a very good morning to you and welcome to your "new day." i'm amara walker. >> i'm phil mattingly. a marathon session is under way. lawmakers pull an all nighter on capitol hill as democrats push toward final passage of the president's economic bill. we'll take you live to capitol hill for the latest. plus, albuquerque on edge. the fbi investigating the killings of four muslim men. and authorities trying to figure out if the same person could be responsible for their deaths. and lucky to be alive. that's what one source says about actress anne heche after she was involved in a fiery car crash. we'll have the latest on her condition. and the battle between twitter and elon musk heats up. now the tesla ceo firing back in a new public filing against the social media giant.

hello, hello, everyone. it is sunday, august 7th. thank you for waking up with us. it is so good to be with you, phil. i'm just curious how much compassion and empathy you have for manu right now, who i thought would be walking around like a zombie. >> i have none. and i'm going to tell you why. i have no compassion or empathy for manu right now. he somehow manages to look good at 6:00 a.m. and 7:00 a.m. after an all nighter when the rest of us having gone through a dozen or so of these at this point in time i looked like a zombie walking through the halls. and it is very frustrating that manu has the ability to do this and, frankly, i'm opposed to him and it. >> no jealousy there at all. >> reporter: hours. >> i know. we'll get to manu in a second.

up first, senate democrats, as we said, they're pulling that all nighter. so is manu. they moved closer to final passage of the sweeping climate and healthcare bill. >> right now, senators are nearing their eighth straight hour of considering amendments in a so-called vote-a-rama, sounds like a festival, it really isn't. that marathon process began when the senate voted to advance the bill. senate majority leader chuck schumer says it will help struggling americans. >> this is one of the most comprehensive and impactful bills congress has seen in decades. for families struggling to pay the bills, for seniors struggling to pay for medication, for kids struggling with asthma, this bill is for them. >> republican senator lindsey graham blasted the legislation, saying it will hurt americans already coping with sky high inflation. >> so you're the same people that told us if we passed american rescue plan, all would

be well. we're at 9.1% inflation. you're increasing gas taxes. now you want to expand medicare. this is going to hurt the american people. stop the madness. vote no. >> so the bill known as the inflation reduction act includes nearly $370 billion to fight climate change. it also allows medicare to negotiate some drug price pryces, caps medicare out of pocket costs, $2,000, and extends affordable care act subsidies. also, it imposes a 15% minimum corporate tax on the largest u.s. companies. >> cnn chief congressional correspondent manu raju rejoins us, still looking fresh and annoyingly so. i won't ask you the question that everybody on capitol hill hates, which is when is the senate going to finish this today, but i do want to know where -- how is the process playing out right now, and is there anything you see that could derail what seems to be a

pretty straight line democrats have in the senate right now? >> reporter: nothing is going to derail this, but everyone hates asking that question, but i'm asking that question to pretty much every senator i see. and i have just had a chance to talk to a bunch as they have been milling around the senate chamber. no one has any estimate. under the rules of the senate, you can offer as many amendments as you want, go as long as you want to try to change, scuttle, derail, parts of this bill because of the procedure democrats are employing here, which is trying to pass this along straight party lines with the budget process that cannot be filibustered. this is why this is so significant. dem democrats, if they keep their caucus in line, they can get this through. under the rules of the senate, any senator can offer any amendment they want, no time limit, a bunch of senators told me several hours to go, four to five hours at least. john thune, the number two republican, told me 19 more amendment votes and each amendment vote could take 20 minutes or so, if not longer. and then they can get to final passage. but ultimately democrats are in

line of achieving a significant win for their party after a more than a year of internal party wrangling. they have managed to fend off republican attempts to change the bill, whether it is to go after the new irs agents, hired to enforce tax laws, go after immigration on energy issues, the whole range of republican efforts have fallen short here because the democrats have stayed united in trying to keep this bill forward that would allow medicare for the first time the power to negotiate prescription drug prices, also impose a 15% corporate minimum tax, extend affordable care act subsidies for three years, significant issues, but one significant issue will come up later today i'm told by john thune, the republicans trying to go after the $35 cap on insulin that has been a key part of this package that democrats have put forward. under the rules of the senate, republicans are likely to succeed in that endeavor. democrats have essentially dared republicans to try to strip out that measure, expecting them to get some backlash at the polls

if they do just that. thune indicated to me they do plan to go ahead here, but nevertheless, the ultimate outcome is not in doubt, democrats passing this bill sometime today, but who knows when. >> who knows when, but the process is moving slowly along. i'm supposed to ask you, manu, about, you know, the timeline in terms of once the senate passes this bill, when it would go to the house. can you also talk about what it looks like behind the scenes? does it look like a scene out of a zombie movie or not? >> reporter: they seem surprisingfully good spirits. the last time they did this overnight session, the first -- the last year in some time the senators were looking like zombies at that point, sitting in their chairs, falling asleep, everyone is bleary eyed. it looked like coming off a red eye flight. here it is much different. it feels like happy hour in some ways. senators are up chitchatting, standing around, talking and that's why voters have taken some time because they're not

sitting in their seats and vote, people are leaving the chamber, coming back. i talked to mark kelly, the senator from arizona who told me he's not sleeping at all. he's not even having coffee no coffee, no sleep, just walking around, that's keeping him awake. but that is -- still, this will pass today and you asked about the house, they'll come back on friday, pass it, and the house is a much different process. they don't have this long vote-a-rama process. the leadership will deny any efforts to offer amendments on the house side, they will pass this bill likely impact, possibly get it out of the chamber by the end of this week and send it to joe biden's desk. >> i love happy hour. i'll show up to any happy hour, but i don't think that's one i want to go to. manu raju, you're the best, thank you so much. great to see you. so joining me now is yagana turbati for "the washington post." thank you for being with us this morning. the bill, called the inflation reduction act.

so clearly we know this is how the white house is going to sell it. it is supposed to reduce inflation. can you tell us about the provisions in the bill that would actually help us get to that point? >> one of the main provisions, of course, is the climate section and the aim of that really is both to move the u.s. to sort of cleaner energy situation, especially by 2030, cutting emissions. but also to make kind of energy more plentiful and to bring down energy costs. and so there is all sorts of tax credits and provisions that would make it cheaper and easier for americans to buy electric vehicles, use electric vehicles, electric appliances, and energy saving appliances for their homes, and then also giving tax credits to utilities and all sorts of different companies to switch to cleaner energy. so that's one aspect of it. and then i think the other way that democrats are going to be selling this on an inflation reduction basis is looking at the healthcare costs. so, you know, there are

increased subsidies for the american -- for the affordable care act, and then, of course, enabling medicare to negotiate drug prices with prescription -- with pharmaceutical companies is going to bring down those costs as well. and so thereby, reducing those costs and that basically is what inflation is, if you can reduce those prices, then presumably inflation would go down as well. that's, i think, how democrats will sell it. >> more of a long-term outlook. you heard senator lindsey graham on the floor imploring his colleagues to vote no by saying, look, this is a large spending bill, obviously in your shadow of the $2 trillion or $3.5 trillion package that biden wanted. but with all that spending, i mean, couldn't it hurt inflation? >> i think there is some comparisons with the last big sort of spending package that the biden administration got through. even prior to the infrastructure

act was the american rescue plan act. and there has been some analysis and speculation that contributed to the inflation that we're seeing now. this is a bit different. there is no -- not that same kind of, you know, direct payments going to americans, things that kind of really increased their bank accounts and enabled people to go out and shop more and spend more on vacations or furniture or those things that are now driving those prices up. this is sort of more about incentives to corporations to build certain types of infrastructure and certain types of energy investment in the u.s., and so the speculation and the analysis is this is not going to increase inflation in the same way that perhaps other packages have in the past. >> i think something that perks up a lot of ears when it comes to just regular folks hearing oh, limiting insulin prices, so through the series of amendment votes called vote-a-rama, that

senate parliamentarian has been narrowing some of these provisions aimed at lowering drug prices. so do you expect these provisions to stay largely in tact, and also, i did want to point this out to you, sorry for the long question, but kaiser family foundation poll says 61% of americans support limiting how much drug companies can increase the price of prescriptions and also 53% support capping the price of insulin. so, i mean what is the political payoff of targeting a provision that enjoys widespread support? >> right, i mean i think from the news that we heard overnight it seems like the parliamentarian's objections were narrow and it will require a little bit of trims on one of the prescription drug measures that the democrats had in place. and in terms of the popularity of these measures, i mean, yes, poll after poll has shown that across the aisle americans support putting limits and

having medicare negotiated and the government negotiate for drug prices. i think going into the midterms, especially midterm season that is going to be quite difficult for democrats, where they're trying to hold on to the senate and the house, passing this bill will enable them to point to these specific healthcare measures and sort of shore up the reputation as the party that does work to, you know, make healthcare more affordable for americans. some of these climate provisions may not be either as popular or as well known or as politically salient for americans, but certainly the healthcare provisions are the ones that the democrats will be able to point to on the campaign trail in november. >> that's important. just about three months away and the democrats need some tangible accomplishments to point to. yeganeh, appreciate your time, thank you. >> thank you so much for having me. albuquerque police and the fbi are looking into the murders of four muslim men for possible connections. 27-year-old muhammad hussein is one of three muslim men murdered

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the battle between twitter and elon musk, it is heating up. it has been heating up for several weeks now. the tech mogul's legal team made public on friday its response to twitter's lawsuit, attempting to

force musk to complete the acquisition. >> the drama is far from over. musk responding to the claims he is trying to unjustly exit the deal. cnn's chief media correspondent and reliable sources anchor brian stelter is here with us now. good morning, brian. tell us more about what elon mo musk is saying. >> he's saying he's trying to back out of this deal, get out of the company he agreed to buy because the company is the platform, twitter, is overrun with spam bots. and with the kind of junk that nobody would want to own. this is a fascinating situation, though, because musk already agreed to buy twitter months ago. this was a major event, where he agreed to pay $44 billion and pay a huge premium for the stock in order to take twitter private. it is kind of like somebody agreeing to buy a house, was waiting for the deal to close, waiting to get the keys and in the meantime, looked around the garden and said this garden, there are too many weeds here, this is gross, i don't want to

buy the house after all. you already agreed to ed to buy house, the deal is going through. he's saying the garden is full of weeds, that twitter has a lot more of a spam bot problem than twitter actually admits. this has been a battle going on for months. as this plays out through the legal system, musk is trying to provide evidence, proof, he was m misled by twitter. one of his original arguments for buying twitter is he was going to clean up the garden, get rid of the bots. here is the response from twitter's board chair brett taylor, he said in a tweet, his claims are factually inaccurate, legally insufficient and commercially irrelevant. we look forward to seeing you in court. that was the message from twitter to musk. >> wow. >> for those of us looking to book hotel rooms for the media

circus in delaware, when will this go to trial and what will that mean musk will be on the hook to pay $44 billion or $1 billion or something? >> this trial is set for october. the judge wants to get it going sooner than musk wants. i think the reality here is this is all a giant negotiation. whether this ends up in court or not, whether it ends up being settled before october, it is all about the two numbers you mentioned, $1 billion, which was what musk agreed to pay if he backed out, and $44 billion, the amount twitter wants because frankly the board, they don't have any other buyers. they want to get rid of this company, they want someone to take it private. so $1 billion or $44 billion. i think musk is going to end up paying something in between, and this is a giant negotiation. >> okay. and i guess big picture here then, how does twitter in general stack up to its social media rivals these days? >> isn't that so interesting? twitter is smaller than bigger platforms like facebook, tiktok, snapchat. so musk is trying to buy twitter because of the public influence it brings, the political energy,

all the conversations that happen on twitter. it is relatively small in the grand scheme of things. right now all roads lead to tiktok and all roads lead through tiktok. they want to be the chinese-owned tiktok. that's where all the energy is in social media. and facebook and instagram, snapchat, trying to redesign to be more like tiktok and here is twitter without an umowner and stuck in limbo. whatever happens here, it probably hurts twitter. >> speaking of tiktok, i don't know how to use it, but i'm going to learn. >> not too late. >> fascinating story all the way around. brian, i'm sure you're doing tiktok dances with the kiddo oz on a regular basis. thank you so much. catch brian this morning on "reliable sources" speaking with two people in the courtroom for that pretty dramatic alex jones trial. you do not want to miss it. >> i'll be tuning in. thank you, brian. 18 days, that's how long

president biden has been isolating at the white house after a rebound case of covid-19. >> the president finally tested negative yesterday and just a few moments ago finally left the white house. i want to get straight to cnn white house reporter kevin liptak who is able to navigate the south lawn to north lawn. kevin, you saw the president, what did he say? >> reporter: yeah, biden has left the building. it has been 18 days, he's out of isolation, he looked good, he sounded good, and he said he was feeling good when he walked out of the building there. he had his mask on, but took it off, gave us a little wave and said he's feeling great. and we also asked him about the inflation reduction act, that's the bill that is making its way through the senate today. he said he thought it was going to pass, he gave a little bit of a thumb's up. so certainly biden very happy to get out of the white house after this lengthy isolation period. remember, he first tested positive back on july 21st, and he went through that initial bout with covid, mild symptoms,

didn't feel too bad. he tested negative, came out to the rose garden, proclaimed himself as a good example of how people can survive this disease, but then it was only a couple of days after that when he tested positive again. the white house doctor attributed that to the antiviral paxlovid and it was back into isolation for the president. he had his german shepard at the white house to keep him company. by all accounts he was going a little bit stir crazy, made facetime calls to people on capitol hill, he was reading a little bit, he was doing work, made some phone calls. but it is pretty isolating at the white house, even when you can leave. president biden has called it a gilded cage, but this had to have been even more isolating for the president. his wife wasn't even here. she was at their home in delaware. so certainly the president very eager to get out of the building, he is heading now to his home in rehoboth beach, delaware. he'll be there for just one night, and so the president

finally getting out of his bedroom, out of the truman balcony, out of the treaty room, those are places he had been bouncing back and forth upstairs in the residence, certainly very happy to get out of washington. >> can't imagine how elated he must be to get out of those four walls. very isolating, i imagine. 18 days, so much can happen after regular folk like us, right, in 18 days, and obviously the president has a lot to get to, we know he's been working this entire time, he's also planning to travel to parts of kentucky, that's been hit by those devastating and deadly floods, kevin. >> reporter: yeah, it has been a very productive isolation for the president. just think of all the things that have happened between then and now, the leader of al qaeda took out him with a drone strike, a number of major pieces of legislation making their way through congress. he will be traveling tomorrow to kentucky to view flood damage. that was another thing he navigated from his isolation, phoning the governor there.

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and infrastructure in these areas that kind of lead to damage. and when we think about the connection to the global warming, it is really that as the temperature continues to warm, the moisture in our atmosphere continues to increase. and this increase means that there will be more moisture available to produce rainfall like we saw this past week. and so this is very similar to what we experienced on a hot humid day, when the moisture and the atmosphere holds a lot of moisture. and so these are one of the clear indicators of climate change. not only the extreme rainfall, but the drought and wildfires as well as the heat waves we have been seeing recently. >> one of the things, people say this is a once in a 100 year storm or occurrence of rain, but it is not anymore. we're seeing this weekly. we're seeing this monthly. the types of storms, the types of fires, all this types of stuff, it is happening at such a scale at this point in time that you can't frame it anymore as this is a once in a 100 year -- is that right or that's how it

seems from afar? >> yeah, that's exactly right. work from scientists all over the world that have shown a rare event, say an event that is -- has a 1% chance of happening in any given year, that that event now, in 2022, because of climate change, is more -- increase of over 1%. so there is more than a 1% chance of that event happening. and really i think the scary part gets to when we think about the future is that these same scientists estimate that these 1% events that we might experience now that have a lot of damage, these can become maybe 2% or 3% events per year in the future, and that means they happen more frequently and it also means the magnitude of the events, how much rain can fall over the short period of time is also increasing. we have seen a 5 to 10% increase in the magnitude and we expect it to be further in the coming decades due to climate change. if we don't drastically reduce

our carbon emissions. >> one of the -- i was going to say fascinating, but also damning, almost every time you're quoted in a news story, you're making the point that, like, climate change is here now. this isn't a future problem. this isn't something we need to prepare for because it is coming. it is very clearly here, which i'm not really sure why that's in question anymore. but i think one of the questions i have is, it is here, what needs to happen to change it and move things in a different direction than where it is clearly headed right now? >> well, you know, i think the first is we need to get our act together and we really need to start reducing carbon emissions, and this, you know, of course, the climate provisions in the -- in the inflation reduction act, it is an important and promising step in that direction. it can demonstrate to the world that the united states is getting serious about reaching its goals and reducing carbon emissions. but that he''s one step. we need a variety of solutions and develop and implement them rapidly in the united states.

we need climate solutions that can be equitably provided across communities in america. >> one of the things that is the bigger picture, you make the point that the senate is moving on that legislation right now, but i want to talk specifically about the wildfires, just because i cover the white house, my day job, the president has gone to a lot of these things, talked about this quite often, i think a lot of times you don't understand the scale until you're on the ground and see them. why are we seeing things burn faster, longer, harder, at a significantly larger scale right now? >> yeah. so if we think about the other side of what we were just talking about, these extreme rainfall amounts over a short period of time, the other clear indicator of climate change is prolonged periods without rainfall. and that we are seeing not only increase in the frequency of droughts, but also the magnitude. how -- how long are we going without periods of rainfall? when that means that if you have more vegetation that is dry,

because of this drought, that you have more fuel for that fire. >> yeah. it is -- it just seems like on a daily basis you seeing some else, something more. a lot going on. kevin reed, i appreciate your time and expertise. i really appreciate it. >> great, thanks for having me. >> very important and urgent conversation, the changing climate also having a direct impact of the -- on the ancient woodlands and wildlife of patagonia. cnn spotlights that in a new original serie os "patagonia: le on the edge of the world". >> young pumas are getting older and bolder. ♪ honing their climbing skills.

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it's going to be another rough day for travelers across the country. weather has forced the cancellation of hundreds of flights this week. >> more than 300 flights have already been canceled across the u.s. today. that comes one day after more than 600 flights were canceled yesterday. saturday marked the third day of major flight cancellations after thunderstorms pounded major airports on the east coast. this summer's travel season has been plagued with those flight cancellations and delays as airlines struggle with staffing shortages and severe weather. the rest of the weekend weather may not help. the midwest bracing for heavy rain and storms. >> let's bring in cnn's allison chinchar. what can we expect? >> if you have a flight in or out of chicago, check with your airline. we've got a long line of showers and thunderstorms making its way towards chicago.

several flood warnings and even flash flood warnings in effect and a lot of lightning especially on the southern side. already they've dumped a tremendous amount of rain. you're talking two to four inches, some places five to six inches has already fallen. you more that's going to fall on top of it. that's why we've got a moderate risk for flooding across wisconsin, illinois and iowa. slight risk in the surrounding areas and also as well for portions of eastern kentucky through the mid-atlantic. we've got several waves of showers and thunderstorms making their way through. there's the first wave, sliding through the midwest, making its way towards the great lakes and northeast. notice the secondary wave. basically right on the heels later tonight and continuing through tomorrow before the whole front begins to make its way to the northeast. on top of what we already had, a lot of places picking up another 1 to 2 inches. heat advisories in the pacific northwest, the central u.s. as well as portions of the

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