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welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. i'm paula newton. ahead on "cnn newsroom" -- >> i'm ron desantis, and i'm running for president to lead our great american comeback. >> ron desantis makes it official, but his unconventional announcement filled with delays and glitches has many asking, did he win over any voters? . plus -- ♪ >> one year as ham and gone sense the deadly massacre at robb elementary school in uvalde. 19 fourth graders and two teachers mercilessly slaughtered by a gunman. we'll look at america's public health crisis with gun violence. ♪ what's love got to do with it ♪ remembering an entertainment and music legend, tina turner, dead at the age of 83.

so we begin with the race for the white house and rough start for the latest republican to announce his candidacy, ron desantis. the florida governor started wednesday evening's launch posting a campaign video on twitter saying he's running for president to lead the great american comeback. but his live twitter conversation with elon musk was fraught with glitches and delays. desantis' team tried to put a positive spin on things tweeting, we broke the internet with so much excitement. here's wa desantis had to say once the technical difficulties were sorted out. >> so voters who are participating in this primary process, my pledge to you is this. if you nominate me, you can set your clock to january 20th, 2025, at high noon. because on the west side of the u.s. capitol, i will be taking

the oath of office as the 47th president of the united states. no excuses, i will get the job done. >> desantis' political rivals were quick to criticize. president joe biden posted a fund-raising tweet for his re-election campaign saying, this link works. desantis appeared on fox a short time later, listen. >> we had a huge audience. it was the biggest they'd ever had. it did break the twitter space. and so we're really excited with the enthusiasm. >> more now from cnn's jessica dean. >> do you go with the crowd? or do you look at the data yourself and cut against the grain? and i chose to do the latter. >> reporter: florida governor ron desantis' attempt to declare his candidacy for president in a unique way with twitter owner elon musk on twitter spaces, an audio-only platform, plagued by technical issues at the start. >> it keeps crashing, huh? >> i think we've got just a

massive number of people online. >> reporter: server issues caused the rollout to be plagued with problems with team desantis tweeting, quote, seems we broke the internet with so much excitement. we'll you're waiting, donate now. >> we must look forward, not backwards. we need the courage to lead, and we must have the strength to win. >> reporter: desantis also asked about the naacp issuing a travel advisory against his state claiming florida is not safe for minorities to visit. >> claiming that florida is unsafe is a total farce. i mean, are you kidding me? >> reporter: wednesday's twitter event the latest move in desantis' presidential campaign rollout. he filed paperwork earlier wednesday with the federal election commission. on tuesday, desantis' wife casey tweeted a hype video encouraging supporters to sign up for campaign updates. >> america has been worth it. every single time. >> reporter: desantis jumps in the republican primary following

months of speculation about the florida governor's political future, fueled by a national book tour and visits to key early nominating states. >> i have only begun to fight. >> reporter: as the republican primary fight intensifies, a new cnn poll shows former president donald trump leading the gop field with roughly double the support of desantis and no other candidate in double figures. but the survey also finds the republican field to be far from settled. more than 8 in 10 of those polled say they'd either support or open to considering either trump or desantis. >> we have to reject the culture of losing that has infected our party in recent years. we have no more time for excuses. >> reporter: desantis and trump have appeared to be on a collision course for months with the former president launching repeated attacks against the florida governor. >> desang advertise is crashing and burning. >> reporter: desantis has been intentional in not directly attacking trump, instead, using

his speeches around the country to draw contrast. >> i don't have time for drama. i don't have time for palace intrigue. i want to make sure that we're executing the agenda. and you know what's happened over the last four years? we don't have leaks. we don't have drama. all we do is get the job done day after day. >> reporter: up next, governor desantis will gather here in miami with some of his biggest donors and bundlers as they really hope to make the most of this announcement. they're already working with an unprecedented $100 million in his war chest, but they are seeking to amplify this number out of this announcement. we are expecting that number to grow in the days to come. we're also expecting to see him hit the campaign trail early and aggressively. we are expecting to see him in those early states in the coming days where he will rally with supporters all across the country. the washington established politicians like to talk --

>> desantis asking followers, is the desantis launch fatal? yes. meanwhile, a new cnn poll asked republican and republican-leaning voters who they support for president. 53% favored trump, 26% desantis. i spoke with cnn's senior political analyst john avalon and asked the impact of those technical difficulties in desantis' twitter announcement would have possibly on listen. >> you want to reward candidates for taking risks, about the you also can't have a totally failed launch and then just simply blame the equipment. i mean, this wasn't -- this was -- twitter couldn't handle the interest, but it wasn't that high a number. it was just botched. it was sort of bizarre from the giddy-up. because it was an audio-only launch. so to speak. and kara swisher on cnn predicted it might crash, but more than that, it was, this is

the first chance to -- you know, you don't get a second chance to make a first impression. and while he got around once the glitches were fixed to sort of lay out his case and conversation with elon musk, you know, there's something called the orchestra pit theory, which is that if the candidate falls in an orchestra pit, it doesn't matter what they say before or after, people are going to talk about the orchestra pit. that's what happened. >> yeah. and we're talking about this kind of a stage, right, where donald trump and joe biden then get to troll you. that's the kind of stage we're talking about here. it really is extraordinary. i'm going to get to a cnn poll in a minute where we're going to talk about it. i just have to ask you off the bat, when you see what's gone on, how much do you think this will impact him as a candidate? because some people are brushing this off and just saying, it doesn't really matter that much. >> look, it's not determinative. you know, you can absolutely say there's nowhere to go but up.

but the fact is that desantis has been falling in the polls for several months. he wanted to wait until the florida legislative session got done. trump has taken advantage of that by softening him up and ads, devastatingly effective ads like this pudding ad, which is kind of infamous for people who have been paying attention. but look, he's got a strong case to make. he was broadly re-elected as governor in florida. he has been focusing really on playing to the base with policies that play better probably with the national republican electorate than many folks in florida. but he has remained popular and folks keep moving to his state. so until those trends change, people might not like the policies in liberal communities or moderate communities, but he is tapping into that zeitgeist very intentionally. >> now the political deadlock over raising the u.s. government

debt ceiling could cost the edit rata default state. the white house called the fitch warning one more piece of evidence that default is not an option, and all responsible lawmakers understand that. it reinforces the need for congress to quick ly, in a reasonable bipartisan agreement, prevent default. the biden administration and house republicans remain far apart following the latest round of talks. >> i think we've made some progress working down there. son's very positive. >> you said this week you need to have a deal this week in order to -- >> yes, i still believe that. yeah.

i still believe we have time to make an agreement and get it done. >> it was eight days from potential default. everything is riding on just a small group of negotiators. negotiators who met for more than four hours at the white house on wednesday. that venue is a shift. negotiators had been meeting, without officials and house republican people, had been meeting on capitol hill, trying to hammer out some kind of agreement. it had been a roller coaster up till today. today there's nothing. no comments, no attacks, no real sense of what's actually happening at the moment. and when you talk to officials, they underscore, that's a good thing. one official told me, "we're working, and that's all you they'd to know." that's kind of the reality at this moment, because the timeline is exceedingly short. the path forward to try and prevent a default, given how far apart the two sides have been when it comes to raising the debt limit to finding some kind of budget agreement, it's

exceedingly short and there's a lot of work to do. there's no question about that, but there's also a very clear sense after the meetings throughout the day on wednesday that there has been progress. not a deal, not a final agreement. they certainly need one sooner rather than later. that progress was important it underscored what was said while the meeting was ongoing. >> the negotiations have been productive, which is what matters. the conversations continue, which is what matters. the focus is on what the leaders said themselves, what speaker mccarthy and the president said as well, which is, default is off the table. we're going to continue to negotiate in good fate. if that is what occurs, we can get to a bipartisan, reasonable negotiation or deal on a budget deal. >> reporter: the real question now is, where do negotiators go from here? notably, one member of the republican negotiating team, patrick mchenry, a congressman

from north carolina, actually stayed after his colleagues left. went into the white house, is working on several other issues, i'm told. whether or not that got them closer to a final agreement remains an open question at this point in time. again, to some degree silence is a good sign, particularly after the broadsides over the course of the last several days. productive was one description. then things went south, then back up again, then south again. there is one sense when you talk to lawmakers and white house officials alike, they understand there's no more time for posturing, there's no more time for hyperbole, they need to figure something out. whether or not they can figure out a way to reconcile two very different visions on spending and other elements that should be in this deal, that remains an open question. one they don't have much time to answer. phil mattingly, cnn, the white house. still to come, the texas community of uvalde mourns and pays tribute to the victims one year after the shooting that claimed 21 lives.

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getting there was a long and difficult journey. cnn's stephanie elam looks book at turner's remarkable reign as the queen of rock 'n' roll. ♪ rolling rolling rolling on the river ♪ >> reporter: "proud mary" was one of tina turner's signatures, showcasing her unique sound, look, and moves. >> that's my style. i take great songs and turn them into rock 'n' roll songs on stage. >> reporter: icon, survivor, a queen of rock 'n' roll. ♪ tina turner began life as anna may have bullock in rural tennessee. as a teen she moved to st. louis where she met rocker ike turner. >> ike was very good to me when i first started my career. started to sing weekends with him. we were close friends. >> reporter: the ike and tina turner revue's first hit with "fool in love," a song they performed on "shindig." they married in 1962, in 1966

recorded "river deep mountain high ♪ ♪ that river deep mountain high ♪ >> reporter: it was a hit overseas but flopped in the u.s. offstage, ike's drug abuse fueled violent outbursts. >> i had had a lot of violence. houses burnt, cars shot into. the lowest that you can think of in terms of violence. >> reporter: after years of physical and emotional abuse, tina left ike in the mid '70s with nothing but her name. at one point relying on food stamps to survive. in the early '80s, turner's cover of "let's stay together" reignited her career. ♪ "private dancers" followed in 1984. the album featured her only number one song. ♪ oh what's love got to do with it ♪

>> reporter: though she wasn't a fan. >> i didn't like it. i wasn't accustomed to singing those kind of songs. >> reporter: it was also the title of a 1993 film starring angela bassett based on tina's autobiography. >> did the picture do it justice? >> yes, i think, in a way. i would have liked for them to have had more truth. but according to disney, it's impossible that people would have believed the truth. >> reporter: turner appeared in movies such as the who's "tommy" and "madmax: beyond thunder dome." she sang its theme song. ♪ we don't need another hero ♪ >> reporter: as well as the theme to the james bond film, "goldeneye." one major role she turned down would go to oprah winfrey in "the color purple." >> it was too close to my personal life. i had just left such a life. it was too soon to be reminded of. ♪ i don't really want to cry no more ♪ >> reporter: the "what's love got to do with it" soundtrack gave turner another hit, her

personal favorite -- ♪ you're simply the best ♪ >> very special, because at the time when i had it, no one believed in it but me. ♪ when the heartache is over i know i won't be missing you ♪ >> reporter: turner continued recording and touring into her 80s. ♪ rolling on the river ♪ >> reporter: she was honored by the kennedy center in 2005 and inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame as a solo act in 2021, 30 years after her first induction as part of a duo with ike turner. all the while, her buddhist faith kept her going. >> the cause you make this lifetime can be the effect of a better life next lifetime. it will be better, and gets better and better. >> as you can imagine, condolences have been pouring in from a who's who of entertainers and celebrities. mick jagger called her "my wonderful friend" and said he'll never forget how she helped him early in his career. john oates of hall & oates

reminisced about her surprise performance with jagger at the live aid in 1985 and said the music world has lost a true queen of soul." singer/songwriter carole king said turner's life taught women they can be strong, sexy, fearless, and be their own person. tina turner, the queen of rock 'n' roll, dead at the age of 83. ♪ what's love but a secondhand emotion ♪ ah, these bills are crazy. she

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ukraine says its air defenses successfully repelled the latest wave of russian drone attacks. officials said thursday morning that russia launched three dozen drones at targets right across the country. but according to president zelenskyy, none reached their targets. ukrainian air force says those targets included the capital, kyiv, and critical infrastructure on the western side of the country. meantime, u.s. officials now believe ukrainians could be behind a drone attack on the kremlin earlier this month. sources say intercepted communications among ukrainian officials led to that assessment. but the conclusion is not definitive and u.s. officials still doubt that president zelenskyy knew about the attack in advance. in moscow, russia is denying reports of a fire at the ministry of defense building according to state media who first reported that emergency services were at the scene after a blaze broke out on the balcony. local officials say no fire had been detected, but video from moscow shows smoke surrounding

the building and a woman can be heard complaining about a horrible burning smell. cnn's clare sebastian is following the latest developments for us and joins us from london. the old "nothing to see here, move along" doesn't quite cut when it cnn is reporting that there was smoke there. what more are we learning about what happened at the ministry of defense? >> reporter: yeah, not a lot more, to be honest. it's a very sort of strange incident at about 11:00 p.m. moscow time. the first report came out in state media that there was a fire at the defense ministry building, a very visible building on the banks of the moscow river. less than an hour later, the ministry quoted by the same state news agency, saying they had arrived at the scene and there was no fire. no real explanation given for that turn-round. we know this comes at a time when russia is on high alert for any sort of unexplained incidents on its territory after that relatively violent

incursion into that border region with ukraine claimed by putin, after drone attacks on the kremlin. this is a moment we're seeing information operations at a high, tight control of information on both sides of this conflict. obviously the defense ministry otherwise engaged, as you pointed out, overnight. 36 iranian drones, according to the ukrainian air force, were launched at the country. the ukrainian air defenses continuing to show a high level of effectiveness, managing to shoot down all of them. but this comes after the defense minister promised to respond extremely harshly to those events. i think this can be viewed in that context. >> absolutely. to add here, u.s. intelligence is now saying that ukrainians may have launched that drone attack on the kremlin. u.s. officials say, look, we don't believe president zelenskyy had any knowledge of this, but again this leaves so many questions unanswered.

>> reporter: yeah, and i think even for u.s. intelligence, there are still many questions unanswered. they say that they have made this assessment based on chatter picked up between ukrainian officials, including those that are part of the military and defense intelligence bureaucracy. though there's no suggestion, as you say, that it is in any way linked to top officials, including zelenskyy. that chatter, ukrainian of officials blaming each other for this incident. there's also chatter they picked up, intercepts of russian officials blaming ukrainians for this, which they say reduces the likelihood, u.s. officials say, reduces the likelihood this could be a russia-choreographed false flag and excuse to escalate the conflict in ukraine. they have low confidence right now in this assessment that ukrainians groups might have been behind this drone attack. they are still keeping other options in mind. but it is, as i say, at a sensitive time where we've seen other potential incursions linked to ukraine into russia.

where ukraine continues to take delivery of western weapons, which is in many ways predicated on a promise not to attack russian territory. so sort of problematic for ukraine as well, paula. >> even if they were low-level ukrainian officials, yes. clare sebastian, thanks so much. chinese hackers are laying the groundwork in cyberspace for a possible future crisis between washington and beijing. according to tech giant microsoft, the effort is likely focused on disrupting critical communications between the u.s. and its allies in asia. western security agencies are also concerned that china could apply the same formula worldwide. for more, kristie lu stout has been following all of this from hong kong. i read the security bulletin, and there weren't many details. it's interesting here, when they decide to make it public, which they did, the five countries decided they would publish this bulletin? >> reporter: yeah, this was detected around the same time as the spy balloon incident took

place. but this is called "vote typhoon," a state-sponsored hacking group that according to microsoft has been spying on u.s.-critical infrastructure. in this new report released wednesday, microsoft says the group is out to disrupt critical communications between the u.s. and asia in the event of a crisis. according to microsoft, it says vote typhoon has been active since mid-2021, it has targeted critical infrastructure in parts of u.s. including the territory of guam. guam is home to the strategic u.s. military base is, also a major communications hub between the u.s. and asia. let's look at the graphic that's on your screen. the sectors allegedly targeted in the group including construction, education, government, i.t., manufacturing, maritime, telecom, transport, and utility. microsoft published the details of the code online. you can find it there, so users can find it and remove it, but also added that detecting and

mitigating this attack could be challenging. china has reacted to the report. it has slammed the report. in an email, we heard from the spokesperson for the chinese embassy in washington, d.c. let's bring up the statement for you. "the allegation by the u.s. side that the chinese government is supporting hacking is completely distorting the truth." and at a ministry of foreign affairs briefing that just wrapped this afternoon, we heard from the spokesperson, mao ning, addressing the microsoft report saying, "this is a collective disinformation campaign of thefy eyes coalition." that's making reference to the coalition comprising of australia, canada, new zealand, uk, u.s. so saying that this is a disinformation campaign, the five eyes countries, by the u.s. geopolitical purposes. the report comes at a time of ongoing tension simmering between the u.s. and china over a range of issues, including

territorial disputes in the pacific. >> yes, certainly a lot of talk about that recently in asia and the g7. china again taking issue. kristie lu stout from hong kong, appreciate it. still to come, guam takes a beating from a super typhoon before it turns to sea. we're live on the island with how recovery efforts are going. [ bell tolling ] bells in uvalde, texas, marking the moment one year ago that a gunman began a massacre that took 21 innocent lives. more on that when we return.

♪ a year after a deadly mass shooting in uvalde, texas, a candlelight vigil was held by the victims' families to remember the 19 students and two teachers who were shot and killed at robb elementary school. on wednesday, bells rang out in honor of the victims. flowers were laid in front of the school. state flags were flown at half staff. and a moment of silence was observed right across texas. u.s. president joe biden also paid tribute to the victims and called on congress once again to ban assault weapons. >> too many schools, too many everyday places, have become killing fields in communities all across every part of america. in each place, we hear the same message. "do something."

"for god's sake, please do something." we did something afterwards, but not nearly enough. we still need to ban, in my view, ar-15 firearms, assault weapons, once again. you know, they've been used time and again in mass killings of innocent children, of people. >> texas lawmakers honored the uvalde victims during their session on wednesday. the state senate held a moment of silence and passed resolutions paying tribute to the 19 fourth graders and two teachers. lawmakers took turns honoring the victims by reading into the record information about their lives. meanwhile in uvalde, members of the community held their own memorials. cnn's simone prokupecz was there. >> reporter: many members of the community came to the school to lay flowers and pay respect to

the kids and teachers who died here a year ago. we saw families and survivors also here today as they came to pay respects to their teachers and to their friends. a lot still is unknown here as this investigation continues. the families still frustrated over the fact that they're not getting a lot of information from law enforcement officials, from any of the political leaders and other investigators. they're waiting to get some answers. but really for now, this is all about the survivors. all about the families who lost loved ones as a community really just trying to unite and try to find some kind of peace in what has been a truly, truly difficult year. shimon prokupecz, cnn, uvalde, texas. >> dr. jack resnick, president of the american medical association. we thank you for being with us on what is a difficult time for

so many. you and i are having this conversation, and it takes place on what i would call a continuum of tragedy. uvalde is only the latest. your organization, your association, in 2016 declared gun violence a public health crisis. since then, there has been a 50% increase in gun deaths. why do you think that there has not been certainly public opinion or legislators to be able to coalesce around this one tragic fact? >> paula, thanks for having me on. indeed, it's really discouraging that we have reached this point. the devastation of firearm violence in america really touches every state, every community. the numbers are awful. more than 45,000 deaths per year. as you said, those numbers have gone up. the number one cause of death now among children and adolescents between the ages of

1 and 19 -- that's more than motor vehicle accidents or drug overdoses or cancer. that statistic is appalling to me. and it's an epidemic. just as we as physicians think about opioids and fentanyl deaths as being an epidemic, this is an epidemic as well. and americans just don't feel safe in schools and places of worship and stores, theaters, concerts, sometimes even in physician offices and hospitals where we see firearm violence. even just pulling into the wrong driveway these days can make you a victim. it's a major public health problem. >> and people are feeling that. a new poll shows gun violence has surpassed the opioid crisis as the number one public health concern among americans. most of us know why. it's because it touches their lives so intimately. the one fact that you just gave about young people being so exposed to gun violence. i want to ask you, we had the pandemic. we had covid. that was declared a health crisis. it was treated as an emergency.

what should the u.s. be doing right now to treat this like the health emergency that you've declared it to be? >> well, physicians really look at the evidence, and we're trained in science. that's why we sort of think of this in the context of a public health emergency. because we see our patients, both those who are victims of gun violence, families of victims of gun violence, just people who are weathered by the stress every day of worrying about being victims of gun violence. so we think about evidence-based solutions. so we at the american medical association and physicians across the country have been standing up for things that we think are commonsense solutions, things where we know and polling shows that americans and the country is really on our side, even though lawmakers haven't gotten there yet. it's simple things. we're not talking about taking away hunters' rifles or other things. we're talking about restoring the ban on assault-style weapons and high-capacity magazines that

leave our patients with wounds that really look like things we've only seen on battlefields. expanding background checks and waiting periods to cover all firearm sales. making sure schools continue to be gun-free zones. supporting things like extreme risk protection orders. those are the things that people may have heard of as red flag laws that allow for the removal of a firearm after a judge has reviewed a case, when there's a really high or imminent risk of violence. commonsense measures. americans are behind them. >> some states -- new york, new jersey, michigan -- have passed some measures, even in the last few months. in florida, though, it's now easier to carry a handgun, s sorry, any kind of gun this year. you've just outlined some solutions. will any of these incremental things make a does, or does this need to be a we'll country approach? >> we need to do everything we can at the local, state, and federal level. things are so bad, we'll take

wins anywhere we can get them, and we're playing the long game. this is our children's and grandchildren's lives at stake. yes, we face challenges in some states that have not been as eager to move forward. challenges in the courts. i think as physicians, we really have an ethical obligation to keep coming back and trying to do what we know is best for our patients and what will help and protect them and keep them safe. >> and i don't have a lot of time left, but some would say, why is the ama getting involved in this, this is a political issue, not a medical one? >> doctors can't sit this out. it's physicians who are the ones when maybe lawmakers and others can took away from this epidemic and gun violence, but it's doctors and emergency departments, trauma rooms every day who are treating gunshot victims, consoling families who have lost loved ones. it's really part our ethical code and our moral fiber as a profession to act when we see threats to the health of the nation. >> dr. resnick, we'll have to

leave it there. talk to you again, appreciate it. >> thanks so much. >> and we'll be right back. when you find your reason to go on, let it pull you past the doubt. past the pain, and past youour limits. no matter what, we g go on. biofreeze

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we are following a developing story out of sydney, australia. more than 100 firefighters are battling a major fire in a seven-story building. that's according to authorities. new south wales fire and rescue say the building has started to collapse and flames are spreading to other buildings. cnn affiliate 9 news says more than 50 people have been evacuated so far. we'll continue to bring you updates on this developing story. the worst is over for guam

as typhoon mawar now moves away from the island. guam's governor says as of thursday morning, no deaths were reported from the storm which lashed out with strong winds and heavy rain. the storm has also regained its super typhoon status and is now just shy of category 5 hurricane strength with sustained winds of 155 miles per hour. it's expected to get even stronger in the coming days. storm chaser james reynolds joins me from guam. you know, we just basically recapped what the governor said, and yet people are still being told to shelter at home. what has the impact of the storm been on guam? >> i took a walk around this morning to just get a firsthand look at what has been going on in the aftermath of this storm. literally all i could hear was the hum of generators because the power is out across wide swaths of island. there was tree debris everywhere. huge trees knocked over. i went up to the waterfront, and

you could see the evidence of where the storm surge had been hammering the immediate coastline. big concrete blocks moved inland, just showing the power of the water. yeah, guam has been roughed up. the cleanup is in full swing right now. >> when you say the clingup is in full swing, give us an indication. we saw substantial damage to some buildings. certainly you just mentioned the power outage. how is recovery going to take place? i'd imagine it's going to take some time? >> yeah, i imagine the first priority for the authorities is to try and clear the roads, make sure they're passable for any rescue services and cleanup crews. then the airport. i guess it's anyone's guess as to when that will reopen. i know that flights tomorrow are canceled. but there's a big military presence on guam. so i wouldn't be surprised if they're called in to lend a hand as well. >> in terms of some of the damage that we've seen sustained

to buildings on social media some people had posted damage to things like hotels. it was severe. certainly everyone, according to the governor, is safe. but there seems to be a lot of damage to the infrastructure there in terms of things like hotels or tourism businesses? >> yeah, what happens in these typhoons is there's so much heavy rain being blown at high speed by the wind that it finds a way to get into buildings. even my hotel, you're looking at rooms which are far away from any windows and parts of the ceiling have collapsed because the water has somehow got into the building and undermined certain parts of different rooms. and i saw facades of other hotels along the tourist strip which had suffered damage, parts blown off them, debris crashed onto cars. a combination of the wind, but the water can be really damaging. and it's not necessarily immediately obvious from the outside when yowalking around jt how much damage that water has

done. >> it seems like an incredibly terrifying storm to ride out. we're glad that according to the governor there have been only minor injuries. james reynolds, thank you so much.

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