

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a reminder of our top story this hour. democrats just one seat away from retaining control of the u.s. senate. cnn projects that incumbent mark kelly will win re-election

against republican challenger blake masters. this gives both parties 49 seats each with two races remaining. democrats also hoping they will keep their seat in nevada. right now that's a tight race. you couldn't get any tighter. have a look at those numbers. incumbent catherine cortez masto trailing slightly the republican adam laxalt. meanwhile in the house democrats have picked up more seats. the republicans only need seven more to control the chamber. cnn's john king analyzes in a battle with our wolf blitzer and explains what each party still needs to control the chamber. >> we just projected mark kelly the winner here, right. so when you bring nis map up here i'm going to come here, this is ahead. these are the races we are called. so right now democrats have two shots -- two shots. they win either here or here. they get the senate majority. republicans need now to win them

both because republicans need 51. democrats only need 50 because they have the vice president of the united states. so with the democrats it's possible, wolf. it's possible democrats can clench the majority before the december 6th runoff in georgia, and some new votes just came in here in washo county. last time we spoke about this race adam laxalt the republican challenger was up. when the votes came in from washingtono nevada senate and bring it up, move it over a little bit here. let me find my pencil. it just has to pull away and, boom, this is what happened. this is swing county. republicans needed to make up ground here. instead here's what happened, 5,200, 5,800, sorry, and 21 votes, 53%. he's leading. he's leading statewide.

46-91, 43%. so she's trailing. you got to make up ground. that's how you do it. by 10 points in this installment. that's 10,000 votes right there. so what does that mean? that means in a swing county, number one, she's taken the lead and holding her lead 50% to 47%. often in nevada we talk a lot about clark county because that's where most people live. often nevada politics in this swing county the color of this county in the end is very often an indicator who's winning statewide. let's come back. 821 votes now and most of the outstanding votes are here in clark county. again, he's still leading statewide fewer than 1,000 votes but she is leading 52% in the largest and most populous county and meats where the most outstanding votes are. now, it guarantees you if the votes continue to fall even in

that pattern she has plenty of opportunity to catch up with the outstanding votes. i make that point if you and they're all called on the map except for georgia where rafael warnock won on election day. that almost should go back to gray in the sense we have to start over december 6th. if that red turns to blue then democrats keep their senate majority and georgia will be gravy if you will for democrats trying to get to 51. republicans desperately need to win that and then that. >> another close race we're following is the contest for colorado's third congressional district. the incumbent republican lauren boebert barely edging out her democratic challenger adam frisch at the moment. cnn's lucy ckavanaugh taking a look why.

>> reporter: it's not going to be clear at least next week in part government offices here in the u.s. are closed for the veterans day holiday and outstanding military and cured ballots have yet to be returned and counted. that deadline november 16th. lauren boebert was trailing behind her opponent early thursday morning. as of friday afternoon she was ahead by 1,100 votes. a mandatory recount is triggered if the margin is 0.5 or less. here's the secretary of state weighing in on the possibility of a recount. take a listen. >> it's too early to tell. we need to be able to process the rest of the ballots and after that we'll do a bipartisan risk limited audit which confirms the results followed by a bipartisan canvas and then only then do i certify the election and its determined whether we go into recount. there's two ways to do a recount in the state of colorado. one is mandatory, which you just mentioned. but then candidates can also pay

for a recount if they so choose. >> reporter: but the fact we're talking about this race, the fact the margins are so very thin at least took political experts by surprise. lauren boebert entered this race in a strong position, the third congressional district she represents was made more favorable to republicans when its borders were redrawn last year. unlike most of the colorado delegation she entered the race with a sizable campaign war chest and also had national name recognition, making headlines as a staunch ally of former president donald trump. a gun rights advocate. when she was sworn in she released video of herself walking around capitol hill with a gun, and she's promoted conspiracy theories about the outcome of the presidential election. and analysts say one of the reasons why this was so close is her opponents used her behavior against her. adam frisch served on the aspen city council and also asked

voters if they wanted two more years as what he described as her anger tainment brand. she is expressing optimism about her chances. the republican candidates for senate and governor but did start fund-raising for a possible recount on friday. cnn, colorado. we are almost nine months into the war in ukraine, no end in sight, of course. cnn's christian amanpour sat down with ukraine's president and first lady for an exclusive interview. they spoke about the state of the war and the emotion to keep fighting. >> president zelenskyy, first lady, welcome to the program. mr. president, it's been nearly nine months of this war now. did you expect it to last this long? do you have any idea how long it

might last? >> translator: thank you for the question and thank you for the meeting. you asked whether i thought this war would last so long. no, because i didn't start this war. and i'm sure there isn't a single ukrainian who knew what this will be and what tragedy this would bring to every home in our country because i repeat we did not start this war, but ukrainian society united and showed that it was ready for what, unfortunately, was such a tragedy, showed that it was ready for these challenges. i was really impressed by the power of one nation and was impressed by the swiftness of the response of europe. the whole world, and the whole international community that rallied around ukraine for this challenge. >> first lady, what motivates you to get up in the morning?

how do you feel that you've endured this war? >> translator: well, thank you. it's a big question. it covers many fears of my life. and what helps me get up in the morning surely as you said is my husband's example. i know that if he endures, then i have to endure. if the day's begun then we have to keep fighting. that keeps me going. it's not easy every day, but you know you need to keep running. you cannot stop. as aliceex just said in order t stay in place you must run faster. that's why we run. i get inspiration from the kids and children. first and foremost there are some ordinary things every family is doing. you need to get your son ready for school, make sure they have breakfast. well, unfortunately, i don't have the assurance that my child would go to school every day because of those strikes with missiles and drones. there's a lot of work, a lot of

humanitarian projects that we will continue after the war. that helps a lot. >> mr. president, i wanted to ask you how you react and i know you all monitor russian casualties and russian activity on the ukrainian battlefield. but the pentagon actually is a very senior defense official says and i'm going to quote to get it right russia has lost nearly half of its battle tanks, used up most of its precision guided weapons in this war, that 80% of their land force is bogged down here, is stuck here in ukraine. does that match your figures? and what is your answer to that? >> translator: i think this more or less corresponds to reality. although, frankly, speaking nobody knows the full reality especially as regards for us now because nobody can tell you precisely how many people died.

nevertheless, we clearly understand that the artillery that was provided as assistance to us from the united states and europe, it definitely had to break this initiative which russia launched at us on the 24th of february. and we did break this military initiative, we've stopped them. we've deoccupied a large part of our territory, and this indeed was helped by the artillery and the new technologies. we've never resorted to any of the lies the russian federation produces about dirty bombs and nuclear challenges and so on. and i'm very pleased that we are working jointly and responding quickly to that. straight after russia's allegations we invited the iaea, and they verified everything and said it's just another lie from russia. so i cannot confirm those numbers for sure, but i can say for sure that it is a stunning number both in terms of heavy

weapons and personnel. >> are their losses heavier than your losses? >> translator: yes, ten times. i think so approximately. i can't give you the exact numbers but there's a very significant difference because our war tactic is not to throw people because people are most important. not to use people as canon fodder, and that's why it is very important to us whenever we ask our partners for artillery or armored vehicles. then it is not just about the weapons but first of all protection for our military. >> madam first lady, you just returned from a major tech conference in lisbon, and i think the world has noted that ukraine has used technology in a really innovative and effective way. what was your message there? and what do you want the tech world to do for this country? >> translator: well, my message was pretty simple and i hope it was heard. the people gathered there were people who pushed technology

forward. these people have an impact on which direction technology and the whole world will move in the future, so my appeal to them was to choose a side that technology they will invent or design. will this be a technology that kills or a technology that defends? because we have a wonderful example, for example bellengrad conducted an investigation. and now they're targeting missiles at our buildings, and this is a choice, a conscious choice made by people who know this technology, have the expertise and are specialists. they chose to be murderers and terrorists. so my appeal to all those thousand dollars of people gathered at the summit was to make their choice from a moral and ethical standpoint.

as to what they will do in the future. and really the technologies help. >> mr. president, you've obviously heard there are all these articles being written, there are these foreign policy analysts who are saying is it isn't it enough already for you? shouldn't you go to the negotiating table? some of these countries with economic pressures on their own who are supporting you now, are they -- are you feeling any pressure to go to the negotiating table? >> translator: they don't want this war to be finished. now without having any fatigue everyone has to understand it's only the kremlin and only one person the head of the russian federation who's not tired of the war. he might be tired of life in principle because of his age but he's definitely not tired of the war. now this person and the russian political and military

leadership -- they've begun to feel the effect of the sanctions. they have begun to feel dissatisfaction in their society. this person and all of them are afraid not only of our society. these people unfortunately have no voice. because if they weren't afraid of going to the streets they would exert pressure. and this is what the russian leadership is afraid of. and then for our part we say, please, respect our principles of the u.n. charter, please respect our integrity, our people, our rights, our freedom, our land and our choice. that's it. so this word "fatigue" is a big word. you can't get fatigued. so it's too early for all of us to get fatigued. but when russia truly wants peace, we will definitely feel it and see that.

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lopsided win last week. mark preston joins me now from washington, d.c. a cnn senior political analyst. i want to ask you this in the broader picture because you're a big picture guy, the gop. how they see governor ron desantis they're already say he's the shining light of the mid-terms but donald trump already attacking him as, quote, ron desanctimonious. he called him average. how is that likely to play out? trump's true social feed smacks of desperation in many ways. >> beyond desperation at this point. michael, in politics your only as good as your last win, only as big as your biggest check you're going to write me. what we're seeing right now is ron desantis very disciplined, very well educated. he's a lawyer. he's someone right now republicans are starting to

really get attracted to and the reason why is because he won resoundingly on tuesday night. beat charlie crist by nearly 20 points. in florida desantis was able to make huge inroads with hispanic voters in florida. as everyone know around the world florida is a microcosm of the united states if not the world. >> whether those policy positions will translate nationally, but as you say he's sitting pretty. i want to ask you, too, kevin mccarthy facing a rocky road to the speakership and we don't even know yet if the house is going to be won by the republican, but he is going to have a rocky road. he could be vulnerable to the power of the freedom caucus. >> interesting. right now if we look at where we stand, you need 218 votes in the house to become speaker of the house, to control the house

majority. right now democrats have 200 seats. the republicans have 211. you say that's great for republicans, and it is. they only have 25 seats that are outstanding that is considered competitive. if you look at the democrats, though, they have 37 seats that are outstanding that are competitive. so let's just tie up all these crazy numbers in a bow and just explain it this way. it looks like republicans are going to go on and take the house majority. if they do so it could be only by four or five votes. kevin mccarthy right now has to try and please everybody. every flavor of republican who is in congress right now, and you noted the freedom caucus, these are ultraconservatives, and they are out there publicly saying right now unless kevin mccarthy gives in to what their demands are, then they're not going to support him. if that's the case we're looking at a republican party that will be in great disarray at the end of tnext week. >> it's all still playing out in realtime. great to have you, my friend.

thanks so much. well, twitter's time under new ownership has been rocky to say the least. it's been a bit over two weeks now since elon musk assumed control, and things are likely not to get any easier interest t for the billionaire. >> the company's future has never seemed so in doubt. in recent days twitter has seen an exodus of top executives, alienated advertisers, launched and then unlaunched other features designed to compensate for those choices repeatedly. also in the early days twitter has battled a wave of fake, verified accounts posing as donald trump, rudy giuliani, lebron james, nintendo and others. impostors have even forced eli

lilly. in response twitter has temporarily stopped taking assignments for twitter blue, the new paid subscription service it offered days ago offering a check mark to anyone who pays $8 a month no questions asked. according to multiple reports musk has canceled the company's remote work policy and even warmed the company could potentially face bankruptcy. that's not all. according to legal experts twitter's layoffs and resignations have jeopardized its ability to comply with government regulations that protect the security and privacy of user data. violations could lead to hefty fines and even personal liability for musk that would tie his hands at twitter and wherever he may go next. brian fung, cnn, washington. >> thanks for spending part of your day with me. i'm michael holmes. you can follow me on twitter and

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