june 27 at nine live on cnn and streaming on max cnn breaking news. i m wolf blitzer in washington and we begin this hour with breaking news closing arguments based soon get underway in the federal gun trial of hunter biden. take a look at this. this is video of the president s son arriving at court earlier this morning, just a short time ago. his defense attorneys arrested there case and announced that he will not take the stand to testify in his own defense cms senior justice corresponded evan perez is outside the court for us in wilmington delaware. evan, what are the jurors likely to hear in these closing arguments well, what if we expect that those closing arguments are going to get underway? any time now? and what jurors are going to hear first from the prosecution is that there s a mountain of evidence. there is a volumes of evidence showing that hunter biden was using drugs around the time that he bought this gun back in october of 2018. now, the fence has been focu
i will talk to one woman who spent 50 years in a polygamist family and is now speaking out against it. good morning, everyone, i m randi kay. it is 5:00 on the west coast and 8:00 a.m. on the east coast. my car said it was 112 in atlanta and it is going to be hotter, and the same today with excessive heat warnings issued for 19 states which is complicating the efforts to get the power back on for millions who lost electricity in storms over the past two days. many cities have cooling centers open to help people get a break from the heat. as for the strong storms are being blamed for 12 deaths now, and have left a path of downed trees and damaged homes and millions are waiting for the power to come back on, by it could be days before that happens. cnn s athena jones is live in springfield, virginia, for us, and athena, welcome, and how is the cleanup going? good morning, randi. well sh well, the cleanup is going in spits and starts. you can see the debris out here in the m
and good morning, this is your a.m. wake-up call for monday, november 28th from the time warner center in new york city, i m christine romanss, here are the morning s top stories. the syracuse child sex abuse. the university fired bernie fine. fired him after a new phone conversation surfaced between allegedly the accuser and fine s wife. that conversation revealing that mrs. fine was worried about the sex abuse allegations and also that she had a sexual relationship with the accuser, as well. keeping our eye on occupy wall street, protesters in los angeles facing a deadline to clear out of camp. just two hours ago but many refusing to budge. wreck the malls. black friday was a blockbuster. early numbers are in. this holiday shopping season could be a huge boost for the retailers. according to the national retail federation, total spending hit a record $52 billion. that s up 16% from last year. besides the door busters, wow, online sales exploded too. where are people g
17, and they have just schooled the boys at the first google science fair. wait until you hear what inventions got them to the top. we begin with the debt ceiling. while washington continues to try to figure out how to pay its bills, you might be as well. john is with smartcredit.com and car men wong ullrich the author of the real cost of living. carmen, a fantastic opportunity while everybody is talking about the debt limit and people keep using analogies to the american family and credit card limits, a good time to take stock of your life and how it compares to what s going on in washington. what s your view on this? i think there s a big difference between the two. so the comparison doesn t really ring true with me because we can t do things like raise taxes. only thing we can do is get job number three and four. it s important to, of course, look at your own budget and own debt levels. in terms of the government s situation, it s very, very different. i don t think th