in all industries feeling the threat. investors may want to look for stocks like walgreens or target, walmart. everyone is going to be interested in what happens next. bret: this is the start of a huge week on capitol hill for the president s economic agenda. the tax cut bill, as we mentioned, goes to conference and lawmakers try to settle on a spending plan to try to avert a government shutdown friday. mike emanuel is on the hill tonight. we are one huge step closer to delivering to the american people the historic tax relief as a giant present for christmas. lawmakers will need to work swiftly and efficiently to deliver tax reform to president trump s desk. even more immediate, figuring out a way to keep the government old button when they are due to run out of money friday. lawmakers are looking at an extension, complicated by how
obviously folks will be in florida looking for aid from washington. one quick political question before i let you go, president trump today sided with democrats in agreeing to sign a bill that would tie harvey aid to a debt ceiling bill, raise the debt ceiling for three months, a proposal speaker ryan called dis ridiculous and disgraceful. i m wondering, do you agree with speaker ryan? unfortunately, i wasn t there today. i ve read the press counts. that s not a dodge. i ve been here dealing with this. i prefer to deal with these issues standing on their own. i think it s better that way. i understand why you want to lump them all in here. fema runs out of money friday. theoretically. that s an important thing. the debt limit and other issues are critically important as well. i always think you get a better product when you deal with them standing alone. i d prefer they had done it that way. i m not a big fan with the direction they ve gone with it in this regard. obviously at this
and it begins with bringing honesty, accountability, and change to washington, d.c. with us this sunday to share their reporting and their insights, cnn s nia-malika hen der don, jonathan martin, jeff he d zelany and jackie. the urgent week leading to the 100-day mark. the government runs out of money friday and a white house demand for border wall funds is one of the many thirdles to a spending deal. the president who once talked of getting tax reform passed in his first 100 days says he will finally offer a specific outline on wednesday, and a month after he failed to win enough votes for a house obamacare repeal plan, the president is pushing for action this week before the 100-day mark, even though republican leaders say there is no agreement on a plan and they worry rushing things will lead to another embarrassing collapse. no particular rush, but we ll
earlier i spoke with the escam bya county manager. we advise residents in the low-lying or have flooding problems when we have heavy rains to consider going to higher ground, maybe with friends or family members elsewhere in the county. just try to get people out of harm s way is the challenge right now. according to the national weather service, pensacola received 13 inches of rain just yesterday. forecasters say it could get another five to ten inches of rain tonight. and right now, out west, colorado firefighters are trying to get a handle on the high park wildfire. 14,000 acres have burned in the northern part of the state, forcing more evacuations. our primary goal is to make sure we get all the people out of the way of the fire. it is a terrible thing to have people hearing about their homes. it s 1,000 times worse to have someone missing. and our focus right now is to make sure the evacuations we re going house to house to make sure we get people out of harm
it is a terrible thing to have people waiting hearing about their homes. 1,000 times worse to have someone missing. our foe schoolhouse make sure the evacuations are going house to house make sure we get people out of harm s way as much as humanly possible. and as you can see, it s still very difficult. live imagines right now. the aerial shots of what these firefighters are up against. so far more than a dozen structures have been lost or damaged. meanwhile n southern new mexico, firefighters are trying to get the upper hand on a fire that has now burned about 10,000 acres there. it s a very different story, however, right now on the gulf coast. they are dealing with heavy rain fall which has caused massive flooding. the worse still isn t over. storm have already drajed county and state of emergency has been declared. people living in low-lying areas being urged to evacuate. and according to the national weather service, pence cola received 13 inches of rain in one day. it