We begin with Breaking News on the southern border where a new surge of migrants, most of them from haiti, has grown to nearly 15,000. Right now dhs is ramping up Deportation Flights as thousands of migrants are overwhelming Del Rio, texas, many of them living under a bridge to try to escape the brutal heat. Well have an update from the scene in just minutes. Meanwhile on Capitol Hill the clock is ticking as democrats work to get a 3. 5 trillion Spending Bill and a bipartisan Infrastructure Bill to President Bidens desk. Earlier today i spoke with House Budget Committee chair John Yarmouth who had a message for his colleagues who are at odds over what that final bill should look like. You can posture all you want and say what you want, what you will and wont vote for. In the final analysis, youre going to vote for it because youre not going to vote against childcare and paid Family Leave and early Childhood Education and Community College and all these top priorities which, by the way,
Coverage right now. 550 Billion Infrastructure Plan after a group of senators from both parties reach an agreement months in the making. It is not a done deal. Here at home, a major announcement to combat covid19 as the Delta Variant intensifies its furious grip on unvaccinated communities. In hours, President Biden set to announce additional efforts aimed at ramping up the pace of vaccinations, specifically in areas with very low vaccination rates. Thats in addition to him declaring a new Vaccine Requirement for all federal workers. It is not just the government beginning to implement Vaccine Mandates. Netflix is the first major Hollywood Studio to require the shot for all cast and crew. Google and Facebook And Lyft say they require them for all employees returning to the office. Also new, growing number of states with high Infection Rates say they will not follow the Cdc Guidance on wearing masks indoors again. It is erupting into an allout Battle Guess where, Capitol Hill. House Min
Bill cosby a freeman tonight. We are going to dissected and discuss it. Former President Trump spent wednesday of its own border, hear what he is saying tonight about the crisis and who is to blame. We get in surfside, florida, with the latest on the Search And Rescue efforts in the rubble of the collapsed condo building. Correspondent Matt Finn is on the ground in surfside. What can you tell us . Shannon, its shortly after midnight and this is still an active scene. Officials have made it clear that the Search And Rescue is happening 24 hours a day aroundtheclock care. The remnants of the Champlain Tower over my shoulder. We see crews coming and going as we get closer to the one week mark. The latest numbers this evening sadly 18 people now confirmed dead including two children. 139 unaccounted for. 125 accounted for. Tonight we have a new Survivor Account for you. The person in the middle moved in the building in 2003. Her dream was to retire on the beach. On the night of the collaps
restored communications after months of silence. we re live in seoul with the latest. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church . u.s. president joe biden has a busy week ahead. on tuesday he heads to michigan to rally support for a pair of multi-trillion dollar bills for his agenda. the vote on the bipartisan infrastructure deal which was delayed twice last week has now been pushed back to the end of the month and progressive democrats insist it will not pass unless they get the even larger spending bill across the finish line as well. and here s where things stand right now. the white house is offering a compromise with a number of just more than $2 trillion. there s no indication yet if moderates, such as joe manchin, are willing to go that high or if progressives will agree to that number either. cnn s suzanne malveaux has the details. reporter: house speaker nancy pelosi pushing pause now issuing a new deadline of october 31st for a vote for
and social policy spending package that has been dubbed the quote human infrastructure plan. now, you ll remember how the twice-impeached ex-president managed to turn infrastructure week into a long-running joke on capitol hill, that failed to even make a serious attempt to accomplish anything. he would literally launch several infrastructure weeks with a dog and pony show at the white house, only to step on his own messaging, usually within hours and see the whole effort collapse. with this new administration, we re seeing real plans for investment in the country. as with most things in government, the process is complicated. house speaker nancy pelosi is pressing forward. she s now set a new deadline, october 31st, as the new deadline, for the house to pass the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill. that s the smaller one, the one that focuses on bridges and roads and such. that deadline also marks when the 30-day reauthorization of the federal highway program expire