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i'm alison kosik in new york. and america is inching closer to finalizing the midterm elections with control of the senate now decided in a democrat's favor. but the house of representatives is still depending on the outcomes of 20 undecided races in california, oregon and arizona. today however democrats are celebrating a hard-fought victory for control of the u.s. senate. as new vote totals were released overnight in nevada, cnn was able to project that incumbent democrat catherine cortez masto would be the democrats' 50th senate seat. but still one more race is to sdib decided in georgia, but for now the democrats know that they will control the senate for the next two years with the vice president as tie breaker. here is chuck schumer as the 50

seat threshold was crossed. >> the election is a great win for the american people. with the races now called in arizona and nevada, democrats will have a majority in the senate and i will once again be majority leader. this election is a victory, a victory and a vindication for democrats, our agenda and for the american people. >> the nevada win is on the heels of another democratic win in arizona where mark kelly prevailed against blake masters. but with the governor's race still hanging in the balance, some republicans are falsely claiming that the vote counting is taking longer than it should. when it is not. >> goa >> folks here are aware of what is going on outside.

there is a crowd that is peaceful out there right now. we have every reason to believe that they will continue to be peaceful. and look, the people who are here who are counting the votes, they believe in democracy, they believe in the first amendment, and they acknowledge the right of those people to be out there. >> as we mentioned, control of the u.s. house remains in flux with 20 races still undecided. democrats have picked up some seats over the past few days, but the math still favors republicans who are just seven shy of a majority. correspondents are following every twist and turn of this historic election. nadia romero is in atlanta, kyung lah is in phoenix, but we begin with rosa glor rflores in vegas. >> reporter: stakes were high, but in the end the democratic incumbent prevailed. catherine cortez masto gets to stay as the senator from the state nevada and with that, the democrats get to keep and

maintain control of the u.s. senate. here is 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. 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 cortez masto in the lead and cnn called the race at that point about in time. her campaign taking to twitter saying, quote, what did people get wrong about this race. first latina senator knows her community better than anonymous sources, she knows how to work with working families, and former ag and crime attacks couldn't stick. again, the democrat here cortez

masto keeps her seat as stays as senator of nevada. rosa flores, cnn, las vegas. >> last hour i spoke about this important nevada win with political science professor in reno. and i asked him how cortez masto was able to overcome a surprisingly strong republican challenge. here he is. >> so these last four days has been a very painful period of waiting for this to happen. what didn't happen, we saw the results of the election day but not 50% of the ballots that had been cast prior to election day and on election day. and so we've been waiting for those to come in. and we opened and processed and verified and counted. we happy to be at this point. >> talk with me about the voter turnout in nevada. what was it like, what were the top issues, you know, that drove voters to the polls?

>> the senator has a very popular first term senator, and it seems like a close election and seems very dramatic, but this is the record-breaking election in nevada over $200 million were spent on this campaign. and much of it was from outside the state and much of it was incredibly negative. so the senator dealt with a barrage over the months dating back to spring of very negative attacks. crime emerge a topic. we were wondering about whether abortion was still relevant. certainly the economy has been a major issue. but as you indicated in your reports, it ultimately did not stick. people thought that she was a very sincere candidate and the attacks were unfair and she weathered it, she made it. >> there was so much talk of a red wave in the midterms. why do you think that didn't materialize? >> i don't think it existed. i sometimes am skeptical enough

to think that we live in an age now in the united states where to say something seemingly makes it true. perhaps there were those who thought that if they said it enough and loud enough, it would actually materialize. but nevada has been emerging as a blue state. and if you look at the results in the elections, very few republicans actually won top spots in the state. so there never really was a wave here and i think that we also saw democrats motivated, their enthusiasm peaked right at the election matching the republicans. there are a number of things that really helped out the democrats. >> on saturday sheriff deputies were called to an elections office in maricopa county after a group of protestors showed up outside the building where votes are being tabulated saying they wanted quicker results and hand counts. this follows cnned a other networks calling the arizona senate race for democrat mark kelly. but it is still early to call the governor's race.

kyung lah has more from phoenix. >> reporter: the count continues in maricopa county, 85,000 votes released here in the county. still more votes to be counted. and still no clearance on the give's race here in the state of arizona. republican kari lake did manage to close the gap just a bit on democrat katie hobbs who remains the leader. if you look at the numbers, that margin has shrunk just a tad, but not enough to determine if there is a clear winner at this point. but the lake campaign releasing a little information about what it is like inside their campaign headquarters saying that they believe it that these numbers offer a glimmer of hope. the campaign saying, quote, there is 100% path and because the vote is still going on, that there is so much we do not know at this stage. but we do know, cnn has

projected a winner in the u.s. senate race in arizona, mark kelly, the senator, will maintain his seat. the race was called in his favor by cnn. today thanking his supporters who backed his race. >> you are all the reason that we are successful. and i also want to thank our state's election officials. honorable republicans and democrats who are doing the important work of making sure that arizonian's voices are heard and their votes are counted as quickly and as trance par parentally as possible. >> blake masters indicated that he would be open to conceding after every legal vote is counted. so the county tells us there are about 185,000 to 195,000s

remaining. the anticipation sunday evening another release of votes of about 80,000 here in this county. kyung lah, cnn, phoenix. after the republican's much anticipated red wave turned out to be a red ripple, many of them are trying to figure out how it went wrong. our panel of political experts breaks down the results and what it all means for the republican party. >> this might be the moment that we discover that donald trump is not a kingmaker 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 is easier and maybe more people do it and you know if you don't want to show up on election day as donald trump wants, just vote anyway you want. >> i think what is interesting too, you talk about the problems kevin mccarthy will have in the house regardless of what happens. and look what is happening in the senate. you have 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 who

you would think would be 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 bulletproof now 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 will have a fight on his own hands. >> with us now from london to discuss the midterm results thus far is political science professor thomas gift from university college london. thanks for being with us. >> great to be here. >> let's talk about all the analysts whose forecasts were wrong. no red wave, but republicans are expected to regain troflcontrol the house. what do you think happened here? >> democrats controlling the senate confirms everyone more the totally anemic performance in these midterms.

about 40% had the odds of democrats retaining the senate. but all the headwinds seemed to be trending against democrats. inflation at its highest level since the early '80s, crisis at the border, violent crime in certain cities, president with a popularity rating in the low 40s. for republicans to not take advantage of those conditions, it is hard to spin the results positively. and i think it really does distill down to candidate quality. americans rejected election de deniers, fringe positions, and we didn't see a red wave, but i think that we did see a wave of self moderation from the electorate that has been missing. >> and so you are saying that trump impacted the republican performance in the midterms. so is trump still teflon? i'm curious how you see desantis in this.

>> i think reports of trump's demise are exaggerated. clearly he didn't have the kind of note he hoped and it will hurt him politically. but we've heard this time is different with trump over and over. from russiagate to the zelenskyy phone call january 6, multiple impeachments, it sticks with him and i think that trump hil still has to be considered the odds-on favorite in 2024. that is especially true if the gop field fractures with more than one opponent against trump and they kind of split the vote. but certainly desantis is trending. nearly winning by 20 percentage points. and so they are looking to that state to say we underperformed but it didn't have to be that way. so i are a he will think that this is desantis' moment and we'll see what happens. >> so you you think trump could wind up trumping desantis as being the republican nominee despite the negative influence

that trump had on the midmidter? >> i just think that trump's strength on the republican base is so durable. and i think in some respects the base has even become more extreme than trump himself. but there are a couple reasons why i think that lot of republicans certainly not all but maybe 30% of americans just stick with trump regardless. one is they really do like his policies and his bravado and they like the fact that he really takes it hard to democrats. many americans of course still believe that trump won the 2020 election despite no evidence. and as a result, they think that the very least trump is owed going in 2024 is another opportunity to rematch against joe biden or whoever the democratic nominee is. so the belief and the big lie is still resilient and i think one lesson republicans might take from 2022 is to say, yeah, we didn't do as well, but that is because donald trump was not at

the top of the ballot. so maybe that is becoming more difficult case to make and maybe his grip on the gop is loosening, but again, we've just heard it so many times before that i'm skeptical to make too many predictions that his lure is over. >> how about this prediction, how do you think republicans use an expected gridlock situation even if republicans in the house have a small legislative majority, what issues do you think will be affected most? >> well, i think republicans are really going to zero in on federal spending. they will try to rein in some of the expenditures that the biden administration would like to push through. so it is likely that we'll see the showdown over the debt ceiling in which republicans will try to force democrats' hands and say we are going to request that we reduce some spending particularly on medicare and social security. whether republicans are able to do that effectively really depends on how well the party can stick together.

yes, it looks like they may have a majority in the house, although even that is not certain at the moment. but it will be a very slim margin. and so the republican party is to an extent splintered between fiscal hawks as well as more populists who may be okay with some of this big spending. so they may not be as effective at block ading that particular agenda item. >> and what do you think are the issues that drove voters to the polls in theed in idterms and d think it will be the same issues in 2024? >> that is a great question. going into the midterms, i would have said inflation and the economy was the number one issue. and i still think that lot of voters despite the fact that democrats did better than they anticipated, they were voting on the economy and they were dissatisfied with inflation. however, it does seem like some other issues became kind of even more salient than i anticipated. one of course was abortion which

had a balangallonvanizing effecd out suburban educated women. but i think the big issue on the ballot really was the future of democracy. democrats were able to frame 2022 as about kind of the future of democracy itself. respecting free and fair elections. and i think that the fact that so many election deniers and those who had rejected the outcome of the 2020 election they lost, i think that that is in large part a reflection of the fact that, you know, the electorate by and large are just kind of tired of the circus. they want something returning to normalcy. and they weren't buying into some of the lies. >> thomas gift, great to get your perspective. thanks very much. >> thank you. still ahead, scenes of jubilation in a freed ukrainian city. how residents of kherson are thanking their liberators and celebrating their latest

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after a long campaign to liberate kherson, some ukrainian troops are returning to the city and reuniting with their loved ones. this video show as soldier rushing back to his grandmother's arms as she falls to her knees and breaks down in tears. it is one of many uplifting moments we've seen over the past few days. just yesterday the ukrainian flag was once again raised at the city square. hundreds of residents joined in the celebration waving flags of their own and cheering for the troops who freed the city from the russians. so far ukraine says it has liberated more than 60 settlements in the kherson region, mostly in the area west of the dnipro river. now authorities are trying to restore norm mality to those

places but they face a daunting task because they still have to clear a lot of mines that russia left behind. crews have been deployed to remove the explosives from kherson to a town in the neighboring mykolaiv region. meantime in the southeastern city of zaporizhzhia, officials are also trying to clear unexploded cluster munitions that landed in a residential area after a russian attack. residents of six buildings have been evacuated as a precaution. as the turmoil rages, turkey's president is reportedly trying to mediate peace talks between russia and ukraine just like it mediated a grain shipment deal between both countries. for more, let's go to our correspondents, sam kiley is in kyiv. and scott mclane is joining us from london. sam to you first. what is next for the settlements that have been liberated? >> reporter: it is a humanitarian issue that needs to

be addressed frairst of all. you mentioned the issue of mines and booby traps. they have left many thousands of homemade mines and booby traps. and they also destroyed the communications infrastructure and a number of bridges deeper into the area of the west bank of the dnipro. so that is something that the authorities of the ukrainians will get on to the front foot of immediately. as they then also consolidate their positions there and try to focus a lot of their fighting in the east. last night president zelenskyy drew attention to the importance of that battle in the east because this war is by no means over .the ukrainians have had a strategic and bound forward both in terms of the military reality on the ground and indeed the symbolic truth is that this was the only regional capital that the russians had captured.

they captured it in the early days and now they have lost it. and they are now beginning they say to evacuate civilians from the other side of the river because that is likely to become deeply and violently contested as least with artillery. and it is important for the russians to maintain control of the head quaers of the fresh water canal which comes off the dnipro on the east side there and supplies their troops and civilians in the cry mean peninsula. >> sam kiley in kyiv, thanks for that great context. more now from scott in london with a different angle here. related but different. russia has been pretty unpredictable to say the least concerning the agreement allowing the shipment of grain that goes through the black sea. now president erdogan is going to discuss with vladimir putin the possibility of a peace deal. i'm curious what the likelihood

is that he will actually make any head way with this idea. >> ostensibly not good, but of course turkey will try anyway. the grain deal was brokered back in july at first to guarantee safe passage of ships carrying the grain through the black sea. russia pulled out of that deal and then rejoined it earlier this month. it pulled out over -- after attacks on crimea, turkey and the u.n. got them to successfully rejoin the deal. and so now turkey's president recep tayyip erdogan told state broadcaster that he was hoping to parlay the success of that into a peace deal saying that he had hoped to speak with president putin at the g-20 summit this week in indonesia. of course president putin is not attending that summit. so perhaps that conversation can happen in a different format. the problem for erdogan right now is that the prospect of peace talks seem pretty dead and

buried. you have the u.s. privately urging kyiv to publicly say that it is open to the possibility of renewed negotiations. but you have the ukrainian presidential adviser conflating the word settlement with surrender. you have president zelenskyy saying that he would only hold talks if president putin were no longer in charge in russia. and moscow saying that yeah, it is open for negotiations but it is not possible because president zelenskyy signed this formal decree ruling out the possibility of any kind of negotiations after russia illegally annexed four regions of ukraine. so not exactly a great situation to lay the foundation for any kind of peace talks. but if there were talks in the future, you'd have to imagine that turkey could be in a good position to play a role in brokering those talks. not only has it helped get this grain deal off the ground, it also helped broker a large prisoner swap back in september. it is looking to become sort of a gas hub to broker gas, the movement of gas between russia

and the rest of europe. the problem though is that president erdogan needs two willing partners and right now he doesn't even have one. >> one can always hope, right in scott mclean, thanks very much. still ahead, israel's president set to meet with the country's largest serving prime minister and it could pave the way for another leadership term for benjamin netanyahu. and plus we'll look at where the balance of power stands in the u.s. congress as results in undecided races continue to come in. stay with us. e neuriva plus. unlike some others, neururiva plus is a multitasker supporting 6 key indicators of brain health. to help keep me sharp. neuriva: think bigger.

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here in the united states. i'm alison kosik in new york and you are watching cnn news room. let's return to our top story, the results from tuesday's midterm elections and we now know that the democrats will keep control of the u.s. senate. cnn can project that cortez masto will win re-election defeating adam laxalt. that gives the democrats at least 50 seats, enough to control the chamber with the vice president casting t tiebreaking votes. and in arizona, democrats had a big victory with mark kelly winning re-election to his senate seat. and in the lower chamber republicans are just seven seats away from taking the majority there. but the race is far from decided. while the victory in nevada seals democratic control of the senate, they still want to boost their majority with a win in georgia.

herschel walker and raphael warnock will face each other again in a runoff december 6. in aed i can' mad i can't rnadia romero has more. >> reporter: the runoff on december 6, both candidates have to do everything that they can to re-energize their supporters. letting them know, hey, you've got to come out and vote for me again and then also trying to woo some of the people who voted for the third party candidate who was able to receive about 2% of the vote in the last election. and so now you are trying to bring your supporters back and potentially take some from the other two candidates previously on the ballot. we expect political heavy weights to make their way here to the state of georgia, even celebrities to come out. we already saw senator ted cruz out in georgia rallying for herschel walker. sunday we expect to see one of the biggest rappers in the industry come out in support of

raphael warnock. that is what we expect to see throughout the next couple of days. but the question is for herschel walker, who will he ask to come and rally for him. will it be former president donald trump, the person who gave him the nod for this position, or will it be someone like georgia governor brian kemp who has been feuding with president trump over the past few years but was able to win his re-election bid with a wide margin and is very popular still here in the state of georgia. those are questions that both sides of the aisle have to figure out as they continue to pour in more and more money. when you look back at the last aeks, georgia was number two on the list for spending for senate races, only second to pennsylvania. so many of the voters who i spoke with who were republicans, who were testimoniy democrats, that their airwaves would get back to normal, but that won't likely happen. more ads will be hitting the airwaves and more conversations about this particular race not

just in georgia but for its national potential as well. >> nadia, thanks very much. and in israel, officials are trying to form a new government of their own. in the next hour, israel's president is expected to meet with benjamin netanyahu and ask him to do just that. if he can do so by next month, he could become the nation's prime minister for a sixth time. that would further extend his record as israel's longest serving leader. we get more now from elliott got gotkine. he has 28 days to form this new government. i'm curious what are the obstacles that you see in his ability to actually pull this off? >> reporter: that is a huge number of obstacles to be honest. netanyahu has made his bed with his right wing coalition,

husband tunhis punitive partners. and just under half an hour, president herzog is set to meet with netanyahu here at the president's residence. and we expect both men to be up on the podiums behind me, they are just preparing things as we speak, to confirm that president herzog has indeed invited netanyahu to form a government. it is expected to be a government that is the most right wing in israel's history. and because of the extreme proportional representation system here in israel, pretty much any one them if they don't get what they want in the coalition negotiations to kick off in earnest today, they could effectively bring the coalition down or prevent it from forming in the first place. so there will be a lot of haggling, a lot of horse trading over the next 28 days to see who gets what ministry and what this new government's priorities will be. we already know for example from

the religious zionistism which put on an astonishing show, one of its opponents' leader has a conviction for inciting racial hatred against arabs and also for supporting terrorism. he wants to be public security minister. and so for now we're waiting for president herzog and netanyahu to come out here to make the announcement. >> and we'll be watching all of the action. elliott gotkine, thanks for your reporting. hundreds of cruise line patients infected with covid have disembarked in sydney after their ship docked in the city. the cruise line says about 800 people aboard the gentleman nece majestic princess tested positive including passengers and crew. all were mildly symptomatic or asymptomatic and guests were isolated in their state rooms. the affected guests were eventually escorted off the ship

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the new subway series. want to go to live pictures of the summit happening right now, president biden taking part ini-lateral meeting with the president of japan and also south korea. these are live pictures from cam b cambodia. as the election drama plays out here in the u.s., president biden is wrapping up his latest

stop so a week long trip overseas. he has been in this meeting in cambodia with asean leaders at the asean summit where he sought to counter china's growing influence in the region and he is expected to leave for indonesia shortly. mr. biden who you see here is in cambodia after attending the cop 27 climate summit in egypt on friday. his next stop is the g-20 summit in bali and that is where he will hold his first in-person meeting with xi jinping since t ing office. and we have two senior international correspondents, will ripley lie in phnom penh and ivan watson in indonesia. will, i know you've been listening in on these meetings happening in cambodia. what have you heard, what are the issues that the asean members have been focusing on as far as their regional priorities

go? >> reporter: first i'd like to speak to the significance of the live pictures that we were just showing you, although i believe they might have pulled the feed as they get ready to now have more candid conversations without the prying eyes of the international press. but to see president in south korea sitting in the same room with the president of japan and the united states president biden sitting there in the middle, it is significant because of the historic and long-standing rivalry between south korea and japan that centers over largely the historical issue of the way the japanese soldiers treated the south koreans during the occupation and leadup to world war ii and during the war as well. the issue of comfort women being one that has been a key source of friction between japan and south korea. so simply the fact that they are now here in phnom penh in the same room trying to work together on the shared issues of

concern, it does speak to the level of tensions that are in this region right now that are alarming enough for these two very important allies to be able to come together and try to work with the united states to work, you know, kind of in a joint way, concerted effort, united front if you will to face some of these challenges, challenges that include the north korean nukel nuclear and missile threat, of course the major issue of climate change which affects not just this region but the entire world. and potentially puts the entire future of future generations at risk. depending on what happens with the planet's climate. and of course u.s. officials also telling us here that president biden will be seeking input, candid input, from the leaders of japan, south korea about how he should proceed with this meeting, what they are hoping that he can get out of this meeting with president xi tomorrow. >> will ripley in phnom penh, thanks so much. let's go to bali now and ivan

watson. i want to ask you about what will alluded to there. president biden meeting with president xi coming up in bali where you are, and this is as relations have been pretty strained between the u.s. and china. so what then are the expectations or maybe the hopes that come out of this meeting when first they have it to get past this strained relations? >> reporter: the white house has been lowering expectations, for example we're not expecting joint statement to come out from both china and the u.s. after this expected meeting on monday here in bali. this will be the first time that president biden and xi jinping will meet face-to-face in person since biden was elected president. we knew xi jinping would be coming in politically strengthened having just secured a president-breaking third term

in office after last month eye communist party congress. what we didn't expect is that president biden would come in with some political wind in his sails after the unexpected results of the midterm elections in the u.s. and that is something that he alluded to directly in statements that he made recently in cambodia. take a listen. >> i know i'm coming in strong, but i'll need it. i know xi jinping. i've spent more time than any other world leader. i know him well. he knows me. we have very little misunderstanding. we just have to figure out where the red lines are and what are the most important things to even 00 of us. >> reporter: so this is how the white house is trying to frame this, they are saying that yes the relationships have deteriorated, the u.s. and china are competitors but they are trying to argue let's have a healthy competition and establish guidelines to ensure that that condition doesn't

deteriorate into conflict. from beijing's point of view, the chinese government has been promoting the narrative that the risk is grartd theater than it been, that it is facing security threats and has accused the u.s. of creating what he describes as dangerous cleeks, basically ally nls as that seek to isolate china. the biggest flash point between these two governments is the island of taiwan which china views as a breakaway region of china. even though the communist party has never ruled directly taiwan, this self-governing democracy. biden meanwhile on record has said that he believes the u.s. should defend taiwan if china was ever to attack it militarily. it is hard to see where these two leaders can find compromise on this issue.

there are other flash points as well. the south china sea, china's on going kind of moral and political support to russia in its war with ukraine. though it seems to have stopped short of providing weapons to russia in that grueling conflict. again expectations have been set low, but the white house believes that this is a good chance for the two leaders to meet face-to-face to try to find some common ground to avoid a flare-up in the years ahead. >> ivan watson, thanks so much. still ahead, people across the united states are in for a dose of cold weather in the days ahead. for that, we turn to our cnn weather center for a derek. >> yeah, if you are watching this from the united states, you are more than likely one of the 200 million miles per hours that will feel temperatures below the freezing mark over the next week. winter is here, i'll tell you how cold it will get coming up.

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cold weather hits the u.s. more than 200 million people will experience temperatures at

or below freezing this week. there are winter storm advisories in the great lakes region, east texas and neighboring states and along the east coast and washington, d.c. and philadelphia metro areas. let's get more details on the forecast from meteorologist derek van dam. i was in shorts today, but i'm getting whiplash from this weather because it is time to put the coats on. >> you summed it up perfectly. what a difference a day makes. and the people in the south really are feeling it now along the east coast, you're about to feel it because the cold front is moving through. these are the millions of americans that are impacted by the hard freeze that will occur this morning. this is actually a freeze warning anywhere from dallas to shreveport, jackson, birmingham. this is newly issued hard freeze warning for the atlanta metropolitan region. so in essence, the growing season is coming to an end across this area. we now have an upgraded freeze warning for some of the nation's largest population densities.

d.c. to baltimore as well as philadelphia, so it will be cold. i don't think that i've seen an entire map of the united states with this below average temperature trend going forward for the next seven days. just incredible amounts of cold weather for this time of year. winter is coming or probably more aptly said winter is here. right? feels like it at least. this is the cold front responsible. we'll have several different cold fronts coming through that will just reinforce that shot of cold air. you can see where the chilly weather is. a look at the dividing line, atlanta 37, jacksonville 30 degrees above that. single digits for bismarck. and if you compare yesterday's temperatures to where they are now, we are a whole 24 degrees colder in birmingham, pittsburgh 15 degrees colder than where we were yesterday. so morning low temperatures will be frigid especially across oklahoma city, dallas, memphis, southward into houston where you should be about 52. you will bottom out at 37.

so here is a look at the day tame highs for today and really starting to see the daytime highs slide over the next workweek. and so when we get precipitation, we start to see not rain but snow. so we do have winter weather advisories across the great lakes, we start to see the lake enhanced snow machine for the first time of the season. welcome to winter. >> it is almost thanksgiving, so this is par for the course. derek van dam, thanks very much. christmas still six weeks away, but one big sign of the holiday season has arrived here in new york city. this year's ar 's rockefeller c christmas tree arrived saturday. the norway spruce is 82 feet tall and weighs 14 tons. the massive tree will be decorated before the famous lighting ceremony happening on november 30th.

after the holidays it will be donated to habitat for humanity where its wood will be used to build houses. love this time of year. and thanks for your company. i'll be back in just a moment with more "cnn newsroom."

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