positive train control is what it s called. so they will be looking at a number of factors, but they will first and foremost get those black backs, download them and look at the speed and look at any work on the track and where the workers were positioned if there was work going on. got it. appreciate you talking with us. good to see you. thank you very much. thank you. shifting to politics now, this is going to be a make or break week for president biden and his sweeping social agenda. house speaker nancy pelosi has set off a time frame this week to pass the bipartisan infrastructure bill and the president s broader economic spending package. but pelosi faces a family feud within her own party. she sure does. cnn white house reporter kevin liptag joining us now. good morning, kevin. what are you hearing from the white house about what is really a critical make it or break it week ahead?
overwhelmingly populated by latino voters that president biden under performed in last fall and helped hand texas to donald trump. there s a special election in state house district 118 in and around san antonio which is almost 75% latino and that district might give us a window of what is to come next year. one of the candidates in that race, democrat frank ramirez, joins us now a former zoning and planning director in that area, and one of five candidates, three democrats, two republicans, that are vying for that seat. good morning, frank. we appreciate you getting up early to chat with us. let s talk about what could be a trend here. voters in your district delivered president biden a 13-point victory over former president trump in 2020, but you re in a region where biden under performed. he underperformed hillary clinton s 2016 margins and donald trump made significant gains in traditionally democratic parts of south texas,
white house aides say they re keeping their heads down and pushing forward here. the hunt is still on for the elusive compromise between moderate and progressive democrats over that massive social and environmental spending bill that really contains the entirety of president biden s domestic agenda. now there were some minor steps yesterday, the house budget committee did vote to pass the $3.5 trillion social spending bill, but that was really more of a procedural step. that is not going to be the final bill that gets passed, that brings that gets brought to the house floor. even that sort of underscored the tough road ahead. one democrat voted against it in the committee. remember democrats only have a three-vote margin in the house so they cannot afford to lose anyone. behind the scenes, white house aides, top democratic leaders are talking to each other trying to come up with this compromise. president biden is keeping a mostly clear schedule into next week so he can step into t
credit, nutrition, school funding and so on, and without that, this could pose real problems for them next year. yeah. president biden campaigned on democracy working and bipartisanship still being a real thing. we ll keep our eyes on that. nicolas woo, thank you so much. thank you. new york state officials are bracing for health care worker sh shortages as vaccine mandates go into effect tomorrow. the steps local officials are taking to keep the health care system up and running. new documents revealing an fbi informant was in the capitol during the january 6th riot. the real-time information he was able to share and what that means for the cases against the insurrectionists. (calls dog) buttercup. (whines) ohh ohh
there s a gallup poll out showing the president s approval rating at 43%, the lowest it s been thus far in that poll. it appears that biden s political capital is dwindling. is there any hope the democrats can hold on to the house and senate if they don t get this passed? that s really the big question of the hour. it s not just gallup. i looked this morning and the average of polls shows almost half of americans currently disapprove of president biden s job as president. going into the midterms, democrats really see this as a do or die moment to pass all of their big agenda items, the social spending plan, the infrastructure plan, any number of different parts of the biden agenda because as a lot of democrats see it democrats i ve talked to have put it they need something to run on next year. they can t go back to the voters empty handeded and just show that this was just washington politics and stalemate as usual. they want to be able to talk about things like the child tax