Closure of National Landmarks but the greatest tension in washington may be building toward thursdays zedline the governments potential default on its debt. Jim acosta is at the white house and with just over 60 hours left now on the clock, all hope seems to be with two men who dont like each other too much. Any signs of progress at all this morning . Reporter not net john. To give you a sense of how desperate things are becoming in washington the only movement reported in the last 24 hours is a phone conversation between the senates top two leaders, harry reid and Mitch Mcconnell. They have to Work Together if it means averting a big crisis. With the clock ticking down to debt ceiling day its come down to Senate Majority leader harry reid and minority leader Mitch Mcconnell, who started orchestrating a deal to reopen the government and avoid default. Ive had a productive conversation with republican leader this afternoon, our discussions were substantive and well continue those discus
Military operation against isis. And a fatal confrontation rocks the motor sports world. Police questioning nascar star tony stewart a second time about a tragic collision. Hello, everyone. Great to see you today. Im john berman. Decided to come to work, did you . I did. Good to see you. Im michaela pereira. Weve got a busy show. Were going to begin right outside st. Louis where a solemn and peaceful march is scheduled to begin shortly for a teenager killed over the week by police. Now, his death sparked violence overnight. Police in full riot gear battlesing protesters. Thats in ferguson, missouri, some threw bottles and kicked patrol cars. There was some vandalism and looting as well. 32 people were arrested. Many in that crowd felt no doubt this violence followed other violence. 18yearold Michael Brown was shot and killed by a Police Officer. There were conflicting reports on what happened that led to the shoot th. Witnesses say that brown was unarmed and did nothing to instigate th
Surface ship has been able to locate them. Thats the frustration for searchers. They know the time is running out to find the flight data recorders. The pings they send out will start fading over the next few days. The batteries will end up dying after 30 days. Retired lieutenant michael kay is back with us. Alongside him is christine denison. She is an Ocean Explorer and logistics expert. I want to start with you about this new potential discovery. 122 pieces of possible debris or at least objects spotted in an area a lot smaller than we have been dealing with in the past, about 400 square kilometers. They range in size up to 70 feet. Some are much smaller. Some are brightly colored. This seems to have a lot of analysts excited about this. What is the significance of this find . I think it is wise we are calling these objects now and not calling them debris from the outseat. We have seen from previous imagery, from the start, when we had that first satellite image provided by the u. S
Im john berman. And im michaela pereira. We want to start looking at this storm threat off the east coast. It could very well become a hurricane by the fourth of july. Chad myers joins us now from the cnn Weather Center and just seconds ago we got a new advisory from the National Hurricane center. How big is this storm and wheres it going . Its 40 mile per hour right now. That means it is Tropical Storm arthur. It was tropical depression number one for a while. The storm to the northeast of miami right about there making onshore waves across the east coast. Because the storm is going to stay off shore for most of its life, that will be the main threat. This rip current activity all the way up and count down the east coast that will take people as they are trying to swim in this water this week and this weekend will rip them out into the ocean. I need you to wear a life jacket. You got a lot of red flags up and down the east coast, a lot of life guards saying stay out of this water. Its
Hello, everyone. Great to see you today. Im john berman. And im michaela pereira. Those stories and much more. Right now, this hour, fears that the violence in the middle east is about to get worse. Israels Prime Minister netanyahu sending out this tweet, hamass rejection of the cease fire gives israel full legitimate si to expand the operation to protect our people. Israel stopped firing rockets, but hamas did not. So israel has resumed. The Prime Minister told wolf blitzer that the cease fire was a one sided operation. As you said, hamas itself has some problematic statements, hamas runs the gaza trip. Its not a democracy. They rule the strip with an iron fist. If they want to stop rockets being fired, they can do it. So far, they have done not enough. Does israel expand the operation . Does that mean a full bore war is minutes, hours, days away . Were joined by Rick Francona and david difuri with us and david, israel did stop shooting. Hamas did not. Did they miss an tun to solve th