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stunned the entire room. welcome to the lead. i m kaitlan collins in for jake tapper. and we begin this hour in louisiana where president biden is expected to speak any moment after touring communities ravaged by hurricane ida and meeting with state and local leaders. those hardest hit towns including laplace where many neighborhoods are still swamped with water. more than 800,000 hopes and businesses across the state still have no power five days after the storm. as victims deal with their destroyed homes, temperatures continue to swelter. right now in baton rouge, for example, the heat index is 105 degrees. we re covering the aftermath of ida all over the country. miguel marquez in new jersey, ed lavandera in louisiana, and arlette saenz is live at the white house. arlette, i want to start with you. what has been president biden s message while he s been on the ground today for several hours? reporter: president biden has had a message of support, both when it ....
america has always been propelled into the future by landmark national investments, investments that only the government has the capacity to make, only the government working together could make. today happens to mark it s coincidental, but today is the 60th anniversary of one of those significant investments that changed the nation. 65 years ago today president dwight eisenhower signed a bill to create the interstate highway system, 65 years ago today. that was the last infrastructure investment of the size and scope of what i m about to talk about today. it s time for us to write a new chapter in that story. after months of careful negotiations, of listening, compromising together and in good faith, moving together, with ups and downs and some blips, a bipartisan group of senators got together and they forged an agreement to move forward on the key priorities of my american jobs plan, the one sitting in front of me. as a result, this is a generational investment, a ....
earners. that had been central to financing this package and talking to democrats, they are trying to figure out a way to get around that opposition, either to try to convince her to change her mind or perhaps look at other ways to raise revenue. i just caught up with a chief tax writer about sinema s opsigss, and he said this. i think every democrat in the house and senate voted against the trump tax cuts. this is a chance to address it. so if you were against it, this is a chance to repair it. one of the most difficult issues here remains. we have still never seen a top line from the senate. what s the number? and that s one of the frustrations from house members. how come they have not heard specific top line. how much senate democrats would ultimately be willing to support because all 50 senate democrats are not yet behind a single number. the house tried to propose this $3.5 trillion plan which will be significantly scaled back. but despite these divisions ther ....
the so-called biluild back bett plan. america gave us the betts prepared workforce in the world, you saw what happened. think about after world war i and how america moved. we were the best educated overall country in the world. we led in the 20th century. we know 12 years is not enough to compete in the 20th century. the earlier our children begin to learn, the better for themselves, their families and their nation. you all know the statistics and some of your teachers and husbands used to talk to me about this. it was really basic. when you come from a home where the mom or dat have books on the shelves and on the coffee table and read, and you come from a home where mom or dad can t read or has a sixth grade education or has a little difficulty, the child coming from the middle-class heard will have heard a million more words spoken than the child coming from a middle-class home that s what you all know, you start talking to them when they re in the cradle. you eng ....
top of the hour, i m alisyn camerota. i m victor blackwell. the message from whistleblower frances haugen is that facebook should declare moral bankruptcy and seek help from congress. she testified in front of a senate committee today sf. she s the former employee of accusing the social media giant of knowing how harmful their algorithm is for children and our entire democracy. i believe facebook s products harm children, stoke division, and weaken our democracy. the company s leadership knows how to make facebook an instagram saver and won t make the necessary changes because they have put their astronomical profits before people. congressional action is needed. they won t solve this crisis without your help. cnn s donie o sullivan joins us live from capitol hill. so i mean, she just put to words what many people have been fearing for years about the algorithm of facebook, that it does much more harm than good, so where are we and what can lawmakers actually do ....