all right. so in just a few minutes they re going to try again. president biden, speaker mccarthy will continue their debt standdown face to face at the white house. biden is hosting mccarthy and three other congressional leaders to once again try to get closer at least to a deal to raise the debt ceiling, as has been done dozens of times. they have just over two weeks to do it before a potential u.s. default. somehow it is looking like the two sides have dug in even more since last week s meeting. we go to capitol hill. melanie, we ve seen this before, right? we re making progress, we re not making progress, it s sort of the definition of a game of chicken. the trouble is the economy hangs in the balance here. what s really happening? is there any real progress? do we expect any real probably in the white house? reporter: i will tell you, jim, staff have been working behind the scenes to come up with a potential number of policy options for a potential deal but there has b
arkansas governor sarah huckabee , sanders declared a state of emergency as the storms ripped through several towns. she spoke about the destruction a short time ago. i ve had the opportunity over the last couple of hours to speak with both the homeland security secretary as well as president biden, who have offered a tremendous amount of support anything that arkansas need from a city county state and federal perspective, i would say that everyone is working in total lockstep and we re going to do everything we can to make sure that people of our state are back on their feet again. but the storm threat is not over. a new round of severe weather is threatening 70 million americans today. cnn has teams following all the latest developments from these deadly storms. let s begin with derek van dam. he s live for us in hard hit. when arkansas derek what s the situation? yeah fredricka. you know the devastation here is immense, quoting the mayor of when arkansas, he said. it s lik
and activating the national guard as the storms gutted entire communities. she spoke about the destruction earlier today. i have had the opportunity over the last couple of hours to speak with both the homeland security secretary as well as president biden, who have offered a tremendous amount of support anything that arkansas need from a city county state and federal perspective, i would say that everyone is working in total lockstep and we re going to do everything we can to make sure that people of our state are back on their feet again. and more devastation in several other states, including indiana and illinois. people are waking up to their homes and businesses destroyed their neighborhoods littered with debris. but the threat is far from over. some 70 million americans are now bracing for more severe storms. today cnn has teams tracking all of the latest developments from these destructive storms. derek van dam is in wynne, arkansas. at this hour. derek to you first. w
the rubble, the latest on the severe weather just ahead. plus after being indicted, donald trump started making a lot of claims about manhattan and it s just district attorney will fact check to see if any of them are true and we re alive in rome. pope francis presides over palm sunday mass. just one day after leaving the hospital. live from cnn center. this is cnn newsroom with layla, harare. we begin with those powerful deadly storms that battered parts of the us over the past two days, leaving dozens injured after tornadoes and storms moved through, and the death toll continues to climb. the latest fatality was saturday evening in sussex county, delaware county officials say it happened after a structure collapsed. the same storm system left behind a trail of destruction across multiple states beginning on friday. listen to this resident from tennessee. it s just surreal. you know, you just everything you ve worked. we ve lived in this house 44 years. and you know everythi
blackwell. good to be here. we re back together. now i feel like it s really privileged to actually be sitting together for once. here we are, all right. and here s what we re watching this morning. it s just surreal. you know, you just everything you ve worked. we ve lived in this house 44 years. and you know everything we worked for and paid for it. it s gone. it s gone. communities across the south are and the midwest are cleaning up after powerful storms ripped through at least seven states they left behind catastrophic damage. our team is standing by live in arkansas ahead of fema s arrival and that state and we have new cnn reporting on the mood among former president trump s advisers ahead of his court appearance tuesday. the concerns they have about the about where a potential trial could be held . outpouring of love and support in tennessee as two more victims of the nashville school shooting were laid to rest yesterday. we ve got to look at the tributes that are pou