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we begin tonight with breaking news straight from capitol hill. we are getting word that the white house and house republicans are getting closer to a deal to raise the debt ceiling. one week before the u.s. runs out of money. what do we know right now about where the deal stands between kevin mccarthy, house republicans and the white house? >> i think we should caveat by saying nothing has been agreed upon yet. nothing has been finalized. they are moving closer to a deal. we have seen...

>> abby, i think we should caveat by saying nothing that we have -- nothing has been finalized. they are moving closer to a deal. we have seen some progress over the last few 12 hours, particularly on the spending issue. that is as something that has been really bedeviling the talks. but they started at least floating the idea of a potential compromise that both sides could try to claim as a win. one of the things they are discussing is raising the debt ceiling for two years, which wou...

Acidification to the temperatures is moving the prey around, its moving the predators around. so sharks and humans are colliding seemingly more, but its also a factor of humans using the water more. theres more coastal population thats exploding here in florida especially. so its kind of tough to say. the bottom line is if sharks thought humans were a viable prey item, a food source they could eat regularly, they would. they would hunt and kill us every single day because were slow, were easy to...

Opinion, spend a lot of time swimming with sharks. and one of the factors in all of this, i understand, could be how the water temperature is changing. what can you tell us about that? >> well, thats certainly another factor, with a shifting in the climate, and the changes in the oceans. everything from acidification to the temperatures, its moving the pray around. its moving the predators around. sharks and humans are colliding, seemingly, more. its a factor of humans using the water more. ther...

Was the boat spooking the shark or was the shark jumping out of the water to get me as a prey item? i cant answer that question but im happy to be sitting here today. >> the shark wanted to eat him! you look at it the video, the shark wanted to eat him! im leaving the interview now. >> youre staying here and heres why. it does look like it wanted to eat you. about eight days ago something happened to a friend of mine also off the water of cape cod. his name is roger freeman. he was minding his o...

This leaping giant white shark and i have to tell you it startled me quite a bit and it only lasted maybe a split second so its not like i have time to think about it so i just put the camera in the water and hoped i could get video of it. but it was frighteniexciting to least. >> excite is one word. frightening and terrifying is another. why did the shark jump out at you? had you annoyed it? how unusual is it to see a great white shark jump out of the water like that? >> well, in our part of th...

Great white shark. >> nick fanning says he punched the shark in the back. maybe that was instinct or a gut reaction. was that a smart thing to do? >> it was -- will let the animal know that you are not a prey item and it will make something retreat. especially in the back it would not know what that was. so i think he had a good reaction. you know, he got away from the situation very quickly and the shark tested the animal didnt come back for the man. he understood that this was not an actual pr...

Foot caribbean reef shark, and as you can imagine its a pretty life-changing event when a shark that size swims by. it was calm and peaceful and knew i wanted to work with sharks. >> and turns out if you swam in florida you would be within feet of sharks and probably never knew? >> up and down the east coast people have been closer to sharks than they realize. the reality is sharks are not hunting people. theres over 500 species of sharks. no one of them has humans on the diet. when it does happ...

Felt soft eating her hair. weve seen this happen before with much deadlier animals but with one big difference. who could forget the lioness at the oregon zoo that reacted to young jack asrs call a prey item. he did resemble a zebra. aleahs mom teaches baby sign language. >> can you sign camel? good job. humps of the camels back. >> it left its own design on the steering wheel. >> ew gross. >> look what it did to our steering wheel. >> reporter: shows just how stupid some people can be versus i ...

skeptical social conservatives. ill talk about that and more with this former rival who just dropped out of the race newt gingrich. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." formally this week, satellites would have been dominated by the race for the white house and the increasingly heating battle between the obama and romney campaigns. but president obama rewrote the script, catching the world by surpris...