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hello, everyone. thanks for joining me this saturday. i m fredricka whitfield. we begin this hour in washington where right now negotiators are back at the table as they race to end the debt ceiling standoff. republican leaders and white house officials are returning a short time ago, after a marathon session lasted well into the night, the clock is ticking, to get a deal in place, before the u.s. defaults on its loans. the national deficit continues to soar. with no rise to the borrowing limit, the u.s. will default on its loans which could be catastrophic to the economy. the treasury secretary now is saying the deadline for an agreement is just eight days away. but talks are teetering on the brink, with at least one top republican negotiator warning that a deal could come together as soon as today, or fall apart entirely. cnn is following the latest. good morning. you re on capitol hill, and you spoke to the house speaker kevin mccarthy. what did he say? is he optim ....
[laughter] it s the way of the world, kids. [laughter] tom hanks also received a hearted branded volleyball, in reference to his 2000 movie castaway. congratulations. considering all that context he just gave its honorary. cnn this morning continues right now. it is a wonderful saturday morning. i am glad you are part of it. good morning. welcome to cnn this morning. i m victor blackwood. what do you do with an honorary degree, though? if you have a ph.d. or a doctorate in arts, can you actually go and be a professor? some people go around and demand that you call them doctor, with an honorary degree! yes, i know a couple. okay, well, maybe i need to get an honorary doctorate so you can call me doctorate. i am doctor amara walker. thank you so much for spending a part of your morning with us. a lot going on this morning. today, millions of people heading out to their memorial day destinations. we re gonna tell you what to expect at the airport, a ....
in terms of the children, because that is unicef, of course, what are the greatest health concerns that they are now facing? two or three weeks ago we were hearing about malnutrition. just how dire are things now for children? it s beyond our worst fears at the moment. the rains that came last week have really increased concerns of waterborne diseases like diarrhoea, which is a great concern to children in this context, it s actually the second leading cause of death in children underfive. when children are sick with this, it really diminishes their water supplies and their salts and makes them even more vulnerable to things like malnutrition. so it s kind of a triple threat at the moment, with bombardments from the sky, the disease and the lack of food. so when you talk about diarrhoea, tell us what do the children need to treat that? obviously, clean conditions are number one, but what do you need initially to arrest that diarrhoea to stop them losing all that water i ....
to restore devolution before the parliamentary recess on tuesday. live now to our correspondent, charlotte gallagher, who s in belfast. talk us through what each side once. what are the sticking points? i don t think charlotte can hear us, or maybe she has frozen. anyway, we will see if we can come back to her in a moment. we can speak to the leader of the sdlp, the social democratic and labour party. thanks for coming on talking to us. as i said in the intro, we are hearing the dup saying it does not look hopeful before christmas now. what do you make of that? things have been looking a bit more promising towards the end of last week, haven t they? figs towards the end of last week, haven t they? towards the end of last week, haven t they? as far as we are concerned. haven t they? as far as we are concerned, the haven t they? as far as we are concerned, the deal haven t they? as far as we are concerned, the deal is - haven t they? as far as we are concerned, the deal ....
always great to be with you, my friend. lying is so hard and hardly makes people blush. let s go back a little bit of the hunter s laptop and the new jim crow lie or so on and so forth. the lie that the coronavirus could not possibly come from a lab leak in wuhan, china, that was said by many in the media or some in the government. that lie may top of it all. the energy department joined the fbi in saying, yep, the virus spread via mishap at a chinese lab. the white house is hopeful that the obvious made out the truth. there is still no consensus within the administration. the president believes it is important that we continue that work and that we find out as best we can how it started so we can better prevent futures pandemic. the community and the rest of the government is still looking at this. there is not a definitive conclusion. meanwhile, the chinese are pushing back that won t surprise you. if you follow the story at all, here is what they are saying t ....