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the d.c. police department has now said the truck is safe the investigation is ongoing a fake emergency in d.c. spooked twitter and the markets on monday. this fake image here claiming to show an explosion near the pentagon briefly went viral on twitter and pushed by a variety of verified accounts the fake picture, which does not even show a building matching anything around, anything like that around pentagon seems to have been first shared by an account that also posted about conspiracy theories. it was also shared by russia's official propaganda outlet the claim was quickly debunked by the arlington, virginia fire department, but the stock market dropped sharply while that photo was amplified and would later recover the losses as the number of days for taking action on the debt the dr ceiling drops into the single

digits, what's likely to be the issue this week? >> reporter: with every day that passes, the window for the government to take action on the debt ceiling shrinks in a letter to house speaker mccarthy monday, janet yellen once again reiterated the hard deadline of june 1st for the u.s. running out of money to pay its bills. yellen also warned mccarthy of several other consequences if congress fails to raise the debt ceiling, including severe hardship to american families. on monday, mccarthy once again sat down with president biden to continue their negotiations on raising the debt ceiling while the meeting ended without a concrete deal, both men said that the day's session was productive here's what mccarthy had to say upon returning to capitol hill >> i think the productive part was who was in the room. narrowing where we're talking, we're not talking over each other. we're not saying oh, let's bring something new into the discussion, let's not talk about

praisin raising taxes, that's been off for a long time. we literally talked about where we were having disagreements and ideas. >> reporter: and president biden did not speak to the press but echoed similar sentiments in a statement, adding that talks between negotiators for the two sides would continue >> and brie, do we know what some of the sticking points are that are preventing a deal from being hashed out >> reporter:o mccarthy and republicans are really focussed on spending or reducing government spending. that was the focus of the bi that they passed through the house at the end of april, that raised the debt ceiling in exchange for a number of spending cuts. prior to monday's meeting, mccarthy ruled out cuts to military spending in order to reduce the deficit, saying that putting america in jeopardy is quote, off the t the take. the prtable. the president, when asked if

spending could break the stalemate said that would not be enough >> brie, thank you the field of republicans running for president now includes senator tim scott during his campaign launch, the south carolina lawmaker described himself as someone who could win over people on both sides of the aisle our tom llamas asked scott about his primary rival, former president trump. >> what will you offer voters that former president trump will not? >> well, the question is, i'm running for president, period. i plan to win. so the question is, what do the voters want? th in their president? >> mr. trump wished scott luck and called him a quote, big step up from ron desanctimonious, a dig at florida governor ron desantis who is expected to formally enter the race this week democrat tom carper announced on monday that he would not be seek ago fing a fi

term as senator from delaware. he is the fourth democratic senator to announce that they would not be seeking reelection, joining a group that includes maryland's ben cardin, dianne feinstein and debbie stabenow. while no candidates have dec declared for his seat, he quickly threw his support behind lisa blunt rochester nebraska governor signed a 12-week ban on abortion that goes into effect immediately and restricts gender affirming care for those under 19 starting in october. the aclu says the bans will result in significant harm, hurting already-vulnerable communities. pope francis has dispatched a top sex crimes investigator to bolivia. it centers around jesuit

priests, an order to wit pope himself belongs. let's go live to chapman bell. what do we know about theis scandal? >> reporter: this is just yet here child abuse scandal involving the catholic church. this time in bolivia, and the leading member of the vatican's dicastery for the doctrine of faith, very trusted by pope francis, arriving in bolivia from paraguay where he been investigating similar allegations and had been involved in allegations in chile just a few years ago so well firsversed in investiga these types of crimes, arriving on the same day as a jesuit seminarian who said he was going to let out more information around this scandal.

now this investigator very trusted by pope francis on these matters, and he's there to investigate alleged abuse by a former jesuit priest who deceased back in 2009. allegations of abuse from 85 minors who were at a catholic boarding school in the country in the '70s and '80s so big allegations,and yet onc again another child abuse scandal for the catholic church to deal with >> chapman, on the whole, how has pope francis been dealing with the problem of sex abuse in the catholic church? >> well, phillip, he had come under scrutiny a few years ago about how he was dealing with these allegations, which has been an ongoing issue with the catholic church for many, many years, but in 2019 he vowed to tackle what he called the destructive evil of child sex abuse. where he decreed it compulsory for members of the catholic

church and religious organizations to report any suspicion of abuse within their jurisdiction or areas and holding bishops to accountable now last year he took that even further, updating rules to include lay leaders within the catholic church in the scope of these investigations while, so while there's some who say he's not doing enough, others say he's done more than many others in trying to tackle these allegations, particularly historical allegations like the one currently in bolivia, where prosecutors have opened an investigation, phillip >> a major problem that has been plaguing the church for years now, chapman, thank you. israel has made some fresh accusations against iran, claiming that the islamic republic is using krcivilian shs as quote, floating terror bases. the claim came at a security

conference in israel during the speech, images were shown of what they say were six iranian repurposed vessels with military personnel and equipment from the revolutionary guard corps. we should note that the authenticity of the pictures have not been independently verified he said that israeli air force strikes against iranian targets have doubled since he took office last year all three he did not provide numbers. iran has not commented on the claims authorities in guiana are investigating were arson led to a fire in a dormitory that killed at least 19 students. the fire broke out on sunday evening and is being called a horrific incident by the south american nation's president. the ap reports that all but one of the victims were indigenous girls. while officials are claiming that the fire was maliciously set, they did not provide further details or evidence that

pr point point arson three states will conserve 3 million acres of water unexpected heavy snow this winter prevented the worst scenario 60,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate went missing last month. the chemic, which is used both as an explosive and as fertilizer, was aboard a union pacific rail car when it was lost a spokesperson for the federal railroad administration said union pacific's initial findings suggest the component of the rail car led to the chemicals leaking out. union pacific said in a statement, if it was a leak, the public and environment shouldn't be at risk of the chemical heavy rains are sticking around this week let's check in with michelle

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