good thursday morning. i'm erica hill. jim and ppopity with off today. we're following major stories here in the united states and across the globe.

the u.s. navy moving an aircraft carrier strike are group into the waters off the korean peninsula following a series of missile launches over the past two weeks. paula hancocks is in seoul, south korea. paula, we just learned in the last few minutes there appears to have been another missile launch from north korea. what more do we know? >> well, erica, this particular thing we've heard about in the last few minutes from the joint chiefs of staff wasn't a missile launch. we're told it was some kind of an aircraft firing exercise they believe. 12 north korean aircraft were detected carrying out some sort of exercise outside of the special surveillance line. this line is in north korea, but it is a virtual line that if any north korean aircraft come below that point, south korea responds. they did that. they mobilized 30 aircraft according to the joint chiefs of

staff. you can see this htit for tat i starting to escalate. we know the "u.s.s. ronald reagan" is back in the waters off the east coast of south korea. there's been another naval drill between the u.s., south korea and japan. they say in response to the number of missile launches they've seen from north korea, six missile launches in just the past 12 days. this particular naval drill was to detect, track and intercept missiles. so clearly training for something that is very pertinent to what we're seeing at this point. we did hear from north korea today as well, the foreign ministry speaking through state-run media saying they think it's the u.s. destabilizing the korean peninsula and the reason they're carrying out these lawn launches is because they carried out drills last week.

they had other naval drills today. erica. >> certainly a lot happening in these moments, paula. appreciate it. thank you. staying in the region, a horrifying story unfolding in thailand where at least 36 people are dead including 23 children after a former police officer opened fire in a day-care center while children were sleeping. officials say the man killed his wife and child before killing himself. selina wang covering this for us from tokyo. he had been in court just hours before the shooting. do we know more about the chain of events here? >> reporter: that's exactly right. just hours before the shooting, he was in court on drug charges before he went over to that nursery where he opened fire on children who were sleeping. that death toll continues to climb. now at least 36 people killed including 23 children. we've learned from the police that the gunman got to the nursery around noontime. he had himself armed with several different kinds of guns as well as a long knife.

police say he went to the nursery looking for his 2-year-old stepson but could not find him. he managed to get into a room where 24 kids were sleeping. he started stabbing the children and staff members as well as shooting. the police said all but one child died in that room. after that police say he drove himself home, and in the process he was running into bystanders. when he got home, he first killed his own stepson and wife before taking his own life. before he killed himself, authorities had issued this most wanted man notice and poster. this is a deeply, profoundly troubling and devastating time for people in thailand. this is an area where it's not known for violence. it's a peaceful, quiet town. in the videos at the scene you can see family members sobbing outside of the building. you can see the 'em lance and medical workers around. the prime minister in thailand

has expressed his condolences to the family. thailand has relatively high rates of gun ownership compared to other areas, however, mass shootings are rare. erica. >> it is just a horrific story. selina, appreciate it. thank you. in ukraine, zaporizhzhia hit with another round of russian strikes this morning. one woman was killed, seven more people trapped in the rubble after an earlier strike targeted the city in southern ukraine earlier today. vladimir putin now says the nuclear plant zaporizhzhia is now a russian federal asset, prompting a trip from the head of the nuclear watch dog group to kyiv. frederik pleitgen is also in kyiv. bring us up to speed on all these developments. >> reporter: these strikes in zaporizhzhia certainly were devastating. there was a residential building pretty much all but leveled by

those missiles that were sent in there by the russians. there was that one woman who was killed. there really were a lot of people trapped under the rubble there as well. you can see in some of the video coming out of zaporizhzhia, rescue crews for hours trying to dill those people out while that town was again under another possible air radial lert as well. certainly some devastating scenes that we're seeing from there. vladimir putin saying the zaporizhzhia power plant which is close to the city of zaporizhzhia but on the other side of a very wide river, that is now effectively a russian installation. obviously the ukrainians having none of it. the head of the ukrainian nuclear energy agency is now saying that he is the actual boss of that nuclear power plant and certainly no one from russia. you can see that standoff developing as the head of the iaea is in town as well. meanwhile, erica, i think it's really important, the ukrainians continue to say they have the momentum on their side,

especially in the south of ukraine. senior defense official here in ukraine was saying they liberated about 400 square kilometers of territory just in the south of ukraine and just in the past couple of days. we've been talking about it a little bit. the ukrainians are saying they believe some of the russian defensive positions have all been but collapsed over the past few years and think the momentum is on their side and certainly the ukrainians are saying they're not letting up, they're not stopping. they want to liberate all their territory. >> frederik pleitgen with the latest for us, thank you. we're also learning more about the car bombing that killed the daughter of putin ally back in august. u.s. cleanse officials believe people within the ukrainian government authorized the attack. the same sources say she was probably not the intended target. natasha bertrand joining us with more on these developments. this is a big development in and

of itself. >> reporter: very remark shl turn of events. we're learning the u.s. intelligence committee is assessing, based on information it has gleaned, that officials within the ukrainian government authorized this attack on this prominent political figure, alexander dugan. importantly, that did not occur. instead what happened is his daughter was killed because she was the one driving his car at the time. u.s. officials do not believe the daughter, darya was the intended target of this assassination that happened just outside moscow at the end of august. what we're learning is this is potentially a big expansion of ukraine's covert operations inside russia. previously it had seemed that the operations were really limited to around the ukraine/russia border, in the southwest part of russiand a aimed mostly at fuel depots and military installations there. now, for this to have occurred really in the heart of russia

just outside russia, that signals to the u.s. that perhaps ukraine might be becoming a little bit bolder in its operations there and they're a bit wary of that. we should note that cnn did reach out to a top official in ukraine's defense intelligence agency. the official said he had no updates as of right now on what happened to darya dugan. ukrainians have vehemently denied since the story came out they had anything to do with this. for now the u.s. intelligence community is relying on their intelligence and saying officials within the government, not necessarily senior officials, not necessarily president zelenskyy, did authorize this operation. erica. >> natasha bertrand, appreciate it. thank you. this just in to cnn t. biden administration is working to, quote, identify the tools to mitigate the impact on gas prices after the world's major oil producers announced a plan to slash production by 2 million barrels a day. the biden administration calling

that move concerning and unnecessary. it comes less than two months after biden's controversial business to convince the saudi crown prince to increase production. joining me cnn chief business correspondent christine romans. christine, let's start with this. there's this new development, we're looking at the tools here. i think they know the tools that exist in the shed. correct me if i'm wrong. >> right. >> opec said we're cutting production because we need to boost the production of oil. this is about profits. >> this is about profits. it means this alliance of oil producers is standing behind russia and giving them more money to fund the war in ukraine. politically this is a loss for this administration. that's why the administration is saying they will do everything they can to might gait the power of opec here, and even look into ways maybe that it's unfair that opec can wield its power by setting these quotas.

something other presidents have been careful not to do because there are big blowbacks that can happen as well. it's a complicated international energy market. >> it certainly is, to put it mildly. elena it's not just about profits, but politics. the white house is insisting this trip president biden took was not a waste of time to saudi arabia, and then we're hearing new jersey rep tom malinowski telling politico it's time for the u.s. to, quote, stop acting like suckers in its relationship with saudi arabia. realis realistically, as we're looking at the tools here, is there anything that's going to change in that relationship? what are you hearing? >> well, the white house is fuming, as are democrats. there's no question about that. i think the white house really took a symbolic shift by saying they're preparing to target opec and the oil-producing countries

its covers by going after them to potentially hold them legally liable for any activity to try and force prices up, which is exactly what they're doing. that legislation is called nopec. it's a small shift on the biden administration's part, although i spoke with some democrats and they don't think it's going far enough. ro khanna, the democratic from california said he thinks biden should call the king of saudi arabia himself and tell him he has five days to reverse this decision, reverse these cuts and, if not, tell them they're going to work with congress to try and pass some sort of ban on limiting even going as far as saying limiting the air parts they provide to the air force in saudi arabia and limit the military arms that they give to the country. so it's really hard to see what exactly the biden administration is going to do. so far it's been threats, but very real threats.

what i'm hearing are solidified and significant and if they will follow through on the they don't turn this around. of course, a lot of democrats also arguing that saudi arabia is a third world country and that they shouldn't be working with them or using their threats to have a grip on oil prices in the u.s. i think they have a lot of tools at their disposal, but people really want the biden administration to go stronger here. >> yeah. and let's not forget, too, midterms loom, and that is a major issue for democrats as they see this. and that translates, right? the issue is gas prices, christine. when we look at this, most people are saying, okay, we saw 98 days of prices drop, they started to go up again. bottom line, when do i start to feel it at the pump? >> up 20 cents from the september low. analysts are saying 15 to 30 cents. a lot going on here as well. we still have the war in ukraine and still in the middle of hurricane season which is something that can affect gas

prices. i think it's fair to say gas prices are higher into the midterms. they're higher than they were a year ago, but well off the $5.00 number from earlier this summer. this is one of the numbers that gets outside influence in people's psychology because you see it every single west. on the west coast is where things felt the race. some of those congressional senate races out west where i think gas prices will be a bigger factor than they are in other parts of the country. >> christine and alayna, thank you. house republicans ramping up parts of impeachment if they win back control of the midterms. cnn has learned their latest target is not president biden. a new twist in the allegations against georgia senate candidate herschel walker. "the daily beast" the woman claiming he paid for her abortion is also one of his children. the lasting impact of

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. the future of daca again in question after a federal appeals court ruled the obama-era program is unlawful. now, the ruling won't affect those who are already enrolled. so far more than 600,000 undocumented immigrants brought to the u.s. as children will be allowed to renew their status. new applications will continue to be blocked. the appeals court ruling sends this case back to a lower court to consider a new biden administration policy to safeguard the program. president biden in response issuing a statement which reads in part, the court's stay provides a temporary reprieve for daca recipients, but one thing remains clear, the lives of dreamers remains in limbo. it's a result of continued effort by republican officials to strip daca recipients to

protection and work authorization many have held for over a decade. cnn has learned secretary mayorkas is increasingly becoming a target of house republicans, that the homeland security leader could face impeachment if the republicans win the majorities. cnn's melanie zanona joining us. we know some have pushed for impeachment against the president if they are to take back the house. your reporting finds the top official is the one who could be facing impeachment. what more do we know about these plans? >> this idea of impeaching secretary mayor kiss has gained stream itching for revenge after donald trump's two impeachments. this is about politics and payback more than anything else. the reason republicans have zeroed in on mayor kiss is because they think it will be more palatable inside their

party going after a political appointee rather than a significant president, and because he represents problems at the southern bore. republicans say mayorkas has failed to secure the border, all of which the agency denies. listen to what gop congressman chip roy told my colleague manu raju about impeaching mayorkas. >> impeachment cases are things you built. i circulated memoranda articulating why i think the actions he's taken rise to the level of impeachability. again, i think you build cases. >> now, not everyone in the party thinks this is a good idea. there are veteran and moderate lawmakers worried about the political blowback over such a move as immediately impeaches. it would be doomed in the senate and it would go nowhere. we're told gop leader kevin mccarthy is very much open to the idea. it is certainly an issue he'd

have to confront almost immediately as he takes over as speaker. meanwhile the department of homeland security saying mayorkas is solely focused on his mission and has no plans to resign even as republicans are vowing to 'em impeach him. >> melanie, thank you. court is back in session in washington, d.c. in the seditious conspiracy trial. five alleged members of the oath keepers are facing charges for conspiring to oppose the transfer of presidential power by force. they're charged with violently blocking congress from formalizing president biden's election victory. they've all pleaded not guilty. they face up to 20 years in prison if convicted. these are the most aggressive charges any of the alleged rioters have chased. keeping an eye on that. we're also learning more about the trove of documents seized by the fbi at mar-a-lago. a list posted briefly by the doj offers a glimpse into the

thousands of documents removed from former president trump's golf resort over the summer. among those items, clemency requests, health care documents and irs forms and paperwork that appears to be related to the 2020 election. a full list is still not available. elie honig joining us, a former u.s. district attorney for the southern district of new york. this is not a full comprehensive list but offers up new insight. what did you glean from those revelations? >> erica, this new list shows us why donald trump asked for and why the district court, the trial level judge gave donald trump a special master. on the one extreme you have the classified documents, those are obviously documents with national security implications that donald trump, according to the court of appeals, has no personal interest in. these documents are on the other extreme. these are documents where donald trump may have a legitimate claim of attorney-client privilege or legitimate claim that these are personal

documents. so what the district court judge said here is let's get a special master in, have the special master review these documents and decide whether donald trump does have some legal claim to these documents or not. it's worth noting doj has acknowledged that they seized 500 pages or so of documents that may be covered by a privilege. this gifs us much more detail into that. >> that's the one part. also a federal appeals court granted the justice department's request to expedite a case about the legality of the appointment of a special master. what does this mean? how can that impact, if at all, the ongoing criminal investigation? >> so this is all about timing, erica. let's keep in mind the special master's review is on going as we speak. the special master has to get through about 11,000 total documents. doj is appealing the entire appointment of the special master. if you look at this from a practical perspective, this

appeal is going to take under the new yorkal circumstances quell into january, february. the special master is supposed to have done his review by the end of november. the court of appeals has sensibly said we need to speed this up, get this done by november or so. if they rule the special master was improper or never should have been appointed, at least there would be something to stop. >> when we put all of that together and even what trump's legal team asked of the supreme court earlier this week, all of these things playing out at the same time, they impact one another. >> it's all interrelated, you're right, erica. i think it's safe to say neither party is winning when it comes to the special master. on donald trump's end he's lost in the court of appeals with respect to the classified documents. we've seen the special master call out some of his more dubious claims about planted

documents. this is taking forever. we're now the eight-plus weeks out from the actual search of mar-a-lago back on august 8th, and the special master is just getting started with his review. in the meantime, doj is unable to fully do their investigation because they can't use those documents until the special master has reviewed them and signed off. somehow this is turning into a lose-lose scenario. >> the win is i get to talk to you, elie honig. i will take that. thank you, my friend. >> thanks, erica. still to come, a new twist involving republican senate candidate herschel walker and the accusations he paid for an ex-girlfriend's abortion. his response this morning. a new survey shows the fallout from the supreme court's decision to reverse roe v. wade. we'll take a look at that real world impact ahead. rapid wrinkle repair® smooths the look off fifine lines in 1-week, dedeep wrinkles in 4. so you can kiss wrinkles goodbye! neutrogena® all across the country, people are working hard to build a better future.

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down with another denial after "the daily beast" revealed the anonymous woman accusing walker of paying for her abortion in 2009 is also the mother of one of his children. the candidate calls it a flat-out lie, totally untrue. walker has run his campaign on a hard line anti-abortion platform. this is not going away any time soon. >> no, it's not. walker just wrapped up an interview with conservative radio host hugh hewitt where he

again denied the allegations. the denials are all the more significant now because the daily beast reports that she's the mother of one of walker's children. he went on to characterize this whole episode as a distraction and implored his supporters to stay unified be hind his campaign. let's clisten. >> i know nothing about any woman having an abortion. they can keep coming at me like that, and they're doing that because they want to distract people. i know that. i've already been forgiven. if i've been forgiven, why in the world would i not be forgiven of something like that. >> so is there anything you need to be forgiven for, vis-a-vis a woman whose name we do not know? do you know who this woman is? >> that's what's so funny. i'm saying i've been forgiven

because of all the things i did when i went through all the things with my ex-wife. i wasn't perfect. i had my problems with mental health and i hate to say i've been born again, but i have a new life. >> so you can hear him there leaning heavily on his faith, also really trying to explain this away in folksy terms. he says the left is trying to rob my whole house but i don't live there anymore. the former nfl star says it's not impacting his momentum on the road. we'll be able to see this for ourselves, where cnn is on the ground at his next campaign rally in just a few hours. walker, of course, facing off against incumbent democratic senator raphael warnock in a senate contest that could determine the balance of power in washington. that's why this is being watched

so closely. >> that's why weave been so laser focused on it, why you have been spending so much time in georgia and will continue to. republicans still pretty quiet on this? >> actually they're defending him in a pretty robust way. right before herschel jumped on the radio with hugh, he was interviewing senator tom cotton, and senator cotton was defending walker, as well as a host of other washington republicans. they believe this is a winnable race and they are defending him. who is not defending him as robustly, taking more a measured and muted tone are the georgia republicans, right? governor brian kemp who is also facing a competitive race this cycle, they aren't blasting walker, but that aren't giving, i would say, a full-throated defense as we're hearing from many of these washington republicans who i think are very

concerned about keeping this seat. >> yes, as we've heard, that is the number one focus. eva mckend, appreciate it. a new survey shows the consequences of the supreme court's decision to overturn roe versus wade. the decision triggered laws in a number of states banning or severely restricting access to abortions. cnn senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen joining us. when we look at the numbers here, what do they tell us? >> erica, it's very dramatic what's happened in the last 100 days since roe v. wade was overturned. if we look at the states that have the most severe restrictions, there are 14 states in the united states where you cannot get an abortion. there are no abortions being offered. this is according to an analysis done by the good mocker institute. many centered in the southeast. many are near each other, which means if you can't get an abortion in one of those states, many of the neighboring states

don't have abortions. the courts have stepped in and done temporary stays on restrictions. so, in other words, those states could pretty much at any time, they could have those bans put back in there. so that's really restrictive. if we look by the sheer numbers of women who are in those states, if we take a look at 2020, in 2020 more than 125,000 women got abortions in those 14 states that we just showed you, more than 125,000. so those are 125,000 women who now will not be able to get abortions. erica. >> and the questions, obviously, are as you pointed out, there are certain states where we're sort of waiting to see how things play out based on what's been filed and what hasn't. in the months going forward, what should we be looking at? where should we be looking?

>> we should be looking for it to get worse. that map i showed with 14 states could have many more states -- it could have another dozen or so states on there. that's because those states passed trigger laws that said x number of months after roe v. wade is overturned, we want to have this kind of ban or these kind of restrictions on abortion. that map that we looked at at the beginning, that will have more and more states in there as the trigger bans come into play. erica. >> elizabeth cohen, appreciate it. thank you. still to come here, hurricane ian prompting concerns over when children will actually be able to return to school. we'll bring you the very latest next.

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accustomed to hearing how many people have died and don't realize the families suffering behind the numbers. >> so many images being posted. here you see a bible open to exodus 33-13 found in the rubble left behind on sanibel island. for many school districts, the rebuilding process is only just beginning, if it's even been able to begin yet. they are trying in some places to get kids back in class, to bring their staff back. collier county reopening today. schools in sarasota county will begin a phased reopening on monday. hardee county set to return on monday as well. in desoto county, schools will remain closed until at least mid month. take a look at some of the destruction to ft. myers beach elementary. you can also see lee county, hear from lee county school district. the county plans to make an announcement tomorrow in terms of what their plans are for next week. we'll be watching for that.

joining us this morning, the superintendent for the charlotte county school district on the phone today. you're hopeful that maybe by the 24th you can get schools back up and running. this is a massive undertaking for the thousands of students and staff in your district. how many of them can actually go back to being schools at this point? what was the damage? >> we did receive damage at every one of our school sites, all of our ancillary buildings, damages from roofs peeling back, water intruded in all of our buildings, soffit and fascia damage, walkways, canopies, exhaust fans relocated, i'll say. air conditioning systems that sit on roofs relocated. those are all bad things, obviously, when you're trying to keep water out of a school. we have been fortunate we have not had rain since the event.

our first phase has been buttoning up our buildings, make sure we don't get anymore water in those buildings so we can start to remediate the pomoistu, so we can make it safe for our students and staff. >> would remote learning be an option? >> it would be down the road, as we continue to assess our schools. we're hopeful that every one of our school sites will be able to be used in some format. we may have -- if the building has 100 classrooms, we may only have 90 of those classrooms available to us. we may adjust schedules, adjust when teachers teach within those classes, float teachers, do things like that, to try to get them back to their own schools. so as a part of the normalcy component of this, the kids have already dealt with so much through the last few days, the

last thing you want them to do is learn a whole new school because you have to send them somewhere else. we're going to try real hard -- if we have to delay a couple extra days to get them back to their own schools, those are days well spent. >> that would be the priority. i feel like i have so many questions for you just on a logistical level. i look at these pictures of the destruction and i can only imagine how many families are now displaced. i'm talking about students and staff as well. do you have any idea how many teachers, how many school staff no longer have a home? >> the answer to that is many. it's not a few. we have teachers and staff members at every school who have varying levels of damage to their home from ceilings on the floor to damage enough that they can barely get out of their own driveways to they will need complete rebuilds.

same thing for our families. this process of recovery, we're still in assessment. the first thing, not just for our schools, but for our community is to get those tarps up. we remember the tarps well. our community through charlie and those tarps became very -- unfortunately, very apparent and kind of created a timeline of you know how things are going as the tarps are coming down. we're going to be in that same model again. we had rough damage -- the wind in charlotte county was really the biggest impact of hurricane ian. so our community has a long way to go. >> we want to keep talking to you and keep us updated. quickly before i let you go, in so many areas around this country students and in some cases their families, especially with the backpack programs we

see, really rely on their schools for food. is there a program in place right now to meet some of that need? have you been able to keep up with that over the last week? >> you know, our community has been incredible. we've instantly, ro tfrmtsc had feeding locations across the county. as soon as we can get staff in, we'll start to pick that up. you're right. in many cases the only two meals that our students receive come from us. i hate to say that, but that's just the truth. so we're hopeful that we can get feeding to the kids as soon as possible. the easiest way to do that is get them back in our buildings. number one priority is get the buildings ready to go and get the kids back as soon as possible. we're hopeful for the 24th. >> we're hopeful as well. please keep us updated and let us know what you need.

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the investigation into a mysterious illness impacted agency officers and diplomats, this is known as havana syndrome. one cia physician who spoke with dr. sanjay gupta recalls how he traveled to cuba to investigate and experienced some of the same debilitating symptoms. >> i had a lot of nausea and a terrible headache and i never suffered from headaches before. the amount of ringing in my ears was asounding and things were getting worse and worse and i started to hear the noise and i'm really in disbelief. >> sand you believe that that night there was some sort of injury or damage to either your inner ear, the nerves around your inner ear or your brain? >> correct. absolutely. >> cnn's katie bellow is joining us now. how is the cia responding to the accusation that they're

slow-walking this investigation. >> yeah, erica, the cia and the biden administration both say that they're 100 committed to get down to the strange episodes. as one official said who spoke to us, this is among the most aggressive approaches to an investigation that the agency has ever taken. but so much of this is necessarily happening behind closed door and that is where you're seeing the frustration start to bubble over. the same cia agent said this is an investigation, we can't make public everything that we're learning or every lead that we're following up in live time. erica, part of what make this is so difficult is that officials who are familiar with the intelligence communities investigation into these episodes say they just don't have enough good answers at this point. there is about two dozen of the cases that haven't been yet explained by any other known means. and officials who are familiar with the investigation tell us that at this point they just don't have any good evidence

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to build more affordable housing top of the hour here. good morning, i'm erica hill. jim and poppy are off today. officials say north korea has conducted a new firing exe