mccarthy. the current republican leader has sent the new proposal to his colleagues to try to overcome significant resistance to his ascension. senior congressional correspondent chad pergram is live on capitol hill tonight. hello, chad. the math. there are at least five g.o.p. members who oppose mccarthy for speaker and, perhaps, more. kevin doesn t have the votes. what we ll do, we ll block kevin. there will be 10 to 15 members vote against him on the first ballot tomorrow that will vote for andy biggs. mccarthy can only lose four votes and still prevail. mccarthy is desperately making concessions. do you think the rules package you released last night has moved any votes to yes. yes. and what will you do if you don t have 218 on the first ballot? mccarthy finally agreed to one demand. he would lower the bar to hold a new confidence vote for speaker if members don t think he s doing a good job. but that didn t satisfy mccarthy detractors. there is nothing
we have you covered on that. first to edward lawrence with how they re dealing with this latest uptick that doesn t end. edward? it doesn t seem to. the president said basically he does not immediate action that he can take that will bring gas prices back down to $3 a gallon setting up the fact that this could take awhile. the president hearing louder cries, louder voices that he needs to act and to something in order to handle inflation. we re seeing voter anger in the polls for his poll numbers. some democrats are even starting to distance themselves from the message coming out of the white house. this is what voters are looking at. gas prices at record highs again. $4.76 a gallon for regular unleaded. the price of gas has set a new record every day since may 10. this pushes up inflation, eats into every one s paychecks. now finally a change in tone. listen here to secretary janet yellen. i think i was wrong then about the path of inflation would take. there s been u
Station. The crews splashed down off the east coast of florida. Cnn this morning starts right now. Good morning, everyone. I often see these moments at burning man and think interesting, probably something ill never be a part of. Except this weekend everybody seemed to care about it because everyone was stuck. Yeah, it is an Epic Burning Man id say. They always say it but this one actually is. Just hour fwrs s from now roads finally reopen. Organizers will make the decision this morning. Roads leading in and out of festival have been shut down since saturday after heavy rain created ankle deep mud. Officials say the thick mud made it virtually impossible for cars, buses and rvs to leave. A lot of people walked for miles through the mud to get out. And here you can see some vehicles that tried to leave but became hopelessly stuck. So much water. We are flooded. Well be stuck here at least a couple days. This is nuts. This is what people have been trudging through for days now. Festivalg
trump s tirade during a pause in a gag order. as we bid you all a very good day from msnbc world headquarters here in new york, welcome, everyone, to alex witt reports. we are beginning this hour with that breaking news. some pretty fast moving developments on this day, 50 since the hamas attack on israel. anxious families, still waiting for the release of a second group of hostages scheduled today, while the fragility of the deal between israel and hamas is coming out a full view. hamas, in a statement, now says it is delaying the hostage release, claiming that israel is in breach of the truce agreement. but yesterday, hamas released 24 hostages, while israel released 39 palestinian prisoners. we are also seeing some pretty dramatic video, a family reunions, like 19 year old his mom, karen, and grandmother ruth e. came face to face with their loved ones after being held captive. we also have and her daughter s, who were also released. they ve been reunited there with the
hello, i m ben thompson. the israeli military says it has agreed to evacuate premature babies from gaza s main hospital al shifa to a safer place on sunday. an idf spokeswoman was unable to say how the evacuation would be carried out and the head of surgery at al shifa says no other hospital in gaza could accommodate the 37 infants at risk. this photo was sent to the bbc last night showing more than 20 babies being kept in a surgical theatre appearing to be need of oxygen treatment. alyona synenko says the situation in hospitals across gaza including the south is increasingly dire. hospitals overflowing with patience and thousands of displaced people who come there because they think they will be safer and hospitals running out of essentials. i speak without surgeons who are working in other european hospitals, they are running out of anaesthetic material and the blasts take place in the proximity of the hospital and when it happens the entire building shakes so it is