rule covering travel costs service members' abortions. and k-pop band bts will continue making music through 2025 as it extends its record deal with music label big hit music. it's thursday, september 21st, 2023. this is the "cbs morning news." breaking overnight, a possible end in sight for the writers strike. the two sides issue a joint statement as talks resume today. what they're saying. a massive wave of attacks. russia launches fiery strikes against ukraine leaving nearly two dozen people dead or wounded. and a banquet fit for a king. france welcomes king charles at versailles for his state visit. the star-studded guest list.

good morning and good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. we start with possible progress in ending the hollywood writers strike. writers and studio executives held talks yesterday. afterward they issued a rare joint statement saying both sides will meet again today. a source for "reuters" says the meeting was attended by the heads of disney, netflix, nbc universal, and warner bros. discovery. people in the room reportedly described the session as, quote, encouraging. cnbc cites sources that say an agreement to end the strike is near and may come as early as today. the writers strike has gone on now for nearly five months. some experts put the economic impact of the writers and actors strike at more than $5 billion. and now to immigration. the biden administration says it's granting temporary legal status to hundreds of thousands of venezuelans here in the u.s., making them eligible to work. the move comes as officials near the southern border say conditions are at a crisis level with tens of thousands of illegal border crossings.

jarred hill is in new york with the latest. >> reporter: good morning. for a while now mayors and governors in places like here in new york have been pressing the white house to figure out a way to speed up the work permit process for migrants so they can support themselves. officials acknowledge this does not fix a much larger problem. overnight the biden administration said it will grant nearly half a million venezuelan migrants temporary protected status. this will give them the ability to live and work in the u.s. legally for 18 months. it applies to those who arrived by the end of july. >> we can't spike the ball, but we have to acknowledge that voices were heard. >> reporter: mayor eric adams and other new york democrats praised the move as cities like his struggle to house the tens of thousands of asylum seekers who have been bussed there. >> it's not immediate. there's a process of filing for it. >> reporter: it comes as the daily number of illegal crossings soared to just over 8,000 this week.

that's according to internal border patrol data obtained by cbs news. that's up from a daily average of 4,300 migrant apprehensions in july. >> yes, we have reached to the point of crisis. >> reporter: john martin says the el paso homeless shelter he runs receives dozens of new migrants every day. >> we work with our partners to see if they have space to be able to defer people to. we simply don't want to say no. >> reporter: border officials closed this entry point at eagle pass, texas, after it was slammed with asylum seekers while at least one mexican rail company halted operations after some migrants were seriously injured or killed after jumping onto trains. the biden administration says it's also sending an additional 800 active duty service members to help with logistics at the border and taking steps to increase deportations. now the white house is also expediting work permit reviews for migrants from a number of other countries including cuba and haiti with

various sets of restrictions for each of those as well as other criteria. and anne-marie, the july 31st cutoff at venezuelans is aimed at discouraging others to enter the u.s. in hopes of the same protected status. >> makes sense. thank you. house republicans grilled attorney general merrick garland for hours on capitol hill yesterday accusing him of weaponizing the justice department. the prosecutions of donald trump and hunter biden were the main tonics of questioning from the judiciary committee. catherine herridge reports from washington. >> reporter: from the outset, the republican-led committee took a combative approach. >> the fix is in. >> reporter: accusing the justice department special counsel investigations of targeting a former president and going easy on the current president and his son. >> there's one investigation protecting president biden. there's another one attacking president trump. >> reporter: in forceful testimony spanning more than five hours, attorney general merrick garland pushed back.

>> i am not the president's lawyer. i will add i am not congress' prosecutor. justice department works for the american people. >> reporter: according to recent closed door testimony, officials told congressional investigators they could not recall david weiss, who has led the probe since 2018, saying he did not have the ultimate authority to charge the president's son. >> do you solemnly swear -- >> reporter: the attorney general disputed the testimony of handwritten notes from an irs whistleblower that weiss claimed he was not the deciding person, insisting to lawmakers that weiss had the final say. >> i'll say again, termination of where to bring cases and which kinds of cases to bring was left to mr. weiss. >> reporter: while republican investigators insist over 20 million in payments from foreign sources to the biden family and their associates, democrats say the probes are politically motivated. >> wasted countless taxpayer dallas on baseless investigations into president biden and his family, desperate

to find evidence for an absurd impeachment. >> reporter: while most of the hearing centered on the special counsel investigation of hunter biden, garland offered no insight into weiss' decision to seek special counsel status more than four years into the case. >> mr. weiss will have an opportunity to explain -- >> reporter: the attorney general made clear that david weiss has the answers to republican questions. the house judiciary committee has been negotiating with the justice department for weeks and wants testimony from weiss october 18th, but a government shutdown could frustrate their efforts to get the special counsel under oath and on the record. catherine herridge, cbs news, washington. air force general c.q. brown will be the next chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. he was confirmed by the senate yesterday in an 83-11 vote. brown will succeed general mark milley when he retires at the end of the month. this confirmation comes as democrats try to maneuver around holds placed on hundreds of nominees by alabama republican senator tommy tuberville over

the pentagon's abortion policy. lawmakers on both sides of the aisle say the holds are causing a national security problem that includes delays in retirements and promotions. and president biden is set to host ukrainian president volodymer zelenskyy at the white house today. his visit comes as russia launched a major attack on kyiv, and at least five other ukrainian cities overnight killing two and injuring nearly two dozen others. the mayor of kyiv says several residential and commercial buildings were damaged. and turning now to the economy. the federal reserve left its key interest rate unchanged after months of hikes meant to bring down inflation. the average rate on a 30-year mortgage remains more than double what it was just two years ago. it has some buyers turning to a surprising source for savings. nancy chen reports. >> reporter: business has still been pretty steady. >> yeah. it has. it's been a pleasant surprise. >> reporter: northern virginia home developer david tracy has been busy despite one of the most challenging markets in

is the market locked up right now? >> yeah. i'd say just anecdotally 60%, 0% is out now. >> reporter: mortgage rates have recorded above 7% for five straight weeks. last week stalling demand to its lowest level 27 years. would-be sellers want to keep their low locked in rates living prospective buyers with few options. >> the pickings are slim, and now it's getting less and less. >> reporter: one way to increase supply, build more. with the pace of new home sales up 31.5% from a year ago. >> maybe it's a little bit more expensive on the front end, but new construction shouldn't need any new capital improvements. >> reporter: builders offering mortgage rate buy-downs are drawing in first-time buyers. >> a builder can say i will help you pay for your mortgage for the first, name the number of years, i will give you almost like a bonus incentive to buy my hose. i'll buy that mortgage interest rate down for some period of

time. >> reporter: 75% of home builders are offering some type of rate incentive. >> our mortgage rate buy-down is a good idea. >> they can be a helpful way to get into a home, but you better rely on the fact that you can afford that original mortgage interest rate of, say, 7%, when the period of the buy-down expires. >> reporter: while the fed skipped a rate hike it will be meeting again in november. officials do project another rate increase this year to help curb inflation. nancy chen, cbs news, new york. coming up, officers on trial. two colorado cops face charges in the death of elijah mcclain. close call, a fire spreads dangerously close to a gas station. this is the "cbs morning news." " i'm walt. i have relelapsing ms and a a lot going on. thatat's why my y doctor and i chosose kesimptata. kesimpta is s different.t. it's t the only b-b-cell treatt

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