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hello and welcome. welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories and checking out the truth behind them. let s start with a major story in ukraine with the authorities they are saying more than 40,000 people are at risk from flooding after that major dam in the south of the country was attacked and collapsed yesterday. we can bring you the latest on the story because in the last few minutes president putin has been discussing what has been happening in a call to the turkish president, calling the dam burst a barbaric act, kyiv s barbaric act. he has gone on to say it is a humanitarian and environmental catastrophe. he made those comments while talking to president erdogan. those comments being relayed from the kremlin. and of course it is pretty much the usual tactics from russia s president with any major situation like this, constant denial. those are the latest comments from president putin. let s get more on what we have found out and what is happening o ....
welcome to news room. erdogan secures the historic third term as turkey s president. we ll take a look at what it means for the country s relations for washington and we will show you the dramatic video of the moment a driver and passenger fired at each other while on board the moving bus. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom. we begin in washington where there is an urgent push for a tentative deal to avoid a default. president biden and kevin mccarthy have cut the deal though they are facing pushback. the bill has to clear the senate. mr. biden says he is confident it will make it to his desk. the speaker and i made clear from the start that the only way forward was a bipartisan agreement. that agreement now goes to the united states house. and to the senate. i strongly urge both chambers to pass that agreement. mccarthy has released the text of the 99 page bill which includes raiseing the debt ceiling two years. increasing spending on defense and vete ....
everyone. thank you for joining me. i m fredricka whitfield. a deal to avoid a debt default is about to be revealed. president biden and speaker mccarthy are finalizing an agreement to raise the debt limit. president biden saying this earlier today. i m about to go in and call mccarthy now at 3:00, make sure all the ts are crossed and the is are dotted. i think we re in good shape. house leaders expect the bill to be voted on as soon as wednesday. speaker mccarthy is confident the deal will pass. february 1st i sat down with the president. i said let s work together to be able to raise the debt ceiling but curb the amount of spending, to let mark be able to work again, cut red tape, get some work requirements to help people get back into work. i think this agreement frames all that from limit, save, grow. it doesn t get everything we wanted. we did a conference call with our conference and over 95% were overwhelmingly excited about what they see. they re getting a ....
was in the remote gansu province. tremors were also felt in the neighbouring qinghai region. a second magnitude 5.2 quake struck neighbouring xinjiang hours later on tuesday. more than 250 people have been injured. rescuers are braving freezing weather with temperatures below minus 13 celsius to search for survivors. the government has dispatched teams of rescue workers to assist local emergency crews. we spoke earlier to matthew blackett, associate professor of natural hazards of coventry university on why this shallow earthquake had such an impact on this remote region. it was a 6.2 magnitude, which, in the whole scheme of things, isn t particularly large, but it was ten kilometres in depth and that means that there isn t much space between where the fracture happens in the ground and where the energy hits the surface. so, that. the energy directly from that fracture makes its way to the surface and causes really intense shaking. and that s, i guess, going to be one of ....
forecast. the stormy weekend ahead for early holiday travelers. definitely one more thing to worry about during a stressful time. norah: new hope for a morning sickness cure, the discovery that could help hundreds of thousands of pregnant women. this is the future. 35 miles here off the coast of new york, this giant wind turbine is now generating electricity. but the industry is also facing major headwinds. snow falling in florida. absolutely magical. norah: an army of volunteers brings holiday cheer to families of america s fallen heroes. it s like the entire country is cheering for us. norah: good evening to our viewers in the west i m norah o donnell and thank you for being with us on this thursday night. and we begin with the fresh warnings from president biden to israel that it is time to scale back the war in gaza and be more careful to protect civilians. we ve got more on that new message in just a moment, but first the world is on alert. am ....