and i m max foster. just ahead negotiations still ongoing, still unresolved. stewart rhodes was sentenced to 18 years in federal prison on thursday. have a good day. next. memorial day weekend is just the start of what will be a busy summer travel season that we re expecting. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is friday, may 26, 9:00 a.m. in london, 4:00 a.m. in washington where they are moving closer to a day to pay the government s bill. it would reportedly raise the debt ceiling but cap spending levels for two years. and manu raju reports that nothing is final until it is final. reporter: negotiations between the speaker and his top allies and the white house still ongoing, still unresolved, even as the u.s. is considering prospects of the first ever debt default as soon as next week and amid warnings that the u.s. credit rating could be downgraded if the national down limit which now stands at $31.4 trillion
most beautiful cities in america. it s known for wealth and innovation. it s home to the highest number of billionaires per capita in the country. but it s also one of the least affordable places to live. it s san francisco, a city some say is in steep decline because of crime, homelessness, and drug use. more people die from drug overdoses in this city during the covid pandemic than from the virus itself. cnn s sara sidner heads to the bay area, a place she once called her home, to show us what it looks like now and find out it looks like now and find out what happened to san francisco. captions by vitac www.vitac.com so, when i first laid eyes on san francisco, i was enchanted. from where i am right now, driving over the bay bridge, and it looked like someone had taken an enormous vat of fog and just continuously poured it over the hills, like dry ice being poured over a perfectly sculpted city on a stage. and then you get down into the city and you meet these gloriou
as it continues to benefit from pent up demand for air travel. europe s largest carrier by passenger numbers also said it expects profits to rise modestly over the next year, and the summer travel season will be busy. the figures are better than industry watchers had expected. we knew they were going to be good but to record these numbers is exceptional so nearly 170 million passengers, that s up 74% on the previous year s. revenue has more than doubled, profit is 1.4 billion, and they re going to pay dividend this year. it s a phenomenal result and shows how quickly this market is turned around. it also shows how fragile the market is for aviation. there is a point where it suddenly flips you become very profitable, ryanair have put in a great set of results that even before the summer, which will be very strong. cheap airfares are a myth and anybody looking for summer holidays will tell you airfares are expensive, particularly in europe because we have not seen a lot of cap
condense everything in a short time frame. the house passed a bill with the senate democrats and now it s more difficult. what else do you have to negotiate with from a lot of different perspectives but we can still finish in time. that s house speaker kevin mccarthy giving his side of the debt ceiling negotiations, which are stalled over republican demands to cut spending. we ll have more on what s expected to happen today with the talks in just a moment. plus new reporting on a downright unusual presidential campaign launch for florida governor ron desantis. that s coming today as well. and also ahead texas and the nation mark a grim anniversary, one year since the gun massacre in uvalde. we ll take a look at the tributes planned for the victims and what, if any, impact the tragedy has had on gun legislation in that state. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, may 24th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. the 2024 white ho
with the determination and courage of my mum. but it also did not reckon with the nhs. a doctor at guy s hospital in london refused to give up. he found an experimental treatment for this 11 year old girl, and rest, as they say, is history. honestly, lots of people say they over the nhs everything and i am definitely one of them, but that is the point. mum s story is not special. behind every single door in this country there is a family who will have their own version. this is who we are. the nhs belongs to everyone. the foundation for the comfort, security, health of working people. for75 comfort, security, health of working people. for 75 years, and ever present in our story, family and nation, my message today is simple. with labour, the story continues. we have a plan. we want the patience of the future to remember this moment, remember the changes we will make together. that is our mission. we will fight for the nhs. we will fix the nhs. we will reform the nhs. old val