grilled and lambasteds by british law makers and now a whistleblower in the growing phone hackl scandal reportedly is dead. and a 77-year-old man defends his home and family from an intruder with a gun. stand by for the dramatic story. that s even more compelling because get this he s a member of the united states congress. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. the u.s. defaulting on its debt for the first time in history? we can t state it enough, this has enormous consequences for all of us, and time is quickly running out to prevent what the president calls armageddon. let s check in with kate baldwin. she s standing by with the latest. where do the negotiations stand right now? the two top republicans in the house. no official readout from the white house, but president obama says we are making progress when asked today by reporters how the debt talks were going when he was leaving an event in the rose garden. on the part of speaker boehner, a spokesma