joni ernst is one notable absence yesterday as former president donald trump. welcome to fox news live and sean. arthel: hi eric hello everyone i am arthel neville. we have lots mother publican race throughout our. but first a prime suspect in a case of missing alabama teen natalee holloway could be handed over to the u.s. as soon as tomorrow. joran van der sloot was moved to a different prison in peru yesterday ahead of his expected x prediction. he is serving time there for an unrelated murder conviction. holloway, you may remember, went missing on a senior trip to aruba back in 2005. her body was never found. she was declared dead at seven years ago. van der sloot is facing wire fraud and connection to her disappearance. eric: for the latest on this case will expect this week charles watson in birmingham, alabama. hey charles. quick take good afternoon eric and arthel. we do expect joran van der sloot to answer to the questions of wire fraud and extortion inside the federa
reconnaissance plane. during a security summit overseas, defense secretary lloyd austin saying the u.s. will not be bullied. we have late reporting from washington. the race for 2024 heating up. most top republican candidates minus donald trump descend on iowa, mingling with voters, trying to stand out as more gop hopefuls prepare to announce a run. rachel scott in des moines. the president signs the debt ceiling deal two days before the country could have faced its first of a kind default. what it means for the average american, and why the u.s. credit rating could still be downgraded. elizabeth schulze at the white house. the search for answers in two serious building collapses. what witnesses say about the connecticut structure that caved in sending workers 30 feet into the basement. and the newly uncovered 911 call in iowa describing a bulging wall the day before the collapse. a weekend washout for millions. remnants of a tropical system bring torrential rains to florida,
new york city in the path tonight. rob marciano on this and the record heat. he s tracking it all. new reporting tonight on former president trump s handling of highly classified documents, abc news learning donald trump s lawyers were unable to find the sensitive document trump was allegedly recorded discussing about a potential u.s. attack on iran during the trump years. pierre thomas reporting. also a word coming into night that the cia director, william burns, has made a secret trip to china for the biden administration. martha raddatz standing by with late reporting. the senate passing the debt deal overnight, and president biden a short time ago addressing this from the oval office, on the bipartisan nature of the agreement, arguing neither side got everything they wanted. mary bruce in washington. also, major news on the economy tonight, the u.s. adding 339,000 new jobs last month, nearly doubling predictions. the stock market soaring today on the news. in california,
world. ahead on cnn newsroom, crisis averted. biden set to sign off on a deal to raise the federal borrowing limit. heartbreak in india. search efforts now underway after one of the deadliest train crashes in the country s history. plus, new video shows the moments before an iowa apartment building came crashing down. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom. the debt limit crisis in washington is over for now, and perhaps no one is more relieved than u.s. president joe biden. in his words, crisis averted. the stakes were enormous, the threat of failure hung over the country for weeks as the white house and republican leaders seemed locked in stalemate. but the hard work finally paid off late thursday when the u.s. senate voted to suspend the debt ceiling and avoid catastrophic default. in his first oval office address on friday night, the president summed up his view of the make or break moment in u.s. history. passing this budget agreement was critical. the stakes
but if you have lived through the last three or four years in this country should appreciate just how fragile our freedoms really are. our founding fathers understood this and benjamin franklin walked out of the constitutional convention he was asked on the street what have you given us a republic or monarchy? he said a republic if you can keep it. you can have the best constitution in the world you can have the best declaration of independence they do not run on autopilot. they require citizens in each generation to answer the call when freedom is under attack. so we are called upon to carry the torch of what george washington called the sacred fire of liberty. we are called upon to stand firm for the truth. we are called upon to be resolute in defense of the enduring american principles that mark us as a free society. here s what i can tell you i will do. if you support me and i earn the nomination to be the republican candidate, set your clock to january 20, 2025 at high n