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
headlines. heat. florida governor ron desantis is now set to officially announce that he is running for president. cnn learned that the florida governor is going to make the announcement tonight during an interview with elon musk on twitter. his wife, casey desantis released this video of him getting ready to walk on a stage as a dramatic voiceover speaks in the background. do i have the courage? it is worth the sacrifice? america has been worth it. every single time. desantis has widely been seen as former donald trump s leading challenger for the republican nomination. there are questions on what this launch will look like. the poll numbers have been slipping after shaky performances leading up to this launch. trump has been relentlessly attacking him for months now. and we re now learning that trump and his allies have been preparing for this moment with a coordinated plan to try to up end desantis campaign launch. there is a social media blitz and appearing in
Winter storms from the Pacific Northwest to new england, texas to tallahassee, weve seen temperatures plunge in some places by tens of degrees an hour. Coastal flooding, gail forced winds, Blizzard Conditions, roads iced over causing massive pileups, including the one you see here on the Ohio Turnpike that took one life at least. Were also seeing more than a million homes without power tonight, more than 5,000 flights cancelled. C cnn Polo Sandoval is live for us and drivers are stranded on icy roads and omar jimenez is at ohare. We begin with Polo Sandoval. What can you tell us about the stranded drivers and what theyre facing tonight . Reporter it is going to be a very long frigid night, Jim For County officials as they will be out in these conditions going through hundreds of Stranded Cars Inn erie county and rescuig people inside. Officials said this is something they feared of happening so they implemented at 9 30 this morning a driving ban hoping people would stay home but sadly,
anywhere. the chief correspondent, jonathan hunt, it has the latest on the search. jonathan: it is an urgent search increasingly so. right now, the man who allegedly shot and killed those five people including the young boy you mentioned has simply disappeared. we don t have any tips right now to where he maybe. jonathan: according to investigators, francisco, a mexican national, was firing a gun outside his own home in cleveland, texas when neighbors asked him to stop so that their baby could sleep. minutes later, he allegedly burst into that neighbor s home and opened fire, targeting adults and children alike. three children that we loaded that night and put in an ambulance, they were covered in blood. from the same ladies that were laying on top of them trying to protect them. jonathan: four adults and a nine-year-old boy died. translator: he had no right. we never offended him. we never disrespected him. he was pointing his gun at me. he told me i was lookin
. hello, and thank you for being with us. it s 10:00 eastern i m ana cabrera reporting from new york all eyes on the white house this hour as president biden prepares to welcome the president of south korea, from nuclear submarines to the fallout from that intel leak, the two leaders are already making news. look at all the pomp and circumstance as they prepare if the big arrival. we ll be checking in there in a moment this all comes on the heels of biden s 2024 launch. his team just released its first campaign ad of this election cycle this morning, and we re live in a key swing state getting reaction to biden s bid and a potential biden/trump rematch. parts of the midwest staring down potentially historic flooding as the mississippi river swells to dangerous levels we ll have a live look at emergency preparations underway, a woman whose family is canoeing to work describes the situation. we have been told there s a possibility the gas is going to get shut off it s nev