moderate and progressive factions that had previously been at odds over how this evening was going to go and saw a lot of stopping and starting on the part of house leadership because they were trying to bring all of these disparate parts together. moderates had been saying that they didn t want to move forward yet on the larger social spending package because they wanted to see a congressional budget office score. that would take weeks. instead progressives settled in the end for a letter saying from these moderates that they would vote on the larger social spending package basically in a week, during the week of november 15th, what they re doing in the thunderstorm term is making good on the progressive side that they will be there on this bipartisan infrastructure vote. when this passes the house and it does still look like it s going to it will go immediately to president joe biden s desk. this is a notched win for him on one-half of the infrastructure
win. because of the last night s infrastructure vote in washington, some members of house scheduled to be here today are no longer expected. we re told that includes representatives mike gallagher, michelle steele and later today at the jam packed event in vegas, we expect to hear from former vice-president mike pence. back to you. molly: all right. bringing us the secrets there from the ballroom in las vegas. thanks for your reporting. we go to the scene at astroworld in houston to see where a deadly stampede took the lives of eight people, injuring hundreds. that s next. (naj) at fisher investments, our clients know we have their backs. (other money manager) how do your clients know that? (naj) because as a fiduciary, it s our responsibility to always put clients first. (other money manager) so you do it because you have to? (naj) no, we do it because it s the right thing to do. we help clients enjoy a comfortable retirement. (other money manager) sounds like a big responsibility.
opportunity and put us on a path to win the economic competition for the 21st century. cnn s jessica dean has the details on how the infrastructure vote finally came together. reporter: big news out of the u.s. house of representatives tonight as the bipartisan infrastructure bill makes it out of the house and is now headed to president biden s desk for his signature. so a major part of his legislative agenda getting done. house democrats getting that done with 13 house republicans joining them in that vote. we did see six progressives who voted against this, but the bottom line is, the bipartisan infrastructure bill will now become law and it s a big victory for president biden who was really hoping and had to end up calling and trying to push this over the finish line multiple times but really, today, when it really came down to it, we started the day, expected morning votes and something that would be rather
visit with the finally reunited right here in arizona. this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. across america reporting tonight from phoenix. good evening from phoenix, the last stop in our journey across america. a city that sits on the cross roads of so many major issues impacting this country. we ll dig into that shortly. but, first, will they or won t they or maybe the better question is can they on this friday evening, speaker nancy pelosi s gambit to get a house vote on both president biden s two spending priorities, a bipartisan infrastructure deal and the social safety net and climate bill quickly threaten to spiral out of her control. pushback from moderate democrats forcing pelosi to retreat on the social spending vote for now while holding fast on the infrastructure vote. progressives ready to make their own statement. kristin welker standing by now with late details. reporter: tonight
numbers a according to the auditors at the cream gushing alleged office, as long as the numbers come out even steven, they will get the votes they are owed. are we correct about that? that s exactly right. that s the agreement handful of moderates made with progressives, putting it in a letter, putting it out publicly, giving their assurances that if progressives came along on this bipartisan infrastructure vote, which they have, then moderate democrats would come through for them. not just on this build back better act, it s just a procedural sleight of hand so that democrats can say they moved on both of these bills in tandem, which was always the plan. but instead, moderates now saying they vowed that they would move with the rest of their party, in two weeks really, on the build back better act. once they see a cbo score, once they see what the actual monetary impact is, barring anything crazy, even steven as you said, they will move with the rest of their party to push