a u-haul truck crashed outside the white house. police say it was no accident. plus late night talks at the capitol, are the two sides any closer to a debt limit deal. and sabotage inside russia, kremlin blames ukraine as a group of russian citizens say they did it. good morning, everyone. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. we begin with what police are treating as an attempted attack on the president. a u-haul panel truck crashed into a security barrier in la fayette square. the vehicle then backed up and slammed into the barrier again. the driver arrested right away. he faces charges including threatening to kill or harm the president, vice president or a family member. police have not yet released the man s name and there is no word on a motive. video shows park police taking inventory of the truck, packing up evidence including a flag with a swastika. time is running short this morning for the white house and re
the chatgpt, testified before us congress to say that artificial iintelligence should be regulated. us lawmakers questioned tech entrepreneur sam altmann about the benefits the technology can bring and the threat it could pose for humanity. my worst fears are that we cause significant we, the field, the technology, the industry cause significant harm to the world. i think that could happen in a lot of different ways. it s why we started the company. it s a big part of why i m here today, and why we ve been here in the past, and we ve been able to spend some time with you. i think if this technology goes wrong, it can go quite wrong. and we want to be vocal about that. we want to work with the government to prevent that from happening. but we try to be very clear eyed about what the downside case is and the work that we have to do so who is sam altman, the man in the hotseat today and at the forefront of this emerging technology? he s an influential investor and entreprene
dismissed its top judge. vsevolod kniaziev was detained for allegedly taking multi million dollar bribes. prosecutors say he was arrested as part of their biggest ever anti corru ption case. ukraine is under pressure to tackle corruption as a requirement forjoining the european union. the reuters news agency says mr kniaziev could not be reached for comment. meanwhile, ukrainian officials have praised their anti missile defence system. overnight, it blocked an intense barrage of russian rockets over the capital kyiv. they say the system shot down six advanced russian hypersonic missiles, which president putin has claimed are unstoppable . kyiv s mayor, vitali klitschko, described the night. actually, last night, our citizens didn t sleep because three hours long, beginning at 230, we have a bombing alarm, and at the whole night we listened to huge explosions and it actually was one of the massive missile attacks to our home hometown. different kinds of rockets the russians s
for allegedly taking multi million dollar bribes. prosecutors say he was arrested as part of their biggest ever anti corru ption case. ukraine is under pressure to tackle corruption as a requirement forjoining the european union. meanwhile, ukrainian officials have praised their anti missile defence system. overnight, it blocked an intense barrage of russian rockets over the capital kyiv. they say the system shot down six advanced russian hypersonic missiles, which president putin has claimed are unstoppable . kyiv s mayor, vitali klitschko, described the night. actually, last night, our citizens didn t sleep because three hours long, beginning at 2:30, we have an alarm, a bombing alarm. and the whole night we listened to huge explosions and it actually was one of the massive missile attacks to our hometown. different kinds of rockets the russians sent to our hometown. our hugo bachega has more from kyiv on ukraine s air defence and what comes next. it was the eighth time th
so we ve been seeing it for days. default on u.s. government debt would be catastrophic. but what would the government s inability to pay what it owes mean in small towns and big cities? far from wall street and washington. brian todd has the sobering reality. reporter: among the first people who could be impacted by default, social security recipients. i can t even begin to imagine what they budgeted for, what they retired and knew that they would have coming in every month. reporter: what happens to the social security payments of more than 65 billion americans if it defaults on its debt? they will ultimately get a check but it will be late. and then what. they can t pay their rent, they can t put food on the table. reporter: default could also affect payments to food stamps