are going to vote on this bill. they re going to support it, and you may now you have my blessings to move forward and it s going to happen. and i think that that is the only way that president biden is able to seal this deal and convince the progressives they re not going out on a limb. but absent that, i don t see how there s a vote today. thank you for that. i should note you contributed to the why are you up way too early. you were up in support of the $500,000 raised for breast cancer. and the bad news babies. thanks, leann caldwell.
who have been good so far this year never trailed against the clippers on the way to a victory last night. it marks cleveland s first road win since march 20616. now let s go to the nhl and boston where the hot start for florida panthers continued last night with a 4-1 win over the bruins. the pap thers are now the 14th team in league history to start the season, 17-0. i would note i made a request for more hockey highlights during that segment. i love the nhl. i did not expect a bruins defeat. thanks, guys. time now for the weather. let s go to meteorologist bill karins with the forecast. bill, how are we looking out there with halloween approaching? we re still recovering from yesterday. i ve got amazing pictures. wait till you see this tornado footage from orange county yesterday. this tornado wasn t on the ground for a long time. it looks like your average tornado. suddenly it gets stronger, picks
elections if some of the ideas and policies that have been proposed very early when this bill was first introduced don t remain in place, and so they will look to hear biden remind them or convince them that he is going to be advocating for so many of the issues that voters who backed him in 2020 would hope he would. but also hear that things could move forward despite what has been considered one of the most difficult negotiation periods in recent history. we re going to go into some of the specifics of the bill with congressional reporter leanne called well later in the show, but just in terms of big picture, what can president biden say today that he hasn t already said? we ve heard this pitch from him before, but yet the divide from these progressives and the democratic party and the conservatives, senator manchin in particular, they talk about paid family leave. it s in danger of falling out. what can really be done here?
what can really move the needle? i would think something has to move or leave the bill that progressive lawmakers want. the president would have to talk somehow about the plan to get these ideas passed at another time or maybe some executive orders or some other avenues in which these policies can become the norms in the land if they are a part of this bill. i think there s some real concern that biden s reputation as one of the most progressive presidents in history can be contained by the left. if these deals were so attractive last year but don t move forward regardless of the reason, i think it s about keeping people in high faith, this administration, when there seems to be so many people on the ground who aren t sure if the president they were hoping
hundreds of billions of dollars of revenue. that s something kyrsten sinema is opposed to. so there s still some big outstanding issues. i m told they re getting much, much closer, but ultimately this bill is scaled back to ta $3.5 trillion mega bill to a 1.7 perhaps trillion. that top line number isn t even agreed to yet with a few democratic priorities like free universal preschool and climate change stuff, which they hope is going to be big and bold but also not yet decided an assistance with child care and elder care for seniors and disabled, jonathan. leigh ann, does this battle between the frogs and the parties and conservative or moderate democrats, the winner of this, are they going to have the upper hand going forward through the remainder of at least the midterms or biden