will have more on this story as we get it. but firstb deadlocked on the debt ceiling president biden and republicans failing to reach an agreement to push the economy straight off the cliff. the morning, i m dana perino, bill is off today, good morning john let s hope cooler heads prevail before that happens. is america s newsroom, the lack of progress raising the specter of america s other default experts fear that said markets into a tailspin and trigger an all out recession. yesterday s talks do not yield an agreement that both sides say they remain optimistic. i felt we had a productive discussion. we don t have an agreement yet but i did feel the discussion was productive in areas that we have differences of opinion. i believe we can still get there i believe we can get it done. the most important thing we can do right now is agree that we have to avoid a default at all costs. because a dangerous default will trigger a job killing recession that will hurt milli
Wicked weather this week between heat and rain storms and winds in excess of 100 mile per hour in texas, houston, where at least seven are confirmed dead. And hundreds are still without power. Katie, how do things look there now . A new shift of workers have arrived this morning and their work is underway after some cleanup crews worked through the night and theyre trying to board up a lot of the shattered windows in some of the Downtown High Rise Office Buildings and hotels. And you can see the work is cut out for them and there are a lot of windows theyre going to have to take care of, all of this damage, caused by the strength of 100 mile per hour straightline winds that hit right in downtown houston. The cleanup and power Restoration Efforts are likely to take weeks, not days. More than 500,000 people in Harris County here are still waking up in the dark. Its a huge concern as we enter the stretch of 90 degree days coming up. Weve been speaking with a lot of people on the ground be
choices, too. hamas could immediately release all of the hostages it holds. it could stop using civilians as human shields and stop using civilian infrastructure to stage and launch terrorist attacks. hamas could lay down its arms. surrender the leaders that are responsible for the slaughter, the torture, the rapes of october 7th. hamas could renounce its stated goal of eliminating israel, killing jews and repeating the atrocities of october 7th again and again and again. meanwhile, every one around the world that cares about protecting innocent civilians, innocent lives should be calling on hamas indeed demanding of hamas that it immediately stop its murderous acts of terror and deplorable innocent use of men and women as shields. in our meetings with israeli leaders here and jerusalem and palestinian leaders in ramallah, we discussed our continued focus on preventing the conflict from spreading whether to the west bank, to israel s northern barreder or to the broader region
Good morning. In sport, stuart hogg is out of the lions tour with injury. But Sam Warburton is back to captain them in their latest warm up match, they kick off against highlanders later this morning. Aint aint nobody loves me better. From singing superstars to a capella amateurs we take a look behind the scenes of new bbc show, pitch battle. And carol has the weather in just a few minutes when we can find her. Good morning. First, our main story. Theresa may will meet the leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, Arlene Foster, today, to thrash out the details of a deal that would secure their support for a minority conservative government. Opposition parties have criticised the talks, with sinn fein suggesting a deal with the dup would undermine the Good Friday Agreement. Meanwhile, with Brexit Talks Due to begin in less than a week, the eus Chief Negotiator Michel Barnier has called on britain not to waste time. Our Political Correspondent, ben wright, has more. If the Arlene Foster,