Zuckerberg and elon musk. Bret we begin with a weather alert. Tonight, Severe Weather over much of the eastern part of the country. More than 130 million americans are at risk of seeing the Severe Weather outbreak either late this afternoon, into this evening. Here in washington, d. C. , Federal Government offices closed early today, sending employees home ahead of these anticipated storms. Plane travel up and down the east coast, largely grounded at this hour. No sense of when that stops. This is the most serious threat of the storm that the nations capitol has faced in years. Fox weather correspondent katie berne is in d. C. Tonight on the streets. Good evening, katie. Good evening, bret. Yeah, rain is moving into d. C. Now and we could feel hurricanestrength winds gusting as fast as 75 miles per hour. In fact, in a suburb of d. C. , centerville, virginia people already have reports of 80 mileperhour wind gusts there just in the last hour or. So the storm system is impacting heavily
the ceiling and cut that wasteful spending. president biden: folks, we ve got a lot to do, most immediate thing we can do is continue our economy and the financial system. most important thing we have to do is make sure the threat by the speaker of the house to default on the national debt is you hava the table. america is not a dead beat nation, we have never failed to meet the debt. todd: alexandria hoff is live in washington. alexandria: good morning, since january, the treasury department has been moving money around to pay debts. the cash is about to dry up,s janet yellen, who urged immediate action. we have learned from past debt limit waiting in the the last minute to increase the debt lim irrelevant limit can impact the credit rating of the united states. yesterday president biden called top four congressional leaders and invited them to a may 9 meeting at the white house. manchin says i hope the invitation is sincere and he s willing to negotiate because the
made by cefc, a chinese energy firm. so, hunter biden s business associate rob walker. and then comer took it a step further noting that the money was then sent directly to accounts associated with the bidens. you think that would be the end of major bombshells for the week, but it wasn t. the one that was dropped wednesday, you simply won t believe. at the end of this i think we are weeing to say there are probably six or seven biden family members that were involved in various business schemes around the world. wow, well we knew about hunter, we knew about joe s brother james. but comer revealing it could be six or seven biden family members is massive news. and last night, we learned the identity of one of the unknowns who got this money from china. widow and hunter s ex-girlfriend holly biden. there are four more payments from 2017 to an unknown biden. the payments range from $5000 to $25,000 each. the oversight committee s checks move might put us closer to finding o
claims he made has many payments to stormy daniels after their alleged affair. nate foy is live in new york with the latest on this. they declined to comment on this. donald trump is reacting to his expected arrest on tuesday posting this on truth social reading and part, quote, with no crime being able to be proven and based on old and fully debunked by numerous other prosecutors fairytale, the far and away leading republican candidate and former president of the united states of america will be arrested on tuesday of next week, protest, take our nation back. this case centers around $130,000 hush money payment to adult film actress stormy daniels on the eve of the 2016 presidential election, donald trump s former lawyer michael cohen pleaded guilty to his role in that payment in a 2018 case, he claims it was meant to keep daniels quiet about an alleged affair the trump denies, prospered his claim the former president and his business reimbursed cohen for that payment.
cia, the new warnings to china not to help russia in ukraine. and people are getting a first look at how bad the storms were. and a new decision of abortions today, and the impact could be immediate and nationwide. this is what we are watching this hour. thank you for being here. i m kate bolduan. the concern over china and ukraine tensions are growing every hour. first there was concern that china was going to provide russia with weapons to help with the war in ukraine. but the biden administrator told that they are strongly considering sending drones and ammunitions to russia to defeat ukraine. and so we will start with m.j. lee who is live at the white house. m.j., what is and isn t the white house saying about the latest assessment? well, kate, the administration is openly warning that china is considering providing lethal aid to russia in the war against ukraine, and talking about drones and while china has not made a final decision of whether to go down this path,