york. we begin with a deadly crisis in the state of texas. at least 26 dead so far. but that toll is expected to rise. and even as temperatures are finally moving up, the devastation for residents is far from over. people in several areas of texas and surrounding states have no running water. in fact, many, as you can see here, waiting in line to get drinking water after the pipes burst deep freeze. families staring down major repairs and a long recovery. so this is kind of what we re now doing. the water is not even bubbling, nothing. this is this is snow we melted for washing faces and hands. and breaking this morning, there is federal relief on the way. president biden pruchg a major disaster declaration for the entire state of texas. cnn s omar jimenez is in austin right now. what s the latest there in austin? yeah, so right now what the real priority is water for a lot of people. on the electricity front, thankfully they actually have outages under 10,000 for the
giving up. chief white house correspondent and weekend today co-host, kelly o donnell, garrett haake on capitol hill, chris lieu, former deputy secretary of labor in the obama administration and david jolly, former republican. garrett, you ve been chasing this senate vote since they gavelled into session today after their long night of reading, the reading marathon. how long is the process going to take? any way to estimate? reporter: this could be a very long process. sort of a popular parlor game on the hill to ask senators when they think they ll be done. the ones i ve talked to expect it will be well after midnight. so far there have been more than 250 amendments filed although in contrast, the last time we did one of these there were more than 900 amendments filed and only about 40 got voted. we re till looking at dozens of amendment votes and debates on each one of those that could take us well into the wee hours of saturday morning, andrea. david jolly, we re at
hospitality sector. it s good to see some of those come back. but if you look under the hood of this you also saw that in february we lost nearly 70,000 educator jobs at the state and local level. and as you say, the challenge of long-term joblessness, which is one of the hallmarks of this crisis, is not getting better. so what we really need to do here is we need to provide relief and support immediately in those areas of the economy that we know are struggling so that we can get the trajectory of this recovery up significantly. to that point democrats say that is what is in this bill and it will help precisely those people. that includes unemployment benefits extended through september, a third round of direct stimulus payments, $1,400 going directly to people making $75,000 or less, single parents with kids earning $112,500 or less and couples making $150,000 or less. the bill includes $350 billion for state and local governments, $130 billion for schools, $160 billion f
nations have in the wake of the pandemic and the effect that had worldwide. so it is going to be a little bit of both when they get behind closed doors. of course we will not see much of this meeting because of how they have curtailed the press coverage of this. typically you would see them going in to meet, saying their hellos and then the press will leave the room. we won t have that moment today of course, chris. great insights. thank you very much, caitlyn. both men were unlikely choices for leadership. now here they are. how can they help each other in this meeting, father beck? well, it s interesting. i think they are both facing similar object ta cals. there is this faction in the catholic church and politically here in the country. in a sense i see them as allies in that. pope francis has been critiqued by right-wing media. he has come back at them for the critique. we have seen great division with the recent election of the country of those who are saying the ele
in a tight governor s race what the results could reveal for democrats and republicans. plus the person responsible for guns on the set of the film rust is now speaking about the incident for the first time as authorities underline they ve got some questions for her that they need answered. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. breaking news in the health lead. the shot clock is winding down. parents are one step closer to getting their young children vaccinated if they want. moments ago the food and drug administration granted emergency use authorization of pfizer s covid vaccine for kids ages 5 to 11. and now the drug company can start shipping child sized doses to pediatricians, pharmacies and vaccination sites where the shots will be administered. the cdc still needs to greenlight use of the vaccine. and as nick watt reports, that could happen as early as tuesday. pfizer can start shipping vaccine doses for those younger kids 5 to 11 because the fda just grant