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 your new day. it s sunday, october 30. s it nearly the end of the month. i m amber walker. almost halloween. good morning, i m boris sanchez. it s finally here. a new week too. thank you for starting off with us. so much to get to this morning, including in asia. that s right. we re following this deadly disaster unfolding in the south korean capital of seoul where 153 people are dead. dozens more injured after being crushed in a crowd while out celebrating halloween. we do want to warn you that some of these images are very difficult to watch. it was a crowd surge that happened on saturday night in the popular nightclub district of etawan.
and when kenya smith left the navy after 14 years, show thought that two she thought that two masters degrees and military experience would help her get a job. two years later she s still looking. and a special welcome to the service men and women watching on the armed forces network. thanks for joining us. we re glad you re with us. and we begin with a major storm battering the northeast. right now around two million people are without power. four states have declared emergencies. new york, new jersey, connecticut, and massachusetts. want to take a live look now at new york city, columbus circle. a very dark columbus circle. new york, by the way, did not get the worst of it. here s what it looks like in massachusetts. officials predicted that downed trees were going to be a major problem. and take a look at that they were right. the storm is being blamed for three deaths so far, one of them in massachusetts. a man in pennsylvania was killed when a snow-covered tree f