america decides. just days before the verse votes are cast in this year s presidential election, president biden makes his first campaign speech of 2024 and slams his main rival. trump is trying to steal history, the same way he tried to steal the election. norah: the back-to-back winter storms with 40 million americans preparing for the first wallop. the national weather service warning of hazardous driving conditions. you could get anywhere from 2 inches to 10 inches of snow. norah: as flu cases arise nationwide, what you should know to keep your kid safe. do not leave anything to chance because you are going to live without the rest of your life. lean on me norah: and we go on the road with a woman who found a friend to lean on. i am taking to a recording studio. are you serious? and when you heard her song, what did you think? oh, i was blown away. norah: good evening to our viewers in the west. i m norah o donnell, and thank you for
being old. do that on television, ok? i said to see you do it on television. i don t want to dislike you. i can t help it. sandra: begin with the media writing off ron desantis s bid for the governor even before he joins the primary field. i m sandra smith in new york. a lot of puns off the top alert there, but we do have a hot show coming up. john: yes, no question about that. all right. let s get cooking here. john roberts in washington. this is america reports. after months of speculation, and several visits to early primary states, ron desantis will make it official not with the usual campaign kick-off rally but in a live audio only interview with the ceo of twitter, elon musk. sandra: we are just hours away from that. marc thiessen standing by whether desantis s entry will shake up the race and peter doocy with the naacp growing war with desantis. how will desantis s rollout play out tonight? what are we and anticipating? from hot and humid miami, a bit of a
president already threatening to veto it, are we all just racing towards disaster? and she just told a jury that donald trump raped her. she s taking the stand in her defamation and sexual battery case against the former president. why she says she waited 27 years to bring these charges. the world health organization is warning of a potential humanitarian crisis in sudan. hospitals at only 16% capacity and that laboratory seized by militants is now entirely without power. diseases such as measles, polio, cholera and worst case scenario could be leaked. we are following these major developing stories and more coming in here to cnn news central. we begin this hour on capitol hill where overnight, house speaker kevin mccarthy made a series of concessions on the republican debt ceiling bill to appease far right members of the house. he is hoping to pass that legislation as early as today. president biden says he s willing to meet with mccarthy but with one condition. here i
part of the grand jury investigation into the mar-a-lago classified documents. the former president escalates his rhetoric overnight. threatening, quote, death and destruction if he is charged with a crime. i will be joined by michigan congresswoman debbie dingell, one of the congress people who questioned tiktok s ceo. good day, i m andrea mitchell in washington. we start with the u.s. air strikes by f-15s against what the u.s. said are iranian-backed groups in syria. killing an american contractor and injuring five u.s. service members and another american contractor. the pentagon says the deadly strike was from an iranian suicide drone. courtney kubie reports. a rocket attack against another base in syria used by u.s. troops. president biden on his trip to canada ordering air strikes against the targets in syria in retaliation. right now, the president is meeting with canada s prime minister justin trudeau in ottawa. joining us now is white house national security counci
ahead on cnn newsroom, pulling out all the stops in pennsylvania. president biden teaming up with his former boss, barack obama, to get the pblue vote out, whil trump rallies republicans. it seems he has a new nickname for his most likely challenger to lead the party. we ll have details plus analysis from a former member of congress for the state. and destruction left behind in america s tornado alley. the latest from cnn s world weather center. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. first, we are following a developing story out of eastern africa. a commercial aircraft of an unknown number of passengers has crashed into lake victoria in tanzania. the plane was owned by precision air, which said a rescue operation was now underway for possible survivors. the airline said it went down near their airport located on lake victoria s western shore. the president of tanzania has taken to social media to urge calm while rescuers work at t