turning up the volume on their closing arguments, just 15 days out from election day and needs two seem to be on completely different channels will take you live to the campaign trail and in critical diplomatic mission. >> america's top diplomat dispatched to the middle east for the 11th time since the beginning of the war in gaza. anthony blinken's goal is clear kickstarts cease fire cox, and end this conflict, but can he do that? we're live from israel and lights out in cuba as the nation's struggles with widespread blackout people are fed up and frustrated, or even taking the streets we're following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central you this afternoon. >> i'm boris sanchez alongside brianna keilar in the nation's

capital, and we're now just 15 days out from the election. both candidates focusing their campaign stops in different battleground states today, targeting undecided voters who could determine the winner of the white house. vice president kamala harris is hitting not one, but all three blue wall states and she's teaming up with an unlikely ally, former republican congresswoman liz cheney, who in an unprecedented effort is hoping to help harris win over undecided independence and moderate republicans in michigan, wisconsin, and pennsylvania, that trio of battleground states tip the 2016 race for donald trump, but it swung back in democrats favor in 2020 former president trump is also making three campaign stops of his own today, he'll be in the storm-battered swing state of north carolina. we're just moments ago, he did continue to spread disinformation about the federal government's response to hurricane helene. he also repeated false claims about fema spending billions of

dollars on housing for illegal migrants and that's where we begin our coverage. cnn's kristen holmes joins us now from concord, north carolina, which is just outside of charlotte kristen trump doubling down on this misinformation, maybe tripling or quadrupling at this point. what can you tell us? >> yeah, that's right. brianna and boris, they've looking to keep in mind right now. is that anything that kamala harris and donald trump do should be viewed through the lens of a political stop. and this was very clearly a political stop. yes, he surveyed the damage. yes. he talked to first responders, but so much of this was getting out his voters to the polls, even specifically talked about how he wanted people to get out and vote. he warned people that if you are in temporary housing today was the last day that you could get a specific ballot sent to not your permanent address, but this temporary housing, it goes to show you how they feel right now at this point in the race. remember, north carolina deliver donald trump his narrowest win? back in 2020, and they are clearly still concerned about this state. he

is here, he has three events today and then he has another event tomorrow and he's going to be back next week. clearly putting this state as a top priority and into his travel rotation as a battleground state. now, as you mentioned, part of what he talked about was this disinformation around female at first, he seemed to kind of dance around it, saying things like, well, i don't know what they did with that money and then he was very explicit saying that he believed that this money went to order migrants and fema didn't have any money because it was going towards migrant housing. and even at one time implied that this is because democrats might i want migrants to be voting in this election. take a listen they spent a lot of money on bringing illegal migrants, people that came into our country illegally and taking them in. >> and all of the money they've spent. numbers that nobody can even believe. so. they don't have any money for the people that live here. and it's a shame because they should have

the money they spent money that i don't believe they're supposed to be spending for that. as you know. so i think it's a disgrace what happened with fema? what's happened with their rescue effort, their rescue effort was almost non-existent like this before we'll fact it. >> it god, we know that fema has different pots of money. they do have money that goes towards migrant housing that does not come from disaster relief money. that is a completely separate brent pot of money and one other thing to note here is that talking to these various governors, various state officials in all of these states that have been impacted by helene. none of them complained really about the federal response or about fema. so this seems to be something that donald trump himself is simply perpetuating as he tries to attack the current administration tries to link kamala harris to the current administration yeah, it's a good point, kristen holmes. >> thank you for that report from north carolina and as the vice president is looking to

ramp up support in three key states today, we're learning that the harris campaign is raking in some i'm serious cash reporting a huge fundraising numbers starting october with $346 million compared to trump's 285, which is still quite a lot. the vice president just held a roundtable with republican liz cheney, or she warned about a second trump presidency. here's a moment from that in many, many ways, donald trump is an unserious man but the consequences of him being president of the united states are brutally he says that will be the subject of skits and laughter and jokes. but words have meaning coming from someone who aspires to stand behind the seal of the president of the united states

at stake cnn's danny freeman is live for us in pennsylvania. danny walk us through the closing message from harris and liz cheney beside her so boris, brianna, this event just wrapped up a little while ago. it lasted about 40 minutes in total and there were two different elements that stood out to me when it comes to what message they were trying to get across here in the suburbs of philadelphia. the first was along the lines of the bite that you just played for the viewers. basically, if vice president harris saying, as she has before, that, former president donald trump is an unserious man for the job. then former congresswoman liz cheney. she also noted that trump idolizes tyrants. that was her argument and she was arguing also that foreign adversaries feel that they can play trump on the international stage. but then also stood out to me, boris and brianna, was this second aspect of the event and it was where liz cheney spoke about women's reproductive rights. and it almost sounded like she was trying to give perhaps a

pro-life suburban may be more conservative or moderate woman's who might be a voter in this part of pennsylvania. liz cheney, it seemed like he was trying to give them the language to support vice president kamala harris, even if they may be uncomfortable with the issue of abortion take a listen to what the former congresswoman had to say this is not an issue that we're seeing breakdown across party lines, but i think we're seeing people come together to say, what has happened to women when women are facing situations where they can't get the care they need where in places like texas, for example the attorney general is talking about suing is suing to get access to women's medical records. >> that's not sustainable for us. as a country. and it has to change there is really what the harris campaign sees as the value that a surrogate like liz cheney can bring in an area like this, and

that's really what this entire day is about. >> again, attacking i shouldn't say attacking, trying to go after these suburban women, perhaps who might be more moderate, who might be on the fence. of course it started here today in the suburbs of philadelphia. vice president harris is then heading to the southern verbs of detroit and will then finish outside of milwaukee later on this evening. boris, brianna danny freeman live for us in pennsylvania. >> thanks so much, danny. let's discuss now with cnn's senior political analyst, mark preston. mark, thanks so much for being with us to very different approaches. as the election draws near. what do you think of the strategy for each of these candidates? well a couple of things. if you look at what donald trump has been doing, it's as if he's trying to double down, triple down quadruple down. he is focusing on on his maga base. he wants to make sure that if you are a supporter, if you even like donald trump, that you will show up at the polls. that is why we've seen him talking in this very vulgar way and really trying to reach out to this bro, culture at the same time, what we're seeing from kamala

harris is they're trying to pick voters off they see an opening perhaps there are few persuadable voters in pennsylvania, in michigan, in wisconsin, three states that will see liz cheney commonly harris today. so can they get these women, these pro-life women who may not necessarily be as a numbered with donald trump. does someone like liz cheney help her do that at the same? kamala harris has to work on shoring up support with traditional groups in the democratic party, african americans, and hispanics. >> his appeal to bro culture, as you put it, we're definitely seeing that he had kind of a wild week again on the trail he also though made it clear, yet again that when he's talking about the enemy within, he's talking about his democratic political opponent and i do just want to be clear. i mean, yes, there's arnold palmer's and other regions which is kind of wild for him to talk about it. but there's also this other topic which is

a violation, not just conversational norms, but demo democratic norms. >> well, it certainly is i'm going to show my age. i just go back to when i started in this town and you would see these titans, these, these legislative titans on capitol hill, ted kennedy, john chafee, john warner a politically different orrin hatch, but they could get along. they didn't look at each other as enemies. they looked at each other as opponents when it came to politics, but not enemies what we've seen over, over the past 30 years or so, but even more so in the last five or six cheers or so, is donald trump is taking that into an entirely new level that if you're not with me then you are my enemy how effective is that a line of attack for kamala harris? >> because you're seeing democrats focus more on the idea that donald trump is unhinged and mentally with his comments that's about arnold palmer, but specifically his insinuating that the military should go after his political rivals right? >> so fight fire with fire, right? and that's what i think you've seen kamala harris do in some ways, but she's trying to use it, not with just her own voice. she's using other voices she's using

trump military officials that are going out and making the case, or liz cheney for regards six, whatever thought that you'd be with a democratic candidate, insane. >> yeah, it is strange if you rewind yourself a few years back, okay. finally and you know what i'm going to ask you about this trump at mcdonald's this week. and how did the optics of this visit play out? >> i mean, look, if you're mcdonald's you're probably very unhappy right now because you're saying half of america probably doesn't want to go to mcdonald's right now because we are so polarized with politics, but the reality is to them though, we should do away trump supporter. i mean, look, i mean, the reality is when he said that he wanted to he wanted to work at mcdonald's at one point in his life, which was an absolute lie. i mean, crazy. i mean, not knocking mcdonald's, but reality it's it's a hard job, but i have a question for you guys. what was your first jobs if mcdonald's is an entree way into the workforce i got paid cash

working under the table at a factor in doral, florida, moving boxes when i was like 14 years, the irs is now recording i i didn't earn enough to owe much in taxes, so i'm not worried about it i was folding genes in the mall night and t-shirts. >> oh my god, very sad night live from the 1990s so is the soundtrack for sure. i did want to ask you something mark about how donald trump is singular in the way that he can go to a mcdonald's pina caricature of himself, right? it was very much from what i understand, a staged opportunity to campaign knew everybody that was coming through the cars or the actual mcdonald's itself inside was empty. it wasn't open to the public i think to myself, if kamala harris would do that, she would be excoriated and lambasted. and yet here, donald trump breaks through the cultural narrative and gets discussed and gets the attention of undecided, low propensity voters celebrated, look, what he said about arnold palmer, not the bringing down up-armored situation into the

mcdonald's situation helped know what will only because it happened on our ear in a very well happen in the studio yes. >> is that jake tapper was talking to the house speaker yesterday about the language that donald trump dated in the house speaker kept on trying to you know, move off topic, move off topic. but the reality was is when jake he doing if this had been kamala harris who had spoken this way, you would be outraged and again, he moved off topic, really the short answer is, is that donald trump is unlike anyone else that we've ever had to deal with in politics and probably will be like anyone we've ever but if you will politics again on i'm okay. if that means less, arnold palmer from other people that can be his venue and then we maybe you can talk less ranked golfer, great drink, love and love that ice tml lemonade together. mark preston. thank you. still to come this hour yeah alright. secretary of state blinken, heading to the middle east following the death of yahya sinwar, the head of hamas, could blinken's visit revived

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intel documents that detailed israel's military response to iran's recent missile strikes in tel aviv a source confirmed the authenticity of these two documents. one shows israel's plan for moving munitions. the other outline israeli air force exercises involving air-to-surface missiles. and cnn is not quoting putting directly from or showing these highly classified documents, former cia officer bob baer is with us now on this. bob first, just how significant of a breach does also huge that we are effectively spying on israel, but that reflects the white house has concerned about what netanyahu is going to do next. >> is he going to launch a major war against iran, which will draw us in these documents suggest to me, and i frankly never seen him before when i was in the cia, this sort of spying on israel is a new chapter in this conflict, which doesn't seem to be stopping

let's talk, let's divide this between what this could mean for israel's response and then what it means for the relationship. first, the response, because israel has been i'm preparing this for weeks, and now you have some details that are out there. could this disrupt what they prepared no. no, brianna, take it to the bank israel will attack ran in some form. it cannot let, let that missile strike on television pass unanswered, just can't and also, you see that israel is continuing to move farther into lebanon, hitting targets which i'm not sure justified. and they continue the war in gaza because they are determined to make bore israel's borders 100% safe and to do that, you have to hit all these countries and then what does this mean? >> for that relationship? showing that the u.s is obviously keeping a very close eye on israel, which is an ally and what does it mean if there are more documents

these documents weren't that sensitive. >> i mean, it's not like code-breaking or something like or betraying agents on the ground but what it does tell me is that the white house doesn't trust and detests netanyahu. and its afraid what's going to happen in the coming weeks? >> this, of course, came out on a telegram account that is affiliated with iran. what does that signify? you well, telegram is also affiliated with russia. >> and what we see is deepening relationship between iran and russia. and even saudi, saudi arabia is gravitating towards iran at this point. so this conflict, which again, i'll say it's going to spread there's all all sorts of new alliances and then in matthew, chance's analysis of the league for cnn, he notes that israeli media is, is hinting at it kind of more concise fewer turiel

suspicions, even suggesting this could have been a deliberate leak of military intelligence by washington as the biden administration tries to contain military operations by israel. >> what do you think about that i think he's right. >> i think it was probably a high level leak out of the white house. i wouldn't know or who in the pentagon. but the pentagon wants it out. there is, hey, we do not want to be drawn into a war with iran right now because we simply don't have the forces were vulnerable we'll in iraq were vulnerable. every where we are including our troops in israel okay. >> but just to be clear, bob, we don't know where this this leak came from, right? >> oh, i have i have no i have no idea. >> it could have been a low level one, but i'm just, you know, in washington, the echo chamber, you pick this sort of thing up and that's what some people are sintering. all right yeah, bob, thank you so much really appreciate it. bob baer death of hamas leader yasser?

yes sinwar, secretary of state tony blinken will be in the middle east making a new push for peace. he's traveling there today. this is less than a week after israeli forces killed sinwar who was of course the chief architect of the october 7 attacks. president biden says that he hopes israel can now carve a new path toward peace and end what has become its longest it's war. >> but while the u.s. sees a potential turning point after a year's worth of fighting, israel is intensifying its offensive against hezbollah and lebanon today said that israel will keep striking until hezbollah, quote, collapses let's take you now live to tel aviv with cnn's jeremy diamond. jeremy, what are you hearing about? what secretary of state antony blinken plans to do on this trip well, we heard last week from president biden that he believes there is now an opportunity in the wake of the killing of hamas leader yahya sinwar to restart these

negotiations it's aimed at ending the war in gaza, bringing the hostages back and alleviating the humanitarian situation in gaza. >> and that's exactly what secretary blinken will be looking to kickstart tomorrow. haro as he arrives in israel and is also set to be traveling around the region, he will meet with the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu, as well as israeli president isaac hertzog tomorrow in israel. and those that will of course be on the agenda as well as diplomatic resolution to the conflict in life i've been on and of course, the looming possibility of israeli strikes in iran. but even as the biden administration has said that they see an opportunity here to end the war in gaza. in the wake of sinwar's killing, we are getting those kinds of indications from the israeli government instead over the weekend, we heard continued defiance and bluster from the israeli prime minister who vowed how to continue this war in gaza until victory, no real indication that he sees this as now an opportunity to wind down

the war today, i was at a conference prince of people who are calling for a establishing israeli settlements in the gaza strip and in attendance were multiple members of netanyahu's governing coalition. in addition, since that, we should note that while the white house is pushing these new diplomatic efforts, we heard today from the white house spokesman john kirby saying that they really are not too optimistic about ceasefire talks restarting, but they are beginning of course, to lay the groundwork both here in israel, as well as in beirut, where the special envoy for the biden administration almost hochstein arrived to discuss efforts to broker a ceasefire between israel and hezbollah as well. >> give us the latest on lebanon. jeremy israel, of course, targeted then organization today that it says funds hezbollah >> and this was really a new major step in israel's offensive against this institution is not a military target. what they were targeting is financial institution that they say is affiliated with hezbollah which

is used to finance hezbollah activities, but it also serves as a financial institution for hundreds of thousands of lebanese civilians. and what the israeli, a senior israeli intelligence official told us, they are aiming to do here is to shake the trust. they said between hezbollah and the shia community in beirut in lebanon this tells us is that the israeli government, the israeli military strategy at this point is to bring a lot of military pressure to bear, but it's not just with that military pressure as the end goal it is also aimed at shaking the bonds between hezbollah and other members of lebanese society. in particular, the shia community in the hopes that and. others in lebanese politics, government and society will bring pressure to bear on hezbollah to agree to some kind of a ceasefire that is on israel's terms, which it means of course not just stopping the fighting, but withdrawing its troops far north of the israeli border is something that has, of course, has yet to commit to as of now, brianna boris our

jeremy. >> thank you so much. jeremy diamond, live for us from tel aviv. and when we come back, the razor thin presidential race will come down to the group of undecided did voters and to turnout. very importantly, and the harris and trump campaigns are meeting people where they are battleground states while more on that ahead. >> plus an incredible rescue caught on camera, a teenage kayaker pulled out of the water after drifting in the ocean for hours, they would see an end, but he went back before election day vice president harris bases voters and takes to the pressing questions lie anderson cooper moderates a cnn presidential townhall kamala harris wednesday at nine eastern on cnn tail. what's simply safeguard than i don't 24/7 monitoring that acts on an alarm in five seconds to help stop crime in

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guide, 800, 4, 5, 518 to seven and this final stretch kamala harris and former president donald trump are rallying voters in several critical battleground states. today, harris is hoping to convince undecided voters and strengthened blue wall support with stops in pennsylvania, michigan and wisconsin, trump in the meantime, is chris crossing the key swing state of north carolina. so let's talk about this now with larry sabato, the director of the center for politics at the unit reverse city of virginia and larry here we are. i can't believe it just a little over two weeks until election day. every vote matters, of course, where each candidate is today, certainly telling what do you see in their choices? >> well, you know, you're talking about undecideds, the choices that are undecided to make, become to undecided and getting out the vote in these states that's the critical part of it. >> i was going to say undecided is much less important at this point than the motivation to vote, to get out the vote effort, the voter contact

effort that's been going on for months. and really that is a significant and not so hidden advantage of the harris campaign and the democrats they have had by all measures, a superb get out the vote effort. the trump campaign has delegated a good deal of that two other organizations that may be well-funded, but that doesn't mean they know what they're doing or they're doing it very efficiently. so if this does indeed turn out to be as close as many of the polls suggest it will be it's that additional increment of a half a 0.1 point 0.2 points that get out the vote can generate. and that's what i look at undecideds they're conflicted. that's why they're still undecided and a lot of them will decide not to vote because they are conflicted and others are just covering for the fact that they don't follow politics and aren't very interested in it. and they also won't vote yeah, these candidates aren't only competing against each other, but perhaps apathy as well.

>> and larry, we mentioned a moment ago that harris is focusing on those blue wall states the most recent cnn polling shows that harris has a slight edge over trump in all three. but it's still a tight race as you see on the top right of your screen, there was no clear leader in these races how much of a difference do you think can be made with just two weeks until election day well, again, talking about undecided voters, not much, but the get out, the vote operations are absolutely critical. >> and in those states, massive investments have been made that's also where harris is financial advantage comes in. i think people have been surprised to see how well harris has done and the democrats have done, especially given the abbreviated campaign of kamala harris. but she has a big edge and money and a lot of that is going to be invested already has been invested and voter contact and get out the vote now for you, if any, is you're

looking what is sort of up in the air about how this election may perform are different voting groups may perform well, we always like to talk about october surprises i don't think we're going to have a really big one. i'll be very surprised if we do, but october surprises come in different sizes and shapes. and so you do have a series of october surprises. every president she'll election that can move a few thousand votes here, a few thousand votes there. so i think that's critical. the other part of it that we often ignore is that, okay. harris is relatively low with black males today or relatively low with hispanic males to today are relatively low with males between 18 and 30 and trump is having a lot of problems with women of all ages even white women. but you know, things change as partisan identification kicks in, as the actual election day approaches. and that's when many of the people who i have been

apathetic or don't know for whom they're going to vote, or only leaning slightly to one candidate or the other actually firm up. in the end, they're often fewer surprises, than you think the gender gaps and example, many times the gender gap has been shown in campaign after campaign to be enormous during the polling period in september and october. and then on election day, it's still substantial, but it's not nearly as big as it was projected to be by polling with you. thank you so much. we'll keep the conversation going here in the coming days. >> thank you about two weeks to go until the election and former president trump is facing a new legal battle. >> members of the central park five are now suing the former president over quote, false, and defamatory statements they say that he made about their 1989 case during a presidential debate last month, and cnn senior crime and justice reporter katelyn polantz joins us now with more kaitlan.

>> what is in this lawsuit? >> well, this lawsuit is about comments that donald trump made publicly at this presidential debate at the debate in september in philadelphia kamala harris, had brought up the fact that donald trump, just days after the central park, five were arrested this assault in central park in 1989, he had put a ad in several newspapers full-page that said bring back the death penalty, bring back the police, and then donald trump responded at the debate just this year. this way bloomberg, agreed with me on the central park five, they admitted they said they pled guilty and i said, well, if they pled guilty, they badly hurt a person, killed a person, ultimately. and if they pled guilty, then they pled not guilty. >> so the central park five now say that he is saying these

things as a way to cause distress to them because they were exonerated, ultimately, they had ultimately settled with new york city after being forced into giving false statements. they had gone to trial and they are all saying now, they never pleaded guilty. they were cleared of the wrongdoing. no one was killed in this attack in 1989. and this has been a pattern from donald trump dating the whole way back to the aftermath of that attack when these men were we're arrested, that he has wanted to intentionally harm them and cause them distress and one of the plaintiffs, one of the men in the central park five, he was at that debate in philadelphia and even tried to approach trump and they had what he said or what his attorneys say was they wanted to have some sort of polite discourse about what trump cupp and said in the moment on national television about these exonerated men and trump essentially blew him off. you wouldn't engage with them. so this lawsuit is the definition mason case that they're bringing now to try and say

make us whole stop intentionally lying, stop intentionally harming us. and of course the context here is right before the kansas payne. there's quite an ongoing appeal among the campaigns to black men, specifically, a lot of discussion about crime. and then also in this context, donald trump has as been found liable for defamation before against e. jean carroll. >> yeah, we'll see how he responds to this new lawsuit. kaitlyn polantz. thank you so much. i just want to note for our viewers the next hour, we're going to speak to the lead counsel for the exonerated five on this case. so stay tuned for that also when we come back a texas death row inmate may soon testify in front of texas lawmakers about his murder conviction. how this hearing could make a difference on his pending execution. stay with us tonight at nine liberty mutual customizes my car insurance. >> so i say hundreds but to money i saved, i thought i get a wax figure of myself cool,

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heard that he will not testify today. roberson was scheduled to be executed last week for the 2002 shaken baby death of his 2-year-old daughter you just saw the live image there of the empty seat. remember, at the 11th hour, the state supreme court issued a temporary stay allowing him to appear before texas lawmakers uncertain at this point exactly why he's not appearing today. let's go live to cnn's ed lavendera, who's in texas following the story at what's happening well what was supposed to have been a historic and unprecedented moment, a death row inmate here in texas being brought to the state capital to testify before this but house juris prudence

committee has we've been told now that this will probably not happen today by the chairman of the committee who just announced that as the hearing just gotten underway and at heart here, is that the attorney general of texas, ken paxton, sent a letter to the committee just a few days ago saying that they would not allow robertson to appear in person, but then he could appear virtually over zoom or some other form of electronic communication. >> but the committee and roberson's lawyers have been adamant britley opposed to that for days they want roberson to testify in person, in part for several reasons. they the lawyers want the committee to be able in the public to be able to assess roberson's credibility as they see him face-to-face. the other issue is that they say robertson has been diagnosed with autism and because of that communicating over zoom they feel would not be fair to him. they also say that given his condition, it's very difficult to for him to have a conversations with people face thanks. so they

want the lawmakers on this committee and the public to be able to see robert roberson for themselves testifying in this situation. now, the attorney general has been opposed to this in the court filings we've seen texas governor greg abbott, who has been quiet on this case for days filed a court filing this morning where he is essentially says that this house committee has stepped out of line with this subpoena requests a subpoena that essentially halted this execution the governor is saying that any house committee in the future could do this exact same thing to basically cause an end-around any future executions here in the state legal drama will continue to play out. they are not giving up hope that roberson might be able to figure out a way to testify in the future. one of the representatives even suggested that the maga makers make a field trip to the livingston, texas prison where robert roberson is hold for a field trip to do this testimony in-person. there another chapter in this emotionally

charged story, ed lavendera. thank you for bringing us the latest. now to some of the other headlines we're watching this hour new video shows the moment a helicopter slammed into a radio tower in houston last night. look at the top right of your screen you see the impact, an explosion there it said the radio tower crashing to the ground near homes. >> all four people on board the helicopter were killed, including a child. >> the ntsb says the group is apparently on an aerial tour but when they crashed under unknown circumstances anyone with information or surveillance video is being urged to come forward and help the investigation and in georgia, officials are looking do what caused a boat dock gangway to collapse during a cultural festival over the weekend, this was on sapelo island and we're told that seven people pull who died were between the ages of 70 and 93. >> there were a handful of others who were also critically injured. and we're learning more about the 17-year-old colt who was left clinging to his

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but of course it comes and it goes and officials themselves say that there'll be essentially rotating who has popped our throughout the day. so you might get it for a couple of hours if you are lucky, other people that i spoke to last night in poor neighborhood of nevada had not had power this entire time since friday, and they said their food is spoiled. they're sleeping outside with their children on the sidewalk. they filled essentially as abandon. so if you get power, yes, it helps you. you were able to have refrigeration. maybe you can have some water because you don't have running water here. if you don't have power, but for other people well, this is a power outage that is a big continuous. so yes, it's crash entire national system four times. and that is something unprecedented. we are talking talking about historic power failure in cuba because of these ailing plants that are not maintained, the cuban government as us sanctions are the reason for of these plants are constantly failing throughout the years is it's

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