fredericka -- >> you're kidding? oh, that's funny.osed and you were making that same commute or at least your destination, your starting point and destination were about the same, how much a difference in that commute time wise would it have been? >> reporter: well, that's of course a guess. and this is what's so funny about los angeles' freeways. they're so whimsical. i've never had it where there wasn't just one accident or one issue of some sort that snarled traffic. it just doesn't happen that way unless, you know, you're that family coming back from disneyland and you -- >> oh, well. well -- there he is. >> reporter: not crowded at all, but every thoroughfare that we took -- okay. you broke up a little, fredericka, thank you. >> all right, paul, thanks so much, appreciate it. and technology's an amazing thing. we're able to get that signal for a pretty good amount of time during his commute there between burbank and long beach. we'll try and check in later to see how the air travel is going, as well. >>> all right, so libya, syri

. >>> you're in the cnn newsroom this sunday, july 10th, i'm fredericka whitfield. with the final edition of britain's "news of the world" on the stands rupert murdoch arrived in london today. his company's british subsidiary closed it after news that they hacked the phone of a teenager who was dead. >>> a strong earthquake rocked japan's northeastern quake. today's 7.1 tremor prompted tsunami add advisories later canceled. there are no reports of injuries or damage. >>> china no longer a rising world power. instead china has arrived. those words today from the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff admiral mike mullen in beijing in a four-week visit. china's growing military strength comes with an obligation to the world. >> greater military power must come greater responsibility, greater cooperation and just as important, greater transparency. without these things the expansion of military power in your region rather than making it more secure and stable, could have the opposite effect. >> this china trip is one of admiral mullen's final acts as joint chiefs chairm

but the question continues to remain, fredericka and it's the same question that we're all asking and will need to be answered soon is how do they thread the needle here, some kind of middle of the road, some kind of tweak to reid's bill or a tweak to boehner's bill that will be powerful enough to get enough republicans on board in the chamber to pass through congress and get it on the president's desk. that question remains open, it remains unanswered. but right now we're hearing that conversations are happening and one nithing that i took away fr the press conference and from a senators we have talked to off of the floor, is there a level of assurance that they are very dedicated to avoiding the problem of what will happen come august 2. that seems to be one assurance, but the fact of the matter is we're ticking, ticking, ticking up against that deadline and they have not reached the compromise that is sot critical. >> mitch mcconnell, underscoring there, saying the country will not default. while both have said, boehner and mitchell, they're unclear about what kind of plan will go

. >>> you're in the cnn newsroom, i'm fredericka whitfield. for murder defendant casey anthony it comes down to this holiday weekend in an orlando court today, attorneys for the state are making their final arguments to convict anthony of killing her 2-year-old girl, anthony's attorney meantime is asking jurors to judge the case on fact not emotion. david mattingly is at the courthouse in orlando. where do we stand right now? >> reporter: we're still listening to the defense. they are expected to resume after a lunch break. we've already heard this morning from the prosecution then laying out what they believed happened in this case and they say that casey anthony murdered her daughter, sacrificed her so that casey could live the care free life she wanted to live. listen. >> as hard as it is for anyone to imagine she had to choose between two sacrificing two things, the first was her dreams and life she wanted. second, was her child. i would submit to you the evidence in this case shows that the choice she made was her child. >> reporter: reme

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>> hey, fredericka, yeah, we were a little too busy to watch jeter's 3,000th hit.had five hits and five at-bats. my producer is all excited. he's a big yankees fan. the folks out -- absolutely, absolutely. the folks on board the shuttle are actually racing toward their rendezvous with the international space station and that will of course happen tomorrow. today they spent a good bit of the day going over and inspecting the leading edges of the space shuttle's wings just in case there was any damage while they were on assent from perhaps debris or foam falling off the giant external tank, doesn't appear there was any, which is certainly all good news to hear that. so they did that and as i said, now they're racing toward that rendezvous with the space station. >> that's incredible, so that should happen tomorrow and this will be the last time anybody sees this kind of rendezvous. >> reporter: right. >> will it be any different than what question have be what we have been able to see in the past? >> when they rendezvous, before they dock, the shuttle itself is going

i say yes, and they say where's fredericka?'ll see you at the top of the hour. >>> look at our top stories right now. attorneys for arizona shooting suspect jared loughner will keep fighting his forced medication, they have appealed a federal judge's decision wednesday and in that ruling the judge deferred to prison doctors medical judgment that loughner needs medication to control his schizophrenia. >>> 235 counties are under burn bans, only 19 counties are not. local governments are clamping down on illegal fire works and they're even discouraging people from grilling. >>> and maria shriver is ending her 23-year marriage. this comes more than a month after arnold schwarzenegger admitted to having an affair and a son with their housekeeper. to 55 million more americans, many in small towns and rural communities, giving them a new choice. we'll deliver better service, with thousands of new cell sites... for greater access to all the things you want, whenever you want them. it's the at&t network... and what's possible in here is

. >>> you're in the cnn newsroom, i'm fredericka whitfield at the world headquarters in atlanta. a dramatic day in washington as republicans and democrats race to keep the government from faulting. a new debt limit deal is in the works this after senate republicans blocked a move by democrats to vote on harry reid's debt limit plan earlier today. >> on this vote the as or 50 and neys are 59. the three fifths of the senators chosen, the motion is not agreed to. >> the final vote 50/249. they are now focusing on refining a deal after hashing out -- sources close to the -- tell us it's a $3 trillion package. here's what the top republican told political analyst gloria borger on cnn's state of the union. >> for the first time in 235 year history, we're not going to have job killing taxes in it. we'll deal with a problem the american people sent us to deal with. we don't think we have this problem because we've been taxing too little. we've been spending too much. i think we're very close to being in a position where hopefully i can recommend to my members they take a serious look and

but fredericka, it's so hot out there, i think a lot of people are indoors. >> good advice for them to indoors, right? thanks a lot, bonnie. appreciate that. >>> time for a cnn equals politics update. keeping an eye on all the politics at the cnn.com desk and here's what's crossing right now. >>> the u.s. is one day closer to missing the deadline to pay its bills and no talks scheduled for this weekend. in the president's weekly address this morning, he told listeners neither party in washington is blameless for the stalemate. the sarah palin documentary, "the undefeated" opened friday. distributors put the film in just ten theaters. mostly in conservative areas like orange county, california, and dallas, texas. atlantic magazine is reporting the film played to a near empty theater in southern california. it did much better in dallas where the dallas "star telegram" reports one show sold out. and michele bauchmann may have entered the gop presidential race late in the game, but she's managing to raise more dough than most of her competitors. bauchmann is reporting contributions totalin

i'm fredericka whitfield. "your money" starts right now. >>> who gets paid and who doesn't? that's the question that treasury secretary tim geithner may be forced to answer if the debt ceiling is not raised by next month. welcome to "your money." i'm ali velshi. what is it? chaos, catastrophe? no one can say for certain what's going to happen if the debt ceiling isn't raised. the prevailing thought is that those who hold u.s. debt, bond investors would be paid first to keep america from defaulting on loan payments, payments we use to keep the engine of our economy running. what about everybody else? according to the bipartisan policy center, it would be impossible to keep paying for all of the most popular and important programs that you rely on. that means possible reductions or delays to social security, medicare, medicaid, food stamps, maybe checks to federal workers, some combination of the above. jean sahadi is with us. every week we layout a confusing scenario and jean helps us make sense of it. what is likely to happen if we hit this deadline without a deal to raise t