Good friday morning, everybody. I am erica hill with rahel solomon. Poppy harlow is off today. Nice to be friday. Isnt it . We are here for that. Five things to know for this friday. June 2nd, the Debt Ceiling Bill on its way to President Bidens desk and once signed the threat of a u. S. Default is off the table until after the 2024 election. Also, new questions this morning about that partial Building Collapse in davenport, iowa. Just days before the wall came Crashing Down an Engineering Firm said, quote, bricks appear ready to fall imminently. You can see the gap in the new pictures. Three people are still missing. The former president now responding to reporting that they have him on tape. The Denver Nuggets one step closer to making franchise history after beating the miami heat, they are up taking the first game in the nba finals. An Eighth Grader crowned the new National Spelling bee champ. We will put him to the test when he joins us live on cnn this morning which starts right
not defaulting. days before a portion of an apartment building in iowa collapsed repair work was under way on that section. three people remain missing. i said, if you value your life, get away from that building and an hour later i heard the building fell. the inspection never failed. it was incomplete. so the work was still in progress. this needs to be done in a way that it respects that this is a resting place. president biden tripped over a sandbag and fell. because this wasn t the president s first stumble it has gotten a lot of attention. according to white house official, totally fine. remember to stay true to ourselves. jokic knocks down the three. the first finals game in franchise history is a rousing success. p-s-a-m-m-o-p-h-i-l-e, psammophile. that is correct. after much anticipation about a spell-off, a 14-year-old dev shah won the 2023 scripps national spelling bee. it s surreal. i didn t even let it settle in. my legs are still shaking.
good friday morning, everybody. i am erica hill with rahel solomon. poppy harlow is off today. nice to be friday. isn t it? we are here for that. five things to know for this friday. june 2nd, the debt ceiling bill on its way to president biden s desk and once signed the threat of a u.s. default is off the table until after the 2024 election. also, new questions this morning about that partial building collapse in davenport, iowa. just days before the wall came crashing down an engineering firm said, quote, bricks appear ready to fall imminently. you can see the gap in the new pictures. three people are still missing. the former president now responding to reporting that they have him on tape. the denver nuggets one step closer to making franchise history after beating the miami heat, they are up taking the first game in the nba finals. an eighth grader crowned the new national spelling bee champ. we will put him to the test when he joins us live on cnn this morni
big moves in arizona cutting off building permits so they don t have to cut off the water and far-reaching effort to make sure that everyone in arizona has enough. and new research in breast cancer, and researchers fiending new results of clinical research. this is cnn news central. the important big development this hour, the us j tis department has officially closed its investigation into vice president mike pence and his handling of classified documents. this is when an attorney for mike pence found about a dozen documents marked classified in mike pence s possession. evan perez and katelyn polantz is with us. i am going to you first, kate. well, it is clear that the justice department is not bringing any criminal charges related to the discovery of classified records or records with the classified markings with them in the possession of former vice president mike pence. what happened to start this investigation, buzz that back in january, a lawyer had gone to penc
he was released from a county jail on bail last night. but i m sure his lawyers are going to have a lot of questions because clearly, he had a constitutional right to be there to report the story. of course, waiting for more details in terms of what happened here. i just wonder, at no point in this time line did no one say this seems excessive standing there reporting and i was watching newsnation at the time. he was in the middle of a report and said we ve just been asked to stop reporting and i m stopping and then this happens. again, from what we could hear he was just being told he was being too loud. yeah. jason, thank you. it is the top of the hour on cnn newsroom. i m bianna golodryga. aim victor blackwell. the chinese spy balloon recovered in the atlantic, these are new pictures handed over by the bureau. officials say understanding its components could be important pieces of evidence for future criminal charges that could be brought. moments ago the s