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hello and welcome to all of you watching us here in the united states, canada and all around the world. i'm kim brunhuber. ahead on "cnn newsroom," we're live at the world cup in doha where everything is on the line for the u.s. men's soccer team as it prepares to face the netherlands. all eyes are on georgia's senate runoff. we'll look at why this election matters when it comes to judicial appointments for president biden. plus, police in idaho say they have new information about the crime scene where four college students were stabbed to death. we'll look at what it is. ♪ well, it's do or die time now at the world cup in qatar, and soon the u.s. will take on the netherlands to kick off the round of 16. here's how the table looks now. many familiar faces have advanced to the group stage like france, england and spain but a few notable absences too. european heavyweights, germany,

belgium and denmark didn't make it out of their groups, in qatar, five hours from now the u.s. will take the field at khalifa international stadium. the netherlands finished top group a while the u.s. finished in group b. later superstar lionel messi will lead argentina with a glash with the socceroos. the man nicknamed captain america christian pulisic has been cleared to play in its match. he left the game earlier after sustaining an injuries. cnn world sports amanda davies joins us live from doha. amanda, for the usa, get comes down to can they score. and having pullsic back will help. what will we hope to see? >> yeah, this has no doubt impact on what the u.s. team has with the sport. we've just seen the team go for a wander around in sunshine ahead, for the match when the

coach has said it's go time. at this point in a world cup tournament, you do whatever you can to push on through, i think that's not just about his game in particular, but also with a view to that injury that pulisic had sustained during that match against iran. that pell vision contusion, we have heard so much about. he has been cleared as fit to play, but we don't know how much of a part he will play in today's match. that is the question that is still a little bit uncertain. as coach berhalter told the media yesterday. at this point, had you take the match and people's fitness step-by-step. >> literally, one game at a time. one minute at a time. you know, in this knockout stage, you know, anything makes the difference in a result. and you have to be patient. you also have to realize that it's -- it could be a 120-minute exercise. and you have to plan your lineups and substitutions accordingly.

>> this is without doubt, the biggest match, that this young u.s. men's national side under gregg berhalter have faced their first world cup knockout game since brazil 2014. and up against the side who are three-time world cup runner? s up, on an 18-match unbeaten run with a very-well regarded, well-established coach. louis van gaal at the helm. he's been coming back, hitting back, with some fighting talk, against criticism of his side. not playing the most exciting interesting football. he says, hey, we are still here. we haven't suffered the same fate as the likes of germany and belgium up to this point. but he says, as much as they respect, they admire what the u.s. can bring to the party, they can be beaten. >> all right. and then in the next game,

argentina and australia, the question surrounding lionel messi, you know, whether he's the best of all time that question was always around whether he could lead his team to world cup glory and has another chance to take them one step farther? >> oh, kim, are we going to go there? that's a debate that could last the whole program. but, no, that has always been the thing with lionel messi, he was able to win his first piece of international sill ware with this team, with the captain america early that got the monkey of argentinean generations back but they didn't get off to a good start this day with the defeat of saudi arabia. e feeling was they were off with that last game against poland. they are back on track show something of the form that took them on a 36-match unbeaten run. here we are at the knockout stage. and we're at that point that every game now could be the last time we see lionel messi, age 35, in an argentinean shirt.

australia for their part are relishing this moment. you suspect the fans are still partying on the streets of melbourne as we saw them doing at 4:00 in the morning, after that victory over denmark. it's a huge, huge moment for them. just their second ever knockout match at a world cup finals. the man they have been charged graham arnold was in goal last time in 2006 in the team. interestingly, he knows what it takes to beat argentina. the last time australia beat argentina back in 1988, arnie was on the pitch as a player. >> i can't wait to watch both matches with my soccer team later this afternoon. at a bar somewhere, just absolutes mouth watering matchups there. amanda davies in doha, thanks so much. appreciate it. ♪ well, we're just a few days away from the runoff election

for georgia's u.s. senate seat. friday was the last day of early voting. state survey shows 1.5 million early georgians have voted ahead of tuesday. on tuesday, democratic incumbent raphael warnock will face off with herschel walker. poll indicates georgia's black voters overwhelmingly back warnock by 96%. now, this coming tuesday is the formal election day in georgia. cnn national politics reporter e ever eva mckend talked to voters. >> reporter: on the final day of early voting long lines did not deter georgians from heading to the polls. >> this runoff is so important. there's a sense of accomplishment to come in and get it done early. >> reporter: just four days until tuesday's runoff, and neither cancandidate is letting.

enough is enough. we got to get out and vote. >> we can't rest on our laurels. it's way too early to do a happy dance. >> reporter: polls show raphael warnock holds a slim lead over herschel walker. among likely runoff voters 62% say they plan to support warnock. 48% plan to vote for walker. both can candidates enjoying overwhelming support from their respective parties. independents break in favor of warnock 61% to 48%. turnout has been strong during the early voting period. nearly 1.5 million have already cast ballots. according to data from the georgia secretary of state's office. but the overall turnout still lags behind the georgia senate runoffs in january 2021. with this year's runoff having fewer days of early voting under

the state's new voting law. >> hello! >> reporter: both candidates making their closing arguments to voters with walker continuing to try warnock to president joe biden. >> he was a georgia senator, he was going to represent georgia. but who was he representing? joe biden. >> reporter: and warnock urging voters to keep pushing not taking the early voting for granted and maintaining the race is about confidence and character. >> georgia will lead you to the world one more time. >> reporter: and georgia remains the center of the political universe as it holds a case that has not been called at least for a few more days. eva mckend, cnn. >> there's a reason it remains intense even though democrats are guaranteed a majority in the senate. republicans who voted for donald trump, many will tell you they backed him despite the tweets, despite his personality, loss of his short comings because of

judges. over his term, he had about 230 over the federal level. and with that body potentially for decades, so far, president biden has one high court justice confirmed. on the u.s. court of appeals trump chose 54 judges, biden so far, fewer than half of that. 174 judges on u.s. district courts with the former president, 61 of his successor. joining us from chicago, cnn legal analyst and civil rights attorney areva martin. i want to start off with having that 50/50 senate that we've had. what effect has this had on the nomination pipeline? how have republicans been either to, you know, slow down the picks, or affect the type of judges that biden has nominated? >> well, we know kim, donald

trump had the opportunity to appoint 200 or more judges. joe biden hasn't had that opportunity to appoint as many federal judges and having that 51 in the senate, in raphael warnock does win, will give joe biden an opportunity to have a much easier time to appoint those types of judges that will balance out the donald trump judges. we know that some of the appointees for donald trump have acted in a way to assist with conservative principles and ideologies and have been less willing to follow what many believe to be the law. they've been favorable to donald trump. we saw that with respect to the judge -- the federal judge in the mar-a-lago case. so this 51st seat in the senate would be a huge benefit for the democrats. >> that's the question, i guess, if biden doesn't have to worry so much about recording republican support or about alienating the moderate or light

leaning democrats do you think he will be more aggressive in the types of judges he can recruit? does that work against the brand that he might recruit as republicans which might be relevant if he plans to run for a second term? >> well, i think joe biden has proven he definitely can work across the aisle. he promised to have and he he's done that, like the infrastructure bill because of it. but he's also previousen that he will step out of that role and he will, you know, act in a way that's more consistent that allows the democrats, like the student loan debt forgiveness that he ushered through. so, i think in this last two years, particularly since democrats don't have control of the house, we're going to so a more embolden joe biden. and we're going to see a joe biden that understands what the assignment is. and that assignment is to try to even out a federal bench. he has the opportunity if

warnock wins that election in georgia to do so. and i think be far more aggressive with respect to the appointment of liberal and liberal-leaning judges. >> given that republicans will control the house and they vowed to grind the biden administration to a halt. appointing judges may be one of the most important things that biden can actually get done. so, what are the big issues which could be impacted by these judicial picks? >> oh, well, we know there's abortion. that's a big issue that, you know, has really galvanized the electorate over -- we saw that with respect to the midterms. there's still gun control issues. there's the affirmative action issues. there's so many hot button issue that, you know will come before the federal courts and definitely before the u.s. supreme court. and then there are all of these potential charges against donald trump. we know he's under investigation in several jurisdictions. so the question is is donald

trump himself going to be held accountable for the investigations he's under and might he find himself before the federal court with respect to the mar-a-lago case. there's a lot on the federal bench. and democrats have not been so focused, kim, on judicial appointments the way we have seen republicans do over the last couple decades so this will give joe biden i think an opportunity to really focus on an issue that many democrats feel that democrats have not been as consistent or as diligent as republicans have been. >> yeah. that's a great point. it's something that as animated conservatives but liberals not too much. how much opportunity to you think biden will actually have? are there lots of vacancies coming up and any chance of another supreme court justice do you think? >> oh, i hope so. i think many democrats are hoping that joe biden gets another appointment. he made that promise that he would appoint the first african

american female to the u.s. supreme court. he made good on that promise. there's a lot of hope that maybe there's going sly, we don't wan to expire, but perhaps retirement would give him an opportunity to make another appointment. we know the federal judiciary, particularly, i've lived in the state of california, and i've been part of that judicial review process when kamala harris was a senator in the state of california. and courts are overcrowded and there's a need in our federal court system. so there's a lot of opportunity for joe biden to kind of even out what donald trump while president. >> there's a lot to find out. areva martin, appreciate it. >> thanks, kim. the georgia runoff between raphael warnock and herschel walker is now three days away.

cnn's coverage is expected to start at 4:00 p.m. next tuesday. u.s. house lawmakers are racing to finish their investigation into the january 6 insurrection before the current congressional term ends, still undecided is whether to refer the committee's work to the u.s. justice department for potential prosecution. cnn's sara murray has those details. >> the clerk will call the roll. >> reporter: running up against an end-of-year deadline. >> putting down the pen and going to print. >> reporter: the house select committee investigating the january 6th attack on the u.s. capitol convening privately to weigh its final moves and discuss its final report. >> we haven't finished the discussion of any conclusions including referrals yet. we will be working on that in the coming days and expect to conclude that very soon. >> reporter: the committee still weighing what to do about criminal referral. the panel also discussing how to prevent evidence of possible obstruction, perjury and witness

tampering in its final report and deciding whether to hold accountable the five gop lawmakers including house republican minority leader knch mccarthy and congressman jim jordan for refusing to comply with committee subpoenas. >> i've got a message that i need for you to take to your heart and take back home. and along the way, stop at the capitol. >> the ayes have it. >> reporter: committee chairman bennie thompson telling there are three options, refer them, hold them in contempt of court or, well, do nothing. the committee also vowing to make interviews with more than 1,000 interviews and volumes of other evidence available to the public. >> we're also going to be releasing the evidence which may be the most important thing. the voluminous transcripts, the documents and emails. we want to make sure that's put before the american people. >> reporter: as mccarthy is still scrambling the votes to become the speaker in the next congress. >> i'll take it to the floor. with the january 6th committee

to preserve all of the records in transcript. >> they've been clear to undermine the work that we've done, but we're going to prevent that and we're going to relows all of the information we've collect today it cannot be select tively edited in spots. >> reporter: trump's counsel moving ahead, a judge ordered them to provided additional grand jury testimony and doj's criminal probe in efforts to overturn the 2020 election. >> reporter: sara murray, cnn, washington. new u.s. sanctions over russian oil making impact coming up, why the u.s. and its allies have put a price cap on crude. plus a new extrany to complete the air defenses, why russia is reportedly firing dummy missile, why they could be a majojor problem for ukraine.

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the europe people union and other countries are once again targeting russian oil. that block along with the g7 has agreed to send a $60 a barrel

price cap on that crude. eu members wanted a much lower $40 or $50 a barrel. that decision comes ahead of the european's embargo on monday that represents the most comprehensive yet to put into oil revenues to affect ukraine. we have it. >> this price cap has three objectives. first it strengthens the effect of our sanction. second, it will further diminish russia's revenues and thirdly, at the same time, it will stabilize global energy markets because it allows some russian sea bourne oil to be traded, brokered or transported by eu operators to third countries, as long as it's sold below the cap. >> global energy experts admit

they can't predict what impact the price cap will have on the oil market or how moscow might respond. well in ukraine, there are new indications russia is preparing to evacuate civilians from occupied towns in the zaporizhzhia region. one community had posted a notice from pro-russian officials asking residents to prepare for a possible evacuation. ukraine says that russian troops have already withdrawn from three settlements in the region. meanwhile, new video shows the aftermath of a russian rocket strike in the kharkiv region. ukrainian officials say a rocket tore through this building on thursday, killing two people. the apartment took out an apparent chunk in the building leaving ruins. but some of the missiles russia has been firing on ukraine are reportedly dummies saying they're nuclear capable but don't have explosive warheads. ukraine says they're far from harmless and russia is using them for a reason. for more, will ripley joins us from kyiv.

will, explain to us, what is that reason then, for using the dummy missiles? >> well, when you look at the attack last week on largely civilian infrastructure targets, russia launched over a period of about four hours, more than 70 projectiles some of those were rockets and missiles that had live warheads and others were the 1980s nuclear-capable missiles that if you look at the video, they are big. they're obviously, you know, hurdling through the air at tremendous speed and if they hit a target they can cause a lot of damage, they have fuel inside to cause an explosion, even without a warhead they be can be destructive. but what the ukrainians think with the overwhelming air defense system and launching dummy missiles and newer missiles that have warheads there's a greater likelihood of inflicting huge damage on the power grid here in ukraine. in fact, the foreign minister said in an exclusive interview with cnn last night that they are praising themselves for a massive russia attack in the

coming days on the power grid with the intent of trying to knock out power across the country. here in kyiv right now, they're at about 70% capacity. and the russian goal is to really weaponize winter with these colder temperatures, knock out power for as many people as possible. and in as many places as possible. so by launching these dummy missiles it makes it more difficult for the ukrainians to shoot everything down. think about their success rate, they launched more than 70 projectiles. the ukrainians shot down 50 of them, that leaves about 20 hitting their targets. it's impossible to shoot all of them down even with a very accurate and increasingly powerful missiles but, kim, certainly the fear is that russia will continue to try to overwhelm the initial defenses. as they target the power grid, just as they now rebuilt the system and got them back online, could be a very difficult period ahead in ukraine which is why they're asking for patriot missile defense systems from united states and other defense missile systems as soon as

possible to be able to shoot down more of these things. >> yeah. it's a challenge, as they restore the power things keep getting knocked out and millions i understand are still in the dark in ukraine. so what is the latest on that front trying to get power back for so many people in ukraine. >> yeah, it's really a struggle. here in kyiv, people are dealing with power cuts for several hours every day. often, they are on a rotating basis, they are scheduled. and so people can kind of plan their lives around when they know they're going to have electricity and when they're not. but it's a much more dire situation when you get farther outside of the capital, where you get to the suburbs where sometimes they can go for most of the day without power. and only have electricity for a few hours every day. especially if someone is living on a higher level floor or older building where you need the elevator to go up and down. outside it's a trudge through st dark stairwells and it could be arduous to deal with those

conditions. i will say, in my first hours here on the ground, just incredible resilience where you have small businesses all equipped with generators when the lights are off, they fire up the generators, continue to operate. they're still serving a smaller menu or still coffee, but moving forward and that's the overall feeling that we're feeling in kyiv and across ukraine, people are determined despite what russia brings that life will go on even though it may be very difficult, depending how successful this anticipated attack is. >> yeah, resilience is the word, as you said, will ripley in kooerch, thanks so much. new developments in the stabbing deaths of four college students in idaho. we'll bring you the latest in the murder mystery that has gripped the u.s. plus -- >> when it started getting back towards nighttime again, the water started getting colder. at that time, i thought, you know, how much longer am i going to have to be out here. >> survived treading water for

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♪ welcome back to all of you watching us here in the united states, canada and around the world, i'm kim brunhuber. this is "cnn newsroom." investigators of the murders of four college students in idaho last month say they've cleared another person of any wrongdoing. now all the people on the lease of the home where the killings took place have been ruled out as suspects. but many questions remain.

cnn's veronica merkel reports. >> reporter: they've now spoken to the sixth person on the lease. they say the sixth person moved out before the start of the school year and was not home at the time of the attacks. they are saying this person did not have any involvement in those murders. now, we know the two surviving roommates as well agency the sixth person on the lease have been cleared of the murders. in terms of the investigation, there is still no suspect, no motive, and no murder weapon. and detectives are working around the clock to try and get some information out, but they say that they have to withhold a lot of the vanments that they've been making because it could compromise the investigation which is really tough for this community. it is important to reiterate, though, that the entirety, essentially of the moscow police department is worked on this, in addition to the fbi and a lot of idaho state police officers who have come into the city to assist the moscow police department.

so there is progress being made, but according to police, the community is reeling for answers. students at the university of idaho actually get out of school at the end of next week for the semester and they won't be coming back until mid-january. i've asked officials what they plan on doing in terms of security. they say they're going to have to revisit that plan next year when students get back and see how investigation unfolds day by day, veronica miracle, cnn, idaho. we're learning much more about the man who went overboard from a cruise ship and survived as much as 50 hours in the shark-infested gulf of mexico. you might remember this video of the coast guard rescuing james grimes. as we harder from cnn's randi kaye, he has no idea how he fell in the water and how he survived. >> i wanted to see my family and i was dead set of making it out of there, you know. i was never accepting this is

it. this is going to be the end of my life. >> reporter: james michael grimes has a story to tell. and it's nothing short of a miracle that he survived to tell it. as he told abc's "good morning america," he was on a cruise with 18 members of his family last month, when suddenly he ended up overboard. >> my worst fear is drowning. and that was something i did not want to have to face. >> reporter: it was thanksgiving eve. the 28-year-old said he spent the day having fun with family which included him taking part in an air guitar contest. >> uh-oh. - >> reporter: he won a free drink at the contest but says he was not drunk. later around 11:00 p.m., his sister said he excused himself to go to the restroom. but he told abc he doesn't recall going to the bathroom or falling overboard. >> after i regains consciousness, i was in the water with no boat in sight. >> reporter: how he managed to stay afloat when he was passed out in water is a mystery.

>> i can't float myself even when i'm trying to so there had to be -- the lord was with me when i was out there. because something was holding me up the whole time while i was passed out. >> reporter: his family had no idea james had fallen off "the valor" ship and didn't tell anyone he was missing until the next day. it was 12 hours between when james was last season until they alerted the coast guard. it was about the size of massachusetts, all the while james was treading water in gulf of mexico. an area frequented by sharks. >> i thought it was a shark. it had a flat mouth it came up and bumped one of my legs and i kicked it with the other leg. it scared me not knowing what it was at the time or how big it was. >> reporter: as it started getting dark again, james feared he wouldn't survive another cold night at sea when suddenly he

saw a tanker ship, as he swam towards it the coast guard spotted james flapping his arms in the water. >> 3:00 o'clock. >> reporter: the coast guard believes james had been in the water more than 15 hours his daring rescue caught on camera just in the nick of time. >> i swam to him as fast as i could. as i got to him, i shoved the rescue sling under his arms, he collapsed into it. he had nothing left. >> reporter: not even his clothing. >> first thing i told him is i don't have any clothes on, because i didn't. i stripped out of everything. he said that's fine. and i said, okay. he told me to hold on to the vest. i was just thinking, thank you, you're a guardian angel coming down to me. >> reporter: that guardian angel and others hoisted him up to the helicopter he was suffering from

hypothermia. not a frozebroken bone. he did say he saw a stick floating by in the water, he thought it was bamboo, he snacked on that for a bit but that's all he had in the water. its credible he survived. the water temperature was about 70 degrees. there was wind, there were waves, of course, big fish. and there's a coast guard lieutenant who told cnn that in his 17 years on the job, he's never seen a rescue quite like this one. most people who go overboard on a ship do not survive, according to a group who tracks this stuff. in 2019, 25 people went overboard. and only nine survived. randi kaye, cnn, palm beach, florida. a senior u.s. diplomat says weeks of antilockdown protests across china appear to have some impact on china's leadership. while there's been no public declaration to end the government's zero covid policies, harsh restrictions are

being eased in some places. with more what's happening recently across china, here's cnn's selina wang in jay bang. >> reporter: china's authorities are cracking down hard and fast on protesters, but it appears their voices have been heard. and have even been reaching the very top. an eu official told cnn that chinese leader xi jinping told a protesters were mainly students after years of covid. and xi apparently said omicron is less deadly which makes the government feel more open to further relaxing measures. we don't know the exact language xi used but this is a big deal. for one, they've been censoring all evidence of protests at home. and here's is the supreme leader acknowledging that it happened. that sis a clear and big shift. it doesn't mean that is going away. there's been no talks or transferring away from covid but force fully pulling and dragging

a man from his home, apparently, the man had been identified as a contact and trying to avoid getting sent to a mass quarantine facilities. many are rundown and in poor conditions. there are many videos over the past year we've seen of people being forced. countless videos using excess force or violence but what makes this case really unique is that this time authorities actually apologized and put out a statement saying they're reprimanding those responsible. and we are seeing as well small but significant changes being made to covid rules. some places are lifting lockdowns and relaxing covid testing rules with that said, our lives are. >> reporter: restricted. i still need a recent test to enter most public areas. we're tracking everywhere we go and forced to scanner health codes. and there are lockdowns and quarantines that hang over you.

instead of focusing on boosting vaccinations and the country's health infrastructure, china for the last few years has been pouring all of its resources into enforcing zero covid. selina wang, cnn, beijing. >> ukrainian mail offices very inundated with mail bombs in recent days. the country's foreign minister speaks scleefl with cnn about who can be behind them. that's that he had. and a grim thought in russia as they see no end in sight. ♪ love entwined. exclusively at kay. why do so many businesses use stamps.c.com? they save time by printing discounted stamps and shipping labels right fr their computers get a 4-week trialplus postage d a digital scale go to amps.com/tv and get started today

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ukraine says its diplomatic outposts have become targets of a fear campaign that's after 17 ukrainian embassies and consulates received either letter bombs or suspicious packages. in some cases letters contained

severed animal eyes. a pack catch exploded injuring an employee. the foreign minister in ukraine spoke exclusively to cnn about who may behind it. listen in. >> well, it started with an explosion. and the embassy of the ukrainian state, but what follows was this explosion was more weird. and i would even say sick, because we started receiving letters with eyes, animal eyes, cut off. >> animal eyes? >> animal eyes, yes. in some cases, in one case, it's most probably an eye of a cow. and an eye of a pig in another case. >> let me ask you, who do you suspect? who does ukraine suspect of being behind this? >> well, of course, i feel tempted to say, to name russia straightaway. because, first of all, you have to answer the question who benefits from that.

and it's definitely this campaign is aimed at sowing fear and terrorizing ukrainian diplomats. i think it's either russia itself. or someone who sympathizes to the russian cause. >> it's been stepped up by ukrainian diplomatic offices around the world. a short time ago, russia's foreign minister responded that russia could be behind the packages issued a statement calling them, quote, psycho. economic sanctions, failing military campaign and grim prospects ahead that's what russia is facing as it heads into the first winter of its war in ukraine. and as fred pleitgen reports mood in moscow is reflected. >> reporter: as moscow lights up for the holiday season, the festive mood is dampened by a dose of melancholy. as there seems no end in sight to what the kremlin calls its special military operation in ukraine.

>> translator: i think the operation is not going too well to put it mildly because there are many losses on our side. >> translator: i don't know what the goal of the operation is, but it's not reaching it. >> reporter: after russian forces were forced to retreat from large parts of northeastern and southern ukraine, many here don't even want to talk about what's happening on the battlefield. >> translator: to this question, i don't know what to say. >> translator: this is a provocative question. i don't want to answer it. ♪ >> reporter: even after the kremlin ordered a partial mobilization drafting around 300,000 russians between september and early november, gains have been hard to come by for moscow forces in ukraine. still, many russians say they trust their leaders decisionmaking. >> translator: as far as the military operation goes, i can only say one thing that it is

under way. and that i should not comment on it. because we all support our president of the russian federation. >> reporter: and russian president vladimir putin is asking for more support and patience. promising things will turn around. >> translator: we have, as all of you here rightfully said, we must achieve our goals and we will achieve them in the end. >> reporter: but increasing numbers of boarded up shops show russia's economy is running out of steam, as sanctions bite and somed goos are becoming scarce. >> translator: of course, many things we've grown used to buying have disappeared but life goes on. we have to adjust somehow. >> reporter: economic experts tell me that they fear the economic woes could lead to wider discontent. >> translator: it is a known effect. a short victorious war may

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power plant, a source of abundant, cheap and renewable energy. >> this is the energy that is powering the community and the data center located nearby. so, this is one of the main reasons that they've decided to bet on the community. >> reporter: given that there is an energy crisis, there is people who think this is renewable energy. should it be crypto money? should it be used to power people's home in the industry and keep lights on in a hospital. what do you say about that? >> there are not enough inhabitants or companies to use all of the energy that are available. so the community was inviting data centers to come to use this renewable strand of energy, really. >> reporter: one crypto mineing company not justnot just turnin

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