reporter: tonight, new battle lines in the fight over vaccine mandates. los angeles sheriff defying the mandate for all county employees, vowing not to enforce it. i don t want to be in a position to lose 5%, 10% of my workforce overnight on a vaccine mandate. reporter: in seattle, nearly 300 sworn officers could be fired if they don t submit proof of vaccination before an october 18th deadline. our shootings are up, our domestic violence is up, all these types of crimes are up anyway. so we need officers now more than ever. reporter: the department reportedly planning to deploy officers on special assignments to cover emergency calls. a mandate also looming for u.s. troops to get the shot. hundreds of thousands of military members have yet to comply, potentially facing career-ending consequences. deadlines for most active duty service members begin next month. and tonight, with covid infections and hospitalizations falling, dr. anthony fauci with a warning. it s certainly
government defaulting on its bills, mitch mcconnell is telling democrats not ask minorities help on raising the debt ceiling again come december. we go wilmington, delaware where the president is spending the weekend. let s beginning with daniela diaz. the next limit of the debt level fight. mcconnell sending this letter to biden. now what? we wait and see what happens, fred. this week was really busy especially on the senate side as the democrats navigated trying to figure out how they were going to pass a suspension or raise the debt ceiling before this october 18th deadline that treasury secretary jessica yellin warned would be the day that the nation would default on its debt. then you have dramatic effect on the economy in this country which is why the senate was
we are now going to be in basically the same spot by december. so where do democrats go from here? reporter: well, first the house has to pass this bill, laura, so they can avoid defaulting on the nation s debt. of course, we were barrelling towards that october 18th deadline. that is why all of this chaos happened in the past couple days on the senate side. because treasury secretary janet yellen was warning that if congress did not address the debt ceiling, the nation would default on its debt by october 18th. so now it is looking like that s not going to happen, but it s not a permanent solution. it s just a two-month delay on this. but i really think you guys laid it out perfectly. there is a divide between republicans and democrats in the senate how this was handled. both republicans and democrats mad at their own leaders for how they handled this. you played that clip from senator joe manchin. he is incredibly upset that senate majority lieder chuck schumer took to the senate f
these are not all the serious side effects. now i m back where i belong. ask your doctor about latuda and pay as little as $0 for your first prescription. breaking news on capitol hill. chuck schumer announced minutes ago a deal has been reached to extend the debt ceiling through december. joining me now from the hill is our national political reporter sahil. what more can you tell us about this deal? it s a short-term deal between the democrats and the republicans in the senate to extend the debt ceiling from that october 18th deadline until early december. they are they have been working to finalize the details since late yesterday when they struck this general agreement which essentially means that republicans won t filibuster it. democrats will still have topaz it on their own. they ll do it through regular order on the floor of the senate and won t have to do it through
there is a disconnect that s happening. joe is underscoring it here. as democrats want to move the needle here, they do need to probably get the public more on its side, more attentive to the debate, so that they can apply pressure to republicans to ct in some of the procedurals. the president is meeting with the bank ceos, which is a pressure campaign. what took so long? we knew this was coming. democrats could have dealt with this in prior legislative vehicles. they could have started the process a while back. only now with the october 18th deadline looming do they seem to be going into hyperdrive. you really do sit back and wonder, you know, are we staring at the sort of financial abyss here? did we wait did congress wait too long to resolve this, and will we actually tip over and have a default? will that be the precipitating moment when we get this resolved? don t know. sam, it is interesting that mitch mcconnell doesn t seem to