Here what the white house is saying. The president applaud leader reid and lead aer mcconnell and encourages congress to act swiftly. We are not putting odds on anything. Were simply applauding the leaders of senate for reaching the agreement that theyve reached. Luke russert is on capitol hill and Kristen Welker is outside the white house. I want to get right to you looking at last nights memo that set the stage for everything happening today. What you can see there is a note from the leader, basically say, important, if your boss has any concerns and plans to vote no, its imperative that you let us know and contact the whip office. Thats an unusual way to start organizing votes because it sounds defensive. Explain that to us. Reporter well, ari, the problem is too many people called the office and said they were going to be no quite easy. What you saw from the email from your hill experience, that is showing a sign of weakness off the bat, saying, look, we do not know if we can get t
Guessing over his shutdown strategy, senator ted cruz takes a victory lap back in texas. And a very good morning for washington, its tuesday, october 23rd, 2013, and this is the daily rundown. Im Kristen Welker in for chuck todd. The markets have been flying blind for more than two weeks waiting for the september jobs report, which was delayed by the shutdown. We finally got that report this morning, but its not moving wall street much one way or the other. Take a look. 148,000 jobs were added in september. Below what analysts had expected. But we also saw the Unemployment Rate tick down to 7. 2 . The lowest rate in nearly five years. Most sectors added jobs. The biggest gains were in business services, transportation and warehousing, government and also construction. The leisure and hospitality sector lost 13,000 jobs. Turning to health cares rough rollout and the Ongoing Technical problems with healthcare. Gov, the sprint to fix website is on and the white house may only have about a
Grabbed ole party. Whats different this time . Also today, confront as criticism. It doesnt work. Its supposed to get and you quote. It doesnt do that. If they dont change management, this project is doomed. Thats something obviously the administration is working on 24 7. The eveimplementation of the affordable carry act. Its he understandable in terms of glitches. Tom president obama answers quit tick of his Health Care Plan even those from inside his party. This as Congress Gets ready to hold hearings on the issue. Also today, floridas fugitives captured. The proper convicted kell kille appeared in court. Were live as Police Promise there will be more arrests. Also ahead could it be that we dont need to go to school at all . Life lessons. The new method helping students in faraway places learn in ways not possible before. Its todays big idea. The ultimate fan film . Childhood friends recreated the original Indiana Jones movie. It sat on the shelf of for decade. Now theyre getting the
This is the cbs evening news. Axelrod good evening. Im jim axelrod. An unbearable sixday stretch of funerals for the victims of the newtown shooting wrapped up today with the last three. Mourners at the funeral of josephine gay wore purple. Her favorite color. A horsedrawn coach carried the casket of sixyearold ana marquezgreene, remembered as a girl who never walked from room to room. She danced. Sixyearold Emilie Parker was buried in utah, remembered for the markers and paper emilie always had with her because as she would say, i have so many ideas of things to draw, its hard to remember them all. Newtowns police chief is talking publicly about the shooting for the first time. The chief and his captain sat down with Elaine Quijano this morning who joins us now. Good evening elaine. Reporter good evening to you, jim. Well, police chief Michael Kehoe and captain joe rios arrived at sandy hook elementary within minutes of the call. We needed to break into the school to get in. Because t
Offenses in 2012, only 880 faced command action for sex crimes. Of those 880, 594 faced courtmartial and 302 of those courtmartials resulted in convictions. So all in all, we have a situation in which 880 people faced any kind of discipline for a sex crime out of the universe of 26,000 potential incidents. Thats only 3. 4 of total incidents in which someone was held accountable and only 302, or 1. 1 , were actually convicted of a crime. That is not a good set of numbers, mr. President , and it sums up why this problem has been fest experg why we need action this year. But i think we also know that were not all here because of the statistics. Were here because of real people. Because each and every one of the numbers is a personal story of grief and we know them all too well. Whether it was a Sexual Assault scandal last year at Lackland Air Force base in texas where a dozen or more basic Training Instructors were accused of sexually assaulting female trainees, or the more reason case at