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all 50 senate democrats supported the bill with vice president harris casting the tie-breaking vote. the bill will now head to the house to where democrats also hold a razor-in majority. what does this mean for the next steps? let s get right to chad pergram live on capitol hill with the details. reporter: arthel, a political high wire act. all 50 democrats sticking together and then leaning on vice president harris to break the tie to pass a touchstone of president biden s legislative agenda. the yeas are 50, the nays are 50. the senate being equally divided, the vice president votes in the affirmative, and the bill as amended is passed. [cheers and applause] reporter: the senate began voting at is 1:30 last night, finally approving bill after 16 hours and 38 consecutive roll call votes. it s been a long, tough and winding road, but at last, at last we have arrived. i know it s been a long day and a long night, but we ve gotten it done. today, after more than a ....
to roll us backward on issue after issue, they are illegitimate and people say no. you are watching fox and friends first on monday morning. i m carley shimkus. todd: i m todd piro. a man was charged with attempting to murder justice kavanaugh outside his home, but the media burying the story. not one single sunday show other than fox news sunday spent a second covering it yesterday. ashley strohmier joins us. ashley. ashley: one more group targeting the justices. the story was ignored by the sunday political shows on cnn, abc, cbs and nbc and focused on the january 6 committee hearing as protesters were seen outside the home of just clarence thomas this weekend and a group going by the name ruth sintas. democratic congressman chris kunz refusing to say people should be arrested. i didn t say don t arrest protesters, i m saying appropriate action should ensure the safety of supreme court justices and i will not say this protester or that protester ought to be ar ....
by the time you re heading home from work mid-90s. i ll let you know how long this heat and high humidity will stick around for our area. that s coming up in my extended full forecast. for now we check in with first alert traffic reporter jessica boyington. the roads are good for now. we re not dealing with a whole lot of volume. the schuylkill expressway relatively light. we re looking live around girard avenue. so we are losing out that right-hand shoulder on the eastbound side. there s a little bit of equipment in the area. not an active work zone but something to watch out for. headed eastbound right in here a 12-minute drive time. from the blue route up towards the vine street expressway, no real problems there. we ll head over to new jersey now. we are seeing just a tad more volume than normal. and a little bit earlier than we normally do, possibly some folks heading home from the shore. so northbound from 55 up towards the walt whitman bridge still seeing an ea ....
bezos, he s now the second richest person in the world. right behind bill gates. and bezos has around 79 billion. he made 3 billion just overnight. let s not forget google. this is extraordinary. that s revenue up every single quarter for seven straight years, that s a juggernaut. that stock also going straight up at the opening bell today. all right, that s money. now, politics. it takes longer than 100 days to drain the swamp. oh, yes, it does. no vote on obamacare today, or tomorrow. it may be next week. and the left, no growth plan for the democrats. the new york times and democrat leaders call the president s growth agenda, a give away to the pitch. they don t like it. your money looking good. politics and that swamp is still there. but it s friday and we re glad you re with us. varney & company is about to begin. ain t no stopping us now we re on the move all right, okay, i ll go with that. it seems like there s no stopping, certainly no stopping t ....
store chain. and to that notion that amazon is taking over the world and now people are getting afraid that not only has it taken over the technology world, but it s going into the traditional food world and how you get your groceries and buying whole foods in a roughly $13.7 billion deal, if you don t think that this is sort of creating a bit of a selling twilight zone for competitive retailers, look what s happening to walmart, costco and target. all of them taking a big hit right now on the idea that maybe amazon s hopes to serve man means that it s going to serve all of his competitors. that is, jeff bezos competitors on a platter. you see how i worked that in there with a little rod sellerring? [laughter] okay, fine. this is basic cable. you just have to deal. in the meantime, let s take a look at the implications of this deal, because it is a dramatic alternative for jeff bezos and company. it s one thing to go into rockets, but to go into food and grocery stores ....