this comes as covid funding is running out, if congress doesn t pass a new bill, federal programs that fund testing, treatment and vaccines will start expiring next week. norah. o donnell: meg oliver, thank you so much. well, there s shocking new details tonight in the head-on ( crashing sounds ) in texas that killed nine peoplr oach. officials said today behind the wheel of the pickup that swerved into the teen s van was a 13-year-old boy, killed along with an adult male passenger in the pickup. investigator say the pickup was riding on a spare tire that blew out before impact. turning to eye on america and a growing problem facing millions of americans, so-called food desserts. grocery stores in many areas are closing. janet shamlian reports on what some rural communities are doing to feed themselves. reporter: unlike in grocery store in rural america,
senator richard blumenthal, thank you very much for joining us. thank you. president biden hits the road in an effort to jump-start his currently stalled agenda warning the u.s. could lose its edge if congress doesn t pass his infrastructure plan. i ll speak with the former presidential candidate andrew yang, there you see him, who just announced he s leaving the democratic party and starting his own. we ll discuss when we come back. before we talk about tax-smart investing, what s new? -well, audrey s expecting. -twins!
deployed here to help those in florida, georgia, south carolina, north carolina and into virginia if need be. lars, the trump administration is transferring a total of $155 million from the fema relief fund to immigration and customs enforcement along the southern border. do you think that s going to have an effect on our government s ability to respond to this hurricane? you know, i don t think it s going to have an immediate impact. it s not the way we want to do business. i think the danger of it in the long run is in terms of people are expecting this storm to cost billions and billions of dollars. if congress doesn t pass additional authorizing additional money, those funds are going to run out. if you think about we have folks from houston, from irma that are still in recovery from storms two years ago, and the funding won t be there for those folks by transferring the money out of this fund. the money won t be there for those folks. so i think in the long run, this
big issues like tax reform? well, health care was different. health care, there was a real schism in our party over it and that included expanded entitlements, and with tax reform, there s a belief by almost every republican tax reform is needed, and you need to create jobs here rather than ship jobs overseas and we need a new tax law, and there s an interest there, and we are in survival politics where basically if the congress doesn t pass something soon that is substantive, and tax reform is the best vehicle and the only show in town now, they will all be in trouble. all republicans will inbound trouble in the next election. i think the survival politics overwhelms the tit for tat that is going on for president and some senators. seurvival politics, that s catchy, and i follow your drift
he s pretty candid about the relief a lot of people feel here but they also understand as much as they want to trust that the russians will be able to work this out with the u.s. and then of course, more broadly at the u.n. they re not entirely sure this is not going to come right back into their lap. wolf? so do they get back to some domestic agenda issues during this pause right now? they ve got to fish the spending bill by the end of this month, a debt ceiling they ve got to raise next month. other issues like immigration reform. what s going to happen as far as that domestic agenda is concerned? already yesterday afternoon, there was talk in the hall about an energy bill which we hadn t heard at all discussed. anything of that ilk, you know, since congress came back or when they were on recess. of course, the big issue is that this is what we thought we were going to be talking about all of september, and that is the deadline for the government to run out of money at the end of