i want to go right now to cnn s correspondents. atika, new search area that moves slightly east. how is the search effort going at this hour? reporter: well, we ve got about ten planes up in the air today. the first of them should be reaching the search area now. and it s expected to be fairly good weather. so they re going to try and search as much as possible which will mean a late arrival for a lot of those planes. so far there have been no reported sightings of any potential debris. there were no significant findings yesterday either. so it s disappointing for a lot of the search teams, but this is a how a lot of search and recovery goes. to they re going to have to see if they can keep scouring the area, let the ship knows. nik robertson, families will be meeting privately with tech
white house right now. we expect boehner to emerge momentarily. stand by. deal or no deal. we ll find out very soon. other news we re following. libya s prime minister is appealing for calm after he was taken by gunmen and held for hours before being released. let s go to our senior international correspondent, nik robertson, with the very latest from tripoli, libya. what happened? reporter: about 2:30, 3:00 in the morning, about 100 militiamen burst into the luxury hotel in the center of tripoli where the prime minister was living. other government ministers live there, too. i had been in the hotel, met with the prime minister just hours before. the militiamen forced him out, took him to what they called a jail in the city, accused him of breaking the law of undermining the interests of the nation. this stems from essentially them accusing him of siding with the united states in the arrest of abu anas al libi, the libyan man connected with al qaeda,
may be using the term differently. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. you re looking at a live picture right now of the white house. that s the west wing of the white house, momentarily we re expecting to see house republican leaders emerge from a critical meeting they re now having with president obama. they re hoping to sell the president on a new proposal to raise the nation s debt ceiling temporarily for only a few weeks and keep the country from defaulting. it could potentially default one week from today. senate democrats also met with the president just a little while ago. so is this plan a glimmer? does it provide a glimmer of hope that the white house has been looking for for ten days now into this crisis. our chief congressional correspondent dana bash is up on capitol hill. our senior white house correspondent jim acosta is over at the white house. dana, first to you. what are you hearing about what the house republicans at this meeting with the pr
0 right. or kimmel. that s it for the lead. i m jake tapper. make sure to follow me on twitter. i will be back tonight at 11:00 p.m. eastern, 8:00 p.m. pacific with a live cnn special, shutdown showdown. for now, i turn you over to wolf blitzer in the situation room. happening now, house republican leaders meeting right now with president obama. they re inside the white house only hours after proposing what potentially could be a first step toward ending this crisis. is the president on board? we re standing by to get all of their reaction this hour. also, he says this could be the tremor before the tsunami. gop freshman congressman vowing not to raise the nation s debt ceiling. he will debate the democratic congressman just ahead this hour as well. and what does it really mean to default? why democrats and republicans may be using the term differently. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. you re looking at a live picture right now of the white house. that s
we now have a picture of the pakistani airliner, lanned at the essex airport, you see it there. i ve been telling you, this airliner escorted by a fighter jet. due to land at the manchester airport, much larger, in the central part of london. we understand there was some sort of incident on the plane. nik robertson on the way to the stansted airport to give us more information. what have you found out? reporter: well, we know this is a boeing 777 aircraft from lahore to manchester, in the north of england. diverted by british fighter aircraft, back out over the sea