is dehumanizing for them, when though it's their choice. i love how you got deep on the social penalty and the cost analysis -- if people make this choice, so much ahead in their life they feel like they will be excluded from. can you talk about that? >> they're very aware of that. both of them talked about the kinds of dreams they might have going forward. they're in their 20s. they feel like maybe they're locked out of, being a teacher, being a nurse, the idea that one of them said people will see you as a person who can't be a round children, can't be around the full verbal. i think there are implications in this era when there's so much sexual content online generated by us, the users. >> it was a great listen. thank you, audi. >> you can listen to the latest episode wherever you get your podcasts. cnn this morning continues right now.

♪ ♪ wow. my how the time flies? i don't mean minutes -- >> it is now the 8:00 a.m. hour. >> it's now the 8:00 a.m. hour. good morning everyone. what i'm saying, it's december 5th already. the holidays are upon us. by the way, kaitlan is on assignment. good morning to you. good to be here with you. >> good morning. >> let's catch you up on the big five stories happening this morning. a manhunt under way in north carolina after a power grid is deliberately targeted and attacked. that's according to police. right now more than 35,000 remain without power after gunfire left two substations damaged. >> this was a terrible act. it appears to be an intentional, willful and malicious act. the perpetrator will be brought to justice and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. last night paul pelosi making his first public appearance since he was brutally attacked with a hammer in his

home in san francisco this fall. he attended the kennedy center honors last night with his wife, house speaker nancy pelosi. the final push as georgians head to the polls tomorrow for the senate runoff election. more than 1.8 million people have already cast their ballots as the warnock and walker campaigns work to sway those who are undecided. >> we are on the verge of victory. but i don't want us to do the victory dance before we actually get into the end zone. >> we' o and vote. it's time to have our voices heard and votes counted. quick making a complaint of what we need to do. get to the polls. you've got to vote. also, iran's attorney jent says the country's mandatory hijab law is under review. he also said iran's morality police who are in charge of enforcing that had been dismantled, but many state media sites deny those comments. several explosions have been

reported in the city of zaporizhzhia, ukraine, this morning. two people have been killed and multiple injured, this as ukrainian air force officials say russia launched a missile attack towards ukraine. no strikes have been confirmed yet. cnn teams in kyiv have reported air raid sirens. we'll begin with the north carolina power outages. let's go to cnn's whitney wild live in moore county, north carolina. we know you couldn't get your report online earlier. what's the latest there right now? >> reporter: right now there's still very little power. if you look at the duke energy power map, it looks like most of the power outages are concentrated where i am. more than 10,000 people without power here. as you spread out between aberdeen and carthage, north

carolina, it's around at this point, around 35,000 people who are out of power. don, it's cold here. the temperatures were below 30 overnight. there's frost on the ground. so this is a severe situation here. this investigation continuing to unfold in ernst. law enforcement saying the fbi is involved as well as the state bureau of investigations. right now the big questions we don't have answers to are what type of firearms were used. if the two attacks are connected with ballistic incidents, we don't have answers right now. here is the weird thing. when you look at what happened, at one of the substations there's a gate that was taken off the hinges. presumably somebody was able to take that gate off and get close to the substation. a lot more questions about how they actually pulled off that crime. back to you. >> whitney wild, thank you very much. also this morning, we're hearing for the first time from the surviving roommates from the

home where four university of idaho students were murdered. it's been more than three weeks since this attack and police still have not made any arrest or released a motive. our colleague natasha chen joins us this morning. what did the roommates say? i believe it was their pastor who read them to the public. >> poppy, this is the first time the two surviving roommates were publicly identified. that was during the church service on friday where the pass center read two letters, one each from these two surviving roommates. what one of them said really stood out to me. she was talking about her love for madison mogen. she said madison always told her that everything happens for a reason but she's really struggling to understand the reason for this. here is the pastor reading more from those letters. >> i know somewhere xana and ethan are together, keeping each other company, watching us and

telling each other that it's okay and we have each other. madi and kaylee, the inseparable duo, like sisters. they were like second moms to me. they taud me a lot on how to be a responsible adult but also how to live life happy. >> just heartbreaking messages to their deeply loved friends that they lost, poppy. >> and the father of one of those murdered is speaking out. what more did we learn? >> the father of kaylee goncalves and her mother spoke to fox news over the weekend and talked about some of the details we have so far not heard from police. i did try to reach out to police to confirm some of this. to recap, he said their family, the goncalves family has been asked to sign a waiver so investigators can look into mail that was perhaps sent -- also he

said the death injuries in his daughter kaylee and madison, her roommate, did not match. because of that, it could be that only one of them was targeted. of course, we've heard very little from police about that. at this point the goncalvess say they're lacking a bit of confidence in the investigation even though they truly support law enforcement here and they are trying to raise money for a third party private investigator. >> you can understand, right? parents want and deserve answers. there's been a lot of different messages from authorities to say the least. natasha, thank you for staying on it. in less than 24 hours polls will open in georgia in the final undecided senate contest of 2022 between raphael warnock and herschel walker. voters on friday were met with long lines and long wait times as the early voting here yod ended. jason cupe described his difficulties in a tweet thread

that went vooiral. noting voting was much harder in atlanta than when he lived in chicago. he said he had to drive downtown because all the closest polling places had 90-minute wait times. he had to pay $10 for parking. when he got to the polling place, he still had to wait 80 minutes. once he got inside, he had to have his id ready and fill out forms and wait in a room for 15 to 20 minutes. once he voted, he noted about half the machines were not working. the last tweet he posts a picture with his wife writing if you are poor or disabled or whatever, good luck. that should have been easier. jason cupe joins us now, an associate professor at georgia university. i'm so happy that you're here. thank you very much for this. i thought what you tweeted epitomized the difficult of what

people have to go through. talk to us about how surprised you were. were you furious? how did you feel about this? >> good morning, y'all. thanks for having me on. first of all, shotout to all the poll workers who helped that process. those folks are really the salt of the earth. we started out in the morning, we had been looking all week, noting the lines had been long all week. we have three young kids. we were trying to go at a time when we didn't have them to manage. friday was the last day of early voting. we expected long lines. everywhere within an hour drive of us had waiting times of greater than an hour. we went to the line that was shortest. when we got there, we're in downtown atlanta. we paid to park. we stayed in line for 70 to 80 minutes. when we got there, we got a form that we had to fill out. i'm not 100% sure what the form

was. it was the first time i had ever had to do that. we waited for about 20 minutes. someone checked over that form. we showed our id. we were given a card to go to a machine. we then voted electronically. we went through five or six prompts that printed out another piece of paper that we fed into a machine. so overall door-to-door the process took about two hours which was certainly surprising, even considering that we thought the lines might be a little long. >> that's crazy. poppy and i are looking at each other shaking our heads. almost 2 million people have voted already, and some might say that's a success, that so many people were able to cast their ballot in this early voting period. do you think they're wrong about that? >> no. what's great about atlanta -- i'm new year -- is the energy around democracy. it's hard to know what would have happened if the costs were lower. we've got almost 2 million now. in the city of atlanta we have

folks who are housing insecure, lots of folks who maybe work a job that is paid hourly where getting that time off to stand in line for two hours may be difficult. even if you can get it, it's costing you income. it's great to see almost 2 million people voting. but it also makes you wonder how many people are not because of the cost involved. >> you have two kids. >> look, i can afford to hire a babysitter for a few hours. no one should have to do that and that's not the reality. that's why there's the argument of a national holiday for election day. jason, your tweet thread got so much attention, gabe sterling, one of the top election officials in georgia responded. i want to go through his response and see what you think. to your argument, he said -- first of all, he said about voting, quote, it isn't complex. cook county had 53 locations, fulton reduced the number of locations to 24, cutting their

sites by 13. what is your response to him saying it's not as hard as you just described? >> i can only speak from my personal experience, again, not as an employee or in any other aspect of my work in the state of georgia. really my experience in cook county had been easier -- not just cook county. i voted in michigan. go blue. i voted in north carolina, i voted in georgia, too. this is the first time i've had this long a wait. i don't know why that is or what can be changed. in our mind, my wife and i were just thinking, wow, if we could not afford to do this, making our voice heard would be harder. >> jason, let me ask you. i lived in chicago, i've lived in georgia. there's a difference in voting. i've lived in new york, in a bunch of places. you see the difference. i think it's great that we have you on because you're speaking for a lot of americans, right? offer some suggestions about

what you think could improve and how they could improve it. >> i'm not an elections expert. from my personal experience, the big thing that made my experience different on friday was signing that form. for whatever reason, it felt a little bit like i was at the dmv getting a driver's license. that's where the bottleneck seemed to be. folks waited in line. once you got to that form, you went in another room. there was some typing on the computer. i imagine they were looking us up. the information on the form was the same information that was on my driver's license and also my voter's registration. i'm unclear about what role that part of the process had. it looked like, again -- not speaking as an expert. it looked like from my eyes personally that's where the bottleneck was. there were unused machines that were not used that may have been used if folks hadn't been

bottlenecked through that form. >> it's so different than what i've experienced here in new york, so different. where we don't have voter id -- >> i voted early here. >> and fast. just what's your address and they look on the paper. it's so different. >> i don't know if it's intentional or not intentional. that's not for me to decide. but there are people who are trying to improve the voting process, especially in georgia. they say even if it's not obvious there are suppressive efforts -- even if a lot of people are voting, that doesn't mean that there aren't suppressive efforts or suppressive tactics going on. do you think this at all speaks to that, jason? >> i'm new here. so when we say suppression, it starts to get into intent and i don't know. i just would say experiencing that line, it looks like there are folks -- any time we make

rules about a process, it selects certain folks in and certain folks out of that process. the big thing that stood out to us when we were in line is if you are disabled, if you are poor, if you have lots of kids, it seemed to me like i would have a harder time justifying sort of paying the cost to vote. in a democracy the benefit is supposed to be the same. these are rights. they're not supposed to be ail nabl. we should pay generally the same kind of cost of our time, of our effort to vote. it's sort of what democracy in my mind is supposed to be. whether the intent is there or not, hoping we can get those costs down. >> at the core of democracy. it shouldn't cost anyone anything by the way to vote. there's so many roadblocks. thank you for bringing them to light, jason. >> thank you for the time.

>> we really appreciate you appearing. straight ahead, a former president who swore an oath and wants to take it again is calling to terminate the constitution. plus -- >> our david culver is live near the erupting volcano in hawaii. >> reporter: that's right, poppy. you can see the morning lava glow behind me. it might be a bit hazy. we've got a solution for you. we're going to give you a view like no other at the other end of this break. we'll see you. nefifi ts of retinol are now for your whole body. plus, fast-working crepe corrector diminishes wrinkled d skin in just two days. gold bond. champion your skin. vo: palantir softwarare. empowers scuderia ferrari to make critical decisions a split second faster. palantir. data driven enterprise accelerator. ♪ ♪

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cnn is getting a bird's-eye view of hawaii's erupting mauna loa volcano and the spectacular lava show you're seeing. this is live. it is closing in on a major highway there. let's go straight to cnn's david culver live in hawaii's big island. tell us what you're seeing there, sir. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, don. you have that live picture. that's incredible to see, fissure three, the only active and stable flow of lava right now. it's just behind us. it's that glow up there. you mentioned that bird's-eye view. let's show you a view like no other. it's pretty incredible what we've had to see.

we're on the road before sunrise, quickly realizing we can already spot our destination some 30 miles out. there you see it. thatw, mauna loa erupting. to give you a better view, we go up in the morning dark. paradise helicopters daryn hamilton, our pilot and guide, giving us rare access. >> we see the volcano, just off the eastern side there at about the 1:00 position. >> reporter: having flown in military hot zones, daryn even admits this is fire power like no other. >> what was it like the first time with open lava? >> it was a blast. >> reporter: it can also be challenging, especially with heavy fog or volcanic smog. >> you can see the gases from fissure three. >> those acid tick gases dangerous if the concentrations

are too high. on the ground officials watching the impact on saddle road, the main highway that connects the east and west of the island. erupting last sunday for the first time in 38 years, mauna loa, the world's largest active volcano is one of five that make up hawaii's big eye hand. neighboring kilauea also active, that no longer shooting lava to the surface like it did in 2013. >> we're on the street where my house was at. it's that way, on the opposite side of the subdivision. >> reporter: dorothy invites us to where her home now sits, buried under 60 feet of lava. you can see a metal street light fused in. >> when you have something like this, you're all disbursed after that. >> yeah. we lost that sense of community in addition to the homes.

>> reporter: an emotional trigger for dorothy and others, forcing the drama from kilauea back to the surface. the 2018 lava flow wiped out more than 600 homes here, some untouched, but left lava locked, an island within the island. dorothy showed us this video she captured a few weeks back, helping friends gather the last of their belongings from their home. the reminders of devastation here hard to miss. >> this is the home. they've evacuated the second night. and i believe it went under the third night. >> and just took their home. >> took their home. >> four years later it's still steaming. >> still steaming. >> how long will it steam like that? >> probably 30 to 40 years. >> how is it that you can still cebuity after so much loss? >> because lava is beautiful. it's pay lee's creation. that's how the island was formed, how it was built. >> reporter: an appreciation

shared by native hawaiians. thousands of tourists and locals arriving after sunset to witness the lava glow. nighttime traffic backs up to miles. to avoid the congestion, let's get back to the skies. >> 2,000 to 3,000 degrees fahrenheit or 1,000 degrees celsius. that's molten rock flowing like water. >> reporter: which has already crossed one volcano road, power lines and all, a searing slice right through it. >> the heat you feel as soon as you get close to it. >> look at the rushing flow, the river. you can see the current of lava. >> reporter: daryn estimates it's moving 30 to 40 miles per hour. >> the source of it all, there's nothing like this. just spewing from the top. that 30 to 40 miles per hour happening about 15 miles from us, way up there. down here, don and poppy, it's moving at about 40 feet per hour, so much slower because

it's fanning out, but still inching closer to the roadway. just over two miles from that main highway. it was entering overnight they had to shot down this portion of the viewing area because out here on the lava rock from past eruptions there was an unexploded ordinance that was found. they're asking folks pull over, don't walk onto the lava rock. for that reason we're keeping a bit closer to the roadway. >> leave it to david culver to give us the most remarkable view -- >> poppy live commenting. >> i said during the piece, he's such a good writer. >> thanks, david. >> thank you. attacks under way in ukraine. now two major cities are without power this morning. >> plus, after weeks of protests, foxconn is restoring production at the world's largest iphone factory in china. this comes as the "wall street journal" reports apple is

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welcome back to cnn this morning. coming up, ukraine says russia is currently launching missile attacks towards several cities as the winter begins in the war. plus, why elon musk has emerged as a hero to conservative republicans. our numbers guy, harry enten will break it down. a beloved figure on sesame street has died. bob mcgrath was an original cast member. we'll speak to his long time cast member and friend who played roscoe. apple is acceleration plans to move production out of china as protests and riots intensify in response to the zero covid policies. now apple supplier foxconn says, quote, it is gradually restoring production capacity at the sprawling campus in central

china. anger boiled over into the violent protests at the world's largest iphone factory. video obtained by cnn shows a group of police in white hazmat suits beating workers with batons and metal rods. analysts estimate this factory makes ability half of apple's iphones. we're happy to be joined by "new york times" columnist nick kristof, he was the bureau chief in 1999 and won a pulitzer for his reporting on the tiananmen square in china. how is what is happening in china now different? >> these protests are maybe the most important since tiananmen. they were not repressed because there was a leadership vacuum, a

paralysis in leadership. there was an immediate move to crush them. china's surveillance is better than ever. i think it's hard for people to see how these take off and the way those in tiananmen did. the resentment that people all over china have -- >> and the bravery of some to speak out. one without a mask speaking to our selina wang, face covered last week, because they have reached the end of the rope. >> they've reached the boiling point. but the government is already arresting people, is already detaining them. it has great facial recognition systems. people will pay a real price for this. >> you wrote about this in your column this weekend. you wrote china's zee row covid policy is sin season mouse with xi. he owns it. those who speak out against it

know they're criticizing xi. every single u.s. official on every news program is asked about this. antony blinken was asked a lot about it. would it make a difference if the u.s. came out in support of these particular protests, not just saying we always believe in the right of people to protest? >> i understand the caution of officials in siding with particular protesters about covid policy, but i think we can speak much more forcefully about the way china has repressed protests, is arresting people for peaceful expression of their views, trying to congregate, for expressing online comments, and i think we owe it to them, owe it to democracy, to our values. we probably owe it to our interests to speak out more about that kind of repression in china, for that matter, in iran as well. >> before we get to ukraine, let's listen to what deputy secretary of state wendy sherman said when she was asked about

the potential forward -- forward. >> i think war is potentially possible. xi jinping has absolute control in china. >> that was startling to hear. what do you think? >> the context was she was talking about china and -- >> the united states. >> look, has certainly been a lot of concern about a spark in the south china sea or more likely in the taiwan strait over the next five years. most people put that at a 10% to 20% risk. but a real non-zero risk. you try to think o happen to the world over the next 10 or 20 years, that might be the most plausible risk that we have that would be devastating to both countries, to the world economy. >> to put the context more clearly, she was talking about

china and taiwan, but we have heard what biden has said now four times about what the united states would do, how it would respond should china invade taiwan. >> we have to be i think very cautious. on the one hand, u.s. expressing willingness to back up taiwan does perhaps create a deterrent effect and reduces the risk that china moves on to taiwan. it may also increase the possibility that taiwan's leader pursue a more aggressive policy towards independence and engage in provocative behavior. this very fine balancing act we have to pure sioux. >> let's talk about ukraine. you just came back from ukraine. your father grew up in ukraine. we have a photo we'd like to show of you and your dad in 2014, the two of you in ukraine. we have this image of you interviewing a young man. you write at a time when the united states is so divided, ukraine feels the opposite. there's a passionate up lifting,

leveling unity here. it's one reason vladimir putin may be in trouble. what did you see that we don't talk about enough that doesn't make the headlines? >> people in ukraine are certainly suffering. they've lost heat, they've lost electricity, in many cases they've lost water. what doesn't always come through is the passionate determination of people to resist. it is not breaking their will. i talked to a young man who on the front lines who was shot. he lost his entire left arm at the shoulder. he now has a prosthesis. he's returning to the army to fight back. his wife initially thought he was completely crazy. after they got blackout, she understood why he wants to go back and fight with one arm. >> i have to ask you about the women. you've got nearly 60,000 women in the ukrainian armed forces. >> that surprised me. ukraine is frankly a pretty sexist traditional country. there are almost 60,000 women who have enlisted to go fight.

the ukrainian army didn't even have standard uniforms for women. and yet now they're making them. i have talked to one young woman, a 26-year-old woman whose fiancee was killed on the front, and then she volunteered and enlisted. i asked her, what are you doing out here. she said they killed the man i love. where else can i be? that passion on the part of women, it is going to change ukraine i think, the role those women are playing. >> thank you for bringing us these stories in your reporting. nicholas kristof, we appreciate it very much. also want to point people to this quickly, this annual holiday giving gift of little known organizations working to make the world a better place. we'll pull it up on the screen. it's kristofimpact.org where people can see much more. >> thanks, poppy, thanks, nicholas. elon musk has gone from a liberal hero to a conservative one. we'll tell you what this

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elon musk says he is leaning more and more to the right, and the new owner of twitter is becoming one of the right's favorites. with this morning's numbers, cnn senior data reporter, harry enten. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> what is it? republicans are liking this musk twitter takeover, right? >> they love elon musk. take a look. this is an nbc news poll, a view of musk after buying twitter, republicans versus twitter. look at the positive among republicans, 53%. just 9% of democrats have a sfaifable view of musk. the vast majority, 64% have a negative view. this is the type of split you might see of a republican politician, maybe donald trump in his early days running for president. compare this to where we were

back in 2017, back when the tesla model 3 launched. look here, favorable democrats versus republicans, republicans 37%, but democrats were at 47%. democrats viewed musk more favorably back then. keep in mind, of course, when it comes to electric cars which is what musk used to be known for, that along with spacex, 65% of democrats favor phasing out gas-powered cars. as musk goes back to the twitter guy versus the electric car guy, the views have changed. >> any of these numbers explain how and why he's become so polarizing. >> social media companies should take an active role in monitoring speech. 55% of republicans disagree with that, just 39% agree. among democrats, 83% agree that social media companies should take an active role in monitoring speech which is something that elon musk really doesn't like. take a look here. internet free speech.

the internet should be a free speech zone where free speech should be uncensored. 65% of republicans agree with musk on that. 59% of democrats disagree with that. essentially musk's views on how the internet should be and free speech should be line up more with republicans than democrats. you have an interesting look on your face. >> i don't know if it's necessarily free speech. free speech comes with consequences. i think some people don't like the consequences of the so-called free speech, right? >> i just go back to this, social media companies should take an active role in monitoring speech. most republicans disagree with that. most democrats agree with that. coming up, we'll remember the late bob mcgrath, original cast member of sesame street. his co-worker is here to talk about his friend. >> why don't we do the song about the people in the neighborhood. >> i'd rather not.

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oh, no. not that song again. please! ♪ oh who are the people in your neighborhood ♪ ♪ in your neighborhood ♪ ♪ in your neighborhood ♪ >> well, i'm sure even oscar would love to hear that song from that voice one more time. sesame street is a little quieter this morning as fans around the world remember one of the show's original cast members, bob mcgrath. mcgrath's family confirmed he passed away peacefully at his home on sunday. he played bob johnson on sesame street going back all the way to the pilot episode in 1969. he was on the show for 47 seasons, remained a part of the sesame street family after leaving the cast in 2017.

he was 90 years old and leaves behind a wife, five children and eight grandchildren. we are so happy to be joined by co-star and longtime friend of bob mcgrath, roscoe ormond. he played gordon on sesame street. don, take it away. you were almost in tears when he was coming up here. >> listen, for a lot of reasons. a lot of folks at sesame street meant to me as a child, and still even as an adult. you and bob shaped my childhood, and i want to thank you for it. >> thank you. thank you that compliment. i'm still absorbing the fact that he is no longer with us, but he was such an incredible talent. he was an original member of sing along with mitch, i don't know if you -- that goes even beyond -- or it was much earlier

than "sesame street." sing along with mitch. and he also toured in japan quite often. >> he learned japanese, right? >> he learned to speak japanese. >> they were such fans. >> yes, they were. they were. they loved bob -- i forget how to pronounce in japanese, but, yeah, he was a superstar in japan as well. what a loss. >> what a loss, you are alight. i want to talk more about him. you think go b. in the 60s, i grew up when "sesame street" -- it was three years after i was born and then you came along with the '70s and you guys really changed people's lives. were you and bob -- do you think you guys were aware of it as you were doing it because this was like brand-new television. >> yeah, it didn't -- it wasn't long before we realized that "sesame street" was very special and something very different than most children's shows.

>> i mean, they would play it in my nursery and kindergarten classes. >> do you know what my mom calls and says about the kids, she's worried that what's on tv for the kids these days isn't nearly as good as "sesame street." my kids are 4 and 6 and there's too much violence, even in some of the cartoons, and every day are they watching "sesame street"? that's the impact you had on don's childhood, my childhood, what we want for our kids and yes, they are, mom, my kids are watching. >> we raised our kids on -- as a matter of fact, all five of my children were on the show with us and, you know, it was just such a wonderful, wonderful time. >> what should we know about bob? >> well, bob was quite talented and quite, you know, a force before "sesame street."

he toured in japan quite regularly and, yeah, he -- he had quite an impact on, you know, on the show. he was, as you said, an original member. >> yeah. >> of the show, along with loretta long and a few others, but, yeah, he had such a wonderful, kind spirit, you know, and a great talent as a singer. he was a member of sing along with mitch, i don't know if that -- that goes way before your time, i'm sure. >> one of the things he said a few years ago that was one of his main take a ways from the show is how important it is -- these are his words -- "sesame street" taught him how important it is to listen, to really listen carefully to what your children have to say. >> yes. yes. >> they're wise, aren't they,

our kids? >> yes, they are. they are. yeah, there had never been a show that targeted that kind of, you know, information or education for preschoolers, you know. it was ground breaking and i was -- i just couldn't believe that i was able to join the company and be a long -- long-time member of the show. >> what a great fortune, right? >> oh, yeah. just incredible. i had no idea that i would be on a children's show, you know, i had done some other -- quite a few other kinds of performance that were not for kids, but "sesame street" was very special. there was nothing like it ever before. >> roscoe, we are so happy that you could come in and to remember your friend, bob

mcgrath, 90 years old. >> 90 years old. >> what a life. >> thank you for what you do. >> thank you. >> appreciate it. >> thank you for having me. >> thank you. >> thanks so much. coming up, just in, there is a new clip from the harry and meghan documentary and we're going to talk about -- it talks about, quote, pain and suffering. [coughing] hi, susan. honey. yeah. i respect that. but that cough looks pretty bad. try this robitussin honey. the real honey you lovove, plus the powerful cough relilief you need. mind if i root through yourur trash? robitussin. the onlyly brand with real honeyand elderberry. all across the country, peoplele are working hard to build a better future. so we're hard at work helping them achieve financial freedom. we're proud to serve people everywhere, in investing for the retirement they envision. from the plains the coasts, we help americans invest . and help communities thrive.

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so this is just into cnn, netflix just released a new harry and meghan documentary trailer. here it is. >> there is a hierarchy of the family, you know, there's leaking but there's also planting of stories. >> there was a war against meghan to suit other people's agendas. >> it's about hatred. it's about race. >> it's a dirty game.

>> wow. >> they also said that there was pain and suffering, women marrying into this institution, harry continues to say that he didn't want history to repeat itself. >> obviously -- well, history of losing his mother, diana and all that she faced. >> people are so interested in them. i think they -- obviously i know they garner more attention -- >> than. >> -- than william and kate. >> it's brave to put yourself out there like that. i can't wait to see t okay. thanks. >> good to see. >> you we will be back here with kaitlan, we feel like we're missing an appendage. >> tomorrow. >> see you all tomorrow. >> she will be on the air tomorrow. you guys have a great day. >> "cnn newsroom" is now. ♪ very good monday morning to you, i'm jim sciutto. >> and i'm erica hill. the countdown is on, less than 24 hours from now voters in georgia will head to the polls