issue where saudi arabia denied a visa for one of our colleagues, and i know i keep harping on this and bringing it up, but it truly is outrageous. the white house reporter for the jerusalem post not being given a visa in time. it seems to be done with political reason. it s making the issues between united states and saudi arabia not as tight as they once were, and actions like this with saudi arabia will make it harder for them in the future to have the same political impact and savvy and connection they had inside the united states that they once had. it s going to make it harder for them to get it again if they keep playing games like this. so it will be interesting to see if the president himself brings this up with the king. something to watch for on this last stop, as you saw yesterday, the president was pretty tired. he ll be more well rested for the next stop. so we ll see in saudi arabia. all right, chuck, thanks. time now for our next data bank number.
year. the vote full of suspense, of course, because of the political game going on there including a filibuster overcome by a rare show of bipartisanship. jim acosta is at the white house. how do you play it? jim? both sides coming together or they just have to do this? reporter: oh, i think this is just a cease n-fire in the battles, legislative battles near washington. the president want add clean debt ceiling bill, no stricks attached and that s what he got and released a statement last night thanking lawmakers for passing this increase to the nation s debt ceiling but also said in the statement he hopes this puts an end to what he called the politics of brinkmanship. something this town has been dealing with the last three years at least on budget matters. as you saw yesterday, senate republicans managed to defeat a threatened filibuster by texas senator ted cruz who wanted budget cuts in exchange for this bill to raise the nation s debt limit and defiant move on the part of repu
the individual market for that, quote, just 5%. if you, in fact, did not let the website rollout, those policies would not have been canceled. what obama s doing is trying to get more type. he believes, and i think he underestimated the american people and overestimated the media s assistance in this regard and i think it is a general panic. maybe he didn t understand the promise he was making. the backlash it would bring. democrats joined, as you saw yesterday, republicans in passing the upton bill. the senate landrieu bill which would order insurers to offer exist plans in perpetuity. both bills undermine the central goal of obama care, of forcing healthy people on to the exchange plans that subsidize the sick. so is this what the president s false promise has wrought?
protesters. reporter: that s right, carol. it s more than just the former appeal of the stand your ground law in florida. the dream defenders, that s the first of three demands they have. they want the state to end war on children. they want to have an honest conversation about racial profiling. during th during that trial of george zimmerman, they thought there was a touching of profiling but they thought it should include racial profiling. there are about 15 of these dream defenders who stayed overnight but the number has increased throughout the morning as the video you saw yesterday. they got up to about 75. expect that number to get to about 100 or maybe 125 today as through social media the tales of their movement is flowing. this is a group of students, mostly students from schools across the country across the state, rather. so they re coming here during the day.
well, right now we have a watch that s in effect until 3:00 p.m. central for parts of louisiana and miss mishgs but we have aerials to show you from ktbi where they re going out to survey much of this damage from the potential tornadoes. you saw yesterday, of course, we have seen the pictures coming in of the incredible damage that occurred there last night, so they are heading out to the hazleton area here. they had a report there of wind gusts up to 101 miles per hour, and, look, can you see from the aerial pictures showing you much of the damage. trees uprooted. homes, buildings just torn apart. many cars turned over on their sides. they will be out going to these three different areas. i believe we had that on google earth. i m not sure. you can put that source. here we go. we have at least three separate areas around st. louis. bridgeton here. north of st. louis. then the union celedon area. this is where we really had some