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 russias longestserving ruler since soviet dictator joseph stalin. Weve got full coverage for you. Cnns may chances in moscow. Fred pleitgen is in berlin and also with this cnn contributor and former Moscow Bureau chief, jill dougherty, matthew, lets begin with you. Despite the lack of opposition, there were acts of defiance, werent there today there have been quite a few actually, but louk, the preliminary results are just coming in and that theyre very high, which is expected. Were looking at something in the region of 88 votes for Vladimir Putin. Thats with about 25 of the votes counted. And a turnout of well over 70 . So these are extraordinary high results, even by the standards of an election of Vladimir Putin. But youre right, its not been a totally unified and stable election period that has been a lot of defiance, acts of defiance at Polling Statio
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Guarantee a perfect fit. Now, comfort looks in washington cnn here in the cnn newsroom, im Jessica Dean In Washington and we have breaking whether news to tell you about a particularly dangerous weather situation has been declared in kansas texas, and oklahoma. Additionally, putting tens of millions of people at risk tonight, cnn meteorologist elisa rafah is joining us now, at least, what do people need to know about this weather alert . They, need to know that there is the possibility for strong violent, long live tornadoes and possibly while theyre sleeping tonight, its getting late in the de thats sun will set soon. So you need to know that before you go to bed tonight, make sure you have your emergency where its turned on and turned on loud. Heres a look at all of our Tornado Watches right now from wichita our kansas, through Oklahoma City, down into san angelo, texas. The part that is labeled the particularly dangerous situation spans from all of this part here in oklahoma. Includ
Stretching from wichita down towards san angelo, texas, the particularly dangerous situation is the one that is for the north sliver of texas and includes much of oklahoma, including oklahoma city, and then goes up into wichita until 11 00 central time this evening, again, labeled that particularly dangerous situation for the possibility of violent long tornadoes that would be ef2 and strength or greater. We already have found a couple of Tornado Warnings that have been issued for the northern part of texas here as these storms start to respond to the daytime heat and fire up, we also have a batch of storms that have been on the decaying trend and a severe thunderstorm. Watch him parts of georgia. This is the threat. You can see that red bulls eye goes from Wichita Falls up towards wichita and then into springfield, missouri were intense tornadoes, baseballsized hail, and those damaging wind gusts or possible, and again, its that fear for the very strong tornadoes, some of the ones tha