soon, president biden will welcome south korea s president to the white house ahead of a critical meeting. biden and president yoon suk-yeol set to roll out a new plan to boost u.s. and south korean cooperation amid north korea s escalating threats. our correspondents are covering this meeting from washington to korea. cnn s arlette saenz is joining us from the white house. cnn s jeff zeleny is in washington, d.c. for us and paula hancocks is live from seoul, south korea. let us start with arlette. can you tell us what is happening at this hour? we heard the band playing the last time we spoke to you not too long ago. what s going on there now? sarah, any minute now we are expecting south korean president yoon arriving at the white house setting off the pomp and circumstance that president biden is holding for him, but it also comes as the two leaders are set to announce a significant agreement when it comes to efforts to try to deter north korea s nuclear capabilit
eliminated conceal carry and eliminating the need for permits there. how much of that are you seeing around the country? it s a majority of states now. we have the 27th state to essentially end a requirement for any sort of gun permitting with nebraska. these are mostly southern states, primarily red states that are making this move and you ve read a lot about this. i think populationwise most of the country still requires permitting, but this move primarily in the south and with red states means that there s a large portion of the country, more than half the states where you don t need it good morning. zach wolf, thank you very much for being with us on cnn news central, sarah? an urgent man hunt is under way for four detainees who escaped from a mississippi jail. details on that ahead. plus republicans seem to have the votes on capitol hill to pass the debt ceiling bill today and major changes had to be made
while nebraska became the 27th state to eliminate conceal carry, in other words, you can carry guns without permits. cnn s zach wolf joins us now. let s start with the assault weapon ban in washington because at the federal level, let s be honest, the assault weapon ban doesn t seem to have much hope of passing at the federal level, but some states are doing it piece by piece. yeah. states have been working on this. it s mostly blue states doing it on the west coast, in the northeast and illinois. these are all subject to court challenges, so i think there s a real question about how long these assault weapons bans will be in place. none of them has been stayed yet, but i think that there s a serious court battle to keep an eye on. washington state has become the most recent, but we also have places like california, hawaii and then the northeast we have, you know, new york and new jersey and states up there. in the flip side of this are laws like the ones that we are now seeing in
election. people need to go out and vote for warnock. and i will say here, my good friend i spoke earlier today, he reminded me that december 6th in 1865 georgia became the 27th state to ratify the 13th amendment. so this december 6th is a very very historic day. and i am calling all people of goodwill in georgia to make december 6th, 2022, another historic day. that is a great point. and butterfield would come up with that. but for you that don t know, the 13th amendment that congressman clyburn and butterfield are referring to is what made it unconstitutional to have slavery. we were not freed by the estimation patient
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