new information about how trump will respond today. a typhoon packing wind gusts over 100 miles per hour and it is battering the island, a look at the devastation and the danger as the worst of it hits at this hour. a brain decoder or mind reader? a scientific breakthrough that is remarkable. scientists in texas on the brink of training artificial intelligence to read your mind. this is cnn news central. ron desantis is running for president. not a news flash, exactly. everything he s been doing the last weeks and months have helped position for that. his announcement with elon musk on twitter tonight will be a culmination of that. what is new is information about what the florida governor will say and how he intends to run against donald trump. also new, how his opponents are positioning themselves. this is a video commercial. out just moments ago from former south carolina governor nikki haley. in it, she paints desantis as an echo of trump. whatever i want he
expand a controversial bill. the midweeasure would require pc schools to display the ten commandments in the classroom. they could not meet the midnight deadline for final passage. the legislation ends may 29th, so there is still time for the legislator to use procedural tactics to try and bring it back up again. kate? it was one year ago today that a gunman opened fire inside an elementary school in uvalde, texas. the reality of what was happening there was almost too much to comprehend as it unfolded and the news came out. 19 little children and two of their teachers were killed. their murders forever altering the lives of everyone who knew and loved them, and it shattered their community. today, so many of these families are still begging for answers one year later. listen to this from some of the work done by our colleague shimon prokupecz with the whole
let s do it together, and let s not wait. governor doug wilder, always a pleasure. thank you, sir. thank you, sir. always good. well, is the next civil rights battle actually going to be in classroom? the justice department speaking on the louisiana school voucher program allowing students to transfer out of publi failing pc schools and into private ones. the justice department says it will impact the racial balance in some district still under desegregation orders. louisiana governor bobby jindal said it s the doj that s discriminating. governor, very good to have you. neil, thank for having me today. talk about weird timing, right? this dust up right on martin luther king day. what do you think? you know, it s amazing to me. the department of justice, the obama administration are using the same rules designed to protect minority children to actually keep them trapped in failing public schools. we ve got 8,000 kids in the scholarship program.