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
And so, it is the Ongoing Investigation to apprehend this individual are happening simultaneously. I cant stress it enough, this is Ongoing Investigation in the early stages and more information is going to be coming out in conjunction with the Attorney Generals Office as the lead prosecutor. We cannot share all of the information right now, and i am sure that you understand that. I want to give out two numbers that are good with the tip line and 911 is appropriate for this, but if you can call these two numbers this going to the state police tip line. Area code 2072139526. 2075099002. Well be sending something out later that has the information in it if you were not able to grab it now. Again, this is a very fluid situation. We have a lot of resources as chief st. Pierre had mentioned earlier that are on the ground and in a coordinated effort to apprehend this individual. We have notified the Department Of Education and they have determined what they are going to do with the schools,
wins anywhere we can get them, and we re playing the long game. this is our children s and grandchildren s lives at stake. yes, we face challenges in some states that have not been as eager to move forward. challenges in the courts. i think as physicians, we really have an ethical obligation to keep coming back and trying to do what we know is best for our patients and what will help and protect them and keep them safe. and i don t have a lot of time left, but some would say, why is the ama getting involved in this, this is a political issue, not a medical one? doctors can t sit this out. it s physicians who are the ones when maybe lawmakers and others can took away from this epidemic and gun violence, but it s doctors and emergency departments, trauma rooms every day who are treating gunshot victims, consoling families who have lost loved ones. it s really part our ethical code and our moral fiber as a profession to act when we see threats to the health of the nation. dr. resnic
In light of the 16 Days of Activism for No Violence against Women and Children, which starts on 25 November, residents are reminded that victim-friendly rooms known as Trauma Rooms for victims of abuse are available at the local police stations.
because, of course, we were inside much of 2020. and i know that you do see it as a public health issue. what can be done? you know, i m heading into work in the er this weekend, alisyn. it s going to be a saturday night in the trauma rooms. i m anticipating we are going to see a lot of assaults and gunshot wounds. we ve seen a dramatic increase in the number of shootings over the last year. but there is so much that we can do to stop this. it is not inevitable and not something that just relies on laws being passed. there are great things like community-based violence intervention programs. we have one in my hometown of providence, nonviolence institute that i m on the board of that does great work of taking street workers, people that used to be in gangs and using them to break up community disputes, to stop the cycle of violence and heal that ripple effect. every gunshot hurts not just the victim but their family and