The gunman remain at large. Thanks so much for joining us. Well see you back here tomorrow. Ac30 60 starts right now its thursday, may 16, right now on cnn this morning its on joe biden and donald trump signing off on do debates. The first one next month, right here on cnn plus trumps lawyers planning a new strategy with Michael Cohen former fixer, back on the stand this morning in the Hush Money Trial, and two partners with a pledge, Vladimir Putin and xi jinping together in beijing vowing to deepen their ties. What does this mean for the west . All right. 5 00 a. M. Here in washington alive. Look at capitol hill on this thursday morning, were almost there. Good morning, everyone. Im kasie hunt. Its wonderful to have you with us. Joe biden and donald trump will be facetoface next month for the first president ial debate of this election cycle, the two presumptive nominees have accepted Debate Invitations from cnn and abc cnns set to take place first, its going to be june 27, in atlant
Tonight, President Biden, two wars and one Primetime Address to the nation. We will see the president this evening from the Oval Office Making a direct appeal to the American People to essentially stand tough this as he says hes going to ask congress for tens of billions of tdollars to help support ukraine and israel. In gaza, new air strikes and explosions seen this morning. In Southern Gaza where civilians, as you know, have been told to flee for safety, this was the scene we saw over and over again this morning outside a hospital in khan youris. This was a few hours ago, a stream of people rushed in many for aid. Right now this is unclear what caused the explosion, the idf said they are looking into it. So to give you a sense of where some of these locations are. Khan youris is right there. The Raffa Crossing is right here. This is where President Biden said he has brokered a deal to allow some aid from egypt to cross. Were waiting to see if and when that will happen. This the line
Any news of prices falling increases the hopes from investors that the fed will start cutting the main interest rate, sooner rather than later. Joining me now is wei li, global chief Investment Strategist at blackrock. Thank you for being here. What impact is this having on the markets this morning . This is a welcome relief. We are seeing some information as expected. Part of the inflation is cooling down a little bit coming from very elevated levels earlier in the year. Also encouraging the core goods inflation it is actually negative which again is a welcome release and has been driven by mismatch unwinding. Iwas has been driven by mismatch unwinding. I wasjust has been driven by mismatch unwinding. I was just looking at Market Pricing for 2024, it was at 1. 6 and after this inflation went out for 2024 and just for context, at the beginning of the year Market Pricing had cut because of higher than expected inflation prices. With a more positive inflation than the stock market as wel
Welcome to the lead, im jake tapper. And we start today of course with our world lead. And a new warning about the rapidly deteriorating humanitarian crisis in gaza. Today u. S. Secretary of state Antony Blinken returned to israel after meeting with multiple allies throughout the middle east. Trying to get a humanitarian corridor open for innocents to evacuate from gaza before israel ramps up attacks on hamas. Right now israel is pointing the civilians toward the Southern Gate into egypt, known as the Rafah Crossing which is still clowes. Video shows dozens families including babies waiting next to locked gates. A u. S. Government memo showed more than 250 u. S. Citizens in Southern Gaza waiting for the crossing to open. And earlier reports suggested that it was the Egyptian Government to open the gate when i pressed Jake Sullivan on this issue yesterday, he blamed the closure on on altogether different group. The egyptians have in fact agreed to allow americans to depart to get safe p
We are going to take a tube bordeaux very quickly. King charles and Queen Camilla are on board one of porto s trams, as part of the three day state visit. They have just left hms iron duke. This is theirfinal day of their visit. Hms iron duke has docked in bordeaux. They paid a visit to the French Defence minister. They then made as short walk to the tramway, boarded the tram. You can see the crowds that have been creating them at every stop, every visit they have. It is a very short trip, about five minutes. But bordeauxs trams, it is an electric tram, and they have been accompanied on the journey by the mayor of bordeaux. 130 trams in the city of bordeaux. Very sleek, very modern, which is why the hope was for the royal couple to experience it. It is within the capital, and ancient capital. It has been at the forefront of Transit Technology and innovation for more than 135 years. There are four lines as part of this tramway service, around 77 kilometres of tracks and 130 stations, al