We begin this hour with an historic Hurricane Barreling toward the u. S. Hilary is now a category 3 hurricane with top winds of more than 100 miles per hour. This is new video of the storm pummeling mexico as it inches closer to the u. S. The powerful system could bring a years worth of rain in one day to parts of the southwest along with potentially catastrophic and lifethreatening flooding. Right now parts of Southern California are under a Tropical Storm warning for the first time in history. Officials and residents there are preparing with sandbags and the California National guard is standing by ready to help. A State Emergency Official tells cnn its an all hands on deck situation. Weve got a cnn team at this hour tracking hilary. Meteorologist derek van dam is closely following the path Aina Tasha Chen has a look at storm preps in los angeles. Derek, lets start with you at the cnn weather center. I cant believe were talking about a hurricane and preparations for it in los angeles
welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world, i m christine romans. secretary of state antony blinken meeting face-to-face right now with chinese president xi jinping in beijing. the high stakes one-on-one is part of blinken s efforts to meet with china s top diplomat. an effort to lower the temperature amid rising tensions between the u.s. and china. cnn s kylie atwood in beijing this morning. just the fact that their meeting is a huge meeting, kylie, we learned 90 minutes ago their meeting was a go. what do we know about it? reporter: that s right, it s here in beijing, the secretary of state who is the first cabinet member to visit china from biden administration in 2 1/2 years. sitting down with president xi, we don t know much about the meeting because it s so ongoing. here s what we do know, there have been a number of hours that the secretary has engaged with chinese officials over the course of the last days in beijing. spending more than five ho
i m paula reid in washington. jim acosta has the day off. we are following several developing stories on this busy afternoon. the u.s. takes another step closer to running out of money to pay its debts. despite a deadline as close as 12 days away, the high-stakes negotiations between the white house and republicans have broken down. and it s not clear when they will resume. meanwhile, president biden will cut short his asia trip to address the looming debt crisis, but before heading home tomorrow from the g7 summit in japan biden will meet with ukraine s president. president zelenskyy is making a dramatic appearance at the gathering to ask world leaders for more help in the war against russia. zelenskyy s plea comes as russia claims a major victory in ukraine. today the head of the mercenary wagner group says his fighters captured bakhmut after months of brutal fighting. ukraine says it still holds a small portion of the city. cnn s phil mattingly is at the g7 summit in hiros
good morning. buenos dias and welcome to cnn this morning. we are grateful you are starting your sunday, march 19th with us. i m boris sanchez. i m amara walker. is there a good morning? it is a very good morning for me. it is a great one. because boris is going to getting a lot more sleep on the weekends. look, there is really no bad news. there is some breaking news. i guess the bad news is that you won t be able to see boris bright and early in the morning saying buenos dias, but, for all the boris fans you will be getting a lot more of boris during the week. we don t want to disclose all the details. look, i think you and i channelled each other because we are kind of in mourning with all of our black. sadly, because we won t be together. that s the bad news. the good news, you will get so much more of boris. you are too kind. more of that in a sec. here is what we are watching today. russian president vladimir putin makes a surprise visit to the russian-o
start with an arrest of historic proportions. it s the first time an american journalist has been detained by russia since the cold war in 1986 the year after i was born wall street journal reporter evan gersh co ceviche. was arrested and is now in custody in moscow on accusations of espionage. he covers russia, ukraine and the former soviet union for the paper. in a statement, the wall street journal said it vehemently denies the allegations from the fsb and seeks the immediate release of our trusted and dedicated reporter. we stand in solidarity with evan and his family. espionage charges in russia can carry prison sentences of up to 20 years. court has ordered 31 year old gorshkov itch to be initially detained until may. 29th the white house says the state department has been in direct touch with the russian government at any moment. now we expect his attainment to be addressed at the white house press briefing. of course, we will take you there when it begins. evan gives