subpoenas two more people, this as trump allies face their subpoena deadline. plus, the covid vaccine could be available for children within weeks. we have all the details for you. announcer: live from london, this is cnn newsroom. with isa soares. welcome, everyone. it is friday, october the 8th, and we begin with a crisis averted for now. two senators, u.s. senators have voted to temporarily extend the nation s debt ceiling. that basically means they avoid what everyone agrees would have been a disastrous default. that means the u.s. government will have more money. in fact, it will have another $480 billion in about two more months to pay its bills. the house of representatives still has to agree. but this is only a temporary fix because come december 3rd, they will have to face a vote on this again. now, the stopgap measure brings u.s. debt limit to a whopping $28.88 you can see there, trillion dollars. that s the amount the government can borrow to pay the bills
republicans critical of his strategy. you do? why? we had a plan. we can t let threat of changing the rules drive us every time. i think the democratic threats to destroy the filibuster caused him to give in. i think that was a mistake, serious mistake. were you surprised? yes. after the vote, senate majority leader chuck schumer laid blame on the republicans for leading the nation on the brink of default triggering visible frustration from one of his fellow democrats. leader mcconnell and senate republicans insisted they wanted a solution to the debt ceiling, but said democrats must raise it alone by going through a drawn-out convoluted and risky reconciliation process. that was simply unacceptable to my caucus. and yesterday senate republicans finally realized that their obstruction was not going to work. the senator in the back of schumer there, that is senator joe manchin, of course, a key vote for democrats with his hands over his face, rubbing them. appa
now, at least. bipartisan senators striking a deal and raising the debt ceiling. so what has senator joe manchin shaking his head? the republican party rewriting history as former president trump tries to run out the clock on the insurrection investigation. will the trump administration ever be held accountable? new developments in the manhunt for brian laundrie. it turns out he was being surveilled by police before he disappeared. so how did he get away? plus, is this finally the turning point in the coronavirus pandemic in the u.s.? new signs of progress in the pandemic battle. good morning to viewers here in the united states and around the world. it is friday, october 8th. and if there is one picture to sum up the state of congress, it is this one. democrat joe manchin head in hands, listening incredulously or maybe dispairingly to democratic leader chuck schumer. it s a scene out of washington s latest flirtation with economic calamity that let s just call mr. mc
economic tailspin for a bit. talk about a low bar. they voted to pay the country s debts and raise the debt ceiling. it keeps the government in business for another two months or so and buys time for lawmakers to come up with a more permanent solution, if they can. the vote happened after mitch mcconnell backed off his stance and managed to pull 10 republicans with him. well, that did not sit well with some other members of the gop who saw this as mcconnell caving. but because a good deed never goes unpunished, the minority leader took incoming from both fronts and democratic leader chuck schumer was certainly in no mood to give thanks leader mcconnell and senate republicans insisted they wanted a solution to the debt ceiling but said democrats must raise it alone by going through a drawn-out, con view luted and risky reconciliation process. that was simply unacceptable to my caucus. and yesterday senate republicans finally realized their obstruction was not going to work
laundrie was being surveilled by police before he disappeared. so how did he slip away? and we re just minutes away from the monthly jobs report. this is a big one that could tell us how badly the delta variant stunted the recovery and how much longer until a full economic rebound. good morning to viewers here in the u.s. and around the world. it is friday, october 8th. and if there is one picture to sum up the state of congress, it is this one, democrat joe manchin head in hands listening incredulously or maybe dispairingly to democratic leader chuck schumer. a scene out of washington s latest flirtation with economic calamity that let s just call mr. mcconnell or how i learned to stop worrying and embrace the debt ceiling. some of senate minority leader mcconnell s own republicans accusing him of caving to democrats as he delivered the necessary gop votes to raise the country s borrowing limit. did he cave in so much as he decided to avert total economic disaster? the d