just minutes ago the coast guard telling me they are looking into the possibility that one of these massive ships anchors dragged that pipeline. whatever it was, it must have been enormous to have pulled that concrete incased pipeline, a mile-long section of it, nearly. that is the coast guard also telling me they are expecting that oil to continue to move southward, all the way to san diego county. david? all right, matt gutman there in long beach tonight. matt, thank you. now to president biden in michigan today, making his case on his infrastructure bill and on the larger bill that includes paid family leave, early education, pre-k and expanding health care for seniors. and tonight, signs that there has been some movement here. the progressives and moderate senator joe manchin appearing to get closer on a price tag. here s our chief white house correspondent cecilia vega tonight. reporter: president biden today taking his sales pitch on the road, hoping to sell his sweeping do
thank you. well, we ll see. day by day. cecilia live at the white house tonight. and cecilia, as you know, both sides have indicated in their own ways here that they want to pass these bills. it would seem at this point it s now about getting to a number they can agree on. reporter: it is exactly that, david. and the president is expected to hold more negotiations with members of congress in the coming days. but in the bottom line on that number, david, it s not going to be the $3.5 trillion that president biden wanted. the big question tonight, what stays in this final plan and what goes? today, david, the president wouldn t say where his red line is. all right, cecilia, thank you. next tonight here, gabby petito s family speaking out. what they have to say to brian laundrie tonight. and then laundrie s own sister now talking to abc news about her brother and about her parents. here s victor oquendo. reporter: tonight, nearly three weeks into the all-out manhunt for brian la
senate in recent years, democrats joined them three times to raise the debt ceiling. now nearly 98% of the current debt was accrued before president biden took office, including nearly $7.8 trillion during the trump administration. and tonight, the situation remains a stalemate. so it is possible that the u.s. will not pay its debts. that is possible. i can t believe that that will be the end result, because the consequences so dire. i don t believe that. but can i guarantee it? if i could, i would. but i can t. reporter: now senate democrats have scheduled a vote for later this week, but they need ten republicans to get onboard, and right now, they do not have those votes. october 18th is the actual deadline, but the treasury secretary has issued a dire warning about waiting in the last minute to do this. she said that could have ainci rkvid,et fanal david? cecilia, thank you. we re going to turn now to that exclusive interview with the woman known as baby roe.
trillion was added to the debt. here s our chief white house correspondent cecilia vega tonight. reporter: with just two weeks until the u.s runs out of money to pay its bills, president biden today sounding the alarm, saying if that happens, it would be like a meteor crashing into the economy. it starts with the simple truth. the united states is a nation that pays its bills and always has. from its inception, we have never defaulted. reporter: the president warning of dire consequences. interest rates would soar and stock prices would plunge, sending markets into free fall. military salaries frozen. social security benefits on hold. millions of jobs lost. congress has until october 18th to raise the debt ceiling, but republicans refuse to budge. senate minority leader mitch mcconnell today sending a letter to president biden saying democrats are on their own. the majority needs to stop sleep-walking toward yet another preventable crisis. reporter: but when republicans contr
federal custody. hundreds held for ten days or longer. that s far longer than the legal timeframe. and tonight, a first look inside one of the crowded facilities, this facility here in donna, texas, seen in a photo taken over the weekend and shared by democratic congressman henry cuellar. journalists have not been allowed in. tonight, the biden administration still refusing to call this a crisis. our martha raddatz asking the new secretary of homeland security, why wasn t there a plan for this coming into this administration? and our cecilia vega tonight, right there on the border. what she witnessed first-hand. she reports now from mcallen, texas, tonight. reporter: tonight, a first look inside this severely overcrowded tent facility on the southern border. the biden administration not allowing journalists in, but these pictures taken over the weekend and released by democratic congressman henry cuellar show migrants, many of them unaccompanied minors, on the floor in cramped pods.