most beautiful cities in america. it s known for wealth and innovation. it s home to the highest number of billionaires per capita in the country. but it s also one of the least affordable places to live. it s san francisco, a city some say is in steep decline because of crime, homelessness, and drug use. more people die from drug overdoses in this city during the covid pandemic than from the virus itself. cnn s sara sidner heads to the bay area, a place she once called her home, to show us what it looks like now and find out it looks like now and find out what happened to san francisco. captions by vitac www.vitac.com so, when i first laid eyes on san francisco, i was enchanted. from where i am right now, driving over the bay bridge, and it looked like someone had taken an enormous vat of fog and just continuously poured it over the hills, like dry ice being poured over a perfectly sculpted city on a stage. and then you get down into the city and you meet these gloriou
friday and chris christie is said to be on the verge. this is in addition to already declared challengers nikki haley, asa hutchinson, and viv ecoramaswami. he will decide before june. meanwhile, names being floated for a so-called unity ticket, the idea from the bipartisan group no labels, include democratic senator joe manchin, independent senator kyrsten sinema, and republican larry rolling hogan, the former maryland governor. trump s biggest obstacle still seems to be his own legal entanglements. among them his recent self-incriminating remarks on cnn regarding jack smith s case about the withheld mar-a-lago documents and the investigation into interference in the 2020 election by fulton county, georgia, d.a. fondy willis who signaled a decision from her could be coming in early august. so into this fray finally steps ron desantis. joining me to discuss is gary fineout. he writes for florida playbook for politico. previously worked in the associated press. nice to s
hello. thanks for joining me. i m fredricka whitfield. president biden will officially meet with ukraine s president zelenskyy at the g7 in japan tomorrow. the white house confirming just a short time ago ukraine scored a key victory with the u.s. after the biden administration signaled it will permit allies to send f-16 fighter jets to the war-torn nation. other g7 leaders have been meeting with zelenskyy. they offered their support for, quote, as long as it takes. g7 meetings are not just about ukraine. leaders are also weighing in on how to confront china s increasing military power. cnn s phil mattingly is in hiroshima. can you give us a preview of what the meeting might be like? reporter: a preview of the day, because i think that s important in the context of things. yes, the bilateral meeting between president biden and president zelenskyy, the first face-to-face meeting between the two since president biden s surprise trip to kyiv earlier this year. there was also a
deadline is june 1st. who has time for a break? well, apparently conversations are not productive, at least that s how the gop is framing it. here was the republicans lead negotiator, congressman garrett graves who walked out of the room early today. the house passed the strong bill. it has great savings, and it s responsible and puts us on a path. until people are willing to have reasonable conversations about how you can actually move forward and do the right thing, then we re not going to sit here and talk to ourselves. speaker mccarthy says the pause is not fatal, and the white house says an agreement remains possible, but it does concede, the white house does, both sides are still pretty far apart, perhaps as far apart as some of the more progressive senate democrats who say the president should ignore a vote all together, and raise the ceiling by himself, with authority, they argue, is granted by the 14th amendment. and the house freedom caucus which tweeted today t
you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in atlanta. four, three, two, one. engine s full power. and liftoff. falcon 9, go axiom. [ applause ] together we expand this is a beautiful sight if you just missed it, right now four private astronauts are on the way to the international space station. the axiom 2 mission blasted off from the kennedy space center just minutes ago. we ll go there live in just a few minutes to wrap up some really remarkable developments on the space coast. but on the meantime, here in atlanta and in washington, negotiations are resuming to confront the looming debt crisis. the talks will be at the staff level for the moment but they will set the stage for a high-stakes meeting between the president and kevin mccarthy. they spoke today and this new glimmer of optimism, if we could believe it, comes as the prospect of a quick compromise appears increasingly bleak. are you at all optimistic about what we could accomplish today. could we g