You were in, the cnn newsroom im paula reid in washington. Any moment now at st. Patricks day, tradition, President Joe Biden will soon deliver remarks from the white house. And well bring that to life. Ive just ahead. But for now, we had to russia, where Election Officials say Vladimir Putin is in the lead in the president ial vote polls close earlier today after a three de, vote with no genuine opponent running against putin he is expected to win, keeping him in office until 2030 and continuing russias longestserving leader since soviet dictator Joseph Stalin cnns Matthew Chance is in moscow and Frederik Pleitgen is in berlin. Starting with you, matthew putin just spoke. What did he say . Yeah it was a very short victory speech, even though the final results havent come in, it looks like this has been a Landslide Victory as expected for the russian president to secures a fifth president ial term. And these were shot comments at his campaign headquarters. He walked into the room, he t
Efforts to overturn the 2020 election in georgia. An Indictment Decision could be announced at any moment. It also comes as the classified documents case against the former president moves forward with yet another codefendant in court. Were on top of these moving details. Plus, an american nurse and her child kidnapped in haiti as the State Department is urging u. S. Citizens to leave the country now. How officials are working to get them back. Plus, a Delta Passenger sues the airline claiming that it overserved a man who went on to grope her and her underage daughter. Were following these stories and many more all coming in right here to Cnn News Central. George de oliveira is out on bond. He did not enter a formal plea in the classified documents case. Hes set to be formally arraigned next week. He was indicted last week on four charges including conspiracy to obstruct justice and making false statements for the fbi. Trump, de oliveira, and nauta are said to have tried to delete Secu
ashore yesterday afternoon, we were knew it was one of the strongest storms to hit the united states. day tligt day brought harrowing evidence of the destruction a storm like that brings. this is ft. myers beach, one of the barrier u lands that ian slammed into as a category five storm. before the hurricane, it was a popular beach defendant naugs destination. much of it is leveled. one local resident told the local paper, ft. myers beach is gone. this is the causeway leading to sanibel island to the west of for the murz beach. it s the only road to that island. it impassable. all the bridges to pine island also failed. this evening nbc nightly news anchor spoke with the mayor of sanibel for her concern about the people that didn t evacuate before the storm and maybe trapped there. we have significant numbers of people contact us, people they knew that were on the island. we ve been logging those meticulously and getting those out to our first responders. we had about 200
Least two deadly strikes here in the last 24 hours. at least four people died in kherson and another six were killed in the hometown of president volodymyr zelenskiy. listen to what one woman experienced. [ screams ] on top of all of this, a top russian security official, dmitry medvedev, warns russia may use nuclear weapons if the offensive succeeds. medvedev was president of russia at one point. we ll talk more with nic robertson. there was this drone attack on sunday, not in ukraine but in moscow. tell us what happened there. reporter: yeah. this sort of punctures russia s message of state media, what they call the special military operation inside ukraine. and perhaps this is what
He promised the russian people. this is not a war. it s a special military operation inside ukraine. he was losing after seven months, right? he didn t overthrow the nazis. he didn t demilitarize ukraine. he didn t take kyiv. he lost the battle of kyiv. he lost the battle of kharkiv. he was compelled because he was losing to do this and now it s having these very dangerous results for him inside his own country. when we talk about the people who are being called into the army, i want to call your attention to a statement advising americans to get out of russia. otherwise, they are at risk of getting drafted into putin s army. russia may refuse to acknowledge duel nationals u.s. citizenship, deny access to u.s. counselor assistant and con script duel nationals for military service. residing in russia should depart russia immediately. what would cause the u.s. state department to what level of