midwest. i started watching more what they did during this legislative session. i thought, man, they ve done an awful lot. maybe it s that florida is the iowa of the southeast. i don t know. florida ron desantis laying it on thick with praise for iowa during a barnstorm trip over the weekend as he takes advantage of donald trump canceling a campaign event in that state, and that comes as there s new polling in several states with hypothetical matchups between president joe biden, trump, and desantis. we ll take a look at the latest numbers. we ll also have an update on the debt ceiling negotiations as the clock is ticking before president biden takes a trip to january for the g7 summit. good morning and welcome to way too early on this monday, may 15th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day and week with us. the two front-runners for the 2024 republican nomination were both expected to be in iowa over the weekend, but concerns about extreme weather kept
hello. we now know the names of the starting xv for englands rugby world cup opener on saturday and there are a couple of intriguing calls in there. alex mitchell and jonny may start against argentina in marseille despite initially missing out on the 33 man squad. mitchell was drafted in after jack van poorvliet was ruled out of the tournament and started england s final warm up game against fiji, winning just his sixth cap. may meanwhile will start at right wing after anthony watson joined the world cup injury list. england are ranked eighth in the world and lost three of theirfour warm up games heading into the world cup. wales number eight taulupe faletau has been passed fit to face fiji in his side s opening game in bordeaux on sunday. faletau missed all three world cup warm up games with a calf injury but has recovered in time to win his 101st cap. the squad are confident ahead of their first match the boys were good, it is a good group and a good bone. you never see any
fadeaway, cuts it in. 31 for jayson tatum in game sneechb that s my guy. there was no slow start for jayson tatum last night. the celtics star exploded for 25 first half points on the way to a historic 51-point effort, the most ever in a game seven to lead boston to a serious clinching win over the philadelphia 76ers. tatum had a bunch of slow starts in the series. not yesterday. the teams were neck and neck over the first two quarters. then the celtics absolutely blitzed the sixers in a 33-10 run in the third quarter and ran away with a 112-88 thumping. the celtics advance to the eastern conference finals against the miami heat. they re always tough. the heat eliminated the new york knicks in game six over the weekend. game one of the eastern conference finals, celtics/heat, wednesday night in boston. meanwhile the denver nuggets
and houston rockets match-up should be outstanding. the warriors finished off the new orleans pelicans in five games. steph curry, kevin durant, clay thompson, combined in the clinching win. the warriors advancing to the western conference finals for the fourth straight year. the rockets meantime closing out the utah jazz in game five 112-109112- 112-102 led by chris paul. ten assists, no turnovers. first time cp3 has reached the conference finals in its 13-year career. houston gets homecourt advantage. game one on monday, the dreaded 9:00 p.m. eastern time starts which means i ll see none of it. but it will be great. hope you enjoy it. 26 minutes past the hour. north korea may be on the verge of freeing three americans. the secretary of state is now in pyongyang. could the decision to pull out