set. this is what we re watching at this hour. thank you for being here. i m kate bolduan. the battle over the nation s debt ceiling is upon us. the united states just hit its borrowing limit of $31.4 trillion. and that means that the treasury department must now begin to use a series of what is called extraordinary measures to avoid default. extraordinary measures that are no longer so extraordinary since they have been they ve had to be used so often. this is a completely avoidable problem that falls entirely on congress to raise the debt limit. something that republicans with right now refusing to do without cutting spending to the actual bills that have come due, by the way. democrats say that is not on the table. if the u.s. defaults, it will cause absolute chaos in the global economy. christine romans is standing by for us with this. kind of saw this one coming, christine. but we have hit the moment. what happens now. so, kate, the clock starts now. once the u.s
Sexual assault. Timothy marble was arrested after deputies said he called 911 saying his 13yearold companion moved from his moving car in bodega bay. She later explained she feared for her life and ran. I give her respect for her to have jumped out on instinct, im pretty sure of it. It is scary. Reporter in napa, word spread quickly as neighbors gassed up. The teen had run away and he talked her into getting in his truck in the middle of the night. Im glad he was caught right away by the police because if he tried to get away right then, they might not have gotten him. Reporter when deputies arrived, the teen stumbled out of the bush and told investigators that she was sexual assault. They drove around and smoke marijuanaed and he tied to a tree and assaulted her and injected her with methamphetamine and scratched his name into her skin with a knife. The 50yearold is a convicted felon on drug charges. Neighbors say he has relatives in the Mobile Home Park and they do see him come and g
No jacket, no tie. Taking off every layer because its hot here today you can see how sunny it is across the bay area and of course we still have heat advisory in effect until tomorrow night. Its all over the bay area except coastal lobings highs from 96102 tomorrow, inland, warm night in the hills the risk of heatrelated illness is a possibility now. Looking live here at abc7, taking a look at highs including records set today. Napa 83. Oakland tied its record for the date. 93 degrees sab fran set a new record high for the date. Shattering old record of 87 set back in 1927. And Moffett Field tied its high for the date notice records set on this date in 1976, which was apparently a very warm year, on this date, it was. Ill be back in a moment with oh, lets me give thu look. Air quality, tomorrow will be our third spare the air day. The heat is rising, air quality declining and were hoping for better air quality by the end of the week. Ill give you a look at what is coming up are our way
A wild one. In the last five days weve seen highprofile departures the president stripping his soninlaw of the toplevel security clearance. A white house that may be spinning out of control. Axios reports of the president , quote, his staff at times managed to talk him off the ledge. No more. Tired of the restraints, trump is reveling in ticking off just about every person. That is in reference to an abrupt move from trump on the issue of trade, one he made apparently all by himself and is unnerving wall street. The commander in chief capitalizing on the chaos within his administration by promising unilateral action on tariffs. All this hysteria has a lot to do about nothing. The markets are dropping. The president is being pushed by republicans, by business leaders, not in the steel industry, to do something doifrt change his mind. Here he is saying basically heck no to everybody who wants him to reconsider this. If this is chaos, i think the American People are glad for it because we