polls in a snap election. we re live in rome with a look at the deepening political divide in the country. and nasa will test out a mission that sounds straight out of a hollywood movie, a spacecraft that will deliberately crash into an asteroid s moon. a look at the upcoming mission. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. we are expecting an update at any moment from the national hurricane center with the latest forecast track of tropical storm ian which could be the first major hurricane to hit florida in four years. we begin in eastern canada where hundreds of thousand right side still without power. fiona is now a post tropical cyclone and continues to move through the region. hurricane force winds battered the maritimes as the storm made landfall saturday, the strongest storm on record to hit dan da s atlantic coast, huge waves battered the coastline causing severe flooding. police posted photos of destruction saying condition
authorities believe carrying out reconnaisance just one day before the massacre. the suspect taken into custody on saturday. police say he was heavily armed wearing tactical gear with a camera, livestreaming his rampage. authorities say they have uncovered efvidence that this supermarket was not his only target, and if he had not been stopped, the death toll would have been much higher. he got out of here to continue his rampage and continue shooting people. he had even spoken about possibly going to another store. the scene of this massacre has the highest black populated zip code in new york. police say he posted a manifesto online, describing himself as a white supremacist. we have omar jimenez. reporter: details show the suspect planned the attack months in advance. investigators say he is believed to have scoured the store in early march to prepare for his gunfire. because of the body armor he had on, he could have easily retreated back into that store where ther
President biden challenged former President Trump to two debates, and trump accepted. Oh. Yeah. Trump agreed. He said, ill be there, assuming its okay with my parole officer. The first debate will be next month, which is the earliest a president ial debate has ever been. If were being honest, an early bird debate feels right for these guys. Boom, just like that, headtohead, toe to toe, mano and mango. Trump posted, just tell me when. Ill be there. Lets get ready to rumble rumble . Ive seen your rallies. I think you mean, lets get ready to ramble. Good morning. Welcome to morning joe. It is thursday, may 16th. I just have to ask, the Question Alex asks, why is it not friday . How is it not friday, guys . Its thursday. Were grateful that god has given us another day to come in and be together. Im very grateful. Were close to friday. Were not at friday. 24 hours, itll be friday. A lot to talk about. We have White House Bureau chief for politico, jonathan lemire. We have john heilemann. Ma
fareed, we have seen local chinese authority to rollback covid controls. do you think it s being directed at the national again or are these local authorities being a lad more latitude to make their decisions? no. this is a national decision. . the china s covid said that effectively they were moving into a different phase. the new strains are not as violent. but clearly, it s a they ve realized that they simply cannot keep people locked up with these kind of punitive measures forever. the problem, anderson, is the population in china has very low immunity. this is the success of their zero-covid policy, very few people have got covid. but part of it is that they ve been very slow and vaccines. and the chinese vaccines, sinovac, isn t very good. particularly, against omicron
weapons. president volodymyr zelenskyy is urging russian toss dodge the draft saying moscow is sending them to their deaths. here he is. translator: the russian authorities are well aware that they are sending their citizens to death. there are no other options. for more cnn s ben wedeman joins us from kharkiv. ben, another message from zelenskyy aimed at a russian audience, this time to its soldiers. how is that likely to be received, do you think? reporter: well, we already know, kim, that the morale among russian soldiers, many of them in ukraine, isn t very good. they ve poorly supplied, poorly led, they have bad logistics. so he s sort of focusing in on a fairly weak point of the russian forces. now, in his address last night he said that if russian soldiers surrender, he said they will be treated in a civilized manner. the circumstances of their surrender will be kept secret