companies. and we re exactly two weeks away from the day the u.s. is expected to run out of money to pay its debts. negotiations are under way in d.c. despite president biden being half a world away in japan. plus, new details about the man who authorities say is behind one of the biggest intelligence leaks in years. court documents are revealing the suspect may have been mishandling classified information months before the leak. new attacks in ukraine. with officials saying russia launched an unprecedented barrage of missiles across the country overnight. we ll talk to ukraine s former president about what appears to be a rise in russian assaults. and more crackdowns on lgbtq rights. texas on the verge of becoming the biggest state of the nation to ban gender transition treatment for children. we begin this very busy hour with breaking news from the nation s highest court. just in the last hour, the supreme court ruled the social media giant twitter is not liable f
hello and thanks so much for joining us. i m ana cabrera in new york. it is 10:00 eastern. this morning president biden is overseas for a high stakes summit in japan. it s a delicate balancing act for the president touting the u.s. as an economic power house to the allies while simultaneously working to stop the u.s. from teetering on the brink of default. back in washington, the president s team is furiously negotiating with congressional republicans. now just two weeks left until our country runs out of money. plus, tiktok going viral, but not in montana. the state becoming the first in the u.s. to ban the popular social media app, but will it actually work? so now we re just going to start banning tiktok on a state by state basis, huh? speaking from my own page in montana here, i am going to keep posting. we ll have a live report coming up on the legal fight over the ban and on the other states that may follow suit. and new reporting this morning about how s
the way to attack emergency shipping tucked away in a norwegian field. and paying tribute to an unsung hero of the second world war. we ll tell you the story of the wooden wonder. hello and welcome. a rescue operation is continuing overnight in southern turkey and northern syria after two huge earthquakes killed more than 4,300 people. blizzards are making it even harder to find those trapped under collapsed buildings. leaders from around the world have responded with offers of help. here s azadeh moshiri. it s a race to save lives that includes the smallest ones. syria s voluntary civil defence group the white helmet pulled our committee out to safety, they say the home of his family north of aleppo has been completely destroyed by the earthquake. syria was already torn apart by a war, home to millions of refugees, the white helmet say ahmed is one of them. millions of people are reeling across the region from the horace they would stir. my wife is still the horace they wo
need to be a higher cost? they re not going to stop. this comes as proxy forces launched ten rockets in northeast syria earlier today. those attacks came from president biden ordered a series of retaliation strikes in response to a suspected iranian drone that killed a u.s. contractor and wounded six americans on thursday. all the breaking news in the past few minutes. our jennifer griffin following the late development from the pentagon. good evening, jen. reporter: tonight iranian forces fired more missiles based in eastern syria, near the oil fields. additional, u.s. forces received entries. we learned some may be serious and the pentagon is assessing its response. the u.s. does not seek conflict with iran but is prepared to respond forcefully to respect u.s. personnel. reporter: the iranian drone carried out an attack on a maintenance facility at a u.s. base shared with the kurdish defense forces in northeast syria, midday on thursday. a u.s. contractor was kill
officials in florida now say at least 66 people are confirmed dead, more than half the fatalities are here amid the widespread devastation in lee county, home to fort myers. the sheriff there says there have been more than 600 rescues in that county alone. near sarasota police officers evacuated a neighborhood early this morning as a levee appeared in danger of collapsing. that threat, a 15-foot wall of water crashing into the neighborhood. just a short time ago the state reopened a 12-mile stretch of interstate 75 in both directions bet an over flowing river has forced a closure there. governor desantis said overflowing lakes and rivers have also created havoc. there s also other areas where we may expect additional flooding. i was touring central florida with some of the aerial tours. there was more standing water in central florida than there was in southwest florida from the imp immuno impact of the storm serurge. i want to bring in jim acosta in fort myers, one of th