stress when in fact it s causing mental illness, anxiety, depression, suicidal thinking. john: welcome back as america reports rolls into hour number two. i m john roberts in washington. that s pretty stunning, sandra. sandra: really serious stuff. sandra smith in new, i don t. all new at 2:00, we speak to a mother who lost her son to suicide. she blames years of heavy cannabis use that made her son s delusions worse. her story and her warning just ahead. as we top a brand-new hour, any moment now we are set to see the pentagon take questions as u.s. troops remain stationed at the southern border with thousands of migrants still making their way into this country. president biden claiming the crisis is far less serious than some feared. how do you think things are going at the border, sir? much better than y all expected. john: the president claims things are looking great, more than 83,000 migrants were detained in just the past week, and given court dates to app
congressional leaders back to the white house with the days to get a deal done simply running out. will either side budge before default? that economists say could be a catastrophe. so word is republican governor ron desantis is now just days away from declaring his 2024 run for president, but the new fury he is facing in florida, all this now on cnn news central. we have new there are new details coming out this morning on the terrifying random shootings in farmington, new mexico. this happened yesterday afternoon and now three people are dead and six others are wounded. police are calling the shooting purely random. the gunman has not been identified but police do say he was 18 years old and he was killed by police once they arrived on the scene. cnn s natasha chen is following this for us, she s joining us now. natasha, the randomness of this is what is so scary. what more are you learning? reporter: the police chief posted a video to facebook last night talkin
are investors starting to act on their doubts about a deal? and campaign endorsements and super pacs, they re great. but do they matter if you can t throw a punch? that s the question hanging over ron desantis and mike pence as they try to figure out how to take on donald trump. but we start with new developments surrounding a pair of mass shootings in texas and new mexico, carried out nine days and nearly a thousand miles apart, but sharing a critical heart breaking detail. both targeting people doing absolutely nothing out of the ordinary turning what should have been a normal day into a nightmare. in new mexico, three people are dead, along with a teenage suspect, after police say he opened fire on a residential street yesterday. apparently just shooting at random. it was the 225th mass shooting of the year in this country. roughly one every 15 hours. and in just about one hour in texas, we re expecting an update on surviving victims of the shooting at an outlet mall.
advisers and longtime loyalist is jumping ship to endorse ron desantis. and he will join me in just a moment to explain why. but first, the florida governor is making waves even before his expected to jump into the presidential race. desantis today signed a bill to de-fund diversity programs at florida colleges. their response to critical race theory being taught in classrooms. he is also changing florida law to allow himself to campaign while serving as governor, and to reduce transparency over his state spending and travel. desantis is also stepping in to ward off his turf, sending migrants to states run by democrats, and wading into a new york city case praising the marine veteran now charged in a subway chokehold death. he also barn stormed a trail of iowa this weekend, where the 45th president canceled a rally there over weather concerns. donald trump is taking notice, and taking aim at desantis. and desantis is indirectly firing back. we must reject the culture of los
looking for one vote. just one. and he s asking north carolinians to help him. cooper who is not running for reelection is on the campaign trail. campaigning not for himself but for access to abortion. pressure your republican state lawmaker he s pleading, tell the state house a 12-week abortion ban is too extreme. standing in the way of progress right now is this republican super majority legislature that only took 48 hours to turn the clock back 50 years on women s health. if just one republican in either the house or the senate keeps a campaign promise to protect women s reproductive health, we can stop this ban. the north carolina legislature voted to roll back legal abortions from 20 weeks to 12 earlier this month. on saturday, governor cooper, a democrat vetoed that bill, and that would have been that, except for what state rep trisha cotham did back in april. she won and ral bied as a republican, giving she has long spoken on the side of reproductive rights. she