america s job market stays hot even as the economy faces headwinds. not so sweet. why a georgia peach could be hard to find this summer. and later, a yellowstone star s new mission, now asking to help the children of the fallen. that s my way of serving this country. announcer: this is the cbs evening news from new york with jericka duncan. good evening and thanks for joining us on this sunday. we begin tonight with new tensions between global rivals. today china s defense minister aggressively defended sailing a warship directly in front of an american missile destroyer. speaking at a summit in singapore, he warned the west to stay out of waters and air space near china s borders. the dangerous close encounter happened in the taiwan strait separating taiwan from china. cbs s elizabeth palmer leads us off tonight. reporter: addressing an audience of global security officials, china s defense minister general li shangfu had some blunt advice for the united st
negotiators in washington. we ll have the key sticking points as the clock ticks down to a potentially catastrophic default. and later, nine lives. these so-called ghost cats were driven to the brink of ex tecs tinks, but are pouncing back. protects your way of life. yes, sir, it does. announcer: this is the cbs weekend news from chicago with adriana diaz. good evening. all eyes are on capitol hill tonight as the deadline for a possible government default closes in. both president joe biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy insist a deal is close. more on that in a minute. we begin this memorial day weekend at the national mall. thousands are turning out at the poppy wall of honor. the red flowers symbolizes bloodshed and lives lost in service since world war i. there are more than 645,000 flowers lining the wall this year. and as always, many of us are on the move for the holiday weekend. whether by ground or air, travelers are feeling the impact of the economy bo
plus on to the senate now for a big bipartisan breakthrough. a month scramble of meetings, breakdowns and near rebellions leads to 314 yes in the house on a deal to steer the united states around a debt default. from wall street to the whout, one of the most powerful men in corporate america doesn t say no to a future in politics. up first for us, critical new cnn report ing on a special counsel investigation evidence trail that we now know includes a record ing of donald trump admitting he kept a classified record when he left the white house. trump right now is on the campaign trail between iowa. a reminder of the unprecedented place we find ourselves. a state investigation sb n georgia and two tracks of the federal special counsel investigation. and yet, he is at the same time the front runner for the 2024 republican nomination. ask he vows to carry on his campaign no matter what prosecutors allege. this exclusive new cnn reporting is this. special counsel jack smith h
- [announcer] do you have an invention idea but don t know what to do next? call invent help today. they can help you get started with your idea. call now 800-710-0020. you are in the cnn newsroom. i m paula reed in washington. jim acosta has the day off. it is 5:00 p.m. at the white house, and we are now one hour closer to the nation potentially defaulting on its debt. that would be unprecedented and potentially catastrophic for the global economy. now, despite a deadline as close as 12 days away, the high-stakes negotiations between the white house and congressional republicans have broken down, and it s not clear when they might resume. a u.s. debt default would affect economies around the world, so the concerns have loomed over the g7 summit in hiroshima, japan. the president, however, says he s not concerned at all. it goes in stages, and what happens is the first meetings weren t all that progressive. the second ones were. third one was. and then what happens is t
off from his mar-a-lago home sometime on monday on there for the formal arraignment on this 30-plus indictment that has been handed down. he would be the first former president to have to deal with something like this. it will be historic, and we re told that plans have been made to make it as unzoo-like, if you can use such a term, as possible by closing off traffic in lower manhattan and making sure that the former president can get safely into and out of that building. he will have to be the fingerprinted, he will have to be given a mug shot. there will be no handcuffing going on here, and he will be likely field on his own reconnaissance to the head back to florida. so we re keeping track of all of those storms. let s get the ones impacting a lot of folks who in some cases are dealing with this all off again. will nunley in wynne, arkansas, with more on that. reporter: nile, many a lot of cases absolutely total losses of their homes. and in the case of wynne, loss of li