show @thelead. you can listen to the lead once you get your podcasts, all two hours, just sitting there like a delicious tray of sushi. our coverage continues now with mr. alex marquardt who is in for wolf blitzer in a place i like to call the situation room. i ll see you tomorrow. happening now, a desperate search and rescue mission. thousands of feet below the surface of the atlantic ocean. submersible operated by a company running expeditions to the wreck of the titanic is now missing. we have up-to-the-minute details on the mission to find the sub and the five people on board. also this hour, the high-stakes meeting of the super power secretary of state antony blinken says the u.s. and china have made progress towards getting relations back on track, but there still is a ways to go. we ll have a report from beijing. and more than 50 million people across the southeast face the threat of severe weather including tornados this holiday weekend. we ll have the latest
you ll see here first on the story. first, this is an incredible frightening story playing out right now. the clock is ticking. 72 hours to go and counting for the long titanic submersible. the adventure tourist vehicle, which we believe has five individuals on it. we have the identity of one of them. we ll talk about this in just a moment. they lost contact with their home base several hours ago. they were supposed to be down there for six hours and return last night. now, as i said, the race is on to find these people. several government agencies are involved, private entities searching the vast ocean. you can see where the titanic is resting on the floor of the ocean and where this mission went from to take these eco tourists down there, these adventure tourists to see the wreckage up close. it s an extraordinary opportunity. the company that does this is called oceangate expeditions. they use a sub like this. you can see the man at the front of it. it s compared to the
you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in atlanta. we re less than 40 minutes to the launch of axiom two. it s the second mission to the international space station. on board is a former space station commander who has spent more time in space than any other american along with a pilot and two mission specialists from saudi arabia. we ll bring you that launch live in about a half an hour. and negotiations will resume over the debt crisis. they will set the stakge for a high-stakes meeting tomorrow. the president is flying home from the g-7 summit in japan. here s what mccarthy had to say about that conversation. i believe it was a productive phone call. and so at the end of the phone call, what we need to do is, we re going to have patrick mchenry get back together with he s going to ask his team, get back together. so we can walk them through literally what we ve been talking about. i think some of the challenges here they might not completely understand h
you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in atlanta. we begin this hour with high stakes negotiations starting back up on the nation s looming debt crisis. just minutes ago talks resumed on the staff level in washington. but they will set the stage for a top level meeting tomorrow. president biden is expected to sit down with republican house speaker kevin mccarthy. the two men spoke by phone today as the president was flying back home from the g7 summit in japan. this new glimmer of optimism is a quick compromise appears increasingly bleak. the u.s. could run out of money to pay debts as early as june 1st. experts say that would be disastrous for the u.s. and the global economy. let s go the to white house and arlette saenz. what this what are they saying over there? the president returned to washington much the same when he left it, without any clear resolution in sight to avert a national default on the debts as early as 11 days from now. now, one thing that t