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
so it forms very much like a shockwave. we have video foot thinage and forces get amplified so as people fall against each other, these forces become very strong, extreme high pressure and many people get caught up. and at that point, people are struggling to get up and arms and legs get twisted together. it takes 30 seconds to cut the flood supply off to the brain. if you have too much pressure on your chest, you can t breathe, ogs again deprivation sets in and you get phenomenon called compression or crush asphyxia where the amount of weight on your chest is so great that you can t breathe. we re hearing from u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi for the first time since her husband paul was viciously attacked in a home invasion on friday.
have been reported. thankfully. you know, the fact that we re talking about this story showing how dire it is. that drought in california, a lot of officials saying this is the worst in history ever. according to the department of agriculture, the entire state is battling these abnormally dry temperatures and the weather. so those crippling conditions are expected hurt the nation s food supply. as jennifer gray explains for farmers, it s about to get worse before it gets better. reporter: the drought that is plaguing california, and as a result, hurting the nation s flood supply could get a whole lot worse. friday, the federal government said it will not provide any irrigation water to central valley farmers. and only 50% of contracting water to surrounding urban areas. our rain is way, way behind so we expected zero. and this just confirms it. reporter: joe del bos is the farmer who gave president obama
greatest purveyor handoffs my own government. reporter: they say thousands are uniting with one common message. hands off syria. i talked to syrian-americans in new york, new jersey, pennsylvania, and a doctor from syria in damascus, as you saw in the piece. and there are several major worries looming because of these looming major strikes on syria. first of all, of course, the loss of life. and the destruction of infrastructure. they re thinking basic things like roads, flood supply, trash pickup, those basic needs that could be difficult to obtain in the long run. suzanne, victor. rosa flores for us, thank you. critics of a serious strike will protest the president on its door step.
you if you want to take a flight. we re live with that. and you might be on the alert for any sort of terrorist threat when you re flying, but what about when you re eating? the dangers to our flood supply and why many observers say it is vulnerable to a terror attack. a shocking report to bring you next. also fox news is your election headquarters along with google we are hosting that gop debate on september 22nd, but we are not coming up with all of the questions, you are. make a video with your question for candidates or you can do it the old fashioned way, write it down. send it to us by going to foxnews.com or you you can click on the link right on the google home page. get those questions in.