reelection bid as soon as next week. for the latest details, we turn to cnn s phil mattingly, who joins us now from the white house. so what s the latest phil? you know, pamela four months the president s top advisers have been very clear behind the scenes that the president was going to launch a reelection campaign. what they weren t clear on was when that would actually happen, and it seems like now we have some sense of a timeline that to some degree has taken a lot longer than people expected. the president is planning and may go forward with the decision to launch his reelection campaign as soon as tuesday of next week. now that date is important because it was. it will be the four year anniversary of the day he launched his 2020 campaign, a campaign that he framed as the battle of the soul of that for the soul of the nation and campaign where he eventually defeated then president donald trump somebody who may be his general election opponent again in 2024. now advisors
within the republican party. he is the loan. black republican senator in congress at this moment, and in his announcement launch, he really leaned into his own personal history. that s something that people close to him believe is something that will be a big selling point with people. the son of a single mother who grew up in poverty, and he really emphasized that as he tried to talk about what he can offer to the american people, but also offer some type of connections with them as well. should we listen to it did okay, so let s listen to a little bit of how he was introducing himself. i was raised by a single mother and poverty, the spoons in our apartment. plastic not silver, but we had faith. we put in the work and we had an unwavering belief that we, too, could live the american dream. i know america is a land of opportunity , not a land of oppression. i know it because i ve lived it. that s why it pains my soul to see the biden liberals attacking every wrong of the lad
probably 15 rounds in a minute. we ll also play you the anguished call from the shooter s own mother. his family says he had mental health challenges that they were actively addressing as a family . so what a red flag law have worked. we ll show you what s happening in the states that have them. plus micro is here with us tonight to describe the future of work. is it remote? is it a i based will also get his take on one of the dirtiest jobs out there. the newly appointed new york city rats are also, baseball games are shorter this season, which means you ve got less time to buy beer. harry engine will be here to tell us all of the unintended consequences of that rule. he s also crunching the numbers on the optimum beer drinking inning . so stay tuned for that. but let s start with what we ve learned about the louisville shooting we have here tonight. vanity fair s molly jong fast the one and only micro is here. pollster frank luntz is here and our favorite player on and off t
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at least 10 people have now died because of it. four of those deaths in kentucky where the issue have issued including flooding and damaging winds. nearly 1,000,000 1/2 ohms business or power, kentucky, tennessee and michigan now reported the highest number of outages. the northern part of the storm, and the northeast with heavy snow. which is expected to last throughout saturday, parts of new england might see as much as 16 inches of snow. winter storm warnings are now up from michigan to maine, winter storm warnings are up again and parts of the west as a new system moves in, some places in northern california can see more than two places of snow officials say they have had more snow this winter than they have had in two decades, that has been critical in helping replenish some of the states reservoirs, even so the water flow is still well below average, only a year ago, the entire state was in a drought. now thanks to these winter storms it has been cut in half