buenos dias. good morning, welcome to your new day. it is sunday, october 30, halloween eve. i m boris sanchez. halloween eve. good to be with you. i m ambra walker. thank you for starting your among morning with us. we start in asia. south korea declaring a national day of mourning after a deadly crowd surge killed 153 people who were out celebrating halloween in the capital of seoul. we have to warn you, some of the images we re going to share are graphic. authorities are still investigating exactly what caused this crowd crush. but emergency officials first began receiving reports of people buried in crowds on saturday evening. there were thousands of people out that night in an area of the city with very narrow streets as you can say. they re packed in alleys. and witnesses say people were trapped and panicked because they couldn t breathe with dozens of people being administered cpr on the sidewalks. i turned around and i told the crowd, you can t come this way.
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a real connection there. nadia romero, cnn, atlanta. let s get perspective on the races in georgia from the politics reporter for the atlanta journal institution. good morning, shannon, thank you for doing this. georgia, right, finding itself to be the political universe once again. talk about the high enthusiasm we re seeing especially with the record early turnout vote we re seeing. what else is new? georgia is at the center of the political universe. yes, there s been a ton of early voting, 1.5 million people including mail-in absentees so far. i think georgia has switched the electorate here has heard so much about voting and voter suppression. and i think we re switching to an electorate that does much of the voting early now. there is a concern about wanting to get a vote count so a lot of people are coming out in advance