With that. Also, the heartbreaking Stories Tomorrow apart by deportations in china. Welcome even to our little spot on the cornish coast in the southwestern corner of england. This is the stage that Boris Johnson has set to welcome the leaders of the democracies. The g 7 summit is going to wrap Up Today with day three, the final day, two working sessions today. These are the leaders in the worlds wealthiest and most powerful democracies. The session just now beginning is open economies and the last session is tackling climate change. President biden made a good impression of the World Leaders, take a listen to emanuel macron. It is great to have the u. S. President willing to cooperate. The united states said before that were back, the u. S. Is back, and we feel very, very strongly about cohesion of nato. And i for one thing that the European Union is an landing a few hours after, of course. They say the details will be in the details. It is, one of the details about vaccinating the wo
dislodged. they are now working on pulling the front of the vessel out while keeping the freed stern away from the bank. let s bring in cnn international correspondent, ben wedeman, and he joins us live from cairo. looking more promising now, isn t it? what s the latest on the efforts to remove the cargo ship that has been stuck for nearly a week. reporter: this is a massive improvement of the situation than 24 hours ago. we heard from the chairman of the suez canal authority that says the stern of the ship which was just 4 meters away from the west bank of the suez canal has now been shifted 102 meters away, so the canal is still not functioning properly but certainly this is a massive step forward. now, they are waiting for the high tide which is in about 2 1/2 hours at which point they are hoping to completely free the ever given, and then they will float it north to the great bitter lake, and that s about 30 kilometers from its current location. that will allow the e
water crisis across texas after five straight days of record low temperatures. broken water pipes have left nearly half of the residents of the state without clean drinking water. power has been restored to all but 192,000 people but around 13 million texans are still under a boil water advisory. and take a look at this. this is video just into cnn. more than 80,000 bottles of water delivered from the travis air force base in california to the city of galveston, texas, trying to help those struggling. the winter blast is also causing serious delays in vaccine distribution and in several parts of the country. soon president biden will head to a pfizer manufacturing plant in michigan. this comes as his administration said the nation has major work to do to try to make up for this lost time because of the extreme weather. so let s begin this hour with our colleague natasha chen in houston with more on the ongoing crisis across the state. it is so far beyond a weather story. to n
senators. republicans now pushing a $618 billion stimulus package, that s about a third of the size of biden s proposal and with this pretty big gap the question is, how are they going to narrow it? it was a very good exchange of views. i wouldn t say that we came together on a package tonight, no one expected that in a two-hour meeting. but what we did agree to do is to follow up and talk further at the staff level and amongst ourselves and with the and while a number of republicans have stayed quiet on the controversy surrounding congresswoman marjorie taylor greene, last night the most powerful republican in the senate broke his silence in a very big way. late last night mitch mcconnell released his statement writing this, loony lies and conspiracy theories are cancer for the republican party and our country. these words, a sharp contrast to the statement mcconnell released this morning defending house chairwoman liz cheney who has come under fire for voting to impea
that their platform is filled with all of this misinformation. and a rare moment in tech, another c.e.o. taking to task over misinformation. it is thursday, september 23rd, 5:00 a.m. in new york. thanks for getting an early start with us this morning. i m christine romans. i m laura jarrett. welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. we have reports this morning from florida, los angeles, china, capitol hill and texas. but we begin with more red flags in the days leading to the death of gabby petito. a couple vacationing in jackson, wyoming, say they saw a commotion involving petito and her fiancee brian laundrie at a restaurant on august 27th. nina angelo telling cnn petito was in tears and laundrie was angry going in this restaurant. moments later the text message from petito to her mom. and social media feeds went quiet. they spotted the white van near where her body was later recovered. and the day before a woman noticed the van parked n