good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late, i will see you at the end of tomorrow. tomorrow thank you to all of us joining us at this hour. they say the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. that appears to be exactly where we are right now in the middle of insanity. just about an hour ago the house of representatives adjourned for the third day without selecting a speaker of the house today the lower chamber has already held five votes for speaker. and congressman kevin mccarthy fable to since the nominations on all five of those votes, bringing the total number of times that he has failed to win the speakers gavel up to 11. that s the most failed elections for speaker and any congress and over 100 years. surpassing the nine attempts it took to elect a speaker all the way back in the year 1923. throughout those failed votes, kevin mccarthy hasn t picked up one sin
me snickering and chortling through the conversation you were just having. you know me, i like when i get a laugh. the idea that you just said, we are going to have a speaker and odds are that person probably will be a republican. that s where we are right now. i want to cover my bases because that s on tape. the fact that it s even a possibility that it might not be someone from kevin mccarthy s you never know. tells us where we are at. thank you. thank you to all of you at home for joining us. they say the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. and that appears to be exactly where we are right now. in the middle of insanity. just about an hour ago the house of representatives adjourned with the third day without selecting a speaker of the house. the lower chamber held five votes for speaker and congressman kevin mccarthy failed to cinch the nomination on all five of those bringing the total number of time
top of the hour. i m allison. i m victor. more than 1 million puerto ricans are without power. the water washed away this bridge as it made landfall. fiona is a tropical storm and battering the island with heavy winds and catastrophic flash floods. hundreds of fema workers are on the ground. the president is assuring puerto rico we stand with you and will get through this together. cnn s laila santiago is live in san juan where the rising water is the major concern. laila, what are you seeing? reporter: in san juan in the northwestern part of the island it is different than what they seeing on the interior and eastern part of the island. so i know victor showed that video of the bridge washed away. i talked to a young man there last night when it happened and said he was looking outside the window and happened within a matter of minutes. this morning i got into salina on the southeastern part of the island and there is a lot of concern and frustration among the people i
the house this morning. lawmakers set to vote again in two hours. but gop leader kevin mccarthy has put up a new offer he hopes will win over a faction of his party. that has been fighting against his candidate us is. what he s giving up now and why it might hurt him with moderates. also what is president trump trump s roul roel? he s made call to holdouts asking them to vote for mccarthy. what they told him to do instead and why he s now predicting a big win today. plus the man accused of stabbing four university of idaho students is back in idaho. what new body camera footage released by police shows. and the latest on buffalo bills safety damar hamlin three days after he suffered cardiac arrest in the game against the bengals. what the bills are saying about the change in his condition. next hour, president biden will address the southern border ahead of his first trip since taking office. what his administration is doing while the supreme court wait s to reconsider
will now on a war of words over what to do. border patrol officials a new development they are seeing. they say cartels are targeting our kids with deadly fentanyl. trying to smuggle in a rainbow colored pills. you see on the left. they are meant to look just like he had a pretty public and slamming the biden administration for what they say is not doing enough on this just days after vice president harris said the border is secure. they know exactly what is going on, on the board up or they still might become of the border is closed. it s absolutely ridiculous. one of the great things and was on the buses going up to new york and to washington d.c. and to martha s vineyard are proving in front of the press and all of the liberals, no the border is not open. kennedy: christina coleman on the newsom/desantis feud. let s go to lucas tomlinson with the very latest. hi eric. defendant setting those buses to new york sang millions of illegal immigrants have already crossed the