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Announcer this is cnn breaking news. Youre live in the cnn newsroom. Im jim acosta in washington, a very late Saturday Night on Memorial Day Weekend but were here for good reason. Were here in a crucial moment on debt ceiling talks. Multiple sources tell cnn that the white house and House Republican leaders have reach an agreement in principle, we should note in principle on raising the nations debt ceiling. Just ten minutes from now House Speaker Kevin Mccarthy will address reporters were told, and then at the bottom of the hour Republican Leaders will brief their fellow colleagues in the gop conference on the outlines of this deal. The briefing comes after a phone call earlier this evening between mccarthy and President Biden, and cnns Priscilla Alvarez is at the white house for us. Priscilla and manu raju still with us up on capitol hill. Late night, guys. Priscilla, what can you tell us . Reporter jim, im hearing from a source close to negotiations yes House Speaker mccarthy have an agreement in principle and working on finalizing a bill text and term sheet. For now a few details here. The bill keeps nondefense spending roughly flat with current fiscal 2023 levels in 2024. Also looking through here Work Requirements. The president it says according to the source fought policies that would have taken away health care and pushed people into poverty. No changes to medicaid. And were also learning that the president protected the inflation reduction act. This is something that has been critical for the white house is protecting those legislative accomplishments by the president. So were learning slowly some of the details that have been reached in this agreement, again, from a source familiar with the negotiations. And, jim, well bring that to you as we delve a little deeper into these details. But, look, this has been the product of a lot of work especially over the last 24 hours. Over the course of the day we were in touch with white house officials who were expressing optimism about the direction of these talks. Even last night President Biden himself on his way to camp david saying that they were, quote, very close to a deal. So were starting to see that take shape. Now, the timing is critical. Just yesterday right before President Biden went to camp david we also learned from the Treasury Secretary that firm june 5th date when nation would no longer be able to meet its obligations and in other words run out of cash. So this has been a really critical 24hour time frame for this white house as they worked with hill negotiators, and as the president stayed engaged from camp david as sources have told us. So, again, learning more and more about these details, and im sure manu will have more from the House Speaker as well soon. Im sure he will. Lets go to manu raju up on capitol hill. Manu, the House Speaker is supposed to brief reporters in about seven minutes from now. What can you tell us from your end of things . Manu, it sounds as though and im just basing this on my white house reporting days some of what priscilla laid out is a bit of the Talking Points on the democratic side maybe allay some of the fears and concerns of the House Democratic caucus too much might have been given away in this negotiating process, and i suspect Kevin Mccarthy will have similar things to say from the republican viewpoint to sort of settle things down in his conference. What more can you tell us . Reporter yeah, certainly pulling the white house spin on this agreement. Just to walk through a little bit of it in this fact sheet the white house put out here saying they have agreed to roll back domestic spending levels to the prior year. So currently the 2024 year. Theyre going to go back to 2023 according to this agreement. This will cause some concerns on the right. A lot of folks on the right want further going down to 2022. The white house didnt want to go down at all. They wanted a current spending freeze, so the white house had to concede to that point, so that was a big concession there. Also may made the case they prevented Work Requirements as being part of the medicaid program. Medicaid thats people with low income getting insurance. It appears they may agreed to new Work Requirements for other programs including food stamps and temporary assistance for needy family. It doesnt explicitly say that in the White House Fact Sheet but it seems to suggest that, so were going to have dive deeper whether they conceded to republicans on that point. They argued they didnt agree, that was part of the republican bill to raise the debt ceiling that passed the house in april. Theyre saying that is not part of this bill, but also said the president protected the inflation reduction act. Of course that was a signature law passed in last congress. Republicans tried to go after that. Parts of that bill that law is part of their debt ceiling bill. Theyre uarguing in this white house release they were able to fend off that republican effort. Theyre talking this deal would increase the debt limit for two years. That is an important part of this because the republicans had hoped for just one year. That was what they proposed initially in the house bill. They wanted to fight this again in 2024. The white house absolutely did not want to fight it again in 2024. Thats why they conceded on so many other grounds for the republicans. They didnt even want to have a negotiation to begin with. They wanted a clean debt ceiling increase, no conditions whatsoever. The white house was forced to do a negotiation, had to give a lot to republicans in order to do a twoyear debt limit increase, getting it through the 2024 again until theres either a new president or joe biden is reelected next. That is going to be a Sticking Point for republicans who want to fight this next year. Mccarthy will come out in a matter of minutes and lay out why he believes this is best deal they can reach now and argue why they were forced into this position to cut spending, l deal, he will tout that. And he will tout that to his members, but, again, well have to see more of the details here and then they have to sell it to the members who actually have to vote for this if it were to become law. Right, both sides are going to have to claim victory tonight, manu, for this process to move forward. Lets talk about this with david g gergen, Catherine Rampell. You said we were on the virginia of something and you were absolutely right. And i suspect as manu was indicating a few moments ago both sides are going to have to claim victory for hope of moving forward. Both sides are going to have to feel like they got something out of this. I think thats absolutely right. I must tell you in the first Coming Out Of The Box here and looking at what we know so far, ive been surprised that the democrats are doing better than what we expected in these negotiations. Just to go over a couple of things, jim, theyre not real cuts with that. Youre protecting what you have, and military and veterans will also be protect. In fact, they could get some increases. Extending this for two years is a real gift to the president. Because if this agreement is on for two years he doesnt have to worry about this politically, in the run up to the election, you know, just a few months before to have a major crisis over this issue before the stock market and everything goes to pieces could be a catastrophic loss for him. If they get a twoyear extension, which it sounds like they have, the republicans i think conceded something to the democrats i would not have expected. And it does seem like on the Work Requirements, again, the president is trying to protect trying very hard to protect what he has, the programs he has. And for most part hes doing all right. The Work Requirements thing may go in his direction. Bottom line, we still dont know. There are a lot of ends and buts. Theres a lot were going to learn at 9 10 hopefully. But the sense i have of it is im surprised that this is more to the president s liking than a lot of his members are going to feel it should be. Yeah. And Catherine Rampell there are items theyre pointing to, another being they protected the inflation reduction act, which is another big part of President Bidens legacy, one of his big legislative achievements. To davids point about extending this out to 2025, that is thats a major win for the u. S. Economy is it not, to not have to go through this process smackdab in the midof the 2024 election cycle. Yes. Far more than this being a win for the president , i agree this is a win for the Global Economy and the Global Financial system given the fact that we are toying with default today when we are far enough away from an election where in Theory Politicians should be prioritizing Policy Outcomes and not what guides the polls. Imagine how much more irrational these debates would be in the leadup to an election . Thats what really terrifies me, that if they were threatening to essentially blow up the Global Economy unless there were major concessions, some sort of ransom paid next year, i dont know what it would take for either side or for that matter both sides to claim victory and to walk away and say, okay, were happy with the deal that we got. So absolutely very good thing that the debt limit has been extended or will Knock On Wood we think will be extended for the next couple of years. Ideally i think we should get rid of it altogether, but thats a separate issue. I would mention, though, based on some of the reporting not all Reduction Act Measures have been protected. Some reporting suggests some of the funding for the irs has been clawed back or will be clawed back. I had heard something catherine, i hate to do this to you. Ive got to break in because Speaker Mccarthy is at the microphones. After weeks of negotiations we have come to an agreement in principle. We still have a lot of work to do, but i believe this is an agreement in principle thats worthy of the american people. It has historic reductions in spending, consequential reforms that will lift people out of poverty into the workforce, rein in government overreach. There are no new taxes, no new government programs. Theres a lot more within the bill. We still have more work to do tonight to finish all the writing of it. I do want to take a moment, though, i do want to thank Garret Graves and patrick mcenry for all their work on this and all the work well tone to do tonight. I know you have a lot of questions. Im not going to take them tonight out of respect i want to brief our members about where we currently are. I expect to finish the writing of the bill, checking with the white house, and speaking to the president again tomorrow afternoon, and then posting the text of it tomorrow and then be voting on it on wednesday. But thank you for your time, and i think this is very worthy of the American Public. And that was the House Speaker Kevin Mccarthy laying out that he believes the House Republican conference and the white house, President Biden of course have reached a tentative debt limit deal. And we were just talking about the details of this a few moments ago. It would extend the debt limit into 2025 so the country doesnt have to go through all this again during a president ial election cycle. Catherine rampell, let me go back to you. As we were expecting he was touting portions of of this deal that are going to be favorable for him and getting this through his republican conference. What was your sense of what you just heard there . Reporter i thought it was interesting that he didnt give us many of the details. Obviously we all want to know whats actually in this tentative agreement because the details do matter not only in terms of their effects on the u. S. Economy, on people who depend on various forms of government services, all of that matters. You know, if there are tighter Work Requirements for food stamps, snap, thats relevant information for the American Public to know. But also because it matters for forecasting the likelihood this will actually get through the house. Again, i keep coming back to the fact that there is a large contingent of the republican conference that has said the bill that was passed before is the floor, not the ceiling on what they are demanding. And clearly not only has biden made some concessions but mccarthy has made significant concessions relative to that bill that was already passed. So without knowing, you know, the meat of this agreement, its very hard to know whether it is likely to get through the house. And if it doesnt get if republicans are not all onboard, is it appealing enough to some democrats to supply votes . And whats the downstream fallout from that . So he didnt say a lot. The fact that he didnt say a lot suggests to me that we have a lot to learn, and we need to figure out whats in this deal, how likely itll be to get through, and what it means for the American Public. Yeah, we might not be Out Of The Woods yet. Were not Out Of The Woods yet. And i dont know, is manu raju back with us . Not yet. There he is. Manu, one of things that stood out to me from Speaker Mccarthys comments is he said theyll be voting on this on wednesday, not tuesday. I think there was an expectation we might see a vote on tuesday. I mean that was optimistic thinking. But i would imagine for now the markets are going to be fairly calm, one would think, on tuesday. So perhaps they think they bought themselves a little extra time to get this done on wednesday, or do you just have to wait for everybody to get back from their Memorial Day Activities and schedule the vote on wednesday . Well, the speaker promised his members as part of his deal to become speaker he would give them 72 hours to reveal any legislative text that is revealed. And once its unveiled they cant vote within 72 hours according to the deal he cut in order to become speaker. That is the situation here. He said theyre going to release the bill text tomorrow. Thered been some expectation they could get it done today. They wanted the bill text out today, which is why they hoped the 72 hours would expire on tuesday and they could have a vote on tuesday. But now the bill text is not going to be out until tomorrow, that means they cant vote until wednesday at the earliest, which will push things even closer to the default deadline. Now, the question will be whether hell have the votes to get it through his chamber by wednesday. He would not say in that very brief statement whether or not he would take any questions, so its unclear if hes got his members onboard, which is why hes briefing his members, but that is going to be his challenge. The other challenge is lets assume they get the votes in the house. The House Republicans are expecting a majority of their conference will support it. Well see if that actually happens. Well see how Many Democrats help to defray those republican defections and push it through it chamber. Thats another question. The other question, how long does it take to get through the United States senate . The senate can take up to a week to get legislation done. Any member could slow down the process and there are ways to object. If there are some members not happy with this deal, and weve already heard some griping from some conservative senators who did not like some supports of this bill, how are they going to respond when theyve been shutout of this process, not really had a chance to weigh in, will they slow down the process as were staring at the prospects of a default . Those are all real questions which is why typically Something Like this needs to be hammered out over months of time and take weeks through the house and senate. Theyre trying to do this in a matter of days which is why its so complicated and every hour is so significant. Now theyve got to finish the writing of the text and count the votes. The next two big hurdles ahead. Manu, thanks for all the hard work today. David gergen, your sense from what the speaker said. I guess he kept it brief. I guess thats the safer way to go. He kept it brief. I think he gave himself some running room with his cot squs made some points. Listen, it sounded like he got the twoyear extension to 2025 and how long this deal would last. Thats a major, major victory for the white house those two years. Theres no new major taxes according to mccarthy. Theres also worker protection. From bidens Point Of View theyre not imposing a whole new series of worker reduction things, saying theyre going to put people on food stamps. Mccarthy argued first thing he said was the bill has, quote, historic restrictions in spending historic reductions in spending. Well have to wait and see what that is, but if what we see coming out of all all together is that the spending levels will be held steady, we wont rise, we wont fall, theyll be held steady except in the military areas, that would be a significant advance for the white house. Priscilla alvarez is over at the white house for us, and she got some of these details about the contours of this tentative agreement and from a source from these talks that youre talking to, priscilla, what about what david is saying here . There are some details here that the white house can point to and say, okay, House Democrats we didnt cave on as much as you feared we would. Theres some stuff in here you might like. Can you walk us through some of the details youre getting . Reporter right. Sources familiar with these negotiations have been underscoring that the president was trying to stay firm on his positions, but, of course, what were trying to learn more about in the details that will come because of course the debls always in the details is what the concessions were for the republicans and the white house. What you heard there one of the big ones here is twoyear deal and twoyear limit increase. What the democrats are going to be honing in on are those Work Requirements. On that front what im learning is the agreement at least when it comes to snap phases in subsets snap time limits to people ages up to 54. Again, a source underscoring on where the president fought on this, and then theres also the changes to tamp that would have Put Cash Assistant at risk for nearly 1 million children. The agreement modified to ensure states can continue to assist children. This is what were learning from a source. Again, its going to be worked through the legislative text, something both sides are going to be doing overnight to try to iron exactly what those details are. And those sections are where democrats will be looking at. And the irs, that too is something that they House Democrats and republicans will be looking for. So what we know as of tonight, which is still an important, Significant Development is that they reach a tentative agreement. And as we learn the contours of that agreement, were still waiting for nittygritty to really sort out where they may be fights within each conference, republicans and democrats because this is only, jim, the first step of a very long process. After this text comes out, its a vote on the house floor and then the senate. So the white house is aware of that. And also we should note President Biden spoke today with democratic leadership. He spoke with Senate Majority leader schumer and House Minority leader jeffrey. So clearly a concerted effort here not only talking to republican negotiators but already getting democrats onboard with where those negotiations are and where theyre headed, knowing there could also be a fight within the party. Absolutely good points. And Catherine Rampell, this should be enough to keep the markets calm by tuesday. They really havent fluctuated all that wildly based on the news whether or not were going to get a deal, and do you think that will be the case on tuesday, that folks will sit tight and wait until wednesday with the expectation that this looks like its going to get done . Reporter i think thats a reasonable assumption. Youve seen in select markets but not as much panic frankly as i had been expecting. I think because a lot of market participate wants had been operating on the assumption whats past is prologue, that they worked it out at the last minute in 2011, in 2013. Other times when it looks like there might be potential brinksmanship, theyll work it out again today. Again, my view is were not Out Of The Woods yet. I very much hope that there is a real agreement and that it gets through both houses of congress swiftly before we hit the socalled x date and potentially be unable to pay some of our bills. But i think we dont actually know that were at that point yet because of all of those other steps that my colleagues have just mentioned including the fact that whatever the deal may be may continue to be divisive within the Republican Party as well as within the democratic party. So if you start to see in the next couple of days lawmakers either party for that matter, noting theyre going to do something to try to obstruct the smooth passage of that legislation, then, yes, i would imagine markets would take that into consideration. You might see some greater stresses in certain markets. But if everybody assumes that we are on a pathway to raising or spe sus spending the debt limit theres a pathway that will not exert significant stresses on the overall economy on some of the potential plans that had been discussed might, then i think we should see some calmer Market Activity in the next cup of days. But, again, lots of wild cards. Yeah. And manu raju, how are democrats going to respond to this especially those progressives in the Democratic Caucus . Theyre all going to be expecting a briefing from the white house, i imagine. And how is that going to go . Reporter look, ive heard from a number of democrats they dont know what this deal is. Remember this deal was not cut by House Democrats. Ha Hakeem Jeffries was not in this room. A lot of members griped about that. They wanted some buy in from their leadership. This is white house deal that was cut, and there were plenty of warnings democrats made in the days running up to today that their votes were not to be taken for granted. I heard members making that clear. One member susan wild, a pennsylvania democrat, someone in a front line vulnerable district, someone that could flip to republicans next year, she had said shes concerned the white house is essentially going to give them a bad deal and support be used against them in their reelection campaigns next year. Theyll be forced into a Take It Or Leave it proposition and have a whole bunch of provisions they dont like and ultimately back it. Ive heard that from other members who dont want to buy in and other concessions members did have to make here. It seemed like there were some level of Work Requirements that were included in Social Safety Net programs like food stamps. That was a red line for most of these democratic members. They absolutely did not want that. They were ready to fight on this issue. Hakeem jeffries did not want that as part of this bill. How will he do . How will he message this . Will he fall in line with the white house . Probably thats the expectation, but does rank and file follow suit as well . Thats a Question Jeffries is going to have to face. Jeffries does not know how Many Democrats will vote for it. He says one of the big question he has is how many republicans will vote for it, and if they need to figure out a way if there are a lot of republicans defecting, are there enough democrats to vote for it to offset those republican losses . We are told in an effort to sell theyre expected to begin tomorrow. This is according to our colleague who was hearing about a briefing that will occur at the white house tomorrow evening with members of the Democratic Caucus and white house official. Well see if the president attends that as well, but at least trying to get more details about this deal. But this is all part of the white house effort to try to corral democrats, prevent them from revolting, get enough of them behind this deal, this very, very hardfought agreement that a lot of democrats will not be happy about because of the number of concessions the white house had to make after promising for months they wouldnt make any concessions and demanding a clean debt ceiling increase, jim. And manu, im looking at my calender here. June 5th is a week from monday. And if theyre going to have to vote on wednesday in the house, are we going to be back here next week and i dont want to put you on the spot, but are we going to be back here next weekend wonder what the senate is doing . I dont want everybody to tear their hair out, but it is a Holiday Weekend. I dont want to say cancel your next Weekend Plans but maybe cancel your next Weekend Plans. The way the senate operates if it does pass the house on wednesday, of course all those things need to happen, getting the votes and getting people onboard and that will take time. Lets say it gets through on wednesday, thursday is the beginning of that process to put it on the senate calender, go through the procedural hurdles and go through the senate. We could see a procedural vote maybe that would occur on saturday perhaps and then theyd have to run through the hours to go and you need 60 votes and bipartisan support to overcome a filibuster attempt, and then you can eventually move to a final vote after another 30 hours or so. So that could push this into the default territory. So thats why the timing is so complicated here, and there are other delaying mechanisms that any senator who wants to object can drag things out, they can force the reading of a bill, they can object to anything on the floor of the senate because everything requires unanimous support essentially that allows the senate to operate. If not they have to go through all the motions to overcome the delaying tactics. I suspect with a default looming that we will not get to that point if the votes are there to pass it, but you never know. Its a bumpy ride to get legislation through particularly in the United States senate and particularly on an issue this significant. Yeah, lots of bumpy rides these days. All right david gergen, Catherine Rampell, priscillaal alvarez, and manu raju, really appreciate it. Thanks for all the insights and reporting this evening and from everybody here at cnn. Its been a team effort. A programming note, tune in tomorrow morning on State Of The Union to hear from the leader of the house progressive caucus, congresswoman jayapal, tune into State Of The Union with jake tapper and dana bash that is tomorrow morning at 9 00 a. M. Right here on cnn. Another big story were following tonight, Texas Attorney general ken paxton has been impeached. Well have the latest on what that means and why the statehouse adopted 20 articles of impeachment against him, and well have much more on the breaking news, the white house and House Republicans reaching a deal in principle to raise the debt ceiling. 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Technically the state of texas has no Attorney General tonight. Per state law he say immediately suspended after he was impeached earlier today by the gop led stase house. The charges range from bribery to conspiracy to abuse of public trust. Although 75 votes were needed to refer 20 articles of impeachment to the state senate for a trial there were 121 votes in favor in the house. Paxton now becomes the first texas official to be impeached in the house in nearly half a century. The conservative republican calls todays proceedings an ugly spectacle that was never meant to be fair or just. Those are his words. Earlier this evening i spoke with a texas House Democrat for his take on todays extraordinary events. I just got off the house floor where i cast perhaps the most consequential vote during my time here then legislature. I joined a bipartisan Super Majority off our colleagues to impeach our Attorney General, and now ken paxton is effectively removed from office. And paxton continues to get support from National Republican figures, people like ted cruz, people like former president donald trump. Trump was posting on his social media site right after the vote hes vowed he will fight Texas Republicans who supported the impeachment. It sounds, though seems like trumps endorsement of paxton really didnt do much down there in texas. They werent listening. You know, i couldnt be prouder of my colleagues on both sides of the aisle in the texas house. In this age of extreme partisanship and polarization, democrats and republicans came together to hold a corrupt public official accountable. You know, nobody is above the law including our top Law Enforcement official in the state. Thats exactly what we showed with this vote. And i hope folks recognize that corrupt Public Officials like ken paxton are the rot at the core of our broken political system. And holding them accountable is our job as elected officials, and i hope that elected officials across the country will take note of what weve done here in the texas house. And representative, we were hearing earlier today that paxton himself was allegedly threatening house members with political consequences in the next election if they did not side with him. Did you pick up on any maybe he knew how you were going to vote, but were some of your colleagues mentioning, hey, this was going on, theyre really trying to strong arm us here . What have you picked up on . Yes, i can confirm that my colleagues on the other side of the aisle some of them were called by ken paxton himself while they were on the floor right before they took this important historic vote. And that to me is just further confirmation of ken paxtons corruption, and i think its even more evidence of his abuse of office. You know, if a public official betrays the public trust, if they abuse their power, then they should face consequences regardless of what Political Party they belong to. And what do you think is going to happen over in the Texas State Senate . I mean you need a two thirds vote to remove ken paxton permanently from office. Hes suspended right now. Hes not the Attorney General technically speaking, but do you think they can pull that off in the senate or might ken paxton survive this . You know, i hope the texas senate follows the lead of the texas house, and i hope those senators come together on a bipartisan basis to hold ken paxton accountable for his corruption. As you mention, jim, this is different than Impeachment Proceedings at the federal level because now the texas house has voted to impeach the Attorney General, he is removed from office. He is no longer the Attorney General, and he can only be reinstated if the texas senate takes action. And an Impeachment Proceeding is less about, you know, trying to punish the guilty and more about trying to protect the citizens of texas, protect our constituents. And having the top Law Enforcement official, the top cop on the take is a danger to every person in this state whether youre a republican or a democrat, and our job is to keep our citizens safe. Thats exactly what we did today in the texas house. And paxton faces additional trouble. Hes been under an fbi investigation for years. How do you think this ends for ken paxton . You know, because if you look at other channels, he pops up on conservative media, and one would not think hes in as much political trouble as he appears to be in right now. Yeah, thats right. This all could have been avoided if ken paxton just resigned from of office. Right, if he just felt basic shame for what hes done. But he doesnt feel shame. In fact, hes shameless. And he thinks his political friends including former President Trump will protect him. The texas house on a bipartisan basis republicans and democrats just showed thats not going to work this time, that we are going to hold him accountable for his corruption and the harm hes done to the people of this state. And our thanks to the representative for his time. Coming up, a massive surge in travel across the country this Holiday Weekend. The worlds Busiest Airport just experienced its third busiest day ever. Well have the latest. Youre live in the cnn newsroom. Helps reststore gum health, and rehardens enamel. Im a big advocate of recommending things that i k know work. Enjoy 0 delivery on all your favorites through may 30th with ihop n go. Download the app and earn free food with every order. Lowes knows you never come in for just one thing. So weve got to know a lot of things about a lot of things. Like which mower makes the cut. The mulch that finishes the look. 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Already were seeing Record Numbers as millions of americans go on vacation this Holiday Weekend. The tsa reported its third busiest day ever at atlantas big Hartsfieldjackson International Airport yesterday as well as the highest number of Checkpoint Screenings since the covid19 pandemic. Heres cnn isabelle rosales. Reporter weve been keeping an eye on the main Security Check point where its been ebbing and flowing all day long, its a little more compact like this, and other moments where its pretty empty, 10 minutes or less to get through tsa. The agency said on friday it had screened an estimated 2. 7 million passengers, the highest volume so far this year. And of course you can expect the same at the worlds Busiest Airport here, hartsfieldjackson which screened nearly 98,000 passengers on friday making it their third busiest day ever. I spoke with travelers who had experienced a litany of frustrations and struggles some even before getting inside of the airport. Listen. Just super hectic, the traffic even on the shuttle to come here it was even super, super hectic. I mean we waited probably a good 20 minutes just to go i dont know not even a mile. So my advice would be to plan, plan, plan. Leave early. Reporter and of course thats brought some bad flashback Tuesday The Travel Fiasco we saw in summer of 2022. A lot of experts and passengers alike keeping a close eye to this summer, specifically this Memorial Day Weekend as a sort of test onair lines, airports, and also the faa. One of the biggest hurdles so far is their shortage of airtraffic controllers. They are down about 3,000 controllers so far. The agency has warned that it will impact Summer Travel. Jim . All right, and its not just busy airports. Aaa says more people are hitting the road this Holiday Weekend compared to last year. Reporter jim, good evening. And were not just standing in front of the busiest freeway across los angeles, this is also the busiest interstate in america. And as we zoom in, this is all of the Beach Traffic that is going away from us over the pass and eventually making its way towards santa monica, closer to the pacific ocean. And this gives you an idea that the Memorial Day Road Trip is certainly back. Aaa telling us just look at this number they anticipate more than 37 million americans will be taking to the roadways this Memorial Day Weekend which is just, jim, underneath the 2019 prepandemic levels that we saw three years ago. But in terms of what advice aaa has for all of us taking the roads, heres what they told us. Definitely inspect that vehicle before you take that long road trip. Check your tire tread and inflation, make sure your battery has a good charge. Make sure your fluid levels are topped off. During this Memorial Day Weekend aaa anticipates coming to the Roadside Rescue of 460,000 stranded drivers. Jim, weve got to talk about gas prices. Today the National Average 3. 58. A year ago it was all the way up to 4. 60. It hit a record of 5 the National Average june of last year. One reason aaa said we may not have crossed the threshold of prepandemic road trips for Memorial Day Weekend is these prices are still pretty high but coming down especially in california, alaska, new york, new jersey, and florida seeing some of the steepest declines. Also, jim, we talked to analysts from gas buddy. They said it is appearing less and less likely that the National Average for gas will go above 4 for the Summer Travel season, certainly good news for anybody about to take their Great American road trip. Jim . All right, mike, thanks very much. Coming up troops gear up for a potential Counter Offensive against russia, and a ukrainian general has a pointed message for his soldiers, russia, and the world. Thats next. Youre live in the cnn newsroom. Makes the cut. The mulch that finishes the look. And pickining a color that po. You got this. We got you. 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Cnns Fred Mpleitgen has the story. Reporter a video put forward by ukraines top general seems to show ukrainian soldiers getting ready for battle and saying its time to take back whats ours. You also see a lot of westernsupplied Military Equipment in that video as well, including himars supplied by the u. S. , also germansupplied leopard 2 main battle tanks. It is unclear whether or not that could be an indication that that looming possible largescale counteroffensive by the ukrainians might be inching closer. However, one of the things that weve sort of been picking up on the past couple of days is increasing longdistance strikes, seemingly by the ukrainians, on cities in ukraine that are under russian control. It seems to focus on two places. One of them is berdyansk, also mariupol. Today reports of three explosions happening in mariupol, certainly one of the main Staging Grounds for the russian military, for their operations in ukraine. So that could be something potentially that could hurt the russians quite badly in the rear echelon. All this comes as the war continues in its full brutality. There was that massive incident that happened in the town of dnipro where the russians apparently struck a medical facility there. Two people were killed, a lot of people were injured as well. A lot of them already in hospital. Ukrainians are saying one of the things that made all that so deadly is the fact that apparently the russians used missiles that are normally used to shoot down aircraft and fired them into an urban area. If you use those missiles in a groundtoground configuration, they do become extremely inaccurate. That certainly increases the possibility of them killing civilians and causing large human casualties. That appears to be what happened in dnipro, something heavily condemned not just by the leadership in ukraine but internationally as well, jim. All right, fred pleitgen, thank you as always. 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A democratic aide tells cnn House Democrats will be briefed on a tentative deal by the white house tomorrow at 5 00 p. M. It still has to go through the senate before going to the president , were not Out Of The Woods yet. But that is the latest here tonight in water. Cnns jeanne moos. Reporter think of him as a pool puppy. Thor, the boston terrier, loves swimming so much he got his own indoor pool. He loves to jump. Thats his favorite thing to do would be to jump in the pool. Reporter boston terriers are not natural swimmers. But thor has been een plunging lakes, swearing a life jacket. Soon he graduated to an outdoor pool. Even though he hates to be out in the rain, he eats it up when hes in the pool. Owner lisa maseric says it was always sad when outdoor swimming season came to an end, so she and her partner converted an old garage into a pool house for a pup. This was his first dip. Now he swims at least twice a day, squeaking every time he jumps in. Ready . One, two, three reporter always swimming in circles. How many laps can he do . Roughly about 300 laps when hes out there. Reporter occasionally, he uses his duck floaty. Hes got his own thor towel. Why do they spoil him . Because of that face. Reporter though thor doesnt know it, he has an audience most evenings at 7 00. Well go live on tiktok, because people for some reason really love to watch him swim. Reporter how many dogs would make this choice . Bacon . Or the pool . Bacon . The pool . Reporter this is a dog that can swim and chew bacon at the same time. Do you want the bacon and the pool . Reporter jeanne moos, cnn, new york. That reminds me, i need to check on duke. Ill see you again tomorrow starting at 5 00 eastern. Reporting from washington, im jim acosta. Have a good night. And its seven minutes now past the hour. Our number across the country is 1800