reportedly were fighting in their van. let s go outfront. . i m erin burnett. outfront, nancy pelosi s hail mary. the house speaker said to be furiously working the phones, twisting arms, trying to whip up support for biden s bipartisan infrastructure plan. a vote on that plan, according to pelosi, is still on for tonight. the big question is, does she have the votes? sources tell cnn pelosi is changing some no votes to yes in these final hours, a testament to her power as speaker. it is still leaving pelosi with a historic decision pull the vote or bring it to the floor and likely watch it fail. fail, if it does fail, it will be because members of the president s own party voted against it. against the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill. can t say it enough, a bipartisan infrastructure bill. progressives have vowed to tore p tore peat dough the bill because they don t have a bill that would touch on everything. you can see it. maternity leave, climate crisis, child
in the coming hours. but many progressive democrats don t appear to be budging on their throat to vote down the legislation in hopes of influencing party infighting over the broader economic plan. it s not clear, at least not now, how all of this will play out. stand by. we do know congress is averting a crippling government shutdown just hours before the deadline. the house and senate passing a stopgap funding measure that president biden is expected to sign over at the white house very soon. we re covering this breaking story from both ends of pennsylvania avenue. kaitlan collins is standing by over at the white house. first let s go to our congressional correspondent, ryan nobles. ryan, the big question tonight, will there be a vote on infrastructure? reporter: well, they say there s going to be, wolf. but we re not exactly sure how they re going to pull it off. in fact just the last few minutes the house majority leader, steny hoyer, who controls the action on the house
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This. yeah, it s going to be a really dangerous situation and a lot of folks are going to be evacuated, probably not vaccinated and who knows what s going to happen as the covid pandemic certainly complicates a hurricane of this nature. dr. clayborn, thank you very much for joining us, thanks for all you are doing. and to our viewers, thanks very much for watching. i m wolf blitzer here in the situation room. i ll be back tomorrow, sunday, with another special edition of the situation room tomorrow from noon to 3:00 p.m. eastern. you can always follow me on twitter and inst instagram @wolfblitzer and tweet cnn at @cnnsitroom. jim acosta picks up our special coverage right after this.
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