the orioles. the highlight of the show for me. i like the squirrel. we will see you tomorrow. thanks so much for joining us this morning. cnn news central starts right now. look at that beautiful day out there. i love that shot of the hudson. finally making it official, florida governor ron desantis is set to launch his presidential bid today. how he changes the race as the republican field expands and what does elon musk have to do with it? shelter now. a stark warning as a typhoon packing wind gusts over 100 miles per hour barrels into land. a look at the devastation as the worst of it is hitting right now. the mar-a-lago documents case reaches a critical moment. donald trump s lawyers demand a meeting with the attorney general as the special counsel closes in on a decision about whether to charge. this is cnn news central. let the games begin. the one competitor that donald trump appears to be most focused on is about to jump in the race. florida governor
3.4%. black unemployment a lowest ever level of 4.7%. job gains in health care, in the restaurant industry, construction, wages climbing, us is purltives are plenty. but yes, also disruptive. the fed suggesting this week it might be done with interest rate hikes, but these jobs numbers spiking after a downward trnd the past three months underlies the effect to cool the economy to tame inflation. let s get to new york and matt egan. walk us through the big numbers, and forgive me if i have to interrupt. this historic jobs boom continues. despite everything going on now, despite the fed slamming the brakes on the economy, despite the worst banking crisis since 2008, and despite the wave of tech layoffs we keep hearing about, people thought hiring would slow down in april. instead, it accelerated. 253,000 jobs added. 3.4% unemployment rate. to go low you have to go back to 1953 under dwight eisenhower. we saw across the board solid numbers here. professional services, health c
a suspect in court. the man accused of killing a homeless street artist in new york city is arraigned. his lawyer says the former marine ha his head held high, but prosecutors laid out the case against him in the case that could put him behind bars. the battle forb bakhmut in ukraine is heating up. they claim it s gaining ground in admits to losses north of the city. are the battles part of kyiv shaping the battlefield for a counteroffensive that they hope could end the war once and for all. and now what? title 42 is expire d and border officials are seeing a spike in the number of migrants trying to enter the country while the white house scrambles to patch a broken immigration system. we re following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. the man that you see here, former u.s. marine daniel penny earlier today walking out of a police precinct in new york in handcuffs. he was just arraigned and charged with second deg
biden is sending troops to the border. the lead starts right now. a border surge is expected as a key immigration policy is set to expire. now the biden administration is deploying even more american troops to the u.s.-mexico border. cnn is on the ground there as keyboarder towns declare states of emergency. plus, are we headed for default? warnings of a recession and major job losses, if congress and the white house cannot strike a debt deal soon. we ll lay it out for you how your money, how your job might be impacted. and he s known as the godfather of ai. i will speak with a man who left his job at google just so he could speak freely about what he calls the dangers of artificial intelligence. welcome the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with two looming crises potentially just days away, which could have serious consequences for united states. the first crisis has to do with your wallet and an ongoing fight between republicans and democrats over the national
stare down between the u.s. and china and the outcome could have huge ramifications for russia s war in ukraine. u.s. officials are saying beijing is considering arming vladimir putin s forces with drones and ammunition and it s a move the biden administration thinks would prolong the war and up the death toll significantly. the cia says there is no evidence that china has yet sent any of this lethal equipment, but the white house promises major consequences if it does. beijing will have to make its own decisions about how it proceeds, whether it provides military assistance, but if it goes down that road it will come at real cost to china and i think china s leaders are weighing that as they make their decisions. now, this warning is coming just weeks after a suspected chinese spy balloon traversed the united states, leaving the relationship between these two super powers in tatters. cnn s phil mattingly is at the white house for us. does the white house see this as thei