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right now, president biden is flying back to washington with a deadline looming. nbc news is reporting tonight that republican house speaker mccarthy had what he said was a productive call with the president earlier today. the two leaders agreed to sit down one-on-one tomorrow in pursuit of a bipartisan compromise on the debt ceiling hike. before leaving the gc some of this morning in japan. we are seeing this right now on capitol hill. >> i think there are some maga republicans in the house who know the damage this would do to the economy. because i am president, and presidents are ...

this train was almost 1.8 miles long and had 158 cars, 38 cars ultimately had derailed. 11 were containing hazardous material and there were some five toxic chemicals on board, including vinyl chloride. that's the one that has a lot of folks worried right now because even though it's colorless and you almost wouldn't know it or sense it or smell it, some can. and that was the one that would have normally alerted people along a path of the train carrying it that you've got a train coming into town that's carrying it. now, there are different interpretations of the laws and requirement...

in the 1990's during a visit to nasa, sheila jackson lee demanded to see the flag astronauts had planted on mars. when gently informed no human being has been to mars because it's very far away, lee flew into a rage. she accused nasa of racism and pointed out her membership on the "science committee" in congress and so on. we can spend the entire hour on sheila jackson lee stories and it's tempting. on capital hill, she's known as "the queen" and not in a good way. but what's interesting is that nobody ever talks about the congressional district that sheila jackson lee supposedly rep...

>> in the nineteen nineties during a visit to nasa, sheila jackson lee demanded to see the flag that astronauts had planted on mars when gently informed that no human being has ever been to mars because it's very far away. >> lee flew into a rage. she accused nasa of racism and pointed out her membership on the , quote, science committee in congress and so on . we could spend the entire hour on sheila jackson lee stories, and it's tempting. on capitol hill, she's known as the queen and not in a good way. >> but what's interesting is that nobody ever talks about the congress district ...

One, engines full power. and lift off. -- [inaudible] >> together, we expand what is possible -- at astro and godspeed a x two. >> all right. you can see that falcon 9 no in the air. there was some audio delay, but we have the visual realtime. this as it heads off to the international space station, just for private citizens headed their. the passengers include saudi arabia's first astronaut in decades, as well as a tennessee businessman who started his own sports car racing team. they will be led by retired nasa astronaut who now works for the company that ranged this first 8 to 10-day trip. ...