good morning good morning, everyone. let s get started. it is wednesday, april 26th. a debt ceiling plan vote today. it s no the clear if they have the votes, right? president biden says he is going to veto the bill. sounds like they don t. also today, the taliban killed a suspected isis mastermind who was behind that 2021 suicide bombing at the kabul airport. that is when they killed 13 u.s. service members. this is according to the white house. the pentagon says the u.s. was not involved in that operation. also, the woman who says president trump raped her could take the stand today in her battery and defamation lawsuit against him. court is going to get under way in the e. jean carroll case. and the former ( gorepublica governor of arkansas is running so far in the primary. and kim kardashian says she is willing to step away from the cameras and become an attorney full time. our wide-ranging conversation coming up. cnn this morning starts right now. i like how
welcome back to cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. new this hour. dramatic new details about the unidentified object shot down by fighter jets just miles off the coast of alaska yesterday. unlike the chinese spy balloon last saturday, this demanded more immediate action yesterday. officials say it was flying much lower at 40,000 feet making it a dangerous potential threat to civilian aircraft. now we are learning u.s. military pilots who approached the craft have given conflicting accounts of what they saw. this new report coming in from cnn national security reporter natasha bertrand. this is interesting. this is kind of unusual that these pilots saw different things and that is sort of, i guess, adding to the mystery of all of this. not even the pilots were able to identify what they saw. just to take you back for a sec. on thursday the u.s. defense officials sent f-35 fighter jets to try to figure out what this object was flying around near alaska. those pilot
oh, my gosh. this is the nightclub district in seoul. it was a halloween party. it s being described in local media as a stampede. we want to show people how narrow this street is. the husband of nancy pelosi violently attacked with hammer. he kon fronted mr. pelosi shouting where is flan si. nancy. this is what happened when you convince a third of the country the election was stolen. candidates are bringing out big name surrogates. every republican politician seems obsessed with two things, owning the libs and getting donald trump s approval. we ve seen something of a momentum shift towards dr. oz. trump is still very popular in pennsylvania. i m pamela brown in washington. you are live in the cnn newsroom on this saturday. heartbreaking scene has been unfolding all night in the south korea kran capital. 146 people died in a nightclub district. many others are injured tonight. some of the video we re getting in is graphic. it appears the people got trapped i
during halloween festivities. the husband of speaker nancy pelosi remains in the hospital recovering from a violent attack inside his home as police say this was not a random attack. plus record early voting continues across the country. in georgia, almost 1.5 million ballots have already been cast. and an 8-year-old has accomplished what no other kid his age has ever done before. climbed to the top of el capitan. you re in the cnn newsroom. we begin in the south korean capital, seoul, where a halloween celebration went terribly wrong. the death toll is now up to 149, and many others are injured. some of the video we re going to show you, it is very disturbing. many of the victims, they are young adults looking forward to their first big halloween party since covid restrictions were lifted. it appears they were trapped in a crowd crush in a packed and popular nightclub district. investigators are trying to piece together how this tragedy happened. south korea s pres
hello there. today, eu trade ministers meet with a renewed focus on securing new trade deals. russia s invasion of ukraine make partnerships crucial. the war has exposed supply chains, leading to calls for the eu to look elsewhere for its goods. it wants to spread the risk to diversify into everything from gas to sunflower oil. joining me now is anahita thoms, head of international trade at the law firm baker mckenzie. thank you so much forjoining me. what s the jackpot for the eu in terms of trade? i think there will be a big focus on the backlog, there will be a lot of discussions around the wto reform, but also, low hanging fruit, i think the focus will be on july, new zealand and mexico to try to seal deals there. let s take july, try to seal deals there. let s takejuly, for example. there take july, for example. there are takejuly, for example. there are big hopes we can seal the deal chile. they have lithium in the car industry in germany as well and the european uni