landmark national investments, investments that only the government has the capacity to make. only the government working together could make. today happens to mark coincidental, but today is the 60th anniversary of one of those significant investments that changed the nation. 65 years ago today president dwight eisenhower signed a bill that created the interstate highway system, 65 years ago today. that was the last infrastructure investment of the size and scope of the agreement i m about to talk about today. it is time for us to write a new chapter in that story. after months of careful negotiation, of listening, compromising together in a good faith moving together with ups and downs and some blips, a bipartisan group of senators got together and they ve forged an agreement to move forward on the key priorities of my american jobs plan. one of them is sitting in front of me. as a result, this is a generational investment, a generational investment to modernize our infra
america has always been propelled into the future by landmark national investments, investments that only the government has the capacity to make, only the government working together could make. today happens to mark it s coincidental, but today is the 60th anniversary of one of those significant investments that changed the nation. 65 years ago today president dwight eisenhower signed a bill to create the interstate highway system, 65 years ago today. that was the last infrastructure investment of the size and scope of what i m about to talk about today. it s time for us to write a new chapter in that story. after months of careful negotiations, of listening, compromising together and in good faith, moving together, with ups and downs and some blips, a bipartisan group of senators got together and they forged an agreement to move forward on the key priorities of my american jobs plan, the one sitting in front of me. as a result, this is a generational investment, a genera
you are in the cnn newsroom. we could be close to a vote on president biden s $1.9 trillion covid relief bill. the senate has been up all night, voting on a series of amendments. the process, known as vote vote-a-rama, was delayed by senator manchin, who finally agreed to extend unemployment benefits until september 6th. democrats refused to stop for the night. now that this agreement has been reached, we are going to power through the rest of the process and get this bill done. well, my goodness, it s been quite a start. quite a start. to this fast track process. cnn s chief congressional correspondent manu raju is following this all on capitol hill. manu, they ve been up all night. any indication on when we ll get the final answer on if it s time to end debate and vote on this bill? reporter: the end is actually in sight, based on what both sides are indicating. the senators are just exhausted, after 11 straight hours overnight of voting as part of this free-flo
good evening. at the top of the hour chris cuomo is off tonight, the last night of brutal cold weather in texas. even as temperatures rise millions of texans like these people lining up for water are still in dire straights and for some the hard times could linger. according to state officials nearly 15 million people have seen water service disrupted. homes have been damaged or destroyed by flooding from ruptured water lines. people have died from hypothermia, carbon dioxide and other weather related accidents. supply chains are catching up for grocery stores, but we re still waiting for that to happen and folks are exhausted, shell-shocked from what happened. they ve been battered. they re barely beginning to recover. we re just beginning to learn the extent of the toll. the latest information i have is ten hypothermia deaths in harris county alone. we ve got around 600 cases of carbon monoxide poisonpoisoningr deaths as well. very frustrated and exhausted residents. they
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