i have no classified documents and by the way they become automatically declassified. they have an audiotape now of donald trump in a meeting where he talks about a classified proposal from the pentagon. it is as far as evidence goes very, very powerful. the house did it, it was a struggle to get there. this is the biggest cut in savings this congress has ever voted for. yeah, there is clearly something there because we have video of it. nasa has been looking for a life in the universe for decades. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is thursday, june 1, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 a.m. in washington where the marathon of talks, negotiations and meetings have paid off for the u.s. president and house speaker. 314-117, the bill has passed. and it is not over just yet as it heads to the senate. more on that in a moment. but first sources tells us that federal prosecutors have audio recordings of donald trump
world. i m laila harrak. thousands of people ordered to evacuate their homes in california as the storm-battered state endures another round of heavy rain and flooding. donald trump facing new legal woes. the former u.s. president now weighing whether to testify before a grand jury about his alleged role in a hush money scheme. plus, a major step for the middle east as iran and saudi arabia strike a deal to restore diplomatic ties. the surprise agreement helped along by beijing. we ll break down what it all means. announcer: from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with laila harrak. we start this hour in california, where residents are getting battered by more storms, the result of yet another atmospheric river. at least two people are dead and nearly 10,000 people are under evacuation orders. more than 40,000 homes and businesses currently without power according to poweroutage.us. the central coast has been the hardest hit with creeks being turned into raging rivers
top of the hour on cnn newsroom. good to have you along. i m victor blackwell. the fbi is searching for four americans assaulted and kidnapped in mexico. we are getting new video of the attack into cnn but we want to warn you, it is disturbing. you can see people being loaded into the back of a pickup truck by armed men. it is unclear if they are americans. according to the fbi shortly after the group of u.s. citizens drove across the border friday, the car crashed with another vehicle and they were taken at gunpoint. authorities believe that they were not the intended targets. the u.s. ambassador to mexico said an innocent mexican citizen was also killed. cnn rosa flores is following this for us. rosa, what are you learning and make of the mexican president and authorities saying these were not the intended targets? reporter: you know, the president of mexico saying these four americans were actually in mat morore mexico to purchase medicine, which is something peo
struggling to recover more than a week after hurricane ian devastated parts of the state. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom. we begin with multiple development in ukraine that are unfolding right now. first, a fuel tanker exploded on a strategic and symbolic bridge linking russia with the crimean peninsula. the blast sparked a fire which emergency crews are trying to put out, according to pro russian officials. now they also say that two spans of the road to the bridge have collapsed. the 11-mile span is the longest in europe, and it was built after russia claimed its annexation of crimea in 2014. now on top of that, we re getting reports of a fire in ukraine s second largest city following a russian rocket strike. the mayor of kharkiv said the city was hit by several rockets causing flames to spread at a local medical facility. he says officials are still checking if there are any casualties. so stay with cnn for updates on both of those stories. meanwhile,
Hello, and a very warm welcome to our viewers here in the United States and all around the world. Im paula newton. Ahead here on cnn newsroom, Vladimir Putin and kim jongun ref up talks in Eastern Russia. What the two are expected to discuss. Plus, the presumed death toll from the catastrophic flooding in libya has more than double and as many as 10,000 are still missing. And the u. S. Takes a key step in a deal to free five americans being detained in iran. What critics are saying about that agreement. And we go straight to our breaking news. Kim jongun is heaping praise on russias Vladimir Putin as the two sit down for their first facetoface talks in more than four years. The meeting in russias far east follows days of warnings from the United States about these two leaders possibly sealing a deal on weapons. But theyre not talking about that publicly, at least not yet, any way. Instead, the russian president spoke of cooperation on humanitarian and economic issues. And in a veiled s