The next four years but the unions say that is note enough. The fact of the matter is on the surface, it gross 12 ends up being a negative almost 1 for our members with regard to pay increase. Health, retiring and pension cost. Our members may be barely 1 a year in the positive. That is not a pay increase. A pay increase is something that is significant. Whether b. A. R. T is in position to move or not, we dont know. As for the big question, will the unions keep working while they try topwork this deal out. That will be considered. All depends on what is happening at the table. Reporter and, as we just learned from ac transit, if they walk out as well, this could be a double trouble. No decisions made. Talks continue. We will keep you appraised and with updates at 6 00. Elizabeth. Did the politicians return for talks today . Reporter no, they cant. As a matter of fact, very few have. Mayor ed lee was but then decided not to. Now we will have tom talking. We will keep you posted as to w
Every time we find a way through one of these crises and say this is the last time and say isnt it great we found bipartisan agreement and we can use this momentum Going Forward to make sure we avoid this kind of crisis in the future. Ive seen this play before, and yet it seems that within days or weeks we just fall back to our old habits of digging trenches and fighting each other more than we talk to each other, and again governing by crisis. I think this time is different just because the depth of the dysfunction was different than ever before. The cries from the American Public were greater than ever before. But we should remember, as this report from the Bipartisan Policy Center on deliver system reform tells us, that there is still enormous room for the two parties to set out goals that we agree on. And if we push aside the most strident extremist voices that largely come from the Tea Party Caucus in the house of representatives, there is so much that we can do. And as my europea
Government loses its ability to borrow money tomorrow, and a lastditch effort by the house to muster an agreement was sunk by hardlined conservatives, so this morning congress has its back against the wall with time about to run out. Susan mcginnis is in washington with the very latest. Susan, good morning. Alexis, good morning. We are strangely in almost exactly the same spot we were this time yesterday. All of the focus now is on the senate hoping for an 11th hour deal there. This is after a house plan that was introduced yesterday collapsed, bringing the resumption of this effort in the senate, but those efforts resume dangerously close to this debt ceiling deadline. Senate republicans and democrats worked through the night on a bill to reopen the government and avoid a default. Majority leader harry reid and Minority Leader Mitch Mcconnell quickly resumed their efforts after talks in the house fell apart. We felt blindsided by the news from the house, but this isnt the first time.
And the photo gone viral of a mother of three, being criticized for posting this snapshot of herself, in shape and smiling. Her sons by her side. The caption, whats your excuse . Why her message has many moms fired up this morning. And good morning, america. Big, packed wednesday. A lot to get to this morning, including the breaking details on that spirit plane. So scary. Smoke so thick, passengers could barely see each other. They were sending those last texts from the air. Cant imagine what that must have been like. Were also learning of an arrest overnight in the l. A. X. Dry ice bombing case. A 28yearold baggage handler. Well have more on that in a moment. Lets get to washington. The dangerous budget brinksmanship, just hours before a deadline that could bring economic catastrophe. A last minute stab at solving the crisis collapsed in the house yesterday. New talks picked up in the senate again late last night. And abcs jon karl is here with all of the latest. Good morning, jon. Re
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