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scene and were able to successfully get the fire out. and then help him get on a stretcher and get to cornell medical center where he is currently in the burn unit. officials revealing that despite this ugly incident, that man is alive and currently intubated, they relayed that he is in critical condition, though as one officer put it at the situation does not look good for him. officials were asked repeatedly if this incident would change the makeup of the scene outside the courthouse? officials made clear that this man did not actually breach the security barrier outside of the courthouse. but they say they are going to reassess security and potentially could shut down that area to public access again an update from nypd on that disturbing incident in new york. they also relate jessica that they are scanning the area for any possible devices, but so far they see no threat to the public. jessica. >> okay. we have some more breaking news to share with you
reasons for cause so if they have some concern about any of these jurors and it could mean that we could move pretty quickly. the court is getting ready to break for lunch, so all of that will happen once we've returned from the lunch break, but there is now at least 18 jurors in the box to begin the 2nd important round of getting to see if we can fill the seats we thought we only needed 11. now we need 13. >> boris, it's so important because the strikes that they've already used, you don't get them back because jurors now have not been seated. and these were jurors who had been removed that were essentially the compromise of both the prosecution and the defense. and so now back compromise is gone. somebody they thought was palatable to both. now out times to dropping it down to five, it could be a lot longer yeah. >> and we were impressed by how quickly things were moving along. it seems like we've might've hit a road bumps here. lower codes, kara scannell from outside the courthouse in manhattan. thank you so much. we'll be checking in throughout the day. jessica all right. >> let's bring in former trump white house counsel cnn, legal
he could remain an effective republican can speaker, especially in an election year with a majority at stake, all these questions have yet to unfold. jessica. >> yeah, much more to come on. this lauren fox with the absolute latest thanks so much for us. >> let's discuss further now with democratic congressmen, raja krishnamoorthi of illinois. he serves on the house intelligence committee congressman, thanks so much for being with us following the caucus meeting, the democrats had this morning would you say that there's a more cohesive strategy for how your party is going to approach the effort to potentially vacate speaker johnson no i wouldn't say that. i would say that there's a lot of support for the underlying bills. i think those are vital. >> whether it's a ukraine legislation or the legislation for indo-pacific defenses, or even the legislation containing a bill that i coauthored, ruth regard to tiktok. >> with regard to mr. johnson he hopefully we'll do the right thing. bring these to the
elizabeth, i have a long drive tomorrow oh, and i'm actually very excited about it for this reason the hype is very real. >> so as you see behind me, there is an open-air library put on by spotify, which has all all of these clues, these easter eggs that you mentioned jessica. >> it's a library, of course, to celebrate the tortured poets department. >> there's books that have taylor's song names on then there's a clock that says 2:00 p.m. now, if you are a swiftie, you know that the number two in 2:00 p.m. has been a big symbol coming from taylor herself ever since she won the grammy and announced her new album, she gave a peace sign saying the number two, well right now there is a countdown clock on taylor swift's website counting down just a few minutes to 2:00 p.m. nobody knows what it is, but their fans here who had been waiting for hours to get in. we're going to talk to some of that and see what they think this count down could be all about high so i with three ladies
when they surrounded johnson on the floor and made clear to him that that could be a difference maker when it comes as to whether or not they would vote to try to get him out of the job. here's what they said my home was that the motion to vacate would be an elixir that only required one dose, right? >> for effectiveness but sometimes there are some therapies that require more than one dose. and i hope that's not the case with the motion to vacate, but will administer the elixir as many times. as is necessary to save the country, changing the threshold for the motion to vacate. >> that's been my red line this entire congress, i told him there's nothing that will get you to a motion to vacate faster than changing the threshold and once again, if there is an effort to try to oust johnson, all eyes are going to be the on democrats. >> that is because they would likely be needed to save him. jessica, obviously that complicates johnson's future. it complicates whether or not
hardliners surrounded john something on the chamber floor, essentially petting him against a wall. all that playing out as johnson's foreign aid bills face a critical test today, the house rules committee is weighing whether to bring that package to the floor for a vote. johnson says he's moving forward with his plans to put a series of aid bills on the floor saturday, and that does include 1 billion for ukraine. he then plans to tie them together in one big package and send that over to the senate for final approval. but that is not sitting well with the number of far-right republicans who are threatening to boot him over their opposition to sending more aid to you crane, let's go to capitol hill now with cnn's lauren fox lauren, this continues to develop really by the minute today, what's the latest right now yeah, all eyes are on that very important house rules committee meeting. this is typically the first step, jessica, and it usually doesn't get that much attention because it it's not typically this controversial, but in this congress with this republican majority, the rules
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amazing lightning show we even get lightening sometimes in forest fires they ash goes up, the fire goes up and you get a little cumulonimbus pierce little fire tornado were firestorm there. >> but it's the act of upward motion. >> it's the sheer of the ashes, kinda like to share of the haeil that we make an a thunderstorm. the positive up here, the negative down here, and they spark each other and that caused that dramatic pictures. and there are so many pictures online of this sparking, if you would like to see it, it is quite dramatic from other angles as well, jessica. >> yeah, no doubt about it. all right. can thanks for explaining that. all too. as we appreciate boris now to some of the other headlines were watching this our beginning with a rise in heat related emergencies across the united states. >> according to this cdc, the number of er visits for conditions like heat stroke, heat cramps, and sunburns surged last summer, july and august saw the highest spot thanks coinciding with record-breaking temperatures
are up is boosting your net worth, but jessica, we know there's a lot of americans out there who are on the outside looking in there. you want to buy, but they can't. >> yeah, that has to be frustrating and there's also a recent survey out about how frustrated renters are that's where i jessica a lot of renters, they don't want to rent, right now. they want to buy, but they feel like they can't not at these prices and not at these interest rates. and so this survey from redfin founded nearly 40% of us renters, they believed that they'll never be able to buy a home. and the number for one reason cited not surprisingly is this affordability issue. and so i think that the fact that now we have mortgage rates back above seven jessica, that's only going to kind of feed this sense that for far too many americans, the dream of homeownership feels like it's out of reach right now. >> all right. matt egan for us with that news, it's probably not great for people who are either winning, are hoping to buy a home, but we'll see how
1177. call now i'm caitlin polantz at the federal court in washington and this is cnn some bad news, unfortunately, if you are looking to buy a home mortgage rates jumping this week, taking the radon 30 year mortgage, up to 7.1% that'd be highest l this year. it's based on the betting that the fed is likely to delay cutting interest rates to make sure inflation cools down fst forore ons, t's bring in cnnusins goes wit saying this makes americans who are hoping to buy a home that's right, jessica, you nailed it. >> this affordability crisis just got worse mortgage rates topping 7% for the first time since december rates are now about twice as high as they were at this 0.4 years ago. and rates are creeping up again because of these concerns about