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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 ....
criticizing putin s war person who has already survived two poisoning attempts. vladimir kara murza as attorney and longtime friend is outfront plus outrage tonight a grand jury in ohio deciding not to charge eight officers who shot a black man nearly four dozen times after a chase. police say they thought he was armed and payback from desantis the governor, threatening to build a competing theme park or even a state prison right next to disney. let s go, outfront. and good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight 25 years in prison just for taking on putin . that is the shocking sentence handed down to putin opposition leader vladimir kara murza cameras. formal crime is criticizing putin s war in ukraine, which, of course he did, and did so bravely, just like he did on this show a year ago. putin has a pattern here. as you know, he falsely accused the us of developing bioweapons in georgia. ah as he invaded there. you think that he is going to launch a chemical or b ....
and has forced thousands of people to evacuate. cnn is live on the ground. we also have this for you. louisville police releasing intense body cam video of officers confronting the mass shooter at the bank on monday. the police chief says their actions saved lives. we re going to bring you the video next take a look live. look at president biden, speaking now in northern ireland on a historic visit will take you there lives. but first we ll go to that massive fire in indiana. where about 2000 people are being forced from their homes right now. is this virus continuing to rage? cnn s omar jimenez is live on the ground in richmond, indiana. omar i know you just got there. i see that you re wearing a mask. what is it like? on the grill there. and what are you hearing from? officials? yeah caitlin, this huge plume of smoke as you were driving into richmond, indiana here coming off the highway for miles. you really couldn t miss it. at this point. we do know that has been bu ....
it s the top of the hour in cnn newsroom. we re following multi-. concerns about that chinese spy balloon hovering over the u.s. secretary blinken just postponed his stop in china. the pentagon is about the size of three buses. it s huge. it was spotted soaring over montana at 60,000 feet. just moments ago the balloon was spotted over columbia, missouri. the national weather service tweeted these images of what they say is a large balloon in the kansas city area. despite growing calls to shoot it down, for now president biden is opting against that. the chinese are saying it s a weather balloon that blew off course. we re aware of the statement. the fact is we know it s a surveillance balloon. i can t be more specific than that. we know the balloon has violated u.s. air space and international law which is unacceptable. we ve conveyed this directly to the prc at multiple levels. john miller is here with us, cnn s intelligence analyst and kylie atwood. tell ....
the devastation. it s just we re looking at the video. now. it s incredible. it is striking jim to see this devastation of close and in person, you know, it s not really an exaggeration to say that there is very little of this town that has remained untouched from the tornado that ripped through here on. uh, the buildings that we re seeing here throughout the area have been reduced to rubble. there are individuals that we smoke into that don t understand how they got out alive, considering so many around them perished. as you mentioned at least 25 people have been killed as a result of the storms that we re continuing the machinery being brought through these areas clear out the records, and it was earlier that i spoke to one of the tornado survivors. ernest hall, who says that he was asleep when the initial storm came through. woken up by a phone call of a family member asking for help to erased across town to a trailer park where we re standing in front of that is amo ....