instagram and then repeatedly messaged one of them. cnn national correspondent camila bernal is following the latest developments for us. camila, what more can you tell us? reporter: hey, fred. so, this is really important because authorities have not given us a connection between bryan kohberger and the victims. they have not said whether they knew each other or whether they had interactions. so people magazine is finding one of these connections saying that bryan kohberger followed the three girls on instagram and also saying that the three girls did not follow him back. the report also saying that not only did he follow them but he reached out to one of the girls in particular repeatedly. those messages went unanswered. it s unclear whether she saw the messages or whether she just chose not to answer them. but people magazine saying they were able to review that instagram account before it was deleted. they also went a little bit further saying that the girls worked
haven t seen. even when kim jong-un was launching missiles and tensions were reaching near crisis level back in 2017, he launched 23 missiles throughout the entire year. he has already surpassed that considerably in in terms of the number of tests this year and fired seven missiles just in the last two weeks. this is more than he has done since he came to power in 2011. and it raises a question, because north korea is not using these for propaganda. you are not seeing images on north korean state media like we normally would see, 24 years after the launch. that that says to me and analysts i m speaking with, these launches are for scientific knowledge and to prove a point, some believe, that he wants those to know his arsenal is there, capable. and even at a time of global conflict, he has weapons that he feels can, you know, stand on their own. obviously, some people think this is all a cry for attention. i think politics might have less to do with it in that there is a list
bombshell cnn report. now the school system is suspending its entire police department. and a new strong jobs report showing more americans employed and earning more money. so might this set up another hike in your interest rates as the fed tries to tame rising inflation? welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper. a bone chilling warning of armageddon tops our world lead. president biden made that assessment last night invoking the nuclear brinksmanship of the cuban missile crisis 60 years ago this month. as vladimir putin loses his grip on his bloody unprovoked war against ukraine and threatens to delay catastrophic weapons. senior u.s. officials were caught off guard they say. but by what some might characterize as inartful and perhaps in some views he is callatory comments they insist there is nothing that raises the threat level above where it is been but still president biden doesn t seem a clear off-ramp for putin and u.s. officials thinks even if he uses the smallest ta
contests in two critical battleground states, arizona and nevada. plus unfathomable. simply unfathomable horror in thailand. an attacker uses a gun and a knife to murder at least 24 children while they sleep. and another new claim against herschel walker. the woman who told the daily beast walker paid her to have an abortion now says she is also the mother of one of walker s children. the georgia republican senate nominee says it s a lie, a smear. i ll say the same thing i said, that i know this is untrue. i know it s untrue. they keep telling me things like that. totally, totally untrue. i know nothing about any woman having an abortion. and they can keep coming at me like that. and they re doing it because they want to distract people. i know that. back to that story in a moment. but we begin the hour with new numbers. remacable new numbers that speak volumes about how competitive key races are with just a little more than a month to go in this incredibly consequential
we re just 16 days out from the midterm elections. as campaign 22 is hitting the home stretch, democrats are also facing economic headwinds. i am worried about the level of voter turnout, what democrats have got to do is contrast their economic plan with the republicans. elections are about the future. they re about the economy. nobody said we re doing abortion rather than the economy. it s about both. how much is the economy and the rising prices going to impact your vote in november? it s a lot to do with it. because our economy has got you have control. reporter: so the cost of living is just high. exactly, that s the biggest impact. everything s high. you know, rent, you know, gas, food, all of it it s inflated. i m pamela brown and you are live in the cnn newsroom . just 16 days from now, the dust will be settling in the nation s midterm elections, when voters will decide which party they want to control the house and senate. and polls show voter inte