world, i m max foster. bianca nobilo is off. the president will host for a high-stakes meeting. the president keeps changing positions, waiting those days and changing positions. why the financial markets are nervous about this, is it the 1st or the 14th. it is they destroyed us, it s tragedy tonight, but for today, in our hearts. three, two, one, engines, full power, and liftoff, falcon 9. this is just the beginning of a great journey for all of us. announcer: live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is monday, may the 22nd. 9:00 a.m. here in london. 4:00 a.m. in washington where the clock is ticking down until the u.s. possibly defaults. negotiations in debt ceiling are set to resume between president joe biden and house ecker kevin mccarthy. u.s. treasury secretary janet yellen is again warning congress anded white house they must come to a resolution soon. i indicated in my last letter to congress that we expect to
the wire. the u.s. has 10 days before it could default on its debt. president biden returning to washington from an all important meeting with kevin mccarthy in the coming hours. it was a bountiful trip to the g-7 for ukraine s president heading home with military aid as the bloody battle for bakhmut reaches a critical stage. plus a historic mission, spacex and saudi arabia s first female astronaut into space. a message to the world live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. did to have you with us, with the g7 summit now behind him, he was president joe biden s back in washington to face his most pressing issue right now. the impasse over the u.s. debt ceiling. in the coming hours, president biden will meet yet again with house speaker kevin mccarthy to try and strike a deal on raising the country s borrowing limit. mccarthy says he had a productive phone call with mr. biden as the president was returning from japan on sunday. there is only about
i m whitny wild. cnn this morning starts right now. morning, everyone. we re glad you re with us. it s thursday, december 29th. don is off this week. and ukraine is our lead story. under attack. more than 120 russian missiles launched at ukraine overnight. 90% of lviv this morning is without power. we ll take you to crane. here in the united states, thousands of air travelers are struggling to find their way home still. one major airport is launching an investigation into the meltdown at southwest airlines. and the death toll is rising once again in buffalo. the city s mayor now coming under fire for handling of that recovery and the storm. a new migrant processing center is going up in el paso, despite a supreme court decision to keep title 42 in place. we begin this hour with ukraine. president zelenskyy s adviser says russia has launched more than 120 missiles at the country. it happened overnight. a top official in odesa is calling it a massive missile attack in
Welcome to the programme. More than a thousand people have been rescued from flooding in one of americas most populous citys houston, in texas as a huge storm continues to batter parts of the state. Forecasters there say the conditions are unprecedented, and warn the waters are still rising. The white house has announced that President Trump will visit the region on tuesday. Our north america correspondent james cook reports from houston. Harvey arrived in houston with a vengeance. No longer packing the full force of a hurricane, but still deadly. Forecasters says it is still yet to dump 50 inches of rain here. Injust21i hours, more than two feet of rain fell on the fourth largest city in the United States. The results are devastating. This appears to be either the worst or one of the worst floods houston has ever had. We are measuring not in inches, but in feet. The currents are swift and treacherous, making a wrong turn can quickly mean a matter of life and death. We just, we prayed
This house looks at like now. Were going to have meliek zoom in a little bit. You can see one of the tampa firerescue trucks is leaving the scene. Thats because the investigators are getting ready to go inside. The fire was put out shortly after it was called in. It was called in around 3 50 in the morning. They got the fire out at 4 17. Im told there were four People Living there at the time, all of them adults. A 73yearold female and the rest were all males in their 30s. One person is in the hospital, a 35yearold male. I am told that he has nonlife threatening injuries. A neighbor tells me that he was out here with the garden hose trying to put the fire out himself. And i want you to hear what she says happened. Yeah, he had no shoes. Hes a spanish so hes pretty light skinned but he was dark. Like, you see the blackness all over him. Nose, i seen the blood coming. And instead he had grabbed a lot of hot stuff so, yeah, im hoping hes okay. But yeah, he went through a little storm. Rep