the negotiations are done. the bill is written. now with just days until the united states runs out of money, president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy are rushing to sell the debt ceiling deal to their parties. an attack on ukraine s capital city hours after a nighttime assault. schoolchildren forced to run to shelter and cars dodge missile debris on busy city streets. on this memorial day, an emotional reunion as a group of vietnam veterans are reunited for the first time in decades. they recount the story of what bonds them, being prisoners of war being held captive in bamboo tiger cages. welcome to this special edition of the lead. i m bianna golodryga in for jake tapper. we start with the scramble in washington, d.c. to avoid an economic catastrophe, after house speaker kevin mccarthy and president biden struck a deal. republican and democratic leaders are waging a campaign to get as many members on board as possible. both facing revolts. as cnn s jeremy dia
florida say at least nine people, including a one year old child, were wounded in a shooting on monday evening. it happened near a busy pedestrian area by the beach in south florida. here, you can see people starting to run after gunfire broke out. police believe the shots were fired during an altercation between two groups of people. they ve detained one person of interest, and are searching for another suspect. officials held a press conference earlier. people come to a holiday, enjoy a holiday weekend on the beach with their families. and to have people, incomplete reckless disregard of the safety of the public, and you have an altercation with guns in a public setting with thousands of people around them is beyond reckless. it s unfortunate when we have law abiding citizens come to our beach to enjoy the day, and gets disrupted by a group of criminals who engage in this type of violent activity. as the mayor stated, we will leave no stone unturned. we have numerous agen
strikes that damaged at least three buildings a terrorist attack. the city s mayor says two people were injured but none required hospitalization. cnn s clare sebastian is live in london for us. and this would seem to really bring the war home to the russian public even more than the drone strike on the kremlin a couple weeks ago. what more do we know about the attack itself and the kremlin s response this morning? yeah, state media reporting the three buildings as of now, two in moscow itself on the southwestern side of the city, and another on the outskirts not far from one of the major airports. you can see state media and telegramen chales posting videos showing people with drone fragments. defense minister saying that they were able to avoid attacks with drone warfare and five shot down using russian air defense missiles. so perhaps that is why there are fragments of those droughns. t drones. the damage was described as insignificant. two sought medical help but no one
richard nixon library, the same food, neptune salad, beef, strawberry shortcake. there just aren t as many men left alive to enjoy it. we consider richard nixon a guy responsible for getting us home and to this day we love the man. reporter: every man at this table was held at the same p.o.w. camp. there is smith and wallingford. in 1972, both were badly injured and captured after the brutal battle of lock nen. the an explosion went off. i was an agnostic before i went to vietnam. ever heard of conversion? you re looking at one. i was the guy who knew i never would get captured, because that only happened to losers. he hit me in the shin, knocked me down out of the way of an rpg. they were held in bamboo tiger cages. explain to me what a tiger cage
and captured after the brutal ba battle. an explosion went off and felt like half my hand was blown away. i was an agnostic before i went to vietnam. you re looking at a conversion. i knew i d never get captured because that only happened to losers. it knocked me down and out. reporter: they were held in bamboo tiger cages. explain what a tiger cage is. if you ve ever been to the zoo, seeing animals in cages, they just put these logs 5 by 6, 5 by 5, into a cage and only door you had to bend down to get in. reporter: held in those cages because they would not do as they were told. we made no statements, we wrote no letters, we made no broadcast. not one. reporter: 50 years on, these men are grateful.