Everyone. Welcome to cnn this morning. Im amara walker. Im omar jimenez in for victor blackwell. You woke up, youre here. You didnt scare me off. It was intimidating but we made it. We want to start with, look, we have a lot to talk about. Lawmakers getting ready to return to capitol hill. Will they be able to avoid a Government Shutdown . Plus, stranded in the desert. Tens of thousands of people stuck at the burning man festival in the Black Rock Desert after torrential rain in the area. They are being told to shelter in place and conserve food and water. And those scorching hot temperatures just wont let up. How hot its going to get if you are heading outside for labor day and when you could see relief. This week we will talk to an expert about the impact on the opioid crisis. Congress is getting ready to work and hit the ground running. Senators are back in d. C. On tuesday followed by the house the next week. Both chambers are facing a time crunch on a number of key issues. On october 1, funding for the federal government expires along with the faas authority to operate. Also on the 1st, federal wild Land Firefighters are facing a potential huge pay cut if congress does not act. The top priority for the white house is funding the government. President biden is urging congress to pass a shortterm spending bill, but there are likely to be some major disagreements on what that bill should look like. Lets talk about it with cnn White House Reporter jasmine wright. For starters, good morning. How is the Biden Administration working with key players to ensure that this legislation gets passed . Reporter yeah, President Biden made it quite clear yesterday in florida he wants the government and congress to paspa shortterm funding bill preventing a partial Government Shutdown and protect the american people. Now, September 30th Deadline is when congress and the government will Beautiful Run out of money. And so the white house wants to prevent that. We know from their perspective its coming close other and its crunch time to get something done. So the white house is already sent a formal Call To Action to congress to speed this process up. Now, they talked about something called anomalies. What would face disruptions if the government were not funded by october 1. Really as they try to get that shortterm funding in place. That includes things that the Budget Office and the white house identified like food aid for women, infants, children as well as rental assurance. Things that are very important priorities for this white house. Now, the problem comes in here is that there are major disgraemts between dems and republicans when we talk about house relationships. They want to enact deep spending cuts, a priority of theirs since they took the house back over the midterms. As of this point, democrats wont even entertain what they are, which is where we find ourselves in that sort of stalemate. The Biden Administration is trying to work through that, of course, but these major roadblocks remain, of course, the house is not in session until september 12th. The senate is in session september 5th, making that month long to September 30th even shorter making that sprint even faster to that deadline. You are right about crunch time. You talk about republicans pushing for spending cuts. We know that another priority for the white house is an additional 16 billion for funding for femas Disaster Relief program. Is President Biden prepared to make some concessions to make that happen . Reporter yeah, it was no coincidence after President Biden and the white house asked for an additional 4 billion to replenish that fema Disaster Fund after the initial 12 billion ask. We saw President Biden and first lady biden head to see the florida damage from the hurricane. Ym this money needs to be funded. You have course, the question of whether or not its going to move the needle is still, obviously, outstanding. Take a listen to President Biden making his case in florida. These crises are affecting more than more and more americans and every american rightly expects fema to show up when they are needed and to help in a disaster. So im calling on the United States congress, democrats and republicans, to ensure the funding is there to deal with the immediate crises as well as our longterm commitments to the safety and security of the american people. So as the white house worked through that shortterm funding and fema Disaster Funding the president is ready to blame republicans if there is not enough money in that fema Disaster Fund to respond to future crises. Yeah, a very important thing. Jasmine wright, thank you very much. Lets turn to politico White House Reporter daniel lippman. Good morning. Good to see you. So you heard there from our jasmine, there is major disagreements as we are aware between republicans and democrats. Republicans pushing for a lot of spending cuts, and this is a very short window, right . We heard that the Senate Returns next tuesday, then the week after that the house. How do you expect this fight to play out . There is probably going to be that grand congressional Leader Meeting at the white house, where they try to hash out things. Of course, their staffs will are hard at work the next month to try to figure this out. I am sure they will be working over the labor day holiday. And i think House Republicans know that they dont want to get blamed if there is a Government Shutdown, but also there is this rule that they passed where unless the 12 Government Spending bills have been passed, there will be a mandatory 1 cut in government funding. And so Speaker Mccarthy and, you know, the Senate Leadership in Chuck Schumer are well aware of that and are trying to work through these matters as we speak. Well, the House Freedom caucus says they wont back a shortterm bill unless it includes house border bill, a rollback of certain Military Polz at the pentagon, and deals with what they call the unprecedented weaponization of the justice department. Obviously, referring to the indictment that trump is facing. How much could this hold up the process . Well, the House Freedom caucus always bring up these types of topics. They are kind of a fly in House Republican leadership. So mccarthy has to make sure they get some type of win, you know, get votes on some of their policy priorities, but he is also facing something we havent talked about, which is increasing calls from the right to amount to an impeachment against joe biden. So if they start that process in a few weeks in september, when they come back, then thats going to take up a lot of time and Congressional Energy and even less time can be devoted to actually keeping the lights on in the government. So thats a big risk for congress. Yeah, obviously, we will be watching that together closely as, of course, you know, we get closer to those deadlines. Lets pivot now to florida, because President Biden was there yesterday on the ground seeing those hardhit parts of florida from hurricane idalia. What did you make of that back and forth between him and desantis and the fact that ron desantis, the governor of florida, did not ultimately meet with biden despite, you know, you had the republican senator rick scott there on the Ground Meeting with the president . I mean, it was quite a departure from the norm, wasnt it . It was. And i think this comes as Desantis Campaign continues to try to revive itself. Their slide in the polls is very concerning for their donors. So desantis didnt want to give any grist for the Trump Campaign and for other campaigns saying, hey, you are too close to the perp we are trying to defeat here, and he doesnt he didnt want to a Chris Christie hurricane 2012 Hurricane Sandy moment where that sealed christie in the eyes of Republican Voters as being too close to democrats. As long as the cleanup for the hurricane is effective, i dont think he is going to get blamed. If he had not rushed back to florida to be on the ground, of course, he would. It even affected his mansion where there was tree that fell on some of the cars there. Yeah, yeah, i saw those pictures that were tweeted out. So, if you look at the state of the race now in terms of the republicans, the latest cnn poll shows that trump is well ahead of his rivals, no prize with 58 . 16 desantis. 7 ramaswamy. I want to ask you, though, about senator tim scott because we understand that he is planning a more aggressive approach with more pointed attacks against his rivals after, you know, what was i guess he faded into the background, we will say, during that first republican debate. Also, axios Exclusive Reporting that some conservative donors are a bit concerned about his bachelor status. It seems like there is a lot working against him, scott, at this point. He is going to need to do something miraculous to turn this around, no . Yeah, i dont know. His play seems to be maybe Vice President ial candidate for donald trump, who is a person he has criticized on issues like race and after charlottesville. So i think the donors donors are important to all of the campaigns except for trump it seems because he has those small dollar doan sewn up. For scott he has to find a narrative why he is running, especially when he is polling in the low, you know, Single Digits under 10 . In terms of whats your path . Are you going to win iowa, New Hampshire . Can you leverage the trump indictments to serve as a weapon against trump, or are you going to be kind of running for, you know, your legacy, your place in the History Books . But more candidates in the race, the easier it is for trump to win. If you want to stop trump, they kind of video to consolidate. Thanks for the conversation. And coming up after cnn this morning, stick around for state of the union. Dana bash sits down with gina raimondo, south dakota senator mike rounds and South Carolina congressman, congresswoman nancy mace, 9 00 a. M. Eastern right here on cnn. Labor day weekend is here. And so is the sweltering heat. Sorry, omar. Yesterday was a nice day. Yeah, not too bad. Record temperatures are building once again across the midwest and the eastern u. S. I cant get everything i want. Not just the heat that could mess with your labor day plans. Western states are seeing late summer rainfall. Cnn meteorologist Allison Chinchar is here to break it down fours. What are we looking at . We are looking at a couple of different things. Lets begin in the west. We have had a lot of rain for a lot of these places. Las vegas breaking daily rainfall records two days in a row. Now all of that rain begins to shift farther north. While we have seen it in nevada and utah, its spreading idaho and oregon, boise, elko, Salt Lake City under flash flood watches today as a lot of this moisture is going to develop this afternoon and continue to spread west. Yes, you are talking about the potential for flooding, 1 to 2 inches of rain possible. That may not sund like much. If you are getting it within a couple of hours, causes big problems out to the west. Farther to the east the big concern is the heat. Heat advisories out for numerous states. This includes sioux falls as well as minneapolis. They will top out at 98 today. Same thing tomorrow. Drooping back a few degrees tuesday. Then you are talking 15 to 20 degrees above average. Chicago, st. Louis looking at the next several days with high temperatures in the 90s. Lots of records likely to be broken. In fact, over 100 records possible not just in the midwest but as this spreads to the midatlantic and northeast. Records will be broken there as well. Washington, d. C. , two separate days we could get close to that tripledigit mark. My gosh. All right. Well, short sleeves for a reason. Thank you. Look, weatherrelated, right now Tens Of Thousands of people are literally stuck in the mud and trapped at that burning man festival after Heavy Rain Swamped camp sites in nevadas Black Rock Desert. Thick, ankledeep mud is making it impossible to walk or drive. Unclear how many people are stranded. But the festival typically draws about 70,000 people, and everyone there is being told to conserve water, food, and fuel. The mess was caused by less than an inch of rain, but its an area not used to seeing much rain, especially in three months, not a few hours. Sadly, the Sheriffs Office says they are investigating a death that happened during the rain. Organizers say there is no timeframe yet on when the roads will be open. Only Emergency Vehicles are allowed in or out of the temporary city. Thats a tough situation. And coming up, you we will be speaking with the Operations Commander for burning man. Thats ahead at 8 00. And coming up after that, a Home Insurance crisis in america. Major companies are limiting coverage and dropping customers as wooiildfires and floods domie the headlines. Russia carries out several attacks. We will have an update from the battlefield. Chevy silverado has what it takes to do it allll. Wiwith up to 13 camera views. And the z71 offroad package. You ok . Yeah. Any truck can help you make a living. This one helps you build a life. Chevy silverado. 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