Public debt. The senate reacted and acted very responsibly. On two procedural votes, we got over 75 votes. On final passage, we got a majority. It was now the time is for the house to act. The house has to understand that playing ping pong politics only pings, it does not get to bottom line. We asked them to accept what we sent over so we could get into the real issues of what is fiscal 14 going to look like and how can we reduce public debt by 100 billion a year, do it in a balanced way and be able to keep our economy going, your government functioning and American People really at work. Capitol hill correspondent Kelly Odonnell is standing by and were listening to maryland senator barbara mikulski, whats the next step . Whats senate has been able to do with the democratic majority is critical in trying to keep the government open. They were able to keep enough votes to end the debate and put off the ted cruz effort to block this. Republicans got 19 votes, nowhere near enough despite
Incredible feat later on and we wanted to show you bait of it to get things started. We want to begin with todays top story the ticking clock and looming Government Shutdown. Luke russert is on capitol hill right now with the latest. Reporter here on xcapitol hill as they tried to avoid a Government Shutdown. Yesterday on a party line vote, the Senate Passed a bill to continue to fund the government. Its a clean bill that did not have any funds to defund the president S Health Care law and not sitting well with House Republicans who want to see changes to the law. President obama issued this warning to House Republicans in congress. My message to congress is this do not shut down the government, do not shut down the economy, pass a budget on time, pay our bills on time, refocus on the everyday concerns of the american people. Reporter so House Republicans have a meeting today as a conference. They are going to try to figure out some sort of possible compromise, but, as of right now, it
2013. Announcer this is today. With lester holt and erica hill live from studio 1a in rockefeller plas plaza. Good morning everyone. Welcome to today on a saturday morning. Im lester holt. Im erica hill alongside dylan dreyer and craig hill in this morning. Jeb corliss attempt to go fly through two peaks in china. About the length of two football fields, twas a 40foot gap here . I think 25 feet. The lowest point 15 feet wide, the highest is 60. 5 feet wide, the highest is 60. The tough part for him he had to maintain this perfect position for 20 to 30 seconds. His last jumps were maybe one to and this is a simulation and made it only 50 of the time. He hit the wrong position. Those are great ops going in. Not a lot of room for error. Not too much. I sky dived once, twice, just had to hold this position for 30 seconds and that was impossible. I dont know how you steer between pieces of rock. Were going to hear from him about this incredible feat later on. We wanted to show you a little