And welcome to all our viewers in the United States thats canada and around the world. Im Anna Coren in Hong Kong, ahead on Cnn Newsroom facetoface for the first time, the former u. S president and current Vice President and now just a day they else from their Highstakes Debate will have analysis the search for a man suspected of shooting up an interstate in kentucky stretches into its third today. The latest details on the investigation and a wildfire continues to rage in california, threatening thousands of structures, forcing evacuationS Patients, and prompting a state of Emergency Cnn easily we are now just one day away from the high stakes u. S. Presidential debate between vice former president Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump. This will be the first time the two candidates meet Face To face. As they hope to sways still undecided voters in a very tight race a New York Times Sienna College Poll shows no clear leader. A similar theme also found in a new Cnn Poll of po
lies and disinformation. that s what they say the obama administration is up to. a foreign ministry spokeswoman in moscow says, any action will immediately bounce back on u.s. diplomats in russia. of course, in just over three weeks we will have a new president here in washington who doesn t believe that the russians are behind the cyberhacks of democratic party organizations. these are organizations, poppy, that donald trump can undo if and when he chooses. evan, thank you very much. we will be watching and see if the sanctions or anything comes down today. we appreciate it. we re following breaking news this morning. syria s state run news agency announced a cease-fire expected this morning. russian authorities have also discussed the cease-fire. few of the terms have been released. we ll bring you more information as soon as we have it. of course, a big story. we ll be following that developing news as we get more information.
northern spain. he won five major championships, including the british open three times. he died saturday at 54 from a brain tumor. authorities in syria reportedly have released thousands of people detained in a crackdown on anti-government protests. the state run news agency says more than 2600, quote, rioters have been released on the condition they don t take part in any more protests. thousands of people are making desperate and dangerous efforts to get out of libya and leave the horror of civil war behind, but in the process, many are risking their lives in ramshackled boats bound for europe. we re hearing more of these journeys ends in tragedies. from tripoli, nima el bag gir reports. reporter: this is the promise land. many of them risked their lives again and again to make it here. ibrahim is one of the survivors of the boat that capsized last
sendai and sent walls of water into the country s pacific shores and sweeping away whole villages. what used to be vibrant towns and villages it turned to rubble. more than 27,000 people are either known to have died or are still missing, thousands of bodies will never be found. and again, this what is they are reduced to living. life may never go back to normal. about 130,000 people lost their homes and are still living in shelters. this is also the aftermath of it. there s the nuclear angle, the tsunami crippled the fukushima plant sending radioactive particles over a wide area so people constantly being checked for any radioactive or absorption of radioactivity and here cities basically return to ghost towns. the 20 kilometer zone was cleared of people. syria s state run news agency says more than 2600 people it describes as rioters have been released from custody.