wrongs. president biden wipes out federal marijuana possession convictions. what that means for the effort to decriminalize marijuana nationwide. we have a series of serial murders occurring. people are scared to come out. police in california on the hunt for a killer. the one characteristic they are asking the community to zero in on as the search for the suspect continues. newsroom starts right now. good morning. it is saturday, october 8th. good morning. you are live in the cnn newsroom. we start this morning in eastern europe. at least three people have been reported dead in a huge explosion that crippled europe s largest bridge and pair lased a key supply route for russia s war in ukrainian. that blast crippled the only bridge linking russia to the annexed territory of crimea. the kerch bridge is a huge symbol for the kremlin and the attempt to reunify crimea with the russian mainland. let s get to fred pleitgen. russia blamed the explosion on ukraini
i think it s dangerous even to speak about it. kim jong-un wants the world to know that his arsenal is there, that it s capable. he s fired seven missiles just in the last two weeks. these actions are provocative, they re dangerous. six killings in northern california and at least one possible suspect. we want our communities to pay attention to how he walks. a lot of people are scared to come out at night. it s just scary, period. i m pamela brown in washington on this saturday. you are in the cnn newsroom. a bridge of huge geographic and symbolic importance crippled in a millisecond. take a look. this is the exact moment that russian president vladimir putin suffered the latest blow in his war on ukraine. the blast from an apparent truck bomb knocking out three of the four lanes of the bridge that links russia to cry imea. ukraine has not claimed responsibility for the attack, but it is most certainly celebrating it. ukraine quickly unveiled this commemora
this election cycle the house is said to be in play. best case scenario for democrats they would have to win all 30 toss-up races. a big challenge. that would give them a razor thin majority at 219 seats. dana: top concern driving voters to the polls is still inflation. the issue favors the g.o.p. the future of democracy and abortion not far behind. democrats hope those issues give them an edge come november. dana: we have reaction from axios senior political correspondent josh. good morning to you. we re sfwerg the homestretch of the mid-term elections. latest data shows there are a lot of toss-up races worth watching nationwide. democrats and republicans trying to make these races about two very different issues. of course prompts the question which party will have the winning strategy when they go for control of the house and senate? for the house republicans are slated to take control but team projects 30 house races considered toss-ups. there are a few notable on
all the gotaways. 2 plus million people plus the gotaways. i ve been told by border patrol north of 800,000, probably closer to a million. but the more striking number is the 3.4 million that have come into our country since president biden took office. he flipped that switch on trump policies and people poured in. not only people, drugs pouring in. agents in nogales, arizona made another massive bust over the weekend. 200,000 fentanyl pills, 150 pounds of methamphetamine. tensions exploding over the republican governors transferring the people who insist on cutting the line. they are sending them to democrat-led cities. a sheriff in bear county, texas doesn t like it and opened a criminal investigation into the flights that sent 50 illegals from florida courtesy of governor desantis to martha s vineyard. 50 died in a trailer in texas. was a a freak-out? you have had people victim eyes americans killing and raping some. was there any type of outrage about that? no, it is on
declared a public emergency. in massachusetts, a military base now converted to migrant housing. mercedes schlapp, joe concha and juan williams are standing by. first to peter doocy. good afternoon. in the press room, they talk about these flights in serious terms. we heard about the president. he was trying to laugh off the idea. saying that if desantis will send a flight to delaware, desantis should tag along. any comment to migrants to delaware? he should come visit. we have a beautiful shore. just before that, the white house claimed that they were willing to engage leaders in texas and florida who have been bussing migrants points north to make a point about the burdens and influx of migrants can have on small towns. a cool premeditated political stunt. that is not what that is what they re doing. and so we re always happy to have conversations about ways to further improve border processing. even though she says they re happy to have conversations, she adm