saying he feels closer to a deal today than he has before, but not everyone in his party is as optimistic. one top republican negotiator warning the deal is still teetering on the brink and could fall apart entirely. meanwhile, the national deficit continues to soar to new heights and treasury secretary janet yellen says there are only eight days remaining to pay america s bills. is everyone on board? reporter: we ll see about that. he came in to the capitol this morning and told reporters he s feeling optimistic and thinks progress has been made and really they re focused on a few remaining sticking points for this deal. i am told the goal is to have a deal announced by the end of today. we ll see if they can get there. we have new reporting about what the outstanding issues are. one of them is a provision to impose new work requirements on some social safety net programs. i m told they made some progress on that in negotiations last night. we re going to see today wheth
national average last year. we have not been able to pass pre-pandemic levels on the roads. they re still saying that because gas prices are relatively high and we re dealing with inflation, that could be the reason why the roads are not surpassing that 2019 level. we re going to keep an eye on the interstate behind us throughout the day. we ll check back in with you in about an hour. thank you so much. if anything, just all the indicators are people just want to get out and see and do. the holiday weebkend is putting airlines to the test ahead of an anticipates busy travel summer season. last memorial day thousands of flights got cancelled.
our eyes are on the skies, and this peculiar sunday night mystery. hi, everybody, it s 10:00 in the east. glad you re with us. i m alina cho sitting in for don lemon tonight, and we begin with the bad weather bearing down on the southeast. tropical storm beryl fast approaching hurricane strength and near landfall. you can see the palm trees struggling against the waves. waves onshore. this is jekyll island. flooding obviously a big concern, and beaches all along the southeast coast are posting warnings about the dangers of rip currents. for the past 24 hours, lifeguards and emts have been working overtime rescuing those who have ignored the warnings. our jacqui jeras is watching it all for us. a couple of questions. number one, pretty close to hurricane strength, right? yeah. and how close are we to landfa landfall? we re close. landfall not so important with this storm. it s a big storm, and there s going to be very widespread impacts. there you see the rain which ha
this peculiar sunday night mystery. hi, everybody, glad you re with us. i m alina cho sitting in for don lemon tonight. and we begin with the bad weather bearing down on the southeast. tropical storm beryl fast approaching hurricane strength and nearing landfall. you can see the palm trees struggling against the wind earlier today, waves surging onshore. this is jekyll island, georgia, you re looking at. flooding obviously a big concern, and beaches all along the southeast coast are posting warnings about the dangers much rip currents. for the past 24 hours, lifeguards and emts hav who have ignored the warnings. our jacqui jeras watching it all for us. so, jacqui, a couple of questions. number one, pretty close to hurricane strength, right? yeah. and, also, how close are we to landfall? we re close. just within an hour or two potentially of landfall, but landfall not necessarily so important with this storm because it s a big storm and there are going to be very wides
our eyes are on the skies, and this peculiar sunday night mystery. hi, everybody, it s 10:00 in the east. glad you re with us. i m alina cho sitting in for don lemon tonight, and we begin with the bad weather bearing down on the southeast. tropical storm beryl fast approaching hurricane strength and near landfall. you can see the palm trees struggling against the waves. the wind earlier today. waves surging onshore. this is jekyll island, georgia you re looking at flooding obviously a big concern, and beaches all along the southeast coast are posting warnings about the dangers of rip currents. for the past 24 hours, lifeguards and emts have been working overtime rescuing those who have ignored the warnings. our jacqui jeras is watching it all for us. so, jacqui, a couple of questions. number one, pretty close to hurricane strength, right? yeah. and, also, how close are we to landfall? we re close. potentially an hour or so but landfall not so important with this storm