the sun is rising there, now, over a desperate search-and-rescue operation. we are going to go back to sanjay here, in just a moment. crews have been working through the night. they are trying to locate survivors of this devastating-building collapse. 99 people are, still, un-accounted for this morning. we know that at least one person is dead. i think we actually got an update from the mayor that that four people may have passed away. and we re expecting to get a more-formal update, from officials here, shortly. there is video from inside of a parking garage where rescuers have been focusing their search. it is delicate. this is dangerous work. they have structural engineers who are right beside them during this. you can see why. also, this surveillance video shows the moment the building collapsed. just horrifying. this morning, we are going to talk to a number of experts who are trying to figure out how it could have happened. meanwhile, family members are holding out
Welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe to this Bbc News special. This is President Biden s first president ial address to congress. He will talk about america being on the move again. In the next few Minutes President biden will address a Joint Session of congress to mark his first 100 days in office. He will speak soon. Lets see what is happening inside the chamber. It is quite odd. It is a covid friendly address. Normally there would be something like 1600 people in this chamber, or members of congress that all members of the senate. All of the members of the cabinet would be there and all of the members of the Supreme Court would be there. Senior members of the Defence Department would be there. It is a much reduced crowd. There are a select few people about 200 in all in the whole chamber. Top republicans, top democrats are there. The first Ladyjill Biden is up in the gallery. And of course it is a historic occasion because sitting behind Joe Biden for the ve
Politicians do, as has been noted, i think by you, dana, theyre excited to see Each Other. There is the house republican leader, kevin mccarthy, and liz cheney, who has been feuding with him because he has been telling lies about the election. And the continued pageantry of the night still going on even though they are masked, even though their numbers are limited. I think usually that room sits about 1,600. Tonight its only going to seat 200. It is certainly a cautious approach given that most of them, if not all of them, have been vaccinated. But were going to soon hear the introduction of the President Of The United States. So lets take a moment and just listen and hear some of the senior leaders of the u. S. Senate walking in, the Senate President pro tem, and senator dick durbin, Senator Bernie Sanders and others. People happy to see Each Other. Theres not a lot of interaction on Capitol Hill these days given covid. Amy klobuchar. Theres the Senate Majority Leader and the senate m
these negotiations, but we don t know right now what we don t know right now is whether the president is the final word on all of this. his new framework strips out several key initiatives including paid family leave and free community college. that s according to the framework. major priorities of joe biden s yet now out in order to win over moderate senators joe manchin and kyrsten sinema. there are a lot of big moments in every presidency. this is a very big moment for joe biden s presidency. he delayed his departure to europe this morning in order to make this final push to get his party to come together around a deal since republicans are united against this effort. let s begin our coverage with cnn s john harwood. he s live at the white house. we ll hear from the president just minutes away, john. what do you think we re about to hear from president biden? reporter: i think a very strong case in the affirmative for what s in this package, not what was cut out
screen. when he walks up we ll watch as a nation. right now biden is facing a huge obstacle. one moderate democrat told fox news quote, unquote, it s the fing progressives. we cleaned it up. even with the massive price tag at 1.75 trillion the far left is furious as what has been cut and cut and cut from the plan. and now some are threatening to block the separate bipartisan infrastructure bill until they get what they want. how much they ve changed and taken back, etc. we need text. we need text. we can talk a little bit flexibility around process but we need confirmed text. infrastructure bill i don t see how ethically i can vote to increase. harris: put it in a text in writing. she wants a bill. senator john kennedy republican from louisiana is standing by with reaction to go in focus. first chad pergram live on capitol hill. you had aoc not happy. democrats say they have a framework but there is still no firm legislative text to this bill and house speaker n