good morning and thank you so much for spending some of your july 4th holiday with us. it is 10:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera reporting for two hours this morning. as we come on the air and some of you wake up on independence day, americans are confronting once again a uniquely american crisis, gun violence. a deadly night in america, with a pair of shootings. one claiming the life of five people in philadelphia, the very city where the u.s. constitution was drafted. another at a celebration in fort worth, texas, killing at least three people there. what we re learning about both shootings. also right now, severe weather impacting millions from intense storms in the midwest and the east coast to nearly triple digit temps out west putting july 4th celebrations literally up in the air. it would be great if it was the fourth. but it is the whole month, the whole year, we live in the best country in the world. and watch the water. two teens attacked ten mil apart in new york wh
the 2024 election is quickly approaching in donald trump is showing no signs of tempering his dangerous rhetoric. for months, the disgraced ex president has spent his time on the campaign trail echoing the language of dictators like adolf hitler. you may be asking yourself, why is a former president stealing lines from history s worst figures? well, because it is working. i knew des moines register and nbc new post poll of likely iowa republican caucus goers reveals that voters are embracing trump s authoritarian language with a greer percentage saying they are more likely to vote for him after he referred to his political adversaries as, quote, vermin. even more concerning, they support his racist attacks on immigrants. including his remarks that they are, quote, poisoning the blood of the country, which he doubled down on this week. they come from africa, they come from asia, they come from south america, but not just south america, they re all over the world. they dump
not stopping until the job is done. chuck schumer vowing the senate will soon get the debt bill onto president biden s desk putting a pause on the debt ceiling and preventing economic calamity. but that s not all. we ll break down some of the bill s impacts on your bottom line. trump caught on tape again. a cnn exclusive. federal prosecutors have an audio recording of the former president speaking about keeping a classified document. the report could undercut his defense in the ongoing case. the 2024 gop front-runner is expected to speak to reporters from the campaign trail during the next hour. and a death zone rescue at the top of the world. a sherpa drags someone to safety. we are following these major stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. the big question today, how fast can they move? right now the senate is taking up the debt ceiling bill just passed by the house. remember, there are only four days to avert a catastrophic government d
plus on to the senate now for a big bipartisan breakthrough. a month scramble of meetings, breakdowns and near rebellions leads to 314 yes in the house on a deal to steer the united states around a debt default. from wall street to the whout, one of the most powerful men in corporate america doesn t say no to a future in politics. up first for us, critical new cnn report ing on a special counsel investigation evidence trail that we now know includes a record ing of donald trump admitting he kept a classified record when he left the white house. trump right now is on the campaign trail between iowa. a reminder of the unprecedented place we find ourselves. a state investigation sb n georgia and two tracks of the federal special counsel investigation. and yet, he is at the same time the front runner for the 2024 republican nomination. ask he vows to carry on his campaign no matter what prosecutors allege. this exclusive new cnn reporting is this. special counsel jack smith h
plus, where things stand on the debt limit. with just one week for possible default. then, target, pulling pride themed merchandise from stores. how it played out online and what is next for the company. and, the possible economic consequences of ron desantis s immigration law and the impact that could be felt far beyond florida as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. that evening once again, i am stephanie ruhle. the feds passed a major milestone in bringing january 6th insurrectionists to justice, today elmer stewart rhodes, the leader of the right-wing extremist group, the oath keepers, was sentenced to 18 years behind bars for seditious conspiracy, it is the longest sentence in any of the january six cases, nbc s candle has more on what went down in court. a former army paratrooper who graduated from lost school, once wore an orange jumpsuit during the court hearings. he show no remorse to finally telling the judge that he considered himself a political