accountability for the failures that horrible day. this week in no smart part due to the reporting of shimon revealed the school district police department hired a former state trooper under investigation for her actions during the mass sacre, i should say lack of actions during the massacre and shimon uncovered this video of her on the day of the massacre talking to other officers. listen. reporter: an officer asked if her children attend rob eloquent men starry. her response. do you have kids in there? my son is in daycare. he s not old enough. i saw you yeah, no, no. if my son had been in there, i would not have been outside, i promise you that. she said if her son had been inside the school, quote, i would not have been outside. i promise you that. so last night we learned there officer has been fired by the school district. fired the day after shim mon ha tried to get answers why she was hired in the first place since she was under investigation. the studen
raising interest rates five times this year to combat inflation. and even with this new report, economists say people should still be bracing for the possibility of a recession in tough times ahead. so let s get to the new report and what it means and what is it doesn t. matt egan is here. and what does this good news say about what is next? well, kate, not that much. this is a rearview mirror number. it is a snapshot in time. we know the economy got knocked down in the first half of the year, but it got back on its feet this summer. gdp rising 2.6%. that is solid. consumer spends slowed but it is still positive. i think that this should silence the argument that the u.s. economy is already in recession. right. gdp is positive, the jobs market keeps chugging along. new numbers show that initial jobless claims which is a proxy for layoffs, they remain low. at pre-covid levels. how you could have a recession if you don t have playoffs. this is so confusing. because the ec
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
ukraine is not directly claiming responsibility, but the fire has was hardly extinguished by the time ukraine began trolling russia. the ukrainian government s official twitter account tweeting sick burn. it was featured in a russian rom com. now ukraine is giving its own hollywood treatment you might say. ukraine has new stamps with figures of leonardo dicaprio and kate winslet in their famous pose from titanic tierchg tita instead they re on the kerch bridge. there was a video tweeted of marilyn monroe famously singing happy birthday to jfk. take a look. happy birthday to you happy birthday to you happy birthday mr. president happy birthday that is epic trolling. fred pleitgen has the latest from the ukrainian capital kyiv. fred, what s the latest from where you are? reporter: i hi there, we see the russians and ukrainians blaming each other for what happened on the kerch bridge, on the crimean bridge. a senior adviser to russian president vladimir putin comin
top of the hour here on cnn newsroom. the countdown continues to the midterms. 22 days left until election day determining who will control congress, and a new poll from the new york times shows that republicans have a slight edge here. 49% of likely voters say that they plan to back the republican candidate for their house district compared to 45% for democrats. now this poll also found it combined 44% of likely voters are most worried about the economy or inflation. now today, early voting begins in the battleground of georgia. and the race for senate there, one of the tightest in the nation, democratic incumbent raphael warnock casting his ballot you see there. there s also a new twist there in the drama engulfing his republican rival herschel walker who s been denying allegations he paid for an abortion for his ex-girlfriend years ago. well, today walker confirmed the check in question was, in fact, his, but then doubled down the denials in terms of what it was fo