a superstar for the ages, and we reflect in a moment on one of the biggest voices and losses in music history. but first, we begin tonight with the breaking development in the 2024 presidential race. the man who is viewed by many pundits as the biggest threat to donald trump to the republican nomination. he just made it official in a post on trump s old turf, twitter. righting the ship requires restoring sanity to our society. truth must be our foundation. and commons s can no longer be an uncommon virtue. we need the courage to lead and the strength to win. i am ron desantis, and i m running for president to lead our great american come back. but ron desantis s big announcement tonight went a little bit south from there. a very rocky start to his formal bid, with major glitches plaguing his planned conversation with twitter spaces ceo elon musk, an audio form that had some major technical difficulties, and the moderator blamed heavy traffic. the florida governor s campai
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
happening right now, sentencing is under way for oathkeeper s founder stewart rhodes for his part in the capitol riots, and we will find out the time he is going to get for seditious conspiracy. and ron desantis has a huge gap to close against donald trump and we hear about the plan he has to try to close it. and a man is able to walk for the first time in decades, and we have the latest of what is helping him to do it. this is noouz. this is cnn news central. negotiators are working 24/7 to get a deal on the debt limit as the treasury department is warning that the u.s. could default one week from today. this is what house speaker kevin mccarthy said in the last hour. every hour matters, and this is why the white house is meeting on this, and why last night, the team they have is very professional and very bright. they know where the differences are, and how to work on this. as the talks are playing out, the house will recess today and head home for the weekend,
and remembering an icon. tina turner the queen of rock & roll. and we begin this very busy hour with very latest from washington where time is literally running out for negotiators to reach a deal to raise the debt ceiling. there s just one week until the treasury secretary s estimated deadline to stave off what could be a devastating debt default. top credit agency has now put the country s aaa credit rating on negative watch. pointing to partisanship as hindering a solution. here is what speaker mccarthy had to say just this morning. everybody is very professional in these meetings. look, i m a total optimist. we will get this done, and we will have a better bill because of it. and joining us this morning with more is garrett haake. also with us, cnbc s dominic chu. garrett, mccarthy seems optimistic about a deal. what are you hearing from the democratic side? no, that s exactly right, jose. on the fitch part of this specifically, democrats are frustrated. t
now that his presidential twitter launch did not launch so much, what does ron desantis do now? one of the best sourced florida reporters on earth tells us what a desantis campaign win means for them. a florida boy is recovering at home after he was shot by a police officer, but he is the one who called 911 for help. the family is now calling for the officer to be fired and charged. and could the pill form of diabetes and weight loss drugs like ozempic work just as well as the shot? ahead, the day that researchers are calling good news. we are following the major developing stories and much more right here on cnn news central. new reaction to the ron desantis glitch heard around the world or not really heard well for 25 minutes as the case may be. one of the challengers asa hutchinson struck a sympathetic tone this morning. i did feel for governor desantis. he is trailing donald trump in the polls, but he is clearly one of the top two candidates in the gop, but he