i m christine romans. cnn this morning starts right now. good morning, everyone. it is wednesday. kaitlan is back. that makes me very happy. we re back. and so much going on today. and what s going to come. let s hope a deal. yeah. let s get started. i do sense a skeptic? i believe it. let s get to the five things we need to know for this wednesday, may 24th. ron desantis set to announce his 2024 white house run today. there is nothing conventional about this. he s going to make the announcement on twitter with elon musk. the once favored platform for his rival donald trump before he got banned. and speaking of the former president, he now has a court date in the stormy daniels hush money probe here in new york. he ll stand trial in march of 2024, right in the middle of the campaign for the auto term. and a super typhoon is lashing the american territory of guam right now. it is expected to bring a triple threat of heavy rains, hurricane-force winds and life
ukraine ukraine s door step. he said ukraine is unvowed one year after russian president vladimir putin sent tanks and troops rolling across the border in a war that is still raging. one year ago, the world was bracing for the fall of kyiv. well, i just came from a visit to kyiv, and i can report kyiv stands strong. kyiv stands proud. it stands tall. and most important, it stands industry. two extraordinary scenes today of two very different leaders. president biden spoke just hours after his russian counterpart delivered his own address in moscow. during his peach, president putin blamed the u.s. for the war. he also announced he s suspended russia s participation in the new s.t.a.r.t. arms control treaty. cnn white house correspondent phil mattingly is in warsaw, poland. phil, president biden said the russian invasion was beyond ukraine. it tested freedoms and democracies everywhere. and says if there s one wore that stops these autocracies, that word is no. reporter:
very good thursday morning to you . i m jim sciutto. i m poppy harlow. this just in to cnn, important news for the u.s. economy, the nation s gross domestic product, how much the economy grew or shrank, declined less than previously thought in the second quarter of this year. revised up from negative .9% to negative .6%. it may not sound like much. it shows our economy is shrinking. cnn chief business correspondent christine romans joins us now with more. we often have seen revisions like this, with jobs figures, sometimes in both directions, sometimes in a positive direction, what is the significance of the revision here? it means the economy is less lousy in the second quarter than we thought, and in fact consumer spending and corporate profits were stronger and that is an underpinning here of the u.s. economy. you look at quarter by quarter by quarter, you see two quarters in a row of a shrinking u.s. economy. but shrinking much less in the second quarter than the fi
indeed, good to have you. i m jim sciutto. justice department facing a noon deadline, two hours from now, to give a judge and we should be clear a redacted version, perhaps highly redacted of the affidavit behind the search warrant for the mar-a-lago home of the former president. the judge will then decide whether to release that redacted version to the public or continue to keep it under wraps. plus, new details about the national archives multiyear effort to get former president trump to hand over classified documents from his time in office. a top white house lawyer at the time told trump he should hand those documents over. so why didn t it happen? key question. also overnight, the department of justice releasing an unredacted full memo from 2019 that unveils why former attorney general bill barr decided then president trump could not be charged with obstructing the russia probe. we ll break down what is ahead in all of that. all right, let s begin this morning with
good morning, we are in a very, very muqqy good morning, we are in a very, very muggy farm in detract for a perfect lesson in pumpkin carving. we would love to see yours soaping your pumpkins in good or bad, we will be having a go. weather wise, fairly quiet in the next couple of days, by comparison by the end of the next week, we could see dora me, storm ciaran pushing and affecting the far south of we could see quite stormy weather. it s monday the 30th of october. our main story. israel has continued its heavy bombardment of gaza overnight, as it targets hamas in areas that are also crowded with civilians. aid workers say israel has ordered the evacuation of the al quds hospital in gaza, where14,000 people are sheltering and 400 seriously ill patients are being treated. areas near the hospital have already been hit by air strikes. more than 30 trucks carrying food and supplies entered southern gaza yesterday, which is the largest humanitarian aid convoy to the territory