state s motion to detain him. cnn has obtained a copy and that s not all, he reportedly said. we will have more of the details on that in a moment. just in tonight, hillary clinton speaking out for the first time about the attack. here is what she just said on msnbc. i think what we re seeing today and it has certainly been thrown into very high relief by the horrific attack on paul pelosi is not just an aberration where one or two people, or a small group engage in that kind of violent rhetoric and urge people to take action against political figures like her, like me, like others. we are seeing a whole political party and those who support it, those who enable it, those who run under its banner, engaging in behavior that is so dangerous and i find, frankly, disqualifying for people who are running for office. i think, like, every american justice stop and think about that. this is the kind of violent rhetoric that leads to violent action, that props up authoritarians, and
united states and all around the world, i m max foster in london. just ahead they like to use that power to strip us of our freedoms, our freedom to vote to be safe from gun violence, our freedom to control our own bodies in the state of georgia. government can build an economy is just complete fallacy. it never worked anywhere. voter suppression is just as much a lie as voter fraud. i turn around and i told the crowd, you can t come this way. people are dying. announcer: live, from london, this is cnn newsroom, with max foster. it is monday, october 31st, 8:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 a.m. on the u.s. east coast where the final stretch of the midterm elections has begun. so far more than 20 million early ballots have been cast and to get more votes candidates are hitting the campaign trail with some urgency. polls show republicans have a slight edge right now and trying to keep that advantage by pledging to fix the economy. this is our year. democrats ca
coy, nice to see you. have a great day. thanks for joining me. i m christine romans. new day starts right now. way in south korea, i m john berman with brianna keilar. it s one of the deadliest disasters to ever hit that country at least 154 people killed in a crush of halloween party goers in seoul. pictures shared on social media show the crowd crammed into an alley. 26 foreign nationals including two u.s. citizens are among the dead. witnesses saying the narrow streets were jammed with people trying to enjoy the first halloween weekend without covid restrictions. ivan watson is live for us on the scene in seoul. do investigators have any idea what triggered this surge? reporter: just sheer mass humanity in the alley ways just steps from where i m standing right now. this is an impromptu memorial that has cropped up in the 24, 48 hours since the disaster. as you can see, people paying their respects, flowers, handwritten notes, candles, photos of some of the victi
seoul with what has become a makeshift memorial there, ivan. are you learning any more about what triggered the surge? reporter: just a sheer mass of humanity. many, many young people, thousands of them that gathered steps from where i m standing right now to celebrate halloween, to drink, tricked out in costumes and it turned into a nightmare. i ll get out of the way so you can take look at this very somber, very sad scene here. people have been laying flowers and lighting candles, handwritten notes to some of the 154 mostly very young victims of this terrible catastrophe. i ve spoken with a number of the survivors, people who came out saturday night, they heard that this neighborhood, itaewon, just down the road from an old u.s. military base threw a good party on the weekend of halloween and were initially laughing at the just massive numbers of people in the nearby alleyways near where i m standing. and then those jokes about, hey, i m not going to be able to breathe he
and we were so crushed with other people that i couldn t breathe at all, so i just passed out. unconscious? yeah, unconscious. bystanders pulled sheletta limp out of the crowd. she was one of the lucky ones. this narrow alley was ground zero on saturday night. hundreds of party goers plots into a deadly pile up here, and began suffocating under the weight of the crowd. at least 156 people died. south korea is still processing this staggering loss. days later, lost belongings on display for grieving relatives to identify. so i message stephen, to tell him hey, don t come to our place anymore. did you shoot the two warned his friends not to come. but the atlanta native who loved hip-hop and international travel, never answered. the next day, authorities