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presidential candidate ron desantis plans to campaign next week. big announcement. and policer he called 911 for help. his family says they want justice. ahead, details on the boy s condition and a planned protest in mississippi. new research suggests the pill form of drugs like ozempic would work as well and obviously without the shot. what that could mean for this whole new world of weight loss drugs. this is cnn news central . this morning, if a tree falls in the woods on twitter but twitter doesn t work, does it make a sound? that is the question swirling around the political world as the big campaign announcement from florida governor ron desantis glitched. we have new reporting on how husband campaign is dealing with all this this morning. yes, he got into the race in a way no one has, yes, he raised a million bucks in an hour but also earned tough reviews when his conversation with elon musk on twitter wouldn t start for 25 minutes. the complete failure to ....
a brutal attack inside of the district office of a u.s. congressman. a man with a metal baseball bat strikes a staffer and intern on her very first day. unconfirmed reports that an american has been killed on the ukrainian battlefield. the state department is now responding. and alarming report that has lawmakers taking action. all of this on cnn news central. we begin this morning with the house reports out of ukraine that claims of a u.s. citizen has died in bakhmut, and the state department is saying that it is looking into this. the besieged city in eastern ukraine has been seeing heavy fighting for months now, and now the wagner paramilitary group says a body has been found with u.s. military documents. and the state department says it is seeing additional information, and needs that in order to determine what happened here. we are hearing from the ukr ukrainian military saying that it has staved off a major russian attack. but the air defenses from the wes ....
guess. he was really good. really good. great delivery. the next hour of cnn this morning starts now. we will have more from the white house correspondents dinner throughout the show. good morning to you. welcome to cnn this morning. it is sunday, april 30th. we are wrapping up april already. i can t believe it. i m victor blackwell. i m amara walker. i am still smiling from roy wood jr. he is good. all right. here is what we are watching for you this morning. he is a threat to the community and we need the community s help to, hopefully, locate him soon. texas police and the fbi are on the hunt for a man who allegedly killed five of his neighbors. the youngest victim just 8 years old. the simple request that led to the deadly shooting. private u.s. citizens trapped in sudan during the conflict are out of the country. the evacuation comes during growing anger from americans who felt abandoned. how this convoy came together and what happens n ....
me. i m fredricka whitfield. armed and dangerous. that s how police in texas are describing a suspect in a horrific mass shooting. 38-year-old francisco orapeza has not been seen since friday night s attack in cleveland, texas. investigators say he opened fire on his neighbors when they asked him to stop shooting his rifle outside so that their baby could sleep. five people were killed, including an 8-year-old. cnn s ed lavendera is there in cleveland, texas. ed, where does this manhunt stand right now? reporter: we haven t gotten any updates from law enforcement. the fbi has taken over this investigation and obviously multiple numbers of agencies, law enforcement agencies here in the state of texas continue ing the search for 32-year-old francisco oropeza. there have been several pictures put out of him, as they are urging the public to call in if they have any sightings of him. at this point, it s not clear where he might be if he s in this area or has been able to ....
now, santos was completely denying the allegations. he also was making a reference to the fact that this prospective staffer who is a former reporter made some audiotapes, recorded conversations with santos and then leaked them. but this is just the latest serious allegation in a long string of allegations against the embattled congressman. a long string that keeps on getting longer. melanie, thank you. it is the top of the hour. just a short time ago the pentagon defended the president s choice to delay shooting town a suspected spy balloon from china. a fight jet brought it down saturday. after the balloon crossed the continental united states, multiple republicans have criticized it calling it a weak response. but commander at norad says the intelligence gathered will be of value. there was a potential opportunity for us to collect intel where we had gaps on prior balloons. this gave us the opportunity to assess what they were actually doing, what kind of cap ....