will have more on this story as we get it. but firstb deadlocked on the debt ceiling president biden and republicans failing to reach an agreement to push the economy straight off the cliff. the morning, i m dana perino, bill is off today, good morning john let s hope cooler heads prevail before that happens. is america s newsroom, the lack of progress raising the specter of america s other default experts fear that said markets into a tailspin and trigger an all out recession. yesterday s talks do not yield an agreement that both sides say they remain optimistic. i felt we had a productive discussion. we don t have an agreement yet but i did feel the discussion was productive in areas that we have differences of opinion. i believe we can still get there i believe we can get it done. the most important thing we can do right now is agree that we have to avoid a default at all costs. because a dangerous default will trigger a job killing recession that will hurt milli
russian state media is reporting that two ukrainian drones were flown toward the kremlin last night. again, this is coming from the state-controlled russian media with absolutely no verification at all from the ukrainians or anyone else for that matter, and there are a variety of reasons why a russian claim like this would be advantageous to them which we will get into in a bit. and russia is calling this, though, a terrorist attack and also claiming that it was an attempt to assassinate russian president vladimir putin. we have team coverage on this breaking news for you. nic robertson is in eastern ukraine, nick paton walsh is in dnipro, ukraine, and major general james spider marks is joining us as well. let s start with nic robertson. what else are you picking up? reporter: well, what we re hearing from the ukrainians is they re down playing this, saying this is a trick to be expected from our opponents. they re saying that russia is trying to use this event or purp
attempt to claim crimea from ukraine. russia claims at least three people were killed. a russian investigative committee arrived this morning to inspect the damage and so far no one has claimed responsibility for the blast. cnn s fred pleitgen is live for us from kyiv with the very latest on this. fred, russian officials are now saying traffic has resumed on the bridge? how is that happening? reporter: well, they are saying that the traffic is in reverse on that bridge. they are trying to clear the cars off that bridge but trying to get the traffic moving again as fast as possible. essentially, what they are saying is that all of this happened, this explosion happened in the early morning hours of this morning. when the lacey latest that they have is a struck they say exploded, even though it s not exactly clear whether or not that is the case, that a truck blew up. we have some of that video of that explosion taking place, which seems to have been massive. as a result ther
but there are some things we could all do there were some telltale signs in this photograph. you could do a reverse lookup on google to see when the photograph was first posted, it s going viral first time it was posted was minutes earlier you can look for things like is there a news media watermark on the photograph there wasn t. there s a couple things we can do to protect ourselves even while we are still dealing with these technology issues. we show the graphic doubt 80 point drop momentarily after this that shared our social media. arlington county fire department put out a tweet saying pfp official pentagon force protection and a fca cfd were aware of social media reports circulating online about an explosion near the pentagon. there is no explosion taking place at or near the pentagon reservation no immediate danger or hazards to the public but a lie make it halfway around the world for the truth gets out of bed or put shoes on.
possession of nuclear weapons. that came to me from a trusted source inside the presidential administration. so if the kremlin were to take that step and to use nuclear weapons, it would risk alienating the most important ally, china, that it has in the world right now, not to mention the other countries like india and some african countries that may well distance themselves from the kremlin if it went down the nuclear line. clearly, again, this is astonishing scenes from the nighttime in moscow, that explosion taking place on the dome of the grand kremlin palace, again, right in the center of the russian state. matthew, continue on that theme for a second there and i want to make clear this video we ve been showing you, cnn cannot independently verify the veracity of what we ve all been looking at there. so this is circulating on russian social media, there s another view which we ve shown also. the kremlin, is, what, roughly 70 acres, a little bit less than that. describe where thi