weeks from now. we ll discuss the really dire implications for the u.s. economy if that happens with the former treasury secretary larry summers. also tonight, a huge dust storm causes multiple deaths and dozens of car wrecks in a massive interstate pileup. we re tracking this weather disaster in illinois. and an intensifying man hunt in texas after a gunman killed five neighbors including a 9-year-old little boy. authorities pleading for the public s help as this armed and very dangerous suspect has been on the loose since friday. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. and let s get straight to the breaking news. trashy secretary janet yellen s very very blunt warning about the u.s. debt limit. cnn is covering the story from every angle. our correspondents are standing by over at the white house on capitol hill, and in the nation s financial cente
sending troops to the border days before title 42 is lifted. we ll bring you the latest reporting. it s day four in the manhunt for the suspect of the killing of five people in texas. this morning, many questions and few answers. writers on strike, what they are demanding and how it affects the shows you watch. and then avoiding economic catastrophe if the debt krael ceiling is not raised. in illinois, the highway where a blinding dust storm caused a deadly highway pileup is back open this morning. we have the latest. he lost his beloved daughter, jamie, in the parkland school shooting. today he joins us to talk about the gun violence crisis in america. we begin this hour with some breaking news from washington. three senior administration officials tell nbc news the biden administration is considering sending 1,500 active duty troops to the southern border for 90 days. this comes just days before the u.s. government is set to lift title 42 which has been used for mor
i ve never met this person in my life, he said, in 2019 after carol told the story in her book she s not by type, he added a few months later in an interview with the hill. today, during carol s testimony, he called the case a made-up scam he said her lawyer is a political operative and that carol should have produced the dress she was wearing that day joining me now from outside the u.s. district court in new york city is nbc news correspondent ron allen. so ron, some very heavy testimony today. what else did carol say, and how was she how was she pushed back how did donald trump s lawyers push back against her testimony? reporter: they re going to zero in based on their opening statement on some things that they say are just unbelievable for example, she could not tell the jury exactly when this incident, this alleged incident happened she says it was probably sometime in the spring of 1996, but she has said she doesn t know the exact month, the exact date when this hap
38 past the hour. this morning in new york city the civil trial facing former president donald trump enters a new phase. today jurors will hear from a friend of e. jean carroll that she confided with that trump raped her in a store in the 1990s. trump denied the allegation. carroll finished her testimony yesterday where she faced questions from tacopina about her social media. what are we hearing so far this morning? we are hearing from lisa burnback, a friend and journalist of e. jean carroll. she s the person carroll said
their chins up and take our licks. next on the stand according to a source familiar with the trial, lisa burnback, one of the close friends carroll confided in. she ll be followed by lee. alleging trump assaulted her on an airplane in 1979. trump has denied that assault. kara scannell in new york. thank you very much. let s discuss this and more with laura coates, and civil rights attorney nancy erica smith. trump s lawyers grilled e. jean carroll why she didn t report the incident, even asking her about that old law and order episode. do you think that s an effective tactic? well, you know, oddly enough people who are jurors are caught between really the me too era and also a notion where we have as a society doubted those who reported later than the actual time frame when they were actually accusing the person of doing so.