with way too early. yasmin vossoughian picks up our coverage now. good morning. on this memorial day, i m yasmin vossoughian. at this hour we re breaking down everything we know about tentative deal between the white house and the republicans on capitol hill to raise the debt ceiling, avoiding what would have been a cats trovg debt default. in iowa, crews are frantically searching for survivors when a six-story apartment building partially collapsed after residents reportedly complained about the state of the structure. over in ukraine, new explosions in the capital city after another brutal round of russian drone attacks. we ll bring you a live report from the capital city of kyiv. also, on this memorial day, tens of millions of americans returning home as the long weekend comes to a close. we ll bring you what you can expect on the roads on one of the busiest travel days of the year. hey, everybody. good to see you. we re going to begin with a critical breakthrough in
we are going to start this half an hour, we were showing in the picture is only a short while ago of the latest from south wales. because there s new pictures coming and that have been verified by the bbc, obtaining this new video footage of the two teenagers who died in ely in wales, these new pictures were taken at 17 58 on the 22nd of may. about five minutes before south wales police say that the accident occurred, the accident, of course, where those two teenage boys died. we saw the scenes of disturbances and violence that followed overnight. i want to show you the pictures from the press conference site because the microphones are all set up. so in the next little while we are going to hearfrom set up. so in the next little while we are going to hear from the police on an update on the situation. the families havejust on an update on the situation. the families have just issued a statement, the families of the 15 and 16 year olds who died in that collision on monday the
were convicted today of seditious conspiracy. it s a rarely used, often difficult to prove charge. a fifth member was acquitted of seditious conspiracy, but he has been convicted on other very serious charges, including obstruction of an official proceeding and assaulting an officer. but today s verdict means so far 14 people, including members of another far right group, the oath keepers, have either pleaded guilty or been found guilty of conspireing and plotting a violent overthrow of the united states government. this victory by the justice department, while it is a milestone and a massive and hugely consequential federal investigation into that plot to overturn an election and overturn democracy on january 6th, only underscores questions about holding accountable the man, who the vice chair so memorably puts it, quote, some in the mob, assemble the mob and lit the flame of this attack. we re talking about the disgraced ex-president himself. as the washington post report
summary judgment of a massive ought yen of viewers, a past logical fear of a ratings defeat and witches ease brew against in a network s own working journalists and fact checkers. we should tell you at any moment we re expecting breaking news in the form of fresh filens from dominion and fox, to lay out any arguments in the case. while we wait, for years we have turned to phrases lie inside the bubble and the echo chamber to describe that relationship between fox news and its viewers. never before has it been so plain to see from the outside. the discovery filings show that fox hosts were telling their viewers what they knew they wanted to here even when the very same fox news host communicated the truth to one another in private, which was different from what they were broadcasting. dominion s case may very well wrest on their ability to get a jury to understand that distinction. today, though, the story goes even further in the form of something rare. a highly visible i
sunday. i m fredicka whitfield. an updated classified intel report saying the u.s. department of energy has assess thad the source of the covid-19 pandemic likely came from a china lab leak, but there is one major caveat. sources at the department of energy tell cnn that the report has, quote, low confidence. cnn s natasha bertrand has been reporting on all of this and joins us on the phone. various intel agencies have been split on this issue for years now. this is from the department of energy, low confidence. what does all this mean? reporter: this is essentially another data point. the intel community has been examining this really closely for the last two years, ever since president biden tasked them with investigating the origins of the covid-19 pandemic shortly after he first got into of office. back in 2021 the intel agencies, roughly 58 of them, couldn t come to a decision about where it came from. what we re seeing is the department of energy has collected some ne