will still never understand why he chose a socially distanced rollout. but, to be fair, desantis tried something different. but it was a gamble and he ended up only getting a fraction of the live viewers he would have if he had done a more traditional rollout. media took the opportunity to dunk on the governor because of it. this would be like 162 game baseball season and your star pitcher getting the ball and accidently throwing it and hitting himself in the face. this is not a normal way to begin. you would ordinarily want to be with normal people. not a billionaire. regular voters. where are they in this whole thing. it was an abomination. and just so much all around from desantis. there was a lot of stumbling and bumbling. does paint a picture of someone who does not make good decisions. boy did he look like a lap dog to a billionaire. it wasn t all bad. desantis raised over a million dollars. he did his first interview with fox trey gowdy. went much smoothe
multiple water rescues as streets overflow with water. that same storm pounded florida overnight with drenching rains and 50-mile-per-hour winds. tonight, it s on the move, heading into the northeast. the urgent warning for new york city. officials advise residents to stay off the roads tonight. rob marciano times it all out. also tonight, israeli protesters plead with their government to bring the hostages home. hamas says no deal without a cease-fire. and we go inside a hamas tunnel said to be the biggest one uncovered so far. reportedly reaching depths of more than 160 feet and big enough to drive a car. and fears of a new escalation in the middle east after waves of drone and missile attacks in the red sea. is the u.s. ready to retaliate against yemen s houthi rebels. the new war ship moving into place. the tension is mounting as the world s largest shipping company suspended operation in the region. synagogues under threat. swatters targeting jewish organizations a
we begin with breaking news, florida governor ron desantis announcing on twitter that he is running for president. but the live stream events with elon musk do not go according to plan. it was plagued with technical problems and delayed for nearly 30 minutes. if you tuned in when it was supposed to start you would ve heard silence, and then after about 12 minutes of that, you would have heard this. so, let s see. keeps crashing, ha? i think we ve got a massive number of people online. so services are straining. that was elon musk saying that the servers are straining somewhat. then there was silence again. the former president is already mocking the governor s debut. still a statesman thing i m comparable silences, glitches, a complete failure to launch, and that s just the candidate. jessica dean joins us now from miami. last night of the program we talked about how a live event on twitter with elon musk could either be compelling or a train wreck. it certainly start
and a warm welcome to our viewers all around the world. and just ahead on cnn newsroom i m ron desantis and i m running for president to lead our great american comeback. it came off almost like he was a talk radio host not a future leader of the free world. keep on turning, keep on burning, rolling, rolling on a river she was a gift. there will be nobody like tina. this is going to continue to be a significant storm. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is thursday, may 25th, 9:00 a.m. in london, 4:00 a.m. in miami where governor desantis will meet today with donors backing his newly launched presidential candidacy. he is also looking to recover with disappointed campaign rollout on twitter marred by delays and glitches. the governor s team saying more than half a million people logged on to the chat. but twitter s infrastructure couldn t handle the overwhelming response. desantis appeared on fox news a short
america from defaulting on its debt. biden has accused republicans of taking extreme positions on the spending cuts. they insist republicans have a red line when it comes to spending. history is a threat to our nation. i have something to say. morehouse college was found in 1867. it s a private historically black means liberal arts college in atlanta georgia. where they say leadership is learned from legends of old. it s a place where union soldiers died for freedom in america, and today morehouse college is a place where governor westmore, the first black governor of maryland, in the this third black governor ever elected to mark s history came with a simple but powerful message for the man of morehouse. our history is our power. they re continuing the hbcu tradition, and forging a brighter future. some in it are hell-bent on evoking their power. how? we ll take florida. just days ago, they banned diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in the state. and already limited th