all of you watching us here in the united states, canada and around the world. i m kim bruun huber ahead on cnn newsroom, we re getting a better look at the case against the air national guardsman who is accused of leaking classified pentagon documents and the charges he s facing republican hopefuls for president climb over each other to show who has the most support for gun rights at the annual nra convention. and an explosion leads to the japanese prime minister being evacuated from the place where he was giving a speech at what was behind the incident. live from cnn center. this is cnn newsroom with kim bruun hoover. u s government is moving quickly with its prosecution of the suspected leaker of classified documents that included detailed intelligence assessments of allies and adversaries alike. 21 year old air national guardsman jack to share a has now been formally charged under the espionage act. jason carroll has the latest on the charges and the continuing fallout fr
ohio it is not eligible for federal disaster assistance in the after math of a toxic train crash in east palestine. good morning, i m bill hemmer. dana has the day off. back by popular demand sandra smith. this is america s newsroom. fema shooting down the governor s request. the agency said the toxic bill in east palestine does not qualify as a traditional natural disaster. bill: the administration is sending funds to help with medical costs. the head of the epa was there for the first time. on the scene yesterday ohio senator j.d. vance. it is like chemicals coming out of the ground. let me show this to people. watch this. you can see the chemical pop out of the creek. this is disgusting. the fact that we have not cleaned up the train crash, the fact these chemicals are still seeping in the ground is an insult to the people who live in east palestine. sandra: health officials insist the water is safe to drink. but people who live there are concerned. i haven t s
assisted with the screening of more than 480 homes under the voluntary screening program offered to residents. and no detections of vinyl chloride or hydrogen chloride were identified. we understand the residents are concerned as they should be and they have questions, that s all understandable. and you know, we are going to get to the bottom of this. try and figure out an answer to what occurred. sandra: and answers people are not getting at this hour, which makes for a very interesting white house briefing that is set to take place this hour as health concerns grow in east palestine, ohio, despite the administration s best efforts to assure the public everything is just fine. hello, welcome everyone, sandra smith in new york. hi, john. john: john roberts in washington. it may be friday but a lot of news. america reports, today marks two weeks since the norfolk southern train went off the rails in a small town near ohio s border. testing in the air and water shows
that hearing is young way right now in texas. the house homeland security committee is holding a hearing on protecting the southern border. democrats were supposed to be there before they backed out suddenly earlier this week. the hearing comes after more than 1,000 migrants rushed across the texas bridge and smugglers are going to new depths to hide things in plants even as they try to evade the border. we ll have the latest from the border coming up. sandra: from the hearing as well. we begin with this fox news alert as the stock market right now in the u.s. has fallen to its lows of the session over growing fears on whether the president can meet the moment to protect the u.s. economy. big questions are looming at this hour. we will dig into it. hello and welcome, everyone. i m sandra smith in new york. john, good to be you. john: always something. john roberts in washington. this is america reports. credit suisse their shares heading to an all time low, trading te
and winds of change. cloud computing, augmented reality, and 100km/h yachts! how sailgp hopes to get the video game generation on board. this we start with the cost of borrowing because it is on the rise again. in the next few hours the bank of england and the european central bank are both expected to increase their main interest rates by half a percentage point to their highest in m years as they battle to bring inflation under control. good news for savers of course, but piling more pressure on businesses and many people with loans and mortgages. for the bank of england, it would be the tenth rise in a row and would take the cost of borrowing to 4% its highest since 2008. on wednesday the us federal reserve announced a quarter percent increase a much smaller rise than in recent months. but its chair, jerome powell, warned that it would not be the last. as samira hussain in new york reports after in new york reports a year of aggressive rate increases after a year o