another government shutdown. congress only has five and a half days to pass some kind of measure to keep the federal government funded or otherwise risk closing down some agencies and suspending some services right before the holidays. but as has been the case since the beginning of this congress, unresolved issues within their is functional house republican caucus continue to derail progress. the conference wide call yesterday afternoon, the new speaker mike johnson unveiled his plan to fund the government, which involves a novel approach called a lag, continuing resolution, or c r. under this plan, fundi for some services and agencies, such as military vet programs, department of transportation and housing, and urban development, among others, will be extended at current levels until the first deadline of january 19. meanwhile, funding will be extended until february 2nd, a couple of weeks later, for the rest of the government, including for the departments of state, justic
announcer: this is cnn breaking news. welcome to the lead. i m pamela brown in for jake tapper in washington, d.c. tonight, as israel ramps up the bombardment of the terror group hamas, innocent civilians are finally being allowed to leave war-ravaged gaza. and egyptian official tells cnn that 361 foreign nationals left gaza and entered egypt through the rafah crossing today. the u.s. state department confirms some of them were americans. and sources say the group includes two american aid workers, dr. barbara zind, and ramona okumura, a prosthetics expert. one of ramona s family members will join us live in moments for now. so stick around for that. and the white house said it expects to get all americans out of gaza. a number believed to be around 400 within a few days. dozens of severely injured palestinians were allowed to cross into egypt today. and were rushed to egyptian hospitals for medical care that they haven t been able to get in gaza. despite this small g
investigators say robert aaron long gunned down people in a spa in cherokee county. investigators say long travelled less than an hour south to atlanta and shot and killed two more people at massage businesses across the street from each other. today the sheriff s department said long is talking to investigators and telling them a sexual addiction drove him to violence. it s still early but the indicators right now are it may not be, it may be targets of opportunity. again, we re we believe that he frequented these places in the past and may have been lashing out, and part of that in your media packet as well. but it s a sexual addiction rather than a racial profiling? during our interviews we asked that specific question and that did not appear to be the motive. cnn s natasha chen is in atlanta. officials say the gunman was headed to florida when arrested and his family was critical in the arrest. reporter: yeah, the family of the suspect was critical in helping
Burgdorf. While Rescue Efforts are still under way, Mexican Crews Race to save people trapped beneath the crumblings. The u. S. Geological survey said yesterdays quake was centered near the town of san juan roboso. Officials have lowered the death toll to 217 after initially raising to over 250 overnight. Dozens of buildings were reduced to rubble or severely damaged in densely populated parts of the city. The president says roughly 40 of the capital is without power. Meanwhile Officials Say at least 25 children and adults after their school in mexico city has collapsed. 11 people have been rescued. Still others unaccounted for. This is video from our colleagues at telemundo of their
office in mexico, shaking during that earthquake. You see them bracing themselves agency the tv monitors begin to sway. President trump tweeted his support. Writing god bless the people of mexico city. We are with you and we will be there for you. Steve, good to talk to you this morning. Just an incredible
women, and their opinions of the former president barry, it was interesting to see again, this is a very high profile case with a very high defendants can everybody knows who donald trump is. you had some people saying they didn t like his persona. they thought that he was a selfish person. you d other people saying they thought it was interesting that they had read part of the deal. so again, how all of this plays out will be very interesting, particularly given who the defendant is and the fact that this is the first criminal trial of a former president in us history, john. and they re also use this issue of what donald trump continues to say and post while not in the courtroom itself. and the judge keeps saying, we re going to bring this up in a hearing now that hearing is moved earlier, what s exactly going on here this is all about that gag order and what we have heard donald trump s say time and time again. and really, this goes to the fact that the prosecution doesn t have t