Flying Projectile News Today

everyone. thank you for joining me. im fredricka whitfield. a deal to avoid a debt default is about to be revealed. president biden and speaker mccarthy are finalizing an agreement to raise the debt limit. president biden saying this earlier today. >> im about to go in and call mccarthy now at 3:00, make sure all the ts are crossed and the is are dotted. i think were in good shape. >> house leaders expect the bill to be voted on as soon as wednesday. speaker mccarthy is confident the d...

Separate occasions in recent days using surface to air missiles. ellison barber joins us with the very latest from washington. >> reporter: yeah, the japanese owner of a tanker attacked says the tanker was hit by some sort of flying projectile. the u.s. says it was an olympic mine attack and released video allegedly showing iranian sailors removing an unexploded mine from the tanker. iran denies involvement, and across the aisle u.s. officials say iran was behind the attack. some republican lawm...

Is we arent going to guarantee freedom of navigation throughout the strait. that was on "fox news sunday" a little earlier this morning. secretary pompeo claims the u.s. has lots of data and evidence proving iran is behind the attack. he did not lay out that evidence but said eventually the public, the world would be with able to see a lot of it. the u.s. already released surveillance video a couple of days ago. the u.s. says it shows iranian sailor ares removing an unexplored mine from one of t...

Understand very clear that we will continue to take actions that deter iran from engaging this kind of behavior. ive made a number of calls to my colleagues around the world yesterday. im confident we will have partners that understand this threat. >> secretary pompeo claims the u.s. has lost -- lots of data of proof. he is not laid up and says soon the world will see much of it. the already released surveillance video that the top administration, military say it shows iranian sailors removing a...

The attack. but the tankers japanese owner to contradicting reports his vessel was hit by a mine and claims it was hit by a flying projectile. a day after secretary of state mike pompeo said definitively that iran was behind the blast. this morning, president trump doubled down on pompeos claims. >> iran did do it, and you know they did it because you saw the boat. i guess one of the mines didnt explode and its probably got essentially iran written all over it. that was their boat. that was them...

Execution. we can only do so much. if the citizens dont cooperate and they get themselves in harms way, it can put a lot of other people in harms way as well. were hoping they heed the warning all officials and we hope we wont have any loss of life. >> what do you want to tell the citizens? >> i would just say its really important to listen. if youre not in new orleans, you have other county or parish executives, listen to them. if we say get off the street, get off the street. people think its ...

Again, we take a calculated risk because we want people to know where you are. on the western side of the state what is coming your way. and this is just one part of it. remember, miami and miami beach is not in the heart of the eye. the eye is -- its going to be worse for you. thats important to know. that street sign that you were just showing, this is it over here. it just came down. its a number of street signs, if you look across the street. all these trees. a lot of the coconuts that used ...

Minutes. still to come a bumpy week for a likely presidential candidate. did jeb bush flip on foreign policy? or not? and how will other candidates deal with that iraq question? our political panel standing by for a fair and balanced debate. in the wake of tuesdays deadly derailment amtrak makes safety changes. were on the ground in philadelphia. >> what amtrak is doing to make the railroads safer, and did flying projectile hit the train before it crashed and did it have an effect? and fin...

Signage with the speed limits for the engineers. amtrak has suggested on its website they said it has been 28 years since a fatality due to a derailment. they said the number of derailments has gone down from 80 to 28 annually since 2000 and emphasized they will be ensuring that they put in that next generation automatic train control system called positive train control on all their railroads by the end of the year as mandated by congress. the ntsbs lead investigator robert sumwald said they wi...

All right. we think of our house as a shelter from the storm but sometimes mother nature has other ideas. hurricane season has started and that wind and rain can do a number on your property. >> insurance companies say the average cost to repair a damaged home is about $6,500. how can you batten down the hatches? abcs byron pitts tells us what works and what doesnt. >> three, two, one. >> reporter: are you ready if disaster hits literally? a flying projectile through a window, eight inches of ra...