all the school closures are now bemoaning the results of their own policies. about one in two adults ins these one in two adults ins america is reporting levels of loneliness. and these numbers are even greater among kids. but what you also find is that loneliness has serious effects on our mental health and our physical health of raising our risk for depression, anxiety and suicide, but also increasing our risk of heartcien disease, stroke, dementia and premature death. e now. remature yeah, well, who would havedes predicted this? well, the lingering effects of shutting kids out of education ,sports , even socialand so ports , even socialand so they have been horrific. t wgoe couldn t go to our fi home come in.n eigh they couldn t have athn eighth grade graduation. you felt if your son had still been in school, he would still be alive. do you still feel that waydos when our present condition is not meantti to be socially isolated? olated? gone into lockdown, he w
the school closures - these numbers are greater among kids. what you also find is loneliness affects on our mental health and our society and heart disease and dementia and premature deaths. who would predicted this? the lingering effects of shutting kids out of education, sports and social in interactions without other kids have been horrific. we could not go to our first homecoming. i could not have an eighth grade graduation. you felt if your son were still in school, he would still be alive. do you still feel that way? had he not gone into lockdown, he would still be here. he would have gone into lacrosse practice. he said, mom, i just don t know what to do, that s the last thing he said. it is heartbreaking. we human beings are social beings. we naturally want to be communicating and collaborating with each other. the place that used to bring people together whether churches and synagogue or whether it was volunteer organizations in your community or whet
with two more hopefuls officially launching their bids. the florida governor ron desantis and senator tim scott. mr scott has represented south carolina in the chamber since 2013, promising to revive america s culture of greatness. at a launch event in his hometown of north charleston on monday, mr scott used his personal story as an embodiment of the american dream. this was shortly followed by ron desantis long expected entry into the race and, while he trails donald trump in the polls, he is widely seen as his main rival. but his launch made headlines for other reasons. he chose to announce on a twitter livestream, which was hit by technical glitches. let s listen to how they both announced their candidacy. iam running i am running for president of the united states to lead our great american conduct. look, we know our country is going on the wrong direction. we see it with our eyes, and we feel it in our bones. our southern border has collapsed. drugs are pouring into
i m christine romans. cnn this morning starts right now. good morning, everyone. it is wednesday. kaitlan is back. that makes me very happy. we re back. and so much going on today. and what s going to come. let s hope a deal. yeah. let s get started. i do sense a skeptic? i believe it. let s get to the five things we need to know for this wednesday, may 24th. ron desantis set to announce his 2024 white house run today. there is nothing conventional about this. he s going to make the announcement on twitter with elon musk. the once favored platform for his rival donald trump before he got banned. and speaking of the former president, he now has a court date in the stormy daniels hush money probe here in new york. he ll stand trial in march of 2024, right in the middle of the campaign for the auto term. and a super typhoon is lashing the american territory of guam right now. it is expected to bring a triple threat of heavy rains, hurricane-force winds and life
good evening. tomorrow, the man who many expected to give the former president s toughest primary challenge of 2024 makes it official. florida s governor, ron desantis, getting into the race, taking on his fellow floridian, launching the campaign in a streaming event with elon musk on twitter. his opponent s former favorite megaphone. which he used in 2016, of course, to pummel the rest of the republican field, including former florida senator, marco rubio, and floor jeb bush, who you turn first into a verbal punching bag, then a campaign punchline, and finally, a political footnote. in a moment randi kaye looks ahead to whether governor desantis will do any better against those kind of tactics. first, the kind of political waters he is about to jump into. in one way, they may appear promising for a republican candidate. the current president s job approval, now stands at 40%. a new cnn polling out late today. and with the debt ceiling crisis coming to a head, that same p