advisories. skiers will take the snow and so will lake mead later this year when it melts.he rockies and it moves in to the plains tomorrow. and even into des moines. and the potential for severe weather is in the deep south tomorrow, but it did move farther to the east by the time we talk about thursday. there will be some significant thunderstorms with the potential for tornadoes here. almost a spring type storm as we move into the end of the week. and here is tomorrow with the severe weather. and here is thursday. all the way up even to the ohio valley and cleveland. >> we'll take it, i guess. thanks for warning us. nice to see you chad myers. and thank you for joining me, i'm christine romans. "cnn this morning" starts right now.

♪ it's terrifying, man. it really. we don't know what to do at all. we were listening to the police scanners hoping for the best. >> you never think it will happen until it actually happens. we all thought we were safe in the second floor in the cafeteria, but obviously we weren't. we were told to evacuate. we all ran out. it was terrifying. it's scary. >> it is terrifying and scary. it's got to stop. we have to do something about this. >> these students within campus union at michigan state's campus. >> good morning, everyone. poppy is on assignment. terrifying scene in america on a college campus after a gunman killed three, critically injured five students at michigan state

university. now another community is left to pick up the pieces. as we are learning new details about the gunman and the brand new dispatched audio from inside the classroom. we'll tell you more. also this morning, a small metallic balloon, that's the object the pentagon says it shot down over canada. we're going to have more on that discovery as senators are now set to get a classified briefing on the matter today. also this morning, rescuers in turkey say they're still hearing voices calling out from underneath the rubble, even days after that earthquake. we'll take you live to the ground where our sara sidner is at the site as they rescued an 18-year-old boy. it's an incredible moment. we'll show you it ahead. this is where we begin this morning. michigan, where the community has joined a growing list of cities affected by mass shootings. this time it happened at michigan state university. police say the gunman killed at least three people, critically wounding five others at two different school buildings before escaping and killing himself off campus.

>> akers dining hall. >> oh my god. >> so this is video of the students running for their lives, screaming for help as heavily armed police officers swarm in. investigators say the gunman opened fire at berkey hall, home to the school's college of arts and sciences. he then moved on and attacked the student union nearby. a witness who spoke to abc news described the gunman storming his classroom. >> shooter came in our room and shot three to four times and i'm pretty sure he hit two students in our classroom. >> police say the 43-year-old shooter seen here on security camera with gun in hand did not have any connections to the school. >> he's not a student, faculty,

staff. and we have no idea why he came to campus to do this tonight. that is part of our on going investigation. >> so here is where we are right now. americans waking up to this massacre on already somber day today. today marks five years since the mass shooting at marjory stoneman douglas high school. shooting parkland, florida. a grim reminder that we have been here all too often. and we'll probably be here no doubt again. adrienne broaddus live at the scene in east lansing. good morning. what have you learned about a motive, anything? >> reporter: don, no. investigators are trying to piece together what happened. they, too, want to know why that 43-year-old walked inside of berkey hall behind me and started shooting. they also don't know why he entered the union, which is next door. what is clear at this hour, five people are fighting for their

lives. >> this truly has been a nightmare that we are living tonight. >> reporter: chaos and carnage at michigan state university. >> room 114, there's a victim maybe in room 114. we have the door barricaded. there's someone in room 135 shot as well. room 114 and 135. >> reporter: after police say a 43-year-old shooter opened fire at two separate locations on campus. investigators say there was a confrontation and then the 43-year-old ended his own life. >> we were there locked in the rooms. and the guys were telling us to run out the back door as quick as we can and run for our lives. i sprinted out there as fast as i can into the woods. >> we all thought we were safe in the second floor in the cafeteria, but obviously we weren't. we were told to evacuate. we all ran out. it was scary. >> oh my god. >> reporter: students captured on this cell phone video running for their lives. >> want to get something in front of the door?

>> reporter: some students say they sheltered in place in the cafeteria, listening to police reports. once they realized the shots were getting closer, they started barricading themselves in the room. >> the s.w.a.t. and the cops came in. and they all told us to get out of the cafeteria, so we all stormed down the stairs. >> reporter: about a mile and a half from the university, east lansing high school's district board meeting was interrupted. and the building also on lockdown. >> we've been advised by elpd to remain here and go into lockdown right now. >> reporter: police were on scene within minutes. >> officers in the building, following their active shooter protocol and going towards the threat. while officers were in berkey hall, the suspect moved over to the union. when the incident took place there, officers quickly redeployed to the union. >> reporter: students and faculty were left sheltering for hours. many students were evacuated, but say they left confused and

shaken. >> i was looking for my friends. everyone was running down the stairs, everyone got lost all over the place. people were crying and scared. it's just really bad experience. you don't take it seriously until it's happening to you. >> reporter: this shooting is the 67th mass shooting in the u.s. so far this year. >> our campus grieves. we will all grieve. and we will change over time. we cannot allow this to continue to happen again. >> reporter: eight victims in all, five again as we mentioned are fighting for their lives, listed in critical condition. at least three are deceased. it's unclear whether or not the victims, don, in this shooting were staff, students or if they had any affiliation to msu. don? >> adrienne broaddus, thank you. >> adrienne went to msu. she knows the campus really

well. president biden has been briefed on the shooting ahead of the call with michigan governor gretchen whitmer he had last night, according to white house officials. joining us now is john mill merch what are investigators looking for right now since there's no motive known and not clear that this person had any connection to msu? >> well, they're digging backwards. since they have the id now, this individual born in '79, that gets them to the house. that gets them to the search warrant. the search warrant gets them into the hunt for motive if it's not apparent, which will be going through his phone. what notes did he leave. going through his computer. what was he studying. and there may be motive there. although, you'll both know from our habits of reporting these things, 67 for the year and x hundred for who knows how long, when we finally hear the motive, it's always very disappointing because you're like, that was

it? the profile of the kind of person who does this is usually someone who is collecting small things. the term that profilers use is the injustice collector. they're categorizing every slight. it builds up and usually already a set of stressors that occur right before the action. fired from work. divorced. loss of the home. things like that. so, they'll be looking for who is this individual? we have done a little background on him. nothing is jumping out. and what was the preparation for this? it gives you an idea how long they were thinking about it and planning it. >> the fact that he wasn't connected, don't believe he had any affiliation with the campus, i'm wondering if that's unusual. you look, you said it's an injustice collector. usually isn't it sort of 21-year-old person, that's the profile usually. not always, right? but 21-year-old person kind of a

drifter maybe, collecting injustices. but if we look at what's happened over the last couple shootings, it has been older men, john. is there something -- am i reading too much into this? >> you know, we had an individual who ran over half a dozen people in new york city 62 years old yesterday. you had the two shootings in california, one in northern california and the other at the dance hall. 62 and i think 67. but when you see those in the past, generally it's been workplace violence. it's been something that fit within that age group because going back to your school shootings, whether it's columbine or parkland or virginia tech, the list goes on, about half of these are in schools and 12% of them are in places of higher education, as we saw last night. that age usually skews lower. so, it will be a matter of interest to figure out what was this individual's interest, if

he had no connection to the school, former employee, former student, we haven't found that yet, what was his emotional connection there or why was that a target? >> questions about the school buildings themselves, you know. a lot of parents -- my little brother is a freshman at a college, so john, thank you for breaking that down. as you learn more, please let us know. also this morning, in the 8:00 a.m. hour, we're going to speak to the mayor of east lansing, ron bacon, how his community is coping with the latest tragedy. his call for action. we'll tell you what's ahead. >> we're doing this all too much. we have to stop. new this morning, we're learning the mysterious flying object shot down over canada on saturday was a small metallic balloon and floated near some sensitive sites belonging to the united states. that is according to a pentagon memo. the balloon was one of four flying objects that u.s. fighter jets brought down in recent days. u.s. military released new images of the suspected chinese spy balloon shot down off the coast of south carolina. navy moving the wreckage after

pulling it out of the ocean. take a look at that. so let's bring in national security reporter natasha bertrand. good morning to you. the white house is on the record that these were definitely not aliens. okay. so what's the latest? >> yeah, don. the white house clearly trying to tamp down on conspiracy theories here. the nature of these objects remain unclear. u.s. officials struggling to explain what exactly the u.s. military has been shooting out of the sky. >> we're going to confirm what they are once we have collected -- >> reporter: appearing to know more about what the so-called objects are not. >> we assessed whether they posed any ka nettic threat to people on the ground. they did not. we assessed whether they were sending any communication signals. we detected none. we looked to see whether they were maneuvering or had any propulsion capabilities. we saw no signs of that.

>> reporter: the pentagon confirming for the first time in a memo to lawmakers on monday that the object shot down over northern canada was a small metallic balloon with a tethered payload below it. but it's purpose and origin and that of the two other objects shot down over alaska and michigan still unexplained. >> obviously there is some sort of pattern in there. the fact that we are seeing this in a significant degree over the past week is a cause for interest and close attention. >> reporter: the mystery deepening so much by the day that the white house felt compelled to announce that the objects are not extra ter restee yell. >> i want to make sure we address this from the white house. i know there are been questions and concerns about this, but there is no, again, no indication of aliens or extraterrestrial activity with these recent takeovers. >> reporter: that explanation, not satisfying lawmakers who are demanding more information on where these objects came from

and more communication from the commander in chief. >> what we need to figure out and what they're going to answer for us is whether these are nefarious objects in the sky from adversaries or whether they might even be drones that are flown by research institutions or private companies for nonnefarious purposes. or something else. >> reporter: for now, the white house reassuring the public that president biden, while tight lipped, is on the case. >> we have been i think as transparent as we can be. we are laser focussed on confirming their nature and purpose including through intensive efforts to collect debris in the remote locations where they have fallen. >> reporter: so the white house obviously now trying to get as much information as possible from the debris that fell after those objects were shot down. but the white house has also set up a task force moving forward to allow u.s. officials to better understand what these objects actually are, don. >> thank you, natasha bertrand.

also in washington, just a few hours from now, senators are going to get a classified briefing on those three unidentified objects that were shot down over alaska, canada and michigan's lake huron in recent days. cnn's lauren fox is live on capitol hill where that briefing will take place shortly. lauren, what are we expecting? what are the main questions that senators have told you that they have today? >> reporter: well, there is just palpable frustration growing up here on capitol hill from both republicans and democrats about how transparent or how not transparent the biden administration has really been when it has come to getting information about these objects that were shot down over the weekend. one thing that we expect to come out of this briefing today is whether or not lawmakers start to get more information about what the administration knows and what they do not know about these objects right now. that is going to be key because one of the questions for lawmakers is the biden administration holding back information or do they just not have the information to give.

and chuck schumer, the majority leader really leaned into this idea yesterday in his floor speech saying all lawmakers want to know right now is what information is available and what information is not available. one of the frustrations when lawmakers come out of these briefings, sometimes is the fact that they come out saying we didn't learn anything that wasn't publicly reported on cnn or in the "washington post" or "the new york times." so it's going to be really interesting to see whether or not they glean any further information out of this briefing today. but obviously we're going to be watching very closely. >> yeah. also questions about what information they make public because everyday people have questions about it, too. lauren, there's another development on capitol hill this morning where president biden fired the trump-appointed architect of the capitol, the person who oversees the grounds that houses congress essentially over what the white house said were abuses of his office. what do we know about these allegations? >> reporter: yeah. this was really a long-time coming. the former architect of the

capitol was found in this ig report last fall as basically having some ethical lapses. that's what was alleged in the report. all really came to a head last week because the house administration's committee held this hearing where republicans and democrats really grilled him about a couple of issues, both the ethical lapses alleged in the ig report but also the fact that he was not at the capitol on january 6th. this led to a lot of lawmakers calling for his ouster, including the house speaker, kevin mccarthy. then yesterday joe biden made the decision to terminate him. >> yeah. bipartisan agreement there which is rare. lauren fox, thank you for that update. this morning -- well, straight ahead, sorry. the white house's john kirby live on "cnn this morning." what new details we're going to learn about these mysterious objects in the sky. stay with us for that. in the meantime, this morning, all eyes on the release of the labor department's consumer price index report. a key inflation data that will determine the federal reserve's

path forward. anchor of "early start" christine romans. >> good morning. >> it matters to the fed but matters to all of us, right? this is grocery bills and gas station bills and the stuff you feel everyday. what we're expecting is prices are rising but not rising as quickly. 6.2% is what the overall cpi number is forecast to be. and that would be the lowest since october, 2021. you can see that line there. i always say the trend is your friend. you have seen this slow curving of inflation. so the worst appears to be behind us. when i dig in these numbers, too, i'm going to be really interested, egg prices, wholesale egg prices collapsed over the past month. so remember we were talking how egg prices were so high. now they're coming down. butter prices were really high. used car prices have been coming down. so we'll look inside these numbers to see what it means for your family budget, but essentially those are the december numbers. sticker shock for a lot of different things.

we'll look closely to see if those numbers are improved for january. the first reading at the beginning of the year. >> last year the word we were all talking about was transitory. that's what every white house reporter was asking biden every single day. is it transitory. this year you say it's a different word that people should be paying attention to. >> super core is the new cool inflation word. transitory was wrong. everyone got that wrong. so now you have economists who are really digging into these numbers. they're stripping out housing and they're looking at services food, fuel and housing for a core, a super core reading of inflation and hoping that's starting to go down more and can give us a clue that the worst of inflation is behind us. but the former treasury secretary and others said we can't get too sang win on the inflation story. it can be hard to get inflation out of the economy and can be damaging. these numbers are critically important for what the fed does and also, of course, for our own family budgets. >> super core. >> two hours we'll have those

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this morning, it's a race against time in turkey and syria as the desperate search for anyone still alive is likely entering its last hour. rescuers say they can still actually hear the voices of people who are trapped beneath the rubble, but as this is happening, the death toll is unfortunately still climbing. it is now more than 36,000 people in total after the devastating earthquake that reduced towns and cities to really just heaps of concrete and twisted metal. the american rescue team that is helping to save as many lives as possible is in turkey. nada bashir is in istanbul tracking all of this. all these efforts are under way. what are you seeing? because of course we are seeing these amazing stories of people being saved, but in reality what we're seeing is the death toll continuing to grow. >> reporter: absolutely. that is the sad reality. look, it is remarkable and miraculous we are still seeing

these rescues taking place eight days on from the devastating earthquake. an 18-year-old boy rescued from beneath the rubble after rescuers heard his voice. and another 10-year-old girl also pulled out early this morning. this is a significant feat. but as you mentioned, the window for finding survivors is certainly closing very fast. this is now moving on to a recovery effort. but we are still seeing those international search and rescue teams, including teams from the united states, working around the clock to try and find survivors and to support the turkish effort to find those who have been impacted by the quake. of course, just this morning we learned from the australian authorities they are still planning on sending another team of specialists, including specialist equipment to support in that effort. but look, the real focus now is also on helping those who have been made homeless by this earthquake. thousands and thousands of people in southeast of turkey have now had their lives devastated by this quake. here in istanbul, we have seen volunteers working around the

clock to distribute aid to those in southeastern turkey. it is a huge effort, but the message there is they still need more support, not only from the turkish government but also from the international community. >> the aid effort will be the next part of this process. and you're there in istanbul. sara sidner live in turkey. thank you. we're following the latest out of michigan after a gunman opened fire at michigan state university, leaving three people dead. new details on the attack next. ♪

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no. but there were enough small changes that if you look at it, across the entire u.s. population of children, it really does make a big difference. so, let's take a look at the changes that were put in place starting in 2012. the healthy hunger feed kids act said more fruits and vegetables, more low-fate dairy products, less sodium and fat and let's have age-specific serving sizes so that we're not just overfeeding children. and so these things seemed to have made a real difference. this is a huge study of many, many, many millions of children. >> that's kind of fascinating for a lot of teachers and parents paying close attention to that. also, elizabeth, obviously valentine's day. i'm wearing pink. you're wearing red. but you're learning something new about chocolate often a gift that people get. the fda is allowing for some health claims to be made on the food labels of certain chocolate products. what can you tell us about this? >> yeah. so we have seen these health claims allowed by the fda for

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fire. national transportation safety board says they believe a mechanical issue with an axle is responsible for the crash. >> there are big questions on how all of this happened but also what comes next because, as you know, hundreds of people were evacuated from east palestine for several days as the company vented and burned cancel u causing chemicals. the epa says they have not deectotheed levels of concern since the crash and monitored more than 290 homes, 180 more of them still actually need to be screened. but this morning, people who live there are still concerned. some report that they have seen dead fish and frogs in sources of water. others say they experienced headaches and nausea. so joining us now is ben ratner, played extra netflix disaster film which is early similar to what residents are facing now. i want to get to that whole aspect of it in a moment. but what we're hearing from

officials is they say the water is safe to drink, the air is safe to breathe. do you feel comfortable, though, with those assurances from officials? >> i honestly feel like the immediate danger, as far as the fire and explosions of the tankers and things, that part is gone and the initial chemical everybody was worried about and that was able to be dissipated into the environment. new things now i think are the issue and going to be issue long term. there's ten chemicals. there's ten volatile chemicals but over 20 chemicals actually on the train. one of the bigger ones lost petroleum lube oil each tanker carries 30,000 gallons of that and there's two tankers unaccounted for, that's almost 60,000 gallons of that petroleum lube oil that spilled out into our local soils. >> so ben, let me ask you then, so you ended up evacuating your home, right? where are you now are you back

in? >> we're back at home. our home were tested. we're not using our water as much as we can. there's been over 200 homes that have been tested. and they've all come back cleared for the voc situation. i think that actually is telling that there's been such a focus on the air during this point. there's not been any new water reports since the 9th and hasn't been any soil reporting actually put out there as far as i can see. i keep checking the epa's response website. that's where i actually saw the full list of chemicals. there hasn't been a full list given by the railroad company. this is actually coming from the epa. >> ben, how long have you lived there? >> i've lived here since 2007. i met my wife right at the end of high school. wi lived in pennsylvania for about four years and got engaged and bought 2007 here in east

palestine. >> do you want to stay? or does this make you rethink staying in the area? >> it's definitely called into question the long-term situations here. in the short-term, seems like we're okay. but we bought this house in 2007. we were 20 and 21. thought we had an investment for the future here and hopefully that's something that will be figured out as this goes on, but we have a small cafe in a couple towns over and would be nice to put a cafe here in the town that we live in. and it's just hard to make an investment in something like that or even feel good about paying our mortgage when ever there might not be any value to those things in the future. that's something tough to come to grips with. >> there was this large plume of black smoke visible last week after the control release of hazardous material. this is a clip from a movie that we're going to put up that shows very similar scene of it, if we have it. i'm just wondering, when i asked

you what this experience has been with you when i said how long -- there it is. can you take us there? what it's like? are you still smelling things? you said you're not using water. what is it like for people who are living there? take us to the ground. >> there's been i think just an ever-changing mix of emotions and feelings, just right from the outset, just the amount of unknown that was there. and then as things became more known, it was not better. they were finding more gases and chemicals. then a couple days later the gases inside of these tankers were heating up. and that's when they decided to do a controlled burn. they evacuated the area. they put child endangerment charges out as a threat if you were in the area with the children. you know, it was alarming. grabbing the clothes that you can, getting your animals out the best you can and have no idea when you're going to come back. we have four kids. ranging from 2 to 15. and it's a lot to try to manage and keep them comfortable and happy and also safe at the same

time. and keep your own sanity through the whole situation. >> yeah. we don't know how you're doing that. that's so unsettling to be -- >> we didn't ask him about the disaster scene. what was the disaster scene that you were in in netflix that was similar to this? >> we have had a lot of support. the disaster movie, this was something exciting to be a part of. i thought it was interesting that netflix was -- noah and greta, don cheadle filming a movie in our area. and so it was exciting to be involved in that. and we're around trains. i really didn't think that this was something that we would ever be facing in actuality here. the book, the airborne toxic cloud is the evacuation event, and that's exactly what we had here in east palestine. >> yeah.

unsettling when something like that becomes your real life. ben, we're thinking of you guys. thank you for sharing that with us because it's really important to hear what it's like to be there and living through this. thank you. >> thank you. >> take care. >> thank you. we have to keep fighting for some more testing. appreciate it. >> absolutely. we will stay on top of it here for sure because it matters to their everyday lives. also this morning, we have been talking to sources and former vice president mike pence's orbit. they have now told us what he is going to do. how he'll handle that subpoena he got from the special counsel when it comes to trump's push to overturn the election. and florida governor ron desantis plowing ahead with his anti-woke agenda. how he is preparing for a presidential run announcement that may only be months away. that's next. ♪ most by dermatologists? it's neutrogena® rapid wrinkle repair® smooths the look of fine lines in 1-week, deep wrinkles in 4. so you can kiss wrininkles goodbye! neutrogena® woo! hey you. i am loving this silversneakake® boxing class.

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investigating former president trump's efforts to overturn the election and what he did surrounding january 6th leading up to it on that day, after that day. mike pence is going to fight the subpoena, we are told, by two sources familiar with the situation, based on the grounds that he was president of the senate at the time and therefore they believe was part of the legislative branch and therefore can argue he is shielded from the subpoena that he got from jack smith. jack smith, as you know, is the special counsel who is investigating not only the classified documents that trump took with him to mar-a-lago, but also the efforts around january 6th. this is notable because obviously mike pence is one of the people when it comes to the january 6th investigation investigation had these one-on-one conversations we talked with trump. so if he did speak to them, that is what they want to know. we're told he is expected to fight that. we'll see how the special counsel's office handles that. >> didn't he say once if i am called that i would gladly testified. i could be wrong. >> he said he drew a difference in the january 6th committee and if the justice department subpoenaed him.

he said he would treat them differently because they did not see the committee coming from the -- the subpoena coming from the january 6th committee as enforceable really. he said he would handle this differently. they are handling it differently. people thought he would make the argument on executive privilege. he making it on being president of the senate saying he is part of the legislative branch and should not have to testify. >> we'll see where this lands. there have been a lot of people fighting subpoenas other the last couple years. and some have gotten away with it when it was testifying in front of the january 6th committee and others. we'll see where this happens -- what happens. >> the special counsel is trying to wrap up his work before we get into the heat of the 2024 season which pence is expected to run. >> which is coming very soon. florida's governor ron desantis, eyeing a potential run for president in 2024 speaking of, right, the election season has been waging a culture war to win conservative support from critical race theory to gender ideology, he has taken multiple high profile and controversial battles to the next level in the

past year without support from maga true believers. so jeff zeleny joins us now from tallahassee, florida. jeff is always the middle of the hot, political season. so jeff, good morning to you. could this strategy take him all the way to the white house? that's the question. >> reporter: well, good morning, don. that certainly is his hope. as this republican field is taking shape really week by week here, governor ron desantis is hoping his work here in tallahassee, signing those bills, proposing new legislation for this coming session, will really give him a calling card to those primary voters across the country. but it's also drawing the ire of former president donald trump who now, of course, is one of his constituents. >> florida is where woke goes to die. >> reporter: and for governor ron desantis, florida is where presidential aspirations come alive. >> so help me god. >> reporter: six weeks after starting his second term, he's putting the finishing touches on

the desantis' play book. >> freedom lives here in our great, sunshine state of florida. >> reporter: taking his record from florida's capital to the national stage. as one of the country's youngest governors with one of the loudest voices on conservative policies. it's a driving force in the latest chapter of the culture wars, already shaping the 2024 campaign. >> when other states can sign their people's freedom to the dust bin, florida stood strongly as freedom's lynch pin. >> reporter: the governor introduced himself as a leading culture warrior with a growing list of what he calls anti-woke laws and proposals. >> and this bill takes three main steps. >> reporter: the parental rights in education act, which critics dubbed the don't say gay bill. that bans instruction of sexual orientation and gender identity from kindergarten through third grade. under his watch, transgendered children in florida can no longer access certain treatments. and the eliminated state funding for lgbtq mental health

programs. he's also called for bans on mandates for covid-19 vaccines and masks. used state funds to expand a controversial migrant relocation program and locked in a battle over advanced african-american studies course that he says goes against state law for how race can be taught in florida classrooms. >> why don't we just do and teach the things that matter? why is it always someone has to try to jam their agenda down our throats? >> reporter: he spends his time signing laws passed by the gop-controlled florida legislature. rather than sounding off on social media, like his one-time supporter and now rival, former president donald trump, who now mocks desantis with a nickname -- >> ron desanctimonious. >> reporter: the governor is releasing a new book, the courage to be free at the end of february and setting out on tour with stops in texas, california, alabama and beyond moch on the floor of the florida senate, democratic senator jason pizzo,

blasted the ambitions of desantis. >> of a speech that will be given in iowa in a couple years. >> reporter: told us today the governor cast his entire agenda as the backbone of a presidential bid. >> it's a play book that i think is squarely set towards national audience because it's certainly not remedying any problems here. >> reporter: desantis is building a national team with plans for announcement in late may, early june after the florida legislature enacts more of his agenda that can serve as a road map for his political future. >> we will fight the woke in the businesses. we will fight the woke in government agencies. we will fight the woke in our schools. we will never, ever surrender to the woke agenda. >> reporter: now, talking to a top republican close to the governor, he told me yesterday, yes, he is running. and next week he's holding a conference for donors in palm beach right here mar-a-lago. of course, we should point out, this is not a two-man race with

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