hello and welcome to our viewers watching across the united states and around the word. live from studio seven at the cnn center in atlanta, i'm michael holmes. cnn can report the democrats will hold the united states senate for another two years. critical moment came hours ago when nevada's senate race was called for the democratic incumbent, catherine cortez h masto. she had been closing the gap in recent days and the latest bunch of voechts pushed her to the heat. the projected win in nevada mirrors the senate win in arizona, that is projected to go to democrat incumbent mark kelly. his opponent, republican blake masters, hasn't yet conceded. now, by claiming 50 seats, democrats will control the senate with the vice president

casting any tiebreaking votes. a win next month in the georgia runoff would give democrats a clear stand alone majority of 51. senate majority leader chuck schumer says the vote result should send a clear message to republicans. >> the american people rejected, soundly rejected, the anti-democratic, authoritarian, nasty, and divisive direction the maga republicans wanted to take our country in. and i'm making a plea to my republican colleagues. we can disagree on so many issues, that's fair. but let's not have this kind of divisive negliativity. let's not have the condemnation of viciousness and even violence against poll workers, against so many others. let us try to come together. >> now, still undecided, the

arizona governor's race, where election denier kari lake is trailing the democrat katie hobbs by some 30,000 votes. let's take you to nevada, where cnn's rosa flores has the very latest from las vegas. >> reporter: the stakes were high, the margins were razor thin, but in the end, the democratic incumbent prevailed. catherine cortez masto gets to stay as the senator from the state of nevada, and with that, the democrats get to keep and maintain control of the u.s. senate. here's how it all went down. the republican adam laxalt was in the lead for days, and then on saturday evening, clark county released a batch of about 23,000 votes and here is how those votes were divided. catherine cortez masto receiving about 14,000 of those votes, or 60% of the vote. laxalt received more than 8,000 votes, or about 35% of that

batch. now, that put catherine cortez masto in the lead and cnn called the race at that point in time. her campaign taking to twitter, saying, quote, what did people get wrong about this race? the first latina senator knows her community better than anonymous sources. the daughter of a teamster knows how to fight for working families. and ccm's a former a.g. and crime attacks couldn't stick. again, the democrat here, catherine cortez masto, keeps her seat and stays a senator of nevada. rosa flores, cnn, las vegas. >> now, with arizona's governor's race still hanging in the balance, state election workers are processing hundreds of thousands of outstanding ballots. but some republicans have complained the count is going too slow, falsely suggesting that's deliberate. it's attracted small gatherings of protesters, as you see there.

adding to the mistrust, state republicans sent out a tweet that also seemed to suggest the vote count in maricopa county was not happening fast enough. but the county's top election officials says those kinds of false claims are based on ignorance of arizona law. >> these allegations that are being made by some of the candidates and other political activists that this count is taking too long is simply -- those folks are not paying attention to the history of how we have counted votes here in arizona for decades now. the average time over the last couple of decades to get through our count is 10 to 12 days. >> cnn's senior political analyst david gergen joins me live from boston. thanks for making the time, david. so, what does it say about the electorate and predictions in this election that democrats end up holding the senate, might yet gain another seat and republicans, if they hold the

house, majority will be by a handful of seats what does that say about the elector rate? >> this has been a remarkably good election, and i think the message is that americans are exhausted with a lot of the polarization and the poison that's in our system. and they understood that extremism was taking over our politics. and this was a response. this was a rejection of extremism. the voters said it loud and clear all across the country. and i think that's very good for democracy in america. it's not very good for the republican party, but maybe it will wake them up to the fact that they're going down the wrong lane. they've been rejected two elections in a row now. 2018, 2020, and now 2022. three elections, really. that they've been shown, you know, you can't win with this trumpian polarization. it's just not working. people see through it. and that's -- you know, frankly, that's healthier. >> to that point, i mean, and

it's an important point, before the midterms, the election was largely couched as a referendum on joe biden, the economy. but as you point out, did it end up being a referendum on, yes, abortion rights in many cases, but on donald trump, him personally, but also trumpism, denialism, the extreme positions of some candidates, which trump fostered? >> oh, i think absolutely. and donald trump, you know, you can't say it any other way, he is, every time he gets out, he tells us how he's in charge, he's responsible, he's the guy choosing the candidates and he chose some lousy candidates. the republicans should have done a lot better, they should, under normal circumstances, they would have gained 20, 25 seats. joe biden has had the best midterm, first term of his office, best midterms in over 20 years. you have to go back some. so, he -- biden deserves a lot

of credit for this, but there's no question that this was a bad night for donald trump and i no longer think he's invisible within the republican party. republicans may be crazy sometimes, but they're not stupid. they don't -- >> so, do you think this is, you know, the end or, at least, the beginning of the end for donald trump, given the midterm p performance of republicans and also combined with the bright spot, if you like, performance of florida's ron desantis? >> absolutely. well, i do think that the desantis profile has just shot up, it's gone skyward. here's a man who is very well educated. and he's been a very shrewd governor of florida. but for a republican governor to win every single county in florida, it's just absolutely remarkable. so, he's very much in the hunt, and that's going to set up a desantis versus trump, you know, there's going to be a showdown

in the party. there are going to be some showdowns in the democratic side, between the progressives and the more traditional people there, a lot of the traditionalists feel, had biden not gotten himself back to center-left, instead of being further out, you know, he wouldn't have pulled this off. >> yeah, that's a great point. progressives did well on the left, as well. so, you have a strong performance by democrats, a failure on the republican side, in judging the electorate, but it's true, is it not, that it doesn't matter how close it is, biden won't get anything passed legislatively in the house if it's in republican hands, right? what does that mean for his ag agenda? >> yeah, that's a very, very good question. because even though -- the democrats have done really well, republicans have done lousy, but if you think of what's going to happen in the next two years, the truth is, these midterm elections will make it harder to govern, because it's going to be so close in each chamber.

it appears that the house will go to republicans at this point. there are some two dozen seats that are still -- haven't been called for the house of representatives, and if they split evenly, republicans would win the house and have maybe a tiny margin of three, four votes, so that's a big deal, but i want to go back to this question of governance. you know, we've seen in the uk now how, with the decline of democracy and the rise of polarization and poison, how ungovernable britain has become here recently. well, america was heading in the same direction. this gives -- this midterm election provides a glimmer of hope. it does not solve problems. it does not solve the problem of governance, but it gives a glimmer of hope that we will pull back together and end the madness that is beset american politics. >> yeah, absolutely. and i wish we had time to talk about gen z and millennials,

because they played a big role. >> we had -- this was an election that was very much about generations. almost as if we had two different parties running. a younger generation that voted massively for the democrats, and an older generation that voted pretty massively for republicans. and we've never seen that kind of split before. and i do think it's extremely telling and it's going to be with us for sometime to come. it's going to be helping to define our politics. >> under 30s turned out in this election. david gergen, always good to see you, appreciate the analysis. thank you so much. >> thank you, michael, good to be with you again. all right, joy and relief in a war-torn city. ahead, ukrainians in kherson celebrate their liberation after russian soldiers are forced out. hear from the residents who endured months of occupation.

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out. now have a look at this. just four days ago, moscow's army still controlled kherson and several areas in the west. but now, have a look. by friday, ukraine took back the c city. ukraine's president says it's just the beginning. >> translator: and the world sees it now. it sees what it means when ukrainians meet their own people. it sees what the unity of ukrainians means. and it sees why we should liberate our entire land from the end invaders. we will see more greetings in other cities still under occupation. >> as the offensive continues, a russian-occupied city in eastern kherson region has announced it would start evacuating officials and civilians. but in neighboring zaporizhzhia. russian-backed officials say they have no plans to leave, despite the retreats in kherson.

cnn's nic robertson is in kherson and shows us the e euphoria that now prevails in that city. >> reporter: this is what liberation looks like. and this is what it feels like. for the people of kherson, euphoria. eight dark months of oppressive occupation over. their troops greeted as conquering heroes. residents cut off from the w world. no internet, no electricity, no water, and no tv. gathering in the city's central square, coming over to hear our broadcast and tell us what the past eight months have been like. i'm joined here by yulia and olga. we're going to have a quick conversation about how it's been. tell us about the last eight months under occupation. >> it was really hard time for everyone. every ukrainian family waited

for our soldiers, for our army. >> reporter: how does it feel now today to see them? >> it's amazing. wonderful. thank you very much for supporting us. we feel every day your support. thank you so much. can i hug you? >> reporter: sure. thank you very much. olga -- can we -- can we talk? >> yeah, sure. >> reporter: can you tell us about your experiences over the last eight months? >> we were waiting so long, but we were sure that this day will come and we will celebrate together with our people here and everywhere in the world. thanks for all that supported us, that help us and this day, we are so happy to be here. we are so happy with our people to celebrate this day. this is something amazing, but it was hard, but we always knew

that this day will come. >> reporter: do you feel the city's safe now? >> yes, city is safe for us. >> reporter: and tell us how it was, because again, we haven't had good information here. what was the situation like living with russian soldiers in control? >> what people you can see here now, i think many of them were hiding. they're hiding their ukrainian flag somewhere in the corner. we were terrified by russian army. we were terrified by soldiers that can come any moment in our house, in our home, just open the door like they're living here and steal, kidnap, torture, and this was very, very -- i have goosebumps now when i'm talking, but we did that. we wait and we celebrate it now.

>> reporter: this is what liberation looks like. this is what liberation feels like. the people of this city tried to resist the russians. the russians suppressed them. this is what ukrainians are like when that suppression comes off. nic robertson, cnn, liberated kherson, ukraine. >> powerful images in that report from nic. well, u.s. president joe biden looking to shore up relations with leaders at the summit of southeast asian nations, in advance of his in-person meeting with the chinese president xi jinping. we'll have a live report from cambodia. our will ripley is standing by. that's when we come back. inter .

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and welcome back to our viewers across the united states and around the world. i'm michael holmes. you're watching "cnn newsroom." let's return to our top story now. the results from tuesday's u.s. midterm elections, as the counting continues. cnn can project democrats will retain control of the u.s. senate. incumbent democrat catherine cortez masto will hold onto her nevada senate seat, defeating the republican adam laxalt. now in the house of representatives, control not yet decided, with democrats holding 204 seats, republicans 211. 218 is the magic number needed to control the lower house.

cnn's john berman with more now on how the balance of power in the senate shifted in favor of the democrats and what could happen in the house of representatives. >> so, this is currently the makeup of the u.s. senate. the democrats have 50 seats, the republicans have 49. there is still a runoff in georgia, which takes place on december 6th, but no matter what happens there, the democrats will maintain control of the senate. if the republicans manage to win that runoff in georgia, it will be a 50/50 split. the vice president kamala harris would break the tie, but if the incumbent democrat raphael warnock does win in this runoff in december, the democrats would have a 51-49 advantage and outright majority, which, believe me, they would enjoy. it would mean the committee assignments don't have to be even. it would mean they could lose at least one democratic vote in key moments in the senate. so, this is what it could look like going forward. how did we get to this point?

the last senate seat to be called was in nevada, it was catherine cortez masto over adam laxalt. some of the mail vote that came in over the last several days helped her make up a deficit. she had been trailing by more than 22,000 votes just a few days ago. now leading by several thousand. so, the senate has been decided. that leaves the u.s. house of representatives. this is something. not many people would have thought that the senate would be called for the democrats before the house would be called for republicans, but we just can't yet. there are too many outstanding races. right now, the republicans control 211 seats, we projected they will win at least 211 seats. the democrats, 204. you need 218 seats in the house of representatives to have a majority. 218, which means the republicans need seven more, the democrats would need 14 more. there are currently 20 seats that have not been called.

20 races that have yet to be called. in these races right now, the republicans lead in ten. they only need seven. they lead in ten. the democrats lead in ten, they need 14. so, you can see, it's an uphill battle. the democrats on this map right now would need to hold every district that is currently blue and then pick up four of the uncalled races that are still in red. some of them are quite close. let me just show you. in california, california's 13th congressional district for instance right now, there's just a margin of 84 votes with 46% reporting, so, the democrats could potentially, potentially pick up a few of these seats. this seat, did ticket right here, you can see riverside county, that's just a county there, but you can see in this district right now, california's 41st, the republican leads by 2,100 votes with just 53 remaining. so, again, if the democrats were to hold every blue district, every blue congressional

district on this map and pick up four of these red republican ones, they would maintain control of the house. it's an uphill battle, but at this point, not impossible. john berman, cnn, new york. >> let's talk more about all of this by bringing in elizabeth thompson, the editor in chief of "the nevada independent" and joins me now live from las vegas. finally, hopefully, you'll get some sleep. this has been such a close race, right down to the wire. what was your takeaway as to why so close, why cortez masto prevailed? >> well, nevada is a swing state, remains so, has been so for a long time. we started to look blue the last couple of cycles, that means democratic-leaning, but we really are a swing state and we have a very large portion of nonpartisan voters here, as well. from cycle to cycle, it is sometimes anyone's guess how the

nonpartisans will lean. this year, though, in nevada, for a variety of interesting reasons, the democrat was able to prevail, so, i guess all eyes are on georgia now. >> you know, we saw, you know, elsewhere, right around the country, that despite republican focus on the economy, abortion rights, democracy, and so on, played bigger roles in the minds of voters than many perhaps expected. what were the issues in nevada that impacted the election? what did you take away from what you've seen in that context? >> yeah, so, you're absolutely right. i think the economy and inflation, those were the top issues on voters' minds in nevada. every survey repeatedly showed those issues being at the top of mind. but it wasn't quite that simple here. we were devastated by the pandemic and so that caused a lot of strong feelings in every direction across the political spectrum. our democratic governor was defeated, that was decided

yesterday, but catherine cortez masto, the democrat, she has a reputation, number one, for working across the aisle. number two, she is a tough campaigner. she was out there, for example, in the rural counties, which tend to favor republicans. she did not shy away from showing up to talk to voters in the rurals, to make her case for why she should get another term. she talked a lot, yes, about abortion rights and preserving that in nevada. close to 60% of nevadans do support a woman's right to an abortion. chef she also disconnected from the biden administration a couple of times on some key issues, including student loan forgiveness, and she broke with them, as well, on a key mining tax bill, also very important to the rurals here, so catherine cortez masto just understands her state. hard worker, and managed to overcome what we thought was

going to be a red wave. >> and it was interesting, too, i was reading the culinary union ran a big ballot cure outreach effort, reaching thousands of voters. how important was the union vote in nevada? >> well, they're always important, i mean, the culinary union has more members by far than any union in nevada, they are great at rallying their volunteers. they have been knocking on doors. i believe they knocked on a million doors just over the past few weeks. and they were shouting that from the mountain tops here. they were also very actively engaged in the get out the vote effort here in nevada, encouraging people to vote, even at the last minute, get your ballot into that drop box. and they were even assisting this week, voters who needed a signature checked, culinary was coordinating between the state system, noting which signatures needed to be checked, and the voters themselves who needed to get involved in that process,

so, i'm sure they had an effect, of course, there's always many reasons why an election tips one way or another, but certainly, they had an influence here. >> yeah, and the other thing i was talking about with david gergen earlier in the program, gen z, under 30s voted in great numbers. i saw a college campus polling place in arizona, they had a big turnout, 96% voted democrat. do you yet know the significance of voter turnout of younger voters in nevada? it seems to have been a very encouraging thing around the country. >> i saw one exit poll that looks like we saw an uptick of maybe a percentage point over the prior cycle. i'll be interested in the coming days to look at additional exit polls and surveys, as we try to parse through who voted for whom, who turned out and why. it will be very interesting, i think, in the weeks to come, for us to figure that out. i want to remind the viewers, as

well, we have a very high latino population here in nevada. they usually don't turn out at quite the same percentage as other demographic groups, but i wouldn't be surprised to find that in this particular cycle, they did. and it seems likely that they did not go to the republican side quite as much as was predicted prior to the election. >> you have had a heck of a week, i hope you get some rest. elizabeth thompson, thank you for staying up for us. >> thank you so much. all right, donald trump wasting no time assigning the blame for his party's losses, as he is want to do. taking aim at senate gop leader mitch mcconnell. it comes as the senate minority leader is facing desense within the republican party. some members calling for a delay in congressional leadership elections next week. but even some conservatives say trump himself is to blame for the lackluster gop performance. >> i think trump's kind of a

drag on our ticket. i think donald trump gives us problems politically. we lost the house, the senate, and the white house in two years when trump was on the ballot or in office. and i think we just have some trump hangover. i think he's a drag on our offices, in our races. >> now, after the republican much anticipated red wave turned out to be barely a ripple, many of them are trying to figure out just how it went wrong. our panel of experts breaks down the results and what it means for the republican party. >> this may be the moment that we discover that donald trump is not a king maker any longer. this is it. his candidates did not do well. his election denial was not a big issue. in this campaign. and i think that republicans are going to have to do an awful lot of soul searching about whether they actually ran on issues that were geared to them. and how they could have lost the

senate with an election that was about inflation, that was about crime, that was about immigration, yes, it was also about abortion rights. but i -- and democracy, but i think that the fact that the republicans couldn't pull this off is going to force them to go to the couch and have a little bit of therapy and say, why did we do this? were we following the wrong leaders? and how can we fix this? one short-term answer might be to tell your voters that they should vote by mail, because maybe it's easier and maybe more people do it. if you don't want to show up on election day as donald trump wants you to show up, just vote any way you want. >> you know, i think what's interesting, too, we talk about the problems that kevin mccarthy is going to have over in the house of representatives, regardless of what happens, look what's happening in the united states senate right now. the head of the campaign arm calling, questioning mitch

mcconnell and the future of the conference. you have josh hawley doing the same thing, missouri senator. you have marco rubio from florida, as well, somebody that you would think is lining up behind mitch mcconnell. republicans are going to have their own issues in the senate right now just trying to stay together and mitch mcconnell, who has been bullet proof for decades, because he has really done such a very good job of keeping the republican conference in order, has done an amazing job getting judicial nominees through, now he's going to have a fight in his own hands. >> all right, at least two people were killed saturday when a couple of world war ii era planes collided in the air. the b-17 flying fortress and bell p-63 king cobra crashed in texas. authorities say casualties have not been confirmed, but they are feared th feared.

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a cruise ship carrying hundreds of passengers infected with covid-19 has docked in sydney, australia. the majestic princess cruise ship, which sailed from new zea zealand, had at least 800 positive cases onboard, forcing officials to issue the country's highest covid alert. the cruise line says a large number of guests started testing positive halfway through the 12-day journey. they say the infected guests isolated in their state rooms until they were escorted off the ship from a separate exit. now, the u.s. is seeing an uptick in rsv, a respiratory illness, which affects children under 5 years old. a recently released police body cam video shows just how frightening the disease can be. here it is, this is what happened when two kansas city officers scrambled to help a 1-month-old who stopped breathing. have a listen.

>> come on. come on. come on. >> let me see. hold her up. >> i can -- she's breathing now. >> she is breathing. >> well, thankfully, baby kamiya is doing well, but she is just one of the many infants who have had scary runnings during what some health officials are calling an unprecedented surge of rsv over the last few weeks. cnn chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta explains the latest on this active respiratory season. >> it is really incredible video to watch that and to see that baby >> situations like that are going to be rare but there's no questions we are seeing a lot of respiratory issues out there right now sometimes it can be challenging. to know when a child is going

to develop some sort of respiratory distress. the breathing is faster, shorter, quick breath that is of concern. they are making unusual noises as you see there. obviously if there is any signs of blue or purple around the lips that means they are not getting enough oxygen again it can be subtle. let me show you a couple of things sometimes these videos are very instructive but not meant to frighten you at all if you take a look at this baby breathing using abdominal muscles that's abdominal breathing that's usually a sign that the baby starting to difficulty breathing. using those accessory muscles. also here you see the head bobbing that's a concern. it means the baby might be having some struggles that might be comfortable.

you have the flu, you have covered, all of those things are happening at the same time. the michigan children's hospital we know that the hospital is basically 100% full. elected cases are getting canceled at tough to admit new patients for unrelated things. that is the situation. flu is a big concern as well about half of the country now experiencing very high levels of flu if you get a sense of how things are changing over the past few weeks we looked at the numbers here october 22nd we had close to 900,000 cases of flu a week later thomas doubled and then this most recent week about more than 1 million new cases.

that's the real concern. one thing to point out when it comes to the flu trying to figure out who is most affected, older people people over the age of 65 that's the red line but the line just below that is the young. kids. 0-4. a mic with covid obviously with flu you are going to affect the very old and the very young. we don't know how this is all going to play out if there's a significant number of cases over the next few weeks and then it comes down or what sometimes we look to the southern hemisphere to get some kind of clue as to what is going on there flu season is earlier than ours is typically from april to october. let's take a look we picked on australia here and compared it to the last five years. the redline this year is australia. flu season happened that a higher peak and much earlier than in years past. that could be a sign of what's going to be happening there as well. as we get more of these numbers

in, hospitals around the country, we will have that information brought to you. >> think you'll. controversial basketball superstar kyrie irving will not be blamed. the brooklyn that suspended the boycott last week without pay after he posted a link to a documentary that complained and brought anti-somatic messages he later apologized his name would have been the first. irving would have been eligible to play after the minimum five game suspension in commissioner adam says they will consult to determine when he can return from suspension. tom brady is the star on at least two continents. they could have solved more than 3 million tickets for sunday's munich matchup between the seahawks and the buccaneers

. this is the first regular- season nfl game to be held in germany. many german football fans, the biggest attraction is brady known by many. some as the greatest of all time. he will face off against seattle and bavaria about eight hours from now he says it will be epic. i will never forget that. even before most americans have finalized their thanksgiving plans, be dream christmas market is open in vienna, austria doesn't seem to be a massive site the market was closed during the 2020 season due to the pandemic. last year the market still had some covered restrictions but now when you say the place is hopping.

>> i can tell you we are open today for the first day and i've never seen such a strong customer frequency on the first day at a fantastic. everything is on the move, everything is on its feet. the austrians as well. it's great. >> the vienna christmas market runs until september 26. thank you for spending part of your day with me you can follow me on twitter and instagram. we will have another hour news in just a moment. ♪hit it!♪ ♪it takes two to make a thing go right♪ ♪it takes two to make it outta sight♪ ♪it takes two to make a thing go right♪ ♪it takes two to make itit outta sight♪ ♪one, two, get loose now!♪ ♪it takes two to make a- it takes two to make a--♪ ♪it takes two to make a- it takes two to make a-♪ ♪it takes two to make a- it takes two to make a-♪

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>> hello and welcome to all of our viewers watching across the united states and around the world after cnn. cnn now projecting democrats will hold onto their control of the u.s. senate for the next two years it's in dire predictions for the republican red wave just a week ago. nevada senate race was called for democratic cortez.