the campaign trial. in south korea, police are taking the blame for that deadly halloween crowd stampede that killed more than 150 people. mostly young adults including two americans. and the conservative supreme court majority takes up affirmative action today in college admissions. singling a possible reversal on another issue that had been law. good day. i m andrea mitchell in washington on halloween. the attack on paul pelosi spurring a flood of conspiracy theories and disinformation including from twitter s new owner, elon musk, who tweeted an opinion, an opinion article from a low credibility source to his 100 million followers about the attack. and although many republicans have condemned the violent attack on the speaker s husband, republican governor glenn youngkin made light of the assault just hours after it happened. speaker pelosi s husband had a break-in last night and he was assaulted. there s no room for violence, but we re going to send her back to ca
seems a little odd that the black kid are there with a white santa. it s all good. to each his own. you was scared of santa. he s got the cutest things. you can t really see my phone. there s a black santa and white santa stocking that we found. ryan, you re the best. thank you. cnn this morning continues right now. so glad that you could join us this morning on the eve before the eve of christmas. good morning, everyone. poppy and kaitlan are off and i m here with the lovely and smart and talented sara seidner. i was wondering where you were going with that but you re good. we re going to catch you up on the five big stories this morning. more than half the population is under winter storm and wind chill alerts as a major storm moves across the country. it s not like a snow day when you were a kid. this is serious stuff. please take this storm extremely seriously. more than 820,000 power customers are in the dark, thousands of flights have been cancel
top of the hour. i m jim sciutto. in short, it is cold. the powerful winter storm battering the u.s., expected to grow even stronger and colder today, covering nearly half of the u.s. population. parts of the country could see the coldest christmas in decades. sub-zero temperatures hitting hard out west. here is the owner of a local towing company in montana speaking with cnn this morning. it is cold up here. if you ain t prepared for it, it could be really bad. i ve been here 20 years and this is the worst i ve ever felt. wow, tough time to be a towing company. right now hundreds of thousands of people are without power. that is tough in the cold. many of them in the southeast. travel plans upended for many going to the holiday weekend. more than 3500 flights canceled already today and counting. here is the transportation secretary pete buttigieg. lots of things are so important to us around the holidays. our traditions, our loved ones. but of course, the most importan
americans are worried about the economy, crime and immigration. the president is laser focused on abortion and not appears to be working. julie: more than 60% of voters say they wish the president would give more attention to the issues they actually care about. many democratic candidates are keeping their distance from the president and his low approval ratings. reporters asking him about that in philadelphia yesterday. tim ryan in ohio said he doesn t want you there. warnock wouldn t say. do you think they are making a mistake? i ve gone to 16 and another 20 have asked. i ll be going. do you have any plans to go to nevada or georgia in the coming weeks? president biden: hope the congressmen asked me. i don t know if i ll be able to. georgia they asked me to come down. we re working it out now. john fetterman will appear with you today. why aren t more president biden: there have been 15, count, count. there will be even more? president biden: yeah. bil
for the g.o.p. since the u.s. supreme court overturned roe versus wade in june. democrats lost four points in just one month. maybe that s because they are trying to make abortion bigger than eating and putting gas in our cars for voters. you saw it live this hour yesterday when the president got pretty snippy onesictrs on at all president biden: yes, there should be. what should they be? president biden: roe versus wade, read it, man. get educated. harris: the new monmouth poll released with these words, biden not paying attention to the most important issues. inflation concerns top the poll, abortion is down at number five with only 30% saying it s their biggest concern. higher on the list crime, illegal immigration, the president certainly not talking about that. senator john kennedy of louisiana says voters know the deal. i could talk about crime and the open border and afghanistan and the economy and inflation, but something more fundamental is wrong in our cou