good morning, everyone, and welcome to cnn this morning. i m amara walker. i m vick for blackwell. good to have you along. the summer travel season kicks off. millions of people are heading to their destinations for memorial day weekend. we ll have the latest on what to expectation at the airport and what to know if you re hitting the road. and lawmakers inching closer to a possible debt ceiling deal. could today be the day they reach an agreement to avoid default? we will have the latest on the negotiations. take back what is ours. those are the words from the chief of ukraine s armed forces in a new video posted online. is the counteroffensive we ve been talking about for some time now imminent? we re in ukraine with the latest. frightening moments onboard a flight after a passenger opened a door in the air. how does that even happen? we re going to show you the terrifying moments ahead. let me tell you, if that could happen i would probably just pass out. if
attention and watch it because it s pretty important. hope is not a strategy. should get something done. this is true. i m gillian turner. we re on mccarthy watch. we ll bring you any news out of the speaker s office as it comes out at this hour. a presidential candidate is raising alarms, saying linkedin intentionally censored him. this was no accident. this was intentional viewpoint-based censorship. i fear it s just the beginning of what we ll see all over again this election cycle like we did in the last one. he s accusing microsoft-owned linkedin of shutting down his posts on climate and china. the company s response and mollie hemingway just head. passengers near pre-pandemic levels. as to has already screened over 2.6 million people, the highest number since 2019, pre-pandemic. spike and near misses on runways have hit the industry hard as it is trying to bounce back. president biden s transportation chief says things are getting better. listen. we re a l
the wayside and jimmy carter was that year s nominee. that was then and this could be different. let s go to alexandra hoff and look at this. you have to look at fund raising and the campaign season over, caucuses, new hampshire primaries eight months away. that s where the candidates are circling. governor ron desantis will kick off des moines, iowa on the 30th. and president trump arrives the day after. and he thinks that the top g.o.p. contender is moving to the left. i don t know what happened to donald trump. this is a different guy today than when he was running in 2015 and 2016 and i think the direction that he s going with his campaign is the wrong direction. desantis long awaited candidacy announcement was hit with glitches, but record breaking 8.2 million dollars in donations in the hours after. former president donald trump has since offered this. the question, is rob just young experienced and naive or more troubling, is he a fool who has no idea what the
still no deal to extend the united states debt ceiling. but negotiators hope to have an agreement later today. what a possible default could mean. the search for survivors at a medical facility in dnipro. officials say at least two people are dead and 32 are injured after a russian attack. and turkey heads to the polls again. presidential runoff election gets under way later today. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with laila harrak. a deal to raise the u.s. debt ceiling and avert a financial catastrophe appears closer than ever. a source familiar with negotiations said an agreement could be reached as soon as today. we re told it s likely to raise the debt ceiling for two years, but it s not clear how they will resolve the issue of work requirements for social safety net programs. that s been a key sticking point for republicans. listen. if you re really going to fall on the sword for that versus actually negotiating something that changes the
newton. while negotiators race to reach a debt limit deal. the impact on sbmall business owners,sh they re message is simple, get a deal done. and filling your tank compared to this time last year and what s behind the change. republican governor ron desantis on the offensive, and there are clear signs that the gloves will be coming off now that he s officially running for the white house. announcer: live in cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with paula newton. so the white house and republicans could be on the brink of reaching a deal that would allow the united states to keep paying its bills. negotiators have been hammering out the details in late-night talks and a source tells cnn that an agreement on raising the debt ceiling could come as soon as today. even a deal is reached it still, remember, has to pass both houses of congress to avert a financial disaster. manu raju has our report. the clock is now ticking, june 5th. the new date to avoid the first ever de