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stealing water bottles of the a whopping trillion dollar tab. why americans are wracking up credit card debt like never before "early today" starts right now. >> happy friday, i'm frances rivera >> and i'm jessica layton. the senate gave the final congressional approval to the bipartisan plan to raise the debt ceiling and prevent the u.s. from defaulting this plan negotiated last weekend by president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy was for processing on wednesday.te 11 amendments to the bill were considered, but all of them shot down the amendments were brought up as part of a unanimous agreement for passing the bill that night in order to not delay its implementation before the june 5th deadline for raising the debt ceiling senate majority leader chuck schumer expressed relief after

the bill's passage on thursday >> now democrats are feeling very good tonight. we've saved the country from the scourge of default, even though there with some on the other side who wanted default, wanted to lead us to default. maybe a little tired, but we did it >> so the bill nows heads to the desk of president biden. he's expected to address the american people on its passage lotter later today. while greeting graduates, president biden fell on his way back to his seat he was helped up by secret service agents and an air force official and motioned that he might have tripped over something. the white house later confirmed that he tripped on a sandbag they said that the president was totally fine following the incident the senate voted on thursday

in favor of legislation that would overturn president biden's student debt relief program as well as the pause on student loan paints. two democrats and one independent joined all republicans in voting for that measure. the white house has already signaled that they would veto the legislation. the president's plan will soon face further challenges, as the supreme court is expected to rule on two cases regarding its legality later this month. immigrant workers in florida and at least eight other states on thursday closed the doors of their businesses and went to the streets in protest of a new anti-immigrant law the boycott known as a day without immigrants took place in opposition to a new law signed last month by florida governor and presidential candidate ron desantis which penalizes certain employers if they don't verify a worker's immigration status. some families have already fled the sunshine state in

anticipation of the law taking effect in july yesterday was the first day of hurricane season and with it came wicked weather across the south. flooding sunk major highways in texas forcing a roadside rescue. meanwhile, another system brewing in the gulf of mexico as florida prepares for more storms today. >> reporter: water rushing onto a highway in western texas submerging cars and forcing drivers to abandon their vehicles from trying to get you, man. i'm coming >> reporter: this man, who loses control of his car climbs out a window to escape >> i got you >> reporter: emergency crews also unable to move. many, who had to leave their cars, forced to navigate waist-high waters. after three to five inches of rain fell in a matter of hours, prompting mudslides, rock falls and several road closures. >> it's completely washed two vehicles off to the side >> reporter: more than a dozen

water rescues have taken place across the lubbock area. >> this is west texas. . >> reporter: on another highway, hundreds got stuck in the deluge, unable to pass an abandoned semi truck blocking the highway. florida is now bracing for heavy rain, made worse by a tropical system impacting central and southern florida where a flood watch is already in effect through friday in april, ft. lauderdale saw historic flooding with more than 25 inches of rainfall over 12 hours. now the state is preparing for more rain, as texass also deal with another round of weather. we're learning more about the south carolina store owner who shot and killed a 14-year-old boy. rick chow was being held on a murder charge in the death of cyrus carmack belton police say chow wrongly believed

the teen was shoplifting four bottles of water the sheriff says cyrus didn't take anything. authorities have shared more details now about the now-vandalized store they say back in 2015 chow fired six times into the car of a woman he accused of stealing but no one was hurt. three years later he shot a man in the leg who did plead guilty to shoplifting chow's attorney declined to discuss the past incidents police say the cases didn't meet the requirements for charges against chow ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy has again urgently argued that his country should become a member of nato, speaking at a meeting of european leaders zelenskyy said ukraine is preparing a package of security guarantees ahead of the nato summit in lithuania next month, seeking a clear invitation to join if ukraine can't join he will seek his own security guarantees nato expansion was cited by vladimir putin as a reason to

invade and some nato members fear that admitting ukraine would bring the alliance into direct conflict with russia under article 5 of the nato charter, an attack on a state would trigger an armed response from 30-plus countries including the u.s., uk, france and germany. the u.s. is opening a diplomatic mission north of the arctic circle. 217 miles north of it, to be precise. it will be a quote, american presence post in the norwegian town of tromso antony blinken announced the move during a meeting of foreign ministries in oslo he said it's an opportunity to have a diplomatic footprint in the arctic the post will open later this year and be staffed by one person, a consul firefighters and community members in maryland came to the rescue of a baby deer that was stranded in a neighborhood storm drain. janine donaldson from our baltimore affiliate has the story. >> reporter: a mama deer

circling this storm drain caught the attention of neighbors nearby and what happens next, one neighbor says, was simply -- >> it was at first heart wrenching. and i was holding back all of my tears, and when i actually, you know, realized that i was videoing something pretty spectacular, it felt heartwarming >> reporter: what began as curiosity for some neighbors turned into a night of collective community joy >> so, around 9:00 at night someone, a mom and her son who was riding a bike saw a mama deer walking around the storm drain. and the mama deer was looking like she was in a bit of distress, and she kept looking in and then walking away >> reporter: while walking her dog with her husband started filming, three fire trucks

pulled up. it wasn't a fire or crash but a fawn stuck in a storm drain. the caller, a volunteer dispatcher who lives nearby. >> about six or seven firefighters come out, and they bring their tools to open up this grate and one of the firefighters decides to descend into the storm drain. >> reporter: the sound that came next cries from healthy fawn. moments later, the fawn is reunited with her mom who stood by watching the entire time. >> you could see it on the firemen's faces, when they were called to do something, to be able to save this baby deer's life everyone was applauding and giving each other high-fives afterwards can you see that it just made people happy, both mama deer and baby deer run off into the night, happenly ever after it was quite amazing

>> and our thanks to janine donaldson for sharing that story. a wet start to the weekend for parts of the country angie lassman is track ago disturbance in the gulf. >> we've got tropical depression two as of yesterday, and we could see a tropical storm by later this morning notice how unorganized this system is. all the rain is sitting to the north. and really an exposed center not too healthy at this point. but 35 mile-per-hour winds, we could see that become maybe a tropical storm later this morning. but national hurricane center does have it becoming a topical storm. winds up to 40 miles per hour. that doesn't last as it eyes parts of western cuba. it eventually will move to the south and east impacting folks there, but it's going to bring a lot of rain to folks in florida. this is something we'll watch as multiple rounds of heavy rain work through that area also strong storms possible in parts of the souther burlington

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