welcome to this special 8:00 hour of the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington and we begin this hour with an emotional anniversary of a pivotal moment in american history. on a busy weekend when the race for the white house was taking shape. president joe biden was in selma, alabama, today for the anniversary of bloody sunday, and a speech before some of the country s most prominent civil rights leaders. while outside washington, a very different scene in a very different speech, as former president donald trump spoke to the conservative political action conference, vowing retribution in his words. and earlier today in california, the politician who could be trump s biggest rival for the gop nomination in 2024, florida governor ron desantis, speaking at the ronald reagan library. but we begin in selma, alabama, with arlette saenz. arlette, what can you tell us? jim, president biden used the anniversary of bloody sunday as an historic moment in civil rights history,
welcome to viewers joining us in the united states and around the world watching cnn newsroom i m rosemary church norfolk southern getting slammed again after another train derailed in ohio, what we know about the second train and what it was carrying. an active gop likely presidential candidates speaking from maryland to california nailing talking points but refusing to target trump. is that a winning strategy? the battle for bakhmut and what it could mean for the war in ukraine if the city falls to the russians. live from cnn center. this is cnn newsroom. with rosemary church. thanks for joining us. start in the u.s. midwest with where the u.s.s transportation investigation board is sending to ohio 24 hours after another norfolk southern freight train derailed, the second derailment by that company in that state in a little over a had month after the toxic crash in east palestine, cnn polo sandoval has the latest the owner and operator in saturday s derailment s
this weekend as the start of a week of protests and festivities, with the goal of being to stop the construction of this proposed $90 million, 85-acre police and fire training facility. it would be the largest of its kind in the country, if it ends up being built. and what according to police, they say happened, at least 35 people were taken into custody. they say several of those that were detained were from outside of the atlanta area. and this really has become a staging area for activists across the country to protest police and we have seen several acts of violence in recent months. listen to what police had to say at a press conference late last night. this is not appropriate. this is criminal activity. and the charges that will be brought forth will show that. when you throw commercial-grade fireworks, when you throw molotov cocktails, large rocks, a number of items at officers, your only intent is to harm. reporter: opponents of this fire and police training facil
live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington less than two days after deadly tornadoes ripped through the south and new threat of severe storms is now hanging over some of the hardest hit areas, and the threat includes possible tornadoes. some 30 million people fall under this new threat, including mississippi were 25 people are confirmed killed in friday night s tornado outbreak today, the secretary of homeland security toward the area, along with the head of fema and other top federal officials. they were joined by the state s governor, who delivered this message to his fellow citizens in mississippi. what we ve seen. over the last 36 hours in mississippi, on the one hand, has been heartbreaking to see the loss and devastation of these communities, but on the other hand has been inspiring and gives me great reason for optimism and, quite frankly, makes me proud to be a mississippi and because mississippians have done what mississippians do in times of tragedy in t
a little brat for breakfast. [laughter] rachel: nothing wrong with that. pete: barely made it to the top of this hour. germany not known for its good? really gooded food. will: it really is. we have got various sausages we brought back in. [laughter] rachel: we also had this potato salad that was amazing. so good. will: make it octoberfest wherever you are this morning. we re going to start with putin s war on ukraine. russia i blowing up several apartment buildings overnight, killing at least 17 people. pete: this happened after a ukrainian strike on the only bridge connecting crimea and russia. rachel: trey yingst joins us live from kharkiv. good morning. reporter: good morning. an explosion yesterday partially destroyed the only bridge between russia and crimea. this blast decimating the rail anded road portions of the bridge, sending pieces of concrete plunging into the water below. now, the russians say a truck bomb is responsible for the incident, saying that three pe