we are standing by for a big moment in space. a privately crewed spacecraft will dock with the international space station this hour, it s only the second time that has happened. and for the first time a woman is leading the mission. this is cnn news central. just a few hours from now high stakes talks on the debt crisis between president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy. they are set to resume in-person one-on-one. this morning it s not clear how close or how far they are from a deal. what is clear, they re almost out of time. in ten days the u.s. could default on its $31 trillion debt. if that takes place it s not exactly clear what happens, but it s definitely very bad. government bills could go unpaid, millions of americans would feel it. social security checks, medicare, veterans benefits and the salaries of thousands of federal and military employees, they are at all risk. republicans are demanding steep budget cuts with no increase in revenue. the president h
federal government. plus, in the next 30 minutes, president biden takes his political fight to florida, home to his biggest potential rivals. and devastation in syria and turkey, almost unimaginable as the death toll closes in on 20,000. we re live in turkey where one of our reporters just witnessed an incredible rescue. but we start with some explosive moments in those hearings we just mentioned, both democratic and republican lawmakers going hard at the biden administration and its officials for not doing something sooner about that chinese surveillance balloon. the truth is i got a problem with the chinese balloon flying over my state. by the administration s logic, we would allow the chinese to fly surveillance balloons over the pentagon or other sensitive sites near populated areas. as an alaskan, i am so angry. i want to use other words, but i m not going to. i want to bring in nbc s ryan nobles who s on capitol hill and michael crowley as the diplomatic c
effect for parts of indiana and ohio as severe storms moved across the west. you can see what appears to be a funnel cloud in the distance there. hours earlier, the same storm system unleashed at least nine tornadoes across oklahoma and kansas. at least seven tornados hit oklahoma alone. this is just outside of oklahoma city. officials say at least 12 people have been injured and the national weather service says preliminary data indicates the tornado that hit this area was at least ef-2. more than 200,000 homes and businesses still without power across several states. listen here as one woman describes the moment the tornado hit. before i could even blink, i could hear the wind. all the back windows where the kids bedrooms are, i could hear them crashing, busting out. i got up and then the wind just threw me back. and i m screaming. it was like a blizzard inside the house with all the debris flying. i was screaming for my kids. you know, because they were in their bedroo
my reaction to their filthy stunts. from time to time we do our own fact checking of the biden administration. the fact checkers refuse to do it themselves. a doctor joins me to dig into a disturbing study about the covid vaccine s possible threat to newborns. i m not here to scare you. we don t need the clicks or nonsense. we are in a very dangerous place. the sabotage of the crucial nord stream pipeline that sends gas from russia to germany. i m worried the white house is slow walking us into a war. who did it? who blew up the pipeline or pieces of it. the blame games are in full swing about who is responsible. but a slow walk into world war iii. it s a bad thing. the rule of my show is don t get dead. putin is blaming the united states for the pipeline sabotage after we sent billions in aid and weapons to ukraine. that s how putin makes his money shipping the gas from russia to germany. what s making the state department so nervous about answering questions about it. it
york city getting ready for the ball to drop at midnight tomorrow night. they have got the ball all ready the new crystals are all installed. and we are ready to kick off friday on the couch for fox & friends. good morning. nice he so you guys. griff: i think kesha has a great year. she had a new song this year. joe: i ll take your word for it. griff: we don t know if she is performing in times square i follow it a little bit but not closely. joey: that song is a little bit of a control for me. ahtfter right around when i lost my legs and learning how to walk. first year i would be walking just fine. and then timber! timber? so that song has some sent mental and a little bit of post-traumatic relevance in my life. katie: you might be over i it by now. griff: the producers might know. they know everything on this show. they are pretty darn good. indicate k5eu9 they claim they didn t know. allegedly they didn t know. griff: there was some news. katie: there is