announcer: this is cnn breaking news. it is the top of the hour on cnn newsroom. i m sara sidner. we begin with hour with breaking news and a long awaited arrest in the horrific killings of four university of idaho students back in november. bryan christopher kohberger is in custody on a first degree murder warrant in those stabbing deaths. that s according to an affidavit. the killings terrorized the small town of moscow, idaho, which hadn t seen a murder in seven years. investigators are going to be holding a press conference. they are setting up as we speak, and we are going to take you there live, but first, cnn s jean casarez is in monroe county, pennsylvania. that s where the arrest was made, and cnn s veronica miracle in moscow, idaho. jean, we ll start with you. what are you learning about how this arrest actually came to be? reporter: well, it happened at 1:30 this morning, and it s very, very interesting to look at how it was afeffectuated her and what happe
action. also tonight, parts of buffalo, new york remain paralyzed by a once in a lifetime blizzard. the national guard now going door to door as the death it will keeps rising and the city struggles to dig out. as the january 6th committee releases a bach of transcripts, i ll speak with adam schiff. stand by for his take on the latest revelations including a claim that trump s white house chief of staff burned documents at the white house. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world, i m wolf blitzer. you re the situation room. let s get right to the southwest airlines meltdown. it s causing major disruptions across the country. our correspondents are covering the impact at major airports to the fallout from southwest and the airline industry. let s go to nick valencia. he s over at the atlanta airplane, the busiest airport of the nation. nick, how are southwest passengers being affected there? reporter: wolf, some passengers flying southwe
be there. that s my commitment to. neil: here s the thing. ian is not leaving. it s down but not out. ian now a tropical storm is expected to make its way back to a category one hurricane after devastating the sunshine state. south carolina s governor will hold a news conference shortly. here s what we know right now. a storm surge up to seven feet predicted for charleston, south carolina as of tomorrow. in florida today, more than 2.6 million people are still without power across the state. no indications when they will get that back. search and rescue operations underway in florida s barrier islands and other hard-hit areas. governor desantis calling it a 24/7 operation. moments from now, we ll talk to the mayor of fort myers florida particularly hard hit by the storm. first, fox team coverage with robert ray in fort myers and steve harrigan in charlotte county where they re trying to dig out. welcome. i m neil cavuto. let s go to robert ray in f fort myers that got reall
all of you for getting up way too early with us on this tuesday morning. we re one week from the midterms. morning joe starts now. it s sad to see we are in a point in history where people belief it s okay to express their political sentiments through violence, and so i think it really demonstrates that we have to calm things down. we have to decide that we are going to be more respectful as an american society, that it s okay to disagree. san francisco s district attorney makes a plea for decency and discourse following the politically motivated attack on nancy pelosi s husband, and now we are learning more about what the suspect had planned for the speaker of the house. also this morning, president biden is hitting the campaign trail again as we are now one week away from election day. we ll tell you where he s headed today, and why. meanwhile a member of the group who tried to overturn the elections expresses remorse for his actions. and we ll have the latest from
it is wednesday, october 12th. i m christine romans. president biden says he believes russian president vladimir putin is rational. mr. biden said putin s objectives invading ukraine were irrational and a serious misjudgment. do you think putin is a rational actor? i think he is a rational actor who s miscalculated significantly. so if he s not rational no, i didn t say he s not rational. you said the speech. i think his speech, his objectives. i think he thought they would welcome him with open arms. this is home for mother russia and i think he totally miscalculated. cnn s jasmine wright is live in washington. what else did the president have to say about putin and ukraine? reporter: obviously the president warned of catastrophic mistakes and miscalculations. president putin continues to make these nuclear threats. as the u.s. grows more concerned while looking at the escalations happening in ukraine caused by russia. he warns of armageddon. take a look at