and they identified some of the causes -- poverty, broken homes. for some, violence has become a permanent part of the fabric of life. sociologists call it a subculture of violence. the current wave of violent crime is well into its second decade. while we have deplored violence, we've not done much about it. perhaps this is because confronting the problem of violence forces us to confront the most serious defects in our society. hello and welcome to our viewers all across the united states and around the world. live from studio 7 of the cnn

center in atlanta. i'm michael holmes. appreciate your company. and we begin this hour all eyes on the balance of power in the u.s. congress. still undecided nearly a week after election day itself. now the big unanswered question right now is control of the house of representatives. still up for grabs, but republicans closing in with 218 seats needed for a majority, cnn projects that republicans currently have 212. democrats 204. 19 races still to be called. democrats, of course, kept their narrow majority in the senate thanks to catherine cortez masto's victory in nevada, and depending on the results of georgia's runoff next month, they might even expand on that. majority leader chuck schumer said sunday that republicans should reject gridlock and work with democrats, adding that the midterm results are a wake-up call for the gop. >> maybe the republican party, which has been so negative on so

many different issues, will realize that the election was a clarion call by the american people. stop all this negativity. stop flirting with autocracy. stop spending time denying the election and work the get something done. >> another critical race is in arizona while the senate race is being called for democrat mark kelly, it is still too early to call the governor's race. right now democrat katie hobbs has a slight lead over trump-supported kari lake. but the counting not yet done. kyung lah in arizona with the latest. >> reporter: maricopa county out with their latest report. there are about 85 to 95,000 remaining ballots to be counted in the most populous county in the state of arizona, in the hotly contested governor's race here in the state, democrat katie hobbs maintains a very slim lead over republican kari

lake. now this is a hotly contested race with accusations from republican lake saying that there is something going wrong with the count taking place here in this county. election officials in maricopa have pushed back strongly, saying if anything, they are moving at a faster rate than they have in other elections. what is so important about this information that we got, this latest election report from the county is that the lake campaign views this batch of votes as her path. it is a path that continues to narrow, especially with this latest report. in addition to the 85 to 95,000 remaining ballots that need to be counted, there is also about 8300 ballots that are still having to be cured. so while the rhetoric continues, the count here in this county continues. kyung lah, cnn, phoenix. >> now even though house control remains undecided, both parties

are now discussing leadership contests. republicans will hold closed door meet thanks week, and they're expected to be tense. republican leader kevin mccarthy facing a challenge from far right members that could derail his speakership ambitions. meanwhile, nancy pelosi telling cnn she has been asked to consider another bid for house speakership. but when asked to speculate on mccarthy's chances, she said she'd wait for the final results. >> let's just get through the election, okay. they haven't won yet. they've been measuring for draperies. they've been putting forth an agenda. they haven't won it yet. after we -- after the election concluded, depending on who is in the majority, there will be judgments made within their own parties as to how we go forward. it's not up to me to make any evaluation of what their

possibilities are. >> now in the senate, minority leader mitch mcconnell plans to push forward with leadership elections on wednesday. but some are saying he should wait. some in his own party pointing to the party's disappointing election results and georgia's upcoming runoff. >> what is our plan? what are we running on? what do we stand for? what are we hell-bent to get done? there is no plan to do that. the leadership in the republican senate says no, you cannot have a plan. we're just going to run against how bad the democrats are. and then actually they cave in to the democrats. >> do you want the job? >> well, a lot of people have called me to see if i'll run. here is my focus. we still got toe win georgia. i'm not going to take anything off the table. but my job right now is to do everything i can to help herschel with. >> some of the pressure is off herschel walker and incumbent opponent raphael warnock in georgia's senate race. next month's runoff election

between them will not now affect the balance of power the senate, although extra seat would help democrats enormously in procedural ways. but that's not keeping the two men and the political parties behind them from pushing ahead full steam with their efforts to win in december. nadia romero with more. >> reporter: back on the campaign trail for this senate runoff election here in georgia, reverend raphael warnock and herschel walker both making different campaign stops all throughout the weekend. we are here at morehouse college. this is an historically blaj college in the city of atlanta, and this is where raphael warnock did really well during the last election. we also know that herschel walker is making his campaign stops as well. let's take a look at the exit poll and some of the highlights from that exit poll when it comes to warnock's voters. he was able to really dominate advisers of color. 81% voted for warnock. 69% of those voters were 18 to

29 years old. and 28% were urban voters. that shows where his bread and butter. that's why reverend warnock was outside morehouse college, inside one of the biggest rappers in the world trying to speak to the youth, to people here to get back out and vote. i want you to hear from raphael warnock and from herschel walker on what they're telling their supporters this weekend. >> i'm reaching out to the folks who didn't vote for me the last time. maybe they voted for the libertarian candidate. maybe they voted for herschel walker. and i want you to ask yourself a serious question. who do you think is really ready? >> if you voted last time, go vote for me again. but tell the people who didn't vote for me, they need to vote for me. if they didn't vote for me, they're going to have the government running their life. >> reporter: herschel walker's voters very different from what we saw from raphael warnock when you look at exit polls. 70% of white voters voted for herschel walker. 58% were 65 and older.

remember, warnock did well with the youth vote. and 63% were rural voters. that's why you saw herschel walker on sunday in peachtree city, an area much more rural and more white than the city of atlanta. both of the candidates know they have less than a month until the runoff election on december 6th. nadia romero, cnn, atlanta. >> ron brownstein is cnn's senior political analyst and senior editor at the atlantic. he joins me from nashville, tennessee. not on the west coast tonight. good to see you, ron. rick scott was saying in laze october, he said, quote, i think we can get 53, 54, 55 senate seats if the gop wins the house, it will be a handful of seats. what where do the midterms leave the gop as party? >> michael, it's an astonishing result. first of all, there had been very few first-term midterm elections in which the party

holding the white house has done as well as democrats did this year. you know, potentially losing as few as seven or eight house seats, and gaining in the senate and gaining in the governorship that is very rare to begin with. i think it is essentially unprecedented that the president's party to do that well while the president himself was facing majority disapproval from the country. only examples we have of anything like this are years of 1934 with fdr. 1962 with jfk after the cuban missile crisis. 1998 with clinton after the impeachment and 2002 with bush. all of those presidents were extremely popular at the time their party denied the usual midterm trend that was not the case this year. the only way to explain democrats avoiding the kind of losses that have been typical when a president's approval rating is as low as bidens, even voters disappointed in biden were simply reluctant to give

power to the republican party. it's unequivocal message of resistance i think to the republican party as it has now been redefined in the trump era. >> and to that point, it has been argued that trump destroyed what the republican party used to be. but do the conditions that led to his rise persist today? i mean, does trumpism survive trump? or could we see the start of a new user friendly gop, or i guess there is a third option, too soon to say. >> i think the dominant impulse in the republican party is toward trumpism with or without trump. other candidates don't have the unique personal vulnerabilities that trump does in the sense of suburban voters seeing him as uniquely unethical are now seeing january 6th dangerous in terms of violence of you look at someone like ron desantis, who is the leading alternative, and he is running on a very

trump-like agenda on waging war against woke america, leading with the cultural war. and again, we're talking about at a moment where 75% of the country say the economy is in bad shape. republicans made only minimal gains in the house, lost ground in the senate, did not win any of those blue state governorships that they targeted. and that i think is a very clear signal that in those places, voters are resistant to this vision of what america is and should be. and i think that is a challenge for republicans. now certainly they consolidated their hold on red america in this election. i mean, all of the states that banned abortion for example, republican governors cruise to reelection. the magnitude of the wall, the solidity maybe of the wall that they ran into, even with this tailwind behind them of enormous

dissatisfaction with the president's performance, you really can't avert your eyes from that if you're going compete in 2024 as the republican party. >> it's going to be interesting to see how ron desantis does, if he turns to the national stage. a lot of people say he is donald trump without the crazy. i did want to ask you this, and see what you think of the importance of it. given the abortion issue and the like. an interesting aspect of this election was the turnout of gen z, young millennials under 30. i saw a college campus polling place in arizona. 96% voted democrat. what's the significant of that? >> well, it doesn't appear that young voters turned out quite as high as they did in 2018. but 2018 was the modern peak. and, you know, they turned out relatively higher, certainly than they have in most midterms. and they voted nearly 2-1 for democrats on the national basis. and at least that high in many of the key states. look, in 2020 for the first time

ever, millennials and generation z, which now really extends to young adults from 18 to 40 exceeded the baby boomers and older as a share of eligible voters. >> right. >> in 2024 for the first time ever, gen z and baby boomers will exceed as a share of voters. you can see the trend line that republicans are dealing with. neither of these voters necessarily love democrats, and certainly biden's approval rating has lagged among them really from the beginning. even the democratic primaries in 2020. but they are the most diverse, the most secular, the best educated generations in american history. and you can see them visibly recoiling from a trump-style cultural agenda that in many ways is about restoring the america of the 1950s before all of the rights revolutions that began in the 1960s that is a challenge. it will be more of a challenge in a presidential year than it was this year because they will

and always are a bigger share of the vote in the presidential year than they are in the midterm year. >> yeah. interesting trend line. we're almost out of time, but i wanted to ask about the georgia runoff against raphael warnock and trump-endorsed herschel walker. if donald trump does declare a presidential run next week, could that hurt herschel walker? because of course a lot of people think it was disdain of trump among georgia voters that got warnock over the line in 2020. >> yeah. i think it hurt morse than it helps. trump, obviously his super power is his ability to turn out a less regular, nonurban and noncollege white voters. and he can turn them out in massive numbers. but what we saw in this election was that the republican erosion in white collar suburbs outside of the big metros that really accelerated under trump has remained in place. the philadelphia suburbs were enormous for fetterman. the atlanta suburbs were enormous for warnock. maricopa county, no democrat

have won it from harry truman in 1948 and joe biden in 2020. and ones again, it was big for mark kelly, and they may elect katie hobbs as governor. i think there is no question that there is a clear price that republicans face in these suburban areas for the redefinition of the party trump has put forward. and also, a bigger problem for walker, there are a lot of republicans in georgia who held the their nose and voted for him, even though they didn't think much of him, because they thought he could give the republicans the majority. will those voters come out again now that the majority is over? >> great analysis as always. good to see you, ron brownstein. not used to you being on this side of the country, but still good to see you. thank you. >> all right. quick break here on the program. when we come back, president biden will be meeting the chinese leader xi jinping on the sidelines of the g20 summit. we'll explain why this meeting is taking center stage in just a few moments.

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that self-governing island from any chinese invasion. washington has also spoken out against china's human rights violations against ethnic uighurs. china, on its end is concerned biden may change tariffs on chinese good. they could potentially discuss russia's war in ukraine, north korea's missile test and climate change. cnn covering the story from all angles. we have kevin liptak live in bali, kevin, let's start with you. so the meeting is just a few hours away now. given the state of u.s.-china relations, how low are expectations? what would a success look like? >> well, quite frankly, the expectations for this meeting in a way couldn't be lower. u.s. officials say there won't be a joint statement coming out of it. they don't really have any deliverables per se. but they do have this sort of expectations that the two leaders when they sit down face-to-face for the first time since joe biden became

president, that they will be able what they call build a floor. essentially try and define the terms of this relationship, set some red lines so there aren't miscommunications down the line. so they sort of see each other eye to eye and gain a better understanding of where each other stands. of course this meeting comes as u.s.-china relations are at perhaps their lowest in decades. it all started when nancy pelosi, the u.s. house speaker went to taiwan over the summer. beijing responded furiously. they cut off a lot of channels of communication and sort of that is the context that u.s. and chinese officials are working to arrange this meeting. they were able to talk quite effectively to try and come up with the logistics, with the agenda for when these two men sat down. a white house official says there were serious substantive discussions that in fact kept going until late last night here in bali, the two sides still working to come up with items that they wanted to emphasize,

including items they didn't want to emphasize in this meeting. so president biden is a person that does place a lot of emphasis on these face-to-face encounters. he does know xi pretty well. the two traveled many miles together in the u.s. and china when they were both serving as vice president. but of course this is now a very different context, both because president biden is now the u.s. president, but also because of this new tense relationship between the u.s. and china. and that is the setting that the president will walk into later today. >> yeah, yeah, indeed. steven jiang, let's go to you now. the big aim for biden on this trip partially has been to reassure nations in the region that the u.s. is there for them, and to blunt china's growing influence. so what then is president xi's aim? what would he be wanting from the meeting? >> well, michael, i think xi jinping wants time. time for china to become self reliant in key technologies toe

upgrade its economy, but probably more crucially, to upgrade its military to catch up with the u.s. in recent days that's why we've seen xi jinping offering a more conciliatory tone, telling a u.s. lobbying group he is working to work with the u.s. to find twice cooperate. there have also been signs or inhibits of china's possible tweaks on its stand in ukraine, telling the visiting german chancellor that china pose as threat and a use of nuclear weapons which many have seen as a rebuke to putin. it will be interesting to see what mr. xi does and doesn't say to mr. biden on this issue when they meet. overall, chinese state media echoing american officials by portraying this meeting itself as a ipo sign, stressing the importance of keeping lines of communication open, especially when tensions are rung high. but the problem here is the free fall in this relationship is not due to the lack of rapport, as

kevin manipulationed, the two men have known each other for years. it's really because how each side views its strengths and the other's intentions. washington increasingly vocal about china under xi jinping becoming more authoritarian at home and more aggressive abroad. but from china's perspective, the u.s. government under biden has been doubling down on its effort to build this anti-coalition to contain its rise on the global stage. that's why with all the rhetoric and policy from beijing, the stakes are so high in this meeting despite the very low bar as kevin mentioned set by both sides. >> you make a good point. the meeting taking place at all is something. kevin, we touched on north korea, which of course has fired a massive number of missiles this year. is that for the u.s. somethings that could be a common concern for biden and xi jinping to reign in kim jong-un and keep

regional stability? >> president biden very much expects to raise that issue when he sit downs with president xi. today the u.s. wants beijing to exert its influence in pyongyang, really try and convince kim jong-un that this is not the path that he necessarily wants to go down. they have had mixed success in the past with china going back decades. there have been moments in history when china does appear to be more cooperative on that front there have been moments where they appear less cooperative. and certainly president biden wants to make the point to president xi that it is in his own self-interest not to have a nuclear-armed state on his own board they're could potentially destabilize the entire region. how precisely president biden goes about that remains to be seen. and u.s. officials were pretty clear ahead of this meeting that they didn't want to sort of lay out the talking points that president biden would tell president xi. they wanted president xi to hear that directly from president biden. of course, the other issue, the other big sort of geopolitical

issue that president biden wants to talk about is the war in ukraine. and he is still trying to kind of suss out where president xi stands on this issue. it was really interesting. a u.s. official was briefing u.s. reporters earlier today. he said the american assessment is essentially that president xi is embarrassed by what's going on in russia because he's developed this close relationship with vladimir putin, because they have sort of made a point of aligning themselves against american interests, that it is something of an embarrassment for him to see how putin is suffering so poorly on the ground there. so that is the other main issue sort of in the global context that the president will want to talk about later today. >> all right. thanks, kevin liptak, also steven jiang, pretty it. thanks. all right. now a suspect is in custody in connection with the deadly blast in istanbul, which turkish officials are calling a terrorist attack.

turkey's interior minister has blamed kurdish separatists for carrying out sunday's attack. at least six people were killed, more than 80 wounded in the explosion, which happened on a busy street in the heart of turkey's largest city. turkey's health minister says about half of those wounded remain in hospitals. we'll get more details now on the blast from cnn's scott mclean. >> reporter: it only took a split second for istanbul's most vibrant street to turn into a war zone. istiklal street is the beating heart of istanbul. its restaurants, bars, cafes are popular with tourists and locals. and on this sunday afternoon, the weather was gorgeous. a lebanese freelance journalist, who was on vacation in the city was inside of a store just meters away from where the blast went off. and he described to cnn what he saw when he came out. >> there was a fire on the ground. and scattered beside it were a few dead bodies, missing

ligaments, one man missing a leg. it was a very gruesome sight as everyone around me was totally scattered and panicked. and several people injured, bleeding from their ears. bleeding from their legs, and several people crying all around. >> reporter: farther away from the blast site, the sound set off a stampede of people running for their lives. the turkish president vowed that those responsible would be identified and punished. later, the vice president said that authorities believed that this was an act of terror because the attacker, whom they believe is a woman, detonated a bomb. later, the justice minister told local media that security footage shows a woman sitting on a bench for more than 40 minutes. one or two minutes after she gets up and leaves, the blast goes off. scott mclean, cnn, london. russia's war claimed the lives of his parents. now a 6-year-old boy has found a new home in ukraine. ahead, the loving couple that

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three days after their city was liberated from russian invaders, ukrainians in kherson are now trying to piece their lives back together. but their task already full of

certainty. ukraine says that russia employed scorched earth tactics when it withdrew, destroying most of its critical infrastructure and littering the area with mines. access to electricity, bread, medicine all limited. and a basic need like water is even in short supply. so much so that officials are temporarily banning people from transporting it. now on top of all of that, ukraine says russia stole a large amount of grain from an agricultural base, and that it destroyed the largest poultry factory in europe. russian forces also being accused of committing war crimes before they retreated. >> translator: investigators have already documented more than 400 russian war crimes. bodies of both civilians and military are being found. in the kherson region, the russian army left the same savagery behind as in other regions of our country where it

managed to invade. we will find and bring to justice ever murder without any doubts. >> russia is now boosting its defenses in the eastern areas it still controls. it's carrying out more attacks too across the donetsk region and claims to have captured a village in a serious of offensive operations. now throughout the war, moscow's attacks have of course shattered the lives of ordinary people, among them a 6-year-old boy in mariupol who lost both his parents to shelling in the first week of the invasion. thankfully, the boy eventually found a new home in the capital, kyiv with a loving couple that now plans to adopt him. cnn's salma abdelaziz with their story. >> reporter: like any 6-year-old child, ilya's energy is endless. he wants constant attention and entertainment and craves affection from the two people who care for him most.

"now we have that love," they tell me, "that love that makes you a family. we did not have this baby, but our love is real." they are ilya's legal guardians. they've been a little family for more than six months, and the couple plan to formally adopt him and become parents to a child orphaned by this war. the pair was forced to flee their home in the east for kyiv because of shelling, but refused to give up on their dream of starting a family. this is such a difficult decision to adapt during a war. did you hesitate? did you think maybe this is not the rite time? we had been planning to adopt for many years, he says. the war pushed us to adopt sooner. now we wonder why did we ever wait. ilya's mom was killed in mariupol, his birthplace. she left home to find food and was struck down by shelling in the first week of war. unaware of his wife's fate, ilya's father went looking for

her the next day, only to lose his life too. ilya was left with neighbors, where he sheltered with strangers for weeks in a cold, dark basement. when they ran out of food, ilya says he started to eat his toys. the newfound parents are trying to give ilya a sense of security. >> hello. >> hi. >> reporter: but when we visit their home in kyiv, we see why that's a challenge. blackouts caused by russia's strikes on the power grid leave the family without electricity for hours. sometimes he gets scared, she says. he is hysterical, and he'll tell me it's like being back in mariupol in the basement in the darkness. during the outages, the young family tried to make things normal, playing games, watching movies, anything to ease ilya's worried mind. do you get afraid in the dark, ilya? "not anymore," he says. "i know the lights will come back on."

and they do. during our interview, the light gets restore and lilia runs to switch on the light. ready to play again, but first, he wants to put on his spider-man costume. he says it makes him feel strong and brave. salma abdelaziz, cnn, kyiv. >> wonderful story. well, still to come here on the program, king charles iii led the uk's annual remembrance day service for the first time as monarch. details on solemn ceremony when we come back. ♪ voltaren. the joy of movement. ♪

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king charles iii led remembrance day services in britain for the first time as the country's monarch, a two-minute national silence marked with the tolling of big ben. the king laid a wreath at london's war memorial honoring servicemen who have died in past conflicts. camila, the queen consort, the duchess of cambridge and other members of the royal family also present at the service. we'll take a quick break for our fewer voours in north america. i'll be back with more in a might be. for our international viewers, international sports. i'll see you in about 15.

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♪ and our top story this hour, fresh results from tuesday's u.s. midterm elections in oregon's fifth congressional

district, cnn projects republican laurie chavez beat jamie mcleod skinner. this is a pickup for republicans and a big victory for them. that vote still being counted as control of the house remains up for grabs nearly a week after polls close. republicans need six of the remaining uncalled seats to make the majority in the house. meanwhile, democrats celebrating a big victory too after retaining control of the senate with a win in nevada on saturday. the georgia runoff in december could give the democrats an outright majority of 51. but even if they lose that seat, vice president kamala harris will be able to cast tie-breaking votes. and in arizona, new vote totals were released a few hours ago in the closely watched race for governor. still too early to tell. at last check, republican kari lake had cut into the lead held by the democrat katie hobbs. while vote counting continues across the country for the last remaining offices, cnn's harry enten takes a look at why the

democratic party has defied midterm history this year. >> although votes are still being counted, the 2022 election will go down as historically good for the democratic party. normally in midterms, the president's party does poorly. but in this midterm we saw the democratic party have a net gain of gubernatorial seats, not lose any senate seats, and they in fact gain one. and a net loss of less than ten house seats. the last time that happened in a midterm election, 1934. so how did democrats pull this off? well, despite high inflation, the issue of abortion was also on the minds of voters. in fact, a look at our exit poll showed about as many voters said that abortion was important to their vote as inflation. and those abortion first voters, they voted overwhelmingly democratic. and of course joe biden's popularity had sunk considerably over the course of his presidency. and indeed, our exit poll showed that only about 41% of voters had a favorable view of joe

biden. but when you also ask them whether or not they had a favorable view of donald trump, trump's favorable rating was right around the same level. indeed, there was a solid portion, just a little less than 20% of the electorate that did not have a favorable view of donald trump or joe biden. those voters you might expect to go overwhelmingly for the republicans because joe biden is the president of the united states, in fact basically split their tickets fairly equally. only slightly going for republican candidates. of course, it's not just about biden and trump. it's also the fact that there were a lot of candidates running for the united states senate who in the minds of the voters were extreme. indeed, in pretty much all of the key battleground senate races, more voters said that the republican candidate was too extreme than said that the democratic candidate was too extreme. lastly, in the governor's races, there were a lot of republicans running who denied that joe biden legitimately won the 2020 election, which of course he did. all of those candidates were running in either swing states or in blue states currently with

gop governors or either trailing or lost. the only one currently trailing who cnn has not been able to project as a loser right now is kari lake in the state of arizona, who right now is trailing. back to you. >> harry enten now, thanks. six people have now been confirmed dead after two world war ii era military planes collided during an air show. all of the people killed were aboard the planes. no fatales on the ground. cnn aviation correspondent pete montine with the details. >> reporter: the hard work of investigating what went wrong here is only just beginning. investigators from the national transportation safety board are now on the scene of the dallas executive airport, documenting the wreckage of not one, but two planes involved in this mid-air collision. both part of volunteer organizations that keep world war ii planes flying. the larger airplane, a b-17

flying fortress. you've seen it in the movies, famous for the daylight bombing raids over europe. the other airplane an extremely rare p-63 king cobra, single seat fighter plane. in both cases, only a handful of examples flying worldwide. airplanes like this do not have a flight data recorder or a cockpit voice recorder. so investigators say they'll listen to the recordings of radio traffic that took place during ining the air show. they're also asking for witnesses to come forward with photos and video, more examples of that horrific scene keep getting posted online by spectators. thankfully, nobody in the crowd was hurt. in fact, in the u.s., a spectator has not been killed at an air show in more than 50 years. air shows like this are highly regulate d regulated. the pilots are the ones who accept the most risk in the name of keeping history alive. pete

. the u.s. transportation security administration is admitting to multiple failures after a man with two box cutters was allowed onto a commercial flight over the weekend. he allegedly threatened passengers mid-flight as they were headed from kentucky to tampa in florida, and the plane had to be diverted to atlanta, where the man was taken into custody. the tsa says agents did not fully use the screening technology at their disposal and also returned, quote, visible blades to the passenger even after an inspection. no one on the flight was injured. the agency says employees nationwide will be given reminders on the proper protocols in this type of situation. we are still more than five weeks away from the official start of winter in the u.s., but for many the frigid temperatures are already here. about 28 million people are under freeze alerts from southeast in atlanta up through the northeast in washington, d.c. and philadelphia.

and more than 3 million under winter weather advisories in parts of the midwest and southwest. let's bring in meteorologist pedram javaheri with the latest. i brought the big coat in tonight. >> it's incredible too because this time last week we were talking about a hurricane making landfall across the southern u.s., across parts of florida. now you're looking at these conditions that are incredibly cold for what time of year it is of course. temps in some spots, especially around the south, about 15 or so degrees below average. these are current observations not often across areas of the south in montgomery and atlanta in the month of november. really speaks to how cold the reach here of the extreme temperatures is across parts of the southern u.s., of course, where you expect it into the teens to the 20s up around the northern plains. when you factor in the windchill, atlanta feels like 29 degrees. that is comparable to what it feels like in places like chicago or even deluth, minnesota, so if you feel it's cold in the south, you're not

mistaken. it is incredibly cold for the time of year it is. it's going to remain cold for a few days. in atlanta, temps get even colder from a 55 on monday to a 50 for an afternoon high on tuesday. given 65 is average for this time of year, you see why this is a big deal for a lot of folks. philly as well, upper 40s where upper 50s are what is considered normal temperatures this time of year. nashville, look at what happened here, michael. this was friday afternoon's high temperature. again, really makes it feel considerably more brutal when you go from 73 down to 43 in a span of 24 hours. in nashville, coldest temperature since the 12th of march, 60s again considered normal. this is going to be a multi-day setup, not just this week but potentially the beginning of next week. multiple shots of arctic air that line up across the entirety of the lower 48 which the exception of far south florida. a possibility of some wintry weather mixed in as well with this, michael. we'll follow this as it

progresses. >> pedram, thanks very much. good to see you. now, in south florida, a piece of miami beach history has been erased from the skyline. on sunday, crews imploded the once luxurious deauville beach resort which had fallen into disrepair after years of neglect. in its heyday, the 17-story hotel hosted the beatles and president john f. kennedy. it officially closed in 2017 after an electrical fire. not clear yet what will happen with the beachfront property. you can probably guess. they'll put a building on it. dolly parton has been on a roll of late. earlier this month, the country music legend was inducted into the rock & roll hall of fame. if you didn't think she had been already. and on friday, parton was honored with the jeff bezos courage and civility award for her philanthropy. the award comes with $100 million, no strings attached in how she decides to use it. parton has a long record of

charitable giving. during the covid pandemic, she donated $1 million to the vanderbilt university medical center's vaccine research efforts. it was partly used to fund mod moderna's vaccine. she's also credited the dolly parton scholarship, which provides $15,000 to recipients towards a college education. bezos spoke with cnn's chloe melas about the decision. >> talk to me about choosing dolly parton. >> well, look at what she's done and how she's led her life. and the way she's done it is bold things, always with civility and kindness. she's a unifier. we have big problems in the world, and the way to get big problems done is you have to work together. we have too many examples in the world of conflict and people using attacks on social media. you won't find dolly parton doing that. >> when you think of dolly, look, everyone smiles, right? and all she wants to do is bring light into other people's world. that's all. and so we couldn't have thought

of someone better than to give this award to dolly. thanks for spending part of your day with me. i'm michael holmes. you can follow me on twitter and instagram @holmescnn. i'll be back with more in just a minute. hi, susan. honey. yeah. i respect that. but that cough looks pretty bad. try this robitussin honey. the real honey you love, plus the powerful cough relief you neeeed. mind if i root through your trash?? robitussin. the only brand w with real honeyand elderberry.

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