As the Government Shutdown stalemate drags on both sides are doing a lot of talking, just not to each other. House speaking john boehner maybe another call for negotiations while democrats called for the house to vote. Wall street is watching as stocks rose 76 points. As traders are optimistic that lawmakers can reach a deal and reaching the nations debt limit. Furloughed employees rally outside of the nations capitol calling for an end of the shutdown. Those workers got a show from president obama and Vice President joe biden. They went out to launch at a restaurant that is hel helping furloughed employees. Lets go out to Mike Viqueira to see what is on the president s table, mike . Reporter what is not on the table is the president s trip to asia, an annual summit that was supposed to happen in indonesia next week. The president will have to skip it. He sent john kerry in his place and were still in the shouting stage. There is no movement. The shoutdown continues, and these sides ar
Hello, the Italian Coast Guard is searching for 200 migrants missing after their boat sank and the vessel believes to be carrying around 500 people set sale from the libyan port city and 127 people are confirmed dead but this is expected to rise. It had nearly finished the 400 kilometer journey before it sank. What is the latest . The weather conditions are hampering the search and rescue operations. So far we have been talking to the coast guards and they are saying because of the weather conditions they are unable to actually tackle the search and rescue operations as fully as they would like to. They have a boat out and trying to get divers into the structure of the boat that is submerged in the water but they are finding it incredibly difficult to do so so that is slowing things down. Its crucial for them to get those bodies out of there. They have appeared to have noticed some of the bodies which are still on the boat and even on the seabed, so much have been spotted on the seabed
How bookstores are entering a new chapter. Hello, italian coast guards are continuing their search for survivors. A boat carrying about 500 people set sail from the port city, and 150 are confirmed dead. This is expected to be rising. Son yah, where do things stand right now . Well, this is still continuing. The search and rescue operations are still continuing. The coast guards set out earlier on this morning. And what they are concentrating on, and the focus of their search at the moment, is to try to get under the remains of the boat. Of course, the island is still very much in shock over yesterdays chaotic event. The mayor who we spoke to a few moments ago also was talking about this sheer chaotic event, an extremely hai harrowing even. A boat carrying hundreds of migrants sank as it tried to reach the italian island of lampa dusa. The crew and passengers set fire to a blanket, so they could be seen by passing ships, and that started a fire on board. They panicked causing it to cap
Good morning. Welcome to aljazeera america. Im stephanie sy. Today is day four of the Government Shutdown, but a wild chase and shooting through the streets of washington led to a different kind of shutdown, with police putting the capitol itself on lockdown. Erika is here with more details about the chase from the white house to the peoples house that brought washington to a stand still. Good morning, erika. Good morning. Officers say the woman at the center of the chaos has a history of mental illness. This is 34yearold miriam carey. She grew up in new york city, but grew up in connecticut. She suffered from serious post partum depression after girl birth last year, which was around the time she was also fired from her job. While police are convinced she did not ram the gates of the white house by accident, they still dont know her motive. Investigators worked late into the night at the home of the woman who police say caused chaos at the capitol thursday afternoon. The 34yearold was
To the keynote address of the tenth annual reading festival. When he dead rated the library in 1941 he declared the purpose to be bring together people to learned from the past so they can gain in judgment in creating the future. We think there is no better way of fulfilling his purpose than the roosevelt reading festival. Its showcasing how complete his vision for the library as a research constitution is being filled by a vary of it authors that produce books of all kinds. The work of the authors who have gathered here today theres much that can be learned and great inspiration drawn from the roosevelt era. Through the generosity of cspan, we are able to share our tenth annual roosevelt reading festival with a grand audience across the country. None of this would be possible without the creative and dynamic staff of the library and volunteers. I thank you for their help. [applause] we have just finished a major building renovation updating the roosevelt library. The first president i