race? what his staffers are saying about his political future. so we have a lot going on and a lot more music to introduce. lucas tomlinson introduces live from washington without any music for you. just give us the facts, lucas. you got it, brian. good morning, after months of anticipation trips to iowa, new hampshire and abroad, it s now official. governor ron desantis will enter the presidential race tonight. florida s first lady teasing the announcement in this 30 second video. d do i have the courage? is it worth the sacrifice? america has been worth it every single time. elon musk offered a preview of the highly expected announcement take place tonight at 6:00 p.m. we ll be interviewing ron desantis and he has quite an announcement to make. and we ll be it will be the first time something like this is happening on social media. and with real time questions and answers. not scripted. president trump s super pac responding to the announcement this is one of th
he says his battle for the soul of the nation isn t over. setting the stage for potential rematch against donald trump. but that s not trump s only challenge, today, a civil battery and defamation trial kicks off. e. jean carroll accusing trump of forcibly raping her. and one of many legal problems facing him as he once again runs for the white house. and a huge biological risk. sudanese military occupy a public health lab in that nation s capital. one with samples of polio, measles and cholera. the latest conflict in sudan. we re following the major developing stories and many more coming in right here to cnn news central . right now, president biden is giving his first live remarks since he revealed the worst kept secret in washington. that he s running for re-election. following the loss, the president noticeably choosing a union event for his public announcement. it came at 6:00 a.m. eastern time today. here s a clip. let s finish this job. i know you care. bec
good morning. a tragedy of unimaginable scale. more than 17,000 people have now died as time is running out to save survivors in the earthquake. breaking overnight, pennsylvania senator john fetterman, recovering from a stroke, has been admitted to the hospital. an update on his condition. president biden addressing concerns about his age and why he hasn t yet med made a decision about running for re-election. lawmakers getting a classified briefing on the chinese spy balloon and new cnn reporting about who knew what and when. the p word, the b word, a word have been entered into the congressional word as the republican efforts to expose those at the top of twitter has take an surprising turn. cnn this morning starts right now. i m glad you could join us. keep this number in mind. 17,000. 17,000, not just talking numbers, that s people, right? and that s where we are going to begin. we begin in turkey and syria where 17,000 victims, that death toll is climbing
good morning, top of the hour here in the cnn newsroom i m erica hill. i m jim sueciutto. the head of the epa is headed to ohio two weeks after a train derailment that leaked chemicals into the air and the ground and the water. why are people getting sick? everybody that came here the rail company norfolk southern abruptly pulled out of last night s town hall, citing security concerns we ll go live to east palestine in a moment. standing by for news out of georgia this morning. the fulton county district attorney is expected to release parts of a special grand jury report on former president trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. it is expected what will be released will be concerns that the panel had about witnesses lying under oath. we are monitoring that. we ll bring you those details as soon as it s released. let s begin in east palstein ohio. residents demanding answers in the wake of that train wreck. they packed a town hall meeting. railroad o
u.s. economy added some 261,000 jobs in october, the unemployment rate ticked up slightly to 3.7%. that jobs figure lower than the month before, however, still higher than economists had forecast. cnn chief business correspondent christine romans joins us to break down the numbers. you always say wisely the trend is your friend. so what do these latest numbers show us about the trend in the job market and is this what the fed was looking for? so first i would call this resilient but slowing the rate of job growth here. 261,000 net new jobs added, you know, that is a strong showing in any economy, but the trend is important here. we re averaging about 400 and change a month this year and this is the slowest pace of job creation in almost two years. so still strong, still resilient, but starting to slow here. the government noting that that unemployment rate has been stuck in this 3.5 to 3.7% range since march. it s still stuck in that range, even after six months now of the