a total of two senators, ben cardin of maryland and jim webb moved the bill through. the measure will extend the faa's operating authority through mid september. now it's on the president's desk for his signature. nbc news capitol hill correspondent kelly o'donnell joins us. the president was saying it was up to the hill to move it forward. what's the holdup now? >> they were able to accomplish this when so many people were angry over the fact that shutting down the faa for a period of weeks put about 70,000 people out of work for construction projects and some people who work for the faa directly. not in the safety area, but in some of the other operations. when the country was consumed with the whole debt crisis, congress let this stumble across the line and not get done. with all of the pressure brought to bear, what they were able to accomplish was get an agreement to give themselves more time. what you saw this morning lasted mere seconds. didn't require the full senate to come back, just as we like to call it, two of the locals, senators from maryland and virgin

senator ben cardin, thank you. >> thank you. >>> and tropical storm emily is slowing down according to national weather satellites. it is heading over puerto rico and the coast guard is urging boaters and swimmers to avoid the ocean in that area. heather tesch is tracking the storm for us in the weather channel's headquarters in atlanta. how is it looking? >> well, disorganized. i will show you that in a second, and a lot of things to talk about. certainly the heat is a huge story for us. and we have been cooking here across parts of the south, and what you are going to find is that the heat continues. right now, it is day 32 in a row that we have had triple digits in dallas. as you see tomorrow, 110, and we will do it again and that puts us up to day 33. we won't have a record though until we hit into the 40s. as we take a check here, atlanta 99, so hot stuff is going to continue here across the south in the days to come. so, lots heating up here. we also have storms heating up here across the midwest where we will watch the midwest and the northeast for some of the storms, and you ca

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a round of applause for senator ben cardin. >> always a pleasure to be here. thank you. appreciate a. [applause] oh, my goodness! you've got to be kidding me! >> 300,000 people, just did away with -- >> i agree, you ought to have a secure quarters -- you have to have a secure borders. >> why did he do away with a 300,000 people? >> was not aware of that. >> why did they make maryland a haven for these people? >> i will check it out. absolutely. i could have mentioned that there is no cuts in the retirement benefits. it is one of my top priorities in the budget. no automatic sequestration. >> that is only the first round -- >> in the super committee, there is no question -- [unintelligible] i guarantee you that. absolutely. >> under the mandate, americans to buy government insurance policy, defeated last time around -- >> i think it could come up. it will, at this time, -- it will, but this time, but i think -- >> senator cardin in catonsville, maryland. he has at nih today c-span is covering events from other members,. senator mike lee, xavier becerra, who is going to be

our senior tent -- town hall with ben cardin. at a nice crowd here. we're fortunate to have our friends and guests from c-span filming today's events so that others can share in the wonderful news the center will tell us about. let me introduce a couple of guests here today. from our partners at st. agnes hospital, he dr. adrian long and surely such an. thank you for attending. -- shirley sutton. the delicate jimmy malone, you may know him. [applause] -- delagate jimmy malone, you may know him. charles tucker. the president of the resident counsel, chuck is here. and our vice-president of a government affairs, and tim kaine -- adam came. senator cardin has been called a legislatures legislator by the "washington post." it has been on many committees. throughout his career he has championed the need for resources and services so that seniors can live independently in their communities for as long as possible. first elected to the senate in 2006, he serves on the environment and public works, finance, foreign relations, budget, small business and entrep