oh, yes, he went there. so did comedian jimmy kimmel. the best of their barbs and what you need to know for the week ahead right here, right now on cnn. hello, everyone. i m don lemon. thank you so much for joining us this evening. tonight, trauma in the middle of a sunday drive. an suv flies off the road in new york city and lands 60 feet below into the bronx zoo. seven people are dead, and as our susan candiotti reports, three of them were children. susan. reporter: it was a beautiful sunday afternoon and then something went terribly wrong. police say they are still investigating what caused a woman driving an suv to suddenly lose control of that vehicle and go sailing over an overpass and down about 60 feet. here s what police have pieced together so far. a woman driving the suv, 45 years old along, with another woman, an elderly couple and three children inside ages 5, 15 and 3 all of them wearing seat belts driving down the highway. for some reason, according to ey
the best of their barbs and what you need to know for the week ahead right here, right now on cnn. hello, everyone. i m don lemon. thank you so much for joining us this evening. tonight, trauma in the middle of a sunday drive. an suv flies off the road in new york city and lands 60 feet below into the bronx zoo. seven people are dead, and as our susan candiotti reports, three of them were children. susan. reporter: it was a beautiful sunday afternoon and then something went terribly wrong. police say they are still investigating what caused a woman driving an suv to suddenly lose control of that vehicle and go sailing over an overpass and down about 60 feet. here s what police have pieced together so far. a woman driving the suv, 45 years old along with another woman, an elderly couple and three children inside ages 5, 15 and 3 all of them wearing seat belts driving down the highway. for some reason according to eyewitnesses, the woman lost control of that suv, hit a conc
oh, yes, he went there. so did comedian jimmy kimmel. the best of their barbs and what you need to know for the week ahead right here, right now on cnn. hello, everyone. i m don lemon. thank you very much for joining us this evening. tonight, trauma in the middle of a sunday drive. an suv flies off the road in new york city and lands 60 feet below into the bronx zoo. seven people are dead an as our susan candiotti reports, three were children. susan. reporter: it was a beautiful sunday afternoon and then something went terribly wrong. police say they are still investigating what caused a woman driving an suv to suddenly lose control of that vehicle and go sailing over an overpass and down about 60 feet. here s what police pieced together so far. a woman driving the suv, along with another woman, an elderly couple and three children inside ages 5, 15 and 3 all driving down the highway with seat belts on. the woman lost control of that suv, hit a concrete barrier in the m
talk more about it in our crime and consequences segment in 20 minutes. the clock is still ticking toward a midnight deadline to avert a partial government shutdown but the pressure s gone down just a little bit. that s john boehner s way of saying both parties in both houses have agreed on a trillion dollar spending package. now they just have to vote on it. the house will vote first. then start its holiday recess. the senate will vote after that. and will try to agree on extending a payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits. if it does, the house will come back to vote on that. stay tuned. ballistics and fingerprint analysis now links oscar ortega hernandez to the rifle used to fire bullets at the white house last month according to new court filings. the 21-year-old from idaho is being charged with attempting to assassinate the president. ortega is in washington today for a hearing on whether he should undergo more missile testing to determine if he is competent to s
john king, chief national correspondent and host of jk usa and sheila behr, former children of chairman of the fdic. before we talk about this i want to bring in christine romans to explain why this has been such an important deal in the united states. while i ve been out here in cannes, the u.s. has been watching very closely what s going on here and what s been going on in athens, christine. there s a growing understanding that u.s. and europe are in it together. anything that is negative for greece and the eu, is not good for america. europe is america s number one trading partner. there s this feeling that we don t quite understand how the domino effect would be. if greece goes down, the first domino in interconnected trade, banking, financial system. you know, $400 billion of u.s. exports go to europe every year. that makes it a huge destination for our goods. if there were a severe recession in europe because of a financial crisis, it would definitely hurt the u.s