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Happening now north carolina state lawmakers are getting ready to repeal the controversial state law that restricts the use of certain bathrooms by people who identify as trans gender. the law called hb-2 was originally passed in response to a charlotte city ordinance which expanded lgbt. the first step in a kind of deal brokered by incoming governor roy cooper. mariana atenzio joins me now from raleigh, north carolina. give us a sense of the timeline here. when d do we expect the vote to happen and what's going on where you are? >> hallie, under normal circumstances this vote was expected to ...

Suppression. this is ground zero now. >> a lot going on in north carolina. a lot going on now within the past few minutes. sometimes parliamentary procedure moves slowly. now told it won't get started until 1:00. there were opponents of hb-2 throughout the morn iing perhap breaking for lunch. there are 105 lawmakers here at the state legislature. that means 53 will be needed to vote to repeal hb-2 which is has been so controversial. this morning in charlotte, the city council voted to repeal the rest of its discrimination ordinance and gop lawmakers at the state level said there was some quest...

Both chambers who wants to protect the state of north carolina and bring business back here will be begging to bring it to the floor so we can vote for full repeal immediately. >> what are you doing personally? what is your caucus doing to try to convince republicans in the chamber to get on board? >> i have been having conversations across the aisle. all 42 democrats on the house side and the democrats on the senate side are committed to the repeal of house bill 2. i understand every single one of them will vote for a full repeal. if it comes to a floor vote many republicans will as well. i h...

With the heir to the throne prince charles earlier this week. we're sending them good health wishes. and happening now in the state of north carolina, just a few minutes ago, lawmakers in charlotte voted to repeal the city's nondiscrimination ordinance during an emergency meeting. it seems that lawmakers are set to meet any minute. >> stephanie, lawmakers, that's right, you just took the words out of my mouth, they just resumed the special session to repeal hb 2. some protesters here to my right are calling for a full repeal of this controversial bathroom bill that has really placed north ca...

>> what is the likelihood there are enough votes to do this? the reason why i think governor mccrory never said it publicly is because there was a veto-proof passage. >> the republicans have a veto-proof majority in both houses, but this is unusual. a lot of democrats didn't vote for hb 2 to start with. presumably you will have most if not all democrats voting to repeal the bill and they are going back tomorrow. and they mead in caucus house republicans. just a few minutes. they have the votes they need and the leaders of the house and senate seem to think they do.