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"cnn this morning" starts right now. well, good morning, everyone, im poppy harlow with phil mattingly in new york. a lot to get to. specifically politics. pre-christmas campaign push lands in iowa today. donald trump, ron desantis and nikki haley all holding events there, sharpening their closing messages and attacks against one another this morning. a new signal the trump campaign is concerned about one candcand candidates growing momentum. abbott signing a controversial bill mak...

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 ar...

trying to expand their territory, but theyve got their own problems to deal with. starting with new allegations against herschel walker. well go to georgia live in just a minute where a walker event just wrapped up. plus, president biden trying to sell pessimistic americans on his economic message, pointing to new gdp numbers that are stronger than forecast, as proof of things getting better. with food and gas prices up 10% in a year, does anyone care about the gdp? ill ask white hou...

cnns chief national affairs correspondent reports on the debate faceoff thats making supporters of john fetterman nervous. ♪ >> the spotlight on pennsylvania intensified. a day after a debate between john fetterman and mehmet oz sharpened the stakes in the battle for control of the senate. >> i had a stroke. hes never let me forget that. >> the question is not what oz thinks of his rival. >> obviously i wasnt clear enough for you to understand this. >> but whether voters believe fett...

secret service leadership scratching their heads. first, there is the issue of how did an agent trained to drive the most precious cargo in the country have a one car accident on a cleared roadway. the president and the vice president travels in a motorcade, the streets are empty. so that part is weird. and the other red flag is with the secret service agents did immediately afterwards. when they sent a message alerting senior leadership about what had happened, the agents reported tha...

we want to get to the september jobs report. the unemployment rate dropped to 3.5%. what does this mean for future interest rate hikes? meanwhile, the markets are reacting, the dow down around 400 points and it comes as americans face a convergence of economic pressures from rising prices at the gas pump, rent and mortgage rates up, and inflation burning a hole in our wallets. we could hear from president biden as he heads to maryland. well watch to see if he stops to comment on this r...

>> good morning, boris. im amara walker. georgia senate candidates rah fafl warnock and hershel walker square off. what walker had to say when he was claimed to have pressured a mother to get an abortion. and cnn exclusive. what lawmakers were doing as the capitol was being ransacked on january 6th and their determination to get back to the important work of certifying the election. >> it was like going to a museum that you never wanted to go to, that you would never in your life buy...

mar-a-lago. clemency requests, irs forms and entryingly paperwork that appears to be related to the 2020 election, even an email accepting trumps resignation from the screen actors guild, or sag as they call it in the business, according to a justice department list that was apparently inadvertently posted publicly and reported by bloomberg news. that as we have more secretly recorded awedudio from an alleg 2020 oath keepers meeting played in the trial of the far right militia group on...

reportedly turning their ire on the head of the world bank. and it may have something to do with his refusal to bend to john kerry on climate change. well tell you the back story there. first, as you know, we are getting very close to the mid-terms as we get inside six weeks. very tight in these races. once again, it could come down to that number of places but could come down to georgia where herschel walker is gaining on the incumbent, raphael warnock with this sort of straightforwar...

and winds. ginger zee is here to time this out. in florida, meanwhile, the emergency shelters now filling by the thousands as the death toll rises from hurricane ian. and the desperate search and rescue effort, going door-to-door now, around the clock, days after ian hit. victor oquendo again tonight. the war in ukraine. and tonight, ukrainian forces breaking through russian ranks. reclaiming territory claimed by vladimir putin. and what president zelenskyy is now saying about nego...