f the debt limit isn t raised or suspended. that s a new really serious warning from the treasury secretary janet yellen. we did learn house speaker kevin mccarthy agreed to go to the white house and meet with the president next week. hollywood writers now on strike. it s the first time they have done so in 15 years. production will be delayed on some of your favorite television shows. for more you on that. also, at least six people are dead after a huge pileup on i-55 on central illinois. more than 70 vehicles crashed due to low visibility from a dust storm. also new this morning, the surgeon general has a plan to tackle america s epidemic of loneliness and isolation. his six-pillar approach to build our social connections. that s ahead. and serena williams, great news, pregnant with baby number two. the tennis superstar made the reveal during last night s met gala. cnn this morning starts right now. so i m so excited about the serena williams news. i know.
there and even though he missed he had this huge grin. it s all act your attitude. attitude can manifest a lot of things. they both have good attitudes. we ll see what they manifest for tonight. jeff, thank you so much. as always, we love having you here. cnn this morning continues right now. treasury secretary janet yellen warning washington it has just 31 days to pay america s bills or risk catastrophe. this bill has to be between biden and mccarthy. it s political arson. it s time for republicans and democrats to sit in the room and act like adults and make sure that the united states doesn t default on our loans. a tragic scene in central illinois. a dust storm led to a series of pileups. now that the dust and smoke has cleared, you can see what s left of this horrific and deadly crash. several vehicles and even semis that had jackknifed, air bags were deploying all around us. the fbi releasing a new picture of the suspect who allegedly gun
debris, blinding drivers. one driver described the scene to local affiliate ksdk saying the crashes happened one by one, all around them. the closer we approached it, the visibility just continually got worse and then all of a sudden it was just a complete blackout. air bags were deploying all around us. reporter: another traveller driving in the area at the time described the conditions. you couldn t see like somebody put a brown blanket in front of your windshield. you couldn t see nothing. reporter: multiple commercial vehicles and tractor trailers were involved in the pileup. including two semi trucks that caught fire. we had multiple vehicle involved. some were on fire. so we had vehicle fires to extinguish. we had to search every vehicle, whether they were involved in the accident or just pulled over to check for injuries.
sudden it was just a complete blackout. air bags were deploying all around us. reporter: another traveller driving in the area at the time described the conditions. you couldn t see like somebody put a brown blanket in front of your windshield. you couldn t see nothing. reporter: multiple commercial vehicles and tractor trailers were involved in the pileup. including two semi trucks that caught fire. we mad had multiple vehicles involved. some were on fire. so we had vehicle fires to extinguish. we had to search every vehicle, whether they were involved in the accident or just pulled over to check for injuries. reporter: as you can imagine, some terrifying moments for those travelers who were along this stretch of i-55. now, at least this portion of i-55 where we are standing, from what we can see, is back open. we know there was at least 17 miles of the interstate that was