is the crowded gop field playing right into the former president s hands? welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s get straight to the scramble to avoid a historic default on the u.s. debt. president biden and speaker mccarthy are both working the phones tonight as they try to rally support from skeptical lawmakers. cnn is covering the race to pass the agreement from every angle. the stakes right now for the american people and, indeed, the world economic situation are enormous. our correspondents are over at the white house and up on capitol hill. we re getting new details right now and a key democratic leader, congressman james clyburn, is standing by live. we ll get to him in a few moments. first to cnn white house correspondent jeremy diamond. what is the latest where you are over at the white house. reporter: this entire negotiation process was driven by the understanding this was
hello, everyone, and good morning. welcome to cnn this morning. i m amara walker. i m victor blackwell. it s happened again. we are waking up to the tragic realities of gun violence in this country. eight people are dead, seven injured over a mass shooting at an outlet mall in allen, texas. some of the scenes we saw captured on video, we warn you they are hard to watch. . you can hear the rapid fire there and see shoppers and employees scrambling into storage areas, they hid when they heard the gunshots. witnesses say some people sheltered in place for up to two hours as law enforcement cleared the sprawling area. my mom and i were in johnson and murphy s shopping and heard about ten pops go off. i look at the customer next to me. i was like, was that gunshots? and he was like, no, it s probably just construction or something and heard 10, 15 more shots go off. so i ran to the front of the store. we are like, no, that s shooting. we see the guy. he is dressed in all blac
tornado outbreak wreaking havoc across much of the midwest and south friday. there are now at least 50 preliminary tornado reports in seven states. at least 10 people have been killed and dozens of others are injured. most of the deaths are in arkansas, where the damage is catastrophic reports of at least a dozen tornadoes there. governor sarah huckabee sanders , declaring a state of emergency and activating the national guard. as the storms gutted entire communities. she s expected to give an update on the storm damage at any moment now and the hardest hit areas of arkansas. that was the town of when. we don t know what s left . all my neighbors house is about destroyed. my two boys are out now trying to help dig people out of their homes. little rock also bearing the brunt of these storms, the city s mayor, telling cnn today that entire neighborhoods were flattened. impact is devastating . i just came out of nowhere. clearly no, it was coming. everyone took cover, as relate
of trump s role in the january 6th insurrection. and a new flood emergency in california threatens millions of skorm battered residents as the east coast braces for a powerful storm packing heavy rain, strong winds and possible blizzard conditions. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world, i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. tonight, the biden administration is scrambling to respond to two of the biggest bank failures in history creating new peril for the economy and president and a lot of americans are worried right now. here s cnn s chief white house correspondent phil mattingly. the bottom line is this, americans can rest assured that our banks system is safe. reporter: president biden seeking to reassure a nation on edge. reporter: we put in place tough requirements on banks like silicon valley bank and signature bank. reporter: he also placed blame on his predecessor for contributing to this moment. unfortunately, the last
the burning man festival. the famous dj and music performer diplo managed to escape after walking miles through the muck. donald trump widening his already huge lead over his gop rivals in a new poll. and it shows that an overwhelming majority of republican voters think that his actions after the 2020 election were legitimate. and 385 people are still unaccounted for after the catastrophic wildfires on maui. this hour of cnn this morning starts right now. you know, it was a bit of an odd moment yesterday when betsey klein, our white house producer sent a pool note, she s in pool with president biden and it was about the president getting an update on burning man, which was not something i ever expected to get from our white house team. and yet that s where we were. especially since it was about rain in the desert. rain in the desert. again, a lot of unexpected events, but just hours from now, maybe the end is near. roads are about to reopen or could reopen at the bu