viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world! i m rosemary church. just ahead on cnn newsroom, plenty of new twist in the 2024 race for the white house. rhonda santas has chosen an interesting way to announce his candidacy while donald trump will likely be facing a criminal trial right in the middle of a critical primary month. a monster storm is fouling down on guam right now. the island is bracing for 200 rain, life-threatening storm surge and 165 mile an hour winds from typhoon mama. plus, grandma joys road trip, we will speak to the 93 year old woman who just visited all 63 national parks, the oldest living person ever to do so and the grandson who went with her on this wild adventure. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church! thanks for being with us. florida governor ron desantis will launch his long expected to run for the white house later today in an unconventional way. he will make the announcement duri
defending ukraine. fred pleitgen, cnn, kyiv. and now an exclusive report, cnn has learned from multiple defense officials that a senior u.s. general ordered his command to announce on twitter that an al-qaeda leader had been targeted and an american drone strike, but without confirming who was actually killed. cnn pentagon correspondent oren lieberman has the story. so john strike on may 3rd in northwest syria targeted a senior al-qaeda leader according to u.s. central command which governs u.s. operations in the middle east and in that region. said calm, as it s known, promised more information as the operation details of that truck had been confirmed, but now here we are nearly three years late weeks later, and it has not put out any information of who the target of the strike was or who was killed in the strike. officials tell us they would knew it would take a few days to confirm who wataga was killed in the strike because at