[inaudible] more on this in a moment, but let s get right to the very latest on capitol hill. cnn s monumental mona is there tonight, you have some new reporting i understand with negotiations. any movement, what is going on? not quite yet, laura. all the negotiations have wrapped up for the night, the people who are in some of these key meetings have left the building, and not a single person who voted against kevin mccarthy on the house floor has said they are going to change their votes just yet. now kevin mccarthy did make an offer to these members, there is some sort of agreement on paper and some of the holdouts were invited to look at that and review it over. they have been doing that all throughout the evening, coming in and out, coming out various moments and looking at it. but looking out of all these meetings, they have been very tightlipped. so they have not agreed just yet. kevin mccarthy is still projecting confidence, he is saying they are making progress
of his teeth. and coming back to vote again because there has not yet been a speaker of the house elected. and it s all right now seemingly about buying time for more negotiations behind closed doors. so the fact the motion to adjourn even passed, well, that s a little bit of good news for kevin mccarthy. he did speak to manu raju just a little while ago saying he still believes that he will become the next speaker of the house, but he wouldn t commit to when that would actually take place or even getting it wrapped up by tomorrow. wrap it up tomorrow? no, no, i m not putting any time line on it. i think we ve got members talking. i think we ve got a little movement so we ll see. we ll have more from manu raju in just a moment. kevin mccarthy has suffered what many are calling five humiliating defeats. well, that was just today, and you can add that to what s happened in the past over the past several days. his own party has told him, nope. that comes of course from con
we begin this hour with celebration turning into tragedy at the university of georgia. just hours after the football team was honored for winning a national championship one of their key players, 20-year-old, was killed in a car crash along with a member of the football staff, 24-year-old chandler lacroix. cnn is live in athens, georgia. what do we know about what happened? reporter: we just got a statement indicating this happened at 2:45 early this morning. that car was traveling southbound on this road behind me just past this curve right here and then, fred, for some reason that car left the roadway, struck this power pole right here. we saw utility crews in the last hour or so replacing and fixing this power pole, and then the car continued, fred. you can see the debris, the fallen tree limbs where it struck a tree. as we make our way over here i will show you the exact spot where this car came to rest continuing past this slope right here and ending at this location r
supporting from home as i focus on my recovery. but hamlin did spend time with the team yesterday according to multiple reports. he was there hanging out with them as they were at the facility. all indications are the recovery is still going amazing. he s not in attendance today, but if you were watching the game or you were taking a look at it, there were 3s everywhere in the stadium, so many jerseys, pray for damar signs. it was also a get back to football day for the buffalo bills. it was get back to business, their first playoff game against the dolphins, winning 17-0. if they win and the bengals beat the ravens today, the bills will play the bengals next week and, remember, bills/bengals was the game monday night football two weeks ago where this all went down. right. maybe that s a moment hamlin decides to come back and make an appearance when they play the bengals again.
well the house voting tonight to adjourn in till noon tomorrow. that sounds a little familiar, right? it also buys time for more negotiations to take place behind closed doors, as kevin mccarthy suffered five more defeat today for a total now of 11. so what is going to happen in just a few hours? how is that going to change things? we ve not seen the progress yet. plus we have new news on the buffalo bills damara hamlin, he is awake and making remarkable progress just three days after he collapsed on the field in cardiac arrest during monday night football. the nfl has officially canceled that game, and cnn has newly-obtained audio from the moment hamlin clapped. he went down. i ll call.