happening now in the newsroom, a fuel tanker explodes on a bridge linking russia to crimea. what this means strategically and symbolically and how ukrainian and russian officials are reacting. georgia senate candidate herschel walker set to address supporters as a new round of allegations rocks his campaign. we will take you there live. it's been very stressful and overwhelming. >> floridians displaced by hurricane ian are standing in line for hours to get the help they need following the storm. our nadia romero is there. new york mayor eric adams declares a state of emergency because of an influx of migrants. >> this is unsustainable. >> the strain the system is under and how that declaration could help. too many lives upended because of our failed approach to marijuana. it's time that we right these

wrongs. >> president biden wipes out federal marijuana possession convictions. what that means for the effort to decriminalize marijuana nationwide. we have a series of serial murders occurring. >> people are scared to come out. >> police in california on the hunt for a killer. the one characteristic they are asking the community to zero in on as the search for the suspect continues. "newsroom" starts right now. ♪ good morning. it is saturday, october 8th. >> good morning. you are live in the "cnn newsroom." we start this morning in eastern europe. at least three people have been reported dead in a huge explosion that crippled europe's largest bridge and pair lased a key supply route for russia's war in ukrainian. >> that blast crippled the only bridge linking russia to the

annexed territory of crimea. the kerch bridge is a huge symbol for the kremlin and the attempt to reunify crimea with the russian mainland. let's get to fred pleitgen. russia blamed the explosion on ukrainian vandals. what are you hearing about who is behind the explosion? what is ukraine saying? >> reporter: the ukrainians are not confirming that at all. you see a lot of people within the ukrainian political sphere sort of rejoicing, but no one has taken responsibility yet and it doesn't seem as though anything like that is on the way as far as the ukrainians are concerned. the russians say they have their investigative committee on the scene there on that bridge and as you said, there were crimean officials who blamed alleged ukrainian vandals, blamed ukraine as well. so far it's definitely unclear who exactly was behind all this. the russians are saying that

there was a truck that blew up on the bridge and that that also caused an explosion on a train that was on that bridge as well. the bridge has both car lanes but also railroad tracks, and that train was apparently carrying either fuel or gas and three of those railway cars blew up as well. you can see some of the russian footage of the russian investigative committee on the bridge there. of course, that massive explosion that took place. what happened, they say that two lanes of the automobile part of that bridge collapsed. there was also extensive taj to the railway bridge as well. the russians are saying that in part vehicle traffic has started rolling again on that bridge. of course, not at full capacity by any means, and they want to clear the railway part of the bridge quickly as well and that, of course, is also in part due to what amara said, this is a very, very important strategic bridge for the russians. it connects the russian mainland with occupied crimea and the

russians, obviously, use it not just for regular civililian tra fuel for russia's war effort in ukraine. it is a very, very important bridge strategically, but symbolic value as well as vladimir putin himself inaugurated this bridge in 2018. guys. >> and, fred, notably, the ukrainians have not taken credit for the explosion, but there is a psychological warfare component to this where they are celebrating online and linking it to vladimir putin's birthday. >> yes, you are right. that is one of the things. one of the other things that i thought was quite interesting also was that the ukrainian postal service within hours of this happening came out with a new stamp come mmemorating the explosion of the bridge of crimea, the kerch bridge. people were taking selfies in

front of it in central kyiv. you have ukrainian politicians mocking russian president vladimir putin. in fact, the national security advisor here in ukraine, because it was putin's 70th birthday yesterday, juxtaposed the video of marilyn monroe singing for jack kennedy, happy birthday mr. president, and juxtaposed that with the bridge on fire to mock the russian president. in general, it is something that is, obviously, quite humiliating for the russians, this important logistical route and one of those big projects that the ukrainians have always considered a slap in the face of ukraine and one that the russians really was very important for them to try to develop crimea on their part. so definitely this is a huge, huge blow to the russians and definitely something where the ukrainians military political sphere and many people here in kyiv are quite happy about it. >> it will be interesting to see how the impact strategically it this plays out for russia.

fred pleitgen, thank you. a commemorative stamp. thank you so much. back here in the united states, senator raphael warnock is holding a rally in columbus, georgia, as herschel walker is trying to regroup. >> warnock has had little to say about reports that walker paid a woman to have an abortion and asked hto end a second pregnanc two years later. walker denies the allegations. >> let's take you to columbus, georgia now. michael warren is there for us live at the warnock rally. what more are you hearing from the warnock campaign about the situation with herschel walker? >> reporter: we are going to hear from raphael warnock in just a few minutes as you mentioned. this is the end of warnock's rural bus tour, the last three days he has been going across the state in the southern and central parts of the state. we should note that cnn has not

independently confirmed those allegations yet they have rocked this big senate race here in georgia. cnn reported yesterday that walker has fired his political director with less than a month to go before the election. warnock, for his part, has not directly addressed these allegations, but he is using the news reports as an opportunity to talk about walker's position on abortion, which he characterizes as extreme. listen to what walker had to say to reporters yesterday in columbus. in macon. >> my view on this hasn't changed. i believe in reproductive choice. my opponent does not. he wants to see a nationwide ban. no exceptions, which includes rape, incest, and the life of the mother. i think that's extreme. i think it's out of touch with the people of georgia. and the people of georgia have a choice to make. >> reporter: and it is a big choice.

this is a marquee senate race for both parties. the polls showing it is a close race between these two candidates. the democratic incumbent warnock and challenger herschel walker. there is a possibility that this race could go to a runoff. republicans already suggesting that the news this week really suggests that neither candidate will win 50% of the vote in november. we will see another tpotential runoff election in december in georgia and it could come down to which party controls the senate. >> appreciate you. thank you. frustrations were evident at a fema disaster recovery center in lee county, florida, saturday, lines stretching out for hours as residents were trying to get emergency aid after hurricane ian ravaged the state ten days ago. >> while he was in daytona beach, governor ron desantis acknowledged there is a long road ahead. >> i would say to folks who are

in difficult circumstances now because of the storm, just hang in there. there is a lot of resources. there is a lot of help. we understand thaat the state ll this is something that is going to require a lot of support for a long time. >> let's go to fort meyers now. one of the areas hardest hit by hurricane ian. nadia romero is at a relief center. you told us there were roughly 100 people there fairly early. what does it look like now? >> reporter: people are still rolling in and out. some people feeling satisfied with the treatment they received here and the services. other people very disappointed. so this is where people had lined up, about 100 people, before they even opened. the earliest person to arrive was a man named greg. he arrived at 4:00 this morning. he said experienced the storm at sanibel island and he was stuck there in his storm ravaged home for four days until someone was

able to help rescue him and take him off the island. he came here because he says he has nothing but clothes on his back. take a listen. >> i need a place to live. we have nothing. you know, just everything's gone. everything i have. i do a lot of good for the community and now it breaks my heart, you know? and now i need help. >> reporter: so you heard from greg there. he told me he is a vietnam veteran and looking around his island where he used to live looks like a battleground. he hopes fema can help because he wasn't able to get flood insurance because of where his home was located. he is trying to figure out how he is going to sustain himself. his business was wiped out as well. you can see this warning sign that thaz unlicensed contracting is a felony during the existence of a state of emergency. that's coming from the state of florida. these are the signs we are seeing around this area warning

people about scam artists because this is a primetime for a scammer to take advantage of people who are just looking for assistance. i spoke with a woman who came here, she says she lost her car, her business was wiped out, she doesn't have any income coming in, only to find out she has been the victim of identity theft. so now she has to figure that out before she can apply for assistance. >> such a difficult thing to deal with on top of everything else. nadia romero live from fort myers. thank you. we have an update for you from uvalde, texas, where changes are coming. the school district there suspending its entire police force nearly five months after a school massacre. the latest on an ongoing investigation and how the families are now responding. new york mayor eric adams declares a state of emergency amid an influx of migrants bussed in from texas. up next, his message for texas state officials. why not both?

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coming more than four months after the uvalde, texas, school massacre at robb elementary that left 19 children an two teachers dead. the superintendent announced friday his plans to begin the process of retiring with a closed door school board meeting set for monday to discuss the transition. >> this comes the same day the district suspended its entire police force and placed the acting district police kwheef on administrative leave. thursday the school district fired a newly hired officer after cnn reported that she was a former texas state trooper under investigation for her actions on the day of the shooting. we more on 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, of course, happening after our reporting that a newly hired officer who came from the dps, resigned from the department of public safety, and was hired by the school district despite the fact that he should was under investigation for her response while at the dps to the robb elementary school. the school somehow, some way hired her even though they knew, they were told by the dps that she was under investigation. also, a school administrator by the name of ken miller was also suspended. he retired because of that suspension he decided he is just going to retire. then also lieutenant miguel hernandez, he is the lieutenant, the commanding officer of the school police force. he also was placed on administrative leave and what

our understanding is this lieutenant was behind vetting that officer, officer al zblond owe, the newly hired officer, by the school district. so really the school district here responding in decisive form, taking all of their officers out, removing this administrator and then also suspending this lieutenant. 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, and also since the shooting. they have not felt safe in that community with those officers and they wanted accountability for the failures, but also the failures that they believe occurred by the school district. we are also told on one final note that the superintendent, hal harrell, he plans to retire. that announcement is expected sometime possibly on monday. so certainly a big shake-up there in uvalde.

something that the families didn't think they would get, but finally some accountability for them, offering them some relief. boris, amara. >> thank you. new york's mayor has declared a state of emergency over the influx of migrants into the city. >> america eric adams says more people arriving than the city can accommodate. he says more than 1,700 asylum seekers have been bussed to new york city from the southern border since april. >> cnn correspondent paolo sandoval with more. how stretched are the city's resources? >> they continue to get stretched every day. when you look at six to nine buses of migrants arriving in new york city ahad loan. many thof these migrants, 17,00 asylum seekers that arrived in new york city since the spring, some are still taking up the offers from republican governors for a free ride north. a vast majority are coming on their own. many are being sent up as part

of a separate busing program from the city of el paso. what we heard yesterday from eric adams was a very direct and urgent message that he wanted to be heard at the white house. basically calling on the federal government to do more to assist new york city in absorbing the amount of people that continue to arrive here. now, calling for what he described as a decompression strategy to try to address the issue at the border, which really did have sort of echos of what we heard from his republican counterparts that this is a federal government issue and what we also heard yesterday, i want you to hear for yourself, eric adams basically calling on he wel pas city officials who sent 7,000 migrants to new york city to pull back on this program that they are offering. >> el paso, the city manager, the mayor, they should stop sending buses to new york.

new york cannot accommodate the number of buses that we have coming here to our city. i think that it is crucial for us to get that accurate because we don't want to send a signal out there that new york is telling any municipality that we could accommodate the influx of asylum seekers. >> el paso's deputy city manager responding to our colleague rosa flores reading the migrants are selecting new york city, the city of el paso is not selecting new york city. we provide assistance in the form of welcoming them, food, water, temporary shelter, first-aid and transportation, and that is the key issue. we need to be clear el paso has been very -- they have defended their program saying it's very different from what we have seen from governor abbott. they say it's more humane. they are sending migrants not only to new york city, but also to chicago. we heard yesterday from this

democratic mayor in new york city is sending a strong message to democrats in he el paso and white house that this is getting more urgent every day, that is an all-hands-on-deck situation that's only getting worse by the day. >> paolo sandoval, thank you so much. cnn has learned that in recent weeks the department of justice demanded donald trump return any outstanding documents he may still have that are marked as classified. the doj making clear that they do not believe he has returned all materials taken when he left the white house and those they say they could not recover even after the search of mar-a-lago. >> cnn's marshall cohen joining us now. okay. what more do we know? >> good morning, guys. there might be more. that is what the justice department apparently believes and according to our reporting that's what they communicated to the trump side in recent weeks, that they think there might be more documents, classified documents, at mar-a-lago, and

that donald trump is still obligated, legally obligated to turn over anything that he might have in his possession. this was a message delivered by a senior counterintelligence official from the justice department, and it really is a very incredible development, a remarkable development considering the history. how we got here. there has been a two-year tug-of-war between donald trump and the u.s. government over these documents with classification markings that he brought from the white house to mar-a-lago. look back at the history. earlier this year, in january, trump handed over a ton of boxes to the national archives. in those boxes they found 184 classified documents. the justice department launched an investigation and they came to believe that there was still more at mar-a-lago. in june they got a subpoena. as part of trump's compliance with that subpoena he handed back an additional 38 classified documents. that was in june.

again the justice department developed information that there was still stuff to find at mar-a-lago. they got a search warrant from a judge. they searched trump's home and properties at mar-a-lago in august and that's when they found another 103 documents after all that apparently the justice department still thinks there are classified materials to be found. >> marshall, the fulton county georgia prosecutor investigating efforts by trump and al lace to overturn the 2020 election are aiming for possible indictments as early as december. >> that's a completely separate investigation in georgia. a state-level investigation led by the district attorney in atlanta. she has been looking very closely for the past two years at the efforts by donald trump and his allies to overturn the election in georgia. we are getting close to the next election, the midterms, just a

few weeks away. she says she is going dark, not going to do any major investigative steps over the next few weeks, which is common for prosecutors. they don't want to create the appearance of politics or politicizing an investigation. but according to sources that spoke with cnn, she is looking to wrap up her grand jury after the midterms, getting into the final months of this year, and that could pave the way for possibility indictments. guys, there are still many steps to go before that might happen. a little bit of a dark period now and we will see what happens after the midterms. >> many steps to go and many investigations to keep track of when it comes to former president trump. appreciate you, marshall. good to see you. >> my pleasure. president biden announces major steps towards decriminalizing marijuana, including pardons for people with federal simple marijuana possession on their records. up next, we will hear from a marijuana activist and how this

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. hour. here are some of the top stories we are following. a judge in ohio blocked the state's six-week abortion ban indefinitely on friday granting a preliminary injunction against the new law that bans abortions performed after early cardiac activity is detect the. that's typically around six weeks into a pregnancy before many women even know they are pregnant, except in medical emergencies. the aclu says as a result,

abortions up to 22 weeks of pregnancy will remain legal while litigation continues. ohio's attorney general, a republican, did not immediately say whether he intended to appeal the injunction. the u.s. embassy in puerto brings haiti is urging u.s. citizens to leave the country. they called on the international community to provide an immediate special armed force to restore security and peace in the country. anti-government protests now in their seventh week have paralyzed the country with schools, businesses and public transportation across the island nation mostly shuttered. haitians have been demonstrating against chronic gang violence, poverty, food insecurity, inflation and fuel shortages. anna sorokin, the fake heiress is out of jail. she was released last night but will remain under supervision. sorokin will have to follow certain conditions like staying

off social media and a 24-hour-a-day house arrest while her deportation case proceeds. sorokin had been in i.c.e. detention for 20 months. she was found guilty of stealing $200,000 from banks and friends while samming her way into new york's high society. this week president biden announced that he is going to pardon all prior federal offenses for simple marijuana possession. the president released this video explaining why. >> no one should be in jail just for using or possessing marijuana. it's already legal in many states. and criminal records for marijuana possession have led to needless barriers to employment, to housing, to educational opportunities, and that's before you address the racial disparities around who suffers the consequences. >> the president's executive actions will affect thousands of americans, including our next guest. chris gold stein is a marijuana

reform advocate and adjunct professor at temple university. he was arrested and convicted for simple marijuana possession in 2013. chris, we're grateful you are sharing part of your saturday with us. you have been a long-time advocate for legalizing marijuana. what does this decision mean to you personally and to that movement more broadly? >> well, i got my record actually protesting for the very things the president talked about in this release this week, and it wasn't just pardoning people like me is a very important first step. let's make it clear. most people who have federal marijuana possession records weren't out with a bullhorn protesting like i was. most of the people with a record like mine were caught at a border crossing or some other circumstance. so this is an important first step. another important first step was made and a letter was sent to the secretary of health and human services about scheduling.

and that's what we need to talk about here in this country, too, tee scheduling cannabis, removing if from the controlled substances act completely. >> i wanted to dig in on that point because marijuana is classified on the same level as substances like fentanyl, methamphetamine, heroin, it's a schedule i drug. you noted the president directing hhs to review that. how do you think it should be handled? >> well, again, it's not a new idea. ten years ago we were protesting for the concept of de-scheduling cannabis, removing it from the controlled substances act. this would ensconce with states have done and allow other states to move forward. when we talk about advancing national policy another point was taken this week, which is that pardons like mine at the federal level need to happen at the state level. millions of people have records, mostly black and brown americans, for state-level

marijuana prohibition. that's something that the president touched on this week. we had some near misses this year. delaware was just one single vote away in the uz legislature from legalizing cannabis just this year in 2022, and that was a very tough fight. pennsylvania still has retail cannabis prohibition and arrests 13,000 people a year. so this is not a done deal in every single state, and the president making the moves that he made this week will help the process down the road, i think. >> and, chris, what's your response to folks who say that there is potential harm in decriminalizing marijuana long term? there is extensive research shows that marijuana use in adolescents can affect long-term brain development, even lower iq. what do you say to them? >> certainly there are a number of substances that were never in the controlled substances act ever that have a detrimental impact on teens today, and that's nicotine and alcohol.

so those were never in the controlled substances act to begin with. and i don't think marijuana belongs there either. and that's the question that we should be answering today. as far as harms and benefits, we have 20-year experiment running in the states. regulated cannabis for medical cannabis and for adult use cannabis has been going on many, many years, and that's part of the problem. the federal government can't look at all of the finances, all of the profits, all of the taxes that are coming in. it's all off the federal books. and when we can advance federal policy, when we can de-schedule cannabis, we can start to account for that part of the cannabis, too, in america. >> chris gold stein, an interesting conversation. we hope you come back and discuss it further when there are more developments. >> thanks so much. and i'm looking forward to traveling to canada one day as well. >> thank you. all right. still to come this morning, police in stockton, california, releasing new video of a person

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officials in california's central valley are on the hunt for a serial killer after seven people were shot in separate attacks police say were connected. six of those attacks wound up being fatal. five happened in just the last three months. >> officials have released this video showing what they are calling a person of interest in the shootings. and a $125,000 reward is being offered for any information regarding the homicide. cnn's camilla bernal with more. >> reporter: six killings in northern california. a number of connections in the cases and at least one possible suspect. >> if you look at the video, we want our communities to pay attention to how he walks.

he has an inconsistent walk about him as well as a very tall posture also when he walks. >> reporter: the man says the chief appears in some of the recent crime scenes. >> go by definition, you know, absolutely, you know, we have, you know, a series of serial murders occurring in the city. >> reporter: authorities can't say whether one or multiple people are involved. they do know that there is ballistic and video evidence connecting the dots and add to that that all the attacks happened during the evening or early morning hours when the victims were alone. >> a lot of people are scared to come out at night. >> i am not going out by myself. i told family members when it gets dark make sure you are indoors. >> reporter: while the police chief tried to reassure the public during a town hall, he is also warning people. >> we have to be out, be with someone. be in a lighted area. >> reporter: the killings are believed to have begun in april

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u.s. soccer star megan rapinoe is speaking out for the first time after a scathing independent investigation found patterns of abusive behavior at all levels of women's professional soccer. here she is. >> for the future of the players going forward, for players playing now, it's essential that we know we are being taken care of and supported in all of the right ways and everybody that's working around the league has the same goal and the same understandings, understanding of what the level is and what the responsibilities are. so i think without accountability and without, you

know, people specifically who did the wrong thing, being gone, that just says to us that nobody is really hearing us. >> the report comes about a year after the league was thrown into chaos following allegations of sexual coercion and misconduct over the span of a decade towards players by former coach paul riley. here with me to discuss this further is cnn sports analyst christine brennan. i know you have been talking about this on tv since this report came out on monday. i was reading some of the report. the details are repulsive. some players alleging they were forced into sexual relationships or one coach reportedly calling it a player to review a game, ended up showing her pornography. that's just some of the allegations i read about. how shocked are you by these findings? >> it's terrible. it's absolutely terrible to think in the name of sports, in the name of something that should be so good, we have

something so terrible. and it is pervasive. it was gymnastics a few years ago. obviously, the larry nassar horrors. now this. figure skating. swimming. on and on it goes. all these sports we clear at the olympics and to know what's going on behind the scenes, parents have to step up. the coaches, once you find out a coach did something, he, he or she, almost always men, must be kicked out of the sport forever. what's happening in the report showing this is that it's moving around the dirty laundry like t catholic church with priests. a coach gets fired and gets hired by another team and keeps doing it. this is going on in the name of youth sports and women's sports and it has to stop. >> what is the motivation here? is it financial? because, you know, even hearing from these professional athletes

saying that they suffered in silence. they were afraid to speak out because they didn't think anyone would believe them. how do you explain years of abuse, alleged abuse, and of course the cover-up after that. >> control and power. actually, the same common denominator as the gymnastics case where athletes, if you speak up and parents feel this way, too, your little 5, 6, 7-year-old playing soccer, you don't want to speak up and make an enemy of the cope because then your daughter is benched. i would say it's okay if your daughter is benched to save your daughter's life and all the things that could happen in the future. >> this is american sports. and the parents want it as much as the kid, if not more than the kid. so we have a vicious circle here that is just too much. but i do think that also what happened that you saw that the

athletes did speak out. alex morgan went to the authorities and people didn't listen. so you have several things at play here leading to the ultimate disaster for young athletes. >> yeah, unfortunately, the verbal and emotional abuse and sexual misconduct is not happening in a silo. u.s. gymnastics, which shocked the world, too, when we heard about those abuse allegations. how widespread -- you have sally yates, the lead investigating saying this was systematic, which means it was widespread. do you expect more victims to come forward? >> that usually is the case in these kinds of stories. i have been able to break a lot of the stories of sex abuse in figure skating, which are just as horrific. someone speaks out, they have the courage to speak out or a parent tells a child's story and others come forward. we swau that with ashley wagner in figure skating, a woman who was able to confirm yesterday, passed away, in part her parents

said because of all of the abuse, sexual abuse she suffered and how she had trouble, of course, handling that. the poor thing is now dead at 32. so what can happen, a positive in the midst of this sadness and horror and tragedy, is for people to speak out. if you have been sexually abused, verbally, emotionally abused fwrks to the u.s. center for safesport, go to a journalist like me. tell your story. there is safety in number. >> there are plenty of people who will believe you. a quick pivot. i want to talk about football for a moment because now we know that the nfl players association released a statement saying that the players have agreed to a change of the concussion protocols with the nfl after that horrific video that we saw of the miami dolphins quarterback stumbling up against the bills. we don't know the details yet of what this protocol says. what would you like to see? what kind of changes?

>> what the players want to see and i think a lot of us would, once a player exhibits signs like we have seen on national tv, immediately that player cannot play again. you can't have a doctor going okay or coach going okay. you are immediately out of the game and maybe many games to come. the health and safety of the athletes, like the others we have been talking about, is paramount. >> thank you very much. and thank you all for watching. much more ahead in the next hour of "cnn newsroom." >> hope we made you feel welcome on your first official day on "new day." before we let you go, here is a preview of "stanley tucci: searching for italy." it premiers tomorrow. stanley tucci is back in italy and there are more surprises to be found. >> i have never seen anything quite like it. there you go, dad. it's your family home. >> a million different flavors.

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