nation s debt limit after a last-minute rewrite. and we re tracking the speaker s efforts to get gop holdouts to get in line. joe biden strikes a landmark deal to send a nuclear submarine to south korea for the first time in 40 years. the president and his south korean kocounterpart going to n lengths to deter kim jong-un and his escalating nuclear threats. and oath, testimony by the woman who alleges that donald trump assaulted her decades ago. cnn was there as e. jean carroll took the stand. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s get right to capitol hill for the latest on the very high stakes showdown over raising the nation s federal debt limit. cnn congressional correspondent jessica dean is following all this. republicans have been scrambling to hold a vote today on their plan to raise the debt ceiling. where do things stand right now? reporter: wolf, the chamber is just here to m
the lead starts right now. a critical vote possibly just minutes away as speaker mccarthy pushes house republicans to sign off on his debt limit plan. i ll speak on one holdout about the offers. clemency request denied. a parole board votes against sparing the life of kdeath row inmate in oklahoma. plus, disney versusdy san tis. the major new lawsuit accusing the florida governor of weaponizing his political power. everyone. i m in for jake tapper today. we start with our politics lead. do they have the votes? right now, house republicans are in the middle of last-minute negotiations as house speaker kevin mccarthy tries to get his party s debt ceiling plan across the finish line. we expect that vote to start in minutes. he had zero democratic support, and he can only lose four republicans, a narrow margin that forced him to make some 11th hour concessions. but even if he can get this bill across that finish line, it is dead on arrival in the democrat controlled senate
reaction to the by the administration s report on the botched withdrawal from afghanistan nearly two years a ago. the report blames the trump administration from the deadly chaos of august 2021. critics also slamming the timing of the release just before a holiday weekend. i ll miss as we learn about a severe intelligence breach involving classified documents leaked on social media concerning ukraine, china, the middle east. alexandria hoff s life from the white house with more, alexandria. good evening jon. the scope of this leak is growing along the potential consequences. among the images that have been found media leaked there on friday, most describe destroying maps of ukraine and positions of forces. all concerning their. on top of that the maritimes reporting that 100 similarly damaging documents may have also been part of this breach, more than 100 as a matter fact. they say this includes sensitive breathing, slides related to china, the indo pacific region, the mid
georgia, where the former president lives just ahead. but first tonight to east palestine, ohio, where a train derailment and toxic chemical spill have residents and lawmakers demanding answers about the safety of the air and drinking water. garrett tenney is live in that small ohio town near the pennsylvania border. garrett. reporter: yeah, jon, it s now been more than two weeks since that train derailment, and a lot of people here are still feeling sick despite officials saying the data shows the air and water are safe. and these are just the short-term symptoms from chemical exposure with. what is even more concerning for a lot of folks here is the long-term effects, what things could look like 10-15 years down the road potentially as a result of this disaster. i think we coneed to be concerned about the long-term effects of exposure to this chemical. back in 20 the 12 is the there were hundreds of people who went to the e.r. in the aftermath of that train derailment
whoa, whoa 28 points. i would like to do the same. reporter: that would make her a copy cat. she said the same thing when she first laid eyes on patches. whoa. reporter: jeanne moos, cnn, new york. good morning, everyone. welcome to cnn this morning. it is saturday, april 29th. i m amara walker. i m victor blackwell. thank you for joining us. i think the sound we heard at the end of the patches story was the grunt that patches makes getting up i can tup. she can t meow. can you take a cat for a walk? i don t know. here s what we re looking at. more than 0 million are facing severe storms yet again today after residents were faced with baseball-sized hail. what led to the recent collapse of two banks. the concerns now over a third and why the white house says it will not step in to rescue it. we will stand up again and again, and our language will get tougher and we will get madder. antiabortion bills face an uphill battle. they fail in republic