united states and all around the world. i m rosemary church. just ahead on cnn newsroom, plenty of new twists in the 2024 race for the white house. ron desantis has chosen an interesting way to announce his candidacy, while donald trump will likely be facing a criminal trial right in the middle of a critical primary month. a monster storm is barreling down on guam right now. the island is bracing for torrential rain, life-threatening storm surge, and 165-mile-an-hour winds from typhoon mawar. plus grandma s road trip. we ll speak to the 93-year-old woman who just visited all three 63 national parks. the oldest woman to do it, and the grandson that went with her on this wild adventure. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. good to have you with us. republican ron desantis will kick off his presidential campaign in the hours ahead, but not in typical fashion. the florida governor will make the announcement during a conversation with twitte
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so on the surface, it seems that this might be a need until the hay haystack. but our colleagues at cnn portugal say police say they are searching a very defined area of this reservoir, or the land around this reservoir based on what investigators in germany looking into this man have told them. the search method as well is quite interesting. you can see that there are police there, sort of standing in a line, a dozen or more of them from what i ve counted. they re prodding the ground there with poles. so that might indicate that whatever it is that they re looking for might be hard and buried just under the surface, but we don t know for sure. authorities have reported that they found something, according to our colleagues at cnn portugal, they found some material that will be analyzed by experts, but we don t know precisely what that is. we also heard from the prosecutor in germany yesterday who is working on this case who insists that the search efforts