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Needed. in our last hour, i spoke with the chair of the congressional domestic caucus, who was pleased by tonight's outcome. >> we are doing the work we need to do to go back and look at our priorities and make sure that we are really thinking through what we need to have in this bill and how we can come to agreement. that is the negotiating process and i'm thrilled that it is really happening. look, i think that we will do the work we need to do and i'm confident that we're going it get there. >> so, in the meantime, the house passed 30 days of stop gap money for the highway trust fund which ...

The final deal. >> not entirely an artificial deadline because you just heard congressman dean phillips there of minnesota say that -- he called it bif which stands for bipartisan infrastructure. if infrastructure doesn't pass, 4200 employees of the department of transportation who don't get the funding to come in are going to have to be furloughed. so if that were to happen and then all of a sudden you have local news teams and cnn and others profiling these people who don't have paychecks coming in because the democrats can't get their act together and pass legislation that is assured passag...

Bystanders to know that you're doing that and people known to have the phones out. so i think the glasses are quite a bit more overt than that. you have the led, an audio sound and have to take an explicit action so i have to move my hand on my temple and press the button or have to use my voice to say, take a picture. so i think there is a lot more opportunities really for bystanders to know, and this isn't something we left to chance. we knew this was one of the most important thing is to get right. one thing that makes me feel really old is that they say when you ask people our age take a p...

Back on. we have talked to two parish officials in two southeast louisiana counties in the past couple nights on this show both from st. john's parish and jefferson parish, louisiana told us their parishes right now are bluntly uninhabitable. without power, fuel has become all the more important. even hospitals are still relying on generators for power. that is not a long term solution. that is a stop-gap. nearly two-thirds of gas stations in baton rouge and new orleans were out of fuel today. you need fuel to power your generator. the line at one costco in new orleans where they did still hav...

From st. john's parish and jefferson parish, louisiana, told us their parishes right now are, bluntly, uninhabitable. without power, fuel has become all the more important. even hospitals are still relying on generators for power. that is not a long-term solution. that is a stop-gap. nearly two-thirds of gas stations in baton rouge and new orleans were out of fuel today. you need fuel to power your generator. the line at one costco in new orleans where they did still have fuel today, that line was 2 miles long. all of this while the national weather service has issued a heat advisory, heat ind...