General rules when it comes to breaking bad news: Don't put it off, don't pass it off to someone else and don't let your emotions get the better of you.
That relationship probably can't get worse it was actually breakingnews this week that the president picked up a phone and called a Republican senator but it's not good to see no possibility of repair.
That account provides only brief updates about breakingnews, therefore CNN doesn't send a lot of alerts -- just those for major events the network believes its audience will want to know.