protecting your family the dangers tonight for kids riding the school bus. cbs s meg oliver shows us what one district is doing to prevent close calls like this. and gruesome grizzly attack, how these two college wrestlers broke free from the jaws of a bear while out antler hunting. tackled me and chewed me up a little bit. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening and thank you for joining us on this tuesday might. tonight, winter has come early for a majority of the country with more than 235 million americans experiencing below norm temperatures from the upper midwest to the gulf of mexico. october snow has fallen across the midwest including wisconsin, michigan, indiana and dipped as far south as kentucky with some areas seeing as much as a foot and a half and more is on the way. in minnesota, wind chills dipped by low zero this morning while more than 100 million americans are under freeze and
and thanks to all of you for getting up way too early with us on this tuesday morning. morning joe starts right now. the media suggests they are not paying attention to the concerns of every day voters. you want to sweep it under the rugment i don t want to talk about this any more than anyone else. when the barbarians were at the gate, you were happy to let them in. they were people that behaved badly on that day. i m not one of them. ms. abrams is going to lie about my record because she doesn t want to talk about her own. i don t have the luxury of being part of a good old boys club. debate night in ohio, utah, and georgia with the midterms exactly three weeks away, things are getting a little heated. steve kornacki is standing by at the big board. did you see that guy beforehand, he s going into the whole rage thing. out of hand. this guy s crazy. the state of the race, which is what we really want from him. republicans claim to care so much ab
candidates are all over the trail yuck trying to convince people to get the pole. we are in georgia and pennsylvania, where important races are still in play. plus i have my conversation with wisconsin lieutenant governor mandela barnes. he could become the first black senator from his state. they also opened up about being the underdog at what republicans are telling him on the campaign trail. and congressman jim clyburn is joining us today. yes, the wig is here, y all. he s going to talk about why he is refusing to give into the idea of republicans winning control of the house on tuesday. i m simone sanders townsend, and i have something to say! today, y all. bring in the election is a. it has been a long campaign season, but now there s less than 48 hours until the midterm elections. and election day. there s so much at stake in so much going on in this race to the finish. i m talking about control of congress, balance of power in state legislatures and a handful of gove
explosion of the only bridge connecting russia with the annexed territory of crimea. now, the blast partially collapsed the kerch bridge and paralyzed a key supply route from moscow s faltering war in ukraine. but this bridge isn t just logistically important, it s also a huge symbol for the kremlin in its attempt to reunify crimea with the russian mainland. ukraine has not claimed responsibility for this, but after the blast in kyiv, people can be seen taking selfies in front of a billboard depicting the image of the bridge on fire. that s not the only thing you re seeing from ukraine mocking the explosion. fred pleitgen joins us now. fred is in kyiv. he has the latest developments. what are you hearing, fred, about who s behind this explosion. reporter: yeah, well, the russians are moving very quickly to point the finger of blame at the ukrainians. this is quite interesting because i ve been following a lot of telegram channels coming out of russia. a lot of top russian
and it s used to resupply russian forces. russia s government insists the damage was under control. ukraine is not claiming responsibility. but they are directly mocking russia. the ukrainian government s official twitter account, tweeting sick burn. also, a famous scene of titanic to show the bridge. ukraine sent a birthday greeting to vladimir putin, next to marilyn monroe, singing happy birthday to u.s. president john f. kennedy. happy birthday to you happy birthday to you happy birthday, mr. president happy birthday to you fred is following this from kyiv. how are russia and ukraine reacting? well, both sides are essentially blaming each other. you say that the russians are saying it s the ukraine ons behind all of this. a senior official calling it c ukrainian vandals behind this. and figures in moscow making the same allegation. the ukrainians, this is an adviser saying they believe it might have been infighting within russian security services that wa