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blame. the debt crisis, here you go. the deepening stalemate. president obama reaches out to a new player and the game is you. in norway, breivik s father wish his son would have killed himself rather than slaughter dozens of people. bp has a big turnaround. the company raked in more than $22 billion in profits for the quarter! the debt, minute-by-minute, the nation inches closer to the brink of twault. the countdown less than seven full days before the federal government runs out of money and unable to pay its bills. in washington a stark message is delivered between the president and the speaker of the house. their parties are desperately divided and you and i are about to pay the price. we are covering all of the angles from wall street to the white house. ali velshi getting really creative and looking at the cost americans could face even before time officially runs out. of course, dan lothian with the politics and the posturing. ali, let s start with you. t ....
government goes about raising debt ceilings. senate leaders from both parties are hammering that out. the kick the can deal, a short-term deal that would raise the debt ceiling for a few weeks or months. the president has said he doesn t like that idea. coming up next the just get to 2012 deal, a compromise that would give the government spending power to get through the president elections. fourth, the grand compromise, the one the president is pushing for, the long-term deal that could take a big bite out of the deficit. two big head lines, the casualties keep coming and the scope keeps widening. rebekah brooks arrested. the woman once headed up his british papers, she s out on bail. headline two, the head of scotland yard resigns. sir paul stevenson is quitting over criticism how he handled the saga. as commissioner i carry ultimate responsibility for the position we find ourselves in. with hindsight i wish we had sunlged matters involve this affair differently. ....
story breaking right now. the terror organization announcing it has chosen a new leader to succeed osama bin laden. it is al qaeda s long time number two, iman al zawarhi. nick, how did we learn about this appointment? how does an appointment like this even happen? al qaeda put out a statement on various islamist websites. perhaps no surprise, he s been the heir apparent. he s driven the organization to where it is. kind of surprising it s taken them so long to come up with announcing this, ali. it s surprising it took them so long. but it s not surprising to you, who knows the structure of al qaeda, that it s him. what should people expect? is al qaeda going to be more militant? is it going to go after new targets? are we in more or less danger? we re going to expect it to go after the same targets. and perhaps with a renewed energy. zawahri is going to want to put his stamp on the organization and going to want to counteract the arab spring uprising in the mid ....
benchmark that many analysts had predicted for this memorial day weekend. the so-called butcher of bosnia may face a haig tribunal. they said he was suffering psychological problems and should not be extradited. this morning, a serbian judge seems to have rejected that. if you paid taxes to uncle sam, you have also helped send billions of dollars to pakistan. ever since the navy s secret raid killed osama bin laden, the relationship between the two countries have been fiercely strained. today, secretary of state, hillary clinton, arrived in pakistan s capital to deliver a stern message. america cannot and should not solve pakistan s problems. that s up to pakistan. but, in solving its problems, pakistan should understand that anti-americanism and conspiracy theorys will not make problems disappear. cnn s stan grant is in islamabad. stan, secretary of state clinton s visit was really short. should we read anything into that? reporter: well, it didn t take a long ....
the source says he has been moved to this luxury townhouse that recently rented for $60,000 per month. new unemployment numbers, 424,000 americans filed for jobless benefits for the first time. an increase in 10,000. in joplin, missouri, the heartbreak builds and the uncertainty grows unbearable. officials will release a list of people still missing from the tornado zone. many families are now entering a fourth day of agonizing questions and exhaustive searches. he still hasn t been found. we have been to every place, missing persons to the morgue and there back to here. we can t just stand by anymore and wait. i just want closure. i just want to know something, you know. i don t want to go back home hours away from here and not know where my father is. i have another son and a daughter to take care of. we need to have some closure one way or the other, to be able to move on. can you just imagine? cnn s jackie jair rest is in joplin. there is a lot to go t ....