[announcer] pray. Coms bedtime bible stories calm your mind and ease your spirit. Download pray. Com to get the 1 app for prayer and sleep. Hello an welcome to our viewers joining us here in the United States and all around the world. You are watching cnn newsroom. And im rosemary church. Just ahead, the cracks are showing within the u. S. Republican party as it debates whether to punish a congresswoman over her incendiary views. How this fight could determine the gops future. Also im not making it law. Im eliminating bad policy. President biden rolls back trump era Immigration Policy, pledging to reunite children separated from their parents at the border. And paying their respects. The president and first lady are among those to honor officer Brian Sicknick who died after being injured in the capitol hill riot. Good to have you with us. Well, the future of one controversial u. S. Lawmaker is now being debated by her colleagues in the house. And in the coming hours, a group of republi
conveniently ignoring that to our bill in fact lowers the deficit, and is completely paid for. we are watching every minute of what is happening on the senate floor. we re gonna have the latest for you in just a minute. also this hour, alex jones ordered to pay up and pay a big for his lies about sandy hook in the murder of innocent children. we are going to look at that story later had as well. we do as i said want to start in washington on capitol hill. where right now we are starting we are waiting that key vote on the inflation reduction act, a bill that has already seen some changes today as the senate parliamentarian rules that a cap on drug plate prices for the commercial market cannot be remain in the package. but some democrats are vowing to stick together in the face of what could be a challenging and very long amendment process. want to bring in nbc s giuliani strong capitol hill to talk to some of this. good to talk to you, once again julia. so bring us up to da
don t look down. don t make any sudden moves. because we are almost at the end of a legislative tightrope, y all. senators are putting in some extra hours this weekend. they re working to get democrats, health care, climate, and deficit reduction package across the finish line. the parliamentarian approved key components of the bill just hours ahead of when the senate is expected to debate it on the floor. it will take all 50 democratic votes and a tie breaker from vice president harris for the inflation reduction act to pass the senate. what does that mean to you? it means medicare can negotiate prescription drug costs. with an out of pocket cap at $2,000 for seniors. it means lower aca health premiums. it means lower energy costs, and the reduction of carbon emissions by 40% in the next eight years. it also lowers the deficit by hundreds of billions of dollars, which will be crucial to fighting inflation. how is all this possible? this is one of only two times per fiscal ye
u.s. has made its own mistakes. with covid cases and hospitalizations on the rise, los angeles likely reinstating indoor masking. with these very high rates, unless we start seeing a slowdown in spread, a slowdown in what s happening in our hospitals, in two weeks we ll do a universal indoor masking here. londoners being urged not to travel as a heat wave engulfs europe. other cities now seeing all-time records as blistering records bake the continent. i m laura coates. pamela brown has the day off, and you are in the cnn newsroom. on this saturday even more new information is coming to light on the vast efforts to overturn the 2020 election. a memo now obtained by the new york times only surfacing now shows a conservative lawyer you may have never heard of aggressively pushing a scheme that even he admitted would draw comparisons to martial law and the saturday night massacre from watergate. our caitlin is with us now. this centers around a supposed phone c
tonight. the new images coming in of the historic flooding and now the damage at yellowstone national park. 10,000 people forced to evacuate. cars narrowly escaping rising waters. and just in tonight, a confirmed tornado touching down in wisconsin. at this hour, the tornado watches and warnings in effect across several states. and of course, the record-breaking heat. nearly 130 million americans on alert tonight for potentially life-threatening heat. rob marciano standing by tracking it all. news on covid tonight and the youngest of children. tonight, an fda panel now giving the green light for both the pfizer and moderna covid vaccines for children under 5. as young at 6 months. how they work, how many shots. and this could begin within days. and the other headline tonight, dr. anthony fauci testing positive, now on paxlovid. we do have news on his simympto tonight. tomorrow brings the third january 6th hearing in front of the american people. the pressure on mike pe