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to all of you watching us here in the united states, canada, and around the world. i m kim bruin hube letter ahead on cnn newsroom, south korea is in mourning right now. more than 150 people in seoul killed in a crowd surge celebrating halloween. a week and a half to u.s. midterm elections, and early ballots are coming in by the millions. one battleground state, see where else each party s heavy hitters are campaigning. the white house accuses russia of weaponizing food. a grain deal to feed much of africa and the middle east now in jeopardy. we re live in kyiv and johannesburg with the fallout. south korea has declared a national day of mourning of a of ap aft chaotic crowd surge claimed the lives of at least 151 people. thousands of partygoers had gathered for a celebration, but the turn ute so large and the space so small, many people got crushed in the middle of the crowd. here s how one witness described the scene. i saw the people going to the left side. ....
Pressure to cause damage, to break ribs, even kill, as you ve described? no, exactly. studies that were done after hillsborough, a book called engineering for crowd safety looked at various experiments on human frames and forms. data was analyzed and published then, which you can t replicate now because it s significant risk to anybody being exposed to high pressure and high density. but it takes five people pushing against one to break a rib, collapse a lung, or smash a head. so if you ve got that level of pressure, multiply it by tens of thousands of people. well, it just doesn t bear belief. it s utterly horrendous. the fact that this was the first big post-covid event in seoul, what role might that have played here? we have seen that after the covid lockdowns, people coming back into public spaces, there s a degree of forgotten behavior. ....