This is cnn breaking news. Top of the new hour, thanks for staying with us. Im victor blackwell. And im alisyn camerota. Democrats announcing moments ago they will tie an increase in the Debt Limit to the government spending bill. This move sets up a looming show down with republicans. For more, lets bring in Manu Raju and Lauren Fox on capitol hill. Lauren, i want to start with you. Walk us through what this decision means and how it will work. Essentially democrats are daring republicans to vote against an increase in the Debt Ceiling. There of course is a looming deadline coming sometime in mid october to raise the Countrys Debt limit for what democrats say is money that they have already borrowed. With republicans, given all of the spending for coronavirus over the last year and a half, now, republicans have been saying over and over again that they are not going to join with democrats to actually increase that Debt Limit. Here democrats are saying if you want to keep the governmen
Well have numbers and analysis. We begin with major immigration news. President biden is abSorbing another major Policy Hit Tonight with a ruling that democrats cannot include Immigration Reform, a path to citizenship and the massive tax and spend plan they call Human Infrastructure this as they desperately try to ease the mass of illegal immigrants many of them haitians along the Southern Border in one texas town. We have Fox Team Coverage Tonight Aishah Hasnie on Capitol Hill with all the goings on there Bill Melugin in Del Rio, texas again tonight. Good evening, bill. We have redialed. Bill bret, good evening to you. Texas Governor Greg Abbott sent a letter to President Biden asking him to declare a federal emergency here in texas over whats going on here in Del Rio. You can see over my shoulder there are still thousands of migrants living in this makeshift camp. The conditions are brutal. Its incredibly hot out here and this Border Crisis is only getting worse. [speaking are spanis
It comes at a critical moment where covid cases among the youngest and most vulnerable are Soaring nationwide. Doctors treating Kids Sick with covid reflecting on this point in the pandemic. Its scary. Its sad. And its exhausting. Its sad that Some in Society have not prioritized children. I thought that was a place where we could all come together. We start with this huge news from pfizer. What it could mean in the fight against the pandemic. Gabe gutierrez has been following the Pfizer Announcement for us. Hes outside a hospital in Spokane Washington where hospitals are turning away patients from Neighboring Idaho. And cases continue to rise among children. And i alSo want to bring in dr. Derek cast. Hes an emergency medical physician. Doctor, always good to have you. Gabe, lets start with you. Pfizer says the data shows the vaccine is safe and effective for children between 5 and 11. What more have we learned . Hey there, craig. Yes, as you said, this is potentially pivotal news for
Unanimously rejected the president s announcement that boosters would be approved by today for the general population. Its a tough time for President Biden on other fronts. His entire domestic agenda is in jeopardy as time is running out for a deeply divided congress to pass his mega Infrastructure Bill. While Overseas France is furious over being blind sided by the u. S. On that 60 Billion submarine contract. And all the nato allies are burning from the messy withdrawal from afghanistan. The pentagon having to admit instead of isis bombers its Drone Strike in kabul killed ten civilians including seven children and an Aid Worker for a u. S. Charity. A new crisis at the border with 15,000 Stranded Haitians living under a bridge between texas and mexico. We begin with the Pfizer Trial and Nbcs Gabe Gutierrez residence in spokane, washington. This is very promising news for families, but the current Covid Crisis inside hospitals out where you are is intensifying. Reporter thats right, and
Children, perhaps close to halloween. Next steps, pfizer and its partner, biontech, will apply to the fda in coming days to get their vaccine authorized for use in children. The New York times underscoring the urgent need for a safe and effective vaccine for kids asap writing this, quote, children now account for one in five new cases, when the highly contagious Delta Variant has sent more children into hospitals and icus in the past few weeks than at any time other time in the pandemic. Its coming at a complicated moment for kids in schools with classrooms all across this country shutting down or having to revert once again to remote learning just days or weeks into the new School Year. Doctors in alaska, idaho, and montana are facing what the Washington Post describes as agonizing ethical questions, forced to Ration Care for some of its sickest patients as hospitals surpass capacity due to covid surges. The state of alabama revealing their grimmest of statistics, that deaths outpace