states and all around the world. i m paula newton, and ahead here on cnn newsroom. ron desantis s big announcement. yes, the glitchy beginning to a campaign that has donald trump in team biden trolling. but is there a pathway to the presidency for florida s governor? the u.s. territory of guam, clobbered by a cat four typhoon. live on the island where power is out, water has been cut and there is still assessing the damage. plus the queen of rock and roll tina turner dead at the age of 83. we will discuss the impact that she had on music, pop culture and curl power. with one of the industry s top writers. we begin with the 2024 race for the white house and it has a new candidate, florida governor ron desantis, the 44-year-old republican posted this announcement on twitter just a few minutes before a live chat with the platforms owner elon musk. righting the ship requires restoring sanity to our society. truth must be our foundation. in common sense can no longer be an u
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national anthem national anthem good morning we have a fox news alert. first our thoughts and prayers are with thousands of people in the south this morning. in the aftermath of the devastating tornadoes that have claimed at least 26 lives. this is the worst i have ever, this is devastating. it was like scary, i wasn t that scared. i was trying to cover my sister. it was like a train sound. but it wasn t it was a tornado coming by. a lot of stuff everywhere. everything you worked for is gone. the historic outbreak of 24 tornadoes leveling homes and businesses leaving doesn t hurt. search and rescue teams are still looking for survivors in getting help too many people who are still misplaced. mississippi governor eight reeves declared a state of emergency after visiting the hardest hit areas. homeland security allie alejandro mayorkas will visit the devastated areas later today, fox weather correspondent from rolling port mississippi this morning, r
florida as well as tens of thousands of electric crews from all over the country. we do not have a complete picture of fatalities or injuries across florida as of yet. one death has officially been reported so far. we expect to hear more from authorities soon. almost 3 million people are still without power. it weakened to a tropical storm ian but back to a hurricane this afternoon as it heads for south carolina. the mayor of charleston, south carolina, is asking his city to shut down tomorrow. correspondent steve harrigan kicks off our coverage, charlotte county florida with the latest. good evening. good evening, bret. help is pouring into florida from across the country but still in pockets like this one it is largely neighbor helping neighbor. after going across florida s peninsula, hurricane ian north and along it led to coast. the numbers are staggering. more than 2.6 million floridians without electricity. rainfall totals approaching 2 feet in some places. heavy wind
and trajectory. it s expected to bring a catastrophic storm surge with winds over 150 miles per hour. the wind speed right now at 155 miles per hour. just shy of a category five storm. the eye of the storm is expected to churn somewhere between 40 meyers and venice, just south of where i am right now. hurricane ian has spawned multiple tornados in southern florida. a wide swath of florida is on alert through 5:00 p.m. today. already, alread more than 100,000 people are without power. more than 2 million people are under evacuation orders. hurricane ian is roiling seas. a big clue for what hurricane ian is capable of, cuban authorities has said the entire island has lost power. urgency and anticipation of the storm has mounted as we expect a very busy hour ahead. we ll hear from tampa s mayor in 30 minutes. we ll be speaking with sarasota officials on their own storm preparations and fema s assistant administrator. 30 minutes ago we heard from president biden. this storm is