will still never understand why he chose a socially distanced rollout. but, to be fair, desantis tried something different. but it was a gamble and he ended up only getting a fraction of the live viewers he would have if he had done a more traditional rollout. media took the opportunity to dunk on the governor because of it. this would be like 162 game baseball season and your star pitcher getting the ball and accidently throwing it and hitting himself in the face. this is not a normal way to begin. you would ordinarily want to be with normal people. not a billionaire. regular voters. where are they in this whole thing. it was an abomination. and just so much all around from desantis. there was a lot of stumbling and bumbling. does paint a picture of someone who does not make good decisions. boy did he look like a lap dog to a billionaire. it wasn t all bad. desantis raised over a million dollars. he did his first interview with fox trey gowdy. went much smoothe
i m jim acosta and begin in the middle east where a cease fair between islamic jihad was supposed to go in effect. more rockets were fired toward israel from gaza after the agreed upon time. they continued blaring sirens warning of incoming fire also. for days now we have seen attacks like that one right there in that dramatic video. this is an israeli air strike on gaza where at least 33 people have reportedly been killed over the past few days since wednesday, palestinian forces have fired over 1200 rockets towards israel in response and cnn s ben wedeman joins us now from jerusalem. ben, what more do we know about the cease-fire? reporter: well, the cease-fire, jim, was supposed to go into effect at 10:00 pacific local time. that was an hour ago, but until about half past the hour, there were still rockets going out of gaza and israeli air strikes going in. since then, however, it appears that the cease-fire has taken hold. the situation has calmed down and in the street
despite the rain, huge crowds came to buckingham palace to greet the royal party. a moment in history as the st edward s crown was placed on the king s head by the archbishop of canterbury at westminster abbey. god save the king! god save the kina! camilla was the first queen consort to be crowned since the late queen elizabeth the queen mother in 1937. a personal moment between king and heir william wishes his father good luck with a kiss. i william prince william pledge my loyalty to you and faith and truth i will bear undo you, as your liege man. after the ceremony the royal couple headed back to buckingham palace as the crowds cheered on along the mall. and the weather causes a scaled down flypast, but the red arrows delight the crowds that rain is back at buckingham palace. ~ . ., . that rain is back at buckingham | palace- every that rain is back at buckingham - palace. every now palace. with a vengeance. every now and then we palace. with a vengeance. every now a
top of the hour this thursday. i m jim sciutto. i m erica hill. we begin this hour with the new reporting of the chinese surveillance balloon, and the state department is confirming that this device was capable of monitoring u.s. communications. that is likely one of the new details that lawmakers are learning this morning. the biden administration is giving classified briefings on the issue on capitol hill a short time ago, and we will give you more of what we are learning in a moment, and with reclosely following what is happening in europe. the ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy is calling on the european allies to step up the assistance and talking about specifically what they could do in his mind game-changers. fresh off of the sales pitch in wisconsin, president biden is headed to florida to expect to drive home his pledge in particular to protect social security and medicare, and we will have more on that message from the white house ahead. first of all to nat