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we are following all the developments in the house where lawmakers are on track to vote on a bill to raise the nation s debt limit. a key vote in this race to avoid default is just over two hours away and we re on it. u.s./china tensions soaring. a chinese fighter jet gets so close to a u.s. spy plane it causes turbulence. the pentagon is calling it an unnecessarily aggressive maneuver in international airspace. we ll have more on this close call ahead. and nasa tracking ufos. the space agency holding its first-ever public meeting on unidentified aerial phenomenon. the truth is out there. we re following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. heading to the house floor with no time to lose. soon the house will hold a critical vote on president biden and speaker kevin mccarthy s debt ceiling deal, with the nation barreling toward june 5th, the day the treasury department says it will no longer bow able to pay its bills.
the floods there get really high and i don t want a repeat of what happened to me before. cubans give their verdict on legalising same sex marriage and whether gay couples can adopt in a landmark referendum that s divided the nation. japan prepares to hold a state funeral for the former prime minister shinzo abe, who was shot dead during an election rally injuly. and less than two months ahead of the men s football world cup in qatar, concerns that there may not be enough affordable accommodation. italy has never had a female prime minister. but exit polls suggest that is about to change, with the far right brothers of italy emerging as the biggest party in the new parliament, and putting its leader giorgia meloni on course to become the prime minister. her party leans further to the right than any government since the mussolini 80 years ago. the democratic party have already conceded, she said the voters had indicated their desire for a centre right government and that she
greg: you didn t think we could do it but there you are. months of hard work and hot tubbing but he s here. i m not proud of some of the things i had to do in that tub larry but i ll do what it takes. also side note al qaeda leader ayman al-zawahiri was killed. [cheers and applause] greg: you re sick. was just 51 years young, his remains will be cremated and spread over his already cream ated remains. and to think he just finished paying off his women s studies degree. we went to his family for comment. that s terrible, show the guy some respect. let s go to his real family. you know that s even worse. you know how those guys hate pork. it s the other white meat they despise. no wonder he became a terrorist. at least he didn t get into stripping because once the robe comes off it s just ankle socks. don t ask me how i know. so when i first heard the news i have to say i was a little confused. and, no, that s not a quote from the president. first, i had not heard that name
just ahead, tonight the mayor of new york, the former police captain, confronted by fbi agents and seized his phones and ipad as what appears to be a fast growing campaign finance investigation. we begin with israel s war in hamas, most notably the efforts to secure the hostages now believed to be held by hamas and other groups. it comes at the end of the day that saw israeli forces heavily pound targets in northern gaza from the air and troops on the ground continued to engage. the senior american official familiar with the hostage talks tells cnn that negotiators are working toward an agreement involving what this official call ls a sustained days-long pause in the fighting. in exchange, hostages would be freed on a rolling basis, starting with women and children over a period of days. that same official added that many details remain unresolved and negotiations could stall or break down at any point. also comments by secretary of state antony blinken gets more attention.