Day 14 of the deposit shutdown is ending on an optimistic note. Weeks of finger pointing on capitol hill could be winding down. Democratic and Republican Leaders are confident a deal to reopen the government and raise the debt ceiling will be done by the end of the week. We have more from White House Correspondent mike viqueira. Well, a deal in the senate may be at hand in the nick of time. The gop politics that brought the nation to the brink means theres no n guarantee that a senatepassed plan will pass in the house of representatives. President obama visited a Washington Food Bank where he greeted furloughed workers. If the republicans are not willing to set aside part san concerns to do what is right for the country, we stand a chance of defaulting. There are signs the worse may be avoided. Senate leaders said the right things in the core doors. Im optimistic that well reach an agreement. I share his optimism. I feel good. On the table funding the government until 15 joint enterpri
Rich edson, thank you. Adam Meridian Equity Partners on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Thank you for joining us. It is good to see you. How do you make heads and tails of this back and forth. Is this just posturing . It is this typical actions we see come out of washington and the market has the typical reaction to that kind of movement. We have two parties that are posturing as to how this is going to play out. It seems to us this is not going to get accomplished in time, this is going to go through the deadline. We are hoping soon after that there will be some sort of solution it in place. The big question is if we go through that timeline, what happened to the market . That has helped our market right now find where its range needs to be at this point. If we do go through this deadline at the market seem seeo take that as very negative news, we will see a retracement in this market but my standing as they built enough into this market so if we take a step back, over a per
By the unions last flight. Deborah villalon is live where the two have met face to face tonight. Reporter and theyre inside. The union and the district are meeting. 20 minutes ago we saw the general manager of b. A. R. T. To get here. They have something for her to contribute on. We know for the last hour theyve been hashing out an offer from yesterday. Something the union calls insane, something b. A. R. T. Calls great. They say its a 20 increase over four years but paying more for benefits many workers say that if they take this they would not be better off. We feel like we have reached the limit. Reporter stretching is limit is where they are now. It means its the financial envelope. It means that theres a set of costs and set of work rules we really dont want to go beyond. Reporter but the unions have their limits too. We feel we have to give them notice tonight, unless something breaks and theres a hail marry, there will be a strike. Reporter a strike possibly longer than the four
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The two have met face to face tonight. Reporter and theyre inside. The union and the district are meeting. 20 minutes ago we saw the general manager of b. A. R. T. To get here. They have something for her to contribute on. We know for the last hour theyve been hashing out an offer from yesterday. Something the union calls insane, something b. A. R. T. Calls great. They say its a 20 increase over four years but paying more for benefits many workers say that if they take this they would not be better off. We feel like we have reached the limit. Reporter stretching is limit is where they are now. It means its the financial envelope. It means that theres a set of costs and set of work rules we really dont want to go beyond. Reporter but the unions have their limits too. We feel we have to give them notice tonight, unless something breaks and theres a hail marry, there will be a strike. Reporter a strike possibly longer than the four day walk out. A strike bringing more pain for the public