Day marking a National Holiday turned to mayhem as supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi poured into the streets and turned on each other. Hundreds were injured, most in cairo where Security Forces rieged for hours. Tragedy at a monster truck show in mexico this weekend. An outofcontrol truck plowed into a crowd of spectators on saturday, killing eight people, including at least three children. 79 others were injured. The driver is being held on suspicion of manslaughter. Some witnesses said he appeared to have hit his head inside the truck as he drove over the cars. The local governor said alcohol was detected on his breath. In Southern China a typhoon has battered the coast with massive waves. The storm which made landfall only hours ago prompted the Chinese Government to evacuate. 700,000 people from coastal areas. This is chinas 20th storm of the season and comes on the heels of a storm that killed 25 people. And now for a look at weather state side, here is nbc meteorologis
Be enough passes to fund the government. The white house agrees. President secretary jay carney tweeting, quote, if you lied, why not prove it. Wondering why boehner is so afraid to call the vote. The Washington Post reporting the numbers are there to class a clean c. R. Nbcs tracie potts joins us live from washington. Tracie, good morning, what is the holdup. Reporter the big question is if there are enough votes. The House Republican leadership insists that the votes that you heard simply are not there. Not only the Washington Post but our own nbc Analysis Shows that the votes are likely there. 22 of moderate republicans who said yes i will vote for a clean budget, a c. R. , as they call it here in washington, to get this process moving and to get rid of the government shutdown. That would give the 217 votes to pass it. Thats why youre seeing pressure on john boehner to call for that vote. The problem hes got, the conservatives in his party who say they control a third of the votes i
Temptations, which are worth trying. It is monday, october 7th. Announcer from abc news, this is world news now. We are still getting over those fast food temptations. See how delicious they look . We will really get over it about six or eight hours. Look at who it is, everybody. Good morning, everybody. The the one and only rob nelson. He likes to tease. You do this a lot. One night stand, man. You know what i mean. We will take what we get. Hit it and quit it. No, happy to be here happy to have you. Thank you. We are happy to have you. You have been kind of going you have been traveling a lot. Back in south africa for another stint, like august to september. It was good. Happened when Nelson Mandela got released and Oscar Pistorius and stuff going on but this is still home so good to be back. Busy news week, too. We are always excited to have you. Good to be back. An empty mug. Yours might be empty. Oh, thats a good thing. We do begin this morning with new details in the weekend terr
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