states and all around the world. i m paula newton, and ahead here on cnn newsroom. ron desantis s big announcement. yes, the glitchy beginning to a campaign that has donald trump in team biden trolling. but is there a pathway to the presidency for florida s governor? the u.s. territory of guam, clobbered by a cat four typhoon. live on the island where power is out, water has been cut and there is still assessing the damage. plus the queen of rock and roll tina turner dead at the age of 83. we will discuss the impact that she had on music, pop culture and curl power. with one of the industry s top writers. we begin with the 2024 race for the white house and it has a new candidate, florida governor ron desantis, the 44-year-old republican posted this announcement on twitter just a few minutes before a live chat with the platforms owner elon musk. righting the ship requires restoring sanity to our society. truth must be our foundation. in common sense can no longer be an u
welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. i m paula newton. ahead on cnn newsroom i m ron desantis, and i m running for president to lead our great american comeback. ron desantis makes it official, but his unconventional announcement filled with delays and glitches has many asking, did he win over any voters? . plus one year as ham and gone sense the deadly massacre at robb elementary school in uvalde. 19 fourth graders and two teachers mercilessly slaughtered by a gunman. we ll look at america s public health crisis with gun violence. what s love got to do with it remembering an entertainment and music legend, tina turner, dead at the age of 83. so we begin with the race for the white house and rough start for the latest republican to announce his candidacy, ron desantis. the florida governor started wednesday evening s launch posting a campaign video on twitter saying he s running for president to lead the great americ
as the typhoon moves away from the island. the storm regains it super typhoon status, and now, just shy of category five hurricane strength, with sustained winds of 155 miles per hour. it is expected to get stronger in the coming days. now, we will say, guam s governor has told people to continue to stay indoors. no deaths have been reported from the storm, which lashed the island with strong winds, and heavy rain. as i said, the governor there, still telling people to stay indoors, as they continue to assess the damage. the u.n., calling for more than two and a half billion dollars to help the people of sudan, with more than 40 days since the outbreak of war made a growing humanitarian crisis even worse. sudan s two warring factions, continued there fighting this week, despite signing on to a cease-fire on saturday. the u.n. says, the fighting displaced more than 1 million people well, more than 330,000
as typhoon mawar now moves away from the island. guam s governor says as of thursday morning, no deaths were reported from the storm which lashed out with strong winds and heavy rain. the storm has also regained its super typhoon status and is now just shy of category 5 hurricane strength with sustained winds of 155 miles per hour. it s expected to get even stronger in the coming days. storm chaser james reynolds joins me from guam. you know, we just basically recapped what the governor said, and yet people are still being told to shelter at home. what has the impact of the storm been on guam? i took a walk around this morning to just get a firsthand look at what has been going on in the aftermath of this storm. literally all i could hear was the hum of generators because the power is out across wide swaths of island. there was tree debris everywhere. huge trees knocked over. i went up to the waterfront, and
you feel typhoon force winds. look at that. the joint typhoon warning center upgrades this to super typhoon status as well. about 230 kilometer per hour wind gusts possible as it reaches the eastern shores of taiwan. it moves over this mountainous country and then moves across the taiwan straits wrapping in a significant amount of moisture. creates a storm surge rah long the coast of taiwan as well as the possibility of extreme wind gusts for taipei. the infrastructure within that city is prone to hold up against powerful typhoons just like this. one can only hope that does take place. here s the forecast for the southern ryuku islands. wind gusts in excess of 170 kilometers per hour over the next 12 hours. the rainfall totals will lead to the possibility of landslides and mudslides across much of