good morning, everyone. we begin this hour with breaking news overnight. last-minute changes to house speaker kevin mccarthy s debt limit bill. the rules committee worked through the night, ajudge at 5:20 this morning as mccarthy scrambles for republican support ahead of today s possible vote. breaking news just in. ukrainian president zelenskyy has just had a conversation with chinese president xi jinping. that s notable. they had not spoken since before russia invaded ukraine. also, a multi-state manhunt underway this hour for four inmates who escaped from a mississippi jail. one them accused of killing a man and stealing his truck after breaking out of prison. where that investigation is this morning. this hour of cnn this morning starts right now. we begin on the u.s. economy and breaking news. house speaker kevin mccarthy reversing course and making big changes to his debt limit plan in the early morning hours as he scrambles to try to get enough republican vot
yesterday. that is according to the sheriff s office at a news conference. as we know, the suspect was on the run for four days after he alleged by stormed into his neighbor s home with an ar-15 and killed five people, including a child, after they complained about him shooting his gun outside. the fbi says it was a tip that led them to a house miles away from the murder scene where he was hiding in a closet under a pile of laundry. anybody that helps anybody that helped this maniac has definitely got some kind of issues as far as i am concerned. as the chief deputy there speaking, ed lavandera was asking questions. they said there have been several arrests. do we know how many or who could have been arrested here? reporter: yeah, those are the details we are still trying to unravel. i think it s going to take some time as investigators, as you just heard from the cheap deputy of the san jacinto county sheriff s department say that they could only really say and confi
whoa, whoa 28 points. i would like to do the same. reporter: that would make her a copy cat. she said the same thing when she first laid eyes on patches. whoa. reporter: jeanne moos, cnn, new york. good morning, everyone. welcome to cnn this morning. it is saturday, april 29th. i m amara walker. i m victor blackwell. thank you for joining us. i think the sound we heard at the end of the patches story was the grunt that patches makes getting up i can tup. she can t meow. can you take a cat for a walk? i don t know. here s what we re looking at. more than 0 million are facing severe storms yet again today after residents were faced with baseball-sized hail. what led to the recent collapse of two banks. the concerns now over a third and why the white house says it will not step in to rescue it. we will stand up again and again, and our language will get tougher and we will get madder. antiabortion bills face an uphill battle. they fail in republic
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prime minister liz truss today setting the women s and men s indoor speed record for duration of a prime minister, only 44 days in office, that is not even her abrupt resignation earlier today throws our closest ally even further into chaos. now that our friends across the pond weren t able to find any humor in this instability, the economist magazine pointedly wondered which would last longer, liz truss s prime ministership or a perishable ahead of iceberg lettuce, a youtube live stream puts this theory to the test six days ago. well, lettuce, liz, is still standing. when folks start invoking solid items when discussing how long it will last at her job, at some point it becomes a feta complaint. but let us move on. how could six weeks ago so horribly wrong? liz truss s is fall from power exhilarated after she introduced trussonomics, a plan for massive tax cuts aimed at the wealthiest britons so that they could create jobs, she said. essentially, trickle down economics. th