2855 News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

bipartisan effort under way in congress now to protect future elections. we are covering all this from all angles. we have a team of reporters and analysts standing by. let's begin with manu raju on capitol hill. manu, tell us about this new legislation. >> reporter: this is the first direct response and most significant legislative response to the events of january 6th. a bipartisan group of senators just moments ago announced they have a deal to change how the so-called electoral count act, a law from 1887, works. essentially make it harder to overturn an election and what we saw d...

washington. this is very serious. they're not telling us where these jets were scrambled from but you know it is serious when they scramble two aircraft to bring in a civilian passenger jet. >> reporter: yeah. the two f-15s for scrambled about 40 minutes before this plane landed in bangor. there are a couple nearby bases that could do that, but norad confirmed they did use two f-15s to accompany this plane, which is a boeing 767. us airways flight 787 onto the ground in bangor, maine. buses look like they could be there for deplaining those 179 passengers. y you mentioned the tsa did...