Last spoke last hour, that sideways rain we were experiencing has disappeared, at least for the moment. Also, that memorial causeway which leads from the mainland to here in clearwater beach where we are, that has reopened. That s good news. There s beach access once again. And i mentioned those boats we saw yesterday last time we talked it was still dark out so i was wondering if they were still out there. The good news they are still out there and i m told they moved them out there and put them under these very large concrete anchors moved them out of the marina because it s safer to be there. The worst of the rain and the wind came howling through at about 2:00 a. M. Here. That was when it got really bad, kept a lot of folks up here in our hotel. We ve been talking to some folks this morning. We were expecting hurricane warnings which we had and winds about 50 to 70 miles per hour, which we got, which are clearly very, very strong still this morning. And lots of rain about 4 to 6 in
now it may seem counter intuitive, but that s actually viewed as a win for the house progressive caucus. they re refusing to pass the house infrastructure bill which has already made it through the senate until an agreement is reached on the spending social plan. pelosi s decision to delay the vote is you can imagine is causing an outrage from the more conservative democrats. kyrsten sinema tweet out today in part the move denies millions of americans good paying jobs and hurts every day families. but you know what else hurts every day american families, senator, not passing a essential spending bill to help with drug prices, child care or even the environment. now, to be fair it wasn t just the senator. pelosi s vote also ticked off senator gottheimer. he slammed pelosi writing in quote, it s deeply regrettable speaker pelosi breached her firm public commitment to members of congress and the american people to hold a vote and pass the once in a century bipartisan infrastruct
fast moving week and a dynamic one on capitol hill. and after days of tough negotiations there are still no compromise between progressives and right-wing democrats on the president s build back better spending plan. and a promised vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill that house speaker nancy pelosi said would happen this week did not. now it may seem counter intuitive, but that s actually viewed as a win for the house progressive caucus. they re refusing to pass the house infrastructure bill which has already made it through the senate until an agreement is reached on the spending social plan. pelosi s decision to delay the vote is you can imagine is causing an outrage from the more conservative democrats. kyrsten sinema tweet out today in part the move denies millions of americans good paying jobs and hurts every day families. but you know what else hurts every day american families, senator, not passing a essential spending bill to help with drug prices, child care o
live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. residents in and around myrtle beach are told not to collect debris from a downed chinese spy bloochblt that comes as we are getting one of the best looks yet at the shootdown of the balloon. you re looking at the footage right now. our u.s. fighter jets fired a single missile to crash the craft. right now military crews are scrambling to recover the wreckage. most of it sitting in 47 feet of water. oren lieberman is at the pentagon for us. back to the video we just got from c infer n in the last several minutes just to highlight the clearest image yet that we have where you can see the balloon is popped, essentially, destroyed. you can clearly see what appears to know the surveillance equipment dropping very quickly into the atlantic ocean. i suppose that gives the military, the pentagon, some hope that what they are hoping to retrieve out of the atlantic is salvageable and may offer some clues as to what the chinese we
we ll have much more on the suspected spy balloon in a moment, but first this breaking news just coming in. the man who led pakistan at the start of america s declared war on terror and the conflict in neighboring afghanistan has died. he died after a prolonged illness according to a statement from pakistan s military. he was in dubai where he lived for several years in self-imposed exile. musharraf was 79 years old. you re now about to see and hear i think we re going to you re now about to see and hear the dramatic moment a u.s. sidewinder missile took out the suspected chinese spy balloon that caused such havoc last week. here it is. it happened saturday off the coast of south carolina near myrtle beach. the balloon was so high up at nearly 12 miles or 20 kilometers that it took a few seconds for the shock wave to reach the ground. china issued a stern protest afterward accusing the u.s. of overreacting. beijing insists it was a civilian research balloon that blew of