lels the spark is cooling the housing market, spooking buyers and builders. for more news, download the news app on your cell phone or connected tv. i'm dan lieberman, cbs news, new york. it's thursday, october 27th, 2022. this is the "cbs morning news." >> i'm done with this foolishness. i've told people this is a lie, and i'm not going to entertain. >> herschel walker fires back. the georgia senate candidate denies that he paid for a second woman's abortion. hear from the accuser. guilty on 76 counts. a jury convicts a man who drove through a christmas parade last year in wisconsin. how one family remains emotionally scarred from that devastating day. massive fentanyl bust. more than 300,000 pills are seized from drug cartels

operating in the u.s. we'll tell you where they were headed. good morning and good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. for the second time this month, georgia republican senate candidate herschel walker is denying he paid for a woman's abortion. another woman came forward yesterday claiming walker paid for her abortion three decades ago while he was married to his first wife. it follows similar allegations from another woman who said walker paid for her abortion in 2009. the anti-abortion rights candidate called the latest allegation a lie. naomi ruchim is here in new york with more on this. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. these new allegations come as more than a million voters in georgia have already cast their ballots. more than doubling early voting records set in 2018. walker's favorability has taken a hit since these allegations came out, but many of his supporters seem unfazed. speaking virtually in a press

conference with attorney gloria allred, a second woman known as jane doe, claimed gop senate candidate herschel walker paid for her to end her pregnancy back in 1993. >> he encouraged me to have an abortion and gave me the money to do so. >> reporter: allred shared evidence from her client including alleged cards and a recording of walker and a photo as proof of their relationship. >> i'm done with this foolishness. >> walker denied the allegations on the campaign trail wednesday and later on fox news. >> that's a lie. and i've said that's a lie. the left will do whatever they can to win this seat. >> reporter: his accuser says she did not come forward for political reasons and that she voted twice for former president trump. >> i do not believe that herschel is morally fit to be a u.s. senator. >> reporter: it's still unclear if these new claims will affect the tight senate race in georgia. a similarly close senate fight

is playing out in pennsylvania between democrat john fetterman and republican dr. mehmet oz. at a pittsburgh rally with the dave matthews bands, fetterman acknowledged having difficulty during tuesday's debate just five months after he suffered a stroke. >> to be honest, doing that debate wasn't exactly easy. >> reporter: dr. oz held a campaign event with former u.n. ambassador nikki haley. >> the debate focused on my desire to bring balance to washington. >> reporter: according to cbs' battleground tracker, five states have senate races that are statistical tossups. nationwide early voting is shattering records. the latest numbers from the united states elections project indicate more than 13 million people have already voted. anne-marie? >> wow. naomi ruchim in new york. thank you. new jersey democratic senator bob menendez is again the subject of a federal investigation.

an adviser for menendez told cbs news the senator is aware of the investigation but does not know the scope. in 2015 you may recall, menendez was indicted on bribery and corruption charges. a jury deadlocked on the charges two years later. prosecutors declined to retry menendez. he maintained his innocence and was re-elected in 2018. it is unclear if this latest investigation is related to the earlier case. and we could find out more today about russian vladimir putin's views on foreign affairs amid the war in ukraine. he's set to make his annual speech to a kremlin affiliated da -- russian claimss that ukraine is planning to use a radioactive dirty bomb on its own territory. western nations have rejected that claim warning it could be a pretext for russia to use tactical nuclear weapons. earlier this week, president biden warned putin the use of such a weapon would be a, quote, serious mistake.

a wisconsin man is pacing life in prison after a jury found him guilty of killing six people when he drove his suv into a christmas parade near milwaukee last year. 40-year-old darrell brooks displayed bizarre behavior at times during the trial, reacted as his own attorney. roxana saberi has details. we the jury find the defendant, darrell e. brooks, guilty -- >> reporter: darrell brooks sat silently with his head bowed as the judge read the jury's verdict. >> guilty -- >> reporter: guilty on all 76 criminal counts. >> guilty of first-degree intentional homicide -- >> reporter: six counts, one for each of the six men, women, and child he killed. [ screams ] after he drove his suv into a christmas parade in waukesha last november. more than 60 others were injured. >> mr. brooks, you're interrupting me. >> reporter: during the trial, brooks represented himself. >> your life is not on the line, mine is! >> reporter: at times clashing with the judge and even

stripping off his prison garb. >> we had video evidence of his behavior all up and down that crime scene. >> reporter: with victims' families by her side, the district attorney said they're satisfied the jury held brooks accountable after just three hours of deliberations. what do you think about the length of time that the jury took to deliberate? >> we think the verdict was fair. the timing was spot on. >> the medical stuff isn't over. >> reporter: ryan cokie's 12-year-old niece has undergone several surgeries since she was struck by brooks. what do you think this decision will mean for the healing of families like yours and other families? >> i think it's a huge step forward. you know, i think this gives everybody an opportunity to have some sort of closure. >> reporter: he said he and his family had trouble sleeping. the kids were afraid of fast moving cars, and they just started venturing back into crowds. a hearing for the sentencing debate is scheduled for monday.

three members of a ramilitarore in pson after being convicted of supporting a plot to kidnap michigan governor gretchen whitmer. paul bellar, pete musico, and his son-in-law joseph morrison were found guilty of providing support for a group called the wolverine watchmen. undercover agents foiled the plot in 2020. whitmer called the verdicts further proof that violence and threats have no place in politics. more than a dozen people are under arrest in california and washington state in connection with a huge drug bust. federal and local law enforcement released photos of the drugs and weapons seized this week. prosecutors say three drug cartels operating in the u.s. smuggled large amounts of drugs from mexico into the pacific northwest. the drugs include 330,000 fentanyl pills and more than

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