desantis upcoming announcement. what are we expecting from this audio event on twitter with elon musk? reporter: well, jake, ron desantis has already filed the paperwork to run for president this afternoon. so all that s left for him to do is to say the words i m running for president and we expect him to do that tonight at this virtual town hall with elon musk. it will start in about an hour. during that time, he ll take questions and give a statement, and he will finally enter this race. he s spent months and months in this slow rollout. he s been on the road, a book tour, he s done international travel. now it becomes official. his campaign has been hype thing moment for the last couple of days, including posting this video to twitter on his wife s account. do i have the courage? is it worth the sacrifice? america has been worth it, every single time. reporter: now, he also took care of a bit of housekeeping today. he officially signed a bill that makes clear he d
evacuation orders in california as excessive rainfall leads to raging flood waters. the fresno county sheriff joins me in a few minutes. new legal woes for donald trump, the former u.s. president is considering whether to testify before a grand jury about his alleged role in a hush money scheme. a look at what s behind the second largest bank collapse in u.s. history, and how it happened in just 48 hours. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. another atmospheric river has been pouring massive amounts of rain and snow on california, at least two people have died in powerful storms battering the state. and the weather prediction center put parts of california in the highest warning level possible for excessive rainfall with the worst of it out along the california central coast. officials issued warnings for 10,000 residents, including these folks, who say the rain is unprecedented. go up there check on the scene in case they need
portions of mississippi and alabama or live in the weather center. awarding to the west, vladimir putin says he will station nuclear weapons in belarus. and risking it all for the american dream, a rising number of pregnant women and minors make the dangerous trek through panama for a chance at asylum in the us from cnn center. cnn newsroom with laila harre. we begin with a massive cleanup underway in the southeastern us after powerful storms that spawned deadly tornadoes barreled through mississippi and nearby states friday night, at least 26 people were killed and dozens injured. the secretary of homeland security is set to tour the area later today and in the past couple of hours, president biden approved the mississippi governor s request for a major disaster declaration to get federal disaster. eight. flowing as quickly as possible. the mayor of heart hit rolling fork saying his city is gone. here s congressman bennie thompson, describing the destruction in his home stat
Here. Nastia is sailing ships, she says. Ukraine has been at war all the eight years shes known. I think it will be better without them, she says. It was uncomfortable having them here. Her parents nearby say fear meant their slept in their clothes all the six months. Its kind of strange here to see how almost unaffected so much of this town has been and how life seems to have slipped comfortably back into normal when the russians just picked up and left. And it gives you a feeling of how normality must still reign just a matter of six kilometers away from the border in russia. But normal is never coming back, particularly to here, the borderline itself. Russia retreated back over it but must now live with the hatred it has stirred. The fact that Ukrainian Forces are able to push right up to here, the beginning of the Border Buffer Zone with russia, russia is just a matter of kilometers in that direction, is yet another Calamity Moscow has imposed upon itself. Its opponent in this war
states, canada and around the world, i m kim brunhuber. ahead on cnn newsroom. president biden is at home in delaware after a campaign swing to three western states. ahead, why he says this year s mid-term elections are the most important in decades. plus, chinese leader xi says they will take taiwan by force. a live report from beijing plus reaction from taipei. elon musk changes his mind when it comes to offering peace for ukraine. we ll look at the decision and huge implications in the war against russia. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with ken brunhuber. > . president biden has just wrapped up a rare four-day campaign tour across the west costa head of the critical mid-term elections. much is at stake as it tries to hold on in congress and win key local and state elections. biden s approval is low across polls fueling worries that it could weigh down the party at the ballot box. stumping alongside the most vulnerable candidates. the pre