♪ good morning, everyone. top of the hour. it is monday, the monday following thanksgiving. i hope you had a good one. lots of news to discuss here, rare protests and clashes with police spreading across china. the crowds fed up with covid restrictions and calling for their president to step down. how this all happened and where it might be headed, that's next. an entire american city is without water right now. public schools in houston are forced to shutdown as the city put a boil water oil in place after losing pressure at a purification plant. and kim kardashian calling

out bah lens ya ga, a teddy bear advertisement that touched off a fire storm. we'll deltell you why. we start with protests spreading rapidly and intensely across china. thousands of demonstrators are angry with covid lockdowns, many calling for democracy and political freedoms and an end to president xi jinping's regime. police have responded to the unrest with brutality, chaotic scenes of protesters being dragged, shoved and beaten. look at bbc reporter ed lawrence being taken into custody in shanghai. again that is a journalist, look at what police are doing to him, taking him into custody. the bbc said lawrence was kicked and handcuffed for hours before being released. selena wang is live in beijing

for cnn this morning. thank you for your reporting on this. this is deeply personal to so many in china. how different is this from what we've seen in at least the last decade or so? it seems this time is different. >> reporter: this is unprecedented, since xi jinping took power. what we are seeing is surreal and unbelievable. last night i was there in the middle of a protest in the capital of china, talking about a country where it is extremely dangerous to publically criticize the party, especially xi himself, you risk jail time or worse. and last night in beijing they were chanting over and over again, we don't want covid tests we want freedom. some shouting for freedom of speech, human rights. many people holding white paper in their hands, a sign of solidarity against censorship. i talked to a protester who told me he motorcycled and biked more than an hour to get to the

scene. when asked how he was feeling, which is a what he told me. >> translator: i'm overwhelmed. everyone should be here. they don't have to voice their opinions but i hope they can stand with us. >> reporter: and i cannot overemphasize how rare it is to have someone speak to cnn maskless in public, shows how determined they are for their voices to be heard. after 2:00 a.m. more police filed in, forcing us to disperse, we saw the videos of violence in shanghai but what i witnessed yesterday was at least peaceful. >> it is dangerous, they're obviously putting their safety on the lines there. poppy asked the question, what happened this time. but do you think this will be effective this time? >> reporter: well, these people are extremely determined, but this is also extremely dangerous and the security presence is huge. i'm about to drive out right after this to go back to the

place we were, and i'm expecting to see rows of police cars there. what pushed people past their breaking point this point was so heartbreaking. a fire that broke out that killed at least ten people and videos of the scene indicated that covid restrictions prevented victims from getting help with the compound entrance blocked by the fences and metal barriers used in covid lockdowns. you can see flames coming from the building, no water able to reach them. it triggered people's worst nightmares, the idea that any one of us can be trapped in a building while fire is ranging, unable to get help. for more i want to bring in chief national security correspondent jim sciutto in washington. there have been signs of dissent, but do you think the new wave of anger is posing a bigger challenge for xi jinping's government. >> it is posting a challenge, the question is how big of a

challenge this is a government that built a security apparatus for two decades for this kind of thing. protests happen in china, a country of more than a billion and a half people but those are local. this is national. and it's affecting the biggest, most powerful cities, beijing, shangh shanghai, wuhan. when you look at the protests, they're not small and isolated, often involving hundreds of people out in public places with their masks off, allows them to be easily identified, that's an act of courage in this country. this is a country that tracks every act of dissent and knows who you are and punishes those people. it's an enormous risk to do what these people are doing to challenge the government. this is something that xi jinping is noticing. they're not just saying i have a problem with china's covid policy they're mentioning xi

jinping by name and freedoms by name. listen to this particular point in the south. listen to what the protesters are saying here. we'll play the clip. they're saying no to lockdowns, yes to freedoms. they mention freedom of the press, they mention freedom of speech, they mention freedom of action. these are things explicitly forbidden in china, kaitlan. that's a broader criticism than saying we're sick of the covid restrictions. >> this comes as xi has gotten his third term in power. what are you watching to see and how the government is responding to these separate factions and protests coming together under this pushing back against the covid restrictions. >> it's a good question and they are responding by tweaking. we heard today -- selina wang mentioned this, this is the moment that started this, you had a fire at an apartment building. there's the fire hose.

the reason the firemen could not get to the building is because of covid restrictions. there were barriers around the building. they're so far away, the fire can't reach the flames. they have since tweaked some of those policies, no longer for instance locking the doors to apartment complexes so in the even of a fire, firemen can get in there. those are tweaks. when covid cases went up again, they had to reimpose many restrictions there. to this point, kaitlan, china's covid policy is a failure, their vaccines largely don't work, people are still getting infected. one moment that i was told was powerful for the chinese people. they've been watching the world cup. they see maskless crowds in qatar, cheering for their teams. china is still behind masks. it's not just the developing world that seems to have put covid behind it, china has not,

that's causing frustration there. china has an enormous security apparatus, they'll crack down and crack down hard. >> we'll be watching. thank you. a power outage triggering a major chain reaction and causing havoc for millions in the city of houston. the chaos includes a boil water advisory and the closure of all public schools. straight to rosa flores live in houston this morning. good morning to you, what happened? >> reporter: good morning, don. as you mentioned, there was a power outage here yesterday, and according to the city of houston, that impacted one of the water treatment plants. and the water there, the water pressure dropped below 20 psi for one to two minutes. that's why the city of houston issued this boil order advisory asking residents to boil their tap water before using it. houston is a big city. this is impacting more than 2

million people and some school districts have closed today. so it's impacting parents, don, today. now they have their children at home. it's impacting at least the houston school district but other school districts are also affected. >> what has to happen for the boil water order to be lifted? don was saying how this impacts schools. there's going to be a lot of unhappy parents this morning. >> reporter: i know. this has to happen per state law. when the water pressure drops. so what needs to happen is the city of houston has to submit a plan to the state of texas, the state of texas then has to approve the plan, and then water samples have to be collected, that water sample has to be tested. and then these water samples have to sit for 18 hours to see if anything grows on the water. if nothing grows, according to the mayor of houston, then the water could be lifted as early as later tonight or tomorrow morning. but the mayor of houston did

take to twitter yesterday to say he believes the water is safe, but again, by law, once that water pressure drops below 20 psi, they have to issue a boil alert. >> everyone affected, literally everyone. thank you, rosa. with the holidays and the flu season now under way, dr. anthony fauci is warning that rsv and the flu could become a public health emergency right here. >> in some regions of the country we're seeing that the hospital system for pediatrics are at the point of almost being overwhelmed when you have like almost all the intensive care beds that are occupied, it's bad for the children who have rsv and need intensive care. but it also occupies all the beds and children who have a number of other diseases. >> remember, we were talking about that last week with the icu beds at some children's hospitals completely full. fauci is urging congress to pass

$10 billion in additional funding for covid-19 treatmenting, research and outreach, encouraging americans to get the latest booster vaccines. >> he also weighed in on and was optimistic about record flu hospitalizations seen across america as they are reaching a peak. >> if you look at the flu curves and the other years it goes up like this way before it usually goes up over here. >> you think we're in the worst of it? >> i hope so. but you never want to be overconfident. >> there have never been this many hospitalizations for the flu at this point in the season in more than a decade. joining us with more is elizabeth cohen. i know a lot of this has to do with the fact that people were taking such big mitigation steps over the last several years, that's why we're seeing a difference now. a big question people want to know is how they avoid getting sick as the flu cases are already this high, people are gathering for the holidays, out

and about more than they have been in the last several years. >> right. so all the advice i'm going to give you, you have heard it before. there is nothing new under the sun. it's very basic stuff. it's things like getting a flu shot, so important. washing your hands frequently. if you want to, no one is advise you to but if you want to wearing a mask will protect against the flu, and rsv and covid and other respiratory diseases. hospitalizations at a high at this point in the season. if you look to the right, you can see the bar that represents the rate now, all the rates over the past ten years way lower than at this point in the season. >> you heard dr. fauci saying he's hoping we're at the peak but it comes as we see the rsv cases pushing hospitals to the brink. what are we hearing from medical officials about the concern? the question is will it become a

public health emergency? what are people in the health profession saying about this? >> what they're saying is they're concerned about the triple threat. you still have about 300 people each day dying from covid and tens of thousands of people in the hospital. you have hospitalizations due to covid, due to flu so high. also the young and old due to rsv. that's a lot of people. hospitals are so strained and a lot of doctors and nurses left the profession during covid because they got so sick of it. so we have a bad situation. three infections that are putting people in the hospital, not enough doctors and nurses. >> feels like they can't catch a break. thanks for that update. this morning, kim kardashian is speaking out over balenciaga, they released a holiday ad which appears to show kids holding teddy bears in bondage. let's go to erika hill.

good morning to you. how do they think this is a good idea? >> that remains a question. this ad campaign was pulled last week. tuesday there was a statement out that put out on social media saying they apologized for any offense our holiday campaign may have caused that the bags should not have been featured with children. these are teddy bears that appear to be in bondage gear with children. the photographer saying i had no direction here for the shoot of the pictures. you can see them here, why people were disturbed by them. as to why and how this happened, there isn't been a clear answer as to who thought it was a good idea. you have to get high up the chain of command. >> it's a teddy -- >> it's a ted bear bag with bondage in an ad with kids.

>> but kim carhas so much power and a mother of four. >> yes. there was a lot of pressure. this happened last week, a lot of pressure to speak out. so sunday night she posts on social media saying the reason i waited until this point is i was taking my time, i wanted to speak with the company. she notes that, of course, she is a mother of four, how she finds this disturbing as a mother of four. she said in her conversations she believes they understand the seriousness of the issue. but she's reevaluating. so it's unclear whether she will continue working with them. she said she spoke with them and they get it. not really sure what that means. >> do you know how big this is? i was in new york yesterday and i saw balenciaga protests, i don't know the nature of it. but it's active on social media, you have kim kardashian who's a huge influencer speaking out

about it. do you know how big this is? is it penetrating? >> do you mean is it penetrating and damaging the brand? >> yeah. >> i don't know that's clear yet. i don't know that it has been long enough as to see whether or not there is a financial impact on the brand. has there been outrage and pushback on social media, absolutely? >> thank you very much. appreciate that. we'll continue to watch this. inflation is not slowing down holiday shoppers. and kim jong-un's daughter seen in public again. the second time in recent days typically she has been shrouded in is gre si. we'll talk about the strategy behind the sightings ahead.

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us. what's going on? >> never count out the american consumer. coming out of, you know, three years now of covid we can see from the numbers people want to spend money on things that matter to them. people want to go to the mall. they went to the mall. they went shopping. they went shopping online. we've had black friday sales for a month now already. and you'll have sales all the way to the end of the year. i see a sign here, a very important test for the american economy. prices are higher, people are making changes because of that and still spending. >> real wages aren't keeping up with inflation. >> consumer concerns about the economy are the highest since the great recession. and according to the nrf, they said the state of the economy was impacting their holiday spending plans. but are we seeing that? we're not looking in the right places. >> i think it remains to be seen what people are buying. are they getting deals on clothing, electronics or buying bundles of toilet paper.

that needs to be ironed out here still. the other thing that's a bit concerning is that people are using their credit cards big time right now. at a time when interest rates are extremely high. >> record high. >> record high. and we don't know where the fed is going to go. we were just talking. the fed is going to give a speech this week and give a direction. and we don't know. the credit card debt, if it lingers, i know you say pay it off right away. >> credit card debt is a huge issue but hold on. this is between christine romans and i, we've been talking about this. this disconnect. people will say one thing if you give them a survey but what they're doing is not what they're saying. >> they say the economy sucks. so how do they handle it? they go out and shop. >> i said to you, i don't see people adjusting their lives so much as to what the rhetoric is. let me give you one other indication what we're talking

about. oil prices are at the lowest level in nearly a year. gases down 6% in a month. >> eight states the average gas price is lower than it was a year ago. and you have the trend, you know, the steam is coming off of that oil market, too. but you don't see people saying, great. the way they're saying gas costs so much. when things are bad they worry about it. when things are good they don't mention it. >> we were talking about the high price of stuff. do you know what people talked about at the dinner table, how cheap turkeys were. >> they were more than last year. >> there were deals. >> there were deals. >> go ahead. >> also people are working right now. even though prices are high, the number of people who are working is still very encouraging. there's still almost two jobs for every one person. so people do feel some confidence. it's not making these higher prices any better or distorting this reality, but it gives you some confidence, gives you an

execution. >> you mentioned the buy now pay later. >> yeah. >> i'm really concerned about that. that's a higher share of the sales. which is fine if it's zero percent interest. but don't fall behind on the payments or you get hurt. the store credit cards, apr, 29% on some of these. so sure you get a deal when you open the store card. you must pay it off, or the discount is eaten up in two months with the higher interest. >> we heard a few months ago jamie dimon head of j.p. morgan said there's a hurricane coming. and tomorrow we have brian moy happ from bank of america. >> great. they see what you're doing in your bank account. the jobs picture is right we have a robust job market.

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>> yeah. >> are we reading it wrong again? do we have the right metrics? >> the pandemic broke the charts. so yeah we're reading it wrong. everyone is confused about what the economy is doing, right. mark sandy, an economist we all follow said i'm looking at the numbers i'm having a hard time finding something recessionary going on here. you have people still spending money, earning money, right to point out inflation is still far outstripping income. but a lot of executives and ceos say they're expecting to raise wages next year. >> how do you explain that with the reporting on the program, which is the layoffs in silicone valley. companies that seemed like they were bullet proof. is this about advertisers pulling back so they're getting hit but no one else? >> especially the tech sector these are head line grabbing moves. there are layoffs in other areas as well. it's hard for the tech sector to

compete right now because there's competition for eyeballs and it's attention getting. >> they exploded during the pandemic. they got too big. they were hiring like it was the roaring '20s and it's not the roaring '20s. they're getting back to more basics. the layoffs are big but many still at bigger head count today than they were in 2019. >> it raises questions about what that structure looks like. >> how many jobs do they account for? >> the tech sector, it counts for a lot of the growth of the past five years but still just a segment of the economy. it does not represent the entire economy at all. >> they're still hiring. i know someone who got a great tech job just a few weeks ago. they're still looking for people. >> an nececdotally people are s getting hired. >> thank you both. we have dramatic video this morning, a man who fell overboard on a carnival cruise ship, he was in the water for

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so look at that little dot right there in the middle. this morning, dramatic video showing the moment a man was saved after falling overboard from a carnival cruise ship, rescuers say the 28-year-old may have been in the water for more than 15 hours. he was reportedly at a bar with his sister and disappeared after leaving to use the restroom. she reported him missing when he didn't return to his room overnight. i cannot believe they found him if you look at that. a multi-crew search by air and sea was quickly under way. the cruise ship even turned back to look for him. the coast guard said the search extended more than 200 miles in the gulf. but finally they spotted him.

the coast guard then hoisted the man aboard a helicopter. they say he was responsive but exhibiting hypothermic like symptoms. for the second time in a matter of days, the world has gotten a glimpse of kim jong-un's daughter. it has raised questions why she is appearing in public, appearing in public now, it's also fuelled speculation over his potential succession plans. in one photo released by state media. the father and daughter pair were seen posing by a truck loaded with a large intercontinental ballistic missile. she was seen at a test site with her dad in recent days. joining us to talk about this is news week columnist gordon chang. i just want to start with what we are seeing with his daughter appearing in public.

because it's a break from precedent of what we've seen past leaders in north korea do where typically they haven't been seen with their children unless they're the successor. what do you make of this? >> the likely explanation is she is the successor. but this is north korea. so the most common sense answer is probably wrong. it could also do with kim's sister, who is extremely capable and seemingly ambitious. and maybe kim jong-un is telling her to back away, forget about taking over if kim jong-un passes. remember, kim jong-un is a series of medical problems. diabetes, heart issues, some other things as well. so succession is a matter of some importance in north korea right now. >> absolutely. we just learned about his daughter not that long ago from dennis rodman.

we didn't know much about her. what do you know and what have you learned? the photos are being released by state media, it seems quite intentional. >> we don't know much except she's probably 9 or 10 years old. rodman is the reason why we know her name. and the thing that's really interesting about these photos is that the mother, who was with them at the time, is not in the pictures. so, you know, we have to figure out what that means. but right now, we know very little, except that kim jong-un has three children, they're all very young. none of them are at the point they could actually be groomed for succession. so the designation of one of them is really unusual. >> well, this, coupled with what kim jong-un and the regime said over the weekend, very explicitly about wanting to be the foremost world nuclear power, i mean, how do you think that this ties into that?

>> well, the pictures of the daughter are both in connection with the 17, which is an intercontinental ballistic missile, tested three times, successful twice, this is a missile that can reach any part of the united states. obviously because north korea is so small, it's economy is wuny. it could never have the world's largest arsenal, which is what kim jong-un was bragging about. but remember, kim is a proxy for what could be the world's largest arsenals together, which is china and russia. so we have to be concerned that kim jong-un is signaling that he has the support of both beijing and moscow. >> good morning, gordon. good to see you again. i want to ask you about these protests in china and hong kong. you worked for almost two decades there and this is what you tweeted on sunday, the third chinese revolution has started. how significant are the protests, and how does it

compare to previous protests in years past. >> this is serious for the communist party. many people compare them to 1989, but i think they're more serious than that. they go back to 1949. 1949 is when the communists took power. they took power despite confronting a superior force, and the nationalist forces melted away because as one great chinese historian said, the nationalists had lost people's hearts. what we saw since thursday with the protests over the fire is that the communist party lost the hearts of the people. in 1989 protesters didn't demand the communist party leave power. they're doing it right now on the streets in china. the communist party has to be concerned. >> is that the key difference some of them are willing to say that xi jinping should step down? >> yes.

remember they do this at great risk to themselves because china is a total surveillance state. the communist party can recognize everybody in the crowd, what they're saying, doing, and what they're doing can put them away for decades. so there's a boldness in the chinese people right now. it can fade, it could very well fade because of the anger over the fire can dissipate. but we do know that this will come back, because the chinese people have made it very clear, they did not want the communist party and they don't want xi jinping and they want to govern themselves. >> you want president biden to weigh in. what do you think he should say here? >> i think he should privately say to xi jinping, that the use of force against the chinese people will result in severe consequences. like the severing of relations with china. it's in our interests to make sure this is resolved peacefully. and i hope that president biden who has concentrated on working with allies is on the phone with our friends and partners around

the world to get them to say the same things to china. we do not need another tiananmen square massacre and don't need someone like george h.w. bush telling the chinese leader that it's okay you kill the chinese people. that's morally wrong. >> can that successfully be done when you have, for example, the german chancellor, who was just there, and just made another big economic deal with china? if you have the u.s. saying one thing and yet our allies, big economies in europe, still, you know, having these increasing ties to china? what message does that send? >> yeah. chancellor schultz's visit to beijing was certainly disappointing. but we have to remember the chinese and europeans were set to have this comprehensive agreement on investment in 2020, which was a slap to then incoming president biden. and the chinese, through just terrible diplomacy pushed the

europeans away. they're going to do that again, poppy. so i think that the united states can exercise a lot of influence. and remember, right now the russians and the chinese are working together, and that means that it's easier for president biden to get the west to work together as well. >> gordon chang, thank you on all these fronts. so georgia, early voting for georgia's senate runoff election which is just over a week away -- well, early voting is under way. there was a huge turn out on the first day to cast ballots. >> crazy. also this, john baptiste, becoming the next superstar to headline a white house dinner. we'll show you the company he's joining. >> he's so great. ♪ ♪ i just need you ♪ ♪ you ♪ ♪ you ♪ ♪ tripling down on the

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♪ ♪ when i move my body just like this ♪ ♪ i don't know why but i feel like freedom ♪ ♪ i hear a song that takes me back ♪ ♪ i let go with so much freedom ♪ >> that is musician john baptiste, he can now add white house entertainer to his list of accomplishments. he was tapped to perform at president biden's first white house state dinner on thursday that honors french president emmanuel macron. the new orleans legend won five grammy awards this year, including album of the year for "we are". until recently he was the land leader with the late show with stephen koe cobert.

it's to honor the talent at the white house. artists like old blue eyes. frank sinatra's performance in 1973 performances reflect the musical taste of the first families or their guests. ♪ >> 1984, you know that guy, this was during president reagan's time. he invited julio eglasia to sing for the french president. ♪ >> i can listen to more of that. three years later deon warwick took the stage and sang for the french prime minister. ♪ don't delay ♪

>> that was a voice, whitney. whitney houston invited by the clinton white house to sing for nelson mandela, a few months after he was elected. ♪ ♪ that's what i want ♪ >> elton john and stevie wonder also performed for british prime minister tony blair. ♪ >> and country singer kenny chesney was the featured headliner in 2006 during a state dinner for the australian prime minister during the george w. bush presidency. ♪ ♪ ain't nobody ♪ ♪ nobody ♪ >> during the obama

administration, the headliners ranged from mary j. blige to john legend, beyonce, james taylor and jgwen ste faf knee. before that state dinner there's moves being made, including a shift in the biden administration's policy on venezuela after they announced they were allowing chevron to pump more oil in the country once again. that follows an announcement that venezuela reached an agreement with an opposition government when it comes to humanitarian relief. inj jeremy diamond joins us from the white house. >> the biden administration is lifting this restriction on venezuela allowing chevron to pump oil and export it only to the united states. the administration said this is about the progress being made in venezuela between the maduro regime and the opposition party with talks resuming in mexico city on saturday.

the sanctions relief was issued on the same day. it follows an agreement by the venezuelan regime to allow the united nations to manage a fund of billions of dollars in frozen assets and allow that to be used for humanitarian relief. the u.s. is clear, this is the only sanction being lifted at this time. the treasury department saying other venezuela related restrictions and sanctions imposed by the united states remain in place. the united states enforces the sanctions and will hold accountable any actor that engages in corruption, violates u.s. laws or abuses human rights in venezuela. and the oil can only be exported to the united states and no profits can >> i've seen some republican criticism of this. i wonder what officials are saying about the extent this has to do with easing energy prices. obviously that's been a big issue globally since the war in ukraine started. what did officials say this

weekend about that. >> reporter: the officials are saying this is all about the humanitarian progress in venezuela. we should be very clear here that this does send a pretty strong signal to global oil markets, and we do know that over the last several months since last spring the biden administration has been looking for other countries to export more oim to replace russian oil on the international energy markets to hurt vladimir putin who has been profiting from oil sales and using that to pay for his war in ukraine. senior administration official said this move will have a limited impact on the international oil market, though. again, it does send a signal and the u.s. has made clear that if there is more progress, there would be more sanctions relief on the way for venezuela in the future as well. >> we'll be watching closely. jeremy, thank you. people really got out to vote this weekend in georgia. near will 80,000 people cast their ballots after georgia's

supreme court granted raphael warnock a victory last week, allowing the early voting to start this past saturday in his runoff race with herschel walker. eva mckend is joining us live. it's fascinating to see those numbers. this was a big thing that the warnock camp was fighting for. they took it all the way up to the state's high court. is it expected that that early voting is more beneficial to warnock than walker? do we know? >> reporter: good morning to you, poppy. things well under way here in atlanta. i just want to show you behind me here, just a long line. it does seem that things are moving pretty quickly, people getting in and out this morning. yes, you're absolutely right. this was a big victory for senator warnock, for democrats. over the weekend, i met college students who told me, had there not been for the saturday voting, they may not have been

able to vote. they didn't get their absentee ballot in time, so there was just a lot of enthusiasm among democratic voters for the early voting. so democrats not only won in a practical sense, but they also won in terms of elevating it as an issue. we know the issue of voting rights is an issue that galvanizes the democratic base. this is why senator warnock was speaking the this this weekend at a souls to the polls event. take a listen. >> we filed a lawsuit so you could vote on saturday. they filed a petition asking for emergency relief. what you ought to ask yourself is what do they want relief from? you want relief from people voting? >> reporter: we also saw a tremendous amount of black georgians come out and

participate. i asked senator warnock about this. he said he was proud of the multiracial coalition that democrats have built in this state. >> don was just noticing all the young people. you're just at one polling site in atlanta, but noticing all the young people, a lot of young people coming out. can you explain to people the answer to warnock's question? what was the argument by the republicans that did file that emergency petition? i know they said they interpreted the law differently, but what was the crux of their argument? >> reporter: well, they also argue that democrats essentially were trying to change the rules in the middle of the game and that this would unfairly benefit democrats, that you would have all these democratic counties that would be able to be prepared to be ready relatively quickly to offer that saturday vo voting and rural counties where their voters were were not. there were heavy republican counties that offered saturday voting as well. what was notable is that herschel walker was not on the campaign trail this weekend during this early voting period.

it was a thanksgiving holiday. we understand he was celebrating his mother's birthday the last two days, his mother's 85th birthday. still surprising not to see him. i think it also speaks to a cultural difference in how democrats and republicans talk about early voting. democrats really just put a lot more emphasis on it where as republicans do not. they do not emphasize early voting as much as we've heard democrats do so. >> a week from today, very close. eva, thank you for the reporting from atlanta. a soccer match turned into a geopolitical showdown. why u.s. soccer and the state department are trying to cool tension with iran. plus, the world losing another '80s icon. ♪ fame ♪ ♪ i'm going to live forever ♪ ♪ i'm going to learn how to

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"flashdance," "what a feeling." she died saturday according to her publicist. many remember her as scarring as cocoa hernandez in the 1980 movie "fe." she also sung the title track to the tv and movie of the same name. ♪ remember my name ♪ ♪ fame ♪ ♪ i'm going to learn how to fly ♪ >> these are the stars -- this was glee before glee. >> the best karaoke songs. >> really great. also, she was a trailblazer for women and for minorities in the business because she had this terrible record contract. she sued her record executive and she won after years. >> fighting for what she's owed. >> only 63. >> her publicist talked about how hard it was to tell everyone the news. >> she will be missed. cnn this morning continues right now.