good evening, everyone. i am ayman mohyeldin. is seven pm here on the east coast, which means the polls are now officially close. tonight s primary contests, marking the first official primary for democrats and in the first time that president joe biden s name appeared on a ballot this election season. now, alongside him on the ballot, democratic rivals, congressman dean phillips and marianne williamson. steve kornacki is live for us from washington prepared to break down the results for us. any moment now, as soon as we get them. however, to be clear, the nights outcome is all but decided. biden stands as the overwhelming favorite tonight in the state. and what we really want to watch out for you tonight is how many delegates he leaves south carolina with. a total of 55 will be awarded proportionally based on tonight s outcome. a candidate needs a total of nearly 2000 delegates to capture the democratic nomination. meanwhile, breaking news overseas tonight. the u.s. and uk l
freeman and omar jimenez. okay, the u.s. has one week left to southeast that the myth crisis before facing the fall. sources tell cnn that white house officials and gop negotiators are getting closer to an agreement to raise the debt ceiling, and zane is on the story. are we on the verge of a deal? i think that the major disaster that we were talking about on tuesday as more or less been a voted for now. i am some optimistic based on what i am hearing. i think i am getting the impression that if mccarthy want to make a deal at this point, he probably could. and terms that the contours of what we are hearing right now, there is possibly a deal in the works to raise the debt ceiling to years and issue spending cuts for two years. that s good news there. i think that my concern is even if they reach a deal, this is what i was talking about earlier, even at the reach a deal and you have mccarthy and biden come together to reach a deal, mccarthy still has to sell it, right? that
cnn tonight with alisyn camerota is starting right now. hi. such a horrible story. we re going to be talking about the developments in that case as well. erary sad. that should never happy obviously, so we re going to try to figure out what went wrong. good evening. everyone. welcome to cnn tonight. why was donald trump s staff moving boxes of documents around mar-a-lago when they knew that the fbi was coming the following day to look for classified documents? the washington post reports that investigators consider the timing here a potential sign of obstruction. so what happens now? our panel tells us what this means for the investigation. plus that 11-year-old mississippi boy called 911 for help during a domestic disturbance, but when police arrived as you heard they shot him, so we ll give you new developments in this case. and mike roe is here to talk tonight about why college enrollment is at its lowest point in years. two trump employees allegedly mov
16 countries take the stage in liverpool later for the second semifinal. sticking with the eurovision theme, we are in liverpool at the shopping centre right in the heart of liverpool, surrounded by these beautiful eggs, i will tell you about them later on. the bank of england is expected to raise interest rates again today to 4.5%, the highest level in 15 years. it will be the 12th consecutive hike since december 2021, meaning mortgage payments could rise further for millions of customers. our business correspondent hannah miller reports. this is the first home gheev has owned, bought with his girlfriend two months ago. but since they agreed their mortgage, the monthly payments have gone up twice in line with the base rate of interest set by the bank of england. when we were coming to find a mortgage, the fixed rates were astronomically high. we figured that if the bank of england base rate goes up by another two or three percentage points, we re actually better off staying