my colleague, victor blackwell is in st. missouri, where of course we will be watching very closely what happens tonight. good morning, victor. >> reporter: yeah, more than 80 million people expected to watch the big debate tonight at washington university. the second presidential debate, of course, between donald trump and hillary clinton. final preparations being made right now. the republican party though finds itself in a state of chaos facing maybe political catastrophe unlike anything we've seen in modern times. in just a few hours, 15 to be exact, here at washington university trump will take the stage in a battle for his political life. we are less than a month before election day and top leaders of trump's own party are banning together in an exodus here. a mass exodus. look at the gallery on your screen. this comes after the stunning video revealed trump in 2005 casually talking about sexual assault. now he has apologized, but trump's own running mate refuses to defend him. senator john mccain says that he'll write

victor blackwell in the place where it's going to happen tonight. ctor. >> christi good morning to you. we're live in st. louis at washington university, the site of the next big showdown, the second presidential debate. we're beginning, of course, with the republican party in meltdown. facing a political disaster really unlike anything we've seen in modern times. a few hours from now here at washington university, donald trump will take the stage to battle with his own political survival. we're now less than a month before election day. top leaders of trump's own party are banning together. there is this growing drumbeat of an exodus here. it comes after a stunning video revealed trump in 2005 casually talking about what many people say is sexual assault. he has apologized. but trump's own running mate is refusing to defend him. senator john mccain saying he will write in a candidate for president. former republican secretary of state condoleeza rice righting, enough, he should withdraw. that's easier said than done. meantime, hillary clinton is pla

. >> and i'm victor blackwell.ew this morning, donald trump lashing out to his accusers after two more women came forward to now say he sexually assaulted them. >> i am a victim of the one of the great political smear campaigns in the history of our country. they are coming after me to try and destroy what is considered by even them the greatest movement in the history of our country. >> stunning new allegations come from these two women you see here. there on the left and christian anderson a photographer on the right. trump called the accusation nonsense the false and released this statement on zer are vos. i vaguely member as a contestant on "the apprentice" to be clear, i never met her at a hotel or greeted her inappropriately. and in fact, ms. zervos continued to contact me for help, e-mailing my office on april 14th of this year asking that visit her restaurant in california. beyond that, the media is now creating a theater of absurdity that threatens to tear our democratic process apart. >> reporter: all of

. >> i'm victor blackwell. good to be with you this morning. >>> overnight an early october surprise. trump's taxes revealed. the new york timings saying they got their hands on some of donald trump's decades old tax reports. >> donald trump declared a nearly $1 billion loss back in 1995. this suggests he may have legally avoided paying federal income taxes for up to 18 years. >> so clearly plenty of questions this morning, but with fewer than 40 days until the election, does this really change the race? we're digging into all of it. first, here's what's inside that "new york times" report. >> reporter: "the new york times" report indicates donald trump in 1995 reported a $916 million loss and lists tax benefits he used after a turbulent financial period for his businesses in the early 1990s. the paper signing tax experts said trump could have used his report to cancel out taxes for two decades. they obtained the documents when they were mailed to a reporter. the documents were mailed from new york city and the

find a doctor at mykybella.com >>> i'm victor blackwell live in jacksonville.to four hours here from seeing the worst of hurricane matthew. what it has for the coast of florida but we can look at its wake and see this is a deadly storm. one report from officials in st. lucie county of one storm-related death. but if we go to the island nation of haiti, there are more than 200, nearly 300 deaths being blamed on this storm. let's find out what the situation is there now. we have with us on the phone from port-au-prince, rather skype by port-au-prince, a freelance journalist yvesto gowan. give us an idea of the situation there as first responders get to the people who try to get help. >> victor, it's an ongoing process. the storm ended two days ago but everyday there are new things being discovered, new information coming out. they're able to access the more remote areas to identify when help is needed, how many people have perish sod it's a day-by-day, hour-by-hour situation. >> ivesto, i was in port-au-price last year and there were so many effects from the eart

. >> i'm victor blackwell.and today candidates are zeroing in on the battleground states, making a last-minute appeal to undecided voters. hillary clinton and running mate, tim kaine, they'll be in pennsylvania. donald trump will be there as well, in gettysburg, where he'll make what he's calling his closing arguments, outlining a ten-point plan for his first 100 days in office. his choice of venue, the same city where abraham lincoln made his famous speech, uniting the country in a time of war. meanwhile, clinton campaign staff received an envelope with a white powdery stuff. initial tests came back negative for any harmful substances. >> cnn's brynn gingras is following that story for us. tell us what happened. >> reporter: according to the nypd, that letter was sent to clinton headquarters in midtown manhattan and was transferred here to downtown brooklyn where it was opened by some staff members hear in the headquarters. and that's when they found that white powdery substance. authorities were called in, in

i'm christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell. good to be with you.h the sexual assault accusations against donald trump. they're now piling up. another woman has come forward accusing the republican nominee of reaching up her skirt. >> kristin anderson, a photographer and former model say this happened at a crowded new york city nightclub in the early '90s. and she tells our anderson cooper why she doesn't report the incident at that time. >> it was one of those things that happened really quickly. i pushed him off and moved away. and i sort of didn't really ponder on it that long. and i didn't tell anybody. other than a few people, oh, you should have said something. oh, yeah. say what to who? could i have said something? maybe, you know, who am i going to tell. go to the club manager, donald trump just put his hand up my skirt. they'll be like? yeah. they'll go to him and say did you do this? he'll say no. kind of where we are now. you know, he's saying no and there are a ton of women saying yes. and more will come out if it was that nonchalant, th

i'm christi paul and my colleague, victor blackwell, is in st. s, missouri, where about 80 million eyes -- pair of eyes will be tonight. victor? >> yes. good morning to you. i'm live at washington universi university, the site of tonight's second presidential debate. the question this morning, can donald trump right the ship after this weekend of chaos in his campaign. amid the revolt within the republican party. and how will hillary clinton respond to trump's 2005 audio bombshell? one thing that's clear despite the flurry of calls to drop out, donald trump says he's not going anywhere. >> are you staying in the race? >> 100%. >> saturday trump emerged from trump towers to fist pumps. he has apologized and still a tidal wave of lawmakers rescinding their endorsements of donald trump. that started on saturday and sources tell cnn those at the top of the gop, including house speaker paul ryan and senate majority leader mitch mcconnell, would prefer donald trump to step aside. all of this is racheting up. the clinton camp has been relatively quiet in

i'm christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell. >> your "new day" start the rye now. >> i do cherish -- i love women. >> who gets up at 5:3:00 a.m. i the morning to answer a twitter. >> a man who is near ta tweet should be nowhere near nuclear codes. >> new this morning. trump ramping up the attacking aens hillary clinton telling "the new york times," quote, she's nasty, but i can be nastier. >> bringing up questions about her husband's infidelities while sidestepping his own infideli infidelities. >> bad news as the poll numbers dip after the first presidential debate. take a look at the latest debate. fox news poll, trailing by three points, you see johnson, 8%, stein at 4%. just yesterday, trump went on a rampage attacking alicia machado. and trump supporter newt gingrich had this advice for the republican. >> i think what trump has got to understand, he's got to say i've got to be me or a new song, i've got to be president. they're not the same song. he's got to become much more disciplined pop for a while there i thought he tu

i'm christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell. you are in the cnn newsroom. donald trump is in the battle ground state of pennsylvania. he is tied with clinton according to the most recent cnn poll. hoping to sway voters his way. hillary clinton, you see the map here. she is going to charlotte, north carolina to meet with community leaders. meanwhile, donald trump is telling "the new york times" this. she's nasty, but i can be nastier. threatening to bring up the husband's sex scandals and ducking questions about his infidelities. >> and an adult "playboy" video from 2000 which includes an appearance from donald trump. all he is doing is pouring champagne on a car here. no nudity involving trump in the clip. as he ramps up attacks on former miss universe alicia machado, he is firing back. we have brianna keilar with more on what the clinton campaign is saying. >> reporter: maybe not her, but her team tweeting at 3:00 in the night. a retort to donald trump tweeting at 3:00 a.m. and where he was insulting alicia machado, the first m

i'm christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell.d to be with you. >> the cubs are going to the world series! >> it's overwhelming and it's awesome. >> they've been waiting a long time for it. best fans in baseball. >> slow the moment down and really enjoy it because it is that special. >>> so this is a big day, especially for chicagoans as the chicago cubs advance to the world series for the first time since 1945. this comes after decades of waiting and waiting. the team finally breaking the curse potentially. maybe that has the chance to break the curse of the billy goat. >> the team is just four wins from their first world series title in 108 years and look at them go. >> yeah! >> yeah, they're holding up their phones. thousands of fans there celebrating into the streets early this morning. no doubt some probably still celebrating at this hour. congratulations, guys. >>> all right. to politics we go with victory nearly, some say, within reach according to polls or some polls. hillary clinton apparently has a new target, down ballo

christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell. >> always grateful to have you with us. 16 days before election day, everyone. hillary clinton and donald trump pulling out all the stops to pick up the undecided voters in key battleground states that could make or break this election. take a look at the map that we've got for you here today. hillary clinton in raleigh, north carolina, donald trump in florida. that's a state most analysts say he needs to win. >> both candidates also picking up new endorsements. hillary clinton from ""the new yorker,"" donald trump from "the las vegas review." his first daze 100 days -- 100 days in office, he has a plan. he took a step back after vowing to sue the women who accused him of sexual impropriety. this comes as an 11th woman accuses him of sexual misconduct. cnn is covering this from all angles. we have jeremy diamond and m.j. lee in philadelphia. let's start with jeremy. >> reporter: good morning, victor and christi. donald trump on saturday stumping here in cleveland, ohio, taking the sta

hi, i'm christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell.et straight to the breaking news about donald trump's taxes. overnight "the new york times" says they've obtained some of donald trump's 1995 state tax documents. "the times" says when they were anonymously mailed to the reporter the return address claims they were sent from trump tower. >> the documents show donald trump declared a loss of $916 million. if that's true, that kind of loss could have legally, we want to point out, legally exempted him from paying federal income taxes for up to 18 years. cnn, we want to point out, cannot independently confirm the authenticity of the documents. hillary clinton's campaign is seizing on "the new york times" report. they call it a bombshell. her statement is the campaign says, quote, there it is. the bombshell report reveals the colossal nature of donald trump's past business failures and just how long he may have avoided paying any federal income taxes whatsoever. now that the gig is up why doesn't he go ahead and release his returns to show

i'm christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell. good to be with you. >> yeah. it is, could be, we should say, a blow to the clinton campaign, just ten days to the election. fbi director james comey announcing a stunning revelation that the bureau is revealing a new batch of e-mails related to clinton's personal server. now, director comey isn't explaining much about the discovery itself, only saying that the e-mails could be pertinent to the investigation. >> clinton responding to the announcement, saying it is imperative that the bureau explain this issue in question, whatever it is, without any delay. and donald trump seizing on the issue, as well, saying this. >> hillary clinton's corruption is on a scale we have never seen before. we must not let her take her criminal scheme into the oval office. i have great respect for the fact that the fbi and the department of justice are now willing to have the courage to right the horrible mistake that they made. >> sources say the newly discovered e-mails only surfaced during an investigation into anthony weiner, the

. >> i'm victor blackwell. good to be with you.n just a few hours donald trump will speak in gettysburg, virginia. >> the significance of this venue not lost, of course. this is the same of course same city where abraham lincoln made his huge speech. both candidates are in a campaign frenzy, so to speak, this weekend. making their pitch to undecided voters all over the map as they eye that finish line now. >> here is what mr. trump's advisers tell us to expect from his gettysburg speech, quote, a lot more details on policy and an outline of the ten principles he wants to do in the first 100 days. that's a quote. now, he doesn't plan to name any potential cabinet positions. we shouldn't look for that. but voters can expect to see another, quote, real emotion connection, emotional connection with some policies that are near and dear to his heart like trade and supporting police. let's bring in cnn political commentator and host of cnn's smerconish. michael smerconish, good morning to you. let me come to you first the setting, the sit

deliciously heart healthy. >>> i'm victor blackwell live in jacksonville, florida.s out, maybe three hours away from feeling the worst of hurricane matthew. still a solid category 3 storm with sustained winds of 120 miles per hour. but we just felt a very strong gust, you can see the palm trees here are submitting to the strong wind, the rain continuing as it has for more than a day now causing localized flooding, downed trees, more than 100,000 customers according to jea, the power company here, without power and still two hours out from feeling the worst of this storm. now, this is an emergency for states up and down the southeast coast -- florida, georgia, south carolina, north carolina. let's go up to georgia and the city of savannah. we spoke with chatham county officials earlier today about the mandatory evacuation, so many people heeding that warning and getting out of the county. we're told 75% of the people got out of the way. sara ganim is there in savannah near the water now and, again, storm surge a concern up and down the coast. what are you seeing, sar

i'm krischristi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell.tor james comey announced the bureau is reviewing a new batch of e-mails related to clinton's personal server, but comey is not explaining much about the discovery, only saying these e-mails could be pertinent to the information. >> the sources say the newly discovered e-mails only surfaced during an investigation into anthony wiener, the estranged husband of top clinton aide, huma abedin. wiener is accused of exchanging sexually explicit text messages with a teenager. chris is here with more on these new revelations by the fbi and how each of the campaigns is handling -- are handling the information here. all right. so what have you discovered this morning, chris? >> yeah, look, both campaigns want to see more information released, but fbi director james comey says the fbi can't yet assess whether the new e-mails may be significant and he didn't know how long it would take to find out. in a letter to fbi employees, comey said the fbi usually doesn't discuss on going investigations, bu

. >> i'm victor blackwell. donald trump slamming the media. he just tweeted again the election is rigged by the media pushing false and unstate of the union -- unsubstantiated lies. he tweeted 100% fabricated and made up charges put strongly by the media and clinton campaign may spine the minds of the american voter. fix. here's what he said yesterday. >> i am a victim of one of the great political smear campaigns in the history of our country. >> latest allegations come from a information apprentice contestant and kristen anderson, a photographer and former model. trump calls anderson's accusations nonsense and false and released this statement about zervos. quote, i vaguely remember miss zervos as one of the many contestants. in fact miszervos continued to contact me for help, emailing my office on april 14th of this year asking that i visit her restaurant in california. beyond that the media is now creating a theater of absurdity that threatens to tear our democratic process apart and poison the mine of the american people. >> reporter: all

. >> i'm victor blackwell. your new day starts right now. >> i do cherish women. i love women. >> who gets up at 3:00 a.m. in the morning to engage in a twitter attack against a former miss universe? >> working that microphone was a hell of a lot more difficult than working crooked hillary clinton. >> and i'll say it again, a man who can be provoked by a tweet should not be anywhere near the nuclear codes. ♪ >>> all right, donald trump in the battleground state of pennsylvania today. and according to the latest cnn poll, he is statistically tied there with clinton. now, of course, this comes as he is ramping up attacks on clinton, telling the new york times and this is a quote -- she's nasty, but i can be nastier. threaten to bring up her husband's sex scandals while not answering questions about his own infidelities. adult video from playboy from tuesday here includes an appearance by donald trump but that's the appearance right there, pouring champagne on a playboy limo. there was no sexual activity or nudity in the clip that he was involved in. in the meantime,

. >> i'm victor blackwell. good morning. a new "washington post"/abc news poll has hillary clinton just four points ahead of donald trump. this is coming as another woman now says that donald trump kissed her without consent nearly 20 years ago. her name is cathy heller. she is the ninth trump accuser. but the trump campaign says there is no way, that's a quote, no way her account is true. >> in the meantime donald trump not backing down from his claims this election is being rigged. despite paul ryan expressing confidence in the system, trump says clinton was "getting pumped up" before the last debate, and he had this suggestion. >> we should take a drug test prior -- because i don't know what's going on with her. >> hillary clinton, meanwhile, seems to be haunted still by wikileaks. after more hacked e-mails have been released, including what appears to be transcripts of three paid speeches to goldman sachs. cnn has not independently verified the authenticity of the e-mails. cnn's phil mattingly, though, is following this

i'm christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell. good to be with you.sidential debate now in the rearview mirror, and today both candidates are out, talking to voters. hillary clinton and tim kaine campaigning together in pittsburgh and philadelphia today. >> donald trump, in fact, also swinging through that state this morning. his campaign says he's going to outline his first 100 days in office. he'll do so in a speech in gettysburg a few hours from now. >>> of course, election day is almost so close, you can almost see it, at least on the calendar. donald trump in his weakest political position of his entire presidential campaign, some say. new national polls show hillary clinton's gained a sizable lead since that first debate and it's not looking much better for trump in some of these key battleground states we're looking at. cnn's john king clues us into the state of the race. >> it is an understatement and dramatically so to say the debate season has not been kind to donald trump. let's go back in play. this was the state of play september 26th, th

begin with victor blackwell in vakzville. that city expected to get the brunt of the storm in a few hours. victor, bring us up to speed on the very latest in jacksonville. >> reporter: the storm surge, john is the major concern here. we just spoke with the mayor's office. their concern between 1:00 and 2:00 p.m. and 1:00 and 2:00 a.m. those will be the really crucial hours over the next 24 hours, and coincidentally, high tide here comes at 2:30. you'll have those two elements clashing together here. high tide and the storm surge as we continue to see the rain and wind here. now, speaking of the wind, there have now been bridge closures. over my shoulders, the main street bridge is still open. this will shut down when winds hit about 50 miles per hour. not seeing, the national weather service gusts reaching 37 to 40 miles an hour, but several bridges across jacksonville have been shut down. intercoastal bridge, a bridge from atlantic bfroulevard. those shut down and evacuation from a hospital, one county north in nassau county,

cnn's victor blackwell went to florida and talked to asian americans in that key state. >> reporter:e campus of the university of north florida, politics is the topic of the day. most of these students will be voting for hillary clinton. >> i think ultimately, like her vision for the united states, it kind of aligns with my vision of like open-mindedness, kind of accepting everyone. >> reporter: justin and his friends are at the leading edge of a seismic political shift among asian american voters. from once reliable republican votes to a democratic stronghold. in the 1992 three-way race, republican president george h.w. bush earned 55% of the asian american vote. 20 years later, democratic president barack obama got 73% over mitt romney. >> we have never seen a swing like that for any group. >> reporter: this is the director of the national asian american survey. >> democrats are far more likely to be reaching out to these voters than republicans. we also saw bill clinton do a lot in terms of outreach activity and also nominating asian americans. >> reporter: democrats hope that out

. >> i'm victor blackwell. good to be with you. and this morning a new "washington post"/nbc news poll has hillary clinton up four points over donald trump. but let me say here that the margin of error is four points. so essentially tied. now, this is coming as another woman says donald trump kissed her without consent nearly 20 years ago. her name is kathy heller. she's the ninth trump accuser. but the trump campaign says there is no way her account is true. >> in the meantime donald trump is not backing down from his claims the election is being rigged, as you heard there. he's also now suggesting hillary clinton's using some sort of drugs. take a listen. >> we should take a drug test prior -- because i don't know what's going on with her. but at the beginning of her last debate she was all pumped up at the beginning and at the end it was like, oh, take me down. she could barely reach her car. anyway, i'm willing to do it. >> in the meantime, hillary clinton still haunted this morning by wikileaks after more hacked e-mails are re

. >> and i'm victor blackwell. good to be with you.sh e-mail controversy bringing turmoil, potentially, to the clinton campaign with just ten days to the election. the fbi says it's reviewing new e-mails related, potentially, to hillary clinton's private e-mail server investigation. and now hillary clinton is going on the offense, calling on the fbi to release the full and complete facts of what they're looking into. >> this is a stunning development. and it's breathing new life, it seems, into donald trump's campaign. he's seizing on the news, calling it bigger than watergate and adding, quote, maybe the system will become less rigged after all. i want to get straight to cnn's chris frates, who's been following this for us this morning. chris, good morning to you. what are you learning? >> good morning, christi. we know that fbi director james comey says the fbi can't yet assess whether the new e-mails may be significant. he didn't know how long it would take to figure that out. and in a letter to fbi employees, comey said while the b

victor blackwell has the story. >> reporter:the times' report indicates donald trump in 1995 reported a 916-million-dollar loss and lists tax benefits he used after a turbulent financial period for his businesses in the early 1990s. the paper, citing tax experts, said trump could have used his loss to cancel out an equivalent amount of taxable income for nearly two decades. the paper says it obtained the three pages of documents when they were mailed to a reporter last month. a postmark indicated the documents were mailed from new york city, and the return address claimed the envelope had been sent from trump tower. the paper did not examine trump's federal return. the times said it obtained one page of his new york state resident income tax return, as well as the first page of new jersey and connecticut nonresident returns. cnn has not independently verified the documents' authenticity. in response to the new york times report -- the trump campaign said the g-o-p nominee has paid hundreds of millions of dollars in

i'm christi paul. >> i'm victor bach blackwell.s the final day in the finish line to the presidential race and all the candidates have packed schedules this weekend. mike pence is expected to speak soon at a faith and freedom event in circleville, ohio. >> hillary clinton and tim kaine have to nerchts pennsylvania today and next hour donald trump is speaking in gettysburg where he will make what he's calling, quote, his closing arguments, outlining a ten-point plan for his first 100 days in office in he wins. >> all right. asian-americans are the fastest growing racial group in america. and there is an historic shift happening now in that vote that could impact the election. i traveled to florida this week to talk to some of the voters about their feelings on the candidates, voter outreach, and the issues that are driving their decisions at the polls. on the campus of the university of north florida politics is the topic of the day. and most of these students will be voting for hillary clinton. >> i think ultimately, like her visio

victor blackwell has the story. the times' report indicates donald trump in 1995 reported a 916- million-dollar loss and lists tax benefits he used after a turbulent financial period for his businesses in the early 1990s. the paper, citing tax experts, said trump co an equivalent amount of taxable income for nearly two decades. the paper says it obtained the three pages of documents when they were mailed to a reporter last month. a postmark indicated the documents were mailed from new york city, and the return address claimed the envelope had been sent from trump tower. the paper did not examine trump's federal return. the times said it obtained one page of his new york state resident income tax return, as well as the first page of new jersey and connecticut cnn has not independently verified the documents' authenticity. in response to the new york times report -- the trump campaign said the g-o-p nominee has paid hundreds of millions of dollars in other taxes, including property and real estate taxes. quote: "the o

. >> i'm victor blackwell. >> your "new day" start the rye now. >> i do cherish -- i love women. >> whot 5:3:00 a.m. i the morning to answer a twitter. >> a man who is near ta tweet should be nowhere near nuclear codes. >> new this morning. trump ramping up the attacking aens hillary clinton telling n

victor blackwell -- has the story. the times' report indicates donald trump in 1995 reported a 916- million-dollar loss and lists tax benefits he used after a turbulent financial period for his businesses in the early 1990s. the paper, citing tax experts, said trump could have used his loss to cancel out an equivalent amount of taxable income for nearly two decades. the paper says it obtained the three pages of documents when they were mailed to a reporter documents were mailed from new york city, and the return address claimed the envelope had been sent from trump tower. the paper did not examine trump's federal return. the times said it obtained one page of his new york state resident income tax return, as well as the first page of new jersey and connecticut nonresident returns. cnn has not independently verified the documents' authenticity. in response to the new york times report -- the trump campaign said the g- o-p nominee has paid hundreds of taxes, including property and real estate taxes. quote: "the only news

. >> i'm victor blackwell.morning. >>> overnight an early october surprise. trump's taxes revealed. the new york timings saying they got their hands on some of donald trump's decades old tax reports. >> donald trump declared a nearly $1 billion loss back in 1995. this suggests he may have legally avoided paying federal income taxes for up to 18 years. >> so clearly plenty of questions thi

our coverage of hurricane matthew continues with victor blackwell on the ground. right after a quick break. i absolutely love my new but the rent is outrageous. good thing geico offers affordable renters insurance. with great coverage it protects my personal belongings should they get damaged, stolen or destroyed. [doorbell] uh, excuse me. delivery. hey. lo mein, szechwan chicken, chopsticks, soy sauce and you got some fortune cookies. have a good one. ah, these small new york apartments... protect your belongings. let geico help you with renters insurance. >>> i'm victor black well in jacksonville the governor that rick scott says he is most concerned about getting the worst of hurricane matthew. still a solid category 3 storm with sustained winds of 120 miles per hour. in just the last few minutes, we've seen an uptick in the winds. we have seen an increase in the rain here with those outer bands

. >> i'm victor blackwell. 6.6 magnitude earthquake rattled central italy this morning. >> take a lookctures, the latest pictures we're getting in here. reports of several injuries now. no reports at this point of fatalities, but this is a place that struck the city of garcia. three miles from where two powerful earthquakes took place on thursday. aging buildings weakened by the previous quakes, think about it, the fifth quake this year, crumbled upon impact. you can see the pictures here, reports of aftershocks as well. aftershocks coming every 20 minutes. >> first responders helped nuns you see here running out of a heavily damaged church. a lot of people who live there were already stationed in emergency shelters after thursday's tremors. >>> well, the deadline has been set and it is tomorrow, monday. top senate democrats now joining the clinton campaign in demanding answers saying they want more information on the clinton private e-mail server investigation, specifically these e-mails that could be pertinent to that investigation and they want it within the next 24 hours or so. >>

. >> all right victor blackwell stay safe. thank you very much. let's bring in sarah. emergency services have now been suspended in many parts of florida because of the potentially deadly situation that's emergency crews might face. just how dangerous is it out there? >> daytona beach is doing okay, the storm has moved on but i wanted to show you some damage we're seeing. police going up and down the streets, people aren't supposed to be out here, we have traffic coming through but they will stop you if you're not heading to your house or coming back from a job, if there's no media for you to be out here, if you're not the media they don't want you out here. this is some of the damage. you are seeing stuff coming off roofs. if you do a turn around here my photographer, jeff, you will see we're on a 1 a the main drag here and you see the hilton sign, the hilton has sustained damage. we've noticed things flying off, you see it open at the very top. so there is damage here at daytona beach. there's some trees down. we're going to go to the left here the convention center

. >> i'm victor blackwell. >> this is cnn breaking news. >> we are following two major stories this morningfirst, hurricane matthew continues to rake the southeast coast with 100-mile-per-hour winds. >> four people have been killed in florida now. and with more than a million others losing power, city streets are flooded with several feet of water. now, matthew has been passing over georgia for the last few hours. now, the eye wall, the strongest part of this storm moving ashore in south carolina. we've got

. >> i'm victor blackwell. so good to be with you.wo of the presidential debates, the trump campaign is hinting it might invoke bill clinton's sex scandals to turn people against hillary clinton. >> it's a questionable thing with bill clinton as well as with men surrounding himself in the campaign. here's cnn's kyung lah. >> i do cherish women. i love women. >> reporter: trump's critics question if that is really true. it's not only trump facing scrutiny. some of his closest advisers are as well. >> we need to have a fight within the republican party -- >> i agree with. you. >> reporter: steve bannon based misdemeanor domestic charges his ex-wife reporting he grabbed her that investigators say left marks on the left wrist and left side. those charges are dropped. the man behind fox news roger ailes is now an unofficial trump campaign whisperer, although trump won't officially acknowledge his role. fox news ousted ailes after multiple women accused him of sexual harassment most prominently anchor gretchen carlson. >> you're not suppose

. >> i'm victor blackwell. >>> donald trump will be at a rally in new hampshire today and then head toy. he is slamming the women who have accused him of sexual assault and denying all of the allegations. this morning he tweeted 100% fabricated and made up charges may poison the minds of the american voter. fix. he's saying the election result will be rigged. hillary clinton should have been prosecuted and should be in jail he writes. instead, she's running for president in what looks like a rigged election. so how will these latest accusations affect his campaign? in the final weeks here before next month's election. let's bring in our cnn political commentator, former director of the black caucus. and a senior campaimember of do trump's campaign. get back to that tweet that donald trump sent out this morning. talking about a rigged election. the polls are not necessarily in his favor right now. is this a prelude to if things do not go his way, claiming that this whole thing was not on the up and up. >> you know, i think it's more a thematic message that the system doesn't work for th

i'm victor blackwell. >> and i'm christi paul. always thankful to have your company.re tracking hurricane matthew now hitting south carolina as we speak here. the eye of it. take a look at some of these pictures we're getting in. reporters along the eastern seaboard. we're going to have live reports for you throughout the morning. but first, we have to get to this bombshell in donald trump's campaign this morning. >> republican nominee making an unprecedented apology in this video. after using vulgar language describing acts that some say amount to sexual assault. >> we're going to play trump's comments right now. i would not be a good person if i did not forewarn you that this is very graphic and there are some things that are quite uncomfortable about it. i just wanted to give you a heads-up. >>> you know and i moved on her actually. you know, she was down on palm beach. is >> she used to be great. she's still very beautiful. >> i move on her and i failed. i'll admit it. i did try and -- her. she was married. >> that's huge news. >> no, no. nancy. no, this was -- >>

. >> i'm victor blackwell. >> this is cnn breaking news. >> we are following two major stories this morning. first, hurricane matthew continues to rake the southeast coast with 100-mile-per-hour winds. >> four people have been killed in florida now. and with more than a million others losing power, city streets are flooded with several feet of water. now, matthew has been passing over georgia for the last few hours. now, the eye wall, the strongest part of this storm moving ashore in south carolina. we've got powerful waves coming over the battery in charleston harbor right now. we're going to continue watching this all morning. >> meantime, breaking news in the race for the white house. >> i said it. i was wrong, and i apologize. >> an unprecedented moment for donald trump after that bombshell video exposes what he said on a hot mike. >> that hot mike moment was back in 2005. the man now seeking to be the next republican president using stunningly vulgar language regarding a sexual assault. you'll hear trump's exact words in just a moment and that full apology that he gave overnight. and i

many asian americans have been victor blackwell says that's no longer the case. >> yeah, fred, the numbersusands of them are joining the roles every cycle. so many are moving from the republican party to the democratic party. the question is, are the democrats welcoming asian american voters or are the republicans just pushing them away? on the campus of the university of north florida, politics is the topic of the day. most of these students will be voting for hillary clinton. >> i think, ultimately, her vision for the united states kind of winds with my vision of open mindedness, accepting everyone. >> reporter: justin and his friends are at the leading edge of a political shift of asian american voters. a democratic stronghold. in 1992 three-way race, republican president, george w. bush earned 55% of the asian american vote. 20 year later, barack obama got 73% over mitt romney. >> we have never seen a swing like that for any group. >> reporter: this is the director of the national asian american survey. >> democrats are reaching out to the voters more than republicans. we also saw bill

. >> i'm victor blackwell. less than two weeks left until election day.president facing what could be, could be here a setback. it's thanks to an investigation into anthony weiner and his alleged sexually explicit text messages. >> fbi director james comey announced the bureau is reviewing a new batch of e-mails related to clinton's server. they only surfaced as authorities looked into weiner's sexts with a teenager. the fbi says says a considerable number of e-mails were sent or received by abedin on a device shared by her and her husband, anthony weiner. comey is not explaining much else, only saying the e-mails could be pertinent into the investigation of clinton. clinton criticized director comey for announcing this decision just days before the election. >> i have now seen director comey's letter to congress. we are 11 days out from perhaps the most important national election of our lifetimes. voting is already under way in our country. so the american people deserve to get the full and complete facts immediately. >> and donald trump seized on the i

thanks for being with us this morning, i'm victor blackwell. >> i'm kristie paul, we always appreciater company. we are tracking hurricane matthew which is now hitting south carolina. take a look at some of the pictures we're getting in here. reporters along the eastern sea board are prevalent for us. we'll have live reports throughout the morning. but first the bomb shell in donald trump's presidential campaign -- >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >> donald trump facing the defection of couple big name republicans after a newly released tape captured him making lewd and sexually aggressive comments. >> donald trump was forced to issue an apology. he did so this morning around midnight and all of this the day before his town hall debate, of course, with hillary clinton. senior political reporter manu raju is in st. louis, that is the site, of course, of tomorrow's showdown. what are you hearing there, mayu? >> reporter: donald trump is waking up this morning confronting this reality. his party is running away from him. a number of republicans are abandoning him. some are saying

. >> i'm victor blackwell. "cnn newsroom" begins right now. battleground blitz.rning. hillary clinton and donald trump zeroing in on pennsylvania, ohio, virginia today as we enter the final stretch to election day. >> here's the game plan as we know it for both candidates and the surrogates. in just a short time donald trump is going to kick off the

want to get to cnn's victor blackwell there. storm surge in jacksonville also a major concern. >> reporter: yeah, that is the major concern here, especially where we are right at the st. john's river. you see it over my shoulder here. i got to tell you, just a few moments ago we felt the first taste of what the people here are going to see over the next several hours, that first back slap from a stronger band bringing more intense wind, stronger rain. of course, we know that's coming. we saw an uptick in the number of power outages across jacksonville according to j.e.a., the power company. just a small percentage of what we are seeing across the state. the storm surge here, a bigger concern than the wind. even on an average afternoon when those thunderstorms come through florida as they do in the summer, the communities here near the river downtown flood on those days. san marco where we are right across the river in the community of riverside, that floods on an average day. a nor'easter, tropical storm, with this much water, o

victor blackwell has more on the claims the trump campaign says were obtained illegally. cc will resume shortly. protesting the n- r-a firearm symposium. what do we want? safer communities? when do we want it? now! the activists gathered outside red rock casino yesterday to bring to light-- what they call--- the n-r-a's dangerous agenda. the group battle born progress says 78 percent of nevadans support background checks for gun sales. they say the n-r-a is one of the only organizations that opposes closing dangerous loopholes in nevada's gun laws. nevada voters will decide on question one... the nevada background checks for gun purchases initiative... in next month's election. multiple states are suspending their business relationships with wells fargo. but nevada is taking a different approach.... giving the right its wrongs-- amid the fake accounts scandal. state treasurer dan schwartz.... in a statement.. cited wells fargo's century- plus-long presence in the silver state... and said quote-- "punishing thousands of hard-working nevadans who work at wells fargo for the