to cover the price tag that could be near $2 trillion. we re going to fully pay for the plan. we were ready to pay for $3.5, so we certainly can pay for half of that. reporter: democrats considering several ways to tax the nation s billionaires. progressive leaders now saying if there s a handshake on this, they ll be ready to vote for the president s other bill for traditional infrastructure too. i m confident that the president will be able to give his word to the house caucus that he has that agreement, and that would then facilitate the vote on the infrastructure bill. reporter: democratic leaders say they re hoping to take a vote on the infrastructure bill by the middle of the week. the white house is putting a lot of pressure on lawmakers to get something done before the president travels overseas later this week. maryalice, thanks so much. and there are growing concerns over the supply chain crisis as we approach the holidays. and it s not just toys, shoes, and every
major test on abortion, with another case from mississippi that directly asks the justice to consider overturning roe v. wade. linsey? maryalice, thank you. a navy nuclear engineer and his wife are under arrest tonight. the fbi says they were allegedly trying to pass america s nuclear sub secrets to another country. investigators say the engineer was communicating with an undercover fbi agent, allegedly making three drops of information. including one where he allegedly put an sd card inside a peanut butter sandwich. new details in the remarkable story of survival, and the joyful reunion with the family of a 3-year-old, the texas boy who had been missing for found days found saturday. he was thirsty, but remarkably in good health. here s marcus moore. reporter: this image says it all. relief for this texas mother holding her son again, four anguishing days after he vanished into the woods near their home. the child was found alive.
vote further erodes that trust. maryalice, nancy pelosi pushing back that infrastructure vote to the end of the month. but congress is facing another major deadline. reporter: that s right. treasury secretary janet yellen says the country could default on its past debt if congress does not raise the debt limit by october 18th. so far, republicans have refused to work with democrats on this. yellen and other democrats have said congress should change the law so these sorts of debt ceiling votes are not needed. whit? maryalice, thank you. now to fears of a looming crisis at the u.s./mexico border. panama s foreign minister saying up to 60,000 mostly haitian migrants are making their way to the united states through central america. the biden administration facing criticism on its handling of the recent border surge. and new legal challenges to a policy which allows for the
president macron to try to move forward. but this week, with the general assembly, the u.n. general assembly starting, the relationships with allies and all of president biden s diplomatic agenda will be under a microscope. linsey? maryalice, thank you. it is mission accomplished for spacex and the all civilian crew of inspiration 4. splashing down, ending their mission. before recording several firsts and raising millions of dollars for st. jude s children s hospital in the process. here s gio benitez. reporter: it s the splashdown seen around the world. inspiration 4 on behalf of spacex, welcome home to planet earth. reporter: four civilians on the mission known as inspiration 4, orbiting the earth about 47 times at 17,500 miles per hour. their spacex crew dragon experiencing 3,500 degrees of heat as it re-entered the atmosphere. those parachutes deploying.
that s the one that has the emergency. reporter: progressives adamant they do not want one bill without the other. i happen to think that the needs of the human beings of our country, working families, the children, the elderly, the poor, are even more important. reporter: president biden looking to lock in these bills for a needed political boost. you re likely, if you both stick to your positions, you re going to end up with nothing. that is a possibility, and i think that would be a disaster for the american people. reporter: speaker pelosi and leader schumer say they want to move both bills by the end of the month. but the bill for physical infrastructure faces a tough deadline. money to states for roads and highways dries up in just a few weeks. maryalice, thank you. meantime, the high-stakes election to recall california governor gavin newsom is down to the wire. tuesday is election day. the governor calls the election matter of life and death. his top challenge