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coy, nice to see you. have a great day. thanks for joining me. i m christine romans. new day starts right now. way in south korea, i m john berman with brianna keilar. it s one of the deadliest disasters to ever hit that country at least 154 people killed in a crush of halloween party goers in seoul. pictures shared on social media show the crowd crammed into an alley. 26 foreign nationals including two u.s. citizens are among the dead. witnesses saying the narrow streets were jammed with people trying to enjoy the first halloween weekend without covid restrictions. ivan watson is live for us on the scene in seoul. do investigators have any idea what triggered this surge? reporter: just sheer mass humanity in the alley ways just steps from where i m standing right now. this is an impromptu memorial that has cropped up in the 24, 48 hours since the disaster. as you can see, people paying their respects, flowers, handwritten notes, candles, photos of some of the ....
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 brea ....
has been declared in florida as a tropical storm heads straight for the coast. live from the cnn weather center on the latest. and a look at russia s referendums across the russia-occupied ukraine in the way of annexing which president biden is calling a sham. node. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. and we begin in the north atlantic, where a deadly storm that caused massive destruction across several caribbean islands just made landfall in eastern nova scotia. damaging winds and heavy rain are pounding the region as the storm races northward. residents from all across atlantic canada did what they could before the sun went down to prepare including in nova scotia where people waited in long lines to stock up on supplies like food and propane. as you can see, it s not too bad. but we ll know for a week for, i m fine, because i have a trailer that i m staying into. so hopefully, it doesn t get blown away. this is completely useles ....
the dark without electricity as some communities are now unrecognizable. we also have the very latest on the rescue and recovery efforts . we re also following a developing story overseas. more than 100 people are deld after violence erupts at a soccer stadium in indonesia. mayhem on the pitch after what we re learning started that deadly chaos. ukrainian forces making major gains recapturing a critical city a day after russia tried to claim the tear tar for itselfment mortgage rates climbing to their highest level in 15 years. what that means for home buyers and what all of us should be doing right now amid soaring inflation. new day starts right now. good morning to you. it is sunday, october 2nd. thank you for waking up with us. boris sanchez will be joining us in just a few moments from ft. myers, florida. we have a lot of news to get to. we ll begin with cleanup efforts in florida where hurricane ian left a path of destruction across the state. at least 66 pe ....
hello and welcome. friday, september 23rd. 9 a.m. here in london. 11 a.m. in ukraine. voting begins today in the four occupied regions on whether to become a part of the russian federation. the areas make up about 50% of ukraine s territory. if they join russia many believe that will provide vladimir putin the pretexts to claim russian territory is under attack and escalate the war. it s prompting people to flee the country in all directions. a long line of cars backed up at russia s border with finland. the government in helsinki is thinking of new restrictions to keep russians from entering. they re crossing into armenia and turkey. according to one witness, traffic at one checkpoint stretched 5 to 6 kilometers. it was a similar scene along the border with kazakhstan. trucks lined up as far as the eye could see. ticket prices are soaring for flights out of moscow. most of which is sold out for the next few days. the kremlin calls reports exaggeration and fake news. th ....