- [announcer] do you have an invention idea but don t know what to do next? call invent help today. they can help you get started with your idea. call now 800-710-0020. you are in the cnn newsroom. i m paula reed in washington. jim acosta has the day off. it is 5:00 p.m. at the white house, and we are now one hour closer to the nation potentially defaulting on its debt. that would be unprecedented and potentially catastrophic for the global economy. now, despite a deadline as close as 12 days away, the high-stakes negotiations between the white house and congressional republicans have broken down, and it s not clear when they might resume. a u.s. debt default would affect economies around the world, so the concerns have loomed over the g7 summit in hiroshima, japan. the president, however, says he s not concerned at all. it goes in stages, and what happens is the first meetings weren t all that progressive. the second ones were. third one was. and then what happens is t
please. absolutely not, absolutely not. john: ah, absolutely not but the numbers tell a different story. have a look here. the president has held 23 news conferences since he took office and this time in his presidency, president trump had held 41, and obama had held 53. so, what gives with 23? sandra: welcome back as america reports rolls into a second hour on this monday afternoon. i m sandra smith in new york. and great to have you back. john: maybe channelling michael jordan with 23. joe concha has a theory. why hold a news conference when tiktok influencers can do the work for you. we ll talk to him how in the world the white house is spinning the press access as a good thing and the army of influencers pushing the president s lies. but first sandra: chaos on chicago streets after hundreds of rowdy teens flooded the downtown area over the weekend. police responding to reports of gunshots and scenes of juveniles smashing cars, blocking traffic and fighting i
arkansas, louisiana, mississippi and tennessee. cities around texas are taking measures to protect residents. corpus christi has made six public libraries available to residence as cooling centers. it was expected to reach 116 degrees sunday. in austin authorities are extending hours until 8 p.m. for multiple facilities, including libraries so that they can be used as cooling centers as well. people without transportation can ride city busses for free to one of those cooling centers and the community health paramedic program has been handing out water to the homeless. a weather watch went into effect sunday and will run through next friday june 30th. so a very complicated situation for people there. it is but thank goodness for the cooling stations and people
gloria, what are you seeing there? reporter: well, let me tell you a little bit about the scenes i have been watching unfold here today. we have been watching some city busses arrive at the roosevelt hotel behind me. in fact, i want to give you a look. if you see that white van that s there directly behind it as the city bus. what s likely to happen is there is a group of migrants likely waiting inside the hotel to board that bus and then they will be taken to another shelter. and the reason for that is that the city has located this hotel and assigned it to be a welcoming center. i believe we have pictures and images from the inside of the hotel. you can see that the city has tried to set up a welcome center that is supposed to connect migrants with resources. they are arriving here after being bussed to port authority bus terminals, most likely from places like texas and the southern border. when they arrive here, they are
20 bad ones that have to be arrested. you have to press charges and you have to keep them in prison. the problem is that the system, the justice system in cook county allows them to get out and when it s time to go to court three years later, sentence served and never really do time, not unless they are held accountable for actions will we see the city change. sandra: sam, i don t know about you, and joe, the video, a more than a few bad actors. climbing on city busses, running through the streets in the middle of traffic. two teenagers were shot over the weekend. many more shot, multiple fatalities, but only 15 arrests. i mean, the police have their hands tied. their numbers are way down, it s hard to even get back-up in situations like this. but joe, you know the scene all too well, you are living through it as a business owner here in new york city.