russia launchingets biggest air attack on ukraine. russia unleashing unprecedented missiles and drones across the country. schools, factories, warehouses, hospitals hit. one of the largest air assaults of this war. we ll show you the devastation. and president trump removed from the 2024 primary ballot again. this time in maine. how his rivals are responding. plus, wave causing chaos in california. the terrifying moment it slammed into the coastline and why officials say the threat isn t over. welcome to the lead. we start with our world lead and an attack unlike anything we have seen since the star on the war on ukraine. russian strikes blanketing ukraine from east to west, killing at least 3 at this hour and injuring more than 150. cruise missiles, drones and bombers flood ukraine s air defenses in what ukraine said was the worst attack since russia s full-scale invasion nearly two years ago. russia targeted ukranian airbases, but also hit apartment buildings, a metro sta
unprecedented case to the other one that s likely going to go in front of those nine justices. trump has been barred from the 2024 primary ballot after the state supreme court found he violated the 13th amendment s insurrectionist band. trump s lawyers taking of course the opposite approach straight to the court on this. we have cnn tracking both of these stories. walk us through the immunity issue, what we are expecting compared to what happened. donald trump headed to trial in march in the court in washington. the supreme court has to resolve, they are going to have to figure out whether donald trump is immune from going to trial beakers because he was trialed in the senate and acquitted there. before they can do that trial, someone will have to figure it out and it will be the supreme court. the justice department wants to skip the middle court and go to the supreme court straightaway. the supreme court is considering that, we have this new brief in from donald trump
hello. happy mother s day to all the moms out there. thank you for joining us today. we begin with the votes being counted in turkey s presidential election. the race could have global repercussions by reshaping the country s domestic and foreign relationships. president erdjon is leading. he and his opposition claim to be leading. let s check in at istanbul. reporter: very preliminary results are beginning to trickle out. vote counting is continuing and we expect in the coming hours to get the preliminary results of this presidential vote. the whole is anxiously awaiting the results. we ll find out what the turks decided to vote for today. did they decide to vote for more of the same, for the promise that the president will continue on the same path for this country, or are they did they decide to go for the opposition that promised change to reverse the past two years and they say a return to real democracy, or is this divided, polarized nation headed towards a run-off?
good morning and welcome to cnn this morning. it is sunday, april 16th. i had to be reminded of that just a few minutes ago. i m aymara walker. i m victor blackwell. she was talking about yesterday on sunday. and i m thinking we do the weekend. so clearly yesterday wasn t sunday . i thought today was monday is with us. all right. thanks for spending good morning with us. here s what we re watching for you. at least 56 people are dead. excuse me in sudan. there were explosions repping night clashes between the military and armed group or escalating will tell you what we know about how this started and what the rest of the world is doing. in response, congress returns from recess this week with a laundry list of to do items among them coming up at the plan to fund the government look at other major priorities for both parties in the coming days. the $1.6 billion defamation trial against fox news starts this week. what s at stake for the company and watch fox apologized to the j
learned. law enforcement is about to arrest a suspect tied to the leak of a trove of highly secret government intelligence, which is embarrassed the us and strained multiple alliances. today. several blockbuster reports expose who the suspected leader is. the new york times has named him as a 21 year old member of the massachusetts air national guard. cnn has not independently verified his identity, and it s not currently naming him both the times and the washington post said the man is the leader of a chat group on the online platform discord and his older than most members of the group of gamers who call him o. g. one of his friends who spoke anonymously on camera to the post obtained parental permission to do so. because that friend is underage. take a listen. he was. he was a young, charismatic man who loved nature . god who loved shooting guns and in racing cars. he did see himself as the leader of this group, and ultimately he was the leader of this group, and he wanted