but across israel, families of israeli hostages are stepping up pressure for any deal to bring their loved ones home. >> that means swapping sinwar's remains says one israeli source. then fine. >> matthew chance, cnn, tel aviv before we go tonight, i want to note a special day for very special person on this program. >> i senior writer, writer marshall arbiter, in its 60-years-old today, 60, which is weird to even say. i do not know how this happened. maybe because i've worked with marshal for the better part of 20 years and in my mind we're all frozen in time. i first met martin. want to be in filling in on news night with great aaron brown. marshall was one of his wonderful writers i might feel like we're frozen in time, but we're not and i'm thankful for every one of the days that i've gotten to work with marshall who's truly one of the most gifted writers. i've ever worked with. happy birthday. my friend and thank you. >> the news continues right here on cnn

here in the united states, canada, and all around the world. i'm kim brunhuber. this is cnn newsroom. donald trump responds to claims that he's ducking interviews due to exhaustion. that and what he said about them mike mix-up at his rally in detroit kamala harris appeals to arab american voters of a dueling rally in michigan. why she says a diplomatic solution to the warrant in gaza may still be possible. plus arab leaders at the united nations have a new warning about northern gaza will hear their concerns and what israel has to say in response. >> live from atlanta this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber we are now only 17 days away from the us presidential election, more than 11 million americans have already voted. >> that's according to data from 42 states. california

leads the way with more than 1.5 million balance. on the 1.1 million ballots have been cast here in the battleground state of georgia. both donald trump and kamala harris are working to shore up support. and later today, harris heads here to atlanta, georgia for a rally with r&b star usher. meanwhile, trump is expected to court voters saturday evening in lotro pennsylvania now cnn's poll of polls still shows a very tight race with no clear leader among likely voters. but i will look at this in ones cnn poll, 12% of those surveyed said they have chosen a candidate, but could still change their minds harris and trump held multiple campaign events in the critical state of michigan friday, the vice president question whether trump is fit to hold office after a political reported he's canceling interviews because he's exhausted cnn's priscilla alvarez has more resume. >> kamala harris was personal battleground state of michigan as her campaign tries well vice president on friday, the

county, one of which voted for donald trump in 2016. but for biden in 2020, other counties for counties that biden won by wider margins in 2020, her campaign emulate that and build on that with a message targeting union workers vice president talking about manufacturing, talking about union jobs, and trying to draw a stark contrast with former president donald trump, time talking about the criticizing the former president and tight labor comments now here, the vice president at her rally, also leading with remarks on the arab american community. of course, michigan has a large arab american population. it has been a community as the vice president and the democratic party has grappled and struggled with given the ongoing israel hamas war, the vice president telling this to the american community, given this week developments with the death of sinwar, take a listen listen i know this year has been very difficult given the

scale of death and destruction in gaza. and given the civilian casualties and displacement in lebanon it is devastating. and now sinwar's death can and must be a turning point opportunity to finally end the war in gaza and for all. and i continue to believe diplomacy is the answer to bringing lasting stability across the israel-lebanon border. and as vice president and with your help as president, i will do everything in my power. power to achieve these goals vice president also delivered pointed attacks at the former president talking about him ducking debates and

canceling interviews that a quote from her rally that is going to be an ongoing by the bus vice president in closing weeks of the election as again, they try to lock in their coalition, but also peel off voters from the former president alvarez. >> cnn michigan and donald trump pushed back on harris claims that he's exhausted saying he's an excellent physical and mental condition here he is. i having cancer. she does it go to any events? she's a loser. she does it go to any events i've gotten 48 days now without arrest and i've got that loser who doesn't have the energy of a rapid i'm not even tired really exhilarating. you know, why were killing her in the polls? >> we couldn't the american people don't want her she didn't pass a bar exam. >> she's not a smart person the former president went back to detroit friday after insulting the city last week in front of voters, but he did try

to clean up his previous comments. >> also, at one point in the rally, trump's microphone cut out for nearly 20 minutes. the crowd chanted his name as they waited for things to get worked out pay the bill for this stupid company. >> i don't like the mike anyway, i didn't like it from the minute i started if it goes out again, i'll sue. they ask of that company well, harris and trump are getting support on the campaign trail from some high level surrogates, former president brock obama campaigned in the battleground state of arizona, on friday to get out the vote for harris and for democratic senate candidate ruben gallego obama mocked donald trump's behavior at a town hall earlier this week, seen in this video, here. >> and as you you can see during that event, trump swayed

and listen to music around half an hour. and here's what obama said about it i do have to point out that along with his intentions, there is also a question of his competence have you seen him lately he just decided, you know what, i'm going to stop taking question and then he's swaying to ave maria and ymca for about half an hour. >> you would be worried if your grandpa was acting like this no, no. >> i'm i'm not joking meanwhile, billionaire elon musk is campaigning on behalf of trump, speaking at a town hall in pennsylvania, the tesla ceo and owner of x urge voters to support the former president while repeating a debunked conspiracy theories about the 2020 election being stolen. >> here he is because it was a question of like, say, the dominion voting machines at it is weird that the i think there

used in philadelphia and in america but county but not in other places, not seem like a checkup, a coincidence and joining us now is thomas gift, the director of the center on us politics at university college london. >> good to see you again. so first, both candidates held dueling events in oakland county in michigan. so talk to me about where they were. why is that county specifically so important to them what's great to be with you as always, thanks so much for having me. >> michigan is definitely going to be tight fivethirtyeight has the odds of trump or harris winning michigan as dead even so, oakland county and i'll add to that kent county are really two places to watch oakland county. that includes suburban detroit, can county includes grand rapids. both have really been trending blue in recent elections, but some polls show that trump is making some inroads. there. i think both oakland and can counties could really be leading indicators for the rest of michigan in 2020, joe biden won

those counties by combined 100 and 30,000 votes, and his statewide margin is about 154,000 so trump doesn't have to win these counties. he just needs to improve his performance by maybe ten or 20,000 votes, perform a bit better than he did four years ago in michigan's rural counties. if he does i think he could crack michigan on the flip side if harris can actually it's seed. biden's margin in some of these counties, trump will have a significantly harder time outside winning so obviously, margins. so close in that state there's a huge muslim population there, huge arab american population, obviously the war in gaza, very important with many voters there. >> we heard kamala harris addressing that in that clip. we've already seen several large, high-profile arab american in groups decide not to endorse any candidate. so how much do you get a sense that the war in gaza will hurt harris well, there are certainly democrats who say

they won't go for harris because of what they allege has been her insufficient support for gaza. >> these are by and large single issue democrats who likely won't vote for trump they just might not vote at all. and they're taking a very uncompromising line that basically if a candidate doesn't meet the threshold for what they consider acceptable on israel, palestine, that they're just going to abstain from voting. i do think that that ignores trade-offs that sometimes you have to attack the middle to reach a second best outcome during the michigan primary back in february, were more than 100,000 democrats who voted uncommitted when biden was the nominee, that makes up about two-thirds of the vote disparity by which biden beat trump in 20 in 20. and it's not just michigan north carolina as well, had more than 80,000 votes come in uncommitted during the primaries in gaza. so this is a real concern for the harris campaign, one that they are taking very seriously. >> yeah and, you know, gaza is one issue that she's tried to kind of distinguish herself

from president biden, although the distinction is quite slim and it's, it's something that keeps coming up. she she's always asked what she would have done differently from president biden does she seems to struggle with that question i agree. >> i mean, that's true on gaza and it's true on other issues as well. and she was asked that on the view and basically shut. she said that she would support everything that joe biden had done. i do think that that's a problem because she's saying that she wants to turn the page for next-generation. of course or she's also tethered to all of the policies of joe biden. i think she needs a clear, snappy response to that question. it's such an obvious one that i'm not sure why political advisors haven't figured out what the response to that when she's asked is yeah, exactly. if it isn't obvious ones, you should have top three list of things and she seems to devolve into some vagaries. there in terms of the democrats, they seem to be leaning into this narrative about trump being

exhausted as, as i mentioned off the top, we've seen some reporting around that trump's canceled several interviews he's pushed back on that, of course, but it must be a risky thing for harris to do considering president biden is still the actual president yeah, absolutely. >> and of course, those criticisms keep coming in by republicans that joe biden should step down if he's not fit enough to run for office, then he's not fit enough to serve. i also think that it's just a distraction i mean, kinda harris can make this case all that she wants, but she really needs to focus on policy i just don't understand why she's getting into these games with donald trump about personality and kind of ad hominem criticisms. it's not reaching out to any swing voters it's only appealing to the base, the people that believe that donald trump is washed up, that he's tired, that his fatigue, that he's crazy he that he's senile

those democrats are already a boat for kamala harris. >> she needs to make inroads with swing voters who are going to be motivated, i think by other issues yeah, great point. we'll leave it at their thomas gift in london. thank you so much, really appreciate it >> we're following a developing story out of israel. there are no reports of casualties after a drone was launched from lebanon at the home of israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu his spokesperson says the israeli leader and his wife warrant at the residence in the city of says area this morning. meanwhile, us and israeli leaders are starting to see a longshot opportunity following israel's killing of the top hamas leader. israeli sources tell cnn that returning yahya sinwar's remains to gaza could be used as a bargaining chip to free the hostages still held there israel's president and prime minister say there's a significant window of opportunity to bring the hostages back and eliminate hamas for good. while u.s. president joe biden says,

there's now a road to peace, even though it won't be an easy one. the family member of one hostage says, sinwar's death is giving him some hope was a big shock the first, second and then my second thought was okay. >> now we have a real chance to find a way to seal the deal concerns are growing over idf activity in northern gaza, where officials say at least 33 people were killed in a strike on the jabalya refugee camp friday. >> the palestinian observer to the un says tyre civilian population is facing extreme danger we have a large delegation of arab ambassadors ten of us, that met with the secretary-general based on a decision that we made in emergency meeting of the arab investigators few days ago in that meeting we assessed the

situation, especially the extreme danger of large-scale genocide in the northern part of gaza, in which there are 400 but 1,000 palestinian civilians being threatened, either to be killed or to be starved to death while israel is denying accusations that it's blocking medical specialists from entering gaza on friday, the world health organization told cnn that more than 50 specialist medical personnel had been denied entry between august and october. but the israeli agency that coordinates the inspection and delivery of humanitarian aid says they don't limit the number of humanitarian teams. it argues that significant efforts have been made to allow medical personnel into the enclave melissa bell joins us now, live from paris with more so. melissa, as i just said, they're more questions about israel on aid and medical ngos into gaza

continues to get worse inside the enclave. of course, kim, will we understand from health sources inside the gaza strip this morning, is that israeli forces continue this morning to take on through airstrikes. two of the northern gaza hospitals after of course, as you mentioned, overnight, we saw those airstrikes that killed 33 in the jabalya refugee camp, including say gazan health officials, 21 women's. so for violence against the the enclave has not lessened as a result of what's happened over the last few days and neither has the rhetoric on both sides. kim, we've been hearing also this morning from the deputy of yahya sinwar about what his death will mean, saying that the demands of hamas remain as they have been for the last year. the withdrawal of israeli forces, the liberation of

palestinian prisoners from israeli jails essentially the same demands they've been making throughout the question now of course watch the succession. will choose to do who it will be. first of all, whether it will be he is in most brother still believed by israeli forces to be inside the gaza strip or some of those hamas leaders who are currently in exile in qatar is unclear who takes over. certainly the message this morning is that they're fight and their demands remain the same. kim yeah. >> so still waiting to find out what will happen with hamas, we're also still waiting for israel's response to iran's attack. so what more are we learning about the timing there? >> well. we understand from american officials is that they believe the response will come before the american election with a lot of pressure being brought to bear as we understand it on israeli officials to show restraint in that response, many questions kim, of course, about whether israel will stick to targeting

a military facility she's whether or not it will target nuclear or oil facilities, which of course would have a big impact specifically the oil facilities on oil prices and that of course itself would be an impact, could have an impact in the forthcoming paul, we do expect a response before, but just in terms of what american officials have been saying and the president himself self, we've been saying about watch the irs sinwar's death might mean initially we've heard from president biden, hope that this might represent something of a breakthrough, breakthrough, an opportunity certainly to start looking for a ceasefire. since the comments have been a little bit more tempered, that whilst to the possibility of a cease-fire with lebanon is there in gaza, says the american president looks more difficult, and i think that gives you an idea of what i mentioned a moment ago. that is what we've been hearing from inside the gaza strip itself in response to the death of yahya sinwar, can alright, so i appreciate those updates. melissa bell,

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