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good evening. welcome to cnn tonight. breaking news. in just the past few minutes, the house voted to pass the debt limit bill. this is a huge relief for president biden and speaker kevin mccarthy and you can argue, the global financial system. a vote could happen in the senate as soon as tomorrow. we'll take you live to capitol hill. plus, first on cnn, the justice department has an audio tape of donald trump at a meeting in the summer of 2021 acknowledging that he kept a classified pentagon document after he was out of office about a potential attack on iran. sources say he sugge...

To conduct new evacuation tests with new realistic conditions that actually include the size of an space between the seats. i'm back with neil degrasse tyson and juliette kayyem. i'm five foot three inches. what's the problem with airline seats? >> -- >> who doesn't love them? >> i'm so not five foot three inches. it's all that now people are wearing about the seats. have we checked to see whether americans rear ends have gotten bigger over the decade? >> that's right, you were -- >> -- complaining? because a fat bots butts? >> -- that's why all the testing is done -- down with about 70 passen...

Tmz reports three more men have come forward, accusing him of sexual assault between 1996 and 2013. scotland yard already investigating three other claims against spacey. separate investigations are also under way in massachusetts and california. spacey has previously denied allegations against him. and the tight squeeze when you fly. the faa today responding to a lawsuit from a passengers' rights group concerned about the safety of adding more seats to already cramped cabins. the agency says it won't regulate seating. the faa says evacuation tests prove there is enough room for passengers a...

Headlines. >> good morning. when you're a new mom, of course you're up at all hours. good morning to anzly and will and baby hayden. 33 minutes after the hour. last leg room may be the least of your worries on your next flight. according to "the wall street journal," the faa has not yet tested airplane evacuations with flights with those tighter cabins. right now the agency conducts evacuation tests with 31 inches of space but some airlines give just 28 inches. the upside, the faa says that tighter seats may help reduce injuries in an emergency because you have less room to bang your head. a...

Eliminate through a process of elimination come up with a probable cause. remarkable thing about this, evacuation tests for the triple 7 in seattle before it was put into service. and it passed with flying colors. so the built for the passengers to evacuate obviously was key to whatever is going to be hopefully a positive resulted in terms of that. >> it passed all initial safety tests. does that tell you that perhaps this was pilot error in terms of the tail independent of the plane coming off which we are seeing from these pictures and fire that followed that? >> the ntsb will send a full te...