southern new hampshire university has changed my life. and it can change yours too. - [announcer] visit snhu.edu. florida governor ron desantis is hours from announcing his run from the white house on twitter. a source says he is going to ditch his hometown rollout plan we ll tell you how his rivals are reacting and where the gop candidates stand in a new cnn poll. meantime, as the special counsel appears to be in the final stretch of his investigation into donald trump s handling of classified documents, attorneys for the former president want to speak to the nation s top law enforcer, attorney general merrick garland. we have details on that straight ahead. still no detail, but negotiations for the white house and the house speaker kevin mccarthy, they are back on as a country inches dangerously close to a potential debt default. we are following these major developing stories and many more, all coming in right here to cnn news central. we are just a few hours awa
default on january 1st, if a deal is not reached on the debt ceiling. the pressure weighing on president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy ahead of their next meeting which is now just hours away. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. i want to go to first nbc s garrett haake on capitol hill ahead of the critical meeting between biden and mccarthy. we just heard from mccarthy moments ago. what did he have to say? reporter: this comes after negotiators from the white house had been meeting for three hours this morning. mccarthy took some questions from reporters about the outlines of these negotiations and i asked him specifically what he would need to see to feel like there was real progress today in his meeting with the president. here s what he told me. decisions have to start being made. it s been days now. the president has to be serious. i have been very clear from the very beginning, we are in this problem because when the democra
they still appear to be far apart and there are warnings that avoiding default might not be good enough if they come too close to june 1st when the u.s. potentially runs out of money. tim scott is running. the senator from south carolina the only black republican in the senate announces a run for the white house. scott may be hoping to run on a message of positivity, but if he goes, can he win if other candidates go low? and the suspect in the idaho college murder case appearing in court for an arraignment. 20-year-old bryan kohberger facing the death penalty if found guilty. when it came time for him to enter a plea, he and his attorneys remaining completely silent. the latest from court. we re following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. washington is running out of time and money. president biden and speaker mccarthy will meet this afternoon to once again try to avoid a u.s. default. that nightmare scenario co
extraordinary. and it shows just how well-trained how decisive and frankly how heroic the police officers were as they entered that building knowing that an active shooter was at large and with weapons drawn began sweeping every room in a textbook covering each other, switching positions, never slowing down or hesitating for one moment. go! jonathan: the officers appeared to hear shots from the other level and began sprinting upstairs toward the gunfire. they then close in on the shooter. by this point, already shot and killed six people. and then there s a moment they confront the shooter. [sirens] as we reported last night, three children were killed, all nine years old. and staff members katherine koonce and mike hill. police say the shooter had planned the attack in detail and had legally bought seven weapons. using three to carry out the shooting on monday. we also learn the shooter, audrey hale, was under a doctor s care for undisclosed emotional disorder. hale wa