♪ ♪ a key democrat says she is a no on the debt deal as conservatives push back on speaker mccarthy. we have a new look at where the

vote stands with just hours to go. >> there's new cnn reporting on a new candidate set to enter the race for the white house. why former new jersey governor chris christie says now is his time and what we're learning about his plans. >> also, it's a bird. it's a plane or is it? a ufo, so many questions today. nasa is set to unveil what a nine-month long investigation uncovered. this is "cnn news central." new this morning, one is in, one is out. it's getting to the point where they are naming names in terms of the vote for the debt ceiling. democratic congresswoman debbie dingle says she will vote in favor of the deal. this came moments after congresswoman, pramila jayapal, the chair of the house progressive caucus said she would not vote for it.

count her as a no as democrats are meeting behind closed doors before the house is set to vote on a bill. it needs a simple majority to pass, 218, if everyone is present. the division right now, 222 republicans and 213 democrats. republican leadership had told the white house they could get 150 of their members to vote yes, that's a high mark for them and that would mean the democrats would have to make up some of the rest. when asked if progressive support would be needed to get this through, congresswoman jayapal who again says she is a no. she said she didn't think so. she did not think the progressives would be needed. let's get right to capitol hill. cnn's lauren fox is there. as i said, they really are naming names and lining up who is a yes and who is a no at this point, lauren? >> we are getting right to crunch time, john. what you are starting to see is members line up on one side or

the other and they are going to lose some members on the hard right and progressive members like jayapal announcing that she was going to be voting against this bill, but this was always going to be a coalition of the members in the middle and that is how they will get this across the finish line. in a closed-door caucus meeting is one thing that became clear is jefferies argued to his caucus that they believed this was the best deal that they could get. that this is the option of a default or nothing and so that is why they are arguing that this is a bill that they should all be backing. i want to just note one other important thing that will happen today. there is a vote on the rule to bring this bill to the vote and thatiblely happens and you can expect that they'll do that,

however, democrats will fall short if they get it past the finish line. once they pass it in the house of raptives which will probably happen around 8:30 or 9:30 tonight you can expect it to go to the senate. once it gets over there it becomes a question of how fast it will move and any one member can slow it down, john. we we are pushing up against the june 5th headline. >> get ready to see strange coalitions and combinations today to get things moving. lauren fox, thanks very much. let's go to the white house. cnn's arlette saenz is there. how do white house officials feel about things? >> president biden dispatched some of his top officials here at the white house in order to try to shore up democratic support in that meeting this morning. they've been meeting there for two hours from democratic lawmakers ahead of this expected vote this evening. those briefers have included omb

dir director shalonda young and, and both of those individuals heading into the past week. heading into this vote the white house has been aware that they're not going to have all democrats onboard with this proposal, but they are just hoping to have enough democrats to help make up any needs and the votes based on what republicans are able to put forth today. one thing that the white house has been arguing to people on one-on-one phone calls and in these briefings is that ultimately this is an agreement and a bipartisan agreement to avert a default. since the beginning of these negotiations that were occurring between the white house and house speaker kevin mccarthy and officials you talked to have been making very clear that this is a bipartisan agreement and democrats weren't going to get everything that they wanted in this bill and what the white house wanted to stress to individuals is they needed to

hold off some of the republican priorities when it came to even tougher work requirements and when it came to bigger spending cuts and the white house is closely watching this later today and then they'll watch the vote that's expected in the senate and they've started making phone calls to senators as well as everyone is very aware that this could go down to the wire with the june 5th deadline looming. >> arlette saenz, keep us posted. john, we're talking about the big items that have been talked about a lot. permitting reforms and programs, there are many pieces to this bill and one we haven't talked about is the impact it has on federal student loans. if passed as is now, the agreement would end the pause put in place by president biden on student loan repayments. it would end that august 30th and that means people would have to start back up with payments

after that and they would start to be charged interest after then. >> the moratorium started in march of 2020 and that was with the pandemic and it's been extended since then by the biden administration. the house speaker touted this as the republican victory on sunday. >> the pause has gone up for 60 days. that is another victory because that brings in $5 billion each month to the american public. >> so there is that and in what appears to be a compromise is the president's waiver program remains in place and untouched as part of the deal that he struck with mccarthy. this is a program that cancels up to $20,000 in loan debt for about 100 million americans and about 26 million people have applied for the release so far, but this situation is in legal limbo and separate from the debt debate as the fate of the program is now before the

supreme court which is expected to report on the matter. >> a lot of people are watching this closely, kate. thank you. >> the republican field for 2024 getting even more quiet. chris christie formally launching the presidential campaign in the critical state of new hampshire. cnn's omar jimenez is following this for us. what are you hearing about christie's plans? >> rahel, multiple sources have told me that former new jersey governor chris christie is expected to announce his bid for the presidency in the 2024 race on tuesday. this is expected to happen in a town hall format in new hampshire at st. anselm college and previous folks have said that he has been talking to shareholders to tray to decide whether to jump into this race and it does seem he's gotten to that point. over recent days, allies have launched a super pac that gives

an indication for supporters of where he sort of fits into this race and the person who runs that super pac put out a statement that reads governor christie has proven he's unafraid to tell it like it is and he's willing to con front the hard truths that threaten the future of the republican party. now more than ever we have players, who doesn't want what i want to hear, but what i need to hear. over the months, former governor christie has not been shy in attacking donald trump saying that donald trump has failed this country and he's said himself at a previous town hall that if he plans to get in this race, he does not plan to shy away from the former president who is looming large over the gop field. >> omar jimenez, thank you. john? so former governor chris christie says he is in, joining

the race next week. how does that change things? with us now, cnn political director david chalian. one thing you and i have learned over years says it's fol they anyone does or doesn't have a chance this early on. >> and it takes all of the fun out of it, john. >> that, too. >> for him to win, what would need to happen, and how does he change the complexion of this race? >> chris christie would need to literally convert the republican primary electorate into a place where it is not currently and our most recent cnn poll, john, had 60% of republican and republican-leaning independents that has ruled him out of the consideration. that's the mission ahead of him to change, but it's also going to be really important to watch how chris christie embraces this role as presidential candidate this time around. is this somebody who is seeking

to run this campaign in the pursuit of the oval office and to govern the country, or is this somebody who is going to be on a mission to rid the republican party of donald trump because everything in the months during his consideration of this leading up to it indicates his singular focus at this point has been to try and knock donald trump off course here and get him to a place where he is no longer got a grip on the republican party. >> of course, the question then would be who does that benefit? if christie takes on trump does that benefit chris christie or some candidates say ron desantis and i bring up the florida governor because i think one of the open questions over the last few months is how would governor desantis campaign against donald trump? how would he differentiate himself from donald trump? i think for the first time we have an answer to that. desantis campaigning in iowa has been giving these speeches where he lays out distinctions between

himself and donald trump, and i think we can put those up on a screen right now. number one, ron desantis points out xs from money. he has blue collar roots. he says, ron desantis says, that he would have gotten rid of anthony fauci during the pandemic and donald trump did not and ron desantis claims that donald trump aloud lockdowns and he did not. so you can sort of see drawing lines there, desantis is. how significant will this be? >> pretty significant. i think you're right, and i think there was a desantis two-step that we saw last night in the iowa debut. in the room for his speech he was largely not focused on donald trump, and his wife who anybody who has followed ron desantis' political career will know, is his most senior adviser when it comes to politics. she was on the stage clearly

indicating she will be a critical part of this desantis campaign. as you noted, he touched on his biography a bit and also this vision, john, that i think it will be a twofold message for him. one that the elites in washington are not representing the people. he believes he's got an ability to do that. two, that he can defeat when he sees as a dangerous, leftist approach to american politics and the so-called woke ideology that he sees and that he's proven he can beat it electorally by 19 percentage points last november in his re-election race as well as his string of legislative victories in florida and when he took to reporters' questions he was not shy on donald trump, on covid, on,a borgz, saying donald trump is trying to attack him from the left and it is important for him to take trump head-on.

>> david chalian, always great to see you. i look forward to know itting this discussion. kate? half a dozen people have reportedly been injured on russian soil after a serious uptick of attacks on the russian border. two russian oil refineries just up in flames allegedly targeted in separate drone attacks. this video was shared on social media and it shows the aftermath of one of these attacks very clearly up in flames. this video we want to show you is a large explosion of a monument near belarus, russia and ukraine. ukrainian officials say the russians may have been trying to blow up the road there to disrupt an impending ukrainian ground offensive. sam, what are you learning about these attacks in russia?

>> well, kate, we've all been talking, haven't we, for some weeks now about the ukrainian counter offensive. very few of us have the imagination to think that it might involve or even focus operations inside russia, but that is essentially at least at this stage -- excuse me, we're seeing. so you've got that destruction of the junction of the three countries of belarus, russia and ukraine allegedly by the russians to try to block a potential advance. just to the east of it over the last couple of weeks there have been a series of drone attacks all along the northern border with ukraine. now periodically, we're seeing other border incursions and we're seeing the governor of belgorod province talking about six people being injured and significant numbers of children and others evacuated from russian villages close to the ukrainian border and now in

cr kresnodor, and the ukrainians are not claiming responsibility for this. at left they have no direct responsibility, the term they used for the drone attacks just yesterday or the day before rather in moscow, but add it up, this looks like and indeed one of the presidential advisers to president zelenskyy has admitted that this is going to be an escalated campaign directed inside russian territory and interestingly, just in the last couple of days, james cleverley, the british foreign secretary broke ranks with other nato partners and i'm paraphrasing, if ukraine wants to attack military inside russia, it is tree to do that. it has agreed with military donors that it would aren't attack russia using the weapons

that it's been given. it can use the weapons that its made itself for just those purposes, but it is clearly designed to rattle the russians and it's having that effect, kate. >> sure is. sure is. good to see you, sam. thank you for your reporting. rahel? >> still ahead for us this morning, five people still unaccounted for after a building partially collapsed in iowa. coming up, officials are trying to figure out if it's still safe while searching. >> paeshs, teachers and a school board last night over a teacher showing her class a disney film. arming teachers in the classroom and that's been proposed as a way to help stop school shootings, but would it work? this morning we're hearing from teachers on what they think. i. financial well-being to me is knowing that i can be free to do the things that i love to do.

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the bank where an employee opened fire and killed five people in downtown louisville is permanently relocating. the bank ceo said the move will take place at the end of june and meant to honor the victims and those still recovering from the tragic event. a moscow court has rejected an appeal from a jailed putin critic. alexy navalnia asked the court to allow him to beingaes is documents from his case and he is serving a sentence after being convicted of fraud. al pacino will be a father at the age of 83. he confirmed the news to tmz on

tuesday. pacino's 29-year-old girlfriend is eight months along. this will be pacino's fourth child. kate? >> so court is back in session this hour in the death penalty trial of a man accused of the deadly attack on jews in u.s. history. jurors hearing from the sister of one victim today. they also heard what has been detailed as just horrific audio coming from 911 calls at the tree of life synagogue including a call capturing the final words of one woman before she was shot. 84-year-old bernice simon, she said this, tree of life, i'm scared to death. she was killed and her husband was also killed. rabbi jeffrey myers, he recounted the gun shots telling the court that he expected to die. cnn's danny freeman is back with us in pittsburgh from inside the

federal courtroom. danny, talk to me more about what we've learned today and also seen today because some of the evidence that you heard presented in court yesterday has been released. >> that's right, kate. already this morning it's been an emotional and tense day in court for day two of this trial. let me start with those new images and those new exhibits released in the past hour. so by the court, these are images presented in court. we are getting the first look at things this morning. they are inside of the synagogue. some images include crime scene tape and some blood on the floor and what looks like a spent magazine from a rifle on the ground and there's also a video of rabbi jeffrey myers, of the tree of life congregation, and he is running from the synagogue and churching his yarmulke as he runs past police officers who just saved him and cleared the way for him to actually escape and that was the moment that the

rabbi talked about on the stand. just a moment of gladness to be alive, but still such fear because of the carnage that happened inside. there's also an image that i want to show you, kate, because it's very visceral. we saw it again just about 45 minutes ago. it's an image of a prayer book that appears to have a bullet hole shot right through the top of it and the rabbi spoke about this image, as well. that prayer book was, quote, witness to the horror of that day, and one day when i'm not there, this book will tell a story that needs to be told. >> these exhibits painteding a new picture of what we are understanding happened inside of that synagogue that day in october 2018. meanwhile, we did also hear from two more witnesses today including carol black. the sister of richard godfrey, and she remembers not only her brother richard and melvin whacks, and dan stein and all of

the new life congregation saying they were truly the hearts of that congregation. we are expecting more witnesses today on the stand. kate? >> danny, thank you for paying particular attention to the prayer book with what appears to be a bullet hole. when i saw that just an evidence exhibit that brought goosebumps to me when you think of so many of us that sit in a synagogue and use those prayer books every day and how that was shattered in that synagogue in 2018. danny, thank you for bringing that to us. we will continue to follow this trial, of course, for all of you. rahel? officials in iowa are trying to decide whether to keep searching for survivors inside of a partially collapsed building. what remains is unstable and could come crashing down at any moment. right now five people are still unaccounted for and two of them are believed to be inside. adrien broaddus is with us, there were plans to demolish what's of the well of the building.

where do things stand now? >> rahel, yesterday crews went back inside and searched portions of the building they believed were safe. those portions they thought were safe to explore after this sunday collapse. they were able to rescue people's pets, but authorities say there were no signs of any human survivors. at least five people are unaccounted for including two believed to be in the rubble. one woman told members of the media she thinks the person she loved died. others are still holding on to hope. listen in. >> you all want to tear down the building and you know you've got five people still unaccounted for. help me understand that. >> as much as we want to, we want to get everybody out and we want to do it right now. i apologize that i get upset,

but -- there's a lot of things that we have to factor. so, understand, it's not that we don't want to do this. it's a fact that we have to do it in a safe manner. >> and he talks about doing it in a safe manner. we heard from the fire chief who also said they don't want to send in first responders and the building collapses and then we have more people who are injured. we will continue to keep our eye on this, rahel. >> we know you will, adrienne, just an incredibly difficult situation. john? >> a heated florida school board meeting over a teacher reportedly showing a a disney film.

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♪ ♪ this morning a mid-air confrontation between the u.s. and china increasing tensions between the two countries. the chinese military now says a u.s. plane, quote, deliberately intruded into its training area in the south china sea. that claim comes after u.s. officials released video showing the moment that they say a chinese jet carried out an unnecessarily aggressive maneuver. the u.s. plane shaking a bit,

apparently. the u.s. says, you see it right there. the u.s. says that was caused by turbulence from the close call. cnn's natasha bertrand has the latest on this for us. what are you hearing from u.s. officials, natasha? >> yes. we actually just got a statement in from u.s. secretary of state antony blinken about this, john, who said essentially what other u.s. officials said about this incident was that the chinese pilots in this instance were acting very dangerously and this underscores why it is so important for the u.s. to have ongoing military to military communication with the chinese, something that the chinese r rebuffed repeatedly over recent months as recently as this week when secretary of defense lloyd austin, with his chinese counterpart while they are in singapore this week and it was rejected and outright rebuffed by the chinese. the u.s. response to this incident, just the latest incident of provocation, they say by the chinese against a u.s. aircraft that was operating in u.s. airspace is that they

will continue to do so. they will not be deterred what they describe as a dangerous intercept because they say they're operating in international airspace. the chinese have a very different perspective, and according to the ministry and a provocative manner and the chinese military said that the u.s. was interfering in training exercises, that the chinese were carrying out at the time, but just to give you a sense of what indo-pacific command is saying here. they released a statement along with this video yesterday saying the united states will continue to fly, sail and operate safely and responsibly wherever international law allows and the indo-pacific joint force will continue to fly in international airspace with due regard for the safety of all vessels and aircraft under international law. so all of this really underscoring for the u.s. anyway, why it is important to keep the channels of communication open and the channels seeing it at this point

saying that they don't want to talk to the u.s. as long as tensions remain as high and as long as the u.s. wasn't willing to lift the sanctions imposed in 2018, john? >> natasha bertrand, thank you very much. hundreds gathered at a contentious florida school board last night and this is over a teacher showing a disney movie to her fifth grade class. the community members in attendance were divided about what should happen here. the teacher, jenna barbee, at the center of the whole thing, she spoke out at the meeting to defend herself. at one point reading from a poem. listen to this. >> let the students read and learn, let the teachers teach. everyone deserves to be represented and that's what we need to preach. we are the destruction when we can be the light, so be kind to each other. be powerful in this life. power does not come from what you own, but the energy inside you. the power of love alone. >> thank you.

>> cnn's amarah walker is following this for us. what else happened at this school board meeting? >> kate, this was an extremely heated meeting and as you said, dozens of parents and students and people from the community packed into the hernando county school board meeting last night. they came out to speak up in support for the teacher, jenna barbee who is under investigation from the department of education who showed "a strange world" to her fifth graders who had an lgbtq+ character in the main role and for shannon rodriguez, the mother and school board member who reported barbee for doing so. during the public comments section we heard from several students. one who said that parents are -- excuse me, teachers are afraid that they're tiptoeing around their words for fear of losing their job. there is plenty of plblame and indirect criticism of the parental rights and education act also known as the don't say

gay law that was put in place by governor ron desantis which basically bans any instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation for classrooms k through 3. as i said, there were support from parents for shannon rodriguez that schools need to be kept traditional. >> we're not going to stop until all these books are removed and our schools are safe for our children to go to the libraries again. >> how you parent is your business. you want to teach them about trans gender, that's fine. they can learn that at home. if you want these books that they complain being being taken out of the schools, buy them yourself on amazon, but leave my children to learn how they need to learn. >> so you need to listen to us when we say thate rainbow is no indoctrinating us and your policies are not protecting us from anything. the problems only exist in your

eyes. >> in the meantime, there is a change.org petition pushing for the removal of shannon rodriguez -- rodriguez from the hernando county school board. so far there are 26,000 and the goal is to get to 35,000. as for barbee, she maintains that she showed the disney movie to relate to an earth science lesson. the florida department of education investigation into her alleged inappropriate conduct is still ongoing. however, the hernando county school board closed its investigation concluding that the movie was indeed connected to the curriculum being taught and that barbee had obtained permission from parents to do so, but she did not seek administrative approval, kate. >> amara walker, thank you. as they grapple how to make schools safer, teachers are

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welcome back. a new report finds that more than half of american teachers think being armed at school would make it less safe. the report focuses on how k through 12 teachers view school safety. cnn medical correspondent elizabeth cohen joins us now. elizabeth, arming teachers always a very controversial issue, but what are teachers saying? >> you know, this is such an interesting survey, rahel. the rand corporation surveyed more than half a million teachers in the united states, teachers of grades kindergarten

through 12th grade and what they found is 54% of them, giving guns to teachers would make schools less safe. 20% of the teachers said that doing so would make the schools more safe and the remainder said it wouldn't make things less safe or more safe. so it was very interesting to hear from these teachers what they thought of this idea. this idea gets batted around quite a bit. that's what the teachers thought. more than half said they did not think it would make schools safer help rahel? >> i also thought it was interesting that according to this report active shooter situations were apparently not the top concern for teachers, what worries them most? >> right. it wasn't even near the top, rahel. in pfact, it was number seven o the list and when they asked what's your top concern, that was number seven. the top concerns were bullying and fighting and drugs. bullying, rahel, i will tell you was the top concern by a lot. it was listed as a top concern

by half of the teachers. so bullying, cyber bullying, that's what has teachers the most worried. rahel? >> tough job. fascinating developments. elizabeth cohen. thank you. john? a first of its kind meeting on ufos now under way. what nasa is revealing to the world right now about the mysteries of the cosmos. whenever you're hungry, there's a deal on the subway app. buy one footlong, get one 50% off in the subway app today. now that's a deal worth celebrating. man, what are you doing?! get it before it's gone on thehe subway app. ♪ i brought in ensure max protein with 30g of protein. those who tried me felt more energy in just two weeks. uh... here i'll take that. -everyone: woo h! ensure max protein with 30 grams protein, one gram of sugar. enter the nourishing moments giveaway for a chance to win $10,000.

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happening now, a nasa task force is holding its first meeting on ufos, public heating,

i should say. ufos or uaps, a group of experts who spent nine months studying the data on these, they are sharing their findings, including, i am told, brand new visdeo. cnn's tom foreman has been watching all the dramatic twists and turns in this hearing. tell us what you have learned. >> can you imagine the excitement, john, when they show ed this video. i want to show it to you now, where it was taken by one plane. they saw against the night sky those three little dots. look at them. they are moving in concert. the airplane that spotted them said we don't know what that is. they tried to chase it down. they could not chase it down. and this was ruled out today. and now, spoiler alert, the scientists studied this and said what this was was three commercial aircraft in a typical flight corridor. the reasons they couldn't chase

them down is they were much further away than they thought. they were simply lit up that way. the movement is the plane taking the pictures over that distance. that's why it looks like they are moving back and forth. their point is to say, there's a lot of stuff out there, which actually can be explained, if you can get enough information. they did say there's some reported character u.s.ices of uaps. this was interesting. this is what people say they saw. they typically say they are round and small. they tend to be white, silver or translucent, between 10 and 30,000 feet in the air, even stationary or twice the speed of sound, and no thermal exhaust. here's the problem with all that. the problem with that is that is largely anecdotal. that's just people saying that's what they saw. or it's being measured with all sorts of crazy instruments out

there. here's what's important. there are a lot of these reports, listen to what was said at this conference about the shear volume of these reports that are coming in. >> at the time of my opening hearing, we were at 650 cases. we roughly get, you can do the math, it depends anywhere from 50 to 100 new reports a month. now the reason we had such a big jump recently is because i got faa's data. so we ended up with 100 new odd cases. the numbers that we see are less than single digit percentages of those. >> so the real issue here that nasa is saying is what we really

need is a plan going forward, a way to systemically take that tremendous amount of information, all those videos and reports, all those claims and somehow subject them to the kind of scientific rigor that nasa is known for. and maybe a lot of this will become explained. but through all of this, nobody is yet saying that the government level that they think any of this is from outer space. maybe advanced weapons systems or travel systems, some of them may be a mystery, but they don't think it's aliens. >> it does sound like this hearing maybe had a little higher dose of skepticism than some of the other speculation. we had that wonderful chart on the screen, where you had the characteristics of these sightings. the last one was no thermal exhaust. i'm wondering if these are electric vehicles. like a tesla has no tail pipe. maybe the martians are use ing evs. >> maybe, maybe. you think they might be a little

more advanced than us because they made it here, we didn't make it there. >> range anxiety. you're right. they wouldn't be able to get this far because of the range issues. >> i will say the skepticism, i don't know if it's conservatism, that these are scientists saying science can explain this stuff, but you can't explain it based on a shaking iphone video that somebody took while camping. you need scientific -- this is why big foot is still missing. >> i'm jumping into this. what do you mean ween can't solve all the questions of the universe on my iphone? >> personally, what they are going to find out, heard this somewhere, they are going to find out that big foot is actually a blurry creature. they are very grainy.

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