the president was addressing voters last night. an unscheduled speech wanted to do it near the capitol and why they chose union station designed to drum up enthusiasm. the president ignored the issues voters are most enthusiastic about. bill: the economy was mentioned once. failed to mention inflation or crime. gas prices or the border, abortion or drug overdoses as a result of fentanyl. dana: the president referencing democracy 38 times while suggesting a vote for republicans is a vote for chaos. president biden: american democracy is under attack because the defeated former president of the united states refuses to accept the results of the 2020 election. extreme magna republicans aimed to question not only the legitimacy of past elections but elections being held now and into the future, this year. i hope you ll make the future of our democracy an important part of your decision to vote and how you vote. dana: we have fox team coverage plus reaction from house mino
in kyiv insist the battle is not over yet. we have a live report from ukraine and i ll talk to the ukrainian ambassador to the united states about the state of the war. also tonight, president biden faces a growing crisis right now. with a special counsel now in place to investigate his handling of classified records. we re learning more about documents that were found as the white house fails to explain its delay in revealing key details. and new scenes of devastation in the southeast. the death toll rising after dozens of tornados including a powerful twister that pounded selma, alabama. we re getting official updates on this disaster and the rescue and recovery operations that are now underway. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. and we begin this hour in ukraine. and the stunning video just into cnn. a huge explosion in the eastern town of soledar at a building apparently occupie
countries, two americans among them. a far right rebuke in the world s fourth biggest democracy. brazil s bolsonaro beaten in his re-election runoff. what could be a big blow to diversity at colleges. today the u.s. supreme court considers ending affirmative action. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world, i m christine romans. the death toll is now at least 154 in south korea s crowd surge. making it one of the country s worst ever disasters. this morning south korea s president and first lady laying flowers at a memorial alter in front of seoul city hall as the nation begins a week-long period of mourning. senior international correspondent ivan watson is live for us in seoul this morning. are investigators making progress on figuring out what sparked this crowd surge? reporter: we re not hearing any conclusive details about that. i do think that the shock of the scale of this tragedy is still sinking in. i m here just basically a few step
hour. a violent assault the man accused of attacking house speaker nancy pelosi s husband expected to be charged with multiple felonies today. cnn has learned he had zip ties, duct tape and hammer during that attack. we are live in san francisco. plus, deadly crush, more than 150 people killed after being caught in a suffocating crowd at a halloween festival in seoul, south korea. what we are learning about the two americans who are among the dead. next hour the supreme court set to hear arguments in two cases that could upend how college admissions are decided by eliminating or restricting race-conscious programs. let s begin this hour with the latest on the have eggs into the violent a talk on paul pelosi. veronica miracle is in san francisco, melanie zanona is on capitol hill. veronica, the suspect set to be charged today, what more are we learning about what happened in those early hours at the pelosi residence? reporter: good morning, erica. the details that we re
elections 8 days away. it appears president biden is on the sidelines or in delaware. even some of the candidates in blue states are locked in tight races. control from the senate could come down to a few key match ups. president biden said the mid-term elections are the most important in our lifetime, he spent the weekend at home in delaware. he did go out to do early voting on saturday. there is are no competitive congressional races this cycle. his former boss barack obama is on the campaign trail and making commercials and came out swinging at the gop. i have to speak the truth, which is these days just about every republican politician seems obsessed with 2 things: let s own the libs. and getting donald trump s approval. that s their agenda. they are not interested in solving problems. they are interested in making you angry and finding somebody to blame. they are hoping that will distract you from the fact they don t have answers of their own. your vote will make a di