Information released within just the last hour. Began, everyone. Im michelle griego. Im kenny choi. The National Transportation safety board just released the preliminary information on the dive boat fire that killed 30 people off the Southern California coast. Anne makovec is here with the very latest. Reporter it is a twopage report released less than an hour ago and it runs down the tragedy from the crew members perspective since they are the only ones who survived. It describes one waking up to a noise and seeing the fire rise from a compartment below him. He alerted the other four crew above deck. They radioed the coast guard and then tried to access the compartment below where the passengers were sleeping. The report goes on to say unable to use the ladder which was on fire. The crew members jumped down to the main deck, one crew member broke his leg in the process. And tried to access the salon and galley compartment which was fully engulfed by fire and thick smoke. Unable to op
Special counsel in the biden class should not to pursue charges. It stands by his characterizations of the president s age age, and memory. Ill ask a key democratic question. Robert hur, about his testimony and the attacks he faced from lawmakers in both parties. Also ahead, the biden trump rematch is about to get even more intense as theyre both expected to officially clinch their partys nominations within hours. Well break down on tonights contests and the state of the very divisive president ial race. Plus President Biden just wrapped up important talks with polands top leaders as the us is unveiling a new 300 billion Weapons Package for ukraine working around roadblocks in congress, the Us Ambassador to poland sen. Mark brzezinski will join us live to discuss this breaking story. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world im wolf blitzer, a youre in the Situation Room this is cnn Breaking News. We begin with the Breaking News on former Special Counsel, ro
Capitol hill, gop leadership is finding their bill already faces an uphill battle. Reporter two congressional committees on the republican plan to replace obamacare. Families are facing over 10,000 deductibles. In many cases. Because of the unworkable mandates . Taxes in this bill. Can republicans guarantee that the 20 million who have insurance today will continue to have Health Insurance under their plan . Clearly not. Reporter but some republicans say they cant support the plan because it keeps some taxes and the expansion of medicaid. Theres a leadership plan that was brought forward, which i believe when you look through it is obamacare in a different form. Reporter with democrats united and their opposition to repeal obamacare, the margins for republicans to push through any repeal and replace plan are very slim. That means gop leadership has some work to do to win over the skeptics. If they dont have 218 votes there will be negotiation. And conservatives will have a seat at the
Abandoning our heroes. The latest scandal rocking the department of veterans affairs. Later this hour we have taya kyle. Widow of Navy Seal Chris kyle. She will sound off on this. David she is real good. Back to the markets, the dow holding on to gains after the Federal Reserve announcing plans to increase, rates, quote, relatively slow, whatever that means. Phil flynn, price tures contributod watching action from of oil and gold from the floor of the cme and Ashley Webster from the floor of the new york stock exchange. Ashley, more headlines, all talk, lets face it. All talk, very little action, david. We were supposed to have four rate hikes, david, remember that . It could rain but there again it may not rain. That is basically they said. Traders frustration same old waffle. There is still believe the december rate hike could very well be on. It is almost priced in. Weve seen the dollar get stronger. Seen treasury yields go up. Still no belief that the december rate hike is still co
Scene, where bob, police say there is no reason for the public to be worried here. The reporter yeah, thats right, and police are telling us that the victim is ok, she was not harmed in this incident and they have been talking to her, getting a statement from her. I want to show you some live pictures of the scene. This is where it all happened this morning, right there, in that house. It is a large home here in sterling, and a neighbor told us its 5600 square feet. Now, all afternoon long, police have been combin evidence, but just a short time ago, the police chief told us, he does not think that this was a random crime. 13 Stephanie Ann lane is a large house that sits at the end of a pretty culdesac in sterling, but police say this was the scene of a troubling Home Invasion. Police say some time before 10 00 a. M. , three masked men walked it to home and tied up a 70yearold woman with duct tape in her bedroom and stole about off in her cadillac. Police tell us the entire attack did