let s take you to capitol hill, live pictures of the full senate voting on mick mulvaney, the president s pick for budget director. he s had a tough road getting here, john mccain very vocally saying he will not vote for him, but according to our manu raju, he will have enough votes to be confirmed as budget director. strikes across the country today marking what has been called a day without immigrants. immigrants are skipping work, cutting class, not shopping across a half dozen states. they want to show how important immigrants are to the u.s. economy. cnn s tom foreman outside a pizzeria in washington, dc that is closed today. tom, what are you seeing? reporter: yeah, hi john, hi poppy. what we re seeing is that there is support for this movement, at least at places like this. you see a sign on the door, saying we ll be closed today in
bucket. it s the right thing to do. you remember that john avlon? cnn political analyst and editor in chief of the daily beast. seriously, that s the first thing i thought of yesterday when i saw this climate proposal announced was here we go. bucket yeah. poppy, i mean this has been an extraordinary fourth quarter of a presidency. traditionally fourth quarters of presidencies are considered lame duck times. that s been the stereotype that a lot of predecessors have been laden with but this president has decided to throw that idea off and seems liberated to pursue a lot of progressive agenda items he had been restrained from doing when he or his party were facing re-election. and these range from cuba to this ambitious action on climate change. the question will be as you see the heat he s taking the fight he s going to face not only the political fights but the legal
the senate and their constituency expects them to set the agenda. planned parenthood for its part is in the position of defending itself along with a lot of the pro-abortion forces and planned parenthood pointing out that it s mainly contraception that that organization does only 3% of their services are directed to abortion clients. at the bottom line this is the type of situation that you re going to hear a lot more about here on capitol hill simply because we re moving into an election year. there s also the question of whether those 18 republicans in the house along with people like ted cruz over in the senate side can push this thing very far once we get down to the issue of funding for the government at the end of september. expect to hear a lot more of it. there s not a lot of hope here that this thing is going to pass tonight, poppy. and will this ultimately lead to a fight over another potential government shutdown?
any leads at this time? reporter: a person of interest was brought in custody sometime yesterday afternoon. he was said to be the driver of that car. we don t know the relationship between wilbourn and the driver but shortly after the driver was released from questioning, that they named 29-year-old tremaine wilbourn as the suspect. no charges have been 2350i8d against filed against the driver. police need your help finding this man. if you have any information, please call your local authorities. poppy? very sad story. nick valencia. thank you. to california we go. it is almost well look at the pictures. it looks like a volcanic e runs, eruption eruption doesn t it? there are nearly two dozen wildfires burning across california right now racing across drought-parched landscape from one end to the other. the most ferocious, the rocky fire. it goes more ominous by the hour. thousands of people have fled
miles? well it almost follows exactly air france. within a week after the air france disaster air france 447, there were thousands of small bits and big bits of plane on the surface of the ocean, but it wasn t for two more years that we actually found the main body of the wreckage which had sunk to the bottom and i would imagine that that s the case here too. to find the black boxes, the engines, the landing gear these are all heavy things that would sink to the bottom and that s the goal is to find that bit of wreckage that sank down to the bottom of the ocean. david soucie a lot of us are puzzled as to why the people analyzing this part in france at that laboratory are waiting until wednesday to start doing that. it arrived over the weekend and these family members are desperate for answers. why wait? i don t think they re waiting, poppy. it s mostly about the fact that this is a forensic investigation and it is for criminal investigation at this point as well. it may very well