right now in texas, the manhunt is intensifying for the suspect police say fatally shot five of his neighbors execution style. what we know about the victims including one who was just 9 years old. flood waters are still rising in parts of iowa as residents are using boats to salvage what they can from their underwater homes. we ll take you live to davenport. and on this international workers day, as many as 1 million demonstrators are taking to the streets of france amid president macron s decision to raise the nation s retirement age. we ll take you live to paris. and we begin with breaking news on the state of the u.s. banking system. overnight, federal regulators moved to close down first republic bank and sell its assets to jpmorgan chase. this morning first republic s 84 branches in eight states reopened as branches of jpmorgan chase. this is the third and actually the biggest u.s. bank to fail this year. it s also the second largest bank by assets to fail in u.s.
e. jean carroll takes the stand in her sexual battery case against the former president. the new warning that the judge issued just moments ago. and a race to get four mississippi jail escapees back in custody. one of the men is now accused of killing someone after he broke out of jail. we are following these major developing stories and all coming in to cnn news let s begin on capitol hill where there has been a shift this morning, it seems. house republican leaders are now confident that they have the votes to pass speaker mccarthy s $1.5 trillion debt ceiling bill and while there were big questions and probably still are, they could still vote today. do you hear all of the caveats i m throwing into this? what did kevin mccarthy have to throw in on to get all of this? manu what is the very latest you re hearing about this? there have been months after negotiations will pass the house as soon as today. it will require 218 votes in the republican-controlled votes
president already threatening to veto it, are we all just racing towards disaster? and she just told a jury that donald trump raped her. she s taking the stand in her defamation and sexual battery case against the former president. why she says she waited 27 years to bring these charges. the world health organization is warning of a potential humanitarian crisis in sudan. hospitals at only 16% capacity and that laboratory seized by militants is now entirely without power. diseases such as measles, polio, cholera and worst case scenario could be leaked. we are following these major developing stories and more coming in here to cnn news central. we begin this hour on capitol hill where overnight, house speaker kevin mccarthy made a series of concessions on the republican debt ceiling bill to appease far right members of the house. he is hoping to pass that legislation as early as today. president biden says he s willing to meet with mccarthy but with one condition. here i
bergdorf s. when he tried to ask her why she didn t call police. she said i am a member of the silent generation, jose. and so, lisa, what would be i m just thinking from a legal perspective for tacopina to be talking about whether she liked the apprentice or whether she went back and purchased things after the alleged incident, what would be the legal logic behind that line? i think he s trying to show, jose that if she were truly sexually assaulted by donald trump she would have a problem revisiting the scene of the crime, for example, or if she were truly assaulted by donald trump she would find it repulsive to watch him on television, that she couldn t acknowledge that such a show was entertaining much less take to facebook and declare herself a massive apprentice fan. he s trying to make the jurors question whether in fact her
carroll called the first witness, the manager at bergdorf s. they are setting the scene of the lingerie department on the sixth floor. the doors automatic lock and the the two people could fit there. they did staff the floor when the alleged assault took place and there were times when people were not on the floor that this was an empty floor and when she was attacked there was no one there working at the time. that s when the issues of could someone else corroborate that this had happened? the defense is already on cross-examination of this witness. we do expect carroll to be the next witness so she could be on the stand momentarily and this could be the main witness for carroll s team and also the main witness for the defense because trump s attorney has said he is going to put s lot of their energy into going against carroll s witnesses and bringing their defense case by poking holes in their testimony and they ve already said they