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Israeli Military Says Ceasefire in Effect as Troops Pull Back in Gaza; New York Attorney General James Calls Charges Baseless and Political Retribution; Ukraine Says, Massive Russian Attack Targeted Energy Infrastructure. Aired 7-7:30a ET

Aired October 10, 2025 - 07:00   ET

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KATE BOLDUAN, CNN ANCHOR: Breaking this morning, the Israeli military says the ceasefire is now in effect in Gaza, Israeli troops are pulling back, and now the U.S. is planning to send soldiers to the region to ensure this fragile deal hold.

JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR: So, who was just named the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize? Not the person President Trump has been campaigning for, namely President Trump.

SARA SIDNER, CNN ANCHOR: And a quick thinking Texas girl saving her little brother who was choking on a piece of candy.

I'm Sara Sidner with Kate Bolduan and John Berman. This is CNN News Central.

BERMAN: Breaking news, and the winner is not President Trump. Not yet, at least. Despite an unprecedented and very public lobbying effort, he did not win the Nobel Peace Prize, the honor went to Maria Corina Machado, the leader of the pro-democracy movement in Venezuela. That said, there are those in several quarters who say the president is deserving for his negotiations over Gaza, and whether he wins next year might very much depend on what is unfolding there minute by minute.

A short time ago, the Israeli military announced that the ceasefire President Trump helped negotiate with Hamas is now in effect in Gaza after two years of war. We are seeing thousands of displaced Palestinians now making their return north now that Israeli forces have begun to withdraw. President Trump says that Hamas will release all its hostages under the deal and that that could happen Monday or Tuesday.

Now, before the Israeli military made the ceasefire announcement, we did see new strikes in Southern Gaza. We will keep watching to see if there are any more outbreaks. A senior official says the U.S. will send 200 troops to monitor the ceasefire, but they will not go into Gaza.

Let's get right to CNN's Nic Robertson in Cairo with the very latest, and this really is now, Nic, a minute-by-minute process. NIC ROBERTSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMATIC EDITOR: It really is. So, you can set your watches. Two hours ago, the ceasefire came into effect. So, by this time or noon, local time, 5:00 A.M. Eastern on Tuesday, all those 48 hostages, the 28 bodies of the deceased hostages, the 20 living hostages, they should all be released. We've just heard that the names of the 250 Palestinian prisoners who are serving life sentences to be released, that list has now been made public, Marwan Barghouti, the top ticket, the top political figure that Hamas has said they wanted released is not on that list.

The IDF is warning the residents of Gaza, yes, there is a ceasefire in place, but do not approach IDF troops. Do not go near concentrations of soldiers, also do not go to certain villages in the north, in the south. The IDF currently now controls pull back to its lines, the yellow -- so-called yellow line on the map, 53 percent of Gaza. So, clear warnings to Gazans, not to approach the IDF troops in those areas.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu just spoke in the Knesset thanked President Trump, Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner, but also said that Hamas would be disarmed, that Garza would be demilitarized, that it could be done that easy way, right, diplomacy, or the hard way. He also said that he'd told the IDF commander, the mission is not yet over. We're going to widen the circle of peace in the region. And they said his formula of military pressure on Hamas as well as diplomatic pressure has paid off.

The ball is rolling, the clock is ticking. The time for those hostages to be released really is getting close now.

BERMAN: All of those phrases absolutely do apply. Nic monitoring the situation there hour by hour, thank you so much for that. Kate?

BOLDUAN: Also, this morning, it is literally a question of who is going to be next after New York Attorney General Letitia James was just indicted that's right after former FBI Director James Comey was indicted, all after the blatant public pressure campaign from President Trump that this is the exact thing he wanted to see happen.

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The Justice Department is now accusing James of two felony charges, bank fraud, and making false statements to a financial institution. This is tied to a mortgage that she took out on a home in Norfolk, Virginia, in 2020. Prosecutors say that she had claimed it was a second residence, but it was actually an investment rental property. She -- and they alleged that this allowed James to get a favorable interest rate and saving her around $19,000 in the course of the loan.

For a federal indictment, legal minds are saying that's a pretty low number. James calls the indictment, desperate weaponization of our system of justice.

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LETITIA JAMES, NEW YORK ATTORNEY GENERAL: These charges are baseless and the president's own public statements make clear that his only goal is political retribution at any cost.

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BOLDUAN: The president's handpicked U.S. attorney, Lindsey Halligan, brought the case to the grand jury and that's after career prosecutors in the same office had investigated and did not find enough evidence to bring a case. So, where does this go from here?

Joining us right now is Elie Honig, of course, CNN, senior legal analyst. So, Elie, first and foremost, what is this indictment really about? I ask that because you think people may be getting it slightly wrong.

ELIE HONIG, CNN SENIOR LEGAL ANALYST: Well, so it's important to understand the mortgage fraud allegation against Letitia James. There had been speculation that it related to a home where she claimed it was her primary residence, but it's actually her secondary residence. That's not quite what's alleged here. What's alleged is she bought this home in Norfolk, Virginia, in 2020. She certified that it would be her secondary residence. But, in fact, she used it as a rental or investment property.

Now, according to the indictment, the reason she did that is because she got a better mortgage rate, which resulted in a savings of over $18,000. But as you said, Kate, that is a ridiculously low amount for a federal fraud case. I certainly would not have intaked that case when I was with the feds. The loss amount simply would've been just too small. I was a state prosecutor too. I'm not even sure we would've taken it at the state level.

So, that's the nature of the allegation. It does allege a straightforward fraud. We'll see if the proof is there. But even if it is, the amount is really low.

BOLDUAN: There's an interesting kind of new wrinkle in this Wall Street Journal's now reporting, Elie, that that September 20th social media post, we can put it back up to remind folks, from Trump when he basically said directly to Pam Bondi that he wanted to see her targeting James and Comey and others, meaning, you know, we can't delay any longer, it's killing our reputation and credibility. The Journal's reporting that that post was actually meant to be sent as a private message to Pam Bondi. And he was surprised when he saw that it was actually public.

How much is that social media post going to play in this case? And does it matter that it was supposed to be private at all?

HONIG: It's such an interesting wrinkle. So, first of all, that post is going to be Exhibit A in the motions that will be brought both by Jim Comey and separately by Letitia James to dismiss the indictments based on what we call selective or malicious prosecution. The argument is I was singled out for political or other improper purposes. Really hard to win those arguments normally, Kate, except when you have a document like this one.

And it's interesting because imagine it actually had been sent privately to Pam Bondi. It potentially would've come up in the discovery on this case, and then it would've hit like a bombshell. The parties would've said, oh my goodness, look, there it is, the smoking gun. The president ordered the A.G. to do that. Instead, it got posted publicly, and so we receive it perhaps a little bit differently, but the legal effect is the exact same. We have an explicit instruction to his attorney general. He made the replacement of the US attorney, as you noted earlier, in order to get this done. So, I think both Comey and Letitia James are going to have very strong motions to dismiss here.

BOLDUAN: So, fascinating. Great to see you, Elie. Thank you so much. Sara?

SIDNER: All right, thank you, Kate.

Still ahead, breaking overnight, Ukraine's capital city without power this morning after a massive Russian strike. How Russia is trying to impose maximum suffering on the Ukrainian people.

Plus, more than 150 children in one school district all in quarantine right now after being exposed to measles. What we're learning about that outbreak.

And baller on the runway, Angel Reese getting her wings. How this stroll and this shoot is making history.

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SIDNER: Breaking overnight, parts of Ukraine's capital are without power after officials there say a massive Russian attack targeted energy infrastructure. The Kremlin using a tactic from previous years knocking out power and heat for Ukrainians ahead of the winter.

President Zelenskyy says the attack involved 450 drones and over 30 missiles. And also the residential areas were targeted.

CNN's Fred Pleitgen is joining us now from Berlin. Fred, what can you tell us about just the impact of all of these drones? And it is getting cold there in Ukraine. It gets bitterly cold. A lot of suffering is about to happen.

FREDERIK PLEITGEN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Yes, that's what they say is that, essentially they believe that the Russians are trying to freeze the Ukrainians into submissions with these attacks that have been going on and have been increasing over the past couple of days and weeks.

The Ukrainians say as well, Sara, you were mentioning that parts of the Ukrainian capital are without power. We were just hearing from some of our folks in Kyiv that, especially the central parts of Kyiv, still apparently without power and also pretty much the entire left bank of the Dnipro River.

[07:15:06] That, of course, is that massive river that runs through the Ukrainian capital. So, certainly, it seems as though a lot of damage to the infrastructure, the energy infrastructure was done there.

One of the other things that we're hearing from Ukrainian authorities is they say that these attacks that have been happening recently, especially against the energy infrastructure, not only very large in scale, but they also have a very long duration as well. Last night's attack, they say the air raid sirens were on for about seven to eight hours lasting well into the morning hours and into commuter traffic in the morning also.

So, certainly, the Ukrainians are saying there's an upscale, and one of the other things, of course, as you've already mentioned, they believe, is that the weather gets colder there in Ukraine, that the Russians want to target that energy infrastructure to see whether or not people will be without power, without water and without electricity. Certainly, that's something that right now, at least for an interim, time is the case.

It's quite interesting also because as we went to air here, Sarah, we also from the Russians a release on this attack. They confirmed that the Russians were behind this. They say that this was in retaliation to what they call aerial attacks by the Ukrainians against Russian civilian infrastructure. The Russians are confirming that a lot of attack drones were involved, but also hypersonic missiles were involved as well, and that they were specifically targeting the energy infrastructure of Ukraine.

Certainly, right now, the Ukrainians are saying that it could be a very difficult fall and then winter ahead, Sara.

SIDNER: Yes. Fred Pleitgen, thank you so much for your reporting there from Berlin for us. Kate?

BOLDUAN: Still ahead, military families are bracing for missed paychecks. That's just days away with this shutdown. And Speaker Johnson is telling Republicans though he will not support an effort to make sure that they do get paid while this government shutdown drags on.

And remembering an icon, Sister Jean of March Madness fame, she has passed away at the age of 106.

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BERMAN: All right. This morning, my thoughts are with my brothers and sisters in Philadelphia. This was not an easy night for them.

Let's get right to CNN's Andy Scholes. Oof.

ANDY SCHOLES, CNN SPORTS ANCHOR: John, what a brutal, stressful night for Philly fans. I mean, they had the Phillies and Eagles playing at the same time. Both of them I'm sure are causing Philly fans to lose sleep last night. Someone check on Jake Tapper today, okay? It's going to take a while though for Philly fans to get over game four against the Dodgers.

You're going to pick it up, bottom of the 11th, two outs, bases loaded for L.A. Andy Pages is going to hit it right back to the pitcher and Orion Kerkering. Instead of taking the easy out at first, for some reason, fires it home, he air mails it. Dodgers win 2-1. And take another look, even J.T. Realmuto was pointing to throw to first. This was just his second time in postseason history a series has ended on a walk-off error. And Kerkering after the game blaming himself for the loss.

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ORION KERKERING, PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES PITCHER: It just hit off my foot, just kind of onto the pressure to me and just thought it was a faster throw of the J.T. little quick throw than trying to cross body the brace. So, I'm just (BLEEP).

ROB THOMSON, PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES MANAGER: Yes, I feel for him because he's putting it all on his shoulders. But we win as a team and we lose as a team.

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SCHOLES: All right. So, with the Eagles help soften the blow of that Phillies devastating loss, the answer was no, the Giants defense shutting out Jalen Hurts and the Eagles in the second half. And what a night it was for the Giants' rookie quarterback Jackson Dart running back Cam Skattebo. Dart ran for a touchdown, threw for another one. Skattebo, meanwhile, he had three rushing touchdowns in this game. Giants would win 34-17, handing the Eagles back-to-back losses for the first time since 2023.

The Cubs meanwhile surviving to fight another day against the Brewers. Ian Happ got the party started at Wrigley Field with a three-run home run in the first. And then Matthew Boyd, he pitched four and two thirds shutout innings. The Cubs would end up winning 6-0. Fortunately, winners take all game five tomorrow night. First pitch for that one at 8:00 Eastern, you can watch it on TBS or stream it on HBO MAX.

All right, and, finally, beloved longtime team chaplain for the Chicago Loyola Men's Basketball Team, Sister Jean has passed away. She rose to fame during the Rambler Cinderella Final Four run back in 2018. School President Mark Reed said in a statement, in many roles at Loyola over the course of more than 60 years, Sister Jean was an invaluable source of wisdom and grace for generations of students, faculty and staff. Sister Jean had retired from her role last month, citing health concerns. She was 106 years old.

And, John, I got the chance to meet Sister Jean during that Cinderella run. She's certainly one of a kind. She was the best. There certainly will never be another Sister Jean.

BERMAN: I remember when you got to meet her and I remember how just excited she was and how excited the team was to have her there right by their side.

SCHOLES: Always a big smile on her face and always just had words of wisdom no matter what the situation was, whether it was a big win or a devastating loss. You know, like I said, never going to be another Sister Jean.

BERMAN: Not at all. And final note here, the Phillies pitcher, I got to say, those comebackers right to the mound, they're tough, Andy. I mean, I know it was an error. I know probably if he had played it perfectly, there would've been an out, but I don't know.

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SCHOLES: Yes. I mean, it certainly has looked like, John, he had a lot of time to get that ball to first, I don't know. Yes, it's bad.

BERMAN: I'm just trying to make it better for him. All right, Andy, thank you very much.

BOLDUAN: I mean, guys, you cannot be like Monday morning quarterbacking in this like pressure cooker moment for the guy. Give him a break, Andy Scholes.

SCHOLES: He absolutely panicked.

BOLDUAN: You were trying.

BERMAN: All right.

BOLDUAN: You were trying. Andy, penalty box, Berman for once not in the penalty box, thank you. Now to me.

With a fragile ceasefire in Gaza now in place, we now have an update on when the remaining hostages could finally be released and headed back to Israel, and also the latest on President Trump's plans to head to the region, a lot developing this morning.

And there's also this, some banned users are getting out of YouTube jail. Why the platform is giving them a second chance now.

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