together hoping to force the hand of at least ten republican senators. in just hours the house side will vote. what happens in this fight could determine what happens with the infrastructure package and president biden s $3.5 trillion budget package. the u.s. economy and the biden agenda in the balance. cnn chief congressional correspondent manu raju joins us on the hill. manu, juries, walk us through the timeline for today. well, today the house democrats are going to move forward on that plan to keep the government open up until december. also extend the nation s borrowing limit through the november 22 mid terms, but there s a problem. they do not have the votes to get that out of the senate. today they plan to pass it and then in the senate the republicans say they have the votes to blog it. they want the democrats to move that debt limit increase, a very politically toxic vote on their own through a separate process, and that is leading to major questions about how this
gets through the house and the senate? very little, in fact, there s virtually no chance it gets through both chambers. the house is scheduled to take a vote in just about an hour and a half or so, in order to raise the national debt limit and avoid a government shut down. that deadline to avoid a government shut down is september 30th, the end of the fiscal year. the deadline to avoid a first time ever default on the nation s debt is mid october. and there is no resolution to get out of either. democrats are trying to pair up those two issues. they will pass it out of the democratic controlled house today and then it will move to the senate where they need 60 votes to achieve that. democrats are insisting republicans must join them to raise the debt limit, given the debt that was accrued during the trump era. republicans say given the spending that occurred under the first nine months of the biden administration that it s up to democrats alone to do t and they re calling o
in a stampede at the africa cup of nations in cameroon. no more covid tests for fully vaccinated people arriving in england and scotland they ll be scrapped next month. and climate change is threatening to destroy treasures buried in the uk. archaeologists warn britain s history is at risk. good morning and welcome to bbc news. borisjohnson is facing renewed anger following another revelation about gatherings in downing street during lockdown. number 10 has admitted that, injune 2020, staff met in the cabinet room, where they were served cake to celebrate the prime minister s birthday. itv news reported that up to 30 people attended thejune 2020 event, sang happy birthday and were served cake. rules at the time 19june 2020 banned most indoor gatherings involving more than two people. the bbc has learned that sue gray, the senior civil servant compiling a report into gatherings on government premises during covid restrictions, already knew about the 19 june event. her fin
tonight. in the last hour we were talking about d.c. so i thought i d just start off with a radar for you. there s your snow. but now the little bit of blue, light blue in that area of white as it moves into the district really from the eastern shore back to manassas down to charlottesville, that is 1 to 2 inches an hour. but also look at the colors of green and blue, the rainfall. and this is what we talked about in the last hour. if these temperatures warm up, major cities along i-95 will start at snow but switch over to rain. the tricky part about forecasting in this part of the country, which is extremely difficult is that i-95 corridor. sometimes it wants to hang onto that cold air and you re locked into the snow. but if it is locked into the snow, that color of pink is ice. if it moves up here, we could see significant icing up and down the entire corridor. we re going to call for it to change over to rain, therefore when you look at the big picture here, even showing f
number of the pandemic but death number its remain well below highs. we will take of some your questions in a few moments. critics are pushing back on mandates. right there are grim reminders of last year. rich edson starts us off. senior white house officials say americans can avoid president biden s scenario if they get vaccinated and boosted. event cancellations are returning as omicron spreads across the country. here we go again. long lines for covid tests. college basketball games scrapped. professional basketball, football and hockey players are on covid lists. north of the border they played without fans. in new york the christmas spectacular with the rockettes cancelled 4 shows and may cut more. the omicron variant is here in new york city in full force. we are announcing a series of measures to address this situation. outgoing mayor bill de blasio said new york will increase free covid testing including at home kits and distribute masks. white house officials