morning. they are a christian band. they have been here before. we welcome them back. they sing holy water. many of you know what that is. if you are downloading some of their music, they sing a beautiful version i found it on youtube the bills of god, famous song a lot of nondenominational songs sing. their version of it is to beautiful. steve: we know a lot of people signed up for it. if you didn t get the v.i.p. tickets, you could still come down to 48th and sixth avenue. ainsley: we will be out there. we would love to see you. brian: scandalous at all. steve: bootleg tickets? ainsley: i haven t heard that it has been. we have very honest fans. brian: look. steve: a jeweler loop? ainsley: why would you go to the counter of making a counterfeit ticket sign up for v.i.p. ticket and it s free. steve: think ahead. in addition to the ticket to come and stand there on the astro turf to watch this group you get free this morning the mclemores from master built a
temperatures. plus escalating tensions between israel and gaza militants. the most violent in over a year. we ll go live to southern israel for the latest. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom. with lynda kinkade. we begin in washington, d.c. where a marathon voting session is currently under way in the u.s. senate. democrats are hoping to push through a sweeping healthcare climate and tax bill that tackles some of the key policy objectives. first, they have to clear one more procedural hurdle, what is known as a vote-a-rama, a series of back-to-back amendment votes with no time limit. the bill is ultimately expected to pass, then head to the u.s. house for a vote. cnn s jessica dean reports. reporter: senate democrats are pushing through midway through this complex budget process that will allow them to pass legislation focused on climate, healthcare and some tax provisions with just the senate democrats voting. they will not need senate republicans. but
we do expect their gaveling in as we speak and we do expect to see them at some point in the next many hours to move forward with this democrat s climate and tax and health care bill. we ll see them gavel in and then there will be a vote on a nomination, to get all of the senators here. behind the scenes, because democrats are using this very specific budget process that required all 50 of the democratic senators support but has to go through the senate parliamentarian to make sure it meets the rules and could pass muster to be included in this bill. so the parliamentarian is continuing to rule on this as we speak. she s making her way through yowl of these provisions. just earlier today, we learned that the bulk of what they wanted with medicare being able to negotiate drug prices for the first time is remaining in the bill. the parliamentarian did strike a smaller provision on caps for medicine and the private sector that democrats wanted to put a cap on medication, that t
bertran. good morning. what is the president doing right now? i know that he said some words just a short time ago. reporter: yeah, good morning, laura, so right now the president is meeting with members of the north atlantic council which is the main political and policy making body of nato. and of course in that meeting is turkey. and one of the biggest diplomatic achievements of this entire summit has been turkey s dropping of its opposition to sweden and finland actually joining the alliance, obviously something that has been the main topic of conversation over the last two days is the expansion of nato. so that will obviously be discussed. the president met with erdogan yesterday and praised him for allowing this bid by sweden and finland to move forward to join the alliance. so they will be discussing all of this. of course the enhanced force posture that the united states is providing to nato, providing to europe am mid the russian invasion of ukraine and the threat
failed and said i can do better than that. marks get set on this episode, you re about to find out all the reasons you can t do better than that. woo! for a touchdown, a sharpshooter from the midcourt. we re looking at the spirit of america. i grew up resenting sports. when you re a black kid who everybody knows is going to be over six feet tall, every conversation goes to you play basketball. i only did in eighth grade. i went the whole season without scoring a point, like dennis rodman, but without the rebounding and hair. when i lived in chicago, i discovered michael jordan. now i m the guy who quotes the last dance like it s a new book of the bible. i took it personally. but that s the thing about sports. we often take it personally. i m somehow a grown man who hates adults for no good reason. john starks! sports give us a place to unload all of our unchecked f-u on everybody, from little leaguers to hall of famers. and if there is one city that revels in