Morning. Youre live in the cnn newsroom. Im Jim Acosta in washington. We begin this hour with Breaking News. The White House is preparing for a chilling new threat that iran could be about to launch a Missile Attack on israel were covering all the angles at this hour, their correspondence around the world. Lets begin with the White House and what theyre saying in cnns are arlette saens. Arlette, were just getting this word within the last hour or so. What can you tell us yeah, jim, this is a pretty stunning warning coming from the u. S. Senior white House Official tells us that the u. S. Believes that iran is preparing to imminently launch a ballistic Missile Attack against israel. It comes at a time when the u. S. Has been watching with great concern to see what irans a posture might be and whether they might try to launch any type of retaliatory attack against israel amid the heightened tensions that have arisen over the course of the past two weeks. Now, in this statement from a sen
everyone. thank you for joining me. i m fredricka whitfield. a deal to avoid a debt default is about to be revealed. president biden and speaker mccarthy are finalizing an agreement to raise the debt limit. president biden saying this earlier today. i m about to go in and call mccarthy now at 3:00, make sure all the ts are crossed and the is are dotted. i think we re in good shape. house leaders expect the bill to be voted on as soon as wednesday. speaker mccarthy is confident the deal will pass. february 1st i sat down with the president. i said let s work together to be able to raise the debt ceiling but curb the amount of spending, to let mark be able to work again, cut red tape, get some work requirements to help people get back into work. i think this agreement frames all that from limit, save, grow. it doesn t get everything we wanted. we did a conference call with our conference and over 95% were overwhelmingly excited about what they see. they re getting a text
cyclone. associated press reporting at least 30 people have died, including 27 in florida. griff: ian now set to bring heavy rain to the east coast after definiting leaving devastating damage and landfall again in the carolinas, ap confirming at least 35 have died including 27 in florida. welcome to fox news live. i m griff jenkins. jacqui: good to be with you all, i m jacqui heinrich. and molly is in south carolina, and adam klotz in the weather center and rich at the white house. we ll start off with steve harrigan in north port. jacqui, the water in north port is going up and they re struggling to make rescues. a waiting list of 500 people, calling 911 they re trapped by the water and want to get out we ve seen national guard, and private citizens, too, trying to help people. you can see the houses one after the other have become little islands about chest high, four or five feet height of water around some of these houses. first responders are joined by a lot of people
refining capacity. the administration estimates the moves could lower gas prices by at least $1 a gallon, if they can get it all through congress. i should say, this faces steep opposition from some on capitol hill, even from some of the president s own party, and members of the administration have even conceded there are significant downsides to do this, jim. plus, significant new evidence in the latest hearing from the january 6th committee, witnesses testify that former president trump and sitting gop lawmakers were directly involved in pushing fake slates of electors in multiple states to attempt to overturn the 2020 election while the president s personal attorney rudy giuliani admitted they had no evidence of widespread fraud to back up that plan. he turned the call over to mr. eastman, who then proceeded to talk about the importance of the rnc helping the campaign gather these contingent electors. did you also receive a call from u.s. representative andy biggs of
squel, and they have been talking to democrats on the hill. around the clock to get them in on this deal, to tell them about it and try to slowly coalesce that support. it wasn t just about getting to a deal, it s also getting the text out, which we still haven t seen, getting the votes on the house floor and getting it through the senate. when the president was asked about this today, he said he was confident it would get to his desk. so the sticking point seems to have we haven t received any confirmation about that call between biden and mccarthy just yet. there is still a bit of a road. eva mckent, you re also following the latest. does it look like this is a tough one to get past? you re seeing positive spin on this from both leadership teams. but really, this is going to come down to the rank and file