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Isaias Slams U.S. Gulf Coast; U.S. Cuts New Deal With Russia On Diesel Exports; Outrage Over Latest ICE Shooting; Powerful 7.7 Magnitude Earthquake Shakes Panama. Aired 4-5a ET

Aired October 10, 2026 - 04:00   ET

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RENE MARSH, CNN ANCHOR: Welcome into CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Rene Marsh live in Washington, D.C.

Coming up, Isaias is lashing parts of the U.S. Gulf Coast with destructive winds and flash floods. And the storm will continue to pose a dangerous threat this weekend.

President Trump announced a deal with Russia aimed at getting diesel flowing through global markets. What Ukraine's President Zelenskyy had to say about that?

And outrage is growing over the latest shooting involving federal immigration agents. The latest out of New York, that's ahead.

And the National Hurricane --

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MARSH: Well, the National Hurricane Center says that Isaias is now a post-tropical cyclone. It continues to weaken as it moves further inland, but dangerous conditions remain.

The storm is moving north through southern Alabama, bringing strong winds, flash flooding and the threat of tornadoes. Storm surge warnings are still in effect for parts of Florida's panhandle, where Isaias made landfall Friday night as a powerful category two hurricane. Officials are warning anyone who did not evacuate to hunker down and shelter in place.

New images here show that the damage that has been left behind by Isaias. This was the scene in Pensacola, Florida overnight. The storm has knocked out power to more than 600,000 customers in five states. U.S. President Donald Trump says that the federal government is watching the storm, quote, very closely. He has approved an emergency declaration for parts of Alabama, and authorities are asking residents to stay off the roads, so utility workers can respond.

CNN meteorologist Allison Chinchar joins me now from the CNN Weather Center.

Allison, you've been up all night. You've been watching. You've been tracking this. Where do things stand right now? And who is basically in the eye or in the path of the storm at this hour?

ALLISON CHINCHAR, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Right. So the worst of it right now is really over Alabama. You can see very heavy rain in these last couple frames in the northern portion of the state. But you're also getting some heavier showers across areas of Georgia and South Carolina. And really the bulk of the moisture is going to continue to spread northward really over the next 24 hours.

Sustained winds are still 65 miles per hour. So I don't want people to think just because its post-tropical that that threat is gone. We are still going to experience gusty winds. We are still going to experience very heavy rain. And there is still the potential for some tornadoes as we go through the remainder of the day on Saturday.

Here's a look at some of those top wind gusts. Look at this, five different locations picking up those wind gusts of at least 100 miles per hour. It's no wonder why you have so many power outages across states like Florida, Alabama, and into Georgia.

Now, a lot of them are really kind of focused here along the coastal region, but we are starting to see them spread northward because that is where those gusty winds are headed. That is where the heavy rain is going. You've still got some flash flood warnings. It is very likely we will continue to see some, especially perhaps here along this heavy line in northern Alabama, as a lot of that heavy rain is just coming down over the same places over and over.

We also talked about the potential for tornadoes and damaging winds. The vast majority of that is going to be, say, along interstate 85 and then east of that. So you're talking Charleston, Savannah, Macon, Columbia, all of these areas have the potential, especially late this afternoon as we finish up the second half of the day.

Here's a look at the forecast radar. Again, lots of heavy rain this morning. It becomes more dispersed and spread out as we go into the afternoon. But still, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee and the Carolinas. All of them still have the potential for some of those heavy showers and thunderstorms, even into the afternoon hours, because you get what this training effect is. All of that excess moisture is being pulled up, even from "The Atlantic" now spreading into the Carolinas.

So even though the base of Isaias is really not going to be much of a factor late into the day Saturday, the rotation of it is still being able to pull all of that extra moisture up. So you still are going to have a lot of these areas dealing with incredibly heavy rainfall. And take, for example, this area essentially from Macon all the way up through Philadelphia, you're looking at least four inches of rain, but you've got some of the heavier color, heavier rain here and that red color that could be 6 to 10in of rain just for today as well as Sunday.

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So, again, a lot of still -- a lot of impacts still expected with this storm. When we talk about the excessive rainfall, meaning the best risk for flooding, this is the area we are going to focus on, especially the red and the yellow locations. That's where you're going to have your slightly higher risk compared to some other areas.

So, again, Renee, you've still got the potential for some very gusty winds. You still have the potential for a lot of heavy rain, and you also still have the potential for some tornadoes, even though the storm itself has already made landfall. And we are starting to see it weaken. The threats themselves are still not over.

MARSH: Okay. And when will the threats be over? When -- when are we all in the clear, Allison?

CHINCHAR: The vast majority of this rain in the impacts go away by Sunday morning. However, it's going to continue to ride up the East Coast. So for areas of the mid-Atlantic and the northeast, we really don't see what's left of Isaias finally exit everything until early Monday.

MARSH: All right. Allison Chinchar for us in the CNN Weather Center, thank you for joining us.

And for more on the storm, let's go to CNN's Ivan Rodriguez, who is live in Gulf Shores, Alabama.

Ivan, you look kind of dry right now, so that's a good sign. But tell me, what did you see overnight? How did the city fare during Isaias passing through?

IVAN RODRIGUEZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Renee, for the last several hours now, I would say three to four hours, we have been breathing a sigh of relief here, along with people in the Gulf Shores community, as well as other nearby cities like Orange Beach, for example. We did around the late evening hours right before Hurricane Isaias made landfall further down in the Florida panhandle.

We did feel some of that heavier wind and some of that heavier rain as well. But the first thing that dropped off was the rain for us. And then we continued with that wind for a couple more hours until it pretty much calmed down to what you have right now.

We were in this interesting position because when the sunlight was still here with us, we could see the clouds really shifting in the sky, almost turning. We had that turn effect right above us. So it was this interesting vantage point where you had a sense of those bands moving around just where we are here in gulf shores. But in terms of the storm surge, thankfully that wasn't an impact that we had to deal with here in this part of the gulf coast. The ocean was about 100 yards behind me still now, and it never really looked that threatening to be able to come out onto shore, on what is typically dry land.

Now, I do want to add a little bit more, because we have heard from the governor of Alabama saying, just because these parts of Alabama are now more in the clear, and we are all very thankful for that. We're now looking to other areas, like in central Alabama, where we're looking at wind gusts now of 30 to 40 miles per hour, a few gusts reaching 50 to 60 miles per hour as well, according to the National Weather Service in Birmingham, Alabama. So, again, that is a whole other aspect there, Renee. And we're also

looking at power outages because of those damaging winds. Right now, were looking at more than 750,000 customers without power only between Alabama and Florida, more than 440,000 of those customers without power are just in Florida alone.

MARSH: And do you have a sense yet? I mean, I see that it's still dark there, but I mean, have you been able to see or have a sense, as far as damage left behind at this point?

RODRIGUEZ: You know, right now it's hard to get a sense just because of that darkness. We do have a highway on the other side here. We have the ocean to behind me and in front of me, there's a highway. But again, it is very dark right now. But I will say that, you know, what we've heard from officials all along is they're asking residents to hunker down during Hurricane Isaias to stay indoors.

And I do want to bring in another example here that we got recently about a deputy sheriff who was actually injured while responding to a vehicle crash tonight when a falling tree struck him and trapped the driver. That's also, according to CNN affiliate WALA, and the sheriff pointed out the fact again, you know, we do want people to hunker down and wait until the sun comes out and then we get a better sense of what is actually out there.

But in this overall vicinity, where I am, thankfully, it doesn't seem like were looking at a lot of damage.

MARSH: Okay, that's good news. Ivan Rodriguez in Gulf Shores, Alabama, for us this morning, thank you for joining us.

And earlier, my colleague Elex Michaelson spoke with Troy Gorlott, a public safety supervisor with the town of Dauphin Island, Alabama. He talked about how his town fared as Isaias came ashore. Take a listen.

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TROY GAHLOT, PUBLIC SAFETY SUPERVISOR, DAUPHIN ISLAND, ALABAMA: Coming through, we did have some storm surge come through. Of course, the wind -- winds picked up. Luckily, we were on the western side, so we didn't get the full brunt of it, but the water started to roll in. We did have some very, very heavy bands of rain come through.

Luckily, that's all passed now. So we're just waiting on daylight to get out and see what the damage is.

ELEX MICHAELSON, CNN HOST: Do you have any reports of damage or basically everybody's hunkered down right now, so they really have no way to tell?

GORLOTT: Luckily, the reports we've gotten so far from, from our area of Dauphin Island and South Mobile County is we do have some minor structural damage, some roofs. We got a couple houses with trees on them. That's about the extent of it. Nothing like they're having over in northwest Florida.

MICHAELSON: So it sounds like, so far, so good. And you may have dodged a bullet on this one.

GORLOTT: Yeah. We did. Luckily, this time we did. We always use these -- these storms when they get close to almost like a training exercise if you can be, all our plans worked, so, well just roll on to the next one.

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MARSH: Well, still ahead on this hour, the White House lines up some help from Russia to try to lower diesel prices ahead of the midterm elections.

Plus, new pushback against a plan to livestream the execution of a U.S. military psychiatrist. Why the U.N. believes the move crosses a legal line that should never be crossed. That's ahead.

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MARSH: Hurricane Isaias has been downgraded to a post-tropical cyclone. Isaias first made landfall near Destin, Florida, as a category two. The storm dumped ten inches of rain in just three hours in the Florida Panhandle. Officials warn there is still the threat of tornadoes, heavy rain and flash flooding. More than 770,000 customers across five states are without power right now, and air travel is also expected to be disrupted this weekend at several airports across the region. Isaias is the first hurricane to make landfall in the U.S. since Milton hit Florida two years ago.

President Donald Trump took his midterm message to the campaign trail this weekend. The president held a rally in Syracuse, New York, in support of the Republican candidate for governor there. President Trump leveled several attacks on Democratic candidates and even went after the committee that once again decided not to give him the Nobel Peace Prize.

CNN's Kristen Holmes reports.

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KRISTEN HOLMES, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: After visiting a slew of deeply red states, President Trump was here in New York campaigning alongside Bruce Blakeman, who is the Republican running for governor in New York, as well as a slew of Republican candidates.

Now, he gave the best of his highlights, talking about how Biden was responsible for inflation. He again promised every adult $5,000 if they were to vote. Republicans and Republicans were going to win in both the Senate and the House.

But perhaps his lengthiest rant was about something completely different and something that is clearly on his mind. And that is the fact that he did not win the Nobel Peace Prize again. He attacked the country of Norway, the committee, and even the individual who received it. DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: The Nobel Prize was

given out today to a liberal person who works at the united nations who nobody has ever heard of. I've never heard of the person. I know a lot of people. I never heard of this particular person. But congratulations, anyway.

The United States of America, represented by me as your president, should have received the Nobel Peace Prize, but didn't. And this is an indelible stain on the country of Norway, and those people that made such a disgraceful and embarrassing decision, the Nobel Peace Prize has been forever discredited by a handful of radical ideologues who are anti-democracy and really enemies of civilization.

HOLMES: Now, in addition to that, President Trump talked at length about the various wars that he solved. He said he would soon be ending the war with Iran again, as well as the war between Russia and Ukraine. He also had a lengthy tirade about New York officials, including the Democratic governor here and his nemesis, Attorney General Letitia James.

Kristin Holmes, CNN, Syracuse, New York.

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MARSH: The U.S. President Trump is also taking new steps to try to lower diesel prices ahead of the upcoming midterm elections. On Friday, he announced a new agreement with Moscow that allows Russia to export diesel to the global market.

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TRUMP: I think you heard about the oil deal with Russia. That is a big deal. That is massive amounts of oil coming into our country. And I want to thank President Putin, to be honest with you.

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MARSH: Well, Trump says that the deal will release hundreds of thousands of tons of diesel to the global markets right away. But some experts are skeptical, saying that they're not sure Russia can deliver.

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And even if it does, they say it would only be a band-aid that's unlikely to move the needle much in terms of prices. But Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, is angry about the agreement, calling it a weak decision by strong partners. He added that it will only add more money to Russia's war chest.

Meanwhile, Ukraine is reporting more Russian strikes in recent hours. Kyiv says that at least seven people were killed in the Zaporizhzhia region. Officials say more people could be trapped in the rubble and search and rescue operations are underway. The strikes came after negotiators held new talks on ending the war. The Reuters News Agency says U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner met Ukrainian and European officials in Miami on Friday.

Well, for more on all of this, Sebastian Shukla joins us live this morning from Berlin.

Let's start with this diesel deal. I mean, that's a dramatic turn, considering President Trump, with his Russian sanctions bill that was signed into law just last month, where he said he could put tariffs on any country that purchased, you know, crude oil from Russia. But here it is now, the United States is striking a deal with Russia -- quite stunning.

SEBASTIAN SHUKLA, CNN PRODUCER: Yeah, it is quite stunning. And it's equally stunning because it came at a time where his negotiators were meeting with Ukrainian and European partners to hash out a deal for a cease fire plan, which is aimed at largely stopping the oncoming onset of winter and the brutal attacks that are expected to come and hit the Ukrainian infrastructure, and the Ukrainian people plunging it into darkness and cold in the real depths of winter, it's once again, Renee, I think another message that seems to emanate from the White House, that it is more prepared to make deals with the Kremlin, business deals in order to elicit favors that may benefit the president back home.

And as you rightly said, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was furious. He called it. He felt that his negotiating team were being used as a smokescreen in the negotiations. The Europeans have been saying, and the Ukrainians for some time now, that they are really serious about trying to come and find a mediated way to bring this war to an end, and at least find a framework for some sort of cessation of hostilities.

What this does, I believe, is actually kind of undermine that process, because I don't think it is going to give President Putin any means to really engage in these meaningful negotiations in any way, because what this does is the flood of diesel back onto the market means money flowing in to the coffers of the Kremlin and the war chest, which are then subsequently is able just to sustain the rampage, and the force that is striking Ukraine with almost every single day and night.

And indeed, just this last night, we've seen another deadly attack. What I think is important to note as well here is just take a listen to the tone that is coming from the Kremlin at the moment, from one of President Putin's most senior aides.

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YURI USHAKOV, KREMLIN AIDE: By attempting to disrupt our elections, by launching a super massive drone strike on Moscow, other cities, polling stations and specific individuals involved in organizing the elections on the main day of voting, the Kyiv regime have essentially disrupted the possibility of immediately resuming the negotiating process. And now, as the president said, we will think about when these negotiations can be resumed.

(END AUDIO CLIP) SHUKLA: So tone and rhetoric from the Kremlin there that says they are not talking or prepared to talk at all in any meaningful way about negotiations. We have the white house releasing and calling the Russian president to say, please bail me out with diesel barrels back onto the market, and that we don't seem to really be any closer, Renee, to either side, really being able to meet together in the middle and try and resolve this war.

MARSH: Right. And there was a meeting in Miami as between Jared Kushner, Witkoff. Where do things start -- stand, I should say, with these talks here as far as the war in Ukraine?

SHUKLA: Well, they met for six hours in southern Florida, in Miami yesterday. We know that this is part of a two day trip announced by President Zelenskyy.

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The details of exactly what took place in that meeting are slightly hard to come by at the moment. I'm sure details will emerge later on, but as I said, they're looking to try and find a common ground to make a cease fire here of the energy infrastructure strikes. There is no mention here yet of the final solution to bringing about the end to this war. This is all little incremental steps.

But Renee, the key party in all of this, as the Ukrainians and the European partners have been saying for some time, this war can end tomorrow if Vladimir Putin decides.

MARSH: Sebastian Shukla reporting live for us this morning in Berlin, thank you very much.

And backlash is growing over plans to livestream a military execution in the United States. The latest criticism came from the U.N., which said the move would violate its prohibition against torture.

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SHABIA MANTOO, SPOKESPERSON, OFFICE OF U.N. HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: The live streaming of an execution is tantamount to a public execution, and would breach the absolute prohibition of torture, failure to respect this prohibition would inevitably render the execution arbitrary in nature, and result in a violation of the right to life and the absolute prohibition of torture prohibits public executions.

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MARSH: Former Army psychiatrist Nidal Hasan is scheduled to be executed in December for killing 13 people in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said that the execution by firing squad would be live streamed to send a message about the consequences of such crimes. But the plan drew bipartisan pushback with political leaders comparing it to the actions of terrorists and dictators. President Trump gave conflicting statements Friday, saying he had

absolutely approved the live stream, then saying his administration would make a determination and then later telling CNN affiliate WSTM he was not involved in the decision at all.

Well, coming up, the first hurricane to hit the U.S. in two years has slammed into the Southeast and Gulf Coast with destructive winds, heavy rain and flash floods. Isaias may be weakening, but the dangerous conditions remain.

Plus, a major earthquake hits Panama, sending thousands fleeing. The extent of the damage ahead here on CNN.

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MARSH: We are tracking Isaias as the storm pummels the southeastern U.S. and Gulf Coast. These images show the damage left behind in Pensacola, Florida. Overnight, the storm is now a post-tropical cyclone and continues to weaken as it moves further inland into Alabama, but dangerous conditions remain. Isaias made landfall as a category two hurricane near Destin along the Florida panhandle, flooding, strong winds, storm surge and tornadoes are all still possible in the hours ahead. The storm has knocked out electricity to more than 770,000 customers across at least five states, and authorities are asking residents to stay off the roads so utility workers can respond.

Joining us now is Nick Stewart. He is a space flight meteorologist and a upper level winds analyst. He comes to us from Crestview, Florida. That is in the panhandle.

You did -- you ride this out. Tell me what you saw and also what you are seeing now as far as conditions damage, things of that sort?

NICK STEWART, SPACEFLIGHT METEOROLOGIST & UPPER-LEVEL WINDS ANALYST: Sure. Yeah. We rode out the storm here in Crestview. I do storm chasing. I've been storm chasing for 15 years and since moved to Florida. I've added hurricanes to that.

And so I came up to Crestview to view the storm. I wanted to stay away from the storm surge. Don't like storm surge. I stay away from the ocean.

But I rode out the storm up here in Crestview. We had frequent wind gusts here, upwards of 50 to 60 miles per hour for probably about two to three hours time. A lot of tree damage in the area. It's really hard to get a sense of just the scale of the damage yet at this time of day, just because it's still very dark.

But once you start getting the first light of day, I think well start seeing a little bit more of the damage, doing some traveling right after the eye wall passed on through the air, the strongest winds, I- 10 was partially blocked due to falling trees in a lot of different areas. There's a gas station town where the entire awning collapsed. So we definitely did see some damage in town. The worst of the wind damage was off to our south.

The other issue here though is a lot of flooding. We picked up a lot of heavy rainfall in a very short period of time. A lot of the ditches and gullies on the side of the roadway were completely filled with water. So, definitely a lot of different aspects the storm really impacted this area pretty well.

MARSH: Yeah, it looks pretty calm. I'm looking I'm peeking through your car window there. I'm not seeing any rain. So I think the worst is past there.

But you talked a bit about flooding and some of those coastal communities. And I do believe, you know, we've been talking to our meteorologist that those issues are still -- do we still have you, nick, are we just lost?

STEWART: Yes. I can hear you.

MARSH: Okay. We're back. Okay.

All right. So storm surge -- I mean, what did a lot of people who were in areas that were really prone to being flooded, did they heed warnings? Did they ride it out?

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What's your -- what's your take on whether people listen to officials that were in those low lying coastal areas?

STEWART: It does seem like a lot of people did heed the warning and kind of get out of the way. This area, unfortunately, very well known to hurricanes the last couple of years, this area has been hit pretty hard by numerous hurricanes. So, they're very well aware of the threat of storm surge and going into landfall, we actually did see that threat of the storm surge increase.

The storm originally was expected to make landfall, maybe around a category one, category two. It was very close to a category three at landfall. One thing I also received while we were in the area where the wireless emergency alerts, the emergency managers were putting out alerts to cell phones, letting people know of the threat of storm surge not only present, but increasing as the storm was getting closer. I think a lot of people definitely did heed those warnings.

A lot of the hotels in this area further inland are pretty full. Luckily, a lot of people kind of getting away from the coast, coming a little bit more inland to kind of get away from the water.

MARSH: Yeah. And that's smart. Nick Stewart, thanks so much for joining us this morning. Stay safe.

STEWART: Thanks.

MARSH: And a 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck southern Panama on Friday, causing minor injuries as well as damage to some buildings. The U.S. Geological Survey says that the quake's epicenter was in a thinly populated area about 200 kilometers, or 124 miles from the capital, Panama City.

CNN's Patrick Oppmann reviewed some of the dramatic video sent to our newsroom and has more on the earthquake/

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PATRICK OPPMANN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: An incredibly powerful earthquake has shaken Panama. We are seeing images that keep coming in of buildings that have collapsed, of water coming out of pools and high rise. Thousands of people evacuating as this incredibly powerful earthquake hit in the Central American nation.

And some of the images were actually seeing, one of the bridges that crossed the Panama Canal rocking with the shaking of the earthquake. Officials say they continue to try and determine the number of injuries if there are any deaths as a result of this earthquake. But it is the strongest earthquake, devastating earthquake to hit Panama in years, if not decades.

My family happened to be there when the earthquake shook immediately felt it. The pictures on the wall were moving and that people in the neighborhood immediately evacuate from high rises. There was photos of damage that we have seen, where buildings have collapsed and people, according to officials, had to be rescued.

At this point, though, they're still taking stock of the damage. Panama's international airport was closed. Several lines of the metro were closed. Panama Canal was not seriously affected. Their traffic continues to run through Panama Canal.

It seems that this country was spared the worst of the earthquake since it struck in an area where there was less of a population center. Panama City was farther away from the epicenter of this earthquake. People still feel it, though. There, of course, we've already seen other strong earthquakes, shake and cause extreme loss of life in Venezuela and Colombia this year already.

So, Panamanians are saying whatever the toll ends up being, this is certainly one of the worst earthquakes they have felt in years. Patrick Oppmann, CNN, Havana.

MARSH: Coming up, the protests in growing criticism over federal ICE agents after a five year old boy sat in the back seat of a car while shots were fired at his father. That story up next.

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MARSH: Federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are ramping up arrests across the U.S., and protesters in New York are demanding ICE agents leave the city after agents shot and wounded a 28-year-old man on Thursday, while his five-year-old son sat in the back seat.

CNN's senior crime and justice correspondent Shimon Prokupecz has the latest. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

SHIMON PROKUPECZ, CNN SENIOR CRIME AND JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT: Protesters gathered outside here of the ICE offices here in Lower Manhattan for about two hours, demanding answers, demanding accountability. But most importantly, they want ICE out. They want ICE out of New York City, especially after what happened here on Thursday in the Bronx.

This is all happening as the investigation continues. The Bronx district attorneys office on Friday announcing that they're going to investigate what happened here. They had investigators out in the neighborhood already. And also the NYPD releasing crucial video showing the moments just before the gunfire erupted.

Now, the video doesn't capture any of the gunfire, but it does capture some significant information because it shows the two ICE officers running up on the car and the man who was in that car trying to take off. And you see those ICE officers with their guns out. One of them is banging on the window. And then sometime after that is when the shots were fired.

Now, the Department of Homeland Security says that the man driving the car used it as a way to attack officers, weaponizing the vehicle. And that essentially, from their standpoint, they say this was justified and that the officers felt threatened. And that's why they opened fire.

But there are a lot of questions here about the tactics about why these officers opened fire. And that's why many of the people out here certainly are calling for accountability. But also now the Bronx district attorneys office is investigating.

Shimon Prokupecz, CNN, New York.

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MARSH: Police in India's capital have detained the founder and other leadership of the youth-led Cockroach political party ahead of planned protests on Saturday. Officers boarded their plane upon arrival in New Delhi and reportedly requested that those protests be called off. Despite authorities banning the demonstrations and shutting down mobile Internet access in the area, Cockroach party protesters took to the streets demanding the resignation of India's chief election commissioner.

The youth movement accuses him of overseeing changes to voter lists that favor India's ruling party, that party and the election commissioner denied those allegations.

For more, I want to bring in CNN correspondent Gage Goulding. He is joining us live this morning from Seoul.

Gage, good morning. What is the latest? What more can you tell us on this

GAGE GOULDING, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, you know, I think this is a rather complex story that kind of goes back to earlier this year in May, where if you're sitting there wondering Cockroach political party, the Cockroach Janta Party, you're not alone. Scratching your head, wondering, wow, what an interesting name.

And it goes back to a meme that surfaced back in May, that kind of spurred a whole political movement led by the youth of India. And first, you know, to understand why they're protesting against this, this alleged removal of millions of people from the voter rolls. You have to understand what they accomplished in July.

They backed nationwide protests that, I mean, some of them turned violent back in July, that they were upset about the education leaders in the country. They claim that leaked and sold results to very competitive education exams, resulting in millions of students having to retake those exams.

And they actually ended up having the education minister resign as a result of their actions. So, fast forward to today. They're going for what they called their season two of this entire operation. The leader, Abhijeet Dipke, calling for. They were hoping tens of thousands of youth to pack into central New Delhi.

Now they were met with smaller than anticipated crowds, but also thousands of police and paramilitary members. Actually, the government there turning off mobile internet access through really 10:00 p.m. local time today. So there was a lot more opposition from the local government and the federal government there as well, trying to meet them.

And they're all upset for this specific instance, with the election commission, the chief of the election commission, who is accused, they allege, has removed those millions -- again, alleged millions of people from the voter rolls there.

Now, opposition parties say that they think its going to benefit Prime Minister Modi and their party. But again, this is something that's very much so developing.

But the interesting thing here is that those police officers did board the Cockroach party leader's plane, and they arrested him. In the video, you can actually hear them say in translated words that we're not afraid of you. Come here. Come arrest us.

In addition to that, a very popular YouTuber with more than 33 million followers, Dhruv Rathee also detained today. So smaller than anticipated protests there, but definitely kind of a lot more storylines coming out of New Delhi today.

MARSH: CNN's Gage Goulding, following it all for us this morning, thank you.

Well, a judge in Mexico found three men guilty of the 2024 murders of three foreign tourists. Three Mexican citizens were found responsible for killing Australian brothers, Callum and Jake Robinson, and American Carter Rhoad. The defendants were also convicted of armed carjacking and armed robbery. The Baja California state attorney generals office wants the men to all be sentenced to 210 years in prison. The three victims had traveled to Baja California in April of 2024 to go surfing, but shortly after arriving, they were reported missing. The murders and subsequent trial captured international attention during the month-long proceedings. The court heard testimony from the girlfriend of one of the defendants, who prosecutors say instigated the robbery of the travelers after meeting them.

Speaking after the judge's decision, the father of Callum and Jake Robinson said today's decision was a long time coming.

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MARTIN ROBINSON, FATHER OF ROBINSON BROTHERS: Today's guilty verdict is a significant moment in our long and painful journey to seek justice for our beautiful sons, Callum and Jake, and their friend Carter Rhoad, whose lives were so cruelly taken from them in 2024. While no verdict can ever bring back our boys or ease the heartbreak of losing them, we hope this outcome represents an important step towards justice and accountability.

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MARSH: Well, coming up next, remembering Mike Ditka, the former NFL star turned legendary coach of the Chicago Bears, has died at age 86. A look back at his life and career coming up next.

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MARSH: NFL fans are remembering Mike Ditka. The family of the former star player and legendary coach of the Super Bowl-winning Chicago Bears announced his death on Friday. He was 86.

Ditka led the bears to five straight NFC central titles during his ten years coaching the team, and won the 1985 Super Bowl. Along the way, he was inducted into the college and pro football Halls of Fame, helping to revolutionize the tight end position during his years as a player.

After leaving the sidelines, he had a successful career in broadcasting, along with memorable appearances in movies and TV shows, including Saturday night live. His family says while the world knew him as a legendary coach and leader, he will always be the heart of their family.

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