good morning todd and ashley. biden s national security advisor met the top advisor in vienna who said america wants to move beyond the incident. where they lasted that chinese spy machine out of the sky. we spoke to the press on air force one on the way to japan. common concerns and issues associated with the policies and practices of the people s republic of china that will come up and i think you will see alignment and convergence around fundamental principles of our approach to the people s republic of china. president biden will be a japan through sunday with meetings. the trip was supposed to include a trip to papua new guinea and australia but the unresolved debt ceiling will cut this trip short. the president spoke before catching his flight to japan. i m confident we will get the agreement on the budget and america will not default and every leader in the room understands the consequences if we fail to pay our bills and it would be catastrophic for the americ
and houston rushes out. the country that put the first man in space is quitting the international space station. the impact on future missions just ahead. but first, your money and cnn business reporter matt egan is here with us. today s consumer confidence report was the first major data point in this critical week for the u.s. economy. what did it show? simply put americans are not happy with this economy. consumer confidence dropping for a third month in a row in july. to put this into context, the lowest level for consumer confidence since february of 2021. not only is confidence well below the peak of last year, it s not even close to the pre-covid levels, closer to the covid lows, which is pretty amazing. this is a telling stat despite the very strong jobs market, just 17% of consumers said business conditions were good. 24% say conditions are bad. now this is a big deal because consumer spending is the biggest driver of the economy. if people slow their spending, a
court in our land in the first place. the decision is set to have major legal political, social and cultural fallout. shannon bream, chief legal correspondent, is with us now. as we get going here and i was just reading about this. there are states now that are already starting to trigger their bans against abortion. we saw this coming. i would like to start there and explain how that happens expeditiously. a number of these states planned ahead and that s on both ends of the spectrum on the issue of abortion rights. sometimes they will restrict everything before a heartbeat and exceptions or not. those state laws are ready to kick in. some passed in anticipation of what would happen potentially today. there are other states on the other end of the spectrum. i cited colorado as one of these states where they passed laws wanting to extend abortion rights to women. basicically there you can get an abortion up to the end of your pregnancy. the laws have already been passed and
at the supreme court. did not abortion decision today but still a heavy presence of demonstration. protests turn into riots and violence. slashed the price of the picture of the v.p. selling tickets for $15,000. now you can get a photo for 5,000. she would have to pay me to take a picture with her. say hello hello. are. steve: hello. it s wednesday, june 22nd, 2022. you are looking live at niagara falls, right now, 17 degrees there daytime high of 89. there s a chance of rain. but if you are at niagara falls you are probably going to get wet anyway. brian: you should not get in a barrel and go over the edge. steve: that has so been done. 3,000 tons of water go over the falls every second. it is the world s honeymoon capitol. ainsley: they were lighting it up with all different colors. they have lights under the water sometimes it s pink, sometimes it s blue. sometimes it s green. steve: there are actually three water falls, horseshoe falls also known as
search. don t know where she couldn t be. the shocking twists. police are focusing their attention on two suspects, madeleine s mom and dad. the theories. somebody knows what s happened. more than a dozen years after her disappearance, an investigation spans across europe and leads to a major break in the case. the first since the mccanns were cleared. international authorities focusing on one man. a new twist. a german prosecutor says he is now sure that he knows who killed madeleine mccann. portuguese authorities have said they have now named a suspect. so to be clear, the formal suspect in madeleine mccann s case is a convicted rapist and a known pedophile. a cnn special report, missing: madeleine mccann. praia da luz is one of the villages in portugal that had long been just a little fishing village. it attracts a lot of ex patriot tourists, particularly from germany, holland, the uk. it s an easy, safe, relaxed place. quite a small community. a