massive bridge linking russia to the annexed territory of crimea. why this is a big deal both strategically and symbolically and how ukrainian and russian officials are now reacting. also, a major shakeup in uvalde, texas. the school district suspends its entire police force and puts two officials on leave. how if families are reacting. plus hurricane ian blasted its way through florida, knocking out electricity to millions. one community in the storm s path never lost power. how they made it through relatively unscathed. hopeful news in the fight against breast cancer. new day starts right now. it s great to be with you this morning. it s saturday, october 8th. thank you so much for spending some of your morning with us. boris, sorry you re not. you re stuck with me now. that s right. we re grateful to have you, amara. i m so pumped that this is your new home. congratulations to amara walker, being named the new co-anchor of weekend new day. thank you. of
57 newsroom at cbs news headquarter in new york. Im brook silvabraga in for annemarie green. We begin with the rhett rinne between north korean president kim jongun and President Trump. Earlier this morning kim called President Trump mentally deranged. He said mr. Trump would pay dearly for his remarks at the u. N. President trump promised sanctions against companies and individuals who trade with the north. Its a great threat to peace and security in our world, and it is unacceptable that others financially support this criminal rogue regime. Meanwhile its reported that the north Korean Foreign minister said his country might conduct a Hydrogen Bomb test in the pacific ocean. Now to hurricane, still a powering category 3 as it approaches the turks and caicos and hamas after hitting puerto rico. The recovery will take months if not longer. The coast guard rescued three people from an overturned ship near the puerto rican island. It had been caught in the storm the day before. Fema said
Has lost heat and hot water this morning. Kind of a chilly morning for that to happen. They did not evacuate although they were told to stand by that they might have. Thats out of an abundance of caution any time you have a norway gas leak. Back to you. Today there will be a memorial for a High School Student killed in a car accident. It happened on fra cone ya Springfield Park way when the driver lost control of the car. 18yearold laween akrawi. There were no survives on the smael plane that crashed in bakersfield. The ntsb is look at the investigation. A mayday call came from the aircraft around 4 30 saturday afternoon. Shortly after the call the plane was reported missing from radar. Possible debris from the plane was found several hours later. Were learning more about a police accounting shooting. An offduty baltimore officer shot and killed the suspect after the suspect tried to rob him with a toy gun. It happened before 2 00 saturday morning in electricity come heights. Police sa
putin s rhett rinne. we have not seen any reason to adjust our own nuclear posture, nor do we vacations they are preparing to use them. but putin can de-escalate this at any time, and there s no reason to escalate. reporter: now t other very important thing that the president said in his comments to those donors in new york city was that he was trying to figure out an off ramp for president vladimir putin, asking how does he find a way out? and this is a question that the president, his top aides, western leaders have been weighing very heavily for the last several months. it s not clear at this point whether they have an answer. it there s no diplomatic off-ramp, and that s very concerning right now. new vems coming four months after the uvalde, texas, massacre at robb elementary school that left 19 students and