watching us here in the united states and around the world. ahead on cnn newsroom i turned around and i told the crowd come this way. people are dying. tragedy strikes a halloween celebration in south korea. more than 150 people have been killed. cnn is live in seoul on the search for answers into what happened. plus the u.s. is now nine days away from the midterm elections and voters have been turning out in record numbers. we ll have a report from one key state. and the white house is accusing the kremlin of weaponizing food as russia withdraws from a key grain deal with ukraine. we ll have reaction. south korea s president is offering support and condolences to families who have lost loved ones in chaotic crowd surge. images of the tragedy have been pouring in and we have to warn you, they can be very hard to watch. you will zeros of bodies see rows of bodies and now at least 153 have died including 24 nationals, some 82 have also been injured, among them at leas
quote, it s not my quote just to be very clear. elon musk sending a message moments after taking over twitter. i m brianna keilar with alex marquardt this morning. happy friday. happy friday to you as well. john berman is off this friday. and the tesla and spacex billionaire, elon musk completing his $44 billion acquisition last night, once in charge musk was quick to show the door to top twitter executives. he fired the company s ceo, the chief financial officer, the chief legal counsel. he first agreed to buy the company all the way back in april and then he spent months trying to get out of the deal. in an effort to reassure advertisers, elon musk posted an open letter explaining why he bought twitter saying, quote, there s currently great danger that social media will splinter into far right and left wing echo chambers that generate hate and divide our society. what happens when one of the world s richest men controls the most influential media platform, joining us
faithful to god and bolsonaro. this pastor says that it is his right to take the stand on politics and influenceoffs in his battle against abortion, gay rights. translator: current president has an agenda aimed at protecting all of that, the principles that are in our practice. reporter: and so lula doesn t trust him even though he wrote an open letter saying that he wouldn t touch religious freedom. translator: his public stance is that he will regulate not just the church but the media and social media. reporter: to be clear lula has never said that he will restrict the media, guns or religious freedom. which brings us to the issue of misinformation. as presidential supporters at this rally claim lula will separate brazilians from their
chancing it. he s voting for bolsonaro. many evangelicals too are faithful to god and bolsonaro. pastor santos said it is his right to take a stand on politics and influence others in his battle against abortion, gay rights, drug legalization. translator: our current president has an agenda aimed at protecting all of that. those principles which are a rule of faith in our practice. reporter: as for lula, he doesn t trust him, even though he wrote an open letter to evangelicals saying he wouldn t touch religious freedom. translator: his public stance is he will regulate not just the church but a lot of things, including the media and social media. reporter: to be clear, lula has never said he will restrict media, guns or religious freedom. which brings us to the issue of misinformation as presidential supporters at this rally claim