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welcome to a brand new hour. i m victor blackwell. and i m alisyn camerota. currently at stake, that $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill and that $3.2 trillion safety net bill. the democrats say they and the white house have agreed to a framework to pay for the massive reconciliation package, but it s unclear what that means and how they plan to raise the funds. first they have to avoid a government shutdown and raise the debt ceiling. they have one week to do that. if they don t the country will default on the national debt for the first time. you have a vote about details. tell us about it. reporter: the house budget committee will meet on saturday to take up that massive $3.5 trillion plan to expand the social safety net. this is not the final deal because they are still negotiating the final deal, but the democratic leadership wants to try to make it clear that they are moving forward on this process ahead of a separate vote, a key vote that s hap ....
petito s missing fiance and now a new investigation into how utah police officers handled their encounter with the couple back when gabby was still alive. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. a desperate situation at the southern border growing even more dire today. right now thousands of haitian migrants are left in limbo both in texas and in mexico. as the biden administration struggles to get a hand on the crisis, migrants weighed across the rio grande with minimal belongings piled on their heads hoping for a better life in the united states. at one point today law enforcement in mexico forming a human chain of sorts trying to stop migrants from making the trip across the river. not all the migrants who make the trek will be allowed to remain in the u.s. more than a thousand haitians have been deported from the u.s./mexico border. 3600 remain under the del rio international bridge in texas. we re covering the crisis from both sides of the rio grande. cnn s rosa ....
constructive the conversations were. he is going to have his sleeves rolled up and be very engaged moving forward. reporter: yet the president s schedule didn t indicate that today with all meetings being conducted at the staff level. the president will not be meeting with lawmakers today. we ll see. the president is always open to meeting with discussing and communicating with lawmakers. there is a lot of work that needs to continue that can happen with senior staff members. reporter: a lot of work indeed with the $1.2 trillion infrastructure plan up for a vote early next week. along with the broader $3.5 trillion plan to expand education and health care, address climate change, and more. on capitol hill, cnn s manu raju pressed speaker pelosi on the plan cost. have you settled on a price tag no, we didn t talk about that. this is not about price tag. this is what is in the bill. reporter: it is of course about both but pelosi remained optimistic democrats ....
of specifics makes it clear there s a lot more work to do. i ll talk with a key players in these negotiations. cdc divorce just endorsed giving phiers boosters shots for ages 65 and up and many with underlying medical conditions. stand by for details on this breaking story and what happens next. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer, and you re in the situation room. we begin with the migrant crisis at the southern border and growing criticism of the biden administration s policies. cnn s rosa flores is in del rio, texas, where thousands of migrants have been camped out. first, what are you seeing on the ground tonight? reporter: wolf, dramatic pictures, a dramatic change here on the ground. i want to go directly to live drone footage, because that is the story tonight. as you look at these pictures, you ll see the area right next to the international bridge, which was peppered by handmade huts, that has ....
rio told me what they re doing is basically releasing any family units and any women who are currently claiming to be pregnant. you can see impact that it s having on the camp here. take a live look at the scene here. we ve told just about 5,000 people are left over in this camp right now. that is significantly decreased from what it was on saturday, about 15,000. you still see a lot of people milling about, they ve built their make hadshift structures waiting in the sun, the heat, finding out if they have a chance of being released into the united states. you can take a look at our live drown head. we ve been showing you this for the past several days. the camp is still fairly large but you can see parts of it are starting to be cleared out becauses the feds want to get to the optics of this so they re trying to clear it as fast as possible. we want to show you what some of those mass releases look like. we were in del lio earlier today, we went to an ngo, fawn had gov ....