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and the owner's life and were able to prevent a dog going to shelter we cannot have the solution be euthanize dogs. we can i want to be the voice of the dog and to help them because they don't have that voice cnnheroes.com the next hour of cnn this morning starts. >> now to cnn this morning it is saturday, october 19th. i'm amara walker. >> i'm victor blackwell. here's what we're working on for you. this morning, our colleague, kaitlan collins is in tel aviv as we follow developments in the killing of hamas leader yahya sinwar, we'll have more with kaitlan throughout the hour. here's what's happening today. both presidential candidates and their high-profile surrogates are on the campaign trail this weekend the arguments they're making, the voters with a little more than two weeks now

until we start counting the votes. and what we know about just how many votes have already been cast following breaking news out of israel where a drone was launched towards israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu's home, plus what we're now hearing from iran following israel's killing of hamas leader yahya sinwar, and nearly the entire island of cuba, about 11 million people all in the dark after a massive power plant failure. details on that and how people there are coping election day is just a 17 days away now, but with racist, tight and several key states, the campaigns are keeping a sharp focus on the battlegrounds former president trump will be in central hold pennsylvania while vice president kamala harris will campaign in detroit and atlanta more than 11 million americans across 42 states have already voted in this year's election. the harris campaign is leading on some star power in the closing weeks to draw more attention and to get people to

the polls. so, be joined by lizzo in detroit and urged us a raman in atlanta yesterday, the harris and trump campaigns held dueling rallies in the critical state of michigan. trump went back to detroit trying to chip away at democratic support in that blue wall state the visit, of course, is one week after he compared the city to a developing nation. the vice president was in grand rapids touted her support for labor unions and quoting michigan's large number of arab american and muslim voters who are unhappy with the biden administration's handling of israel's war with hamas. >> meanwhile, the trump campaign is pushing back some reports that the former president has backed out of negotiations for recent interviews citing exhaustion and harris seized on that report as she sought to raise doubts about trump's fitness debates and canceling interviews

because of exhaustion. if you are exhausted from the campaign trail it raises real questions about you are fit for the toughest job in the world one events like can i haven't can't tell you if she does it go to any events? >> she's a loser. she doesn't go to any events didn't even show up for the catholics last night at the hotel, who was insulting they all they are sound bites all right. >> let's bring in cnn political commentator and political anchor for spectrum news. >> errol, louis errol, good morning to you we all know how critical michigan is. it is we're seeing such a tight race then race there. and as such, we're seeing the candidates, both harris and trump tailoring their messages targeting specific pockets of voters. >> a less listen to harris and trump's contrasting messages. >> when it came to targeting

blue collar workers. listen the same empty promises to the people of michigan that he did before hoping hoping you will forget how he let you down the last time. >> i mean, to be very candid with you even including mike pence vice presidents are not critical of their presidents. i think that really actually, in terms of the tradition of it and also just going forward, it does not make for a productive and important relationship that was the wrong soundbite at the end there what we were supposed to hear after harris was trump basically saying that so many of the auto workers support for him because he's going to bring back some auto jobs it was just a few days ago, errol, as you know, that trump was saying and insulting auto workers saying that children can do their jobs. it's so easy comparing detroit to a developing nation. do are we getting a sense of how union workers are talking

about harris versus trump? >> well, look, up, union households can be very complicated where one might want, one candidate, one might want the other. but as far as institutional support overwhelmingly as it always has been or long has been for democrat these are political organizations in their own right. these unions, and they know who's going to be with them in who's not going to be with them. you know, you have kamala harris who was walk on a picket line and then you have donald trump, who has called for basically right. breaking. you know, there's really almost the comparison now individually household members in a union household, mike, like what they're hearing from donald trump, and there's some inroads that he's tried to make, but this is both candidates, basically trying to go on sort of hostile territory and maybe pull over a few people here and there. i think that's what donald that last soundbite that was supposed to play now, was of koblin harris

giving that interview to nbc nightly news and she was asked in the before she answered about how her policies would be different from biden's as she declined to go there because she said, look, you know, disagree with the president as, you know, as the vp would break from tradition, it would be unproductive. yes. errol, it is a fine line for her as vice president to walk, but it seems like this is such an important question that might be on the minds of moderate voters who may not be happy with the direction of this country or may not like trump as a person, but maybe a little warm to his policies. do you think this is a question that harris should frankly answer despite you know the risks that come with it? >> no, i don't actually reality is she had so little time when she odd circumstances under which she became the nominee did not really leave a lot of time start going fine. distinction she's got a

four-year record. it's not a bad one, is basically running on the strength of the biden-harris administration as far as economic performance, foreign policy, and everything out and it comes with some warnings, but it comes with a lot of pluses to the most productive and most straightforward way to deal with it as i was part of that team what i did now, we're going to turn the page, take a look at what i might do in the future. if you make me the president, there's really no other way to make that argument quite. >> but what do you make of how both candidates are scrambling right now, obviously with less than three weeks to election day to, to address this gender gap, as you know, trump with women, harris with men cnn has learned that trump's campaign is in talks with former south carolina governor nikki haley to join him on the trail. but does either candidate have perhaps a gender advantage here because i've heard some democratic pollsters say that women are voting more for harris than men are for trump. >> yeah. there was a gigantic

agenda gap. it's unusual in the sense that women don't necessarily blocked a woman candidate and hillary clinton discovered in 2016 this year could be an exception, partly because of the abortion issue that's in front of a lot of voters partly for other reasons, including the skill of a candidate, kamala harris. but it's completely unclear what you do see though amara is both candidates trying to just a little bit from from hostile territory, so to speak. meaning donald trump has never done well with women. he's trying very hard to get just a few because this is going to be settled by just a few thousand people in just a few states, as we've been saying all along errol louis, thanks for your time this morning and anderson cooper moderates a cnn presidential town hall or vice president kamala harris will face voters and take their most pressing questions. that is on wednesday at 9:00 p.m. eastern, right? here on cnn a new development in the 2020

election subversion case against donald trump, special counsel, jack smith, released a massive file of documents that were heavily redacted. >> a lot of the information in the documents that still visible. it was already public, but some new details have been revealed got more now from cnn's kaitlin polantz the federal court in washington on friday, released nearly 2000 pages of evidence in the 2020 election case against donald trump. >> but much of it looks like this blank or sealed, or redacted that's because this evidence is backing up what the justice it's department says. a trial court must look at. that would be shown to jurors at a trial to try and prove donald trump was conspiring against the federal government as a candidate for office, not as the president so at this point in time, we've heard the narrative from the justice department. they've written that and they've described what trump was doing and the evidence that they've gathered.

but now, as on friday, the justice department has this evidence put into the court record in largely these blank pages. these sealed records, there are for some things in this evidence that we can see that we know the justice department wants to rely on for their case. that's already been public, things like donald trump's tweets speeches, and transcripts of speeches he was giving after the 2020 election saying he didn't believe that he had lost even though the just department says he knew very clear clearly that he had there are other things like mike pence's book that is also in this court record that we can see publicly photocopied pages of pence's book where things that trump was saying to him that he wrote about as when he was during the vice presidency that are highlighted by the prosecutors. all of this is going to be looked at by the trial judge as she considers whether this case can move on to trial. it also is very likely to be looked at by appeals courts in the future,

again, to determine whether trump can go to trial or whether he has protection because of the presidency. but his team has been digging in. they do not like the fact that any of this has been released in court at this time, especially before the election. they claim it's election interference which the judge says it absolutely not is not it's litigation, but they also are trying to build a record to say this judge has just not handled things appropriately whether that is going to be an argument that goes far in the appellate courts, we will have to see, but it's very likely this case is going to go back to the supreme court before a trial is even on the calendar. katelyn polantz, cnn, washington some of the top stories we're following for you this morning, a failure at one of cuba's electrical plants has shut down the national power grid, leaving at least 10 million people in the dark us embassy in cuba issued a notice saying that there is no information on when power will we'll be restored have a live

report from cuba later this hour this morning, president biden is back in the u.s. >> after a quick trip to germany as today, his visit focused on a renewed pushed for a ceasefire between israel and hamas after the death of yahya sinwar. speaking, after meetings in berlin, the president said, we think there's a road to peace he's there. it's going to be harder. it's going to be difficult. but we're all on the same page. he added that there's a possibility for a ceasefire in lebanon, but it's going to be harder for gaza. he says new this morning hurricanes helene and milton have triggered a rise in flesh eating bacteria cases in florida the tampa bay area sees the law or just increase in infections statewide confirmed cases rose from six pre-storm to 76. so far this year, the bacteria commonly found in warm coastal waters can multiply really quickly in floodwaters florida officials urged people to avoid those waters and cover

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aviv, israel, where we're tracking the latest developments on the israel hamas war israeli officials say that one israeli is dead in the northern region after a recent barrage. this is from lebanon and others have been hurt in that moment. we're learning that as the israeli military is dropping leaflets in khan younis area of southern gaza, promising free passage to anyone who helps return israeli hostages i want to warn you that this image that you're about to see is disturbing, but they leaflets feature a picture of the hamas leader yahya sinwar's body with a message that says sinwar was quote, eliminated while fleeing in panic. it goes on to tell people that hamas will not govern gaza anymore. we have new details right now about how sinwar was found and killed on wednesday, cnn's matthew chance is here with me in tel aviv. now the one just on those leaflets, they're dropping those. i mean, after sinwar was killed, netanyahu came out and said, you know, lay down your

arms, return the hostages, and you'll have free passage. was the word i blew that do you use? but obviously this is a moment where there are there trying to make this appeal i mean, look, i think the israeli governments have made this actually public. >> they said they see this as a potentially big opportunity, a window of opportunity et to get some of these really hostages that there were 101 of them still being held in gaza. dead or alive. we don't know the condition of all of them. and with the death of yahya sinwar there's a potential that the organization of hamas is disintegrating, at least that's the one of the lines of analysis of what might be happening now, it's in a state of chaos and in the state of flux that's been dealt to him heavy blow that there's no doubt about that. and so netanyahu has been appealing directly to sort of on the ground, hamas commanders to release hostages. they may be holding in exchange for some kind of clemency so met them live of course, that that wasn't something that was extended to sinwar and that's this leaflet drop as well, showing that the israelis are pressing every button they can pulling every lever to try and

get some advantage in terms of hostage release from the killing of its most reviled hamas yeah and of course this comes as we're learning more about his death. >> i mean, obviously they're hoping that his death, the way he tied could hope to spur on some change from the hamas militants, who knows if that will actually happen. but tell us more what we're learning about how sinwar what's actually killed. >> yeah, i mean, there's been a bit of a discrepancy in the narrative in the account coming from the israeli defense forces, the israeli military, and the pathologist who carried out the autopsy on yahya sinwar, the hamas leader at that was always just has told cnn that he was killed by a gunshot wound and that's sort of carried out. if you look at the photographs, if you've had the misfortune to see those photographs, you can see he's got a bullet hole in his head and so that makes sense. the israeli military had previously said that it was a tank round that that causes his death. and so that's that's the discrepancy and the israeli

sources that i've been speaking to as well say that they're keeping his body now in a secret location with a view to possibly using it as an exchange in the future for those israeli hostages. again, another attempt by the israelis to use this killing to their advantage. >> a big question of what like if it actually will work. matthew chance. thank you for that reporting i should note sinwar's death is raising hopes right now in washington for an end to this war, raising hopes, but still a lot of questions on whether or not that will actually happen. president biden says he is going to send his secretary of state, antony blinken here to the middle east in the coming days to israel, specifically he is putting pressure on israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu to seize this chance to try to get peace. cnn's kamala dechaulus joins me now from the white house. kamala, obviously, the white house is hoping this will be a moment of leverage here, but that's still, still seems like a big question mark. the further we get from sinwar's death, especially with what we are hearing from the israelis

saying, you know, this is the beginning of the end, but this is not the end in and of itself. >> well, that's right, kaitlan, president biden had a very clear message, and that is that he still believes that it's possible to have this road to east to peace in the middle eastern region. and he told reporters that he still believes it's possible to but civ a ceasefire deal in lebanon. but noted that it will now be a little bit more difficult to achieve the same type of agreement and gaza now, biden has made it very clear that he wants to spend the remaining time that he has in the oval office really trying to end this conflict and bring a release to these hostages on both sides. but there's a lot of political we'll implications here, especially for vice president kamala harris, who is running on the democratic ticket. she has been met with constant protests from pro-palestinian protesters while she's hit the campaign trail. and some voters, especially in michigan, have really been trying to advocate and push her to try to distance herself from how biden is approaching this conflict. this these rising tensions in this

region really have political consequences for biden and his legacy in office, but also for vice president kamala harris while she's running to be elected in this upcoming election. >> yeah, a tricky aspect of that for her to navigate over these next two-and-a-half weeks. and then of course, if she is ultimately elected, kamala, thank you for that. amara victor, a major questions here. what this means as we are listening and speaking with israeli officials. the hopes that this was going to lead to some we did ceasefire that we had seen from us officials seem to be dimming though as of this moment. >> yeah, there's been this intersection at other periods during this war that there have been hoped that a certain event would lead to a ceasefire. and thus far has not come to fruition. kaitlan collins for us there in tel aviv. thanks so much. coming up the island of cuba dealing with a near total blackout after the failure of a power plant people are now setting fires in the streets

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>> yes. this is a setback and it comes hours after cuban officials have been saying that power slowly was being restored. >> of course you remember on friday, there was this nationwide blackout, really unprecedented blackout 10 million people in the dark in cuba. >> you spent a very long night without power of the fortunate here who have generators users for as long as they could. but of course, gas and diesel is also very hard to come by. so most people are likely right now sitting in a dark house wondering when power is going to come back on the concern, of course, is, oh, when you don't have power, certainly in cuba, you don't have water, even have running water. while your food starts to spoil and it gets hard to go about your daily life. and you what had become an inconvenience. >> the beginning,