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- [announcer] do you have an invention idea but don't know what to do next? call invent help today. they can help you get started with your idea. call now 800-710-0020. >> good evening. we begin tonight with breaking news. signs of cautious optimism in the debt ceiling standoff -- ten days left before the federal government runs out of cash with house republicans trying to extract major budget cuts in exchange for allowing new borrowing to pay the bills. president biden how speaker mccarthy have just wrapped up talks at the white house. >> i felt we had a productive discussion. i bel...

state of emergency tonight, it comes as florida is dealing with catastrophic damage from in, at least 17 people dead tonight. there are fears that that number will go up. cnn's chief climate correspondent is bill weir, and he joins me now. bill, hello once again to you. you say this is some of the worst damage you've ever seen in your career. covering these disasters. tell us what you saw? >> well, by that i mean, don, there are certain sort of moments and scenes in storms that are just burned into your brain, katrina for a lot of the reasons that we all know. that was such a man mad...

War is taking its toll. you only have to look at these soldiers faces here to know how tough this battle is. they all look worn. they say morale is high. but their faces are telling a different story. we move on towards other positions. we stop as the shelling increases. >> i've just been told the place we were going to is under heavy shelling so we will pull back from here and go somewhere else. >> in the battalion bunker, the commander tells us the russians have ramped up their shelling on his troops since they advanced. we tons of ammo, shrapnel, tanks firing, everything. his units drones r...

[noise] >> this is what we're saying now in orlando, rescuers from people who have been stuck in their homes, one of the votes that they are using if you go around, here you can see all the folks who were on the scene. the people who have been rescued here. how are you doing? what are you thinking about all of this? >> it's kind of crazy. i'm actually, i've been searched train, community response team. we have or did the training here in the park for this type of thing, but it's, like no one can plan for this type of thing. >> there are people who are waiting in the water, this very day in thi...

Force, so a coordination there. the way that is being framed i you can see that assad has heard from the top military leadership in russia, what they expect and what they're willing to do. we also heard from the kremlin as well as that language pushing back on the white house statement, we also heard them say they condemn the use of chemical weapons and in that conversation between secretary of state rex tillerson and the russian foreign minister, that phone conversation we now know it included part of the conversation on chemical we tons. as we heard from pentagon officials there was a real r...