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Destructive winds and also downed trees that could lead to power outages. there is also verbiage out of the national weather service where theyre using words like unlivable for weeks and youre on your own. hopefully you heeded the warnings but really key messaging and scary messaging that we have a six, seven, even 24 hours and eventually into thursday with some really rough times ahead. >> michelle, real quickly. 157 miles per hour i believe is the threshold over which ida must go to become a c...

So that means never getting to 60. this kind of legislation normally requires the clearing of that 60-vote threshold. senator manchin seems to have suggested that he may be open to some kind of exception to the 60-vote threshold on voting rights. is there any progress that you can tell us about? >> first, were getting the bill. we have to have general agreement on the bill, and hes come a long way on that. so just a work in progress. very closely reaching a conclusion. as for the filibuster, you...

Revised version of the for the people act that will reportedly incorporate changes proposed by senator manchin republicans have twice blocked the for the people act from even more -- from even moving forward to being debated in the senate. joining us now is democratic senator amy klobuchar of minnesota, she is the chair of the senate rules committee sent. senator thank you for joining us. tonight congresswoman val demings in our last segment just talked about the passage of the john lewis voting...

Theres another group that looks legitimate, they may work three jobs, they may think its expensive, they may not speak english, whatever it might be, so were just grind away every day, were knocking on doors, and dozens of communities, doing our best, its really hard, this disinformation stuff, it makes life hard. in its not funny. its tragic. thats the problem at the end of the day. >> untapped that, delta really does appear in the data has been pretty clear on this in our experience, its more ...

When youre a governor, i think theres an idea, maybe i subscribe to it, of were going to hit a threshold of not having to deal with this anymore and that doesnt look like thats the case. the question is, now what? >> yeah. national governors association meeting here in denver, im honored to serve as vice chair. we had a very good, sober, constructive meeting across the aisle with a handful of governors today. one of the points i made is its very humbling, dealing with this pandemic. every time y...

Of exception to the 60 vote threshold on voting rights. is there any progress on that issue that you can tell us about? >> we first, we are getting the bill, we need to have general agreement on the bill. hes come a long way on that so work in progress very closely reaching a conclusion. as for the filibuster, you know, i want to allow abolish it. ive had it when, i had fires raging in the northern part of my state,, and the air quality -- the worst air quality in minnesotas history one day. i w...

Is going forward to have the justice department focus on some of the states that have been enacting discriminatory laws. where this goes, we know senator murkowski has publicly voiced we support in the john does bill. so we have at least one republican who was interested in this. bill there might be more so we will take with the houses given, us the work they have done at getting some of the requirements put up by the supreme court after the shelby decision, and we will go from there. >> senator...

We need to lead with science and not politics. we have seen one time after the other where our politicians have made this the health and safety of floridians, the health, safety, and well-being of our children, a political issue. i certainly have a senior senator from florida speak out on this issue. we know the best weapon against the virus is to get vaccinated. we are pushing that with everything that we have. but we also need to listen to the health care professionals. and let them lead. >> c...

The 60-vote threshold in the senate? >> we have positive, positive work being done over the last few weeks. i have been in minnesota, but ive talked to senator manchin a number of times, as have the rest of the group that you just showed up on the screen. some of this is public. from what we heard today in wisconsin, except for the governor, they would have really, really messed up a lot of their laws. two interesting facts, they would have only had one dropoff box for the entire city of milwauk...

And more than 300 election ballots inside a mans car. police say they were responding to a call about a man passed out in his vehicle as they searched his car, police say they found the stolen items including a box of mail with hundreds of unopened, unmarked ballots for the upcoming gubernatorial recall election. the suspect was arrested, but a motive has not been determined. lets get a check on cnn business this morning, looking at markets around the world. asian shares have closed narrowly m...