13 federal charges against a sitting member of congress. george santos accused of wire fraud, money laundering, stealing public funds. so will republicans call on him to resign with every vote in the house critical? santos due to be arraigned at any moment. public pressure campaign. president biden hitting the road and hitting republicans over a fierce budget standoff. in minutes he s making the case for raising the debt ceiling once again without conditions, with potential economic consequences just weeks away. and heroes in action. newly released audio reveals the terrifying moments as officers search for the texas mall shooter. one officer telling the dispatcher i need everybody i got. chilling words as they ask for backup. we re following these major developing stories and many more, all coming in right here to cnn news central. just minutes from now, new york congressman george santos is expected to appear in federal court. he was taken into custody this morning.
aim at republicans yet again. hello, welcome everyone, i m sandra smith in new york. hi, john. john: we made it to wednesday, top of the mountain, long slide into the weekend from here. i m john roberts in washington and this is america reports. in a rare news conference the president said he felt yesterday s meeting with congressional leadership was productive, but speaker mccarthy proclaimed there was no new movement and warned time is running out to avoid an economic catastrophe. sandra: complete coverage begins now. steve danes is standing by. john: our senior congressional correspondent chad pergram live on capitol hill. do democrats really know what republicans would cut? john, not really. congress funded veterans programs and meals on wheels late last year, that s why republicans believe democrats are trying to scare people about potential cuts. are those cuts that you guys talk about with the v.a., that s not real money, because it s not an appropriation.
six cities across iran were targeted, and in some of the cities, multiple schools were attacked. we started receiving videos from the city of qom, which is the iranian vatican. parents are furious. they re talking to officials, they re shouting at them. there are scenes of chaos and horror. in other cities, we have obtained videos from hospitals where parents are picking up a girl student who has fainted on the floor. other students are crying, gasping for breath on hospital beds, and we have reports that in the north western town of ardabil and also in the southern kurdish town in western iran, the hospitals are packed with schoolgirls. reports of poisonings have become frequent. no girls have died, but dozens have suffered respiratory problems, nausea, dizziness and fatigue. at the beginning of this month, bbc reality check looked into this. the first known case was recorded in november in the city of qom. it s spread to a number of other provinces, including the capital, t
the mosque after palestinians barricaded themselves inside, after the evening ramadan prayer. that led to palestinian militants firing rockets into israel from lebanon and gaza, and israel hitting back with airstrikes. there is some context to all of this. the al aqsa mosque, the third holiest site in islam, is located on a hilltop complex known by muslims as al haram al sharif and byjews as the temple mount. jews revere it as the location of two biblical temples and it is the holiest site injudaism. thousands of muslims and jews are gathering injerusalem, with ramadan and passover overlapping this year. earlier, tens of thousands of people protesting against the israeli government s plans to gain more control over the judiciary held a minute s silence for the victims of a wave of recent attacks on civilians. two british israeli sisters who were killed in a shooting in the occupied west bank yesterday have been named as maia and rina dee. their mother was injured in the shoot