From the campaign. And i wish them well in their future endeavors. I look forward to announcing new staff roles in the coming days cnn, kfile senior editor andrew kaczynski, who broke this story is joining us now with more details. Andrew, what more are you learning? yeah, that s right. What we are learning that the top campaign staff to lieutenant governor mark robinson, are resigning from his campaign in mass, including the campaign manager, deputy campaign manager, senior adviser, and top consultant to his campaign finance director, deputy finance director, and his direction tour of operations this is a stunning development after our bombshell story that we posted last thursday, his staff are leaving the campaign now, it s unclear where this is going to leave. Robinson were just a month away almost from the election and now he essentially has almost no we ll senior campaign staff now we did speak to robinson ahead of our story on thursday where he denied all the allegations in them.
strikes that damaged at least three buildings a terrorist attack. the city s mayor says two people were injured but none required hospitalization. cnn s clare sebastian is live in london for us. and this would seem to really bring the war home to the russian public even more than the drone strike on the kremlin a couple weeks ago. what more do we know about the attack itself and the kremlin s response this morning? yeah, state media reporting the three buildings as of now, two in moscow itself on the southwestern side of the city, and another on the outskirts not far from one of the major airports. you can see state media and telegramen chales posting videos showing people with drone fragments. defense minister saying that they were able to avoid attacks with drone warfare and five shot down using russian air defense missiles. so perhaps that is why there are fragments of those droughns. t drones. the damage was described as insignificant. two sought medical help but no one
crippled by a mass explosion. what that could mean for putin s next move and strategy. with less than a month to go for election day, we ll tell you who is hitting the campaign trail and look at some key races to watch. and nearly two weeks after hurricane ian ripped through florida, residents from fort myers beach will finally being allowed to go back to home. and what does it mean for companies getting ready for hire for the holidays. happy sunday, everyone. it is october 9th. thank you so much for waking up with us. hello, boris. good morning, amara. good to be with you. your first full weekend as the official new anchor of new day. it s been wonderful. thank you for making me feel so welcomed, boris. we begin with a deadly rocket attack in ukraine. and dozens more were killed in zaporizhzhia last night. authorities actually revised the death toll down. earlier they said 17 had been killed. ukraine s air force says the city was hit by six russian cruise mis
hello and welcome. friday, september 23rd. 9 a.m. here in london. 11 a.m. in ukraine. voting begins today in the four occupied regions on whether to become a part of the russian federation. the areas make up about 50% of ukraine s territory. if they join russia many believe that will provide vladimir putin the pretexts to claim russian territory is under attack and escalate the war. it s prompting people to flee the country in all directions. a long line of cars backed up at russia s border with finland. the government in helsinki is thinking of new restrictions to keep russians from entering. they re crossing into armenia and turkey. according to one witness, traffic at one checkpoint stretched 5 to 6 kilometers. it was a similar scene along the border with kazakhstan. trucks lined up as far as the eye could see. ticket prices are soaring for flights out of moscow. most of which is sold out for the next few days. the kremlin calls reports exaggeration and fake news. the mobi
powers. salma abdelaziz is joining us. iran has resumed executing those who protested its hard line regime. reporter: absolutely. if you look at the figures, if you compare 2021 to 2022, there were more than 80% spike in the number of people executed in iran according to amnesty international, more than 570 received the death penalty last year. and now activists are telling us this year there could be even more. among those being sentenced to death by hanging are protestors. take a look. outside a jay il near tehran, ty chant don t hang them, their pleas come as iran resumes the execution of protestors after a months long hiatus. the brutal practice restarted this month with the hanging of three young men accused of killing three members of the security forces during