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.

>> great economic report today. gdp report. things are looking good. >> going to come out to you today. they can't take me down because i'm a bad man. i can tell you that right now. >> talking circles and doing all of that. listen, you can get all you want. yours is not going to out match mine. >> reporter: live from london, this is "cnn newsroom" with max foster. >> it's friday, october 28th. 9 a.m. in london. 4 a.m. in new york and 1 a.m. in san francisco. the city where twitter is based. elon musk now owns the influential platform according to a source familiar with the deal. according to two sources one of his first decisions was to fire three top executives including the ceo. musk has suggested twitter could be in for a major shakeup now that he's in charge including

possibly allowing former u.s. president donald trump back onto the platform. one expert told us earlier content moderation is a challenge for other social media companies as well. >> when we're talking about issues of content moderation, hate speech, this is something every social media platform struggles with when you are dealing with cultures, language, politics from all over the world on your platform and you're trying to figure out how to make that work, how to deal with it legally, how to deal with it morally and contextually. that's something that legal scholars and technologists and anthropologists still have not figured out fully how to deal with. the challenges twitter deals with are in many ways one for the entire sector. no one has figured it out. i don't think it is necessarily likely that a new ceo is going to magically solve that either. >> on thursday musk tried to

deal with some concerns saying the platform cannot become a free-for-all hellscape where anything can be said. he also tweeted, the bird is free. i'm not entirely clear what that means. twitter will be suspended from the u.s. stock exchange. it will only add to twitter's existing problems. >> i expect the ad business to continue suffering from many of the problems that it and the rest of the social media companies have been dealing with. twitter is the last essential platforms for many advertisers. it's one of the things they might pull first when their budgets are tightened. so i expect to see there will be quite a bit of advertising pullbacks, in terms of the macro

economic headwinds and related to the musk ordeal. 11 days to go until the u.s. mid-term elections. millions of americans are voting early. control of the house and senate are up for grabs. 36 states are picking governors. florida leads the pack with close to $2 million. california, georgia, texas have all seen more than 2 million voters. jimmy carter says the 98-year-old cast his absentee ballot on tuesday. current u.s. president is claiming progress in the economy and his closing message before the mid-terms. joe biden warned that republicans would cut social security and medicare if they take power. he bragged about his record of keeping and creating jobs. >> 9,000 jobs from vhds,

engineers, hvac technicians, machine operators with an average salary of $100,000 a year. and tens of thousand more jobs across the supply chain. >> more from cnn's jeremy diamond. >> president biden on thursday touting this $100 million of investment from the semiconductor manufacturing giant micron right here in syracuse, new york. the president talking about the economic sector and the manufacturing boom that's happened under his watch. the president is speaking 12 days away from the mid-term election was also seeking to sharpen the contrast with republicans making this a key political argument. what the president did was he was touting his economic rhetoric but he was looking to contrast that with what he said a republican majority would do if elected.

the president saying republicans would repeal key cost savings measures which the president warned would be reckless and irresponsible. the president also said republicans would be messing with the united states and threatening a government shutdown over medicare. >> represenublican leadership sf they don't get their way, if i don't vote to reduce social security and medicare, if i don't support that, they're going to shut down the government. refuse to pay america's bills for the first time in american history. put america in default. again, this is what they're saying. unless we yield to the demands to cut social security and medicare. >> reporter: that was a doubling down of a message. voters think the irn flags and the economy are top issues. he's trying to turn it from the

referendum to choice. choice between democrats and republicans. speaking in a key congressional district, the 22nd congressional district in new york which is a top election here and the president certainly hoping that by taughting the jobs and invest ams coming here he can help the democrats. jeremy diamond, cnn, traveling with the president in syracuse, new york. democratic heavy hitters are visiting other battleground states. later today barack obama will travel to georgia to support stacey abrams and raphael warnock. they're trying to hang on to their seats. warnock is a tight race against republican former nfl star herschel walker. he's accused of pressuring two women to have abortions. walker denies the allegations. >> so come at me, they come after me today, they're going to

come after you tomorrow. they can't take me down because i'm a bad man. i can tell you that right now. god prepared me for this moment right here and i'm ready to go. >> earlier the senate's top democrat was caught on a hot microphone talking about the u.s. senate race to the president. georgia is key to democrat's hopes to maintaining their razor thin majority. the president has the tie breaking vote currently. all the national races in the upcoming u.s. mid-term elections. it's grabbing a lot of attention. it's in an over heated political environment. it took on a sinister overtone. now cnn's kim la has the

details. >> reporter: here's what they're releasing about this investigation. the police say they have arrested a suspect, 36 mot st a dost race. he's been convicted on one count of burglary. they are not connecting the arrest of this man with any sort of political motivation against democrat katie hobbs. this appears to be a simple crime. under the assumption the hobbs campaign was working on yesterday when they sent out a statement in the immediate aftermath of this burglary. the campaign was connecting the simple crime with the rhetoric, the hostile rhetoric that has become enigma ter of the kerry lake campaign.

kerry lake shurdly after the police announced a wreck. >> she knew i had nothing to do with that break-in and she perpetuated that lie. >> reporter: an arizona republican operative characterized it in this way. hobbs is the victim of a small burglary but lake is the winner in this story. kyung lah, cnn, phoenix. donald trump is under so many investigations. on thursday the former president's legal team and federal prosecutors were seen at the federal court house in washington. neither side divulged anything about what went on in that secret court hearing but the speculation, it was related to the justice department's efforts. the u.s. supreme court could

slrmts another request from trump. notice the case is taken up by the supreme court, the tax documents could be delivered within a week. it got harder for americans to afford to buy a home. mortgage rates rose again topping 7% for the first time in 20 years. the average 30-year fixed rate mortgage is 7.08% this week. that's up from 6.94% the week before. the rapid rise fueled by the federal reserve hiking interest rates is an effort to slow the soaring inflation. meanwhile, the nation's gdp fix came back. rahel solomon whose the details. >> reporter: u.s. economy bounced back over the summer.

analyzed rate of 2.6% in the quarter. it's the first quarterly increase this year after two consecutive contractions. it was mostly fueled by higher exports and lower imports. spending had sharply higher defense spending. president biden said we have, quote, further evidence our economic recovery is continuing to power forward. the report also showing signs of stress, housing, consumer spending. housing investment plunged in the quarter and the growth of consumer spending, which accounts for more than 2/3 of u.s. economic activity, that slowed to just 1.4% pace amid hot inflation. to put that in perspective, it was 2% in the third quarter. it's been trying to tamp down inflation. fed officials are expected to press on at the policy meeting

next week. rahel solomon, new york. shares of amazon fell after they predicted the holiday sales will be lower than expected. it says inflation and fears of the recession could dampen holiday sales. apple beat expectations with third quarter sales just over $90 billion amidst worries that demand for u.s. iphone sales will be weak. tim cook said the third quarter produced record numbers. shares of meta plunged on thursday. they fell more than 20% after the company revealed a second straight quarter of decline. meta recorded third quarter review down 4% year over year. still ahead this hour, nearly 4-hour rant from russian president vladimir putin. what he's saying about nuclear weapons in ukraine and who's to

blame for the world pattern. a north korean missile test and a south korean military drill. details in a live report. and antiis he met if i can comments have proven quite costly to kanye west. the rapper has a disturbing history of marring a man. details ahead on "cnn newsroom." kills 99.9% of bacteria that detergents can't. clean is good, sanitized is better. when you can't sleep... try zzzquil pure zzzs gummies. from the world's #1 sleep aid brand. its special formula helps you fall asleep naturally with an timal dose of melatonin. so you can wake up refreshed. for better sleep, li never before. pre-rinsing your dishes? you could using the wrong detergent.

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the south rohr reason military is calling north korea's latest launch a clear violation of u.n. resolutions. south korea says the north fired off another two ballistic missiles today. by cnn's count this is the 28th launch by pyongyang so far this year. a major increase. there are concerns a nuclear test could be next. let's go straight to cnn's kristie lu stout watching all of this from hong kong. how concerned and what intelligence do we have about possible nuclear tests? >> reporter: concern is rising.

tension is rising in the region after north korea has fired two more ballistic missiles. this is the 28th test this year and it comes as south korea is wrapping up exercises. this is what we learned earlier today from south korea's joint chiefs of staff. they said it was around noontime local time. that was when north korea fired two short range missiles from the east coast of the country traveling about 230 kilometers. the south korean military has been on high alert. the u.s. military as well. we have a statement from the indo pacific command. in it they say, quote, while we have assessed this event does not pose an immediate threat, the missile launches show the destabilizing allotment of the programs.

u.s. commitments of the defense of the rok in japan remain ironclad. earlier this month they fired a missile over japan, the first such test since 2017. so far this year north korea's fired the highest number of missiles since kim jong-un took power back in 2011. we also know tension has been rising between the north and the south. earlier this week both countries were exchanging warning shots at sea. earlier this month we had south korean border planes scramble in response to north korean military jets edging close to their shared and highly militarized border. concern also brewing about another nuclear test from north korea. if and when that happens, it would be the first such test since 2017. it was a time of peak tension. according to the u.s. and the allies in the region. they say in the event of another

nuclear test, they have already prepared, already agreed to an unparalleled response. back to you, max. >> kristie, thank you for the update. >> you've got it. russian president vladimir putin appears to be playing down fears of a nuclear standoff with the west. he denies threatening to use nuclear weapons on the battlefield in ukraine. he said he was only responding to nuclear black mail from western leaders. he says western elites are blaming russia for the world's problems. >> translator: we are standing at an historical frontier. ahead is the most dangerous, unpredictable and at the same time the most important decade since the end of world war ii. however, the world is what the circled west is banking on. this is a dangerous game. it's a bloody game and it's a

deadly game. >> the white house says u.s. president joe biden has no intention of meeting with president putin next month in indonesia. the head of ukraine says the death count in occupied areas of the country. he says the -- andre says moscow's forces killed about five dozen soldiers captured in mariupol. he wants the united nations mission to investigate where ukrainians are being held against their will. they're saying a soldier's being tortured in captivity. let's go live in paris where cnn's melissa bell has been going through all of this. trying to get the truth out of it. melissa, what's going on? >> reporter: i want to say something we've heard before, not just thes statements made in croatia. something widely documented, max. ukrainian prosecutors are

investigating and over the course of the last few months have been building cases with the information they can get from informants, from what communications they can have with russian controlled parts of ukraine about potential war crimes being made there. those include many being committed in the so-called filtration camps. widely documented by western intelligence agencies. the american state department has put out reports about this. these are the camps in which ukrainians are held. they are interrogated. they are sometimes beaten, tortured and sometimes made to disappear from entirety. some are then sent further into russian territories. some make it out back into ukrainian-held territories with stories of what they've been through. this is something that's been widely documented and it's part of what ukrainians are trying to remind the world about. it isn't just a war, it is about

a front line that they hope continues to shift in their favor. it is also, max, about what's happening on the other side of their fight in those annexed territories that russia is desperately trying to cling ton and in which it has held references. it's to ensure the people in favor of the occupation votes in what is considered a sham referendum. it's a fairly methodical attempt by russia to allow that annexation in those four regions and also part of that line on the other side of which it is very difficult for anyone to get any access to any true information, max. >> melissa bell in paris. thank you. parts of ukraine's capitol are in the dark. some power facilities caught on fire as russia knocked out at

least 30% of the region's power supply on thursday. electricity was later restored in some areas but officials now say more than 1/4 million homes in the kyiv region are still without power. the complete blackout in the capitol was only by imposing severe power cuts. some kyiv residents are making count on one another no matter how difficult things get. this man is leaving bags in his high rise building. walking 15 or 20 stories is not an option for many people so this man drops bags with essential supplies including water, energy bars, flashing light, bubble blowers for kids. his wife says that in some way difficult times are bringing neighbors together. >> translator: we talk more. we smile more to each other.

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j welcome back to "cnn newsroom." elon musk has completed his $44 billion deal to buy twitter. that's according to a source familiar with the deal.

one of his first acts was to fire three people including the ceo. musk is going to cut 75% of twitter's staff. there will be a new vote for pres president. neither campaign received more than 50% in a first round vote. brazil is struggling with high inflation, limited growth and high inflation. president biden will be at a dinner in philadelphia. the president is touting recent economic growth ahead of the mid-term elections. quick look at the u.s. futures market. right now all down across the board particularly the nasdaq. stocks closed mixed on thursday

with big ten energy companies caught in the big selloff. gross domestic stocks grew 2.6% in the third quarter after two quarters of declines. while it's just the u.s. may not be on the verge of recession, it is still worrying as rate hikes battle inflation. bright spot continues less than two weeks before mid-term elections. cnn's phil mattingly sat down with janet yellen to get her perspective in this exclusive interview. >> reporter: as democrats scramble to coalesce with a message -- >> i don't see signs of recession in this economy at this point. >> reporter: treasury secretary janet yellen sitting down to deliver her own. >> you have unemployment at a 50-year low. there are two job vacancies for every american who's looking for

work. we have solid finances. finances that are well equitalized. >> reporter: it hardly tracks with an unsettled electorate. >> it feels to be largely negative. why? >> inflation is really high. it's unacceptably high and americans feel that every day. >> hello, syracuse. >> reporter: split screen that has weighed down democrats for months. on a day the u.s. economy delivered a bounce back quarter of growth, campaign ads continue to hammer inflation that remains at a decade high. costs driving the economy to the top of voter concerns. it's clouded democrats' mid term prospects -- >> in terms of the time horizon, yours is not very helpful when

there's a mid-term election in 12 days. you didn't come from a political background here but how much does that weigh into the process? >> as i said, we're doing everything that we can to supplement what they're doing to bring inflation down. medium term we have an miss torque investment in the strength of our economy. the passage of three very important bills. >> also what officials deem as an historically rapid recovery. >> these are troubles we don't have because of what the biden administration has done so often those will get credit. >> all as biden's legislative wins have driven tens of billions of dollars to manufacturing across the country. >> is the message to some degree we've done the work, be patient, it's coming?

>> yes, but we're beginning to see them come onryan and pretty soon many communities are going to see roads and bridges repaired that have been falling apart. you'll see them when you go into research and development which is really an important source of long-term strength to the american economy and america's strength is going to increase and we're going to become a more competitive economy. >> phil mattingly there with an exclusive interview with u.s. treasury secretary january knelt ye yellen. now five months after the massacre in uvalde, texas, they're rejecting the call for a resignation.

>> if dp failed the families, failed the school or failed to protect the community of uvalde, then absolutely, i need to go. i can tell you this right now, dps as an institution, okay, right now is -- did not fail the community, plain and simple. >> nearly 400 police officers respond the to the scene of the shooting. law enforcement still waited 77 minutes before breaching the classroom and killing the 18-year-old gunman. many parents feel that delay cost their children their lives. >> you can talk in circles and all of that and everything. listen, you can get irritated all you want. i lost my son and yours is not going to match mine. >> thursday's meeting was mccall's first public testimony about the shooting since june. at that time he appeared before a state senate committee and described it as a, quote, abject

failure. people of color, especially blacks and hispanics were less likely to receive paxlovid during the pan dem mick. it found black patients were more than 1/3 less likely than white patients to be treated with paxlovid. hispanics were 30% less likely than nonhispanics. same for asian-americans and american indians. throughout the pandemic people of color have been two times likely to be hospitalized from covid-19. a new surge in pediatric respiratory viruses has icu beds packed across the country. some things may get worse before they get better. >> reporter: children's hospitals across america right now are overwhelmed. in fact, more than 75% of

pediatric hospital beds are in use right now nationwide and we're seeing a very similar scene here in atlanta. the wait time at the emergency room at children's health care of atlanta which has three locations, the location just north of the city of atlanta, the wait time is more than 3 hours and it has been that case for the last several weeks. so what officials have done, they've erected an overflow tent here at this location to deal with the surge of respiratory illnesses that they have been seeing in children. there are no beds inside this tent. bays are staffed with doctors and nurses. they're seeing people with mild illnesses. those who have more serious illnesses are being seen inside the hospital. what's been noted in atlanta is the significant shift we have been seeing. the majority of respiratory admissions happen in children who are testing positive for the

flu. that is the case right now this week. compare that to last week where 75% of respiratory admissions were for rsv. what we're seeing here is an early rsv season, earlier than expected flu season and one pediatrician that cnn spoke with here in atlanta says this trend is likely to move north. >> so oftentimes especially with rsv it starts in the southeast and then sort of moves upwards in the united states. what we do probably predict will happen is some of the northern states will start to see children with influenza after they see more children with rsv. >> the confluence of rsv, the flu and rsv, it's a confluence of sickness. doctors are urging everyone,

parents and children alike, to get vaccinated. severe storms heading towards parts of texas. good news for the state that is experiencing drought. derek van dam is joining us in atlanta. are these storms going to help texas? >> double edged sword, right? we'll get relief from the drought but we have the potential for tornadoes as you mentioned. you can look at it in both directions. you can only get better from here. oklahoma, 100% of the state under drought conditions right now. arkansas in a similar situation but i want to show you the rainfall forecast over the next five days. you'll see how this is going to pile up across the region. widespread 2 to 4 inches of rain across houston, corpus christie. up to half a foot of rain in the

next five days. the problem is there's isolated showers and storms that could cause severe weather. we'll keep an eye to the sky. the shading of yellow. damaging winds, large hail, a couple of tornadoes. that's just outside of houston and so is san antonio and waco. there's a little thing happening tonight. the first game of the world series taking place in houston. they do have the ability to close off the stadium. that's the good news. fans entering and exiting the stadium. we'll time it out for you. the first pitch is at 7:03 p.m. central standard time. that's 8:03 eastern standard time. if you pay attention on the top portion of my screen, that's when the showers and thunderstorms will move through. we'll see if that impacts the performance there or impacts the 10 dodd-franks in the game. the official forecast looks like

this. rainfall up until the first pitch and we'll start to clear things out by the time people exit the stadium. the long-term forecast shows the above-average precipitation. the dryer air over the east, so does the warmth. we're also keeping an eye on the tropics. 60% chance of tropical development across the caribbean. we'll monitor that very closely. quick look at the temperatures. 60 degrees from the nation's capitol. 70 degrees for houston. a lot of people celebrating halloween. looks wet on monday. >> thank you very much, indeed. ahead, a rare protest in at this bet where people have been under covid lockdown for months. they're pretty fed up. ohhh, she's so powerful, she carried onon the family legacy. we were blowown away. (chuckles) i not only was a stududent and an undergrad, but i've been a prprofessor there for twenty years,

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amnesty international is calling for crackdown. isis is said to have claimed responsibility. they're claiming are the alleged assailants . >> we are expecting the pro government rallies in just an hour or so. they're describing a terrorist

attack wednesday evening they have said that the islamic state has claimed responsibility. the three individuals are foreign nationals. >> agitatorsage gi stating the demos. they're having foreign actors within the country. they're now connecting with this. >> connecting the u.s. with isis, which is bizarre. >> it means protests are taking place and they're complicit. the concern now is that this could essentially set the pretexts for the regime to frame

any future protests. >> terrorism? >> exactly, allowing them to really double down on what is a violent and deadly crackdown. >> we've talked about how 40 days is the period of mourning, isn't it, for someone typically in iran. also had the argument each time they kill a protesters defeating their own object in a way. they're extending the mourning period for that person for 40 days. >> each one of these vixens has become a symbol of this protest movement. it is pressing forward those calls for changes exemplifying. >> are you concerned there could be a much wider crackdown at some point? >> that is the primary concern right now. we've already seen several deaths.

more than 200. the concern is it allows them to intensify the crackdown. chinese state media say the covid situation in at tibet is improved. they've held a rare protest for lockdowns that have been in place for more than 70 days meaning residents are not allowed to leave their homes unless it's absolutely necessary. it's one of the cities that is under complete lockdown. uganda has recorded a dozen new ebola cases raising the number of confirmed cases to over 120. ugandan health ministry says health care workers are amongst those getting sick and hopefully more treatments for the virus are on the way.

>> there is no known treatment for sudan ebola virus. currently the number of promising treatment options in the ministry of health is using a trial including monoclonal antibodies and drugs like recommdesivir remdesivir. the doses available are still very few. >> the government says they are now working to set up treatment centers across the country. four years ago kanye west dropped a new album with his ye. he reportedly wanted to name it after adolph hitler. details ahead. to destroy 5x more above the gumline than floss. for a clcleaner, healthier mout. listerine. feel the whoa!

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been a costly few weeks for kanye west. he lost several key spon sponsorships. this reportedly isn't the first time kanye west has made

statements. >> reporter: in an exclusive report by cnn published on thursday i spoke to four individuals who worked with kanye on his 2018 album ye. these individuals told me that while working on the album kanye wanted to call it hitler. we're not sure why he didn't name it that ultimately, but we did reach out to kanye for comment. we haven't heard back. we reached out to def jam and they denounced anti-semitism but they did not have a comment on this story. i want to point out to you that one of those four individuals that i spoke with was a high-level executive who worked for kanye for several years and they had a settlement with kanye over harassment and toxic work

environment. one of the documents stated that kanye would openly praise hitler in the workplace and talk about the good that he did and boast about reading hitler's autobiography. we reached out to kanye and we have not heard back. back to you. >> spanish football player pablo murray is undergoing surgery today after he stabbed an italian person. he's been playing for monza. a supermarket employee was killed and others wounded. detaining a 46-year-old italian. baseball's marquee match-up starts tonight as the philadelphia phillies takes on the houston astros. verlander will take on for the astros and the future

hall-of-famer has never won a world series start. the phillies are the underdogs going into the best of seven series. aaron nola will start game one. the astros lost last year to the atlanta braves. heartwarming news from a war zone. four lion cubs and a leopard cub who survived bombing attacks are staying in a zoo in western poland. officials say 200 lions live in private homes in ukraine and they face uncertain futures as the war rages on. they were bred in captivity so they can't be released into the wild. animal sanctuaries will care for them. thanks for joining me here on "cnn newsroom." "early start" with christine romans next here on cnn.

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