In a moment. First, we kick off America Reports with another fox news alert. A war between moderate and far left democrats puts any chance of passing President Bidens agenda in doubt. Party leaders pledge to move forward but a mine field of issues remain unsolved. I am sandra smith in new york back with mike. I am mike emanuel in for john roberts. President bidens bill is on life support. Any chance of getting manchin on board with a sweeping bill means key progressive items will be dropped. With the Calendar Turning into 2022 and the midterms elections the clock is sticking for democrats. Sandra Mitch Mcconnell will be our guest and will weigh in on that and more. First the fox team covers on bidens next move. Mike now to our Congressional Correspondent on capitol hill. Progressives are feeling the pressure. Put out a statement calling on the president to take action. I will read part of that now. They say executive action will make it clear to those who oppose the legislative path an
involvement in diverting millions meant for the poor to pet projects. cbs s nancy chen reports. and like a scene out of a movie, n.a.s.a. s plan to deliberately crash a spacecraft into an astroid at 14,000 miles per hour. cbs s mark strassmann shows us why. the threat is very real. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening, and thank you for joining us as we start a new week together. tonight, mandatory evacuation orders are already underway for hundreds of thousands of florida residents as hurricane ian gains strength as it bears down on the state s west coast. residents are filling up sandbags and flocking to grocery store, clearing out the entire inventory of bottled water and other nonperishable food items. outside gas stations, long lines of cars wrapped around the block as residents waited for fuel for their vehicles and generators ahead of expected power outages. tonight, ian is nearing the wes
supplies. and today governor desantis activated 2500 members of the national guard and cnn correspondents are every angle. let s get started with tom sater. this looks like a very powerful storm that could unleash a lot of fury on the gulf coast, something we haven t seen so far during this hurricane season. and it sounds like people need to wake up and pay attention. everywhere from pensacola to ft. myers. we didn t haven would named storm for the entire month of august and now we have four of them. if it wasn t for ian, we d be talking about fiona, massive damage up in canada. notice how wide it is, the sun is out here and getting the reflection, but you can see the circulation. there is the yucatan. but the infrared satellite imagery is a mess. it doesn t look impressive at all. at 8:00 a.m. this morning, hurricane hunters had a hard time finding the center. they did find it. it can jump around a little bit. and if that center jumps around, it will change the track. and
hurricane. meantime, hundreds of thousands of people now without power in canada, as fiona makes landfall there. this powerful storm is not letting up after you may recall it left a wave of destruction in puerto rico. we re going to have the latest on that storm s track. and it sounds like something out of a sci-fi thriller. nasa gets ready to slam a refri refrigerator-size spacecraft into an asteroid. we ll tell you why and give you the latest details on this fascinating mission. it is finally here. the weekend. thank you so much for sharing part of it with us. saturday, september 24th. great to be with you, amara. great to be with you. and yes, everyone, thank you so much for waking up with us. we ve got a lot of news to get to. and a lot of storm coverage. two major storms to talk about this morning. first, hurricane fiona now a post-tropical cyclone making landfall in eastern canada. and we re seeing our first images of the storm as it make the landfall this m
jacking up interest rates, raising bar owing costs. on thursday our first look at u.s. economic growth for the second quarter, another decline in gdp is expected. of course, two quarters of a loss in a row is a sign of a recession, so are we head there had? here is the treasury secretary. the labor market is now extremely strong. we are in a period of transition in which growth is slowly. we re likely to see some slowing of job creation, but i do i don t think that that s a recession. a recession is broad-based weakness in the economy. we re not seeing that now. we re not seeing that now, but here is this from someone who used to have that job, the former treasury secretary larry somers. i think there is a very high likelihood of recession when we ve been in in kind of situation before. recession has essentially always followed when inflation has been high and unemployment has been low. soft landings represent a kind of triumph of hope over experience, i think we re v