the vice president votes in the affirmative and the bill, as amended, is passed. the bill, known as the inflation reduction act, contains the biggest climate investment in u.s. history. it also makes big changes to health care policies. it s headed to the house later this week after enduring more than a year of pain staking debate of more than 15 hours of a vote-a-rama delirium on capitol hill. manu raju is on capitol hill for us. this was once called the build back better agenda for joe biden. he didn t get everything he wanted, but they got a lot of what they initially were going after. how did it get resolved? there was some last-minute drama here. reporter: yeah, this capped more than a year of negotiations within the democratic party. you mentioned the build back better agenda. this is scaled back from this, but still significant in size and scope, dealing with health care, drug prices, climate and energy issues, imposing a new 15% corporate minimum tax that make mor
just in the nomination process, essentially they re to get all 50 senate democrats here. we re looking for them to start this whole process in a matter of hours. the big question mark is when exactly will they do that. we don t quite know. they re waiting on a couple of things. you mentioned the senate parliamentarian. they re using a specialized budget process to move forward. they only need democratic senate support to get it through the senate but in order to use that process they have to make sure, they have to go through the parlia parliamentarian to finish. so they re waiting on a few more rulings from her and also waiting from the congressional budget office on how much some of these provisions will cost and how they will affect the deficit. once they have all that have in place, senate democrats can feel comfortable with a motion to proceed, which is essentially the first vote to kick off what is a very long and tedious process to get this across the finish line. once
out front tonight, china talks were. a top official of the chinese embassy in washington saying today, quote, taiwan as one of the very few issues that might take china and the united states to conflict, or even a war. this, coming soon after the white house summit to china s ambassador to condemn china s military activities near taiwan. activities, of course, that have gone into overdrive since has bicker nancy pelosi s visit to the island this week. today, 60 to chinese aircraft, 13 chinese warships, conducted activities around the taiwan straight. taiwan says 49 of those jets entered its air defense identification zone. chinese china releasing this video showcasing military readiness. showing lines of uniformed troops at the ready. look, this is the latest military propaganda video released by china yesterday, they put up this one, a rocket launch toward taiwan strait. they ve been conducting live fire exercises and they show multiple conventional missile launches. right b
in 2013. i feel a lot of water on the back of my head. reporter: water from the cooling tubes was sleeking into his helmet, and he almost drowned. for a couple of minutes there, maybe more than that, i experienced what it s like to be a gold fish in a fish bowl. reporter: it s a nightmare scenario, according to astronaut garrett reeseman, who became the first space suit engineer at spacex. if you fill the helmet, you can t breathe. and you can t take it off. so you re in a bad, bad place. it got very serious. reporter: nasa has stopped all space walks until the faulty space suit is returned to earth for inspection. even if it s fixed, the underlying problem is that these space suits are decades old, and there s not many left. that big white space suit has
of minutes, i experienced what it s like to be a goldfish in a fishbowl. it s a nightmare scenario according to former nasa astronaut, garrett reeseman who was the first spaceman engineer with spacex. you can t take the helmet off so you re in a bad space. reporter: nasa has stopped all space walks until the faulty space suit is returned to earth later this month for inspection. but even if it s fixed, the underlying problem is these space suits are decades old, and there s not many left. that big white space suit has heritage that goes back to apollo, pre-1975. the helmet is the same as the helmet we wore on the apollo suits. reporter: nasa knows it s a problem. i think it s critical to have a suit that works for everyone.