This is cnn Breaking News good morning made, this sunday and have recovered and we begin with this Breaking News moments ago in russia, the last polls closed following a threeday president ial election. With no genuine opposition candidates appearing on the ballot. The outcome was never in doubt. Vladimir putin is expected to win the vote that will keep his grip on power through 2030. He has already, as russias longestserving ruler since soviet dictator joseph stalin, weve got full coverage for you. Cnns Matthew Chance is in moscow and Fred Pleitgen is in berlin. Matthew, you first despite the lack of opposition, there were there any acts of defiance today were yet to happen. In fact, of the course of the past three days when voting has been taking place has been a surprisingly high level of acts of defiance, disruption at Polling Stations, and things like that. Youve got to remember, russia is a country where public displays of dissent and criticism of the kremlin cant have extremely
Now safe after being evacuated by swat officers. Now this all comes after three people were shot and killed earlier in the day aCross State Lines its in Pennsylvania Outside a philadelphia suburb in what officials are calling a violent domestic related incident preliminary investigation determined that 26 yearold Andriy Gordon Driving a stolen vehicle, which was carjack from trenton, new jersey earlier in the morning forcibly he broke into the residents after which he shot and killed his 52 yearold step mother, karen gordon. And his 13 yearold sister, cara gordon who lived at the residence there were three other individuals at the residence including a minor inside the home, who were able to hide and avoid being shot by gordon as he went through the house, and searching for them following the shootings at approximately 09 01 a. M. Gordon drove to the unit block of edge would lane levittown, where he forcibly broke into a residence after which he shot and killed 25yearold Taylor Taylor
In the cnn newsroom. Im Alex Marquardt in washington time is running outside for a Ceasefire Deal between israel and hamas as us officials had hoped. To broker that deal, that would see the return of hamas held hostages before the muslim, muslim holy month of ramadan that begins tomorrow night. But so far President Biden says that is unlikely whether it be a ceasefire by ramadan looking are you concerned about violence and youve got one. I assure this all comes as the humanitarian crisis in gaza is reaching a fever pitch, the us just conducted more airdrops with thousands of meals and bottles of water but aid groups is saying that is not enough. The United Nations has issued a warning that four out of five, 80 of households in gaza right now dont have Safe Drinking Water according to the Ministry Of Health there in gaza, at least two more people died today from severe hydration and malnutrition. In response to the crisis, the white house has announced that the us would join other count
Gaza. This after President Biden said this, or than hes helping cnns scott mclean is following all of these developments for us from istanbul. So what more did we hear from the israeli Prime Minister yeah, erica, as you mentioned, President Biden, et cetera. An interview on Msnbc On Saturday that look, his red line would be israel going into rafah, which even israels closest allies and many other countries prison the International Community would be a catastrophe because you have well over 1 Million People there who are sheltering. And frankly, there is nowhere for them to go. Israel, he says that they would evacuate them elsewhere, but there is fighting and bombing taking place in virtually every other part of the country. And yet despite that warning from President Biden of not crossing that red line, we have Prime Minister netanyahu saying that that offensive in rafah will in fact go ahead saying that his red line is october 7, and making sure that that doesnt happen again. And he s
As he hits the road. And we turn our focus to this general election. Well, just these dueling rallies certainly provided a window and what were expected to see in the months to come between President Biden and his republican rival, donald trump were the president ticked through multiple themes over the course of his remarks to a rowdy audience. But one of the prominent themes and one that his Campaign Launched on was protecting democracy. And on that front, the president kicked off his remarks, talking about Donald Trumps coziness to authorities, syrian regimes, and also making clear that its a stark contrast between him and donald trump. Take a listen my lifetime has taught me to embrace The Future Of Freedom and democracy and trump and i have a very different value set of an obvious already biden is based on core values of the defined america. And the rest of the world looks at us that way decency fairness, equality were all know donald trump sees a different america and american sto