based on a fox news poll, the field has catching up to do. how is this race shaking up? let s go to julia manchester, kristen hahn and gop pollster lee carter. lee, start with you. governor desantis getting ready for a week where he will go to iowa, new hampshire, south carolina. they sound familiar. how important is it that he makes traction in those states? it s critical. he s message has to get big traction. it didn t last week. he s got a big job ahead of him. he has in many ways to reset his campaign. the last two months, he s been dropping in the polls. his excuse, he s not finally run yet. this is not official. now he has to make the case that he s the right man for the job. he has to focus on the economy, focus on inflation and stop focusing on the woke wars. that s what hurt himself the last two months and this will be chris call for people hearing him in a different way. julia, that underscores the challenge for governor desantis. the woke wars are probably crit
good morning, everyone. it is friday! friday! i m so happy to have my long time erica hill with me today. and next week. thank you for getting up super early. great to be with you. a lot going on this friday. let s get started with five things to know for friday, may 26th. the house negotiators are moving closer to avoid a default. it would lift the debt ceiling and cap spending for two years. memorial day weekend kicking off to be a very busy travel summer. aaa expects air travel to be higher than pre-covid levels. airlines face staffing shortages and air traffic control problems. two workers in mar-a-lago moved boxes of papers one day before the fbi visited the former president s home to pick up classified documents last year. the post also reporting that he had classified documents in his office at times and showed them to others. also in texas, lawmakers recommending articles of impeachment against the state s attorney general. they re accusing ken paxon o
russia launches another air strike into ukraine, this one hitting a hospital. the damage therine is significa. our team in dnipro getting a firsthand look at the destruction and the victims. why the death toll could have been even worse. and an investigation into the death of a navy seal following hell week leads to calls for an overhaul to the training program. we have stunning findings to share with you. a particularly busy 24 hours in ukraine. the latest reports are of explosions in the russian-occupied city of mariupol. city officials saying in a social media post that there were strikes on the occupied steel plant there. this comes after russian strikes inside ukraine on a psychiatric hospital in dnipro earlier today. that attack killed at least two, injured 31 others. you can see video from the scene showing the fire, but also the rubble of that medical facility following the strike. ukraine s president zelenskyy has called it an attack by terrorists. sam kail
nashville police have released security footage from monday s deadly school shooting that left six people dead, including three children, plus new information about the officers who took down the killer. we re live in television this hour where protests have stopped for now, after israel s prime minister halted his judicial reform plans , but the controversy is far from over. plus cnn is on the ground in mississippi, where a string of deadly tornadoes has devastated the entire community. from cnn center. this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. and we begin this hour with the shocking video of what s become an all too familiar scene here in the united states, a school shooting in nashville, tennessee . that s left three young children and three adults dead. police have released video, which they say shows a former student at the covenant school of arriving monday morning in a honda fit. they have identified the shooter as 28 year old audrey hale. a few minutes later , you c
people debase themselves. and then you get to say, oh, my god. look at them doing that. i would never do that and you get to eat your popcorn and enjoy it. yeah i can t wait to see what the evolution of what happens with tom. this season. we will stay tuned shotgun. thank you so much for joining us this morning. my pleasure. y all be safe out there. have a good week. you too, will and see it in this morning continues right now. protests engulfing the streets of israel prime minister benjamin netanyahu s plan to weaken the supreme court he fired a key minister who opposed the move this morning. well, netanyahu pushed forward with the overhaul is terrible. it feels as if the prime minister has lost control. it feels as if this country is going down a very dangerous road. it was like no notice. we didn t know what was happening. mississippi cleaning up from a devastating tornado, at least 26 people are dead. there s very little of this community that was untouched by the storm c