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this is cnn breaking news. top of the new hour, thanks for staying with us. i m victor blackwell. and i m alisyn camerota. democrats announcing moments ago they will tie an increase in the debt limit to the government spending bill. this move sets up a looming show down with republicans. for more, let s bring in manu raju and lauren fox on capitol hill. lauren, i want to start with you. walk us through what this decision means and how it will work. essentially democrats are daring republicans to vote against an increase in the debt ceiling. there of course is a looming deadline coming sometime in mid october to raise the country s debt limit for what democrats say is money that they have already borrowed. with republicans, given all of the spending for coronavirus over the last year and a half, now, republicans have been saying over and over again that they are not going to join with democrats to actually increase that debt limit. here democrats are saying if yo ....
and we re following new twists in a woman s mysterious disappearance during a road trip. the fbi has been searching the family home of brian laundrie a day after the likely remains of his fiancee gabby petito were found. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with the breaking news on the ross of life from covid-19 that is both unfathomable and frankly unacceptable. the u.s. death toll from this pandemic just rose above 675,000. that s higher than the death toll from the 1918 flu pandemic more than 100 years ago. the youngest americans are increasingly at risk in this crisis here in the united states, and tonight they may be closer to being eligible for vaccinations. pfizer says its vaccine is safe and effective for children ages 5 to 11. in a smaller dose, a lower dose than adults get. let s discuss all of this and much more with dr. anthony fauci, the director of the nat ....
all continue down there in florida. live pictures you saw in north port, florida. fbi agents at the home of the laundrie family after searching theinature preserve over the weekend. brian parents say they have not seen him in nearly a week. brian and gabby left new york in early july. they were visited the grand teton in wyoming in late august when gabby stopped communicating with her family. brian returned home to florida without her. john: gabby s parents reported her missing september 11th triggering a search of the wyoming national park. that search turning up human remains yesterday believed to be gabby petito. sandra: we will kick things off with our fox team coverage on this story. laura in wyoming. john: charles watson outside of the laundrie family home in florida. what is the latest? there are more than a dozen fbi agents in the laundrie home executing a search warrant in relation to the death of 22-year-old gabby petito. things were quiet out here thi ....
inflation keep investors on edge. welcome. i m sandra smith in for neil cavuto, this is your world. a down tour in china s housing market sparking worries over there as inflation is a huge concern here. democrats continue to push for massive new spending plans. the dow diving on the news today. down nearly 1,000 points midday. coming back on the final minutes of trading. finishing off down 614 points. we ve got fox team coverage with fox business s lauren simonetti and what is driving the selling. chad pergram on the spending that has inflation fears spiking. we begin with lauren. lauren, what was it about today? the impetus to sell, not the reason, came from china, sandra. they have a major property developer called ever grand and they have debt due that they can t pay. some call it china s lehman brothers bankruptcy. the white house isn t worried yet. let me first note that this is a company based in china whose activities are overwhelmingly centered in china. t ....
to help estimate a number. many times throughout american history the question of how many jellybeans are in a jar has been a racist tool of oppression. in 1890 mississippi lawmakers gathered in jackson to find a way around the 15th amendment which gave african-americans the right to vote. the white judge who presided put the matter bluntly. we came here to exclude the negro. nothing short will answer. the mississippi lawmakers adopted two measures to make voting all but impossible for black people in mississippi. one was a poll tax. you had to bring the equivalent of $58 in today s money to vote. the other was a literacy test. registrars could ask arbitrary questions to decide if prospective voters were smart enough to vote. white people always seemed to get the simple questions. black voters, well, black voters were asked such things as how many bubbles are in a bar of soap? and they were also asked things like how many jellybeans are in this jar? these practices beca ....