thank you for being here everyone. let s get to these top stories at this hour. first, president biden considering drastic measures to avoid a catastrophic debt default. the president now seems open to senate democrats using the so-called nuclear option to raise the debt ceiling, something he previously was against. listen to this. to raise the debt limit using a carve out with the filibuster to raise the debt limit? i think that s a real possibility. a real possibility now. getting rid of the filibuster here means democrats would need only a simple majority, 50 just over 50 votes which they would have without needing any republican buy-in. secondly, the senate is expected to hold a test vote this afternoon on a measure to suspend the debt ceiling until 2022. that s expected to fail. facebook ceo mark zuckerberg is breaking his silence in a new statement released hours after frances how long again urged congress to regulate social media giants like facebook, zuckerb
ed lavandera is in arlington, texas. has everything been evacuated from the school? it looks like investigators an police here at the scene at the school, which is part of the mansfield independent school district, but inside the city of arlington, in that process is beginning to unfold. you can see there in the distance behind these police vehicles and s.w.a.t. vehicles, there s a fleet of yellow schoolbuses here. what we were told is that as investigators and first responders here have been going through the school securing the scene, making sure no one else was involved in the shooting and searching the school, that those students would begin the process of being escorted out of the building. they re going to be put on those schoolbuses, taken to a nearby performing arts center and then they can reunite with family members. that s where they ve asked parents and family to wait for these students to be cleared from the school, but as you mentioned, the search for 18-year-
enforcement are on the scene, a man hunt is underway. casey stegall is joining us by phone, he rushed to the site of this shooting reunification site in arlington, texas. casey, give us some sense of what it has been like for parents as they reunite with their children who were in the school at the time of the shooting. casey: you can imagine. i just spoke with a guy literally a few minutes ago, he said his daughter is a sophomore. he was parking in the parking lot because the traffic is so bad. he was going to hoof it to the performing arts center. not far, just a stones throw away from the high school itself. that has been identified as the official reunification center and that is where once the official all-clear is given and the students are able to board the buses and leave the property, they will be brought to this location so they can be reuniified with their parents. they want to put the right kids with the right people after a security incident like this. they wou
to torpedo it with a filibuster just 12 days out from when the u.s. is expected to default on its loans. the crucial question this morning, what are senate democrats going to do about it? right now they re huddling behind closed doors with senior white house officials. this hour we re tracking a change that could help thousands of americans get out from under crushing student loans. how teachers, social workers, and members of the armed services could get their debts cleared. and we re also dig spoog a brand new report that shows just how effective vaccines are at preventing covid deaths. in fact, listen to this. vaccines prevented 39,000 deaths among medicare recipients in just the first five months of this year. the report coming as we learn two-thirds of americans are now fully vaccinated. we ll get to that in a moment. we re going to start this hour with the high stakes standoff over the debt ceiling. our correspondent is with us. our white house correspondent monica alba
thank you for your time, chief. i know you just are getting plugged in here oh, can you hear me okay? craig melvin. yes, are you talking to me, craig, i can hear you. yes, and we re live on msnbc right now. let me start with what do you make of what we re seeing unfold so far and the facts as we know them at this hour? just after noon? obviously another tragic match shooting that we re experiencing here. it is become an epidemic this country. it s very sad to see. i know there are multiple casualties. details will variety as they come out. the fact that there is a lot of buses there, they re moeing the unaffected victims out to a reunification point, these are always very dynamic very scary, and there could be potential traps in the bidding depending on what the shooter had in mind. that could be a concern, trying to extracated everyone safely. i m not sure if the suspect is in custody yet or what happened, but it looks like a significant police presence. you re rig