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Let's finish this week strong.

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Let's start today by taking a look at the possible implications of the special election that took place in New York earlier this week.

Democrat, Tom Suozzi defeated Republican Mazzie pup in New York's third congressional district election.

This election took place to replace expelled former GOP representative George Santos who facing federal charges that include money laundering and lying to investigators.

Swazi's win is significant because it helps Democrats tighten the already slim majority the Republicans have in the House of Representatives.

Their control now slips down to just six votes and the repercussions may not end there.

Our Lauren Fox explains what this might mean for both parties as they try to win over voters in the upcoming presidential election season.

A democratic victory in New York shrinking an already narrow Republican majority in the House.

As the GOP grapples with what it means for their chances in November.

but the result last night is not something in my view that Democrats should celebrate too much there was a weather event that affected turnout.

There are a lot of factors there that is in no way a bellwether of what's going to happen this fall.

Many in the party arguing, former three term congressman, Tom Suozzi won in a district where he had high name ID against a relative unknown GOP opponent.

I think it was a little bit of, you know, the devil, you know, versus the devil.

You don't know.

But the special election in the New York suburbs still a key opportunity for both parties to test drive their messages.

And a sign for Democrats that they may be able to play offense on immigration.

One of the most difficult issues facing them this cycle.

If the Democrats are going to now going to try to campaign on wanting to secure the border, we should actually call their and make them do it right now.

On the trail, Republican Mazi Pilip hammered Swazi on the border in a district where a migrant shelter was built just last summer.

We are fighters but Swazi attacked his opponent for not having solutions and instead embraced a bipartisan Senate bill aimed at cracking down on asylum claims and more quickly processing and deporting migrants that come to the US illegally talk about issues fixing challenges, solving problems.

The district which Biden won by eight points in 2020 has emerged as a key battleground for Republicans in recent years with a powerful party apparatus that helped elect George Santos and a new class of GOP congressmen in 2022.

Both parties view those suburban districts as key to winning the majority in 2024.

Now this year, there are several major elections happening around the world with people in some of the world's largest democracies looking to vote on their next leaders.

One of them, Indonesia is the third largest democracy in the world with more than 270 million people.

It appears that 72 year old Prabowo Subianto won the Southeast Asian country's presidential elections with unofficial results showing him winning nearly 60% of the vote.

Subianto who's a former military general has a controversial past at one point.

He was banned from entering the United States.

Our international correspondent Anna Coren provides more insight on who this new leader is and what it may mean for Indonesia and beyond.

This is a job that Prabowo Subianto has wanted for a very long time.

He staged a takeover in 1998 after the fall of the Suharto dictatorship but failed.

He ran for president in 2014 and 2019 but lost both times to Joko Widodo and then falsely claimed the election had been stolen.

The 72 year old will be Indonesia's next president.

The quick count, a reliable pollster uh shows he won almost 60% of the vote which means there will be no runoff.

And as the votes were being counted.

He addressed the media while doing laps in his indoor swing.

Well, official results from the electoral commission won't be revealed until next month.

But when he greeted supporters last night at a Jakarta sports stadium, it may as well have been a victory celebration.

He received a rock star welcome where he said this was a victory for all Indonesians.

Take a listen.

This victory must be the victory of the people of Indonesia.

So Prabowo Gibran and all of the Indonesia forward coalition will embrace all elements and powers and become the president, vice president and government present for all the people of Indonesia.

But claims of vote rigging and massive fraud have been made from the other presidential candidates who vowed to investigate and there have been a number of small protests staged in Jakarta.

Today, Prabowo has an alarming history, a former general under the Suharto dictatorship.

He's been accused of human rights abuses, kidnapping pro democracy activists in the 19 nineties and ordering the massacre of independence fighters in East Timor in the 19 eighties accusations he denies at one point he was banned from entering the United States and Australia.

But Prabowo has had a dramatic image makeover.

Thanks in part to a slick social media campaign.

Perhaps most importantly has been the endorsement by President Jokowi.

He's still wildly popular and credited for the country's solid economic growth, but he's reached his two term limit and cannot run again.

But his eldest son, 36 year old Grum Raka, Booing Raka is Prabowo's running mate.

Now, it's important to note that half of Indonesia's voters are under the age of 40.

Many weren't born or too young to remember Prabowo's alleged human rights abuses.

And of course, the narrative has been rewritten.

Prabowo is now a statesman, a cuddly grandfather who loves to dance on stage and who's campaigned as a continuity candidate.

But critics are very concerned about what this means for the world's third largest democracy.

And if Prabowo who has previously said that Indonesia needs an authoritarian leader that under his reign, the country will slide back to its authoritarian past pop quiz hotshot.

A typical full size standard piano has how many keys on it?

108 8872 or 61.

If you said 88 great, great, great.

A standard piano has 88 keys, 36 are black representing sharps and flats.

The 52 white keys are the natural tones.

Today's story.

Getting a 10 out of 10, a pianist putting on a praiseworthy performance playing in a perpendicular position to a plethora of people below more than 30 ft above the ground.

Swiss pianist Alan Roche plays a piano hanging vertically in the air suspended from a crane.

The artist says the piece entitled Winter Solstice is for the audience in Munich Germany to listen to nature as part of his piano vertical art project.

He plans to change the musical composition every day based on natural sounds around him.

Ross says he will perform the piece for 100 and 82 days from winter solstice until summer solstice.

Very cool.

All right, we are off on Monday in observance of the Federal holiday, President's Day and then I'll be missing you the rest of the week due to winter school break here in Georgia.

But we'll have some guests filling in.

It'll be awesome and you will see me for a very cool 10 out of 10 where I asked celebrities for their tips for success for you.

Before we go, shout out time.

Let's go up to Ansonia Connecticut to give a salute to the Chargers at Ansonia Middle school.

What up Mr Lynch?

And this shout out goes to Miss Morris's class at Saint Martin High School in Ocean Springs.

Mis si ss IP P I rise up lovely people from me and my CNN team have an awesome holiday weekend.

Make someone smile.

Remember you are more powerful than you know, I'm Coy Wire.

It's been a blessing to spend this week with you.