hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world. you are watching cnn newsroom, and i m rosemary church. just ahead, america s school shooting epidemic. vigils held for the victims of the michigan state university shooting, as the country marks five years since the massacre at a high school in parkland, florida. we will hear from survivors of both tragedies. a new report says thousands of ukrainian children have been held in russian camps to be reeducated, militarily trained, and even forcibly adopted. and as the death toll in the turkey/syria earthquake continues to rise, images of rescue teams finding survivors under the rubble offer a glimmer of hope. we ll have a live report from istanbul. live from cnn center, this cnn newsroom. with rosemary church. thanks for being with us. well, investigators say the gunman who killed three students at michigan state university was likely planning more shootings. they found a
with china and what point does the president ask for a call from president xi? i don t have a call to talk about today. let me again, level set here, and i know i m running close on time, sorry, but the president met with president xi at bali at g20, and most consequential bilateral relationship in the world, the president knows that and wanted to move that relationship forward in a better way and secretary blinken was dang near wheels up trying to head to beijing to have those kinds of conversations to get some of these communication vehicles and venues back on track, whether it s climate change or military to military. we were looking forward to doing that, and then the chinese decided to fly a surveillance balloon over the continental united states and would not be appropriate to have that meeting. when are those discussions going to get back on the calendar, i couldn t tell you. as secretary blinken has said, it will happen at the appropriate time. now is not that ti
united states and around the world. it is wednesday, october 19th. i m christine romans. we should hopefully know the winners of the mid-term election. the latest cnn polling shows the economy and inflation are the top issues for voters. later today president biden will announce the sale of 15 million barrels of oil from the strategic petroleum reserve. that will happen in december. mr. biden s aim is to ease gas prices. the move fulfills the administration s decision back in march to release a total of 180 million barrels from the reserve over a six-month period. we get more now from cnn s phil mattingly. reporter: president biden and his top economic officials have for several months made trying to do something, anything to dampen skyrocketing gas prices a central priority, if not the top priority both politically and economically for the administration. over the course of the summer they had a pretty good run, three months of consecutive drops. a run that was put into qu
and we ve just heard they re evacuating civilians from the line there. and russia continues to target critical infrastructure in ukraine, triggering power and water outages. overnight, central ukraine was hit, quote, all night long by russian attacks. also a new round of kamikaze drone strikes. ukraine claiming it shot down 13 drones in the mykolaiv region. clarissa ward is live with the latest. can you tell us what you re hearing happening near kherson? reporter: it s an interesting picture. one we didn t expect to see quite this quickly but what appears to be happening is the mass evacuation of civilians to the sort of left bank, if you will, on the dnipro river. to try to, in the words of russian authorities move these people to safety because there s a huge ukrainian attack anticipated. although ukrainian authorities are saying that s propaganda and they aren t planning any kind of attack, particularly not on civilian infrastructure or tarts. but nonetheless we do sta
is not politically motivated at all, though republicans say just the opposite, 20 days from election day. he is playing politics with the national security asset that we have that s developed for a time of war that we need the energy. let s bring in katie pavlich and mark penn, former clinton adviser. and chairman of the harris poll. both are fox news contributors. welcome to you both. katie, i m going to start with you. what struck me about the president s gas speech, not the fact that it seemed unrehearsed which was disconcerting, he said we ve been having a rough four or five years. we went back and looked. when he was inaugurated on inauguration day, gas was 2.31 a gallon. significantly higher now. not a rough four or five years, a very rough 21 months. the continued depletion of the strategic petroleum reserve by this president is outrageous and it is a scandal. it is a supply that is supposed to be reserved for the united states, not for ukraine, but for the unite