flying over the black sea. this is video of the type of reaper drone that went down. white house officials say that the russian move over international waters is the kind of thing that could spark a dangerous escalation between super powers. it could lead to m miscalculations between, you know, two militaries that are operating not obviously in ukraine together but certainly in proximity in the region. and we don t want to see the war escalate beyond what it has already done to the ukrainian people and so this is clearly this was inappropriate, unsafe, unprofessional conduct by the russian pilots. and salma abdelaziz is live in london for us. salma, russia and the u.s. have very different stories here about what happened. reporter: two very different narratives about what took place in the early hours of yesterday morning on the black sea. the united states says that russian fighter jets essentially reading between the lines harassed the united states drone. they say
right now on early start, too much too fast. epic rain after a fierce drought and it s not over just yet. chaos at a crowded train station. police in paris opening fire on an attacker who had just stabbed a half dozen people. i was briefed about this discovery and surprised to learn that there were any government records that were taken there. president biden speaking out and what he s saying about the classified documents found in a private office he used to use. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. good morning. we begin with tens of thousands of californians this morning under evacuation orders as a series of major storms pound the states from north to south. there have been more than 150 reports of flooding and mudslides in southern california alone. saturated hill sides. some scarred by brush fires during the state s long drought sliding down under roads and homes. this is video just in of a crushed car pulled
world. it is tuesday, october 18th. i m christine romans. just three weeks to go until the mid-term elections. today president biden will zero in on abortion rights when he speaks at a speech in washington. the latest cnn poll finds it s the economy, inflation, voting rights, guns all ranked ahead of abortion in the minds of voters. cnn s jasmine wright is live for us bright and early in washington. jasmine, what do you expect the president s message on abortion to be? reporter: the president is going to talk about how he believes there is an assault on women s bodies and their right to choose. they can go with the republican party who wants to ban abortion, he s going to say, or go with democrats who don t, who want to codify abortion. the president has been trying to drum up the democratic base hoping they ll come out and support their base. control is on the ballot come november. now of course two things stand in contrast here. first, we talked about a majority of voters
tonight. a walkout by 60,000 workers could derail the u.s. economy. the biden administration is considering executive action to avoid a shutdown. let s get the latest from cnn s pete muntean. reporter: it is the latest effort to put the brakes on a possible rail worker strike that could deal a major blow to the economy. bosses representing unions and railroads met with the labor secretary in a last-ditch effort to reach a deal by midnight thursday. that s when 60,000 workers could walk off the job in solidarity with train engineers fighting for sick time. a strike will mean freight rail, which makes up 40% of all freight in the u.s., will grind to a halt impacting everything from parts for cars to fertilizer for farming. transportation is a big part of the cost to the consumer and i don t believe there s one person in the country that it won t affect. reporter: starting thursday, some railroads will stop accepting shipments of grain critical to feed livestock and drivin
that s why the world works with servicenow. former president trump was interviewed by sean hannity on fox news and when hannity brought up trump s claim he declassified the documents at mar-a-lago, he gave an interesting explanation. is there a process? what was your process to there doesn t have to be a process, as i understand it. different people say different things, but if you re the president of the united states, you can declassify just by saying it s declassified, even by thinking about it. [ laughter ] hannity was like, i get it, you re going to plead insanity. now it s making sense. welcome back to morning joe. it is 6:00 in the morning tong west coast as you look at los angeles, 9:00 in the east on this friday, september 23rd. a busy hour ahead, including the new pressure on donald trump s legal team to prove in a court of law the allegation trump has been making in public that the fbi planted evidence at mar-a-lago. there is also new reporting showing