spending. matt jablow has the story. reporter: it is clearly 10:45 and almost everybody here on capitol hill is watching the clock. still no deal to reduce the country s budget deficit but for the first time in a long time there is optimism there will be a deal soon. i believe there will be a strong bipartisan support for this. i feel a lot better today about the ability to avoid default than i did even yesterday morning. reporter: with just two days left until the united states could default on the country s loan, the first time in the country s history talks have intensified today. our focus is on planning it. reporter: the plan calling for 3 trillion in budget cuts in exchange for an immediate 1 trillion increase in the country s debt ceiling. this deal hasn t been finalized yet but i think we are very close to something i could comfortably recommend to my members. reporter: leaders think they will have the votes to get the plan approved but clearly don t h
against a church and now the same county is doing it again. also tonight, let s make a deal. as the clock ticks on our debt ceiling, did we make any progress tonight? this is 9news now. this broadcast realtime captioned by becky lyon. first breaking news out of the district. you know fire engines will be racing. gary neurenberg is live in the northwest with more on that. reporter: derek, a two-alarm fire. the call came in shortly before 10 p.m. for a fire on the 10th floor of the watergate east building. they went to a second alarm because of all of the apartments an all the people here. 125 firefighters responded to this call. they got the fire under control. it was contained at that one apartment. they told some residents to shelter in place, knock on the door and help others evacuate. won woman was seen on the balcony next to the apartment which was burning, getting help from a firefighter. one firefighter we are told has been injure so far especially with heat
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injure. state police say the crash happened around 4:15:00 p.m. this afternoon on interstate 390. about 55 miles southeast of rochester. preliminary reports indicate that a tire may have blown out causing the bus driver to lose control. and we are making calls tonight. we will bring you the latest details as they become available. the phone hacking scanneddal in britain has reached u.s. shores and sparked an investigation by the fbi but the bombshells continue to fall that side of the atlantic tonight where the head of the famed scotland yard has been forced to resign. reporter: british police want rebecca brooks to tell them what she knows about the phone hacking scandal surrounding the murdock empire. the former chief executive of news international was arrested when she went to the police station for a planned appointment scheduled to appear before parliament on tuesday. some questioned the timing of the arrest. i really do feel that it will inhibits the hearing. r
goodrich in for ann notarangelo. he watched and a b.a.r.t police officer shot and killed oscar grant. now grant s best friend is also dead by the hands of a gunman. joe vazquez is in hayward tonight to tell us what happened. joe? reporter: juliette, family members of john caldwell wrapped up an emotional vigil here at the murder scene of the six people that were on that platform new year s day 2009. two have now died violently and so young. oscar grant then him now. reporter: two and a half years after the shooting death of his best friend oscar grant, 25-year-old caldwell was himself murdered. happened in broad daylight which is real crazy too. right. i don t know, it is just dum, i think it is. reporter: caldwell was sitting in a car at a hayward gas station around 5:30 p.m. friday when someone walked up and fired several rounds. the suspect ran away. police searched the area but never found the gunman. investigators say they don t believe the shooting was ran