we continue to follow this event. athe athe athena, are you still there? reporter: i m still here. congress john lewis, of course, civil rights icon. this is someone who took part in the march, known as bloody sunday in 19 65 from selma to montgomery to fight for voting rights. this someone who is a chairman on s.n.i.c.k., the youngest speecher in the march on washington. someone like john lewis has seen america come a long way. hang on for a second. you re talking about congressman lewis. i want to note, this is jasper johns, american artist, produced a number of distinguished bodies of work dealing with perception and identity in the mid 1950s. and this is, we are watching now, receive this great honor. go ahead. reporter: i was saying certainly john lewis is someone who has seen this country come a long way in terms of civil rights. obama would say he represents, he owes a debt to people like
we don t know if they got away on a raft or where they are. the coast guard continues to look for them. tom, tom fowler, hang on for a second. let s go to reynolds wolf and he ll tell us a bit about the area that we re talking about? we ll take you in there. let s zoom into parts of the louisiana coast. and, ali, you re actually very familiar with this area. you were actually in this region back during hurricane gustav. we ll go a little bit more to the southeast of that region. this is the location of the oil rig site. just to give our viewers the bit of perspective, we always need this perspective, this is mind-boggling. with the exxon valdez 257,000 barrels of oil dumped into the gulf of alaska. in this situation, 336,000, so this is something that surpasses even that instant that took place a while ago. again, the valdez incidence. an amazing thing to watch. something we re watching carefully is the weatherwise in this region as they try to stem the oil across parts of the gu
expand coverage, better options, better care, help bring down the deficit, the republicans don te have a counter argument. you re saying the ends justify the means. if i may i want to bring this if i may. senator byrd, the person who developed this reconciliation concept, a democrat, says this is an inappropriate way to use it. don t argue with me, argue with your own senator. gentlemen, hang on for a second. wasn t to fast forward this conversation with the time we have. chris, it is now down to the democrats. it is now about the democrats trusting those in the house trusting those in the senate. it s clear from what david is saying, other republicans are saying they are out. now this is about the democrats. can they do it? i think they can do it. to be even more brutal about it, they have to. at the end of the day, this is no longer about gathering republican votes, this is simply about getting democrats who may be on the fence to support it. i think clearly what happ
plus students. tammy lightener, who has covered this story so ably all day long, thanks very much for staying up with us tonight. we want to turn now to jim guard. he s a math teacher at marjorie stone ham douglas high school in parkland, florida. jim, we re so happy to have you with us in more ways than one. walk us through your experience today, starting with the first you heard something was wrong. well, we had i just finished reviewing for a test with the kids, and about 2:20 or so we had the fire alarm went off which was unusual because we had just had a fire drill today at about 9:30 or so. so, i told the kids, wait, hang on for a second here before we go out. it may have been something accidental, something burned or what have you. so, we opened the door and our administrator got on and sad
well, he is in this case. circumstances in which or would have been. there are circumstances in which a director should not answer that question to the president. let me ask you about the whole question of the campaign and the possible collusion with the russians. where s that stand? the trump possible collusion with the russians since they were trying to get him elected. we had asked director comey to let us know if the fbi was looking into that before we started today s hearings. because we can t be in a position where the executive branch is saying, steer clear of our criminal investigations, have to go forward without impediment by congressional investigations but at the same time, not confirm that there are, in fact, executive branch investigations taking place. so we need an answer to that question as chairman graham mentioned today, they ve offered us a classified answer to that question in a week or so and i guess we should hear them out for the life of me, i ca