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a sweet message with the country. minnesota takes an experimental step to combat the opioid crisis. the new program to decriminalize used syringes. bud light sales poured down the drain. and a group of trans teens host their own prom with a protest at the nation's capitol. it is wednesday may 24 "early today" starts right now glad you're with us. i'm frances rivera >> i'm cori coffin we begin this morning with the tremendous grief still felt in uvalde, texas. on this day a year ago, a gunman entered robb elementary and killed 19 students and two teachers for the victims' families, the pain is still so raw the parents of lexi rubio spoke about keeping their daughter's memory alive >> you know she's not here

she is that person that's still going to be make a difference in this world >> intelligent, competitive, driven, a beautiful person inside and out i'm going to make sure nobody forgets her. >> today texas will lower the state flags and observe a moment of silence at 11:30 a.m., marking the time the deadly rampage began. and coming up we'll have a live update from yew all have day we are learning more about the u-haul truck that slammed into barriers at the white house. a 19-year-old flew from missouri, rented the truck and drove it straight to the white house. he's facing multiple charges including threatening to kill or harm a president the charging documents say he told agents his goal was to seize power and be put in charge of the nation and that he would kill the president if that's what he had to do. authorities also seized a nazi flag from the truck.

the suspect is expected to appear in federal court today. after months of anticipation governor ron desantis is set to jump into the gop race for president today. a scene set with an unconventional method of announcing his candidacy let's go to brie jackson in washington how does the addition of desantis affect the primary? >> reporter: first off, it adds another name to the growing list of candidates, but tonight florida governor ron desantis is expected to announce his candidacy for the republican nomination for president desantis, the second-term governor of the sunshine state has risen to become one of the most prominent figures in the u.s. over the last year. his feud with the walt disney company has made headlines as have the various bills he has signed into law that affect the lgbtq community and education in florida. he has not been shy about presidential ambitions

while he plans to start traveling the country after memorial day, he's already spent time in key early primary states, including weekend trips to iowa. desantis has had criticisms of former president trump, making vague jabs at trump following his arraignment in the new yor hush money case last month as well as recently criticizing his actions on the covid vaccine he will join an expanding group of candidates. former president trump is still widely seen as the front runner for the nomination >> and brie, this is of note tell us about the platform desantis is choosing to make the announcement on. >> reporter: nbc news' dasha burns reported that governor desantis will be making this announcement in the twitter spaces event, alongside the platform's ceo elon musk musk, who tweeted last year that he would support desantis if he were to run for president told

the "wall street journal" on tuesday that this event does not constitute an endorsement. >> i'm not at this time planning to endorse any particular candidate. my preference, and i think would be the preference of most americans is really to have someone fairly normal in office. >> reporter: and tonight's event will be moderated by tech entrepreneur and republican donor, david sachs, who is an ally to both desantis and musk cori >> certainly an announcement of note in that sense thank you. it has been three months since former president jimmy carter entered end of life hospice care he remains in good spirits his grandson tells associated press keeping up with regular tributes and enjoying regular servings of ice cream. he and his wife have been married since 1946 and the grandson tells the ap their faith is really grounding this this moment

former president trump found out he'll have to go to court during election season the new york judge on tuesday set a trial date of march 25, 2024 for the case for which the president, the former president pleaded not guilty last month to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records now based on current schedules, at least 25 states will have held their presidential primary contests by that date. trump declared his latest presidential bid m novein novemf last year. the judge made the announcement during a virtual hearing for trump. another blow for abortion rights strikes the south south carolina's senate approved a bill tuesday that would ban most abortions after around six weeks of pregnancy a bipartisan group of five women senators tried and failed to stop it from passing arguing that it set up so many hurdles that almost no one would be able to get an abortion in the state. the legislation includes

exceptions for fetal anomalies, the mother's life and health and rape or incest for up to 12 weeks. it also requires fathers to pay child support, starting at conception the bill is now set to head to the governor's desk where he says he will sign it into law. minnesota has become the first state to make all forms of drug paraphernalia legal that includes items that contain controlled substance residue the public safety bill allows public health programs to dispense sterile needles and syringes as well as educate people on overdose prevention and safe injection practices it removes limits pharmo syrion pharmacists can sell without prescription a court in moscow has

extended the pre--ttrial detent of evan gershkovich by three months he could face up to 20 years in prison, charged with espionage chapman, what's been the immediate reaction to this decision >> reporter: well, frances, upon hearing that his pretrial detention had been extended now until the end of august, an immediate outpouring of support for gershkovich. the state department calling the claims against him baseless and once again calling for the immediate release of evan gesh can vich as well as fellow american paul whelan his employer, the "wall street journal" exoingchoing these cla also saying while they expect no change to his wrongful detention they're still deeply disappointed we also heard from several colleagues, one of them tweet ago moretweeting a horribly disappointing development. another colleague simply saying

"release evan now" we saw his parents were in court. apparently, they didn't have any state department assistance in getting there, but they were there to support him as well as the u.s. ambassador. but there has been frustration as as moscow has been denying some access >> what's the next stage for the gershkovich case >> reporter: there is some unknown. is he t he is the first reporter detained for espionage since the cold war we will see in his next detention hearing likely around august when his detention is set to end but we do know from previous cases like the brittney griner trial, they will not discuss a prisoner swap until there's been a conviction and moscow, russia, rather, does have a conviction rate of 99%.

a 1% chance of acquittal so we'll wait and see, though. president biden at the white house correspondents dinner saying that they are working every day to secure his release, looking at every opportunity and tool to bring him home, adding we keep the faith. so we'll have to wait and see, but he does have a lot of support while he's being held there in moscow. >> hopefully that support will leadto action in his favor chapman, thanks. and we are watching potentially dangerous storms here and dangerous weather developing in parts of the country. let's go to michelle grossmann with the latest. looking stormy.ooking, we're stuck in this pattern that's going to bring the chance for isolated flooding and severe storms even this morning we're looking at rain in many, many spots, the inner mountain west into parts of the southern plains, the central plains will see showers, too. the southeast will be stormy into the gulf coast and portions

of florida and a front sinking into the northeast and great la. let's talk about the severe threat onc once again. especially where you see the yellow shading amarillo into clovis we're stuck in this pattern tomorrow with winds gusting upe and mid atlantic are warm. really warm in the south temperatures in the 80s and 90s, 90s in san antonio we're going to continue to watch that stormy setup and will it extend to memorial day weekend we'll look at that coming up

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with the deadliest school shooting since sandy hook. our jay gray joins us from ju d uvalde, live what have you heard from the families there >> reporter: it's going to be a difficult day obviously. we're on the edge of town trying to give those families this space this day they'll gather a little bit later and have asked for privacy r as they come together as a group after a year of what's been very public pain here a year later, uvalde is strong but still struggling >> families devastated, hearts torn not a moment goes by that i, and i know we are confronted in our thinking about all that's going on and has gone on

>> reporter: 19 innocent, unsuspecting children and two teachers murdered inside their classrooms at robb elementary. the calendar says it's been a year since the attack. >> it almost feels like time stands still >> it does may 24 you can't, as a family, the community members, there's no moving on. >> reporter: the pain of unimaginable loss overwhelming for families of the victims. >> every day every second, you know and just imagine everything you love getting ripped from you >> reporter: agony magnified some say by a slow-moving investigation, a lack of accountability for responding officers who waited more than an hour to confront the gunman and a failure of the texas legislature to pass stricter gun laws in the wake of the massacre >> everybody will say oh, guns don't kill people, people kill people but we're allowing these people to use these guns to murder people and it doesn't make any sense.

>> reporter: for many here, nothing makes sense anymore. their small town dotted by murals and memorials, honoring friends and family gone for a year now and never coming home. texas governor greg abbott has ordered flags lowered to half-staff across the state today and is calling for a moment of silence at 11:30 this morning. that's the time the attack began. >> all right, jay, thank you very much for that i mean, it's hard to put into words how impactful this is when you hear the parents speaking about this it's just devastating. it's just devastating. >> it's devastating for thos

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