his reign, as the world watches to see what kind of leader he might be. and in the u.s., pressing for answers in uvalde, texas. cnn asking the state s top law enforcement officer why did he allegedly say no one is losing their jobs over the massacre at robb elementary? his answer you ll only see here. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start today with our world lead and the first full day on the job for king charles iii, as the world mourns the death of his mother, britain s longest reigning monarch. he addressed the nation and the world for the first time since queen elizabeth s passing. as the queen herself did with such unswerving devotion, i too now solemnly pledge myself throughout the remaining time god grants me to uphold the constitutional principles at the heart of our nation. that address was followed by a sarceremony of remembrance wh god save the king was officially sung. earlier today, upon returning to london, king charles and his wife camilla
i m not going to bite down. the stakes are way, way too high. i think every republican knew there was baggage out there. the weight of that baggage is starting to feel a little closer to unbearable. announcer: live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. it s friday, october 7th, 9 a.m. here in london, 4 a.m. on the east coast of the united states where we start in new york. that s where u.s. president joe biden gave a stark warning about nuclear talk coming out of russia. president vladimir putin hinted using nuclear weapons is not off the table. statement came after the military racked up losses in the ukraine. wednesday night mr. biden responded to that threat saying there s no such thing as the ability to easily use a tactical nuclear weapon and not end up in armageddon. after the speech u.s. officials made it clear they did not see any change in russia s nuclear posture. phil mattingly explains, mr. biden s statement caught even some u.s. officials by
bombshell cnn report. now the school system is suspending its entire police department. and a new strong jobs report showing more americans employed and earning more money. so might this set up another hike in your interest rates as the fed tries to tame rising inflation? welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper. a bone chilling warning of armageddon tops our world lead. president biden made that assessment last night invoking the nuclear brinksmanship of the cuban missile crisis 60 years ago this month. as vladimir putin loses his grip on his bloody unprovoked war against ukraine and threatens to delay catastrophic weapons. senior u.s. officials were caught off guard they say. but by what some might characterize as inartful and perhaps in some views he is callatory comments they insist there is nothing that raises the threat level above where it is been but still president biden doesn t seem a clear off-ramp for putin and u.s. officials thinks even if he uses the smallest ta
pro patrols the schools. they ve suspended them and they re going to put them on desk duty. this was certainly a shocking development. not something anyone expected, but something that family members have been wanting for quite some time, jake. and it was not justifiering, shimon. one of the department s administrators resigned today as well. tell us about that. reporter: yeah, the administrator, a man by the name of ken miller, he s the number three administrator at the school. what he does, this is actually the lieutenant, lieutenant hernandez on your screen, just to be clear. this is the lieutenant who did the vetting of the officer that they hired who eventually got fired from the dps. there s documentation that this lieutenant, miguel hernandez, received a document, received a letter from the dps saying that this officer was urn investigation, but somehow they still hired him. this is ken miller here on your screen. this is the man who was put on leave and now also r
of state. the war of words erupting between the democrat and the gop governor of texas. the suspect accused in the deadly stabbing rampage on the las vegas strip appearing in court. what we re learning about the victims. new developments in the mar-a-lago investigation. is donald trump still keeping documents he took from the white house? our series climate challenge. the coastal residents moving their entire homes before the ocean can swallow them. and superstar lin-manuel miranda on his mission for puerto rico as the island faces a long recovery from another deadly hurricane. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, everyone. it s a threat that shadowed a generation of americans during the cold war. a nuclear standoff with russia and now president biden giving voice to growing new fears and a dangerous new era. once more framed by the threat of nuclear conflict. president biden saying, we face the prospect of armageddon comparing i