well, the stage is now set for a potential presidential rematch. president biden has officially launched his re-election bid. he says the battle for the nation s soul as he s described it is not over, and he s ready to take on so-called maga extremists. and a new threat in war torn sudan. one of the warring factions seizing a laboratory in khartoum. samples of polio, measles, and cho cholera potentially exposed. and officials are warning a germ bomb could be released on the already devastated capital city. and parts of the midwest could see the worst flooding in 20 years here in the coming days. earlier than expected snow melt is pushing the mississippi river closer to cresting in parts of iowa, minnesota, and wisconsin. what this means for some of the major crops that americans depend on from those areas. we are following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. four years to the day after he launched his 2020 president
told two women allegedly contemporaneously what happened. that s important because all the time that went by you re going to have to corroborate her statements, showing that somehow it is the precise story that was told all those years ago and now. so what is at stake for trump because we ve heard her allegations, right? she s written a book. we ve heard them. what else is at stake for trump here? well, first of all we re about a block away from where he was arraigned two weeks ago in a case not like this one but in a case very consequential as well. so the idea here what s at stake is just a culmination of other cases. however, this is a civil prosecution. he need not even appear. that might surprise some people. you don t have to actually show up, but he has shown up for a deposition. and those statements he said then could ultimately come in. and if you re e. jean carroll s attorneys knowing, number one, perhaps the unpredictability of a current in-person testimony and a witness