welcome to all watching us, this is cnn newsroom. a surprising new poll has caught the attention of both the trump and harris campaigns just days before the election. we'll look at the significance. the two candidates keep up their blitz of the battleground states this weekend, including all important georgia. we'll discuss how harris and trump are being received there and signs of the times, researcher explore what online searches for political yard signs and merchandise tell us about the race. live from atlanta, this is cnn newsroom with kim. we are now two days away from the u.s. presidential election and later today, donald trump and kamala harris will be wrapping their last weekend on the campaign trail. trump is set to make his final pitch along the east coast, stopping in pennsylvania, georgia, and north carolina. meanwhile, harris will be in michigan as she works to

maintain the blue wall. as of now, more than 71.5 million people voted early. the contest remains tight, but a surprising new poll is turning heads. the des moines register has harris leading trump by 3 points among likely voters in iowa, a state trump handedly won twice before. the result is within the margin of error, but raised spirits among democrats in the home stretch. the trump campaign quickly dismissed the poll and while trump himself didn't acknowledge the survey while campaigning saturday, he did make a reference the size of a rally he once held in rally and the potential sign his team is closely watching the state. meanwhile, harris' running mate, tim walz, was asked about the poll and said he now wants to visit iowa. cnn spoke with the editor of chief of usa today, which has the des moines register in its network and while she concedes the results are surprising, she does highlight this poll. >> iowans are going to wake up to this news that i think is

going to surprise a lot of them. the des moines register poll really is the gold standard of polls and so it's very trusted. and not only is this going to get a lot of attention in iowa, but it could affect turnout on both sides. if you think about it, the iowa democrats may be more motivated to support harris by this result, and you may see republicans more motivated to go to the polls because you know, of alarm over what this might mean for trump. it is an outlier, but it is a poll that people take very seriously. people who know polling know that this is a poll that you don't dismiss. >> donald trump rallied his supporters in battleground, north carolina, on saturday, claiming the suburbs are under attack and women have to be protected. he also acknowledged the widening gender gap that has some republicans worried. >> and these horrible people

back there said, well, trump is soft with women. i don't believe. they said trump -- he's very good with men. i don't know. thank you, men. thank you, men. no, i'm through the roof with men. let me tell you. no, i'm great with men, but i'm soft. >> second rally in south carolina, the former president called him the father of pert -- voted to overturn roe v. wade in 2022. trump railed against critical race theory and attacked the transgender community. >> we will get critical race insanity out of our schools and we will keep men, of course,

out of women sports. >> former president made a stop in the blue state of virginia on saturday, telling the crowd if he beats harris there, he'll win the entire election. republicans haven't won a presidential race in virginia since 2004. kamala harris was also in north carolina as well as here in georgia. polling in both states is as in the other battlegrounds, extremely close. as you can see, neither nominee established a clear advantage. in charlotte, the u.s. vice president stressed the high stakes while addressing division. here she is. >> we have three days left and one of the most consequential elections of our lifetime and we still have work to do. we still have work to do and we have an opportunity in this election to turn the page on a decade of donald trump trying

to keep us divided and afraid of each other. we're done with that. we're done. we're exhausted with it. >> earlier, harris pushed for unity during her stop here in atlanta. cnn has more. >> the vice president's closing message, trained on unity and bringing people together, even those who disagree with her, as she tells voters she's running to be president of all of america. the vice president also routinely touting her love for gen-z, and putting great emphasis on first-time voters here in georgia and in north carolina. having them introduce her. but this all comes at a time when many americans say they are dissatisfied with the direction of the country. we asked her about this in an exclusive interview in atlanta. take a listen. >> grocery prices are still high. the folks watching this interview right now know grocery prices are high. we need to bring them down. we need to deal with the cost of housing. we have a supply shortage. part of my plan is to

not only work with the private sector so we can build more housing, but give first-time home buyers a $25,000 down payment assistance, so they can get their foot in the door. >> vice president harris picking up celebrity endorsements. some artists appearing at her rallies and the campaign will tell you that's all aimed to get people excited about this process to turn out to vote. it matters in places where the margins are so slim. in 2020, president biden won the state of georgia by just under 12,000 votes. vice president harris trying to replicate that success here in georgia and the other battleground states. eva mcken, georgia. >> rejected a republican backed lawsuit that would have stopped people from hand delivering mail-in ballots. fulton county was named in the suit. a county donald trump falsely claimed defrauded him in 2020. it's a democratic stronghold that

includes the city of atlanta and is home to 11% of the state's voters. republicans wanted to stop election offices opening on weekends to allow hand return of absentee ballots. the ban would have affected five populous counties, and tend to vote democratic. with us now, with more is a politics reporter for wabe radio. he joins us from here in atlanta. good to see you again. thanks so much for being on here with us. i want to get to these legal issues in a moment. i want to start with the harris campaign. you were at the harris rally. what was the mood there? >> you know, in your report you just heard, you got a lot of it covered. you go back to what you heard from the vice president, and it is this idea of, do you want to see former president trump back in office? do you want those four years to happen again? that was another message you got from both the vice president, other speakers,

and of course, the ten days. and you're actually hearing it so later that night, i went to a trump campaign town hall. again, you're hearing that message, too, of the idea of do you want four more years of the biden, then being the vice president. harris' administration. you are getting that message from both sides. >> yeah, it is such a tight race and polls kind of confirm that. how confident is the trump campaign here in georgia? >> the big thing you've heard from them is they feel like the early voting numbers in georgia and for those that don't know, 55% of georgia's 7 million active voters have already cast a ballot. they believe that those votes are leaning towards them, that this idea that low propensity of voters on the republican side, they are going out to vote for the former president. so they are confident that those numbers are leaning towards them.

>> it will be interesting to see whether that pans out. for the democrats, a lot was made about the need to reach black voters. i know harris spent a lot of time in atlanta with a particular outreach to black men. any sense whether democrats feel confident this will pay off at the ballot box? >> some of them are talking to me about the idea that there will be a large turnout of black voters on election day. when you look at the numbers around the state, you see the strong numbers in the atlanta area, where you have large black populations. in counties outside of atlanta, you see those numbers a little lower. it's interesting, later today, former president bill clinton will be going to augusta, georgia, richmond county, one of those strongholds that the numbers we've been watching have been on the low side. >> interesting. i know things on the ground are tense. i know the georgia board of elections provided millions in extra security for election worker,

including things like panic buttons. are there real expectations of violence, do you think? >> there's concerns about it. my fellow reporters have been doing in-depth reporting on it. people are nervous. also people are optimistic and hopeful. so, are there concerns about it? yes. will you see one of the things that was mentioned, plain clothed officers at polling locations. so, you may also see that. you did mention, there's the access to panic buttons for election workers. yes, are there concerns? absolutely. have measures been taken? absolutely. >> all right, we'll have to leave it there. really appreciate having you on again, rahul, thank you so much. president joe biden has largely stayed out of the campaign spotlight lately, but he returned to his hometown of scranton, pennsylvania, on saturday to campaign for

harris. he spoke to a few dozen union workers slamming trump's plan for the economy and saying it includes another giant tax cut for the wealthy. he vowed harris would continue to support unions as he did during his presidency. here he is. >> this is the most important election any of us have ever voted in. more is at stake in the direction of this country than ever before. i promise you, you may have difficulty, you may have disagreements to some of the things in the harris administration. i wouldn't have picked her if i didn't think she had exact view i do about hard work people. i'm serious. and so look, folks. we need to elect kamala as president. >> while there may be no more important states to the presidential race than pennsylvania and on election night, both campaigns will be keeping a close eye on the philadelphia suburbs. that's where the votes can push vice president harris or former

president trump over the finish line. >> a postcard of suburban life. leafy, friendly, philadelphia just a 30 minute commute by train. home to her family and small business. >> we have a beautiful college campus, woods, trails, close approximate ty to a lot of things. a close knit community. >> this is southeast pennsylvania, delaware county, a place where kamala harris needs to win big if she hopes to claim the biggest of the battleground prizes. >> a lot ofthe messages are more panicked. >> elliot's vote is not in question. >> i don't want to go back there. i see how he treats people and bullies people. these are things i tell my teenage kids not to do. why would i want to see my president doing that? >> harris needs to match or beat biden's 2020 numbers in the suburbs. but elliot hears

hints of apathy and sexism. >> i think people were afreud to vote for a woman once it got down to the final choice. and they made a mistake. and now here we are again with that same decision facing people and i'm worried it's going to happen again. >> delaware county is reliably blue, but there are pockets where trump runs strong. >> i'm most upset about the lack of a border and the lack of our sovereignty and how that eroded in the last three years. and i feel as an american citizen, i'm underserved, over taxed. i'm kind of diminished. >> kristen, registered republican back in 1988. philadelphia suburbs were red then. but caparra is out numbered. >> we vote on different sides of the aisle, we are proud americans. the american flag is outside all of our homes and so i'm very comfortable there.

>> this is her new jersey beach cottage, lola and tsao already, her friendly a & t aylor, her labs. >> i think right now, there's a very quiet trump vote. he does have some bizarre behaviors. he is patriotic, and i feel he loves this country and my version of this country a little more dearly than the other side. >> the suburbs settle close races here. >> kamala harris made a surprise appearance in saturday night live's cold open sketch. she gave her fictional self saying unlike your opponent, you can open doors and they had a little fun teaching americans how to pronounce her name.

>> kamala. take my pamala. the american people want to stop the chaos and end the dramala. >> with a cool new step momala. kick back in our pajamalas. >> and start decorating for christmas. falalala. because what do we always say? keep kamala and carry on-ala. >> she told her experience was fun and a moment of levity ahead of what will be a very tight race with no mistakes. iran's supreme leader issued a new threat against israel and the united states. just ahead, a look at what he is saying about iran's mistakes, and later, the interest in campaign merchandise can offer insight into potential winners. i'll

speak to an expert to discuss his findings. that's coming up, please stay with us.

unicef says more than 50 children were killed over in northern gaza over the course

of 48 hours. the agency also says a staff member working to vaccinate children for polio came under fire as she was driving her car. the u.n. resumed its polio campaign on saturday after suspending it because of security concerns. in tel aviv, protesters on saturday made new demands that isreali prime minister, benjamin netanyahu reach a deal to release the hostages held in gaza and calling for elections to replace the netanyahu government and iran's supreme leader is vowing a teeth breaking response to israel and the united states after israel's strike on iran last month. he says iran has a right to respond to the isreali strikes. melissa bell joins us from paris. so, melissa, to start, what can you tell us about the latest strikes in gaza and lebanon? >> so, unicef is saying that 50 children have been killed over the course of 48 hours. this is

the result of isreali strikes in northern gaza, remember, kim, that this is a ground offensive. that israel launched on october 6, says israel as it was seeing hamas regroup in these particular parts of northern gaza that have been targeted, and what we've seen over the course of the last few days have been extensive civilian casualties as a result of those strikes. there is also, we understand, from humanitarian organizations, a dire issue in those areas, 70,000 people have fled to gaza city. 100,000 still there. not only the effects of the strikes, of course, kim, but the fact that the ground offensive is meant to any basic services being stopped. so no medical supplies, no functioning fire services, rescue, and that situation has been described by the u.n. as the darkest chapter in the gaza war so far. now, you also

mentioned what we have seen over the course of the weekend, which is an isreali operation in northern lebanon to capture a hezbollah commander. now in isreali detention and under investigation. kim. >> all right, melissa, in the meantime, looking at iran's promise of retaliation against israel, perhaps surprisingly, words coming from its leader? >> all eyes have been on how iran chooses to respond to these isreali strikes. understood to have done fairly extensive damage to their defenses, for instance. the response might come before the american election had been one suggestion. israel says it is in a state of readiness. it is looking closely at when and if sources say iran chooses to retaliate. certainly the latest words threatening both the united states and israel with a

teeth-crushing response, certainly ratcheting up of the rhetoric there, with all eyes very much on how limited or extensive iran's response is. kim. >> all right, appreciate that. now to britain where a historic moment, kemi i badenoch defeated rival on saturday after a months long leadership conference. identity, transgender rights, and state spending, and is expected to take the party further to the right. speaking after her victory, she vowed to lead the party through a period of renewal. here she is. >> our party is critical to the success of our country. but to be heard, we have to be honest. honest about the fact that we made mistakes. honest about the fact that we let standards

slip. the time has come to tell the truth. >> she replaces former prime minister who led the conservatives to historic losses in july. polls are now open in moldova. the country is holding the second round of a presidential election that could bring it closer to europe or towards moscow. her western incumbent, a pro russian candidate, sandu won 42% in the first round of elections. the first round was held the same day as a referendum on eu membership, and moldova's government said the votes were tarnished by kremlin vote buying scheme. an assault on the country's democracy. well, it's not even election day yet here the u.s., that's not stopping speculation about the direction of a possible trump administration. the conspiracy spreaders. stay with us.

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welcome back to all of you watching us here in the united states, canada, and around the world. this is cnn newsroom. kamala harris and donald trump are taking their closing arguments to the country's biggest battleground states with only two days left in the race for the white house. later today, trump is headed to pennsylvania, georgia, and north carolina. harris will be in michigan as she works to defend the democrat's blue wall. former first lady, michelle obama was out for harris. the former president's running mate, jd vance, went to arizona and told a crowd that republicans have a big

advantage in the swing state. while tim walz, the democratic nominee for vice president knocked on doors. so, with the race in its final stretch, there is speculation about what the future harris or trump administrations would look like. when it comes to trump, one thing is clear, some conspiracy theorists would play key roles in shaping policies. >> if he's elected again, donald trump is going -- >> he will have a big role in healthcare. >> give robert kennedy, jr., one of america's antisaxers, a top role in shaping the white house health policy. >> i'm going to let him go wild on health. i'm going to let him go wild on the food. i'm going to let him go wild on medicine. >> the man trump will let go wild has repeatedly, baselessly called the covid-19 vaccines

unsafe and out landish, false conspiracy theories about the covid virus. >> covid-19 is targeted to attack caucasians and black people. the people who are most immune are chinese. >> vice president kamala harris saying this about trump's plans for kennedy. >> the exact last person in america who should be setting healthcare policy for america's families and children. >> there could be widespread disinformation to the public about what they should or shouldn't be doing in terms of their public health. >> the cochair of trump's transition team told kaitlyn collins about what kennedy might do with the covid vaccines in place now, which have been proven to be safe. >> all i want is the data. i'll take on the data and show that it is not safe and if you pull the product liability, the companies will yank these vaccines right off of the market. >> no less controversial is

trump's plan to give billionaire, elon musk, a huge portfolio to be in charge of downsizing the federal government. >> i love elon. >> musk, the man who crippled x's value since buying the platform for $44 billion two years ago. the man who repeatedly pushed false claims about election fraud. it is musk's ownership that could cause the biggest problems in a trump administration. >> he receives massive amounts of federal contracts. >> trump's transition cochair said musk would be adjacent to the government, not in it. as for kamala harris, she said she will appoint a republican to her cabinet. >> i want different views. i enjoy and benefit from the diversity from different perspectives. >> it's been reported that harris' team is considering keeping some biden administration officials in place. people who have already been confirmed by the senate and wouldn't need to be

confirmed again by a possible republican controlled senate. but overall, kamala harris and her team have been keeping those cards close to their vests and have been resistant to having conversations about who she'll tap for her first term. one senior democrat who is familiar with those discussions tell cnn, that harris' position has been that she has to win this thing first. brian todd, cnn, washington. close to 10,000 women from across the u.s. converged on washington and marched to the white house in support of legal abortion. demonstrators held signs and chanted, we are not going back, as they made their feelings known ahead of tuesday's vote. reproductive rights have been a key issue in the campaign with the first presidential election since the supreme court overturned the nearly 50 year federal right to abortion. those we know polling is tight, including in key battleground states. but as 2016 taught us, polling isn't

perfect. cnn senior data reporter breaks down the numbers. >> the polls aren't perfect. they are a tool. they get you in the neighborhood, but when the race is this close, when all the key battleground states are within 3%age points, that's in the average error ban. the average error ban is get this, 3.4 points. 3.4 points. and then if you talk about a margin of error, like a 95%, we are talking about more like plus minus 9 points. all are within this error ban and they are within the average error ban as well. let's talk about what happens if you have an average error and apply it to the map? if we have an average error and donald trump benefits, guess what? he gets way past 270. he gets to 312. he carries all the battleground states. he carries the southeast battleground states, and carries nevada and arizona

out west. but of course, there's no guarantee that the polls being open necessarily benefit donald trump. though they both did in 2016 and 2020. the polling could benefit kamala harris, like it did in the democrats in 2022, if there was a polling that benefited kamala harris. she would get north of 300 electoral votes. she would get to 319. why? she would carry the great lake battleground states. michigan, wisconsin, the southeast battleground states, georgia and north carolina. and she would carry the southwest battleground states of nevada and arizona. so the bottom line is this, the polls at this point point to a race that is way too close to call. but an average miss in either direction could turn this into an electoral college. we just don't know at this point. >> so, pollsters and pun dents trying to predict the winner. they have been looking at something else, online searches

for campaign related merchandise. since kamala harris entered the race in july, she led trump in yard sign related searches by 76%. they also study the searches for candidate related attire and those findings are a different result. joining me now is senior researcher for the study and he is the professor . this very unusual idea. why did you decide on those specific indicators for political support? >> thank you, kim, for having me. so, i mean, if someone is searching online for their candidate's yard signs, shirt, hat, flag, or any other merchandise. there's a good chance they are supportive of that candidate and there's a strong likelihood they will vote for them. and similarly, if searching for terms that arise, it looks like someone would be interested enough to

be watching the debate. for instance, we saw that people would not be searching for springfield or haiti, if they are watching the debate. large number of citizens express support through social media posts, memes, and videos, it became an important data point for us to measure and come up with a new innovative way to measure public opinion about presidential candidates. so, we created this data driven way to look at candidates support in ways that go beyond typical measurements. >> you say it's a data driven way. how exactly did you go about it? >> so, basically, we have been tracking a lot of searches. so we have been coming up with a lot of key phrases, and keywords that people would use to basically search for merchandise around yard signs, around hats, around shirts. and we came up with tracking those

searches and trying to compare one candidate versus another. another approach we did was also to measure sentiment, using sentiment analysis algorithm, which is a branch of ai, where we can see the tone of people on how they express themselves toward one candidate or another. and we just thought this is going to be a new way of looking at things that could supplement what have been done within the traditional way of trying to get signals ahead of the elections. >> i want to get to the implications of this in a second. first, the results. in terms of the merchandise, hats and shirts, what did you find there? >> for the hats and the shirts, i mean, we found different things for both candidates. it looks like the trump hat is very popular in a lot of swing states. whereas, for the yard signs, as you mentioned at the beginning, vice president

harris has been leading. we also saw a lot of differences when it comes to the hats when we talk about the vice president and president hat. so, i think for the harris and walz hats, were basically out paced the trump, vance hats in a lot of the swing states. >> interesting. now of course if you were a political consultant and you were to rely on these findings to inform your campaign, you would probably be fired, but what can you read into these results at this point, do you think? >> yes, it is very hard to make predictions. i mean, the algorithm process we typically use for other domains to make predictions is very hard. especially when the future insists on being so unpredictable. the candidates

who win this election and become president of the united states will be the one who secures the majority of votes as has been the case throughout the history of the u.s. presidential elections. but the research work that we did, although it doesn't claim the predictive of votes in choice, it supplements polling and offering a bigger picture of political sentiment and this is something that we shouldn't be ignoring as we go into the elections on how people are expressing themselves into searches or into microblocks and others. also, we found that our method can also measure enthusiasm about a specific candidate. at some point, we saw that trump was out pacing president biden's yard searches. when vice president kamala harris joined the race, it was a seismic shift into

what we saw as how people are enthusiastic about her joining the race. >> it's such an interesting political experiment. but in the future using ai, we may be able to kind of supplement the usual types of polling, which we just listened to our report there, which has proven quite fallible in the past, supplementing with searches like this. what is the potential here in the future? >> i see a lot of potential. i think this is one of the most important data points that we could use to connect with other points, with regard to the candidates. we can measure sentiment. we can measure enthusiasm. we can also measure how people feel about specific topics that are around basically the elections, for instance, the first debate, we found that abortion and immigration were the ices that people were searching for during the debate. they were searching for abortion laws by

state. and that continues also after the debate, and we saw a shift, where before the debate, crime was the most searched and the most discussed topics, and after the first presidential debate, abortion became the second -- the most searched topic. i see a lot of potential here as a supplement to the polls. i think the big data from social media, which could be the engine to a lot of ai that we could do our own space, and hopefully, we can get some signals that could be predicted at some point. >> it is fascinating. i guess we are seeing the tip of the iceberg right now. thank you so much for being here with us. >> thank you. well, it's europe's worst flood related disaster in nearly 60 years. just ahead, we'll go to spain and get the latest on the search and rescue efforts there. stay with us.

in southeastern spain, at least 211 people are confirmed dead from the catastrophic floods that hit the region earlier in the week. rescue crews could be seen in water up to their necks searching for the hundreds still missing. the largest ever deployment during peacetime. >> the situation we are living in is tragic. it is dramatic. we are almost certainly talking about the most serious flooding our continent has seen so far this century. i'm aware that the response that is being given is not enough. i know that. i know that there are severe problems and shortages. that will are still collapsed services, municipalities buried by mud. desperate people searching for their relatives. people who cannot access their homes. homes destroyed and buried by mud. i know we have to do better. >> we go live who is in

valencia, spain, and just where you are, grim reminder of the toll that the flood has taken. explain to us exactly where you are. >> reporter: yeah, i'm actually in front of the courthouse and their basement has been turned into a makeshift morgue and autopsy center. in fact, they first opened this up on the first day of the floods, realizing they were bringing in a lot of dead. unfortunately, it wasn't enough. they have opened up another at the convention center just outside of town. so a very grim reminder. not only of the death toll so far, but still many people missing. there have been some amazing rescues in the last few days. just yesterday, a woman was rescued from her car after being in it for three days, but that is a very rare occurrence. hope is really diminishing for those still missing. and you heard from the prime minister there, you know, an acknowledgment of the anger and

frustration that help has not been coming fast enough to some of these areas. in fact, prime minister sanchez is currently visiting a suburb just outside of valencia with spain's king. they are looking at some of the most devastated areas. looking at why it's taking so long for some of the emergency services to get out there. some of it is just logistics. the flood, you know, dumped vehicles, piled them one on top of each other on roads and highways. other problems are coordination. the local government did not ask for federal help soon enough. so it wasn't until yesterday that we saw the military really mobilizing to help people. that's really frustrated a lot of people, kim. >> yeah, there's a lot of frustration certainly, but a lot of compassion as well from so many people who have been mobilizing to help and i know that is something you've been seeing yourself. take us

through that. >> reporter: yeah, thousands of people have turned out and it's what is remarkable, is that they went on foot, walking four hours to get to those affected areas. we actually joined them for a lot of those walks into some of the hardest areas to get to. roads were completely destroyed. vehicles obstructing their path. they did whatever they could to help out. so you're seeing this extraordinary sense of community. fortunately, it also did hinder some of the emergency services trying to get through. so now the government is trying to coordinate a lot of that volunteer help. however, today, that weather system that impacted the area and is still in effect here isn't going away, and actually, there is more rain set to come. there's a lot of wind. i can feel it now. this is actually the weather condition that we felt on tuesday. this is what triggered some of those floods. so some of those volunteers are being called back and saying it's not safe to be out in the floodplain area at this point. just have to see how it goes

today, kim. >> the last thing people want to hear is more rain in that area. thank you so much. we'll have more here on cnn newsroom. we'll be right back with more. stay with us.

in sports, philadelphia 76ers star, joelle embiid is being investigated after getting into a physical confrontation with a local newspaper reporter. cnn sports anchor joins me now with the latest. not a man i would want to get into a confrontation with. what more can you tell us? >> yeah, it's an unfortunate and ugly reality that many athletes and public figures face. they become part of public discourse. embiid shoved marcus hayes in the locker room about an article hayes published, which he criticized the former mvp for missing games due to injury, for his conditioning. embiid often says he wants to be great to leave a legacy, then goes on to say, well, in order to be great at your job, you have to show up for work. per the ap, embiid told the reporter the next time you bring up my dead brother and my son again, you're going

to see what i'm going to do to you and i'm going to have to live with the consequences. the league says it is aware of the reports and they are looking into them. all right, another incident yesterday involving a high profile athlete, kim, confronting someone about speaking about their family, future hall of famer in the nfl, jason kelce. after making a tv appearance at a college football game, confronted a man filming him using a slur about his brother, travis kelce. you can see kelce responding by taking the phone and spiking it to the ground. another video, then appears to pick up audio of kelce using that same slur in response while confronting the man cnn has reached out to kelce's agent. but have not heard back. let's talk about games and highlights. we'll start with an absolute shocker on the pitch. stunning manchester city, beating the reigning premier league champs

for the first time ever. antwon putting the cherries on top just ten minutes in. then just after the hour mark, watch evan neilson here, doubling the need with the slightest of touches. 2-1 is the final. the second loss in four days, ending their unbeaten streak at 32 games. meanwhile, mls cup playoffs. atlanta united has messi and entered miami against the ropes. a sensational goal, upper 90 in the final seconds. 95th minute, kim. a 2-1 win, forcing a winner take all game three next saturday in south florida. look at the team owner there. arthur blake and his son josh. the best player in the world and best team packing in the first round of the playoffs. lots of action to come today. nfl sunday, got to get that roster set, so we can keep my hopes up, trying to

finish decently. >> absolutely. and i was there for that atlanta united game. it made me feel a little bit better for the fact that my other team, arsenal, lost. i'm glad you didn't show those highlights. that would have single tear down the eye. >> good to see you. appreciate it. >> thank you so much. all right, that wraps this hour of cnn newsroom, for viewers in north america, cnn this morning is next. the rest of the world, it's connecting africa.

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so now we're his “squad”. what are kevin's plans for the fall? he's going to college. out of state, yeah. -yeah in the fall. change of plans, i've decided to stay local. oh excellent! oh that's great! why would i ever leave this? -aw! we will do anything to get him gaming again. you and kevin need to fix this internet situation. heard my name! i swear to god, kevin! -we told you to wait in the car. everyone in my old squad has xfinity. less lag, better gaming! i'm gonna need to charge you for three people. you know what th