across the country. and democrats in a race against the recess, trying to pass president biden s key agenda items with the midterm elections looming. how much can congress get done? we re grateful that you are starting your week with us, bright and early this sunday, july 31st. good morning, sarah. good morning to you, boris. great to be with you. we begin today with an update to the ongoing weather emergency in kentucky. the death toll there continues to rise as search and rescue crews make their way through flooded areas and we are expecting yet another round of heavy rain and flash flooding today. at least 25 people are confirmed dead. it is still hard to get the exact number of missing with one local mayor calling the death toll only the tip of the ic iceberg. complicating the response, rushing waters washed away roads and destroyed bridges making search and rescue efforts all the more difficult. i m worried we re going to be finding bodies for weeks to come.
hello, hello, everyone. it is sunday, august 7th. thank you for waking up with us. it is so good to be with you, phil. i m just curious how much compassion and empathy you have for manu right now, who i thought would be walking around like a zombie. i have none. and i m going to tell you why. i have no compassion or empathy for manu right now. he somehow manages to look good at 6:00 a.m. and 7:00 a.m. after an all nighter when the rest of us having gone through a dozen or so of these at this point in time i looked like a zombie walking through the halls. and it is very frustrating that manu has the ability to do this and, frankly, i m opposed to him and it. no jealousy there at all. reporter: hours. i know. we ll get to manu in a second. up first, senate democrats, as we said, they re pulling that all nighter. so is manu. they moved closer to final passage of the sweeping climate and healthcare bill. right now, senators are nearing their eighth straight hour of cons
home. the wall street journal reports the attorney general merrick garland deliberated for weeks over whether to approve that fbi search. separately, sources tell cnn that trump white house lawyer eric herschmann has been subpoenaed by a federal grand jury investigating the insurrection. and in a separate investigation, georgia prosecutors have told rudy giuliani he is a target of a criminal probe into election interference. and in yet another investigation, long time trump organization cfo allen weisselberg is expected to plead guilty in a tax evasion case. let s get to it, let s begin with katelyn polantz on the news out of the justice department this morning. so, what are you hearing from the justice department about this request to unseal the affidavit? reporter: the justice department does not want to unearth a lot more detail about what is going on here in that prompted the search of mar-a-lago and what is under criminal investigation here. in a court filing yeste
track to pass a major part of the biden administration. it would represent the largest climate investment in u.s. history and make big changes to healthcare policy. republicans are fighting gagaint it right now, but it appears that all 50 democrats are on the same page. si sinema offered her support this week. jessica dean is on capitol hill for us. we ve learned there has been some pretty serious movement. i guess getting this ball down the field. what s happened? absolutely. get it rolling. this is breaking news that we ve just gotten in the last five minutes or so. that is that we have bill text and we have a ruling or the congressional budget office has come back and said this is all good, that they can move forward. so now what we re expecting is for chuck schumer to go to the senate floor and make some remarks and begin this first step. they re using a special budget process. the first step will be a motion to receive that requires just a simple majority. all 50 senat
failed the country. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom. we now know why fbi agents searched former u.s. president donald trump s mar-a-lago home and we re learning details about some of the items they took. according to a warrant unsealed friday, agents were looking for evidence of possible crimes including potential violations of the espionage act related to the gathering, loss or destruction of u.s. defense information. property receipts also unsealed on friday reveals that fbi agents recovered 11 sets of classified documents including several marked top secret. they also seized several photo binders, information about the president of france and a document about pardoning roger stone, a staunch trump ally convicted of lying to congress. we explain what the unsealed documents tell us about the ongoing investigation. reporter: on friday a federal court in florida released seven pages of documents that represent that unprecedented search and seizure that took