the race is on to avoid a default disaster. minutes from now the first key vote on the debt ceiling bill is set to take place on the house floor. already it s facing pushback from both sides of the aisle. we ll be speaking to one of those lawmakers ahead. officials in iowa trying to decide whether they can keep searching for five people who remain unaccounted for at the site of a partially collapsed apartment building there. rescuers are entering a no-win situation as we learn that what remains in the building is unstable and could come crashing down at any moment. plus the gloves are off. during his first official campaign event, ron desantis taking on donald trump. ahead, see why he thinks the former president s attacks are going to backfire. we are following these developing stories, all coming in right here to cnn news central. right now the house is in session ahead of a key vote to avoid default on the nation s debts. president biden and house speaker kevin mccart
we are following all the developments in the house where lawmakers are on track to vote on a bill to raise the nation s debt limit. a key vote in this race to avoid default is just over two hours away and we re on it. u.s./china tensions soaring. a chinese fighter jet gets so close to a u.s. spy plane it causes turbulence. the pentagon is calling it an unnecessarily aggressive maneuver in international airspace. we ll have more on this close call ahead. and nasa tracking ufos. the space agency holding its first-ever public meeting on unidentified aerial phenomenon. the truth is out there. we re following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. heading to the house floor with no time to lose. soon the house will hold a critical vote on president biden and speaker kevin mccarthy s debt ceiling deal, with the nation barreling toward june 5th, the day the treasury department says it will no longer bow able to pay its bills.
hello and welcome. let s begin with the tensions around taiwan where chinese military forces are conducting drills for a third day. taiwan s defence ministry says it has detected 11 chinese warships and 59 aircraft around the island, 39 entered taiwan s air defence zones on monday morning. these are some of the latest images of the drills released by china s military and shown on the country s state television. the chinese display of force has added to tension between china and the united states. and the us navy says it has sailed a guided missile destroyer through contested waters claimed by china near the spratly islands to assert navigational passage rights. with the latest on the drills, here s our correspondent shaimaa khalil in tokyo. this is the third day of military drills. drills which china calls operationjoint sword. it is surrounding taiwan, a self governing island. china s military exercises happened hours within the return of the taiwanese president from her
at $2,000 and extend expiring health care subsidies for three years. jessica dean is live on capitol hill with more on all of this, jessica, what is happening? reporter: well we have the senate in session now, fredricka. they are doing a couple of nomination votes to get everybody here and everybody moving and in the meantime behind the scenes the democrats are waiting on final rulings from the senate parliamentarian because remember they re using the specialized budget process in order to move this legislation forward. it requires the support of only democrats but they also have to pass the test of the senate parliamentarian who is looking over every provision and making sure that it fits within this budget process. so they re waiting on final rules from her. they re also waiting for the congressional budget office to see just how much some they re going to score this and how much it will cost and how much it will effect the deficit. so they re waiting on a couple of thi
and, queen of the mountains the norwegian climber who is on the verge of setting a very special record. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news it s newsday. it s 8:00 in the morning in singapore, and 4:30 in the morning in afghanistan, where dawn is breaking on the one year anniversary of the taliban s return to power. august 15th, 2021, saw thousands flee the country out of fear of what lied ahead, but many more where left behind, their daily lives changed beyond recognition. no more so than for country s women and girls, who are now subject to harsh, more conservative rules that restrict their education and employment. our chief international correspondent lyse doucet was in the capital a year ago as the taliban retook the country she s returned to kabul for this special report. it s a man s world. afghanistan is a conservative country, but the rules are now set by the ultraconservative taliban. spaces which had opened up for women have now been slammed s