why congress may have breathing room when it comes to raising the debt ceiling on this american morning. and good morning, everyone. it is wednesday, july 27th. this is american morning. a lot going on today. let s get to it. it does feel like dueling bangoes, doesn t it? when you hear both sides of the debate they re dug in but insist they re right. and a growing number of americans want them not to be. they all say god bless america. how we get there is the question. two maker developments in the debt crisis, following minute by minute here. six days until the deadline and house speaker john boehner s plan is coming under fire from members of his own party. he s going back to the drawing board because the numbers don t add up. today s vote has been postponed and in just a few hours, house republicans will meet again as john boehner says that they are looking for more cuts and deeper cuts. this is the plan. i ve got it here. 57 pages. what happens when you co
i m christine romans. house speaker john boehner says no way to the president s plan. he has another solution and it s simply says, spend less. i m ali velshi. congressional websites crash. what president obama said that had a number of websites going off-line. details coming up on this american morning. thanks for being with us. tuesday, july 26th. welcome to american morning. we all stayed up later than usual last night to get a chance to hear from the president about this debt ceiling showdown as well as from the house speaker. and still divided this morning. they are still divided with different plans, different ideas how to get us out of the mess. didn t you both think maybe they got something, something happened. i didn t think there was a deal. i m always the optimist. lots of ideas, plans, but no agreement. start there with the debt crisis looming, president obama, house speaker john boehner took their cases for getting a deal done directly to the
and good morning to you. boy, the temperatures, top story again. wow. sizzling heat, and most of the country right now is dealing with triple digits or at least feeling like triple digits. as we ve been saying, not just uncomfortable, dangerous and deadly. welcome. friday, july 22nd. let s get right to it. intensely hot against across a huge portion of the country. it started in the midwest, it s come heeft. washington, the high, 103 today but it s going to feel like 115 with the humidity. triple digit temperatures are expected across the mid-atlantic, up and down the east coast and into the ohio valley and as many as 2,000 related deaths now reported. utilities around the country are bracing, asking you to conserve energy as people crank the ac. in new york, the power company said that store owners who leave their doors open could be fined. wow. trying to stay cool. match fn you re a polar bear in this heat? animals in the detroit zoo were treated to popsicles with
of space shuttles. stay tuned. lit take as you little while. we are still working on it but keep watching. we will be launching again. we will stay in the business, as they said, the united states is not out space business. absolutely. we have proven for 30 years that we know how to get to lower orbit. we built this fantastic international space station. lit keep operating at least through 2020, conducting research in this incredible laboratory with the micro gravity environment of space we cannot replicate here on earth. we are going to still explore and research there but we have proven we know how to get to lower orr. it next step is we need to go on. absolutely. that s going to be the challenge for you and the rest of the folks at nasa. as we see atlantis sitting on the edge of the runway, it is, in fact, over for the space shuttle program. that s right. thank you for that. we want to get the take of what it is like in haas ton at mission control where i
hacking scandal. david cameron minutes away from a show down. two major proposals in the trillion dollar showdown over the nations debt. the first is called a possible break through. the second plan is under attack by democrats. all this next on american morning . thanks for being with us, it s wednesday, july 20th, this american morning . i m kiran chetry. i m ali velshi. do we have a lot going on today. british prime minister david cameron is about to get grilled by parliament. the newscorp phone hacking hearing begins in 30 minutes. cameron is expected to face tough questions about what some are calling a cozy relationship with rupert murdoch s media empire. go to used of parliament this morning. fireworks yesterday. the consensus, though, is david cameron is not likely to lose his job over this but that he s under enormous pressure right now. reporter: he s definitely is. he s got a lot to defend himself today. basically, this is a special day in parliament. t