e. jean carroll takes the stand in her sexual battery case against the former president. the new warning that the judge issued just moments ago. and a race to get four mississippi jail escapees back in custody. one of the men is now accused of killing someone after he broke out of jail. we are following these major developing stories and all coming in to cnn news let s begin on capitol hill where there has been a shift this morning, it seems. house republican leaders are now confident that they have the votes to pass speaker mccarthy s $1.5 trillion debt ceiling bill and while there were big questions and probably still are, they could still vote today. do you hear all of the caveats i m throwing into this? what did kevin mccarthy have to throw in on to get all of this? manu what is the very latest you re hearing about this? there have been months after negotiations will pass the house as soon as today. it will require 218 votes in the republican-controlled votes
you are live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. tensions are running high in texas as an accused killer has now been on the run for more than 40 hours. the fbi has joined the manhunt for 38-year-old francisco oropesa. he has been a fugitive since friday night. that s when neighbors asked him to stop firing his rifle in his front yard because they were trying to get a baby to go to sleep. but police say oropesa then entered their home and began shooting. an 8-year-old boy was among the five neighbors gunned down almost execution-style in the words of the local sheriff. a short time ago, that sheriff spoke to the press. five people died in my county, and that is where my heart is, in my county, protecting my people to the best of our ability. we have over 150 policemen here yesterday looking for this suspect. today it s well over 200, and more officers from other agencies are coming in to help us find this suspect. cnn s ed lavandera is in cleveland, texas
hello and a warm welcome to our viewers joining us in the united states and around the world. i m bianca nobilo. max foster is out on assignment. just ahead on cnn newsroom after months of waiting, speculating, president biden may be announcing his run for re-election. that announcement will come four years to the day after the anniversary of his first presidential announcement in 2020. it seems that fox at some point just said enough is enough, we re going to fire him from the network. sudanese people are not giving up on their aspirations for a secure free and democratic future, neither will we. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is 9:00 a.m. in london, 4:00 a.m. in washington where in the coming hours president biden is expected to announce his bid for a second term in 2024. the white house is ramping up preparations. sources close to the president confirm he s already picked a campaign manager and decided where the
hugging it out. good morning, everyone! that was a hollywood ending for rexham and the team s owners. after years of struggling, the welsh soccer club has achieved its dream of a major promotion. look at that. tears. wow, wow, congratulations to them. we ll talk more about that. plus, president biden set to name a campaign manager as he prepares to run for re-election, but new polls are showing that many americans are not excited about a trump/biden rematch. also, the faa is investigating after engines caught fire on two different american airlines planes. but we re going to start in sudan this morning, where the u.s. has now launched a daring rescue operation to evacuate americans from the war zone. the pentagon says that special ops forces blew into flew into the war-torn sudanese capital and helicopters to pick up u.s. diplomats and their families. we re told the mission was fast, it was clean, and u.s. troops were on the ground for less than an hour. here s a ph
announcer: this is cnn breaking news. let s get straight to the breaking news. the fulton county district attorney is georgia, fani willis who is investigating donald trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election in georgia is planning to announce her decision on whether to bring criminal charges against the former president this summer. cnn senior justice correspondent evan perez is following this for us. tell us more, evan? what are you learning? reporter: for months we ve heard fani willis say that sher decision on whether to bring charges in this important case was imminent. now we know what she means. in this letter that she wrote to the fulton county sheriff, and to local law enforcement there in atlanta, she s warning essentially that her timeline is looking somewhere between july 11th and september 1st. that is when this grand jury will be seated and will be hearing perhaps evidence to again, with a decision on whether to bring charges against the f