wrongs. president biden wipes out federal marijuana possession convictions. what that means for the effort to decriminalize marijuana nationwide. we have a series of serial murders occurring. people are scared to come out. police in california on the hunt for a killer. the one characteristic they are asking the community to zero in on as the search for the suspect continues. newsroom starts right now. good morning. it is saturday, october 8th. good morning. you are live in the cnn newsroom. we start this morning in eastern europe. at least three people have been reported dead in a huge explosion that crippled europe s largest bridge and pair lased a key supply route for russia s war in ukrainian. that blast crippled the only bridge linking russia to the annexed territory of crimea. the kerch bridge is a huge symbol for the kremlin and the attempt to reunify crimea with the russian mainland. let s get to fred pleitgen. russia blamed the explosion on ukraini
Russians, obviously, use it not just for regular civililian tra fuel for russia s war effort in ukraine. it is a very, very important bridge strategically, but symbolic value as well as vladimir putin himself inaugurated this bridge in 2018. guys. and, fred, notably, the ukrainians have not taken credit for the explosion, but there is a psychological warfare component to this where they are celebrating online and linking it to vladimir putin s birthday. yes, you are right. that is one of the things. one of the other things that i thought was quite interesting also was that the ukrainian postal service within hours of this happening came out with a new stamp come mmemorating the explosion of the bridge of crimea, the kerch bridge. people were taking selfies in