organization is responding this morning. a stark warning for all parents. listen up. if you are making your kids breakfast right now, this matters to them and you, the u.s. surgeon general is labeling social media a, quote, profound risk of harm for kids. this hour of cnn this morning starts right now. a security scare near the white house. police say a man in a u-haul truck intentionally rammed a barrier. you see that happen. but could not get through. he has been charged with threatening to kill, kidnap or harm the president, vice president or members of their family. video at the scene shows investigators inspecting. a nazi flag, a black backpack, a roll of duct tape a notebook with writing in it and other items the suspect apparently had with him. the secret service evacuated a hotel as bomb technicians searched the truck to make sure there weren t any explosives inside. evan presiden evan perez is at scene. if there was a threat, you see this nazi flag in his thing
relent leslie pursued. prince harry and meghan s run-in with paparazzi said, by one person, to be nearly catastrophic. what we re learning from a member of the couple s security team. will he stay or go? the house is just hours away on voting on a resolution to expel george santos. this all comes down to his own party. will republicans boot one of their own? democrats trying to buy all the time they can in south carolina. lawmakers are debating over an abortion ban. they say they plan to argue every last amendment. they re all coming in right here to cnn news central. new details coming into cnn about the paparazzi car chase that prince harry s team said could have been fatal for people along the route. we re learning they switched cars during the chase, which they say lasted some two hours. they left the visions of women event at the ziegfeld ballroom, and then they had to figure out how to get them away. the law enforcement spokesperson called it annoys and inapp
a barrage of missiles raining down on ukrainian cities, and russian says they took out major munitions, but ukraine says they took out most of them. a drought fueled by climate change is drying up the colorado river. leaving game. umpires are walking off of the diamond not because of the players, but because of their parents. the shortage of umpires. all of this coming up on cnn news central. president biden has wrapped up the first day of his big trip to japan. this morning he met with japan s prime minister before the g7 summit kicks off tomorrow. the main focus is on the support to ukraine and uniting the allies against the china s influence, but he decided to cut the trip short to head back to washington to deal with domestic matters concerning the debt ceiling. we go to mark who is following president, and now, how are the other leaders viewing this issue of the debt crisis and the president at home? kate, this debt ceiling distraction is one that the president
they re trying to hold every inch of territory in that city. how has that changed the way they re fighting this side? reporter: it s made it on the russian side, dirtier. on the ukrainian, more desperate. the last few days as the offensive gains in intensity, as the conditions on the ground worsen, those images geolocated by cnn that showed the conditions around bakhmut pretty grim with mud, making the roads pretty much impassable. what ukrainian authorities and president sens has said tonight is things are getting more and more challengichallenging. what we re seeing are a series of intense attacks, but it is the battle for the town of bakhmut that gets worse and more intense by the day with ukrainian officials describing it as the epicenter. there have been today hundreds of artillery barrages and rocket strikes by the russians as they try and encircle the town, and specifically the areas of settlements to the west of it. desperate pleas on the part of the ukrainians once
on capitol hill, democrats unveil a new bill they say will prevent another bank collapse. we will speaker with senator bob menendez who helped introduce the legislation. battle over abortion rights in texas how one jeryl judge to block a medication used in abortions nationwide. the latest fallout after a russian fighter jet and u.s. drone collide in mid air now russia says it s intenting to recover the fragments of that drone. we begin this very busy hour with the latest on wall street where the dow jones continues to drop after shares of another major bank tumbled more than 20%. dow jones is down 552 points and 1.7% dropping this morning a swiss bank with large operations in the u.s. and around the globe is the center of the latest crisis in the banking sector that is affecting wall street. joining us now with more is cnbc sema mody. what is going on with the markets this morning and why can you hear me? let s try to reestablish communication with her on this we will k