newsroom . with regard to the debt limit things are looking good and very optimistic. that might be how president biden feels about debt ceiling negotiations, but it s not clear everyone agrees, we ll look at the obstacles still ahead. and we have to be on top of the plane we re going to get on top of the plane. yeah, buckle up for what s expected to be a very busy holiday travel weekend, it s the unofficial start of summer, people, and the u.s., and millions here, are on the move. plus, cnn sports andy scholes joins me live to look at how new rules in major league baseball are putting action back in the game. . announcer: live from cnn center this is cnn newsroom with paula newton. we begin with a renewed sense of optimism on capitol hill this hour that a financial disaster could be averted. white house and republican negotiators have been hammering out the details of a plan to raise the nation s debt limit and we re told an agreement could be reached as
minute president biden will hold a live press conference wrapping up the g7 summit. plus biden will return to washington as the u.s. inches ever closer to running out of money to pay its debts. a look at what could be on the table when he speaks to kevin mccarthy later today. and wagner s forces say they ve taken control of bakhmut after months of bloodshed, but ukrainian officials claim the fight isn t over. we ll take you live to ukraine for the very latest. so u.s. president joe biden returns to washington later today where the debt ceiling crisis remains unresolved at this hour, and, yes, time is running out. right flou now mr. biden is hiroshima, japan, where the important g7 summit has just concluded. we re expecting him to appear right there at that podium and hold a press conference moment m momentarily. prison made a surprise appearance at the summit to make his case face-to-face and in person. he met with president biden who announced a new round of military aid
conference. one of the issues the president s team has been dealing with this week the determination by his own energy department and the scientists there that the covid pandemic likely began with a leak in a chinese laboratory. last night, fbi director chris wray told me in the most straightforward way of any public official so far that the bureau has reached the same conclusion. the biden administration are still not on board. white house correspondent jacqui heinrich is with the president tonight in baltimore with the latest, good evening, jacqui. good evening, bret. white house sources say they are not fully embracing any single agency s findings because there isn t consensus yet about origin. leaving questions unanswered about when or even if that will happen and what it will mean for china. with two federal agencies declaring its most likely covid originated in a wuhan lab, the white house is facing questions about why there haven t yet been consequences. the pres
newsroom. dangerous winter storms, pummeling the united states coast-to-coast. how the storms are disrupting travel. and bracing for possible escalation, ahead of the anniversary of the invasion, as russia and china reaffirm their ties in moscow. plus rying tensions in the northeast after a raid by the palestinians leave 11 dead. we re live with the latest. millions of americans are feeling the chill from the maive winter storm system coast-to-coast. snow, winds and ice have knocked out power to 850,000 customers. parts of california are reporting snow with los angeles county issuing a blizzard warning for the first time since the 1980s. flight tracking website flight aware shows 700 flights have been canceled on thursday so far b because of the weather. let s go to atlanta. this is serious disruption. any idea how long the conditions are going to last? unfortunately for days. some of the areas have picked up two feet of snow. 60 million people under some sort of wint
at former vice president mike pence s home. we are told that a lawyer for pence discovered about a dozen documents marked classified at his home in indiana. they ve now been turned over to the fbi. but the discovery comes after pence has repeatedly said he did not have any classified documents in his possession. let s go straight to cnn s paula reid with the latest on this story. paula, this is happening again. what are the details on this case? reporter: again, and again, abbey. here s cnn learned pence s attorneys decided to do a search out of an abundance of caution after classified documents were found at multiple locations connected to president biden. now, pence has repeatedly insisted he had no classified materials in his possession. but his attorneys uncovered these materials in boxes that originally went to a temporary home that he had in virginia before moving on to indiana. now, i emphasize these were not in a secure storage area. now, it is not clear at this poi