these were some of the celebrations on the streets of istanbul as mr erdogan celebrated with his supporters. but as well as dealing with a deeply divided country, he also has an economic crisis on his hands, with inflation that s the rate at which prices rise running at more than a0%. our chief international correspondent orla guerin reports. it was a long night of celebration for one side of turkey. supporters of president recep tayyip erdogan massed outside his presidential palace here, marking a hard fought victory. i ve been voting for him since i was 18, yetter tells us. my generation backs erdogan. we won the election fairly, thank god. recep tayyip erdogan, i love you a lot. in istanbul, he did it his way. with a singalong for supporters of his ruling ak party and an attack on familiar targets. is the opposition pro lgbt, he asks. could any lgbt infiltrate our party? no, they chorus. over at the opposition s headquarters, it was like a funeral. almost hal
blackwell. good to be here. we re back together. now i feel like it s really privileged to actually be sitting together for once. here we are, all right. and here s what we re watching this morning. it s just surreal. you know, you just everything you ve worked. we ve lived in this house 44 years. and you know everything we worked for and paid for it. it s gone. it s gone. communities across the south are and the midwest are cleaning up after powerful storms ripped through at least seven states they left behind catastrophic damage. our team is standing by live in arkansas ahead of fema s arrival and that state and we have new cnn reporting on the mood among former president trump s advisers ahead of his court appearance tuesday. the concerns they have about the about where a potential trial could be held . outpouring of love and support in tennessee as two more victims of the nashville school shooting were laid to rest yesterday. we ve got to look at the tributes that are pou
of the florida coast of that this is sanibel island, an island decimated by hurricane ian. right now there s no way to get help in to sanibel. the only bridge that connected the island to the mainland, it s a long causeway, it s caved in. so there s no way to get on or off the island unless you travel by boat. and that s been incredibly difficult for anyone to do. and that loss right now spans the florida coast. i ll show you cape coral. our bill weir was here today. this is a picture he took. you can see home after home totally destroyed and flooded. the ones that are still standing, you can see siding ripped off. at one point ian s winds were 155 miles an hour. we re going to have much more from bill weir in a moment. not far from where he took those images, ft. myers beach, striking images of what is left. not much. the beach community 48 hours ago looked like that. now, take a look at this. estero boulevard, 24 hours later. a restaurant called the whale surrounded by debr
Hour, the step counter, the sport matt and wireless remote we call now im Kayla Tausche at the white house, and this is cnn its thursday, may 9, right now on santa this morning may not accept the outcome of the election i promise you he wont President Biden predicting challenges from donald trump, if he loses again in november, were gonna have much more from that Cnn Exclusive Interview ahead trumps lawyers ready to escalate their attacks on Stormy Daniels when she takes the stand again in just a few hours and rfk jr. Claiming part of his brain was eaten by a worm . Yes, this is a real story this morning all right. 6 00 a. M. Here in washington, here is a live look at New York City where Stormy Daniels will be back on the stand today. Morning, everyone, im casey haunts. Its wonderful to have you with us. Donald trumps Hush Money Trial resumes in just a few hours with Stormy Daniels back on the stand. A source telling cnn the trumps lawyers are planning a longer and more forceful crosse
Breaking news situations unfolding. On capitol hill the House Republican conference is meeting right now and we are told this meeting could last all day with the intense pressure on them to elect a speaker of the house after Kevin Mccarthy lost the speakership in a recent vote. And without that top member of the u. S. House of representatives in place, Congress Remains at a stand still and is unable to act on a brutal war that weve been Covering Thousands of miles away. Were watching the latest developments from israel as they hit the embodiment of evil. Hamas terrorists. Thats where well start. Im Harris Faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. Five days of horror. Israel families missing, tortured, killed. The closer they were to the border with palestinianian territory on gaza, the closer that they were to hamas Serial Killers killing them. Loved ones taken hostage are now begging for help. Secretary of state Antony Blinken is set to be in israel today. This was near continuous r