united states and all around the world, i m max foster in london. just ahead they like to use that power to strip us of our freedoms, our freedom to vote to be safe from gun violence, our freedom to control our own bodies in the state of georgia. government can build an economy is just complete fallacy. it never worked anywhere. voter suppression is just as much a lie as voter fraud. i turn around and i told the crowd, you can t come this way. people are dying. announcer: live, from london, this is cnn newsroom, with max foster. it is monday, october 31st, 8:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 a.m. on the u.s. east coast where the final stretch of the midterm elections has begun. so far more than 20 million early ballots have been cast and to get more votes candidates are hitting the campaign trail with some urgency. polls show republicans have a slight edge right now and trying to keep that advantage by pledging to fix the economy. this is our year. democrats ca
shooter. that s coming up as well. we want to begin the without breaking news on the infant formula shortage. the issue so severe that new york city mayor eric adams says now declared a state of emergency. adams assigned and executive order that allows the city s consumer protection agency to go after price gouging related to the shortage. but some relief it may be up pallets of new baby formula around the united states. the first landed a short time ago in indianapolis. that military transport loaded with enough formula to feed 9000 babies in 18,000 toddlers for a week. just a week. the shipping was these first successful mission operation fly formula and more is on the way. the importance suspected to fill immediate gaps in this u.s. stockpile. while also by the way buying time for domestic manufacturers to ramp up their production. joining me now is nbc s meghan official who s in indianapolis and stephanie stanton in tampa florida. megan let, me just with you on this one
completely out of touch. i think they actually need to come and spend a day in a school and actually see what we are dealing with day in and day out. reporter: schools have become a vital force of support for many struggling parents, stretched between paying skyrocketing household bills or paying for their weekly food shop. and with the holidays fast approaching, there are more difficult decisions to be made. some parents now foregoing christmas presents just to keep their children fed and warm. definitely won t be no extras this year. the time when i struggle the most is when the children are off school because breakfast, lunch, three meals a day. that s when i will be struggling the most this year. reporter: nada bashir, cnn, london. tropical cyclone medusa hit india s coastal state killing at least four people and damaging dozens of homes. up to a quarter of a meter of
state killing at least 134 people including children. earlier today we heard from the home minister of gujarat state they lodged a criminal complaint against the agency responsible for the maintenance of the bridge and investigation is under way. authorities say that 200 people were on the bridge at the time of the collapse. it collapsed sunday evening, 6:30 p.m. local time. you re looking at pictures that came up earlier of the search and recovery operation under way this day. i want to show you disturbing and distressing video that has been circulating widely on social media showing the immediate aftermath of the bridge collapse. and if we could bring up this video for you, you ll see people trying to just hold on to the cables and the twisted wreckage of what remained of the bridge attempting to climb up the bridge to get to safer ground. many did not make it. others went into the river to try to swim ashore. a number of the victims are
buffalo. i think what we have to do is understand that there are multiple threats, operational in the minds of black people, one, is a threat from the state itself and the police killings. another is terroristic activity and the other is the threat of vigilante white nationalism which is the case here. we don t often recall, is the black lives matter sprang out of an active vigilante killing rather than state killing. it was the acquittal of george floyd on the hashtag black lives about george zimmerman, black lives matter. so, those three levels of our always operational for black people in this country and we need to deal with each one of them, though they are related, in a separate, deal with each one of them individually.