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.
you, i m abby philip in new york. with the political heavyweights ready to go, we are following the key races across the country and the big names rallying behind candidates who could shift the balance of power in washington. let us start in the state of florida where the president is headed today. cnn s jeremy diamond is out there for us. so president biden is bringing a new message, the extreme maga republicans to florida, but privately his aides are telling you and our other colleagues that this is not necessarily about making these two races, the senate and the gubernatorial races competitive this fall. reporter: a spoke with democratic strategists who say they do not have high hopes that the president s visit will shift a race that appears to be heading in the governor s race and in the senate race in republicans direction but a week from election day we are very much in the closing argument phase of this election and the president s advisers have told me that they se
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the committee scared new video from mark short saying pence pushed back against trump s pressure campaign. was it your impression the vice president had directly conveyed his position on these issues to the president, not just to the world, through a dear colleague letter, but directly to president trump? many times. and had been consistent in conveying his position to the president? very consistent. joining us now, nbc news senior capitol hill correspondent garrett haake, nbc news correspondent vaughn hilliard, luke broadwater from the new york times and joyce vance, professor at university of alabama school of law and msnbc legal analyst. garrett, you spoke with pete aguilar, who is taking a lead role today. what did he tell you about what we can expect? reporter: we can expect to hear that mike pence was both under more pressure and in more danger in the leadup to january 6th and on january 6th than has been previously reported. the committee plans to lay o
Personnel. Were taking steps to make sure we can defend our people and respond decisively if we need to. This is not what we want, not what were looking for. We dont want an escalation. We dont want to see a second or third front develop. We dont want to see our personnel come under fire, but if that happens, were ready for it. Thats Secretary Of State Antony Blinken on the expected provocation from iran connected to the israel hamas war. It comes as Israel Defense forces are expanding significantly. Air strikes in gaza. Well get the live report from israel straight ahead. Plus an update on the hostages still being held by hamas after the Terrorist Group did release two americans on friday. And also coming up, well go through the nine republicans now running to be House Speaker following jim jordans failed bid to lead the lower chamber. Good morning and welcome to Way Too Early on this monday, october 23rd. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting your day and week with us. And well beg