welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with president biden touting a significant win for his agenda, coming as the country struggles with inflation and he faces low approval ratings. let s get straight to the white house, our chief correspondent kaitlan collins is joining us. if this bill passes as it s expected to, it will be a much needed win for this president. yeah, wolf. and one that was kind of a surprise to a lot of democrats and even some white house aides whenever it was announced that senator manchin and senator schumer did have this deal. of course, that culminated yesterday when the snenate passd what is known as the inflation reduction act. it s a far cry from the build back better bill from a year ago, but it still does have significant proposals in it, including over $300 billion for climate change and energy reform, it also allows for the first time medicare to ne
remarkably, no one died in the fires, and as dawn broke on friday, winds had significantly dropped and a forecast of snow should reduce the chances of any flare ups leaving the thousands of families to count the cost of the handful of hours that have devastated their lives. gary 0 donoghue, bbc news. thousands of residents outside denver had to evacuate their homes. earlier i spoke to one of them, jen gardner, who had to leave her house in louisville and hasn t been able to return yet. we just moved home a few months ago from england and we were just getting our life back together and we had a child from across the street playing at our house and i saw what looked to be a storm roll in and they called the kids over thinking i would teach them some science and we looked outside and realised it was smoke. iran
if it is still standing. we just moved home a few months ago from england and we were just getting our life back together and we had a child from across the street playing at our house and i saw what looked to be a storm roll in and i called the kids over, thinking i would teach them some science, and we stepped outside and i realised it was smoke. i grabbed i run inside and i asked them to put on shoes and jackets, they grabbed their stuff, we ran back outside in our socks to our other neighbours across the street to kind of get together with her grandmother and decide what to do next. both of us were really calm. we heard it was at the bike trails six miles away i cried because i love those trails and we went back inside and ifinished lunch. and i looked outside again and the wind was blowing really hard and the cat was freaking out and that was kind when i started filming. we grabbed the cat. my husband was coming down the mountain from the ski hill
and i saw what looked to be a storm roll in and i called the kids over, thinking i would teach them some science, and we stepped outside and i realised it was smoke. i grabbed i run inside and i asked them to put on shoes and jackets, they grabbed their stuff, we ran back outside in our socks to our other neighbours across the street to kind of get together with her grandmother and decide what to do next. both of us were really calm. we heard it was at the bike trails six miles away i cried because i love those trails and we went back inside and ifinished lunch. and i looked outside again and the wind was blowing really hard and the cat was freaking out and that was kind when i started filming. we grabbed the cat. my husband was coming down the mountain from the ski hill. and he happened to be right at 36 and foothills and see the entire scene and texted it to me and he said i need you to start packing bags . i thought there is no way it is going tojump a highway.
we haven t seen a whole lot of images there. hard to get access. right. we had a category 4 storm roll through that section. we ll get a better idea today as things settle down down there on what kind of damage was done. a lot of damage done across parts of florida. a very messy but not catastrophic. that s certainly the takeaway. let s look at what the storm is doing right now and where it s going. right now it is across northern florida where the wind is still roaring, believe it or not, in the orlando area for the better part of the last four or five hours they ve been gusting 60, 70, close to 80 miles an hour. that line where it stops is very close to you now. thins will settle down a little bit but then the wind will come back out of the west and northwest. you can see some areas gusting to 70 miles an hour still in northern areas of florida. as with go through the day today, the heavy rain will push up to the north and west. the flood threat today grows across southern georgi