Northeast from vancouver, and it was 118 degrees there, today. No higher temperature has ever been recorded anywhere in canada in all of recorded history. That 115 degrees today in portland oregon, that was the hottest temperature ever recorded in recorded history in portland. That said, portland s previous record was set yesterday, and before yesterday, the previous record was set the day before that. Today should hopefully have been the worst of it in the pacific northwest, but it s quite bad, emergency rooms filling up with people sick and struggling from the heat. They have been opening cooling centers and towns all around the region trying to give people a place to go to get away from the heat. They have been shooting water at the draw bridges in seattle to try to stop them from getting stuck, as the metal expands beyond anything they were ever expected to deal with before. They shut down some lands on interstate five because the heat caused concrete panels on that freeway to just
even by the standards of the political profession where against the odds biographies are common, what mr. reid overcome was extraordinary. he was raised in kenzian circumstances, his home had no indoor plumbing. his father an alcoholic miner who died by suicide and his mother helped the family survive by taking in laundry from local brothels. here s what he said in his farewell speech in 2016. i didn t make it because of my good looks, because i am a genius. i made it because i worked hard. one of the longest serving senate majority leaders of all time, reid was one of the most powerful figures in washington during the president sees of george w. bush and barack obama. crafting a legislative legacy from obamacare to a mass live stimulus bill and new regulations for wall street in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis that is practically unmatched. from the washington post, acknowledged even by republican adversaries as a wiley tactician and master of the senate s archea
down today. a $3.5 trillion bill will not get his needed vote in the senate. so what will? that s where we are at this hour, at this minute. there was a victory for leadership today in the form of legislation to avoid a partial federal government shutdown. at least until early december. punting that fiscal cliff a few months. but most things, including a debt ceiling increase, and the future of the biden legislative agenda hang in the balance tonight as special report kicks off. we have fox team coverage. jackie heinrich is at the white house to tell us what the administration is doing to get the key votes. we begin on capitol hill with where things stand. good evening, chad. reporter: good evening, bret. it s democrat against democrat, the left battling centrists. joe manchin calling $3.5 trillion in social spending, quote, fiscal insanity. for days manchin said he was not negotiating a price tag, but a memo that came by fox said manchin has committed to only $1.5 trillion
advice is simple. you ve run a very smart campaign, you ve never backed down. but now the focus should almost exclusively shift to the general election. the democrats are going to stop at nothing, they see this train coming down the track, and they want to derail it. and if they can, they are going to game the system or maybe even cheat. whoa, what now? that was not foxes laura angrum in december of 2020. that was fox host laura ingraham this week, january, the year 2024. despite no evidence of election fraud last time around, and having to make $787 million to settle a defamation case based on their 2020 election lies. fox appears to be priming their audience once again to believe that if donald trump loses in 2024, it s because the democrats cheated. they are normalizing the completely false idea that american elections are rigged. and it is not just laurin graham. now turning to joe biden. what we are hearing from voters on the ground in iowa, about a third of iowa rep
mccarthy. the current republican leader has sent the new proposal to his colleagues to try to overcome significant resistance to his ascension. senior congressional correspondent chad pergram is live on capitol hill tonight. hello, chad. the math. there are at least five g.o.p. members who oppose mccarthy for speaker and, perhaps, more. kevin doesn t have the votes. what we ll do, we ll block kevin. there will be 10 to 15 members vote against him on the first ballot tomorrow that will vote for andy biggs. mccarthy can only lose four votes and still prevail. mccarthy is desperately making concessions. do you think the rules package you released last night has moved any votes to yes. yes. and what will you do if you don t have 218 on the first ballot? mccarthy finally agreed to one demand. he would lower the bar to hold a new confidence vote for speaker if members don t think he s doing a good job. but that didn t satisfy mccarthy detractors. there is nothing