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the united states and indeed around the world. live from studio 7 at the cnn center in atlanta, i'm michael holmes. appreciate your company. nearly a week after election day in the u.s., the balance of power in congress still undecided. but democrats are still celebrating thanks to catherine cortez masto's victory in nevada on saturday. they will keep control of the senate for at least two more years, and they could even add a seat depending on the results of georgia's runoff next month. majority leader chuck schumer said democrats did well because they delivered on issues that matter. >> we won because we had a really good agenda that we actually passed, that helped the american people on things they cared about. >> but the question remains who will control the house of representatives? it's still up for grabs. republicans, though, closing in with 218 seats needed for a majority. cnn projects republicans currently have 212.

democrats 204. 19 races still to be covered. the governor's race in arizona still too early to call. right now democrat katie hobbs with a slight lead over the republican, kari lake, one of the most prominent election deniers on the ballot this year. with the number of ballots left to count dwindling, lake's path to victory is getting increasingly thin. comments from lake put into question whether she would accept the results were she to lose this race. >> i consider someone's vote their voice. i think of it as a sacred vote, and it's being trampled the way we run our elections in arizona. i've been sounding the alarm for two years. nothing got done. very little got done last legislative session, and we need to get in there and restore faith in our elections. we can't be the laughingstock of elections anymore. >> officials say she is wrong when she makes those assertions.

republican doug mastriano, by the way, has finally conceded in the pennsylvania governor's race. cnn called the contest for democrat josh shapiro on tuesday night. with nearly all the votes counted, shapiro beat mastriano with a 14-point lead. mastriano refused to admit defeat for days. on sunday, he changed course and accepted the loss. >> as difficult as it is to accept the results, there is no other course but to concede, which i do, and i look to the challenges ahead. josh shapiro will be our next governor, and i ask everyone to give him the opportunity and to pray that he makes the decisions that are beneficial for the state and not necessarily for his party, and that he leads well because it affects all our lives. >> if republicans win the house, get ready for a battle within the party. with so many house races still yet to be called, the chambers

leadership also up in the air. and some members have said they will not support kevin mccarthy's speakership bid. earlier on fox news, mccarthy addressed some of the criticisms against him. >> i think i accomplished the goal that we wanted to. people can have input. we want to have a very open input process. we're going to have a smaller majority. remember in the house, they don't give gavels out by small, medium, and large. they just give you the gavel, and we're going to be able to govern it. >> cnn's melanie zanona with more on what is likely to be a tough few days for the gop. >> reporter: republicans are gearing up for a tense series of meetings this week as they return to washington for the first time since their disappointing midterm election results. republicans want to figure out what went wrong, why a red wave never materialized, and they must also decide the fate of their political leaders. in the house, gop leader kevin mccarthy is facing revolt from his right flank. i'm told there are dozens of hard-liners threatening to vote against him for speaker if he

does not give in to their demands, and they will have significant leverage since republicans will likely have a razor thin majority if they do win the house. our dana bash asked speaker nancy pelosi whether she thinks mccarthy has what it takes to become speaker. here's her response. >> why would i make a judgment about something that may or may not ever happen? no, i don't think he has it, but that's up to his own people to make a decision as to how they want to be led or otherwise. >> reporter: meanwhile, in the senate, gop leader mitch mcconnell is also facing some backlash. a small but vocal group of republicans is pushing to delay their internal leadership elections, which are set for this wednesday, and former president donald trump has been calling republicans and trying to blame mcconnell for their underwhelming performance. however, based on our reporting, mcconnell does have enough support to become leader once again. still, the internal gop blame game is sure to heat up this week. melanie zanona, cnn, washington. ron brownstein is cnn's

senior political analyst and senator editor at "the atlantic." he gjoins me from nashville, tennessee. rick scott was saying in late october, quote, i think we can get 53, 54, 55 senate seats. if the gop wins the house, it will be with a handful of seats. what do these midterms leave the gop as a party? >> michael, it's an astonishing result because first of all, there have 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. so that is very rare to begin with. i think it is essentially unprecedented tfor a president' party to do that well while the president himself was facing

majority disapproval from the country. the only examples we have of anything like this are years like 1934 with fdr, 1962 with jfk after the cuban missile crisis, 1998 with clinton after impeachment, 2002 with bush after 9/11. all of those presidents were extremely popular at the time that their party defied the usual midterm trend. that was not the case this year, and 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 biden's is that even voters disappointed in biden were simply reluctant to give power to the republican party. it's an unequivocal message of resistance, i think, to the republican party as it has now been redefined in the trump era. >> 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's a third option, too soon to say? >> i think the dominant impulse in the republican party is toward trumpism with or without trump. you know, other candidates don't have the unique personal vulnerabilities that trump does in the sense of suburban voters are seeing him as uniquely unethical or now, post-january 6th, as dangerous in terms of violence. but, you know, you look at someone like ron desantis, who is the leading alternative, and he is running on a very trump-like agenda, on, you know, waging war against woke america, kind of leading with the cultural war. and, again, i mean 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 those states that banned abortion, for example, republican governors cruised to re-election. but the magnitude of the wall that -- the solidity of the mall maybe that they ran into, even with this tailwind behind them of enormous dissatisfaction with the economy and the president's performance, you really can't avert your eyes from that if you're going to seriously 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's 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, who appeared to vote in great numbers. i saw a college campus polling place, i think it was in arizona, 96% voted democrat. what's the significance 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 to 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 young adult 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 millennials will exceed the baby boom and older as a share of actual voters. and you can see the trend line that republicans are dealing with there. it's not that these voters

necessarily love certainly biden's approval rating has lagge 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 and before all of the rights revolutions that began in the 1960s. that is a challenge, and 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 -- young voters. >> 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. as the election drama plays out here in the u.s., president joe biden is in bali, indonesia, for the g20 summit. he met with the indonesian

president earlier, but his highly anticipated meeting with the chinese leader, xi jinping, is grabbing the headlines. the u.s./china relationship in its worst shape in decades with tensions on a number of fronts, including, of course, taiwan, as the u.s. says it will defend the 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 u.s. tariffs on chinese goods. the two sides could also potentially discuss russia's war in ukraine, north korea's missile tests, and climate change. we're covering the story from all angles, of course. kevin liptak and ivan watson live in bali, indonesia. kevin, let's go with you. given the state of u.s./china relations, just how low are expectations? >> reporter: well, i think expectations are low for any kind of specific takeaway. there's not going to be a joint statement, for example, laying out areas of agreement.

but i do think american officials expect something to come out of this meeting, which is to statort of have these two leaders speak to each other face to face and define where they see this relationship now, in 2022, at a moment of deep tension between these two countries. when you talk to officials, they do have fairly high expectations that at least that can come out of this meeting later today. of course, it comes at this highly contentious moment between the u.s. and china that really began with the house speaker, nancy pelosi, visited taiwan over the summer. beijing reacted furiously, cut off channels of communication, and it was within that context that american and chinese officials were trying to arrange the logistics of this meeting, the agenda for this meeting. and what american officials say is that actually those communications proceeded apace, that they were able to speak relatively frankly with their chinese counterparts and nail down the specifics of this meeting. and part of that was because

there was a real desire from both sides to finally get these two men in the same room talking, seeing eye to eye on at least some things. and so those talks continued over the fall, and what officials say is they were still talking late last night to come up with some of the agenda for what these two men will talk about, things that they wanted to emphasize, things that they wanted to de-emphasize. so that will kind of come into play later today. for his part, president biden has been reading up. he's been talking to his advisers. he's been kind of running through scenarios for how certain parts of this meeting might go and how he might respond to what xi will say. so i think that they do believe that something can come out of this. whether it's something that they can go home and say, we achieved x, y, z, i don't think they expect that, but they do want to come up with sort of a list of tasks that they will assign to members of their staffs to start working on together. and so they didn't lay out specifically what those would be, but you can imagine things

like climate change, north korea, items where they do feel like they have the potential to cooperate to be on that list. and we do expect to hear from the president afterwards. he will convene a press conference, and so we will be able to hear him, in his own words, describe how this meeting went. now, those press conferences have proved somewhat contentious in the past when president biden talks about taiwan, about other issues. so it will be interesting to see how he characterizes this meeting later today. michael. >> yeah, absolutely. ivan watson, let's go to you. give us a broader sense of mr. xi's aims there in bali. taiwan obviously a prickly issue. anything to talk about there, or just a hardening of positions? >> reporter: well, it is hard to see where the two sides could find some compromise there. beijing views the white house position right now as basically a betrayal of a series of communiques, joint communiques that were signed between the two

governments in the '70s and '80s, establishing formal diplomatic relations in which the u.s. basically conceded that taiwan is part of china. and when the u.s. sends top-level government officials to visit taiwan, when president biden on multiple occasions now has said that he would seek to defend taiwan if china was to attack the self-governing island, that, china says, is a betrayal of those agreements. so, in fact, you've got state media saying there's no room for compromise on this issue, especially when the white house says it's trying to set new guidelines for the difficult relationship between these two countries moving forward. but as you heard from kevin, there are other areas where they could potentially find some cooperation. climate change is always floated as a relatively apolitical area that's in kind of the global interest to try to find some

compromise. north korea very much on the agenda, and the white house has been trying to create an incentive for beijing to try to rein in north korea, arguing, hey, if north korea is going to set off a seventh nuclear test, that's just going to provoke the u.s. to invest more militarily in the region, which is something that china doesn't want. so there's an incentive to try to rein north korea in. another area, trade. you know, the white house imposing this ban on the transfer of semiconductor technology to china seen very much as an aggressive move. we have yet to see china's response to that. so keep an eye on that. and then there's the war in ukraine. china is -- xi jinping declared himself, before vladimir putin invaded ukraine, as having a friendship with no boundaries with the russian president. but the war has -- had enormous ripple effects on the global economy, and russia has made threats about using nuclear

weapons. that is the kind of stuff that is uncomfortable for china. is it possible that these two leaders could, in the privacy of their meeting, find some kind of common ground to perhaps ease some of those tensions with this escalating ukraine war, which the russian side is not doing well at, and it must be embarrassing to some degree for the chinese government to see its ally withdrawing from just the last week from a key city it had captured in the first days of the war. >> both of you, appreciate that. thanks so much. we'll check in with you as the hours tick by to that meeting. all right. from liberation to restoration. a freed ukrainian city tries to rebuild after it was ravaged by russia. ahead, why the road to recovery could be long and exhausting. and police have arrested a suspect in connection with a deadly explosion in the heart of istanbul. we'll have the latest on the

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they're also accusing moscow's military of atrocities, including hundreds of possible war crimes. >> 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 every murder without any doubts. >> russia's forces have retreated to the east across the strategically important dnipro river. they're now trying to beef up their defenses in the areas they still control. according to ukraine, russia gave up almost 180 settlements this week alone, and that covers about 4,500 square kilometers. as ukrainians celebrate the liberation of their territory, they're also trying to repair the destruction in kherson.

cnn's nic robertson is there and shows us the daunting task they face. >> reporter: people are still celebrating their liberation. we were down in the main central square on sunday. people gathering there. there was somebody playing the trumpet, playing the national anthem. people singing along, cheering, and clapping. but, you know, there's a real sense of now the city is liberated, but how is it going to reconnect and reintegrate with the rest of ukraine. the russians, on their way out, destroyed so much. they destroyed the phone connection, the internet connection. so in that central square, you had people with their cell phones out trying to get wi-fi connection to the satellite connections that some of the soldiers had there. also by late in the day on sunday as well, the government was putting up a temporary cell phone service tower in the square, in the middle of the city, so that people could get connected with loved ones across the country. but the government has a message for people. it's still not safe to come

back. there's still the possibility of mines, booby traps, so stay away. but there are so many problems there. the electricity is off. it's dark all around. there's no water. we went down to one of the places where people are getting water in the city. it's a well that's being pumped right next to the river. the river, of course, isn't clean. the water that's coming out is not safe to drink. people have been going there now, they told us, for the past four days, since the russians left and destroyed the water system in the city. this is water that they can use to wash but not to drink. so the problems here are huge. the government says they want to tackle the electricity problem first, get that up and running, get the water up and running. we went to the hospital as well sunday, and there the doctors told us that a lot of their equipment has been taken away. they don't have electricity either. they told us when they do surgeries, it's from the light of their cell phones. so the situation here still

really difficult. people happy to be liberated, but wondering about how they're going to be reconnected, reunited with the rest of the country. nic robertson, cnn, kherson, ukraine. >> let discuss this with mick ryan, a retired major general with the australian army. he joins me live from brisbane. the institute for the study of war says on its website says that russia's withdrawal from kerr son city is igniting a ideological fracture between hard-line figures and president putin, that confidence in erodi. what's your read? >> i think this withdrawal because of its timing and how it was conducted may not be seeing the significant rupture that's being portrayed. but certainly there is some concern by the hard right wing about this withdrawal. the reality, however, is that if they hadn't withdrawn, there

might have been a larger catastrophe for the russians where they lost all their soldiers on the west bank. >> eroding confidence is one thing. what's the potential for a real schism, a genuine threat to putin's rule? and i guess were that to happen, the risk could be who would replace him? someone to reduce tensions or someone even more hard-line, and there's plenty of them? >> well, that's the real problem, isn't it? even if he was replaced, it doesn't mean it would be someone who would feel the need to withdraw from ukraine. it might be someone who doubles down. i don't think we can rely on putin being replaced at the end of this war. we have to rely on the ukrainians winning fight after fight like this one and continuing to support them from the west. >> many believe the approach of winter will bring the battlefield to a standstill of sorts, pause and regroup and so on. but ukraine and russia, for that matter, they know winters.

is there reason to believe ukraine will surrender momentum or push forward? >> ukraine and russia have known winters for eons. they know how to fight in winter. while it might slow things a little bit, ukraine has the momentum in this war. they've seized the initiative from the russians at every level. they're not going to squander that. they're going to continue fighting, and there's no reason to believe they won't be conducting other offensives in the very near term. >> i read an article you wrote in the sydney morning herald which was fascinating. i want to quote from it real quick. you say, ultimately this russian defeat in kherson is a validation of ukraine's military strategy of cor orosion and the approach taken by its senior leadership. they are succeeding and the russians know it. how, then, in this context does the strategy of corrosion work? >> well, what the ukrainians have done almost from the start of the war, they have targeted

the russians indirectly. they target their logistics. they come out and target their command and control. and what they do is hollow out the russian forces from within, and then that, you know, has an impact on russian morale and the psychology of their troops. then not only do they go into these large-scale battles. so they seek to corrode them physically, morally, and intellectually before they attack them directly. >> very effective so far. there is, however, a new russian commander, and he's a pretty brutal one. given the territorial losses, what do you think the russians might do tactically? can you see more of these devastating attacks on ukraine infrastructure again as winter approaches and the impact of those attacks grows because of the weather? what could you see him potentially doing? >> i think general sore ov kin has proven himself to be reasonably effective from a russian point of view at this point. he conducted the withdrawal with

pretty good discipline compared to what happened up in kharkiv. he got the vast majority of these forces out of that part of kherson. what we'll see next is probably some expanded strikes on ukrainian infrastructure and power. i mean, they went on a wholesale destruction campaign in kherson. but i think, too, we should watch where he deploys these forces that have come out of the west bank of kherson, where he sends them will give us good indications of his next moves. >> that's interesting too because the russians going across the dnipro river to the east side, that makes that a front line of sorts. but as i understand it, there are ukrainian forces north of the russian forces on the east side as well. can you see those forces moving south? i guess where do you see the next major moves for the ukrainians? >> well, i think the ukrainians

are plucky. they're canny. they're very clever. they're not going to attack directly into the main defensive positions that the russians have established on the east bank. there are a range of areas even further aft east where they mige able to attack the russians. that's what the ukrainians have done throughout this war. and i can pretty much guarantee one thing. whatever the ukrainians do, it will probably surprise us. >> yeah, indeed. always fascinating to read your analysis, mick. thank you so much. mick ryan there in brisbane for us. appreciate it. >> thank you. well, a suspect is now in custody in connection with a blast in istanbul, which turkish officials are calling a terrorist attack. you see there the explosion going off and the terror it leads to. turkey's interior ministry blaming kurdish separatists for carrying out the attack on sunday. at least six people were killed. more than 80 wounded in the explosion. it happened on a busy street in

the heart's turkey's largest city. turkey's health minister says about half of those injured remain in hospitals. an eyewitness describing what he saw, and a warning some of the details are disturbing. >> there was a fire on the ground that 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. several people injured, bleeding from their ears, bleeding from their legs, and several people crying all around. >> we're going to take a quick break on the program. when we come back, no red wave, but republicans are still hoping they'll have at least a razor-thin majority in the house of representatives. we'll bring you up to date on the latest midterm election results. also, as israel's benjamin netanyahu gets ready to form a new government, he looks likely to lead one of the most right-wing governments in the country's history. we'll be right back.

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and our top story this hour, fresh results from tuesday's u.s. midterm elections in oregon's 5th congressional district, cnn projects republican lori chavez.

the democrat, jamie macleod skinner. this is a pickup for the republicans, a big victory for them. but votes are still being counted as control of the house remains up for grabs. this nearly a week after polls closed. republicans needing six of the remaining uncalled seats to take the majority in the house. meanwhile, democrats celebrating a big victory too after retaining control of the senate with that win in nevada on saturday. cnn's harry enten now takes a look at how the democratic party 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 may in fact gain one, and a net loss it looks like right now of less than ten house seats. the last time that happened in a

me 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 shows 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 asked 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 bit less than 20% of the electorate that did not have a favorable view of either donald trump or joe biden. and those voters, who you might have expected 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 governors' 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 who were running in either swing states or in blue states currently with gop governors are either trailing or lost. the only one currently trailing who cnn has not been able to project as a loser yet is kari lake in the state of arizona, who right now is trailing. back to you. >> harry enten there. democrats have already secured control of the senate, of course, but a win in next month's georgia runoff will give them a valuable boost. democratic incumbent senator raphael warnock will face off against republican challenger herschel walker on december 6th after neither man garnered 50%

of the vote needed for an outright win. on sunday, warnock was on the campaign trail in atlanta, contrasting his experience with that of his opponent. >> the people of georgia need a champion and a champion for working people. that's the work i've done my entire life. it's the work i've been doing in the senate. it's work i'm actually able to do. herschel walker is not. he's not able to do this work. he's demonstrated that he has neither the competence nor the character. >> herschel walker also campaigning, traveling to atlanta's suburbs to urge georgians to return to the polls in december. >> if you voted last time, go vote for me again. but tell the people that didn't vote for me, they need to vote for me because they didn't vote for me, they're going to have the government running their lives. i'll tell you what, the government can't even run its own life. don't have them running your life. israel's president has invited benjamin netanyahu to

form the new government, paving the way for him to hold the top job for a record sixth time. netanyahu isn't in for an easy ride as he is now likely to lead an ever polarized country and possibly one of the most right-wing governments in the country's history. cnn's elliott god kin with more. >> reporter: less than two weeks after israel's fifth election in four years, benjamin netanyahu has once again been asked to try to form an israeli government. he appeared alongside on the podium behind me here at the president's residence in jerusalem. he was alongside president hertz dog. both men spoke to the throngs of journalists assembled here. hertz og did make a number of comments to netanyahu, particularly trying to address concerns of some israelis and some in the international community about the makeup of netanyahu's government, which is likely to be the most right-wing in the country's history. hertzog saying, for example, that we as a people have no room for critical mistakes, adding

that your success is the uk ses of the entire people. netanyahu brushes aside concerns from some that the election of such a right-wing government would be the end of democracy in the country, and he also said that he hopes that his government will be a stable, successful, and responsible government of all of the people of israel. from today, he has 28 days within which to try to form a government. there's a possibility of a two-week extension. but after that, the speaker of the knesset, by then likely to be a netanyahu ally, will call a vote of confidence. if all goes to plan, netanyahu could be prime minister in time for hanukkah on december 18th. the jewish festival of lights and miracles. elliott gotkine, cnn, jerusalem. well, the u.s. is still weeks away from winter, but millions of americans may need to bundle up this week. the latest on the freeze warnings and winter weather advisories right after the break. but that cough looks pretty bad. try this robitussin honey. the real honey you love, plus the powerful cough relief you need.

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six people have now been confirmed dead after two world war ii-era military planes collided during a dallas air show. >> dios mio! >> all of the people killed were on board the planes. no fatalities on the ground.

cnn aviation correspondent pete muntean with the latest details. >> reporter: the hard work of investigating what went wrong is only beginning. investigators from the national transportation safety board are documenting the wreckage of not one but two planes involved in this midair collision. both part of volunteer organizations that keep world war ii planes flying. the larger airplane, a b-17 flying fortress, 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 recorderer, so investigators now say they'll listen to the recordings of radio traffic that took place during 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., an air show spectator has not been killed at an air show in more than 50 years. air shows like this are heavily regulated, highly planned, very choreographed, and the pilots must have special qualifications. they are the ones who accept the most risk in the name of keeping history alive. pete muntean, cnn, washington. we are still more than five weeks away from the official start of winter in the u.s., but for many, the frigid temperatures already here. about 28 million people under freeze alerts from the northeast in washington, d.c. and philadelphia down to the southeast in atlanta, where we are, where they've opened a warming center for the homeless community. there are also winter weather advisories in parts of the midwest and southwest. let's bring in meteorologist pedram javaheri. we'll both be wearing thick jackets when we leave here tonight. >> yeah. you know, these first couple of cold waves of the season definitely get a lot of people's attention. it's a shock to the system as

well. that's exactly what's happening across the southern u.s. where incredibly cold air given the time of year it is, even into places such as montgomery, alabama, atlanta, georgia, middle 30s. compare that to a more mild setup there across new york city, comparably speaking of course, in boston and new york city, sitting around 40 or so degrees. not often do you see november temps colder along portions of the gulf coast than parts of the northeast, but that is the story tonight. it's frankly here to stay for the next week or so. notice the windchills in minneapolis, 17 degrees compared to atlanta, 29 degrees there. so incredible cold air locked in in areas of the southern united states. notice the multi-day forecast here in atlanta. it just gets cooler for the afternoon highs running 15 degrees below average. st. louis should be at 57 this time of year. by wednesday afternoon, the best we can do for you, around 37 degrees. in chicago after a day into the 60s, just about a week ago, dropping down into the 30s over the coming several days. kind of show you exactly where this shapes up where it's compared to. in atlanta, for example, on

monday, the average high temperature that we're going to expect on monday afternoon will be actually something we usually see in late january. st. louis's high tomorrow about 45 degrees. usually we see that on december 14th. washington, d.c. 50-degree afternoon usually into around early february, mid-february. and chicago's 42 happens in early february. but, again, the dramatic shift in temperatures is what's most impressive. michael, it was 73 degrees in nashville, tennessee, on friday afternoon. dropped to 43 for a high on saturday. the coldest day since march 12th. so these first waves of cold air of the season are always hard to take in for a lot of people. >> that will get your attention. 30-degree switch. well, it was a well, it was a lively autumn. did enjoy it. thank you. quick break here. when we come back, art among the rubble. we'll show you world-renowned artist banksy's creations from ukraine. that's when we come back.

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that the ukrainian spirit is stronger than any of vladimir putin's explosives. the bombed-out buildings of ukraine, the latest canvas for street artist banksy. murals in the secretive artist's signature style have been spotted recently in kyiv and nearby towns. this one in a town besieged by the russians in the early weeks of the invasion, until ukrainian reforces retook the town in april. banksy confirming his handiwork by posting pictures of it on his verified instagram account. the murals drawing a steady stream of visitors, many with their own interpretations of the artwork. this man says he thinks the gymnast balancing on a pile of rubble is ukraine. he says, "it's a symbol that we're unbreakable and our country is unbreakable." and despite the fact that it's destroyed, we will rebuild everything." there is a trail of murals throughout the area, though

these haven't been officially claimed by banksy. the scene of a child flipping a man in a judo uniform who some say looks like president vladimir putin. another mural shows a gymnast performing a routine despite wearing a neck brace. other scenes of not so ordinary life painted on buildings that seem unfit to live in, in towns also destroyed by the russians. possible calling cards from the anonymous artist whose trip to ukraine might have been secret, but his message in this war zone is clear. i'm michael holmes. follow me on twitter and instagram @holmes cnn. (vo) verizon small business days are back.

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