we began this morning with an update on that traumatic incident with the chinese spy balloon 60,000 feet in the air. eight days after it was first spotted in u.s. airspace, and have 22 raptor shot down the balloon with a single missile yesterday off the carolina coast. the search for degree is now underway. it my touch off a war of words between the u.s. and china. heightening tensions in an already data diplomatic relationship. china expressed its, quote, strong dissatisfaction. they have insisted that the device was a civilian weather balloon. a u.s. senior administration official said in response that they were confident the balloon was, quote, seeking to monitor sensitive military spots. we shift the focus now tuesday state of the union. president biden s first before the new republican house majority. security is being ramped up with plans to install fencing around the u.s. capitol ahead of the primetime address. we don t know too many specifics about what the president
their record now on the subject of pennsylvania, just moments ago, we spoke to the governor of that commonwealth, josh shapiro. listen to what he told us here s the bottom line joe biden had a bad debate night, but donald trump was a bad president. i think we have a responsibility right now to ask ourselves what kind of nation? we want it be. i think the answer is clear on that, and then we got to stop worrying and start working. right? a lot of questions for the biden campaign. let s get right on the ground where president biden is today in raleigh, north carolina. that s where cnn senior white house correspondent, kayla tausche is. what are you hearing from the biden team? kayla will john the biden team as of this moment, plans to pack up what few wins they had on the debate stage last night, you ve already seen some of those packaged and posted on social media and to move on and focus on what s coming down the pike. there are no plans. i m told for the president to dro
Framework does is that it lays out the required units and the primary sources and the primary text. but it doesn t lay out the secondary text that are required. and so some of those readings will be in the ap classroom, another issue that is at stake in the college board has tried to clarify this with further information that it released, is that the issue of permissions. so, when some of the cases, there is a list of secondary sources for which the college board has received permissions, and it will be at a pea classroom, and there are also separate reading, some of whom you listed, has shown on the monitor, that the college board does not have those permissions for yet. and so that conversation is ongoing. as a resident example of this, and the current pilot program and unit for, the students are expected, or we had hoped they would read james baldwin s the fire next time, however the ball when a state has denied permissions to use that text. and so, ap is not going to require that p
secret no longer. brand-new information this morning on what we will see during the olympics opening ceremonies friday night. details leaking out from london. two early hints, james bond and harry potter. newsroom begins right now. and good morning to you. i m carol costello. thanks for being with us. we begin with a single stor that captures both the heartbreak and the hope of the shooting rampage in colorado. this morning, americans are rallying to help this man, shooting victim caleb medley. he is in critical condition right now with gunshot wounds to his head, but that s only part of the story. he is also a brand-new father. caleb s wife, who escaped the massacre unharmed, gave birth to their son just yesterday. baby hugo is the glimmer of joy in one family s nightmare. they have no insurance. and now face a lifetime of debt. we begin our coverage this morning with cnn s randi kaye. reporter: katie and caleb are high school sweethearts. they knew katie was expecte
having it? it s not that simple. they have to come up with some compromise, some sort of plan that can pass the senate and go back to the house of representatives and pass there something that the president could sign that would allow the united states to raise the debt ceiling and avert some sort of financial disaster come tuesday. it s not simple at all, so they need to work together. the mainstream, main leadership, democrats and republicans, they need to find a way to come up with the bare minimum to get over this hump. it s a huge, huge obstacle, standing in the way of an mechanic recovery, if you will. so the stakes really are enormous. what we re waiting for here is senate majority leader harry reid, about to explain why the senate has rejected john boeh r boehner s bill. let s go to jessica yellin while we wait. cnn s chief white house correspondent. it s been a day of frantic arm twisting, but we ve ended up really absolutely nowhere, haven t we? that s right.