punxsutawney, pennsylvania. get your arms around that. they re waiting to see. i love it. will the groundhog see his shadow? fantastic. band is on stage. everyone is ready to go. we have to do the show live from there sometime. oh, my god, i d love to do that. can we do the show live from punxsutawney? groundhog day for me is one of those things, i can never remember whether the groundhog sees its shadow, it s good or it s bad. it just doesn t stay with me. maybe because i don t care. i don t know. i don t know. but that would be fun. yeah. gobbler s knob. exactly. that s where we all want to go. we have a lot to get to this morning. i really want to hear that. including president joe biden s meeting at the white house with speaker kevin mccarthy. both sides were upbeat about their conversation. it appears we re not any closer to a deal on the debt ceiling, but we will follow the developments there. gave him a box of white house m&ms, and mccarthy le
Of violent clashes with protesters breaking barricades and Fire Crackers going off. Where do things go from here . Plus, Columbia University asking police to stay on campus for weeks after a chaotic night where officers went into a building where protesters were barricaded. The school now going remote for the rest of the semester. And donald trump taking advantage of a day off from court. The former president plans miz his First Campaign rally since his criminal trial began. Were live in battleground, wisconsin. And a new decision from the Federal Reserve on Interest Rates. What it means for your bottom line and the never ending battle against inflation. Our nbc News Reporters are following all of the latest developments. We begin with nbcs Steve Patterson who is at ucla where police are standing by. Steve, whats the latest there . Chris, the latest is happening behind me right now. Its the most action we have seen all day. Im going to step off and show it to you. Take a look. You can
Polantz at the federal court in washington, and this is cnn hello again, everyone. Thank you so much for joining me on for greek. A whitfield were following major developments on capitol oh, hell, right now, the House Of Representatives is in session for a rare saturday highstakes vote for the past several hours, lawmakers have been debating milk ill let terry aid bills for ukraine and israel and taiwan totaling 95 and at any moment now, lawmakers are expected to begin voting on the three laws. Longawaited Funding Bills to sweeten the deal for House Republicans, a fourth bill contains sanctions for iran, a seizure of Frozen Russian Assets thats plus a potential nationwide tiktok ban gop House Speaker mike johnson was able to advance the bipartisan bills through congress this week with the help of death democrats. Its a move that could cost him his job as some hardliners in his party have threatened to introduce a measure to remove him from his post and moments so go, House Minority lea
Christiana one poor in london. Thank you for watching and ill see you again next week. Hello everyone and thank you so much for joining me in this saturday. Im fredricka whitfield. All right. Happening right now, the House Of Representatives is in session for a rare high saturday your vote live pictures right now. Right now lawmakers are debating Military Aid Bills for ukraine, israel, and taiwan totaling 95 billion gop hardliners are pushing hard against more ukraine aid, but supporters, both republican and democrat insist the aid packages are critical. For now michelle and Global Security was on fire from putins fullscale invasion of ukraine to chairman sheath threatening taiwan and the pacific to the ayatollah rearing his ugly head, invading israel through his proxies the eyes of the world are upon us and history will judge us by what we do here. And now today with the vote on Ukraine Security aide we rededicate ourselves to who we are we meet today under the white dome above us. A
Us. Heres what were watching. Thousands of homes are without power as Tropical Storm ophelia lashes the coast with strong winds and heavy rain. We have a look at the cities in the path and the impact well see throughout the day. Its quickly hurdling toward a shutdown as talks have broken down over a deal to fund the government. How federal agencies are preparing and the talks happening today to try to keep a shutdown happening. Hollywood writers and executives will meet again today to try to work out a deal to end the Writers Strike that has paralyzed the industry for months. What will it take to get production up and running again, even after a deal is made. Plus cnn taking you inside the new High Speed Rail Service connects parts of florida. Why some say it could usher in a new era of rail travel in the u. S. Lets start with Tropical Storm ophelia. It has now made landfall in North Carolina. This pretty strong Tropical Storm washed ashore about two hours ago with winds around 70 Mile