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.
. good morning, everyone. welcome to cnn this morning. it s december 31st. yes, it s the last day of the year. happy new year s eve to you, martin. happy new year s eve to you as well, amara. thank you. we are, of course, following breaking news this morning. pope benedict emeritus has died. pope francis had been asking for prayers. for the firstet time in modern history he resigned in 2013, citing advanced age, which paved the way for pope francis to head the church. cnn s delia gallagher with more. reporter: in many respects, benedict xvi was the pope who got a bad rap. nearly 24 years as pope john paul ii eternal enforcer and the german chancellor lived in the shadows of hitler s regime, referred as god s rottweiler. years of anything tev publicity caused many of his accomplishments to go unnoticed. he was the first pope to go green, making the vatican the first country in the world with a zero carbon footprint, putting solar panels on its rooftops, and bringing
hello, everyone. i m kate bolduan. at this hour, we are in the home stretch. today is the final day of campaigning before voters start getting counted. candidates across the country are out in force as they should be of course. getting final face time with voters and their final opportunity to lock in any waiving votes. the mood understandably tense with so many razor tight races and so much on the line. republicans are growing increasingly confident they ll make major gains in congress and in governor s mansions across the country. the current and former presidents back on the trail again to try to boost turnout. president biden will be campaigning for democratic candidates in maryland today. former president trump will be in ohio for a rally for the republican senate candidate there. and another sign of justice how focused in voters are on this midterm, more than 40 million americans in 47 states have already cast their ballots in early voting. and when all of the votes are
nightmare is unfolding in buffalo, new york , after days of blistering cold weather in nearly fifty two inches of snow ,dozens are now dead. thousands are without power. new york s governor referred to driving conditions as a war zone. police, national guard are going door to door, plowing their way through the snow to perform welfare checks. and the death toll in western new york is expected to rise. meanwhile, thousands of flights have been canceled or delayed, especially on southwest airlines. which is stranded americans and their luggage all over the country in what is being described as a colossal failure at every level. here now with a full report. fox wethers, katie, burne, katy . some southwest fliers never made it home for the holidays. many of them are still stranded tonight. and for those who gave up on flying altogether, they decided to drive home instead. now they re showing up to airports like this, looking for their luggage and being told they won t be seein
title 42 in place until spring. but the crisis is still far from over with migrants desperate to get into the country after spending every penny they have in risking their lives to be here. todd: fluke lucas tomlinson with brand-new video showing the absolute chaos at the border, l. good morning todd and ashley. let s get to the exclusive videotape by whom allusion shows a texas rancher 50 miles from the border with fox in a group f men whose owner say illegal immigrants to break into her house. the border officers unable to apprehend the suspects and tells fox tried to kick down the door as you see here break down the of wood but unsuccessful the owner said due to thousands of dollars to recent security upgrades. the attorney general showed this video obtained by the office. over the summer we had 150,000 folks come in that were issued a piece of paper and said, go find somebody nice. that was pretty much it. so this isn t something that you guys asked for. i can assur