Republican and Democratic Leaders set to meet with the president for highstakes negotiations on the debt ceiling. America is not a deadbeat nation. We pay our bills. With the Clock Ticking toward a june 1st default deadline failure to do that would be unprecedented. We talk with two powerful senators who have a history of working across the aisle about how to avoid an economic meltdown. We should never put the credit of the United States at risk. Until the president engages, it doesnt matter what we do. Later this hour country superstar Miranda Lambert on how she could set a new record in Country Music. It sounds really big when you say it like that. Is that part of your super power . Get it done, baby. It was possible that i may not see the end of the year. You mishandled that . I dont know if i mishandled im a little wistful. This is not where i thought this story was headed. Good evening and welcome back to whos talking. Its called the x day, the day when the u. S. Government defaul
eastern areas and it will be another cool day. i will have all the details later. it s tuesday the 11th ofjune. the conservatives will promise to cut a further two pence from employee national insurance when they publish their election manifesto today. the prime minister will claim his government would let working people keep more of the money they earn, while labour branded the plans a desperate series of unfunded commitments. our political correspondent hannah miller has the latest. thank you! hoping for a warm welcome. katherine, i m rishi. ..as rishi sunak prepares to set out his party s plans for another five years in government. on the eve of his manifesto launch last night, the prime minister hinted at tax cuts to come. we will have a manifesto that builds on all the things that you ve just gone through that we ve already announced in this campaign that, yes, does continue to cut people s taxes, because i believe in a country where people s hard work is rewarded. aft
Parveen. Hi, sheena, how is it looking . Hi, guys, its looking pretty decent. We do have the clouds around. But as we go through the day, well be looking at temperatures staying cooler than what we had yesterday. Here are the cloudy skies. Good news though is the rain is going to be staying away. These will not be clouds bringing us the showers, not until this weekend. 51 degrees in the district. Heres a look at satellite rain cells. So rain delays potentially in atlanta and as we go into the carolinas, but ill be showing you more on the forecast in just a little bit. Well be talking about some weekend rain as we head into saturday and sunday. If you do have the travel plans, its just minutes away, guys. Thank you, sheena. All right. So start the count down five days away from christmas. And Holiday Travel is kicking into high gear across the area. Heading to the airports, there are some things you neeto news4 Megan Fitzgerald is live at dulles to tell us more about that. Good morning.
Got slammed today with the dow plunging 92 points and the s p sinking 7. 28 and lets go through the biggest episodes of the day to explain this twosided theory and the side that we weighed on the market and the side that we ought to consider. First, theres oil. Right now were at the bottom several times before. Exxon, chevron and royal dutch were negative about the oil markets when they reported last week. Of course i find this somewhat ironic considering that they were positive all of the way down. In fact id say these big integrated oils were depending on a vshaped recovery and a ushaped recovery and now no recovery at all. Normally i would say lets go the other way and be contrarian because if they were way apart, why should i trust them now . Given that they spoke last week theyre taking it pretty seriously and not only that but iran came out and said the moment the sanks are lifted theyll immediately increase output by 500,000 barrels and add another million per day in a month and
Plus. Reporter i am Jennifer Glasse in sen trough afghanistan where the provinces first me mail leader is facing cultural challenges as she drives to govern. The rule party in myanmar says it will accept the results of the election. Earlier a him at who has won. Claiming more than september of votes counted so far, lets go live to Scott Heidler who is there for us. Scott, so a lot of optimism amongst the nld and its supporters. Reporter absolutely. Yeah. No, this is these are estimates if you will coming from o Opposition Party leadership. The official results of the elections hat not come out just yet. But there are strong indications from those who have done some type of polling within the nld that they are well ahead as you just said, shiulie, 70 they say they will get. The ruling party, throughout the laugh couple of weeks going in to this campaign session, and then election day, they have said that they regardless of what the election result is, they will accept it. This is someth