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
about the significance of the bridge being hit. it depends how quickly they repair the bridge. it is a huge symbolic setback because this bridge was mr putin s personal commitment to crimea. it opened in 2018, cost $3 billion, massively overpriced. one of his friends was in charge of the construction and he identified with this because this was a way of uniting the mainland of russia with what he took to be the mainland of crimea which was now going to be russian forever so the bridge is symbolically hugely important. in terms of logistics, the fact is, one carriageway seems to have survived this blast although it may only take light traffic and we don t know how bad the damage is to the railway grid above it. my guess is that although the russians will have a big motive to say that the bridge is reopen soon and all is fine, it will not reopen to military traffic which is very heavy so we will see how long it is before they can start to use the road and particularly the rail
wrongs. president biden wipes out federal marijuana possession convictions. what that means for the effort to decriminalize marijuana nationwide. we have a series of serial murders occurring. people are scared to come out. police in california on the hunt for a killer. the one characteristic they are asking the community to zero in on as the search for the suspect continues. newsroom starts right now. good morning. it is saturday, october 8th. good morning. you are live in the cnn newsroom. we start this morning in eastern europe. at least three people have been reported dead in a huge explosion that crippled europe s largest bridge and pair lased a key supply route for russia s war in ukrainian. that blast crippled the only bridge linking russia to the annexed territory of crimea. the kerch bridge is a huge symbol for the kremlin and the attempt to reunify crimea with the russian mainland. let s get to fred pleitgen. russia blamed the explosion on ukraini
the wikileaks founder has been held in belmarsh prison in london for five years. our washington correspondent gary o donoghue had this update following joe biden s comment. well, this was pretty much an off the cuff comment that he made as he was sort of walking through the colonnade at the white house and a reporter shouted to him, you know, will you consider australia s request ? because of course australia, julian assange is australian and the australian parliament has passed a motion asking him to be returned to australia, saying would you consider ending the prosecution ? he didn t seem to hear the question at first, but it was repeated and he said we re considering it now . that would be a huge change, given that the us has been pursuing the extradition ofjulian assange from the uk for years and the thing is still winding its way through the courts. the home secretary signed the extradition back in 2022, but there s been court challenges to that and the high court is
Following the furore over the United States Postal Service’s 2024 Year of the Dragon commemorative stamp, we look at rival stamp designs from Hong Kong, mainland China, Japan, Thailand and the Isle of Man.