hunger strike to pressure holdout senators like joe manchin. by the end, they had to be carted around on wheelchairs. their bodies were so weak, several were eventually hospitalized after not eating anything for two straight weeks. that action by those young members of the sunrise movement was just one part of a much larger series of protests that we have seen, not just from climate activists, but from all sorts of different people urging lawmakers to pass the president's agenda, specifically to pass this build back better bill. when democratic senator joe manchin is in washington, he lives on a yacht, which he likes to call a houseboat. you might remember our coverage from september, a group of activists from his home state of west virginia paddled up to senator manchin's yacht in their own kayaks. they called they must kay-activists. they said support build back better and don't sink our bill. they caused enough of a stir they eventually got senator