reporter: yeah, i met with jamie webb, the daughter of xiaojih tans, and her ex-husband. they were both so gracious to give us their time as they re grieving, trying to set up funeral arrangements. what struck me is their celebration of tan s life. she was about to turn 50 years old. she missed her birthday by two days. you know, i asked her daughter, who is a recent uga grad, about the last time she talked to her mother. it turns out that when this all happened on tuesday, the first indication that something was wrong was somebody abruptly called her daughter, asking, do you know the password to the surveillance cameras? she ended up spending hours and hours in the waiting room of an emergency room at a hospital, waiting for information, seeing the headlines actually come through her phone first about the number of people who died at the location of her mother s business, and then finally getting the news by the end of the night. just an incredibly difficult experience for
prison. few know what asian americans have endured in the country, how we ve been scapegoated more than a century. but it s time all of us change that. because today it s asian people. but tomorrow it could be your community. it s pretty sad, right. um-hum. and we have to make sure that nothing like that ever happens to anyone again. we have to stand up for people no matter who they are and what color their skin is, right. um-hum. i ve never been in a rolls royce before. it s all hand made. wow. i m riding shotgun down ocean avenue in a car worth about half a million dollars. what other cars do you have? right now i have a ferrari 458, a porsche turbo, a gt, the range rover. and you re how old? 23. this 23-year-old college student from china symbolizes what s been happening there. in the last few decades china has gone from this, to this. it s been the fastest economic transformation in history. and that is having a big effect here in america. from w
we begin this hour in washington where president biden and speaker mccarthy are rallying support for their tentative deal to extend the nation s debt. the agreement will likely need votes from both republicans and democrats to pass the house. mccarthy says the vote could come as soon as this wednesday before it heads to the senate. just moments ago, president biden said he is confident this will pass both chambers of congress. the speaker and i made it clear from the start that the only way forward was a bipartisan agreement. that agreement now goes to the united states house, and to the senate. i strongly urge both chambers to pass that agreement. let s keep moving forward on meeting our obligations and building the strongest economy in the history of the world. in the meantime, majority leader chuck schumer is alerting his conference they should be prepared for a final vote in the senate as soon as friday. mccarthy also talked with senate republicans this afternoon, tel
this is not who you thought it was, was it, because she was already so deeply ingrained that the fact he was latino was supposed to be a big deal. he had an ss tattoo on his arm and a swastika on his chest. this guy was not stopped for impersonating in fact he found a bigger community online. that s ben collins describing the online presence for the man who shot and killed eight people saturday in allen, texas. we ll have more on what else we re learning about him and the victims in just a moment. meanwhile in washington president biden will meet with house speaker kevin mccarthy today to discuss the debt ceiling, their first sit down on the issue since february. we ll go through what is expected today come out of this afternoon s talks. and also ahead an update on donald trump s civil rape trial as the case goes to the jury for deliberations later this morning. good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, may 9th. i m jonathan lemire, thanks for sta