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

ceiling bill. the vote was 63 to 36. it comes some 24 hours after the house passed the same bill. it raises the nation's debt limit -- while also imposing new caps on spending. and now goes to the presidents desk for his signature, with four days to go before the monday default deadline. let's get straight to nbc news capitol hill correspondent ali vitale, who has been standing by for hours and hours. all, right ali vitale. it happened. how did this whole thing go down tonight? >> yeah, it was less with a bang and more with a whimper, stephanie ruhle. weeks and weeks of high stakes n...

down tonight? >> yeah, it was less with a bang and more with a whimper, stephanie ruhle. weeks and weeks of high stakes negotiations here in washington covering each and every turn of them, as speaker mccarthy and his top allies huddled with top white house officials over the course of several weeks to hammer out this deal. and now the senate finishing it up in the dead of night, sending it now to the presidents desk, and avoiding default, with the days to go until that ex date deadline on monday. that's good news. and frankly, i have to tell you, that we have seen a lot of these lat...

jack smith to accelerate a decision on donald trump's claim of presidential immunity in his federal election criminal interference case. now, the one sentence reply -- the order from the supreme court reads, quote, the petition for writ of serzh yry is denied. in other words we're going not going to -- the appeals process could give donald trump ample time to further delay this case, which is of course supposed to go to trial just a few months from now, the first week of march. trump may now try to delay the start of the trial until the calender begins to encroach on next november's ...

not have his raido in the hallway, telling the texas tribune he was unaware of the dispatch report. six minutes later, he's seen trying keys to open an adjacent door. none of which appeared to work. minutes later, more gunfire. but the police posture is again to hunker down, as arredondo attempts to speak to the gunman. >> sir, if you can hear me, please put your firearm down, sir. we don't want anyone else hurt. the videos released by the uvalde mayor just as the texas house committee released its damning interim report sunday on the law enforcement response, calling it chaotic, lac...

and second and maybe more significantly long term, has got to rescue science from the ideologues who all of a sudden have taken it over. science must be objective. science must be honest. otherwise, everything falls apart. with that in mind, this story. in april last year, researchers at the cdc concluded a month-long study of thousands of health care workers. they included first responders, nurses, physicians buried the point of the study was to assess whether the covid vaccine was working. researchers with the health care workers into two groups, vaccinated and then unvaccinated, a...