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brianna keilar is there as the house votes to raise the nation's debt ceiling. ok at these numbers. brianna, walk us through. that's just an incredible number besides you. how much does that even add up to? >> this is the national debt, ali. and you can see all of the zeros, right? about $12.3 trillion, and this number is quickly closing in on what's called the debt ceiling. it's essentially, you know -- >> that's the credit limit. >> it is on the limit on our credit card, right. so what they are voting to do, what the house is voting to do, to increase it by $1.9 trillion, to this number, the debt ceiling, so the u.s. government can borrow more. it would go to about $14.29 trillion, and this is expected to happen on party line vote, the republicans against it and the democrats for it. this is important because if they did not increase the debt ceiling they could default on the loans and it who be a disaster. and the reason it's being increased to this huge number, over $14 trillion, it's been increased by $1.9 trillion to make sure that democrats don't really ha

brianna keilar is on capitol hill inside the hearing room with a preview of what to expect. mr. toyoda's expected apology. briana, to you first. what's it look like there? >> this is the hearing room of the house oversight committee that's having this hearing today. and this is going to be where mr. toyoda will sit and face this committee. he's on the second panel so once this hearing gets under way at about 11:00 eastern, it is probably going to be an hour or so before we hear from him. then these are where the tough questions are going to come from, like the chairman of the committee, ed towns. this is where congressman elijah cummings from maryland will be sitting. yesterday he told me he wants to know what toyota knew, what they knew it and mr. cummings is in, i guess, tv parlance what you would say, pretty good for a sound bite. he tends to really engage witnesses so we're wondering if he's going to do that as well. then over here you have congressman john mika, a republican from florida. in the last hearing it was treasury secretary tim geithner who was up and he actua

let's go to brianna keilar. she's working the story for us. what's the fallout from this slap that he got? >> the ethics committee says rangel broke the house gift rule. he accepted trips to the caribbean for an annual business conference. he want to antigua in 2007, and the trips were paid for in part by corporate sponsors. under house rules, members are not allowed to do that. so the commit decree says he must repay the costs of the trips. evening though rangel told the committee he wasn't aware the corporate sponsors were in play, they're holding him responsible, because some of his staff members were aware. they're holding him response for those staff members, basically submitting false information when they wanted approve for the trips. >> this was just one of the issues? >> yes, considering he's the head of the house tax committee is one where he failed to pay taxes for a rental property for earnings he got from a rental property he owns in the dominican republic. we're still waiting for the ethics committee to put out rulings as well as