no longer allow school trip to the yunld citing uncertainty over the president s suspended travel ban. the toronto school district board says it doesn t want students and staff to be turned away at the border. u.s. republicans long promised a plan to repeal and replace obama care, the affordable care act and it s hit a sizable road block. they were forced to pull their own republican bill. the american health care act. when it became clear they didn t have the votes to pass it. paul ryan who played a big part in crafting the legislation spoke franly about the loss. we came really close today, but we came up short. i spoke to the president just a little while ago and i told him that the best thing i think do is to pull the bill and he agreed with that decision. i will not sugarcoat this, this is a disappointing day for us. obamacare will remain the law of the land. my worry is obamacare is going to be getting even worse.
we did not have quite the votes to replace this law and so yeah, we will be living with obamacare for the foreseeable future. reporter: a jarring realization less than 24 hours after the president himself made his final offer, vote now or he s prepared to move on. i think we have to let bomt c.a.r.e. go its way for a little while and we ll see how things go. i d love to see it do well, but it can t. it s not a question of, gee, i hope it does well. i would love to do well. i want great health care for the people of this nation. but it can t do well. items it s imploding and soon it will explode. reporter: democrats taking a victory lap. i think they might have accomplishinged something. i think the mrs. take was that they were so focused on edge bear rasing t embarrassing the affordable care act. reporter: the setback stunning compared to the optimism of the morning.
cnn newsroom starts right now. it is 4:00 a.m. on the u.s. east coast and this was one of president s top priorities, to overturn obamacare. but weeks after negotiations, weeks of revisions, the republican leaders pulled the replacement bill without a vote as they failed to secure enough votes within their own party to pass the bill. no democrats supported the measure and unsurprisingly, the president predicted democrats would ultimately be blamed for not getting rid of the affordable care act when they had a chance. i think the losers are nancy pelosi and chuck schumer because now they own obamacare, 100% own it. and this is not a republican health care, this is not anything but a democrat health care. and they have obamacare for a little while longer until it ceases to exist, which it will at some point in the near future. and just remember, this is not
and it s not just your health we re talking about, but also your wealth. in 2009 before obamacare, medical cost were the reason for 62% of bankruptcies in the united states. most of those people had insurance, just not very good plans. make sure whatever health care plan you purchase that insurance will cover you for the things that you can anticipate, but also for the things you can t. dr. sanjay gupta on cnn digital there. the pentagon is investigating reports that up to 300 civilians were killed in u.s. led air strikes this both syria and iraq. the military coalition has been conducting strikes in an effort to drive out terror groups mainly isis. barbara starr has details from the pentagon. reporter: one of the most widespread allegations that u.s. air strikes this month in mosul, iraq may have caused up to 200 or more civilian deaths. wi what the u.s. military is saying is that they are aware of the
and the devil s in the details as well. so the question is how does he carry on and get his campaign promises approved without the opposition? many merns votamericans voted f because they were fed up with washington and today we just saw more finger pointing and blame being passed around. hardly seems like a new day. trump gave it away yesterday, okay, obamacare, we got to put up with it, let s let the health care system crash and burn. now i ll talk to you about tax cuts. so they will scramble to get through some type of headline legislation about how we ll all get an economic benefit from a wondrous bill, but tax reform is not easy. so they have got quite a road ahead of them and quite some time to fill. and remember, this is in a week when the fbi has confirmed the big story that there is an investigation of russia