the presidents of this surveillance balloon over the united states, in our skies is a clear violation of our sovereignty, a clear violation of international law and clearly unacceptable. we ve made that clear to china. last, night the pentagon said it saw all report of a second chinese ty balloon has been spotted flying over latin america. china claims they are civilian weather balloons gone astray, but u.s. officials say the balloon spotted over montana this week was gathering intelligence and fly near one of the country s military places that operates and stores intercontinental ballistic missiles. joining me now is abc news, reporter gary grumbach, so gary, what in the world is going on? there s so many people who are wondering, why are we not shooting this thing down? yeah you know this really does seem like it s all out of a movie, thinking from u.s. official is that shooting it down would do more harm than good. president biden was given options on tuesday, when
biden is visiting allies on his first trip to asia. here at home lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are welcoming this sink the end of title 42 would lead to an even bigger order crisis even though progressives want to have title 42 by the homeland security agency acknowledges it is preparing for up to 18000 encounters of migrants a day trip title 42 ends. that is more than doubled the daily average for april as border officials say even with title 42 in place the migrant surge is continuing and there have been warnings that could be running out of money to handle it all. life at the border in eagle pass, texas with the very latest from there, hapeville. eric good afternoon to you for that is exactly right the federal ruling on title 42 really changes nothing down here at the southern border. all it does is keeps the current status quo in place for the status quo being title 42 has been in effect throughout the entire border crisis. even after that ruling we have seen mul
In person classes this week due to a rise in illnesses among staff and students. School officials said the drop off in attendance was due to a mixture of viruses including covid 19 and influenza. And frances Education Minister announced the Country Will Ban Schoolchildren from wearing the abaya, a loose fitting full length robe worn by some muslim women, in state run schools when classes begin this month. My colleague Sumi Somaskanda spoke this week with us education secretary Miguel Cardona to discuss the challenges facing students and teachers heading Back To School. Secretary, thank you very much forjoining us again on bbc news. I want to start with affirmative action, because the Supreme Courts ruling effectively ended race conscious admissions in colleges and universities. And if you look at the state of california, the uc system hasnt been able to meet its racial diversity goals despite having ended race based admissions more than two decades ago. So how do you make sure that sch
Hostages. But doha is now also questioning whether the talks can succeed. The qatari leader saying efforts are being undermined, causing his country to reassess its role as mediator. Take a listen. Translation unfortunately, i mean, we have seen that theres been an abuse of this mediation in favour of narrow political interests. This means that the state of qatar has called for a comprehensive evaluation of this role. Were now at this stage to evaluate mediation and also evaluate how parties engage in this mediation. Tensions in the region remain high, with israels Prime Minister insisting his country will make its own decisions about how to respond to irans drone and missile attack. Israels western allies fear striking back against iran could trigger a broader war. With me is mohamed taha from bbc arabic. Thank you for coming along. What kind of response when it comes to what you ranted to israel is israel considering . Apparently israel is about to strike on iran directly on monday,
he always loved simply the best and all of his campaigns use simply just completed, but i don t think we ever this all right, guys. thank you very much for being with me this morning. thanks to all of you for joining us. i m kasie hunt, cnn new central starts right now a phone call, that could shape the future of the war in gaza. new reporting this morning on how president biden plans to vent his anger that israeli leaders cancer cases potentially skyrocketing the newer for just out finding these illnesses worldwide could jump 77% in the next 25 years. and breaking overnight, police in la are investigating one of the biggest heist in the city s history, more than 30 million as stolen. i m sure slider with pay baldwin and john berman. this is cnn new stuff this morning, a crucial phone call at a crucial moment in israel s war against hamas. and the us support for that war that could be on shakier ground than it was just a few days ago. this will be the first call betwe