Crews have been working to dislodge the ship from the canal. Cnn just obtained this video, and that appears to show the stern of the ship away from the suez bank, and it got stuck a week ago and has been blocking the canal every since. Ben wedeman is live. I want to go to you first. What do you make of the good news, at least the good signals and messaging we are getting out of the region . Reporter well, it does seem that on the seventh day there is movement. We just heard the chairman of the Suez Canal Authority saying that the ship has been shifted, he says 80 . It appears the stern has been moved away from the western bank of the suez canal. Clearly the waterway is not free yet but this is significant progress. It happened in the very Early Morning hours before sunrise, and he did say that they are hoping to actually float and completely free the ship. Around 11 30 is when high tide occurs. Thats about 3 1 2 hours from now. When that happens they are hoping to move the ever given u
Majority leader Chuck Schumer. Were being told by several democratic aides mansion agreed to the extension of Unemployment Benefits through the covid Relief Package through september, The Beginning Of September and September 6th i should say for 30 0 0 a week. The original plan was the end of september. There is going to be a tax credit available for people that receive the benefit for 10,200. That was an issue mansion was concerned about. Mansion was considering supporting a republican alternative to this provision that was offered up by rob portman of ohio. That would have cut off the benefits through july at only 300 a week and also, not provide that tax credit. So this appears to be enough for mansion to cut off the benefits a little less than a month earlier than what democrats had originally intended but this was a long day, john, of a lot of anxiety for democrats that were concerned that they were not going to be able to cut this deal with mansion, and he was single handedly hol
Whats going on . Reporter well, this was an a 11 hour and 50 minute process here. I want to make sure i got the timing correct here. This started this morning when the senate was set to take all process known as voterrama. How you get a bill passed through second lis reconciliati. We thought there would be a flurry of events, and everything was stalled this morning. 11 hours and 50 minutes ago, because there was a problem with the provision as it relates to Unemployment Insurance. And what it crystallizes is the power that joe manchin has in the the process. He did not like the compromise that democrats and President Biden had on Unemployment Insurance that could reduce the payment from 300 a month but extend it to end of september. He thought that was too long, and he was concerned about the tax benefit associated with it. He was actually considering supporting a republican alternative that would have capped the Unemployment Benefits through july at only 300 and would also now provide
Sexual violence. He has not disputed what the allegation has been in that case. He has simply tried to characterize it differently. Good saturday morning to you. It is march 6, im victor blackwell. And im amara walker in for christi paul. It is a new day on capitol hill and we still dont know when senators will finish voting on amendments to President Bidens 1. 9 trillion rescue bill. This is live. Senators have been working all night and this bill is getting closer to a final vote. They have been going through this amendment process, it is happening now, this votearama almost fell apart nearly 12 hour delay for this bill. Surprise road block was senator joe manchin who faced off with fellow democrats on enhanced Unemployment Benefits sfl. But he agreed on extending the benefits through september 6. And now republicans are running out of options to stall voting after democrats refused to stop for the night. Now that this agreement has been reached, we will power through the rest of the