lay out the cases for us. reporter: arguments in the two cases are teed up for this morning. the supreme court will once again re-examine affirmative action but this time with the solidly conservative court it is quite likely that the justices could ban affirmative action once they release their opinion sometime next year. this is all happening as the groups fighting to end the consideration of race in admissions they have been quite outspoken. diversity as important as it is, cannot come at expense of asian americans. reporter: these asian american students are leading a fight against affirmative action. it s time for asian americans to break up with woke diversity. they re at the center of a law enforcement against harvard, accusing the school of discriminating against asian americans to make more room for hispanics and blacks. calvin yang claims he was denied admission to harvard because of his race. it shows there s a trend here. a trend where asian americans
seoul with what has become a makeshift memorial there, ivan. are you learning any more about what triggered the surge? reporter: just a sheer mass of humanity. many, many young people, thousands of them that gathered steps from where i m standing right now to celebrate halloween, to drink, tricked out in costumes and it turned into a nightmare. i ll get out of the way so you can take look at this very somber, very sad scene here. people have been laying flowers and lighting candles, handwritten notes to some of the 154 mostly very young victims of this terrible catastrophe. i ve spoken with a number of the survivors, people who came out saturday night, they heard that this neighborhood, itaewon, just down the road from an old u.s. military base threw a good party on the weekend of halloween and were initially laughing at the just massive numbers of people in the nearby alleyways near where i m standing. and then those jokes about, hey, i m not going to be able to breathe he
That. new day continues right now. a halloween celebration turns disastrous. i m john berman with brianna keilar. at least 154 people were killed saturday night in a crush of surging partygoers in seoul, south korea. this is one of the deadliest tragedies ever there. pictures share on social media show the crowd jammed into an alley. among those killed, 26 foreign nationals including two u.s. citizens. witnesses say the capital s nightlife district was crammed with people just trying to enjoy the first halloween weekend without covid restrictions. cnn s senior international correspondent ivan watson is live for us on the scene in