headquarters in atlanta, welcome to all of you watching here, in the united states, canada and around the world. i m kim brunhuber about pep ahead, south korea is mourning, more than 150 people in seoul killed in a crowd surge celebrating halloween. we re live with details. and nine days to the u.s. midterms and 19 million people have already voted. we ll take you to one battleground state just ahead. the white house accuses russia of weaponizing food, the grain deal to feed much of africa and the middle east now in jeopardy. we re live with the fallout. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. we begin with shock and grief in south korea where at least 150 people have died in a crowd surge. officials say thousands of partygoers gathered for a halloween celebration, but many crashed when the large crowd moved through a narrow alley. one witness says authority shoes have been better prepared. listen to this. translator: seeing this incident, i t
to all of you watching us here in the united states, canada, and around the world. i m kim bruin hube letter ahead on cnn newsroom, south korea is in mourning right now. more than 150 people in seoul killed in a crowd surge celebrating halloween. a week and a half to u.s. midterm elections, and early ballots are coming in by the millions. one battleground state, see where else each party s heavy hitters are campaigning. the white house accuses russia of weaponizing food. a grain deal to feed much of africa and the middle east now in jeopardy. we re live in kyiv and johannesburg with the fallout. south korea has declared a national day of mourning of a of ap aft chaotic crowd surge claimed the lives of at least 151 people. thousands of partygoers had gathered for a celebration, but the turn ute so large and the space so small, many people got crushed in the middle of the crowd. here s how one witness described the scene. i saw the people going to the left side. i act
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
new day starts right now. four ukrainian regions illegally annexed by russia under martial law this morning. the russian military does not even have complete control of the areas, in kherson, the russians are trying to accelerate the relocation or evacuation of some 60,000 residents in the face of ukrainian advances. vladimir putin perhaps struggling to maintain his grip even inside russia. introducing several levels of increased security measures. overnight a russian rocket struck a children s school in a village in zaporizhzhia. and destruction towards the south after another night of strikes targeted the energy infrastructure. here in the u.s. president biden weighing in on the declaration of martial law saying it reveals putin s dwindling options in the war. i think that vladimir putin finds himself in an incredibly difficult position. and what it reflects to me is, it seems his only tool available to him is to brutalize individual citizens in ukraine. the state
intentional. it is not random. we know that. we know that. we re learning more about the man accused of attacking the husband of house speaker nancy pelosi, details on both sides of the political divide. plus from gunfire to government buildings destroyed by fire, unrest in iran is intensified after yet another protester is laid to rest. we ll have a live report. and pediatric emergency rooms are being flooded with races of rsv. we ll take you live inside a st. louis hospital fighting the crisis. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. the husband of u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi is recovering from serious injuries this hour after being violently attacked in his san francisco home. police say paul pelosi was struck with a hammer by a man who broke into the residence early friday. authorities still haven t determined a motive. but a source says the intruder was looking for the speaker. politicians from both sides from condemned the atta