announcer: this is cnn breaking news. good morning to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world, i m john berman. side by side with brianna keilar this morning. it is wednesday, august 11th. we do begin with breaking news. it happened just moments ago in the u.s. senate and is a big victory for president biden and his domestic agenda. topping off 24 hours of big 24 hour for this agenda, and a sign that maybe there s a possibility for the path that he has set going forward. after an all nighter, senate democrats approved a $3.5 trillion budget resolution paving the way for democrats to pass the plan without republican support later this year. the measure passed 50-49. it was a party-line vote following a lengthy series of amendments. the budget lays the ground work for a sweeping expansion of the country s social safety net and would allow democrats to fund their battle the climate crisis, fund some healthcare initiatives, education measures and it w
of wind damage and 400,000 still without power at this hour. this weather is brought to you by carvana, the new way to buy a car. so we will have more weather in the same area today, more wind damage likely, right over wisconsin, illinois, into michigan. the same type of weather, the same type of squall line like we had. and pretty much the same spot, too. so we ll have to watch out for that. people still picking up the pieces there. it will be another hot day today. monticello, iowa, yesterday had a heat index for a few minutes of 125 degrees. that s off the chart. here you go tropical storm fred we talked about this yesterday the potential was there for fred and certainly now it is here at this hour. headed toward the florida straits. see what it does, east coast, west coast of florida you re still in the cone. we ll keep watching. new day continues right now. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world, i m
married celebrating her one-year anniversary, and now to see her gone, you know it was avoidable. this is the real part of the story. these are real people and the people who knew them as we have seen in some of the stories we have done for you are sometimes their family members speaking out, and here we have a pastor speaking out and the reality is about human lives and not so-called politics. there s a growing backlash to people playing politics, and it s republican governors and others who have stuck by policies proven to fail and now is costing lives. in u.s. we are at february levels before the vaccine was available to every one and everywhere. the delta variant is seemingly everywhere. republican leaders are now under fire often by their own constituents including independents and republicans for banning safety precautions that work, indeed that work in other places, because they are the places that try them. florida break its own record in covid infections, and a fed
place we are. so in that regard, yes, we are failing. we have vaccines that we know are highly effective and safe. and, yet, half the country is still not fully vaccinated and about 90 million people have not gotten one dose. we would not be in the place we are right now with this delta surge if we d been more effective in getting everybody to take advantage of these immunizations. the point is this was preventable. and this just in. due to the explosion of covid cases in new orleans and the state of louisiana, the new orleans jazz fest, a major event scheduled for october, has been canceled. let s bring in cnn medical analyst and professor of medicine and surgery at george washington university, our friend dr. jonathan reiner. doctor, great to see you on set. this is terrific. are we really at this point again where events are going to have to be canceled in this country? a lot of people thought we were going around, around the bend over this, getting over this hump. doesn
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