good morning, everyone. it is the top of the hour. thanks for joining us. i'm poppy harlow. jim has the day off. and overnight a stark warning, president biden out with a chilling assessment of the dangers behind russian president vladimir putin's nuclear threats. this as moscow faces new military set backs in ukraine. plus, off the force, a uvalde school district officer is fired after a cnn reporter identified her as one of the troopers under investigation for her response in this massacre. and an economic slowdown, the u.s. economy added 263,000 jobs in september. it did beat economists expectations but a cooling labor

market could be a plus for the fight on inflation. we'll talk about why. but let's start with the president's chilling warning on the increasingly disturbing nublt nuclear threats from vladimir putin. president saying, quote, we have not faced the prospect of armageddon since kennedy and the cuban missile crisis. i don't think there is any such thing to use a tactical nuclear weapon and not end up with armageddon. >> jeremy diamond joins us and alex mar court following all of this. jeremy, let me begin with you. not expected by the white house, i think those around the president that he would say this and he said it as a fundraiser. so not on camera here in new york. but reporters were there and i think stunned to hear what the president said. >> reporter: yeah, that was a stark warning from the president of the united states. perhaps one of the most stark warnings that we've heard so far about the elevated risk which is real and there is real concern within the administration about

the prospect of the russian president deciding to use a tactical nuclear weapon in his war with ukraine. what is important to note, though, and something that u.s. officials are stressing to me and my colleagues this morning, is that there has been no change and no new u.s. assessment about russia's nuclear posture or about the russian president's intentions that prompted the president to make these remarks. one senior administration official telling me that the president was simply speaking, quote, frankly about this heightened concern inside of the administration and the president giving us a window into some of the concerns. and he laid out to the extent to which he's concerned about putin being cornered and what he would do if he was cornered. let me read you a part of the his remarks where he said, quote, we're trying to figure out what is putin's off-ramp. where does he find a way out. he's not joking when he talks about potential use of tactical nuclear weapons or biological or

chemical weapons because hi military is you might say significantly underperforming. and so, ultimately, where things stand now is that the u.s., according to officials, has not adjusted his nuclear posture following the comments. the assess. still stands in terms of russia not making any moves that the u.s. has detected. but it is latest time that we've seen the president in these kinds of fundraisers settings where he's speaking off the cuff, giving us a little bit of window into his thinking and his administration's thinking. but again, no u.s. assessment that putin has decided to use a nuclear weapon. but certainly some heightened concern. >> and alex, as we mentioned, the white house surprised by this. i wonder how national security officials are reacting this morning here in the u.s.? >> well i think what everyone realized is how seriously the administration now is taking this nuclear saber rattling. but as jeremy noted, there has been no change in the assessment.

what we've been hearing until now is that the risk of putin, they believe of using a nuclear weapon, is low. but at the same time it is the highest that it has been in years. and these are certainly the farthest comments that we've heard from any government official in terms of the russian nuclear threat. so, yes, it is clear that the administration believe that's there is a more elevated chance but as jeremy noted, that assessment certainly hasn't changed. one senior u.s. official telling our colleague jeff zeleny that they were surprised and these comments caught the administration officials off guard. now, we have to remember, poppy, that way back in february when this war started, president putin put his nuclear forces on a state of high alert. so there has been this nuclear threat throughout the conflict. it is higher now because where we are seven months into the conflict. russia doing far worse than they expected, certainly on their back foot. we've seen 300,000 russian

reservists and seen them on the front lines with just one or two weeks training. this just really speaks to the weakness of those russian forces. they are being beat back. they are -- the ukrainians are certainly on the offensive. and so what russia has in their back pocket, and always has, is nuclear weapons. and we should be clear, what we're talking about here are tactical nuclear weapons. so those are much smaller than the strategic nuclear weapons. we're talking about a nuke fired from rocket launchers and that is not to diminish it because you heard president biden saying this could lead to a nuclear armageddon. there would be serious ramifications if they were to use these weapons. >> thank you. appreciate the reporting this morning into and now to the u.s. economy, new data out this morning shows the labor market is holding strong in the face of real concerns about potential economic downturn, the u.s. added 263,000 jobs in september.

the unemployment rate ticked to 3.5%. the second straight month of cooling job growth as the fed works to tame inflation. let's talk about this with marty walsh. mr. secretary, good morning and thanks for the time. >> thank you for having me today. >> so, i wonder if the biden administration is happy to see the labor market cooling a bit relatively speaking compared to the last 12 months because the fed needs that actually. they need slower job growth to get a handle on this inflation? >> well, yeah, i'm not sure -- well maybe people are defining this as cooling. i'm looking at it as a time where we've had incredible job growth in the last year. this year we still have good job growth. we've added about 440,000 jobs per month if you do an average. certainly this report, 263 is a good strong report. there is still the opportunity to get more people back to work. i think we're adjusting to what

would be somewhat of a pre-pandemic time because we're not going to be able to put up 600, jobs number per month. but within the report we're seeing the health care sector fully recover and gains in the manufacturing sector which is great and the job participation rate, it zipped a little bit but it was high last month. so we're going to keep an eye on that as we continue to move forward to get more people engaged in the economy. >> i think you point something out that is really important and that is the irony of all of this. you as the labor sect secretary, you want to have more people employed or that is a sign of a good economy. but with inflation as high as it is now, the federal reserve needs the job market to cool, right? and it is cooling from the average of 510,000 jobs a month added in the last 12 months and wage growthal throw it is up 5%, it is been cooling off. both things that the average american wouldn't necessarily

want but did this economy needs to get a handle on inflation. so i suppose i'm asking, is the biden administration happy to see those things happening vis-a-vis the war on inflation? >> well certainly i think that, you know, the plans that the president put out there to tackle inflation in a lot of cases are working with coming down incrementally. we'd like to see it come down more than that. the supply chain issue added concern to the inflation number and gas and what opec has done now is zis is a pointing to the president and to us and that we need to be less reliant on foreign energy and continue to move forward. some of the -- of the things that the fed have done certainly you add what the fed is doing and what treasury is doing and as an administration collecti collectively together we'll see the ip flation come down where we don't go into recession. i personally, when you say recession, you can't compare this to time to any other period

in the past when we talk about recessions because we're coming off a worldwide catastrophe and a global pandemic. so the pressures are different. and we're not the only country in the world obviously dealing with this. european countries are dealing with this as well. >> no. i think that is another important point. you can't compare this to anything else but the reality is where americans end up now for their economy and for their families. and you know, you say inflation is coming down. we're still at 8%. you still have core inflation going up and i wonder if you have faith that the federal reserve could get a handle on this inflation without putting too much americans out of work? >> well, i'm hoping that all of the policies and procedures whether it is the fed or the administration or the department of labor, my role, my job is to try to get as many people into work as possible. get them into better paying jobs and into middle class jobs and work with businesses and labor to increase wages over time and benefits. certainly i know that is what

i'm focused on other folks are focuses on different parts of this. the good part, this is an all of government approach. the president filed the inflation reduction act that we bent see the impacts right away. the chips bill is another one. we don't see the benefit but long-term they'll help the american economy moving forward and prevent the inflation we're feeling today down the road. >> do want to ask you because i mentioned opec and slashing to 2 million barrels of production going to drive gas prices higher and there is very little that the administration could do about that. on top of people are going po watch their gas get more expensive, the president of the san francisco federal reserve mary daly told me this just a few days ago. listen. >> we need to recognize is that people are already are suffering. they're suffering from the toll, the indignity of high inflation. they earn their living and go to the store and they can't afford the things they could afford

last month. >> what do you say to americans right now, secretary walsh, who at this point may be losing confidence that the biden administration can make this economy work for them when three out of four americans say the economy is either not so good or poor. >> well certainly when it comes to energy and what we're dealing with gas, i mean, that certainly was not created by this administration. we're dealing with a war in ukraine that you guys report on every day which is very sad. you're talking about decisions opec has made. which is very disappointing as well. and i think what it does is for too long america has been too dependent on foreign energy and think that the president has made it very clear in the inflation reduction act to be less dependent on energy supplies whether it is oil or gas as we move forward here. we need to continue to do that. we're seeing more production to deal with the issue immediately. we're seeing our refineries ramping up here in the united states of america to bring the cost down for american people at

the gas pump. but for 13 state weeks we saw a reduction because of president biden's policies and decisions we saw gas prices coming down. you clearly -- opec caught the administration by surprise and the decision they made yesterday so we're reajusting to deal with the decisions they've made. >> we're out of time. part of the refinery issues is what is driving prices up in the midwest and on the west coast. and others would argue that this administration could do a whole lot more to -- that would open the door for more oil production here in the united states. that is a conversation for another member of the biden administration and we'll have it with them. >> no. true. but -- real quickly. real quickly, if the last administration made investments in refineries we wouldn't be where we are today. >> secretary walsh, thank you for your time this morning. we are just over a month away from the midterm elections. up next, the fiery senate debate

in the battle ground state of arizona. candidates going head-to-head over key issues, immigration, and abortion and election security. plus growing frustration in florida as people wait in long lines for essentials and for help from fema. why some hard-hit communities this morning are feeling ignored. >> fort myers boulevard, marco island, nothing about marco heights so we felt left out. >> we'll bring you more of their voices ahead. and later new data on the fight against breast cancer. what it shows about the health care gaps that persist twenty white and black women in america. okay everyone, our mission is to provide complete balanced nutrition for strength and energy. woo hoo! ensurecomplete balanced nutrition with 27 vitamins a minerals. and ensure complete

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shows key senate races in the battleground states of arizona and nevada neck in lek. and last night in phoenix blake masters squared off against mark kelly. moderator asked masters if he stood by past comments that joe biden was not elected fair and square. listen to this. >> is joe biden the legitimately elected president of the united states? >> joe biden is absolutely the president. my gosh, have you seen the gas prices, lately. >> legitimate -- >> i'm not trying to trick you. he's the legitimate president in the white house and unfortunately for all of us, i expect president trump would be in the white house today if the fbi didn't work together to put the thumb on the scale to get joe biden in there. >> but not vote counting, not election results? >> yeah, i haven't seen evidence of that. these are conspiracies and lies. that have no place in our democracy. i'm worried about what is going to happen here, you know, this

election and 2024. i mean, we could wind up in a situation where the wheels come off of our democracy and it is because of folks like blake masters. >> let's talk about this and many more of these midterm headlines. dana bash and commentator s.e. cupp. s.e., let me begin with you. as a republican, blake masters clearly said, i think trump won in 2020. that was in a campaign ad last year. now pressed by a very apt moderator, i should note, he had to actually answer the question for what he thinks now in the general. what do you make of all of it? >> well it was a great answer. if i'm -- if i'm a republican, and you look at the number one issue for most voters, it is the economy. that could have been what republicans were running on from the beginning. to say, yeah, he's the president

and we shouldn't be happy about that. or have you seen gas prices. i mean, i think that is an appealing message to republicans. but unfortunately, blake masters had to run through a election denialism to get there. to get the nomination and that is where a lot of republican candidates felt, you know, they had to go and it is so bad and i think dangerous that someone like liz cheney who is to the right to the right of right would vote for a democrat if she were a voter in arizona right now. that is how bad it is. >> go ahead, dana. >> poppy, it used to be before 2020, that the sort of playbook on both sides was to run to the right or the left of your party during the primaries and then make your way back towards the middle for the general election. especially when you're in a purple state like arizona. for the republican now, just like s.e. was saying, unfortunately the playbook, if you want to get the support of the trump base and of the man himself, you have to run towards

the lies in the primary and then run back towards reality and truth in the general election. >> you know, dana, just to this point, i think it is interesting, you look at mark kelly has a narrow lead over blake masters right now in arizona. it is pretty neck-and-neck when you look at the senate race between adam wax wallal and catherine cortez masto and republican votes are much more motivated to turn out to vote in general. 62% of republican voters versus 52% of democrats say they're motivated. we know what history tells us about how the president's party does in a midterm. is that all that is going on here or is it something more. >> it is not just history and the historical desire for a check on whom ever is in the white house during the first midterm of his first term. but it is also what you have been talking about all morning, with the jobs report being

great, yeah, but. but all of the other economic issues that go is a long with it. there is a, to quote a one term democratic president, a malaise that is out there. and that is what our polls have shown in some of these key states, nevada and arizona. people just don't feel good because inflation is high, because there is so much discord and discontent in this country and that is a big part of what you're describing. >> i want to turn the corner since i have the opportunity to have two brilliant women on with me. s.e., to have you both, but talk about dana has been doing reporting on the races with all female candidates. and i just wonder if you could speak to that given this election and what so many voters are focused on. s.e. first and then dana. >> well dana has done some great reporting on this it is remarkable just how many women are running against other women in this case.

and i think there is a few things going on. one, historically when that has happened, it is been as a reaction against republicans. if you look back at 1992, 2018, had you a lot of women running as democratic candidates. you're seeing that be the case this year as well. a lot of republicans running. but more significantly more democrat women are running for office. and, you know, i think that is a reaction to roe, the overturning of roe and other things that republicans are doing that feel regressive to women and other minority groups. but you add to that on the other side, i think a lot of women are drawn into politics now through the schools issue. we saw that in the glenn youngkin election. that issue is really sort of still percolating and driving women into politics. but i think if you have to pin me down and ask me to predict why this is happening now, i honestly would say i think

people find congress so dysfunctional that all of these women are running in governor races. i think that is the most interest. >> that is such a good point. >> there is the house and the senate was completely dysfunctional, they don't think they could get anything down there. and going right to the state houses. i think that is the most interesting part of story. >> yeah. dana. >> that is a really good point. i was think being this, poppy, as we were preparing to come on and it is remarkable as s.e. said, but what has been as remarkable to me is how unremarkable it has been as i've gone into michigan, to cover that governor's race, woman against women. or in virginia's secondary congressional district you have two women running against each other or on the state of the union i had the two female candidates for senate from washington state. it was kind of a nonissue that they were both women.

whereas it wasn't that long ago that it would have been a really big deal that you had this all female race. that is good thing. >> i'll never forget when ruth bader ginsburg was asked whether there will be enough women on the supreme court. do you remember the answer? >> nine. >> when there are nine. >> when it is not remarkable because there have been nine men for a very long time. thank you both. have a good weekend. >> thanks, poppy. and congrats. >> oh, thanks. going to get a new alarm clock. all right. next exclusive cnn reporting. gets results in uvalde texas, the action the school district is taking against a officer they hired despite her being under investigation for her actions during the mass shooting at robb elementary. we'll have that ahead. behold... all that talent! ♪ this is how we work now ♪

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new this morning, the uvalde school district has fired a newly hired officer after it was revealed that she also responded to the uvalde school massacre in may. yesterday they identified crimson elizondo as one of the state troopers that arrived within two minutes of the gunman entering the school and killing 19 children and two teachers. our colleague, our cnn amazing reporter shimon prokupecz has been following this. and i say this because you were

there on the ground right when this happened and demanding answers and accountability and now we have some more. >> yeah. our team keeps going back there because there is still so many questions and the families are so frustrated because they're not getting those answers. and there are all of these investigation going on. but yet no one is telling them anything. and so we have started really digging into what happened there. with police response and the failed response and we learn about this officer who was under investigation for her actions on that day as part of the dps investigation, the department of public safety investigation. she was one of the first officers on scene there at the shooting. within minutes of getting the call, hearing a call of shots fired, she was there. and what the department of public safety found was that she didn't go in. she wasn't wearing her tactical vest and didn't have her long rifle. so they start this investigation and during that time she resigns from the department of public safety. and what we have learned just to give you a timeline, is that

back in around july or so, she's under investigation, the school district police ask questions about her to the dps and they start asking about for a background check. so it is apparent that she applies for the job with the school district. so she applies for the job on july 26th. they request for a background check on july 27th. the dps asked for a release from her because there are indications that she's under investigation so they need a release and then august 1st we're told that the school district confirms that they received this information that she is under investigation and then by august 29th she resigned from the dps and then sometime after that she's working for the school police. we don't know how she was hired. >> right. >> what did they miss, the school police. we don't have a full accounting from the school district. we may get some more information today. there are some rumbles about

something happening but this is raising all kinds of questions at school district and the community. >> someone who left one position with questions and why she was brought on to protect a school and ultimately does not. >> yeah. and the other question are the comments that she made. the school district is being very cute here. they're trying to say well we fired her because of these comments shed made about not going inside of thabout the sch. but she didn't talk about the fact that she's under investigation. maybe today they'll do that. but they still need to account for what happened here. >> what your team is doing is doing is so important for those families. thank you very much. at least 131 people are confirmed dead as a result of hurricane ian. and for those who survived, their frustration is growing as their searching for help. leyla santiago spoke with some of them. watch. >> reporter: this is the line

for help. help for people like mary fernandez. >> pretty awful. we lost a mobile home. and everything in it. >> reporter: she arrived early hoping to talk to fema in time to make a-t to a scheduled surgery she's been waiting for two months for. in a week she has to leave the place where she's staying. >> we have to wait and see and hope that they could give us something that we could go stay somewhere. we have no home. >> and in line in front of her. >> the roof is gone, the shed is guy. the lenay is gone and my car got flooded. >> reporter: and way behind them, mary broomfield. >> the sad part about it is, i have yet to see a government official or anyone that came into our community. >> reporter: it is a one-stop shopstet up by fema. here you'll find state agencies and insurance companies and you'll also find long lines owe under the hot sun and overwhelming emotion an needs of all kinds mounting frustration. >> my patience is gone.

people in my community they lost everything. >> reporter: fema will open other distracter recovery centers like this one in fort myers. they are supporting ion response efforts across the west coast of florida. but still some of the people feel they've been left behind. >> i don't have to live on sanibel or fort myers beach to be one of the people that they care about. because to me that seems like that is all they care about at this point. >> reporter: we went to mary broom field's neighborhood where the loss is on display on every road. >> sanibbel and marco island and noeg but us. so we felt left out. >> reporter: there are distribution points run by nonprofits. >> we're trying to meet the needs of people in my community. >> she never made it to the front of the line and she left when she ran out of time in order to make it to her surgery. time now critical for those with dire needs, a week after ian

left these people devastated. still waiting for help. >> reporter: and remember this week president biden was here in florida. he asked people to be patient with the response. but as we've been here talking to people, it is clear patience is wearing thin. now a bit of an update. i was able to catch up with susan as she was leaving. she had a new cell phone, said that the insurance company is going to help her out with getting a car so she could get back to work and fema will be helping her with housing. leyla santiago, cnn fort myers, florida. >> thank you for that up state and that reporting. meantime, officials say they are surprised, that is a quote by president biden's dire warning about nuclear threats from russia. we'll get perspective on how the comments are being received internationally and what this means for the war on ukraine, next.

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right now ukrainian president zelenskyy said that his troops have retaken more than 190 square miles of land in the south. a senior military official said that a recovered about 120 settlements over the past two weeks and that comes as president biden sounds concerned about nuclear threats from russian president vladimir putin. joining me now to talk about the headlines is ian bremer, president ofure asia group. i actually watched the president departing new york from the shores of brooklyn before i saw

the comments that he had made about the nuclear -- about the nuclear threats. and the president said this at this fundraiser in new york last night, quote, we have not faced the prospect of armageddon since kennedy and the cuban missile crisis, i don't think there is the ability to use tactical nuclear weapons and not end up with mageddon. >> it took the wouse by surprise, but when he's speaking off the cuff, not the topic. and in the day i posted myself on twitter that on the one hand it is very unlikely that putin would use nuclear weapons on the other hand this is the most dangerous period in terms of nuclear confrontations since the cuban missile crisis in 1962. anyone focusing on this conflict would say that. there is no question. the fact that it is the most dangerous since '62 and the fact

that when putin invaded ukraine it became the most dangerous situation since the wall came down. that is all obvious. but the white house is taking the potential of tactical nuclear weapons use very seriously. and in part because putin has painted himself in a corner and he does not have credible military options to change the facts on the ground on the battlefield. and that the u.s. strategy going forward with european allies is to provide as much support to president zelenskyy and ukraine as possible over the coming, one, two, three months, before the weather turns really cold and before the russians get their 300,000 troops on the ground in the front lines to defend them to see if the ukrainians could take as much territory as possible to get back to the pre-february '24 territorial line. >> you wrote in your note to clients, past week brought the most negative development since russia's invasion of ukraine in

february and i listen to what the finnish prime minister said about when she was asked a very direct question, how does she think this conflict will or could end. listen to her response to reporters. >> we have an art of the conflict. the way out is conflict if russia doesn't leave ukraine. that is the way out of the conflict. thank you. >> what is -- what do you make of what she said there and also explain more of your take that this is most negative development in a week since the beginning of the conflict. >> well, i mean, there is no question that on the back of the indians, the chinese, the kaz acs and the turks, countries that putin has a good relationship with, all telling him this war is going badly and we want to you stop. his response was escalation. it is announcing the annexation of four territories in ukraine that he doesn't even control all of it and losing land right now and calling up a mobilization of 300,000 minimum russian troops. very unpopular on the ground in

russia. he's been hoping not to do that over the last seven months. he now has to because they're losing so badly on the ground. so, clearly this conflict has gotten a lot worse and putin is showing absolutely he's unwilling to back down at this point. i mean, the americans and the europeans have done a great job punishing the russians, a great job supporting the ukraines but not a great job deterring putin and that is the problem and that is why when putin said i'm prepared to use weapons of mass destruction if you hit russia, it is an issue. now what does it mean to hit russia. because of course russia already has announced territories that the ukraines would hit every day. and if you take putin atface value, in principle his red line has already been crossed. i don't believe that. i think that crimea is a differenttory. it is a territory that the russians truly considered to be theirs.

the citizens on ground consider to be russian and that president zelenskyy was prepared to negotiate on before the russian invasion. ze zelenskyy has been telling european leaders that he will not invade crimea in terms of an actual land invasion. i think that is an important step to help ensure that we don't actually see nuclear weapons use by putin. so, too, is the fact that the biden administration has made known very clearly to putin the consequences if a tactical nuke is used, that the americans would get involved in the war and would directly start attacking russian troops on the ground. but these are incredibly dangerous things that we're talking about. and even if it is only 1% or% or 5% chance, we're still talking about nuclear war. >> we are. thank you for all of the perspective. we appreciate it very much. still ahead, hopeful news in the fight brens breast cancer but new numbers show there is a lot of work to do to avoid

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but racial disparities still remain. let's go tour health reporter jacqueline howard who joins me now. so, top line, good news on the report but when you dig in, still really serious disparity? >> that is right. poppy, there is a lot to unpack here. but with this report, we've seen a 43% decline in breast cancer deaths between 1989 and 2020. but then we still have sadly this racial disparity where black women are still more likely to die of breast cancer and that is despite having a lower incident of disease. now there are several factors at play here as to why the dir -- disparity. we could point to equitable treatment and i asked the author of this report at american cancer society rebecca segal, as to what could explain this

disparity. she said black women are being treated differently. have a listen. >> we still see evidence of differences in treatment. bas based on the color of your skin. so health care systems need to evaluate how they're treating black women differently. and figure out how to fix it. >> so we heard there a call to really fix this disparity. and when it comes to also having equitable access to screening, most women start screening around age 40. so that is important to keep in mind. but of course you want to talk to your to to your doctor about what is best for you and your own risks. poppy. >> jacqueline howard, thank you very much. and still ahead on cnn, a lesson learned from hurricane ian. how the country's first solar powered town kept its utilities running during the category 4 hurricane. and avoiding flooding. our bill weir has that ahead.

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so, before we go today, some of you may have heard that i will be joining my friends done lemon and kaitlan collins as we launch a new cnn morning show in a few weeks and we're very excited for that. but today is about thanking the remarkable people who make this show possible each and every morning. this team, they do so much, like at them. that is the team. they do so much of the work you see on the screen every day. i want you to see their faces. they are incredibly hard-working. they are dedicated journalists. they wake up way earlier than i do in the middle of the night

truly to bring you the news that matters the most each day and i rely on them for so much. they amaze me always. they are the heart, they are the soul of this team and i will miss them so much. and to jim, my partner on this show, who has made me smile, made me laugh, jim, and made all of us smarter with his topnotch journalism, i will miss working with you so much. and finally, to our executive producer chris, here he is. i had the team snap this sneak photo. this is chris and his headset in e.p. mode as i call it. leading us all, answering my million questions in the commercial breaks. somehow creating time out of thin air when i go long and we have to get to commercial. he's been our rock and i'm deeply grateful. to all of you, i'll see new a few weeks. just a few hours earlier. thanks so much for joining us today and every day. i'm poppy harlow, have a great

weekend. ♪ hello, everyone. "at thi "at this hour," president biden warns ever armageddon. and a new report and look at the state of the economy. where a slowdown is good news today. and a big update on a story that we brought you yesterday. with the uvalde school district is doing now after a cnn report. this what we're watching "at this hour." thank you for being here. i'm kate bolduan. we're following two big stories at this hour. first, president biden issuing a warning about the nuclear threat posed by vladimir putin. the president warning that the risk o