Throughment rich edson is joining us from wilmington, delaware where the president is spending the weekend. Good afternoon, griff. When president biden returns to washington the white house says he ll be negotiating with republicans and democrats and a compromise on infrastructure. They re discussing a $1 trillion infrastructure proposal however there are stick being points, how to pay for this. Democrats want tax increases and republicans want to use unspent covid relief funds. His own proposal, as you know, is a huge package, 2. 65 trillion dollars with a $2 trillion of new taxes, particularly taxes on american businesses and american workers which makes no sense coming out of this pandemic. Now, griff, as you mentioned, democrats are working on two tracks here, there s that bipartisan trillion dollar track, but also looking for a larger bill, something in the order of $6 trillion, potentially up to that much. This is something that the democrats would have to pass with all of their
had a similar event yesterday and served nearly 3500 families. you can see today this line of cars wraps all the way around the building here. this is specifically for food, but there are similar lines all across it texas for water and that s because half the state s 15 million residents are under a boil water order right now. if you go to the grocery store, there s been a rush on water and shelves are bare everywhere you go. same for food items, meat is wiped out as well as nonperishables. and it will take a long time to repair are damaged pipes. they ve burst and frozen because of these unexpected temperatures here. they don t deal with that normally here so the infrastructure isn t built for that. there are grocery stores closed because of burst pipes and restaurants and homes and if you want to call a plumber, that s a hard thing to find right now if you want one to come to your house, it could be several weeks. we ve talked to several residents all over the dallas, fort
gate. so far we ve seen construction crews making minor tweaks to the fencing and capitol police say don t forget many changes. and as far as the police and the security posture remains at a steady state at this time. we re very thankful for our national guard partnership. we do have national guard on the campus, but the security postures at this time remains the same. the suspect, 25-year-old noah green, he rammed his car into two officers and slammed into the barricade at the capitol. green got out of the car and slashed one. officers before being shot and killed by responding police. he was not on the police radar, appears he was a lone wolf with no connection to extremist groups. he indicated he followed the nation of islam. he recently lost his job. a few years ago, jewish coalition called for the resignation of some democrats, with connection to louis farrakhan who once called hitler a good man. this morning, construction crews were seen fortifying the fencing aroun
delaware and steve wilmington is in the southern border with a closer look at conditions on the ground. let s start with you, what is going on? reporter: 19 senators, republicans made it into the border, touring on foot and in gunboats. they saw the facility and donna, texas, a holding facility that has gotten some negative attention for overcrowding conditions. many senators in a fiery press conference later today criticized conditions inside donna and said there should be a change back to trump era policies. here is ted cruz. this is wrong and a direct consequence of policy decisions by the biden administration to start building the wall and return to catch and release and end the stay in mexico policy. reporter: number of democrats and biden officials toward a different border facility. they made the claim the surge has nothing to do with who is in the oval office, they are life and death and that is driving people to make the long march to the us, not any policies.
new fears kicking off of an outbreak putting americans on edge. the president still on vacation in the home of a billionaire in nantucket, massachusetts. let s turn now to jacqui heinrich in that town. we saw the president yesterday, but what s he saying now about the new variant? reporter: hey, good morning to you, edward. despite holiday sales that were expected to climb at a record pace this year, national retail federation predicting up to 10.5% the global markets are reeling from the news of this new variant, and yesterday president biden announced travel restrictions from south africa and seven other neighboring countries will be imposed similar to those imposed by the u.k., more than a dozen other countries after they spoke with scientists about how fast new variant was spreading and also whether vaccines are effective against it. the president said the decision to hut down travel from south africa was made out of an abun cannes of caution, but he abundance of caut