like washington, jefferson, lincoln. well, guess what. latinos have been here every step of the way. [upbeat latin-tinged music] in fact, latinx heroes have fought in every war for the united states for centuries. this goes all the way back to the revolutionary war. american forces got major financial contributions from cuba, and they also got help from the spanish forces led by a young venezuelan commander named francisco de miranda. and then during the civil war, more than 20,000 hispanics served. almost half of them were mexican-american, and that was only 13 years after the mexican-american war. now where s the monument for that? huh? huh? huh? now, today, nearly 20% of the u.s. population is latin, and our numbers are growing. our voting power is growing too, and about one in ten votes are being cast by latinos, and yet we still make up less than 2% of our elected officials, but the good news is, we do have some prominent figures, like alexandria ocasio-cortez, veronica
hello and welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us. shaky or sound? first republic bank collapses, a weekend deal to buy it bales out uber wealthy depositors but stirs worries about the strength of the economy. plus the head of the republican national committee delivers a blunt warning to republican candidates coast to coast, ignore the abortion issue at your own expense. and entire lives packed into a single suitcase, cnn captures the desperation on the dock in port sudan. thousands hoping to leave a nation at war with itself. up first for us, first republic goes bust, the company s 84 branches are open but under a new banner, that after regulators seized it and then broke it in an emergency weekend deal to sell it off. jpmorgan chase takes over nearly all of first republic s assets. the government says all depositors are protected and that the 92 billion in first republic deposits are safe. their failure is the
hello and thanks for being with us. it is 10:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. we re now into day four in the manhunt for a suspected mass killer. the search growing more urgent by the hour as false alarms turn up empty. and today new questions about the police response to the shooting. what a survivor of that attack is telling nbc news about the terror that unfolded and five desperate calls reportedly made to 911. plus, zero visibility, look at this. a sudden blinding dust storm engulfing a highway, causing a deadly chain reaction crash. also developing overnight, hollywood writers trying to write their own ending, now on strike for the first time in 15 years. the ripple effects you could see if this strike lasts weeks or even months. if this lasts a couple of months, we ll start to see the impact on the fall tv schedule and some movies will have to be pushed back. and june 1st, mark your calendar, that s how soon the country could default on its debt,
here we go. tuesday morning. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. president biden is ready to confirm what used to be a given for an incumbent in american politics, that he is running for re-election. the official announcement of his 2024 campaign today comes as polls show a majority of voters and even a majority of democrats don t want him to run again. jasmine wright is joining me. good morning. what do we know about the campaign rollout? reporter: well, today is the day maybe, that is an important caveat, because we know that president biden is one that can change his decision especially about his political future. so that caveat is very important, but if president biden were to go forward with it today he d be really in essence launching his final campaign of his decades long political career. it is only official when it is official, but if it happens, we know logistically how it will look. the president will be launchi
mismanagement in the supervision led to the collapse of two banks. what could fall in the days ahead. live from cnn, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. we begin this hour with extreme weather ahead for most of the country. more than 20 million people are under threat for severe storms across the southeast. two rounds of strong thunderstorms are expected to cross florida and southern georgia today. when this afternoon, the second overnight. the main threats will be damaging wind, hail. in texas, dozens of reports friday, reporting golf-ball- sized trailed 39 hail . it went for several minutes, but likely never will measure, also a possible tornado in palm beach county. nudges wind and hail, the mississippi river continues to rise, flooding many communities around the banks. the water has already crested in some. here is the latest. as the river level rises, anxiety is also going up for business owners here in iowa. you can see where the partridges are the embankm