the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. tonight, president biden has started trying to convince voters that a much-needed victory for his agenda is a win for them as well. the senate approving the democrats flagship economic package. let s go to our chief white house correspondent, kaitlin collins. final passage is expected in the house of representatives later this week. it will be a very big moment for the president. reporter: it absolutely will, wolf, because it s been a very tough few months for this white house. so this is a welcome change of pace for many of the officials, including president biden as they are now cruising into what appears to be the passage of this major piece of legislation. you re right, going to the house later this week and then the white house hopes on to president biden s desk for his signature. while the bill is very different from what democrats were negotiating over just last summer, wolf, it is still something that is we
it s caught on video. mike: great to be with you, sandra. this is america reports, happened hours ago in new york. sandra: attack lasted nearly 20 seconds before the suspect was stopped. mike: all this coming more than 30 years after the ayatollah of iran issued calling for rushdie s death over his book satanic verses. sandra: it all just happened, brian, what are we learning about rushdie s condition at this time? we do not know much about his condition. we have not received an update on the condition of the novelist, salman rushdie. set the viewers up, an hour and 20 minutes south of buffalo. a place where people live, a community for arts and literary figures who come here and lecture. and that s exactly what was happening. the new york state police says at just about 11:00 a.m. today, salman rushdie was on stage when he suffered an apparent stab to his neck. a man rushed on stage while he s having a discussion with his interviewer on that stage. his conditio
and this is america s late news, fox news at night. and breaking tonight, looks like the president of harvard university will keep her job as one news outlet says, she was only targeted because she s a woman. in moments, we ll be joined by students from both harvard and mit. but first a vote to formally launch an impeachment inquiry into president joe biden is just now hours away. the house speaker mike johnson says it s a legal decision, not a political one. but house republicans have very little wiggle room. the senior national correspondent kevin corke is live in dc with more on the early morning vote. kevin good evening. reporter: yeah, bright and early tomorrow morning coming up just hours from now. evening my friend. now boy this time tomorrow night, trace, it is obvious that house republicans will have taken another step toward what many believe is an eventual impeachment of president biden. today, passing the resolution to do so out of the house rules committee and
that s about seven hours from now. about midnight your time, eastern time over there. so there s still some time. still a few hours left for a last-minute deal to be hammered out. and i expect that behind the scenes diplomatic efforts are in overdrive to try and make sure that this hostage deal that has gone on for seven consecutive days will go on for an eighth because it s in the interests of all parties. israel is getting significant numbers of its hostages out. and on the palestinian side in gaza they re getting prisoners released. and of course they re getting an important influx of humanitarian aid. every day this pause in the violence, this pause in the israeli military operation continues. and so look, the hope is that this can go on for longer. but at the moment there s no deal. and there s just a few hours to go. seven hours at most, we think, before time literally runs out on bringing the parties together for an extension of this deal, jake. matthew, within the h
hey, everybody. good morning. good to see you. 11:00 a.m. in the east. 8:00 a.m. pacific. i m yasmin vossoughian in for jose diaz-balart. coming up, we re going to talk with an american pediatrician who was able to get out yesterday after spending nearly a month trapped there. meanwhile, the white house clarifying what president biden meant when he called for a humanitarian pause in israel as strikes continue against hamas. in new york city, donald trump jr. back on the stand in the civil fraud trial against his father. we ll tell you about the other trump expected to testify today. in acapulco, a desperate situation after hurricane otis hit the city. families wait outside the morgue as a funeral director says he cannot prepare bodies for burial until the electricity is turned back on. good to see everybody. we begin this busy hour with new comments from the white house on israel-hamas war. yesterday, a protester pushed president biden for a cease-fire. mr. president, do