full of details in one minute for you here on cnn. a free election four decades overdue. the first real live democratic exercise in libya since the moammar gadhafi era. nearly 3 million libyans picked parliament members today waiting in long lines to vote at polling stations all across the country. we ve heard a few disruptions but overall international election observers are pleased. in the rest of the country things have been going smoothly. reports from the east where it s been more difficult but even there the jaft majority of citizens could cast their votes peacefully. to southern russia now. flash flooding has killed more than 100 people. rising waters swept through many houses as people slept unaware and vulnerable. some had to be rescued from roof tops and trees. the russian water ripped out traffic lights and stranded vehicles. one resort town got two months worth of rain in 24 hours. a small town in ohio rocked by the fatal shooting of four people. police say t
dealing with no food. we re live on the ground to find out what s being done. and a state lawmaker accidentally undermining her party and her principles with the press of a button. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. first to a dramatic moment on the campaign trail. the presumptive republican presidential nominee, mitt romney, firmly stating his position on the u.s. supreme court s historic ruling up hodding obama care and directly contradicting what his top campaign advisor said earlier in the week. our senior congressional correspondent, dana bash, is covering romney in new hampshire on this july 4th. she caught up with him earlier in the day. how did that go, dana? reporter: very interesting answer. remember, it was a revolt against taxes imposed by the king of england that spurred this day we re celebrating today, independence day. so perhaps it is fitting that whether or not the health care mandate is a tax was the question of the day here on the camp
syrian soldiers, and you can see men running away and opening fire and this from today. new video and reports of government troops shelling a southern city, killing at least 17 people there, just as they go, reports of a massacre at another syrian town killing at least 78 civilians, including women and children, and back in may, u.n. reports of mass killings in the central syrian town on kola. more than 100 people killed there, nearly half children, all of this in the face of the u.s. peace plan violated nearly every day since it went into effect in april e and from syria to pakistan. pakistan is lashing out against our defense secretary leon panetta over comments he made, calling the country a safe haven for militants. and it raises questions about how the two countries, us and them, will be able to fight terror side by side. peter doocy takes a look at that with details from washington, hi, peter.
moms will have to take their minivans in for repairs after ford announced a major recall today. really depends where you live. the recall involves ford windstars from model years 1998 to 2003. specifically, those sold in cold weather states. where road salt can cause corrosion. ford reports the rear axles on those vehicles can corrode and break. the automaker has linked two accidents to the problems or crashes, i should say. but reports nobody was hurt. landslides and floods sweeping through a town killing at least a dozen people. our top story as we go around the world in 80 seconds. turkey. a landslide hitting a village in the north. the slide knocked this building on to its side and into a riverbed. the rough weather also destroying many roads, turning them into fields of mud. france. workers now draining a pocket of water trapped inside a glacier.