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Democrats could pass lifting the debt limit through regular order if they put a number on it. a scary price tag how much the debt limit has to be lifted by. so what democrats decided is, they kind of slipped the baby here, claiming victory saying we will take the two-month extension to lift the debt limit until early december, and we will say how much we need to lift it by, but are also ignoring mcconnells demands about doing it through reconciliation and putting a final price tag on how much th...

Custody. the whole incident erupted after a fight. >> like, bam, bam, bam. and there were three shots mts i feel like im going to have to go to school fearing that im going to get shot. >> no student shot have to feel that way. straight stot sam brock live outside the school where the shooting happened. sam, whats the latest? >> reporter: steph, good morning. the suspect right now is behind bars on a $75,000 bond. classes here canceled. you heard a reaction from one of the students there. how ab...

Running to unseat him. she wants to take the governors job. we might see this in mid-term elections, how this impacts peoples politics and what theyre going to vote for. this comes as idaho is not in the same place at the rest of country. seeing hospital beds that are still really limited. only 16 beds left in the entire state, and some of those beds have opened in recent days, but, steph, not because patients are getting better. because theyre dieing. the state only has a 42% vaccination rate. ...

And mcconnell blinked but calling the shots how it gets done. where do things stand this morning? >> reporter: good morning, steph. mcconnell and schumer are still negotiating and working out the details of this agreement that hopefully they will actually agree on. so what happened is that mcdonnell did blink, and the reason is, because democrats were seriously considering changing the filibuster. changing the senate rules that cover this place a long time and thats the closests they had become ...

The republican governor brad little went down to texas for the u.s.-mexico border visit with other republican governors tuesday, the lieutenant governor stepped in saying she was acting in a role of acting governor to fix an executive order to disband a vaccine mandate ban, to schools, universities, also wanted to limit the requirement for covid testing in some places. the government, to note, had a vaccine ban for state agencies in place, but the lieutenant governor wanted to put in a larger ba...

- whatre we doing? - i dont know. . this morning a startling look at the devastating effects of climate change, switzerland has been warming at twice the global rate across the world famous alps, glaciers are melting fast, 500 are gone permanently. keir simmons joins us live. whats it like? >> reporter: hi steph, spectacular to be live on msnbc on the top of a mountain in the swiss alps, the roane glacier is beautiful. it is also under threat. you should be able to see in the water pieces of t...

>> reporter: so far authorities here declined to comment on what role, if any, bullying has played in all of this, steph. as we look at texas gun laws, looser than most states, but an 18-year-old still cannot conceal carry here much less take a firearm on to school grounds. only security officers can be armed on campus. stephanie, back to you. >> sam, so hard to watch this. unfortunately weve seen it over and over. arlington, texas, just the latest community dealing with a mass shooting. accordi...

A little bit of good news, steph. what theyre doing here is they have built dams and they are creating hydropower using the water, some of it from the glaciers to fight climate change. switzerland 60% of its electricity comes from that kind of hydropower in dams here in the mountains and also in the rivers. the reality is, steph, there are going to be some tough choices, though, because as these glaciers melt, it will have an impact. there is a lot of freshwater held in these glaciers around the...

When you read, even just some of these quotes today, where do you rate them on a scale from this is unbelievable? >> hi steph, good to see you. for a long time those of us who cover the trump administration sort of thought there was the big three of days that we would forever define this presidency, that he could generate headlines and controversies dozens of times a day. it was always charlottesville, it was helsinki, and it was the children in the cages. and all of that of course was eclipsed ...