all 50 senate democrats supported the bill with vice president harris casting the tie-breaking vote. the bill will now head to the house to where democrats also hold a razor-in majority. what does this mean for the next steps? let s get right to chad pergram live on capitol hill with the details. reporter: arthel, a political high wire act. all 50 democrats sticking together and then leaning on vice president harris to break the tie to pass a touchstone of president biden s legislative agenda. the yeas are 50, the nays are 50. the senate being equally divided, the vice president votes in the affirmative, and the bill as amended is passed. [cheers and applause] reporter: the senate began voting at is 1:30 last night, finally approving bill after 16 hours and 38 consecutive roll call votes. it s been a long, tough and winding road, but at last, at last we have arrived. i know it s been a long day and a long night, but we ve gotten it done. today, after more than a year
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Appears to show the other hostage dead. But the post was reportedly deleted quickly and a website affiliated with the Islamic State group disagree about whether the message is authentic. Japanese officials are working to verify the video and they call it outrageous and unforgiven. John huddy is covering this from the middle east newsroom. What do you have . Reporter well, yeah, arthel u. S. Intelligence officials are trying to authenticate the video. Look, its hard to look at it and in particular its also hard to listen to. Now, take a look one more time at it. It shows 47yearold freelance journalist kenji goto what appears to be a picture of the beheaded body of contractor haruna yukawa. We blurred that picture out because obviously its too graphic. Now, the video has an audio track of a man claiming to be kenji goto imploring shinzo abe to accept isis new demand, a prisoner swap. Goto in exchange for a woman named a sajida al rishawi. The Japanese Foreign ministers have been in jorda
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