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Her music. Bradley Blackburn, CBS News, New York. Florida governor Ron DeSantis has jumped in the race for president. I pledged to be an energetic executive that will take on the important issues. Correspondent Nicole d'antonio on desantis challenging former president Trump. The former president looms large over this race firmly atop the polls, Trump is keeping up his attacks on desantis, his nearest challenger. Ron DeSantis. Did anyone ever hear of the sanctus the sanctimonious? Among likely Republican primary voters, the most recent CBS News poll shows Trump with the lead of more than 30 points. President Biden has made his choice for who will be the next chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, CBS News military consultant Jeff McCoy on air force general CQ Brown junior. You will be the first African American to serve as chairman of the joint chiefs of staff since the late Colin Powell. This will be the first time in our nation's history that an African American holds the positions of both chairman and joint chiefs of staff. As well as the Secretary of Defense, simultaneously. Only a week left for lawmakers to agree on a bipartisan deal to raise the debt ceiling or the U.S. will default for the first time ever. House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries says all 213 Democrats have signed on to a discharge petition to force a vote. They need 5 Republicans to join them, but none have yet. Now time for House Republicans to break with the extreme wing of their party and join House Democrats to put an end to the default crisis. As the deadline looms Fitch ratings has put the U.S. on notice for a potential credit downgrade if no deal is reached. Typhoon mawar slammed Guam, Brian strohl, at the joint typhoon warning center. 155 mph is the current intensity. So it has restraints in since moving off of Guam. And the Florida Panthers are heading to their first Stanley Cup final since 1996 after a clean sweep of the Carolina hurricanes. Matthew kuchuk was the hero once again scoring with 4.3 seconds left in regulation. This is CBS