have an answer when asked about the incident today. but white house press secretary karine jean-pierre did at least try to come up with an explanation. take a look. the president and the first lady and their family were not here this weekend as you all reported on this and as you also know they left on friday and returned just yesterday. where this was discovered is a heavily traveled area where many white house west wing i should be more specific west wing visitors come through this particular area. i just don t have anything more to share. it is under investigation by the secret service. this is in their purview and we will allow certainly the investigation to continue. we have confidence the secret service will get to the bottom of this. for their part the mainstream media found the whole situation a little ridiculous. check this out. i can t even fathom anything like this having been found before in the west wing and i go back to the 70s. this is pretty wild. i wo
the white house looks south for help with u.s. border towns pleading for assistance and thousands more migrants making their way to the border. biden officials head to mexico in search of solutions. michigan keeps donald trump on its ballot a week after colorado does the opposite. michigan s highest court says the former president can t be kept off the state s primary. the decision making it more clear the u.s. supreme court may need to settle the debate. and no stalemate in ukraine. a defense official says the attack on a russian warship proves this war is far from over. ukraine is coping with retaliation. a fresh new wave of attacks today. we re following these major developing stories all coming in right here to cnn news central. hi, everyone and welcome to cnn news central. i m jessica dean alongside boris. happening today, president biden s latest move to stop the surge of u.s. migrants at the u.s. southern border. his top officials landed in mexico city. antony bl
. hello and a warm welcome to our viewers joining us in the united states and all around the world. i m bianca nobilo. max foster has dthe day off. just ahead you can tell tempers are flaring everywhere. you cannot allow buses with people needing our help to arrive without warning at any hour of day and night. the republican party of colorado has filed an appeal, one of the immediate impacts is that the colorado decision is now on pause until the supreme court reveals whether it wants to get involved. explosion after explosion, the idf targeting tunnels used by hamas fighters, israel s goal to root out hamas leaders. it is thursday, december 28. 9:00 a.m. in london, 3:00 a.m. in mexico city where officials appear to have reached agreement on ways to deal with the migrant crisis on the border. u.s. assosecretary of homeland security said they had a p productive meeting. and saying the details on agreements will be announced later in a joint statement. senior u.s.
plus, the white house will face questions later this hour on the state of negotiations to avoid default. welcome back as america reports rolls into a second hour. i m john roberts. good to spend another 60 minutes with you. gillian: the first 60 went by quickly. first, a new story. john: get ready for a hectic start to the summer travel season. aaa is anticipating this weekend could be the busiest at airports since 2005, and that is already prompting fears of a potential catastrophic meltdown. gillian: sounds like a great summer to stay hope. forbes writing get ready for a hellish season of air travel. they continue to struggle with staffing shortages in the wake of the pandemic. john: pete buttigieg is not 100% confident things will work. airlines are indicating they have made big gains in terms of pilots, but not fully recovered depending which airline, mechanics is a pinch point. still a lot of pressure on the system but less, probably less of a constraint than
interference. meanwhile, g7 leaders injapan announce new sanctions against moscow. here, what stamp qualify for the final of your oblique and violent clashes marked the end of the match. and one other headline belief in a god plummets in uk who would talk to the author on a new report today. let s start this half hour with a different story because the brother of the tv presenter philip schofield has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for sexually abusing a teenage boy. to him at found guilty of 11 offences last month. ginny reports now from exeter. his brother set the crimes were despicable and disowned his sibling in the statement. timothy schofield arrived in court in the glare of intense media interests at his trial last month, he admitted that he had watch pornography with a teenager but insisted this victim was 16 and consented. he denied there was any sexual abuse but the jury found him guilty of all charges. during the hearing, the court heard a statement from the v