hello and a warm welcome to our viewers joining us in the united states and all around the world. i'm max foster in london. just ahead -- >> he has failed in every strategic objective he's set for himself. >> translator: i didn't expect he would also kill the kids, she says, describing how he repeatedly used a knife to kill the children and a pregnant teacher. >> i'm not sure.

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 surprise. >> for the white house there have been months where they have warned of the potential for escalation that could reach the degree of the nuclear weapons by president vladimir putin. he's obviously warned of it himself saber-rattling as recently as friday. his speech announcing the illegal annexation of four areas in ukraine. president biden warned the potential of armageddon making it very clear in his mind there has been no comparison since the 1962 cuban missile crisis where there's been such a direct threat of nuclear war the world is now confronting. it was a sharp departure from what has been a very steady warning system that the administration has put in place

across the state department and the white house podium over the course of the last several months. they've made clear that saber-rattling is dangerous but they have also made clear that they have not seen any indication. president putin has made a decision to use nuclear weapons, to move in that direction. the u.s. has shifted its posture. none of those things has changed. it's something that caught u.s. officials by surprise. the warning is real and the threat is very acute. administration officials do acknowledge that even if in a less blunt way. in the wake of putin's speech six, seven days ago regarding the annexation it has caused administration officials from the president on down to really grapple with this moment, a moment where putin's army is flailing, failing to some degree backing putin into a corner. even biden said one of the concerns the administration has is they don't know what the off

ramp is. they don't know what will get him to the negotiating table. they're looking for signs that they want to move forward. that, president putin cornered, his penchant for escalation and the realities of this moment are real and so is the threat. that more than anything else is what the president was trying to convey, even if it was in blunt and very unsettling terms. one thing the president made particularly clear, the idea that russians are using a tactical nuclear weapon is not a half measure. he said regardless of the scale, the end game would be the same. armageddon, something the administration would be dealing with, grappling with, facing tomorrow or the next day for months ahead. phil mattingly, cnn, new york. senior military analyst mark hurtling suggested mr. biden might have a point. >> a lot of people have been

concerned about this from the beginning of this conflict. let me tell you, the last time i observed a russian exercise in moscow, outside of moscow, they have a tendency in their exercise, their training events to always end their training events with a nuclear index. it's something they practice and it's something they're very comfortable with. they've never used them for real other than in tests so this is something i think it's why the biden administration rightfully so in my view has had this concern in the back of their minds since the beginning of this conflict. >> do stay with cnn for more on the developments on the ground in ukraine, including the deadly aftermath of russia's missile strike in the city of zap zap. that's coming up in half an hour here. president biden has taken steps towards decriminalizing marijuana. he said he would pardon thousands of people convicted federally of marijuana

possession. mr. biden ordered a review of the scheduling of marijuana. that could lead to potentially easing federal declassification that puts marijuana in the same category as heroin and lsd. >> no one should be in jail just for using or possessing marijuana. it's already legal in many states. criminal records for marijuana possession have led to needles barriers to employment, housing, educational opportunities and that's before you suggest the racial disparities around who suffers the consequences. >> the pardons came weeks before voters head to the polls in the mid-term elections as part of the announcement mr. biden encouraged governors to take similar steps in their states. analysts are saying the u.s. will have a jobs report of a quarter of a million jobs. it's a bit of a catch 22 as the u.s. federal reserve is trying to fight inflation by raising

interest rates but higher unemployment may be the cost. job growth slowed in august with 315,000 new positions added. the u.s. has been averaging more than half a million new jobs a month. the unemployment rate is starting to tick back up after huge decline from pandemic highs. the federal reserve projects it could hit 4.4% by the end of the year. chairman jerome powell and company are widely expected to hike interest rates just again in november. on thursday we'll -- we learned that weekly jobless claims rose again 219,000 americans filed first-time unemployment claims last week. that's 29,000 more than the previous week. the closing bell couldn't come soon enough on wall street as the markets fell into negative territory for the second straight day. the dow drops 350 points falling back below the 30,000 threshold.

the nasdaq was down 3/4 of 1% and the s&p fell 1%. u.s. futures could give us an idea how the markets will fare when trading begins. they've been flashing warning signs in a month. take a listen to former treasury secretary larry summers. >> i think it's more likely than not that sometime in the next year or 18 months we will have a recession. i think that's a consequence of the excesses that the economy has been through and historical experience suggests that the kind of inflation we have rarely returns to normal levels, to target levels of around 2% without some kind of recession. now i don't think that means we're going to have something like we had after covid or

something like we had during the financial crisis. >> we have new details now on the horrific massacre at a day care center in thailand. at least 36 people were killed including two dozen children when a former policeman armed with a knife and several guns forced his way inside. a local hospital says the youngest victim was just three years old. the oldest was 69. police say most of the children died from stab wounds. relatives are gathering at the site of the massacre to remember their loved ones. members of the thai military in all white laid a wreath outside the nursery. family members dressed in all black, placed white roses on the doorstep. cnn's blake essig is following developments live this hour from tokyo. people are obviously struggling with what happened here. the nature of how it happened as well, the use of a knife. >> reporter: yeah. you know, max, an investigation is underway to try to figure out

what motivated a man to carry out this violent attack believed to be thailand's deadliest massacre carried out by a single person at the same time. there's a sense of shock, sadness, profound disbelief felt throughout the community. emotions on display when relatives and mourners gathered outside of the nursery where 23 out of 24 kids were killed. heartbreaking number of victims that one of the teachers who survived the massacre says could have been a lot worse. that's because on a normal day she says there are 70 to 80 kids at the nursery but because of heavy rains along with the fact many kids stayed home with older siblings who had a break from school, it likely saved dozens of lives. while authorities and local residents are still trying to, again, piece together what happened. thailand's criminal investigation bureau says that the attacker was a 34-year-old

man armed with multiple guns and a knife who entered the nursery while kids were asleep. police say the attacker's 2-year-old stepson was enrolled in the child care center that was attacked. officials say 34-year-old went there looking for this child who wasn't there at the time and it was then that the attack started. according to the police chief, most of the victims killed were staff. one of the school's teachers said she was eating lunch with co-workers when the attack started. she said as she heard what sounded like fireworks and described the moment that the attackers shot, kicked down the door before entering the nursery. she said what she saw next was horrifying. this man going through and essentially slashing the heads of these kids, these dead bodies over and over again. as for what else we know about the attacker, authorities have identified him as a former police officer who was fired and charged with a drug-related owe

fence last year involving crystal meth and yabba-yabba. it means crazy medicine in thai. it's a combination of meth and caffeine. max? >> blake, thank you. deny and deflect is a strategy that's worked for donald trump, but will it save republican herb sschel walker's struggling campaign? plus a judge, is she making sound judgments or not. we'll take a look at judge eileen cannon in just a few minutes. to destroyoy 5x more plaque above the gumline than floss. for a cleaner, healtlthier mout. listerine. fefeel the whoa!

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president donald trump to brad raths ger. >> look, i just want to find 11,780 which is one more than we had because we won the state and flipping the state is a greatest amount to our country. it's a testament they can admit to a mistake. what are we going to do here? i only need 11,000 votes. fellas, i need 11,000 votes. give me a break. >> trump is not the only person under investigation in the georgia probe. it's not clear who could be indicted. in the legal battle over classified documents, justice department officials are demanding to trump's attorneys that he return all documents marked as classified that he may still have. in recent court filings officials pointed to empty envelopes with classified banners that were seized in the search of trump's mar-a-lago beach property in august.

cnn's jessica schneider has more now on the judge presiding over this high profile legal battle. >>. >> reporter: judge cannon owes her nomination to the federal bench to donald trump. now she's front and center siding with trump's team to grant a special master to review the documents seized from mar-a-lago and decide what should be kept off limits from federal investigators. a decision which is now being appealed and has been criticized. >> it's really a very pro plaintiff, pro trump ruling in all respects. >> reporter: not only by political pundits but also three judges on the 11th circuit court of appeals, two of them trump appointees, who describe cannon's initial ruling pausing doj's review of documents marked classified untenable. the 11th circuit allowed the doj to continue the probe into the

handling of classified material while the special master reviewed thousands of other documents. judge cannon ruled trump did not have to officially declare in court whether fbi agents planted evidence at mar-a-lago something they have repeatedly said in public. the special master had requested trump prove his claims but cannon stepped in and stopped it. judge cannon has not responded to cnn but when asked during 2020 in her confirmation if she had any discussions about loyalty in her appointment by trump, she wrote no. >> i don't think she has any bias at all. >> reporter: jason worked with cannon while they practiced at gibson and dunn. >> we never talked about politics because it wasn't relevant. i still don't know anything about her politics today. >> reporter: so she wasn't overtly political? >> no. >> reporter: eileen cannon was working as a federal prosecutor

in fort pierce florida when senator marco rubio's office first reached out about a possible nomination to the federal bench. senator rubio gave cnn this statement today. judge cannon is a great judge who i'm very proud to have enthusiastically reported. the attacks against her are the latest example of attacks from hypocrisy from the leftist. rubio isn't the only florida republican cannon is linked to. she met with counsel for republican senator rick scott before she was nominated. >> my sincere thanks go to my home state senator. >> records show she donated $100 to republican governor ron desantis in 2018. she's been a judge for less than two years. she told senators her judicial philosophy would be to follow the text and the history of the constitution. she shared her personal story talking about how her mother

fled communist cuba. >> at age 7 i fled the castro regime. thank you for teaching me about the country and the importance of the rule of law for generations to come. >> jessica schneider, cnn, washington. now yet another congressional republican who voted to impeach trump is leaving office. u.s. senator ben sass of nebraska planned to reside by year's end to become the president of the university of florida according to a source. sass has made little frustration with his frustration with the changing nature of the republican party. they will appoint a temporary republican replacement. georgia's republican nominee for the u.s. senate is quadrupling down on his denials after he was accused of paying

for an abortion. the uproar isn't going away. "the daily beast" presenting new details. herschel walker insists he opposes abortion and he's a key player to retake the senate. cnn's eva mckend has the story. >> don't quit. keep going. you keep getting up. >> reporter: a defiant herschel walker on day four of rebutting allegations that have rocked his campaign for senate. >> i'm not scared. i'm not going to bite down. the stakes are way, way too high. >> reporter: taking the stage thursday at an event in georgia, the candidate made no mention of the latest developments from the daily beast but once again asked questions that he paid for his then girlfriend to have an abortion in 2009 and the new report that the woman says she is the mother of one of his

children according to the site. >> this here, abortion thing is false. it's a lie. >> reporter: cnn has not independently verified the allegations reported by "the daily beast." earlier today walker appeared on a conservative radio program. >> if that happened i would have said. >> i'm done. don't lie. >> reporter: walker also asked about his son christian's comments earlier this week calling his father a liar and making a series of accusations against him. >> i will always love him no matter what my son says. >> reporter: with a little over a month until the mid terms and locked in a tight race against democratic incumbent raphael warnock, facing questions about walker's path to victory after the latest revelations. >> i think every republican knew there was baggage out there but the weight of that baggage is starting to feel a little closer to unbearable at this point. >> reporter: the former nfl star brushing aside those concerns. >> people told me i couldn't

play football. i'm here to win the seat for the georgia people because the georgia people need a winner. >> herschel, still play a few words. >> reporter: walker allies say they want to see him give a more trumpian response. many supporters say they simply believe him. >> i'll take herschel for his words. if he said it did not happen, it did not happen. >> reporter: meanwhile, the warnock campaign up with a new ad. >> accusations that continue to follow senate candidate herschel walker. >> part of the sustained effort by democrats to highlight walker's turbulent path even as they begin. >> reporter: the walker campaign maintaining confidence suggesting the entire episode has been a fundraising boost. the next big test for them though, a crucial debate between walker and senator warnock next week in savannah, georgia. eva mckend, cnn, washington. the death toll will keep

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welcome back to "cnn newsroom." i'm max foster. if you're just joining us let me bring you up to date on the latest stories this hour. thailand's king and queen are set to visit a hospital to meet with victims and family members of thursday's massacre at a nursery school. dozens of children were amongst the 36 people killed.

u.s. president joe biden issued a startling warning about the danger of nuclear threats from vladimir putin saying the world could, quote, face armageddon if mr. putin uses a tactical weapon trying to win russia's war on ukraine. now the u.n. nuclear watchdog is not giving a nod to russia's claims on europe's largest nuclear plant. raphael grossi said it's still considered a ukrainian facility. ukraine says its forces liberated 120 settlements in the northeast and south over the past two weeks while more e european military aid will be heading ukraine's way. it will include the type of howitzer made by his country. selma abdelaziz is keeping an eye on ukraine. first on that nuclear plant,

it's worrying to think that two different countries own it when it's so sensitive. >> it's been a flash point since the beginning of the conflict but it has escalated. from the start russia took control of the nuclear power plant. it is under russian military control, however, it is still run by ukrainian technicians. it is very close to the front line. there was an early morning missile strike around the area. several people killed including a young child. why this escalated is because of a decree presented by putin which essentially annexes the nuclear power plant. in wake of the illegal annexation, they're saying the ukrainian technicians are being pressured to sign russian contracts to work with a russian company and that's very concerning. president zelenskyy brought it up yesterday.

take a look. >> translator: if the zaporizhzhia plant does not work, we face certain difficulties in ukraine. we get a situation where we do not have a surplus of electricity which we can export to u.k. countries. it is a disadvantage to the eu nations who lose a reliable source of energy supply. >> reporter: all of the reactors have been shut down since september. the iaea says there are indications that one of those reactors could be brought back up which brings that concern, that specter, that probability of nuclear disaster working up near the front lines. this competing claim over who can run the power plant. the practical reality of the russian military is and the chief is expected to travel to moscow to try to reach a deal essentially to create a security zone around this plant. he was in the -- the iaea chief was in kyiv yesterday.

he said some progress was made. he met with president zelenskyy. i'll look for the security element. >> selma, thank you. the u.s. and south korea have begun two days of joint naval exercises off the east coast of the korean peninsula. joint drills have been ongoing since last week in response to north korea's recent provocations. biden administration officials privately admit they don't know why north korea has suddenly stepped up the ballistic missile tests with six of them in the past two weeks. while they can't predict what leader kim jong-un will do next, they strongly expect he's about to escalate tensions further with yet another underground nuclear test. cnn's paula hancocks is following all of these developments with us from seoul. we don't get the intel from north korea so we're just trying to join the dots here.

>> reporter: exactly, max. there isn't hard and fast intelligence coming out from north korea, quite frankly never has been. this is an admission by the biden administration officials. they have very little to work with. they don't know why north korea is carrying out this prolific amount of missile strikes at this time. we heard from john kirby that they do know north korea wants to increase their nuclear weapons. back in january 2021 he annexed a five-year plan. he gave the world a wish list of the weapons and capabilities that he wanted to perfect. experts have been pointing to this list saying one by one he has worked his way through the list, taking the boxes and

making sure he can perfect the weapons and missile capabilities. one thing we know they would like to perfect is the nuclear capability. we have intelligence agencies saying they believe that may be imminent. they have been saying that for months. the intelligence agency here, they believe there may be a window after the chinese congress which is in the middle of october. they don't want to upset the main benefactor. it may be before the u.s. mid-term elections. it's a guessing game but it is an educated guessing game. many want to try to attribute a reason for the missile launches. they have given us a reason.

they're irritated by the u.s./south rohr reason joint drills which happened last week. those are now happening again in response to the missile launches between the u.s. and south korea. japan was involved on thursday as well. so this was what experts point to a tit-for-tat reaction. missile launch from north korea. a military response and reaction from the u.s. and south korea and sometimes from japan. they don't see that changing in the future. >> thank you, paula. a former texas state trooper under investigation in response for a deadly state shooting is out of her new job. a week after hurricane ian tore apart destruction across florida, patience is wearing thin. coming up, why some residents say recovery efforts have left them behind.

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cnn has learned an officer who responded to the school massacre in uvalde, texas, has now been fired from her new job. this comes after cnn report that crimson elisando is one of the officers under investigation in response to the mass shooting in which 19 children and 2 teachers were killed. officers waited 77 minutes before taking out the gunman and elisando is seen here standing outside the school that day but with no poddy armor or rifle as officers are trained to do. later she's heard on camera in exchange with fellow officers.

>> reporter: an officer asked if her children attend robb elementary. her response. >> your kids go here? >> my son's in day care. he's not old enough. >> all right. i saw you -- >> yeah, no. no. if my son had been in there, i would not have been outside, i promise you that. >> after the shooting elisando left her job as a state trooper and was hired as an officer at an elementary school where children who survived were sent. parents who recognized her were outraged. she declined to speak with cnn. she's one of seven current and former dps officers under investigation. the school's police chief was fired in august. now local authorities say 84 undocumented migrants were rescued from a semi truck in southwest texas.

sheriff's deputies and u.s. border patrol protection found the vehicle. it was found eight miles north and that's about 13 kilometers. officials say the migrants are from central america and that none of them asked for medical assistance when found. an investigation into the incident is underway. hurricane ian is blamed for at least 131 deaths in the u.s. nearly half of the 126 deaths in florida are in lee county where the hurricane made its u.s. landfall. many who survived the storm lost everything. now there's growing frustration with recovery efforts from state and federal agencies. cnn's layla santiago reports. >> reporter: this is the line for help. help for people like mary fernandez. >> pretty awful. we lost a mobile home and everything in it. >> reporter: she arrived early

hoping to talk to fema in time to make it to a scheduled surgery she's been waiting for two months for. on top of that, in a week she has to leave the place she's staying. >> we just have to wait and see and hope that they can give us something woor we am can go stay there. >> in line in front of her. my shed gone, the roof is gone, the linai is gone and my car got flooded. >> mary bloomfield. >> the sad part is i have yet to see a government official. >> reporter: it's a one stop shop set up by fema. here you'll find the federal government, state agencies, authorities and you'll find long lines under the hot sun and overwhelming emotions and needs of all kinds, melting frustrations. >> my patience is gone. people in my community, they lost everything. >> reporter: fema says they will open other disaster centers. nearly 2800 fema staff are

supporting ian response questions. >> i don't have to live on sanibel or fort myers beach. for me, that's all they seem to care about. >> sanibel, fort myers beach, harlem heights, we definitely felt left out. >> reporter: or distribution sites by nonprofits. >> we're trying to provide the basic needs of people of our community. >> reporter: as for mary fernandez, she never made it to the front of the line. she left when she realized she ran out of time in order to make it to her surgery. time now critical for those with dire needs a week after ian left these people devastated, still waiting for help. remember, this week president biden was here in florida. he asked people to be patient

with the response, but as we've been here talking to patients. i was able to catch up with susan. she had a new cell phone. the insurance company is going to help her out with getting a car so she can get back to work. fema will be helping her with housing. layla santiago, cnn, fort myers, florida. we're tracking another powerful storm churning in the atlantic. tropical depression 13 formed in the caribbean located southwest of caraco. it's expected to strengthen into a category 1 hurricane before making landfall in nicaragua on sunday morning. cnn meteorologist joins me now with the latest developments. hi, brittney. >> good morning. definitely tracking tropical storm 13. it has an undefined center and

it's getting sheered off. it's expected to strengthen as it pushes into warm waters. it's under a tropical storm warning. the eyelets under a hurricane watch. that indicates strengthening. the warm waters in the 80s. moving on shore as a tropical storm somewhere along the coast line of nicaragua with winds 50 miles an hour. weakening moving through honduras and significantly weakens. regardless of the weakening, one of the bigger threats life threatening amounts of rain. landslides in higher elevations. 4 to 6 inches. it could be picking up 10 inches of rain. they are in agreement when it

comes down to where the eye will be and where we may be getting potential landfall but the on shore flow, another thing to pay attention to. all of that water gets pushed up on to shore within the islands. 1 to 3 feet expected for the catalina islands. we have to pay attention to that as well. it's getting cold. we're in fall. we're starting to feel it. another burst of air. working our way into the 50s for highs, by the way, on saturday. doing the same for us in boston and new york. yes, some of us are actually dealing with frost advisories and freeze watches later on through the weekend. that includes parts of the ohio valley. the cold air moves through. we'll try to warm it back up but it's going to take some time. trying to warm it back up there through the middle of next week but saturday's going to be awfully chilly into the 50s.

>> thank you very much indeed for joining us. we are getting new images of a fiery protest in the iranian capitol. burning scarves and calling for the dictator's death. details just ahead. zyrteeeec works hard at hour one and twice as hard when you take it again the next day. so betty can be the barcode beat conductoror. ♪ go betty! let's be more than our a allergies! zeize the daday. zyrtec.

that is the sound of protesters in the iranian capitol charging death to khamenei, meaning iran's supreme leader, the ayatollah. they're burning scarves, supposedly hijabs. can't confirm that. they're folding into iran at the seat of power and a violent crackdown of security forces which in turn triggered new u.s. sanctions on thursday. the outpouring of anger began after the death of a young woman who had been arrested by iran's morality police for wearing her hijab incorrectly. these images are so hard to watch, not the least because of the reaction of these morality police as they're called. >> absolutely. across the country now we're

seeing protest demonstrations taking place. time and time again we are seeing this intense, violent police crackdown on the demonstrators. we heard a shocking report from amnesty international detailing the crackdown on the protesters. live fire, pellets being used. they're being ordered to disperse the protestors. this came in response to the alleged rape of a girl by a police officer. a local police station being set a lit, set on fire by demonstrators. of course, this really reflects the violent crackdown we've seen across the country. antiregime demonstrations that were sparked by the death of masa amini and are encompassing

wider grievances with the iranian agent silt. we've heard from human rights organizations pegging this around more than 150 people killed and hundreds injured. according to amnesty considering the evidence they've seen, they expect the death toll to be a lot higher than 82. that's the number that they've outlined there. on reaction to this, of course, we have seen support from the international communities, not the least of which the united states. >> they're stopping the videos from getting out? >> exactly. that's the crucial evidence. they're taking a hard-line a ploech stopping them from getting out. >> nada, thank you.

we're minutes away from learning this year's winner of the nobel peace prize. that was expected at the top of the hour in oslo, norway. the nobel cumulative committee is notoriously tight lipped. experts have zeroed in on these people as possibilities this year. this year's prize also comes amid russia's ongoing fwhar ukraine. many want ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy to win it. they think that's unlikely and too soon. they awarded the french award of literature. upon learning she had won she called it a great honor and she around this advice to young people. read as much as possible and

strive to write honestly. a frightening in thursday night's nfl game between the indianapolis colts and the denver broncos. take a look as colts running back naim hines catches his short pass from matt ryan. he takes a big hit there and just a few seconds later you can see he struggles to stand up and has to be helped off the field. the colts coach said after the game that hines had suffered a concussion. it's been a contentious issue. the miami dolphins quarterback had to be carried off the field on a stretcher after a hard hit last thursday. he's also knocked out of game 4 days earlier after his helmet hit the turf. now the vatican is using modern technology to recreate the life of a man by catholics considered to be the first pope.

>> an 8 minute film, follow me, the life of saint peter. it features the hard work from the vatican museum depicting the light of the apostle. it's free until october 16th. you can see it on the vatican's youtube channel. thanks for joining me here on "cnn newsroom." i'm max foster in london. "early start" with christine romans is next right here on cnn.

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