buenos dias. good morning and welcome to your "new day." i'm boris sanchez. >> and i'm amara walker. breaking overnight, a tanker explodes on a bridge. what this means strategically and symbolically and how ukrainian and russian officials are reacting. plus, you would think a strong jobs report would mean great news, but it could signal long-term trouble for the economy. and cleaning house in uvalde. the school district there

suspend its entire police force and puts two officials on leave following the school shooting that left 19 children dead. how the families are reacting. and anger and confusion in florida as many left homeless by hurricane ian are stuck waiting in line for hours to get the help they need. we're going to take you there this morning. "new day" starts right now. ♪ amara, we made it. the weekend, saturday, october 8th. we're so grateful that you're with us. before we start, a heartfelt welcome is in order. i hope our viewers will join me in welcoming and congratulating amara walker, the new "new day" permanent host. >> i'm so excited.

truly, there's no one else i would rather be doing this than you especially during these dark and early morning hours, but you and me together, we've got this. world, watch out. happy to be here. thank you so much, boris. >> of course. we're following breaking news out of crimea where there's been a breaking escalation in russia's war on ukraine. >> there was a massive explosion overnight that crippled europe's longest bridge linking russia to the annexed territory of crimea. the kirsch bridge is not only logistically important, it's a huge symbol for the kremlin and expected to unite the kremlin with the mainland. let's head to fred plieitgenple. many would assume this is the work of ukraine. >> reporter: a lot of people would assume that, you're

absolutely right, boris. russians seem to be assuming as well. there was a devastating explosion that took place in the early morning hours. i think we saw some of that cvtv video. it was still dark out when it happened. it seemed to be some kind of truck that blew up. what happened in the aftermath of that is that part of the bridge actually collapsed. now, that bridge is a very elaborate bridge. it's not only very long but very whvery wide. it has two lanes for cars going both ways. there was a train going by that carried fuel and may have contributed to explosion. the train sat there for a very long time until they managed to extinguish the flames. that part of the bridge collapsed. it will be out for several months. the russians have put in place an investigation committee --

commission to find out exactly what happened to try to get it up and running again. what you guys are saying is absolutely correct. it's a strategically important bridge because it links that to the russian mainland and that's really one of the main supply lines that the russians have for their entire southern military operation that they have going on in their war -- their invasion of crimea. so a lot of tanks, a lot of logistical equipment going along the railings. a lot of it shut down. the authorities have already been saying there's not going to be any shortages there on peninsula as far as fuel is concerned. they're very concerned people will be racing to gas stations now to try to get food and to grocery stores to try to stock up there as well. it's a big blow. and then, also, of course, a big blow symbolically. amara was saying, very true, this bridge was inaugurated by

vladimir putin himself. it was a huge project, built very quickly. the russian leader was proud of the bridge as well, and it was blown up one day after his 70th birthday. as you can imagine social media is on fire mocking the russian president. in fact, the national security adviser of ukraine put out a tweet juxtapose marilyn monroe singing to john kennedy with the bridge blowing up singing "happy birthday mr. president" mocking putin in all of it. ukrainians are taking advantage of this. >> a tweet that has gone viral on twitter. i appreciate your reporting as always, fred pleitgen, thank you. now taking the temp of the u.s. economy and hoping the fever will break soon, the economy has cooled down a

little, but it's still hotter than the federal reserve would like to see? >> in any other climate, this would be great news. employers added 602,000 new jobs but there was a dip. >> the fed now faces the delicate balancing act, trying to cool down the job market and tamp down inflation without triggering a recession. that's key here. >> that's where the trouble lies. christine romans breaks down the latest numbers and what they mean. >> boris, amara, still a strong job market, but still some signs of slowing down. you can see fewer jobs added in september than in august and below the supercharged pace from irl letter this year. the jobless rate fell to 3.5%, the lowest in 50 years, and down

sharply from the worst days of the pandemic. 83,000 jobs have been added. health care has recovered all the jobs lost during the pandemic. 46,000 new jobs in businesses and services, 22,000 in manufacturing. wang growth slowed to an annual rate of 5%, slowing down from the red-hot growth earlier this year and potentially a sign the fed's medicine is starting to work. taken together it shows a job market still strong but moderating, and because moderating policy takes some time to affect the economy, it may take some time to affect the fed's rates. >> thanks so much for that. president biden is saying this robust jobs market is evidence of a strong economy where everyone is doing well. here's what he told supporters at a rally in maryland yesterday. >> all across america we're pr proving that our best days are ahead of us, not behind us. this is an economy built on

building from the million dollarsing up and bottom out, not from the top down. when that happens, everyone do well. the wealthy do well and the wealthy do very well. they're not hurt at all. that's the vision i worked on when i ran and i'm pushing on. >> cnn's kevin liptak is traveling with the president. good morning, kevin. as you heard there, the president touting his economic plans but taking aim at republicans as the midterms are about a month away. >> reporter: yeah, he's really turning up the heat, and he's also defending his economic record even as there's so much uncertainty lingering in the economy. yesterday the president was at the volvo manufacturing plant in maryland. it was just across the border from pennsylvania. that's the site of those critical senate and governor's races, and the president trying

to lay out the stakes of what would happen if republicans took control of congress. listen to a little bit more of what he had to say. >> many of me republican friends are basically arguing good news to the economy is bad news -- is bad news for america. they're rooting for fewer jobs and lower wages. they love to attack the democrats. they say for what we've done. but they really don't want to see what their plan is. i doubt any of you can tell me what the republican re-election plan is this time out. what's their platform if they take control of congress? >> reporter: so you hear the president really trying to sharpen his message just as the midterm elections near. he was speaking a few hours after the jobs numbers came out, showing a robust jobs market, cooling slightly, but the president will have a challenge in the weeks and months ahead trying to explain to americans

how he's trying to stabilize this economy, even if it means fewer jobs, even if it means inflation coming down. the president is also contending with a slight uptick in gas prices, and that's something he and his top advisers are watching very closely for a lot of the president's senior aides, that's the most important metric in the weeks before the midterm elections. president biden was dealt a blow last week when the opec announced it was cutting production. that was after the president's high-station trip over the summer. white house officials insist that was not a waste of time, but certainly it could mean that gas prices continue to go up. you're already starting to see prices reach almost their heights in california. there are some refineries that have bent offline over the past few weeks, and so the president and his top aides are watching that very closely. now, the president in his speech

yesterday did acknowledge that gas prices were starting to tick back up again, and he mentioned that situation with opec, and he said he's not finished with it yet. so clearly raising the specter of taking some sort of action against opec, trying to bring down gas prices in the weeks before the midterm elections. >> opec cutting oil production days before the midterm elections, timing not exactly fortunate for the president. thank you very much. economy is a major issue in the upcoming midterm elections. that could spell trouble for the democrats, of course. let's get more perspective from cnn commentator errol louis. good morning, errol, always good to see you. we just heard from kevin. you have stubbornly high inflation and it doesn't help

that opec is cutting oil production. that is clearly going to lead to higher gas prices. how do all of these issues play into midterm elections. >> good morning, amara. the way this plays out is many, many voters, really, close to half, according to this political science literature, are making their decisions based not on a details analysis of where candidates are coming from but on the very simple and reasonable question whether or not life is better for them. if things are looking ugly, if the supermarket checkout line and at the pump when they go to fill up their cars with gas, they're going to say, whoever's in power, we need to make a change. that's just the way it goes. it may seem unfair because it's not a democratic or republican factor that vladimir putin decided to invade ukraine. the reality is russia is a member of opec and the united states is not. russia convinced its fellow car tell members to raise the price

of gas, and there's not a whole lot we can do about it, along with the supply chain problems it. ee going to be very, very tough for democrats to convince people who are not paying much attention to the ins and outs of whatever is proposed. the president is right. the republicans are not proposing anything particularly different. they're just saying, fif you've got pain, you've got to make a change. that's very convincing. >> when you look at nevada and arizona, really important battleground states, it shows according to some polls including cnn polls, voters are focused on the economy, no surprise that's a top issue, but the senate and gubernatorial races don't seem to have a clear winner in these two states. how do you read into that? >> yeah, it's interesting. in one case in particular in arizona especially, i should

say, that donald trump has injected himself into the election where the entire republican slate are pro-trump. i believe he's going to be campaigning there this weekend, as a matter of fact. that introduces an entirely new factor into all of this. even though, for example, gas prices are spiking in arizona, and normally that would just help republicans, you've got this other x factor. you've got the final of the republican hearings of the january 6th committee hearing coming up. there are republican candidates, amara, who are saying that the 2020 election was wrongly decided and that given the chance, they would have thrown out their own state's electoral ballots. this is extreme behavior. i don't think republicans who could be running on simply the question of inflation, i don't know that they're going to necessarily be helped by throwing trump into the mix. >> right. if there are people out there

concerned about america's democracy hanging in the balance, you know, and you look at some of the cnn polling that sews republican voters in the two battleground states, arizona and nevada, they're more motivated to vote, 62% of republicans versus 52% for democrats. you also have roe v. wade. you would think that would have lit a fire or motivated democratic voters. where's the disconnect here? >> it's interesting here. the republicans may be more motivated. on the other hand, there's a suggestion voting may not be picking up. we've seen from coast to coast a surge in voter registration of women following the overturning of roe. you can't make a straight line correlation, but it's safe to assume you wouldn't see that big bump in the registration of women if they were planning to simply stay at home.

you have to presume this is going to help democrats. now, how all of that plays out from state to state, it really depends on the candidates, it depends on the money, the advertising, and the messaging. but in every instance where we've had a chance to sort of get a glimpse at it from one end to the other, kansas to new york, what we're finding is it really gives a lot of help to democrats, so they're going to be hoping to exploit that, i think, in nevada and in arizona as well. >> lastly before we go regarding opec plus and cutting oil production and obviously a slap in the face for president biden who was there a few months ago, you know, hoping to get the saudi arabian kingdom to actually, you know, put out more gasoline, how is the biden administration mulling this issue because the oil production cuts are supposed to happen -- i think it's november 1st, which could spike gas prices. biden seems quite angry about

this, but retaliation could also backfire, so he's kind of in a pickle right now. >> retaliation could backfire big time. what should the united states do? should it start holding back on some of its arms sales to the kingdom of saudi arabia and destabilizing the entire region over gas prices? i don't know if that's a smart thing to do. i mean the president's in a difficult position. i believe to the extent that it becomes an issue, he can say truthfully, i did everything i could. i went over and tried to argue in person for them not to do this, but in the end russia is a member of opec and the united states is not, and they chose to do what their car tell member wanted them to do. i don't know if it's that much more complicated as far as the reality of it. the political blowback, of course, is going to to be pretty fierce for the democrats. >>er roll lewis, appreciate your time as always. thank you so much. >> thank you. still ahead, long lines, frustration, and for many, nowhere to go. a lot of folks who lost their

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there's some new developments to share with you over a very important story. four months after the uvalde shooting, the superintendent has announced plans to begin the process of retiring. this comes on the same day the entire police force was suspend until further notice. we have more on that and the

ongoing investigation. >> reporter: the uvalde school district suspending all of its officers, pulling them out of the schools in uvalde and putting them into administrative roles, all of this after reporting a newly hired officer who came from the dps, she resigned from the department of public safety and was hired by the school district despite the fact that she was under investigation for her response while at the dps to the robb elementary school, somehow they hired her even though they were told and new by the dps she was under investigation. also in the school administration, ken melor was also suspended. he retired because of that suspension. he decided he was just going to retire. also lieutenant miguel hernandez. he's the lieutenant, commanding officer of the school police force. he also was placed on

administrative leave. what our understanding is this lieutenant was the one behind vetting that officer, officer al alesando. of course, this is all welcome news for the families who have been fighting for justice, who have been fighting for accountability, wanting the school to take this kind of action certainly after our report. but also since the shooting, they have not felt safe in that community with those officers, and they've wanted accountability for the failures but also the failures they believe occurred by the school district. we're also told on one final note is that the superintendent hall harold, he plans to retire. that announcement is expected sometime possibly on monday.

certainly a big shakeup in uvalde. something that the families didn't think they would get, but finally some accountability, offering them some relief. boris, amara? >> our thanks to shimon prokupecz on that reporting. for some folks in florida, restoration and recovery efforts are still strained and slow going. >> frustrated residents have faced long lines at fema help centers. some survivors say they have yet to hear from insurance adjusters. cnn's leyla santiago with more on the recovery. >> reporter: it's been very stressful and overwhelming. alexa has been living in a shelter now for 11 days. the kids are getting cranky. it's difficult to explain to them the new reality. uncertainty is growing. >> it's hard to tell you kids what's going on. honestly, i don't have a plan.

it's a waiting game. >> reporter: the family of three is staying at the hertz arena. cameras are not allowed inside here, but the red cross provided this video that shows children, families, hundreds of cots. organizers tell us about 500 people will be staying here tonight. a big ask for many, a warm shower, the comforts of home that ian took away. >> it's everything to someone now affected by the hurricane. >> i had my first nightmare about 2:00 this morning. >> reporter: denise griffin is also staying here. her former home has been wiped away. she's frustrated how the mandatory evacuation orders had played out. >> i wish i had noun earlier. i could have walked off the island. we have less than 30 hours. i have a bike. i don't have a car. >> reporter: florida's lieutenant governor stopped by. we asked her about criticism and

accountability. >> we're not going to criticize our local emergency managers. >> reporter: she said she wants to focus on making sure people have access to services they desperately need. >> fema's been an integrated and active partner every step of the way, so we're really pleased with the response. >> reporter: a long-term response that's been a nightmare disaster. >> the nightmare you had? >> water. i love the water, but not like that. >> everyone has the same question. how long do they have? how long can they count on this shelter? it certainly speaks to the uncertainty of it. according on the lee county sheriff, they have three shelters open and active. and a bit of news when it comes to progress. florida power and light now saying 98% of power has been restored. boris, amara? >> leyla, thank you for your reporting there. it was an emotional week of testimony after parents suffered

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the jury of six wrapped up deliberations on friday afternoon. they're determining how much the host should pay. the massacre left 20 children and six educators dead, calling the shooting a hoax and the families crisis actors. family members described how they've been harassed over the past decade in person and online. there were threatening letters sent. harassment began in some cases before they even began burying their children. jones got in a heated exchange with the plaintiff's attorney, exploding at one point saying, quote, he was done, saying, i'm sorry. representatives from the families of eight of the victims spoke. the jury deliberations will resume tuesday morning at 9:30

with monday being a holiday. joey jackson, appreciate you being an early riser for us. the jury deliberated very briefly yesterday, the full day. they had some requests. they wanted a dry erase'sle, markers, and a copy of the jury instructions. is there anything to read there? >> yeah, boris. good morning to you. what is to read is they have a lot of work to do. remember, just to make everything clear about this, liability, that is the responsibility with regard to his false statements about sandy hook being a hoke, about crisis actors being the family members who were victims, that has already been determined. he's already found liable, boris, as it relates to that. the jurors' job right now is toy a says the damages involved. what does that mean? that means the jury is not focused on his liability.

they know he's locked down and liable by fault. it's over how much the monetary penalty should be. there are two forms. one is compensatory damages. those damages are designed to compensate the families for their losses as it relates to his lies. the other measure of damages being punitive damages, those damages designed to punish him for his misrepresentation. when you want the easel, the jury instructions, something to write on it, they're assessing in their view what the evidence has shown, boris, as it relates to what he owes monetarily for his false claims. >> one attorney for the sandy hook parents said the jury should have warned the plaintiffs at least 5$550 million. how does the jury figure out the exact amount? >> i think what they do -- and it's very ambiguous, right? there's no set formula, boris, in terms of deciding specifically how much to be awarded. having said that, the attorneys

for the victims have said, hey, listen, you're talking about someone who used his platform as it relates to not only tv, but radio and social media to defame these families, to hurt these families, to emotionally impair these families. if you look at between 2012 and 2018, the 550 million hits, right, in terms of people look and evaluating, perhaps that's a measure you should use in awarding damages here. and so while there is no set formula, the attorneys have given a guide. very important point to make, boris, and that's this. we've talked about caps on damages. in texas, you saw that cap. he was awarded in texas -- excuse me, the victims in that trial were awarded plenty of money. $50 million. there's a pub active damage cap, designed to punish. there's also punitive caps in connecticut, and those caps are limited to the cost of your

litigation, the cost of attorney fees, however, they also sued -- that is, the victims -- into unfair trade practices where there is no such caps. when we're talking about damages, yes, there are limited damages when you talk about deaf make, but if you continue that to unfair trade practices, there's no cap permissible, and literally it could lead to ruinous liability. that's an important distinction to make, boris. >> we've got to leave the conversation there. the jury deliberates again on tuesday. we look forward to continuing the conversation. thank you so much. >> always, boris. still ahead, for hundreds of thousands of migrants, getting to the u.s. is the very first step in a long process. next cnn "talk"s to those involved and the challenges they're facing.

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this is unsustainable. >> in fact, adams says the crisis will cost the city $1 billion, and he's asking for federal and state assistance. the state of emergency will last 30 days and may be extended. further south on the border, the surge in migrants continues. 30,000 have been allowed in the u.s. and processed by the u.s. border patrol. what happens to them once they're actually here? cnn's reporter has a firsthand look. >> reporter: family time without fear. your family was threatened. that's why felipe fled colombia with his wife and three children. they're some of the 580,000 processed by the border patrol at the u.s. southern border and released migrants into the country this fiscal year with

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