republicans are demanding president biden stand up to teachers unions and get kids back in the classroom. all the president has to do and be very firm. the largest teachers union are at the table directly involved in helping to steer the science and being part of this process. we shouldn t have a politicized public health bureaucracies like the cdc answering at the beck and call of the teachers unions. we need kids back in school. bill: on the day after peter doocy leads our coverage on the north lawn at the white house. what s the reaction there? it s interesting. as some of the president s team say there is no crystal ball to consult whether or not schools can be open in the fall the president is getting a sense of the things young students do during zoom classes other than just learn. it was kind of fun because sometimes when mrs. b you could eat. there are a lot of kids on zoom at one time. sometimes, when we were really tired teachers unions have been
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weekend. there s still time for some notes before you get the time to grill. let s take a look at some of the week s top stories. ron desantis has officially entered the 2024 right house race, as we said the live stream events on twitter got off to a rocky start. crashing several times. with the announcement delayed by more than 20 minutes due to a series of technical glitches. sorry about that, we ve got so many people here that i think we are affecting the service. let s say, so yeah. make sense. just to simplify this. so let s say. does it keep crashing? i think rebecca online now. i think we are back online now. well, it s an honor to have governor desantis make this stuck announcement. the technical troubles your mockery on social media. president well then posted a link to his donation page. writing simply this link works. and former president donald trump has a series of posts on truth social calling the announcement, fatal and a disaster. he also had one str
newsroom . i m jim acosta in washington. we begin with breaking news in south korea where 59 people are dead and 150 others are hurt. that is in seoul, the capital. and it happened at a halloween festival. i want to show you some of the scene. we have to warn you this video is graphic. it is an incredibly chaotic scene. you can see people performing cpr on some of the victims on the scene. it is unclear what caused people to collapse in these kind of numbers. will ripley is at the keep. will, you re right there. this is just unbelievable what s occurred. what more can you tell us? when we arrived, people were on the phone, sobbing, calling their loved ones to let them know they were okay. that chaos has turned into a stunned sense of shock in the nightclub district of seoul where tens of thousands of people have come to celebrate halloween. they were packed so tightly into some of the side streets. in fact, the party that was happening was at a hotel just behind me. we a
tonight. there s new cnn polling of likely voting in two key senate races in wisconsin and pennsylvania. wisconsin showing no clear leader in the showdown between incumbent republican ron johnson and democrat mandela barnes. pennsylvania with document lieutenant governor fetterman narrowly ahead of mehmet oz. we learned late today that former president obama will be campaigning there along with president biden on the final weekend before election day. a party official familiar with the planning telling cnn they ve got appearances scheduled for pittsburgh and philadelphia with the possibility of adding more. early voting is under way there and in 38 other states. so far turnout has been heavy on pace with the record 2018 midterms with nearly 7.3 million ballots already cast. with it, we ve already seen multiple reports of voter intimidation, including two armed men dressed in tactical gear sported at a ballot drop box in mesa, arizona, friday night. attorney general merrick ga