my buddy phil is here. good morning. good morning. thank you for letting me come back. i wasn t sure after yesterday. you re such a pleasure. you make these mornings great. did you get some sleep? i did. little bit. thanks for having me. we have a lot going on today. five things to know for this tuesday, may 9th, 2023. vladimir putin speaking from red square claiming the, quote, real war is being waged on russia during a scaled back victory day ceremony, the speech comes hours after russia launched several cruise missiles at kyiv. also the gunman behind the texas mall shooting had a very disturbing online history, full of posts about nazis and mass shooters. police say he killed eight people, ranging in age from 3 years old to 37. and happening today, president biden hosting a high-stakes meeting with congressional leaders to discuss the debt limit. country is at risk of default if a deal isn t reached by early june. e. jean carroll s rape trial against donald t
let s do it. cnn news central starts now. he shared photos of guns, targets, ammunition boxes and a tactical vest. this morning the disturbing social media posts from the gunman who murdered eight people at a texas mall. a pivotal meeting today, an attempt to keep the debt ceiling from crashing down. president biden is sitting down with top congressional leaders from both parties, but can they hammer out a deal before the u.s. goes into a catastrophic default? king pinning terrorist, that is who israel said it was targeting in an overnight military strike in gaza. now at least 13 people are dead. these major stories and many more all coming in to cnn news central. we begin with today s high stakes meeting amid a resolving the debt ceiling standoff. if there is no deal it could lead to financial disaster. in just a few hours president biden will meet at the white house with these four congressional leaders, house speaker kevin mccarthy, senate majority leader
right now. obsessed with nazis, guns and mass shooters. these are the new chilling details about the 33-year-old gunman. there are seven survivors still in the hospital. three of them in critical condition fighting for their lives. for people to realize how tragic this really was, they are forever changed. the nation speeds closer to default and neither side is budging. the solution here may not be black or white. there is no plan b. our plan is for congress to act without conditions. everybody needs to get their big boy pants on and start doing their job. jury deliberations are expected in e. jean carroll civil suit against the former president. trump s lawyer said carroll s lawyers want the jury to hate trump enough to ignore the facts. he is not here before you. he did not come it will be interesting to see how that weighs with the jury. we heard from president vladimir putin, claims the true war is waged against his country. we will defend the
program in prison tonight, his health failing. his lawyers saying he s been poisoned. and morgues in china oesh flowing full of people who were sick from covid. the government is saying, though, they re not covid deaths. why? we re live in beijing tonight with a special report. let s go out front. and good evening. i m erin burnett. out front tonight putin calls it a war. for the first time vladimir putin using the word war to describe his brutal invasion of ukraine. for ten months it s been called a special operation. in fact the word war has been banned. and then today hours after zelenskyy visited with biden in washington, putin said this. translator: our goal is not to spin the flywheel of military conflict but on the contrary to end this war we have been and will continue to strive for this. war. the word war is not semantics for putin. calling this a war, which again has not been allowed. it s been banned. it has serious implications because it allows putin to
elle edwards was enjoying a night out at the lighthouse in wallasey, when she was shot ten minutes before midnight on christmas eve. the 26 year old beautician had been standing outside the pub when shots were fired towards the doorway. detectives said at the time they did not believe she was intended target of the attack, which also injured four other people. 0vernight, merseyside police charged 22 year old connor chapman, from nearby woodchurch, with elle s s murder, and two counts of attempted murder, and three counts of unlawful and malicious wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm. he was also charged with possession of a firearm and ammunition with intent to endanger life, and handling a stolen mercedes. he will appear before wirral adult remand court this morning. a 23 year old woman, arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender, has been released on bail pending further inquiries. and merseyside police is continuing to appeal for witnesses and informatio