hour. the details just coming in. an awol muslim american soldier now in custody in texas found with what the fbi is now saying is a large amount of bomb-making material near ft. hood. barbara starr is all over the story and will join nus a few minutes. first, debt debate but no deal. it all comes down to numbers. i don t mean 13-digit numbers with dollar signs in front of them. i mean this number. take a look here. five days until the treasury says it will run out of borrowed money. five hours, give or take, until the house votes on the so-called boehner plan, and it needs 217 votes to pass, and it s a slam dunk, right? wrong. 60 republicans are tea party members that want huge cuts in spending and no hike in the debt ceiling. here is where the big numbers come in. the republican speaker has staked his leadership on the plan to let the treasury borrow $900 billion right away, while cutting $915 billion in future spending. contrast that with the senate plan from majority lead
and travelers squashed by major airlines. but first, to the desperate race against the clock to secure what president obama is calling america s national credit card. the country could face unprecedented default if congress is unable to agree on a deal to raise the nation s debt ceiling. failure to do so could downgrade america s debt rating and could be extremely damaging for global economy purposes. let s get all the angles. we ve just learned the president will be addressing the nation later to. kate baldwin is up on capitol hill. first to you. what s the very latest, the thinking behind the president s decision to address the nation and the world tonight? wolf, the thought was that the president like lly today ha to come out put and exclamation point on a very busy day. fruns and senate democrats, laying out their plans. already today, we saw a statement from the white house press secretary jay carney, endorsing senate majority leader reid s plan. and i ll save the de
a plan b or c. senate, the other from house go ahead, please, carl. republicans. but there s a big problem. i just think that they re neither of those plans may be i think that at this point they able to get through congress and probably have to go through some of these initial votes. the clock is ticking. and that s what i was referring to earlier, that the back cnn congressional correspondent channel communication that kate boulwan joins us now. continues and, you know, where senator mcconnell comes down i think will be important. let s start in the house where whether he helps harry reid or speaker john boehner has laid out his version of the john boehner ultimately get a republican solution. plan through. he has been very determined to spell it out for us. reporter: a lot of details to avoid a default. we all want go ahead. it, jessica, but what it really comes down to is the length of everybody in the city is talking about avoiding a default because the incre
this scene played out across scandinavia earlier today. people pausing to remember the victims of that attack. as norway mourns we are hearing more from people who risked their lives to save others. our cnn s michael holmes caught up with one of them. it s not a huge boat. how many people did you put in here? the first round i believe it was 14. reporter: 14. yes. and then i had to address the oldest one and said you have to stay ashore. i promise i will come back and get you. they respected that. i said, sit down and wait. i went to the mainland. i went back again and they were agreed upon sitting there and i just waved to them like this and they waved back and we made a contact and got them in the boat. well, the clock is ticking on the debt limit crisis. there is no deal, if no deal by august 2nd, that means higher interest rates for you, a financial mess for the country, and the talks over the weekend, well, essentially they didn t go anywhere. so now republic
fires in los angeles, more than a dozen in just the past four hours. houses, cars, nothing is safe. we re talking live with the l.a. fire department tonight. students on a wilderness adventure attacked by a grizzly bear and one of her cubs bites and puncture wounds and the latest on their conditions. plus there. therefore, by the powers vested by me by the state of new york i pronounce you both married. [ cheers and applause ] history is made in new york. same-sex marriages, even new york city s mayor gets involved by performing a ceremony. i m don lemon. you re in the cnn newsroom. if you weren t paying close attention to the deficit and the debt ceiling talks in washington, you really need to now. a sunday filled with tv talking points. fa face-to-face meetings and party conference calls brought the debt ceiling debate back to the very beginning. a little stalemate tonight and traders worldwide are surely taking notice, several overseas markets have opened lower