Tonight on 360, Breaking News and a Government Shutdown a day away and the House Speaker who cant seem to stop it. 27 years after Tupac Shakurs murder, the man police say ordered his death is now in custody. Plus, live reporting after some of the most rain and worst flooding new york has ever seen, and its not over yet. Good evening, thanks for joining us. We begin tonight with Breaking News in the likelihood that 28 hours from now at one minute past midnight the federal government will shut down. In a moment youll meet some of the men and women who will be left without paychecks if it does. First, though, the man largely responsible for it House Speaker Kevin Mccarthy. Its not so much what hes done thats led to all this, its what hes been unable to do. Speaker mccarthy for weeks now has not been able to get the right wing of his narrow majority to agree on Stopgap Funding to keep the government running, nor has he been willing to work with democrats instead or grab a lifeline and take
11thhour plan would keep the government open for 45 days, but relies on democratic support to pass. Democrats say they need more time to read through the proposal and see whats actually in it. Just moments ago House Speaker mccarthy expressed his frustration about the process. I have tried for eight months. It took me a long time to get the Appropriation Bills on the floor. They were delayed. I tried yesterday with the most conservative Spending Bill you could find and i couldnt get 218 republicans on. This will be on suspension. It takes a higher threshold. What i am asking republicans and democrats alike, put your partisanship away, focus on the American Public. How can you, in good conscience, think of the men and women who volunteer to risk their lives to defend us to say they wcant be paid while we work out our differences . That is unfair. I cannot do that to our Men And Women In Uniform. So were going to keep government open. That was House Speaker Kevin Mccarthy, whos spoken qu
You are live in the cnn newsroom. Im jim acosta in washington. Good afternoon. With each passing minute the nation is getting closer to a Government Shutdown, but just a short time ago, a possible breakthrough that could help keep The Lights On. The yeas are 335, the nays are 91. Twothird being in the affirmative, the rules are suspended. The bill is passed. And without objection the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. The house passed a bipartisan shortterm Spending Bill. The Stopgap Measure would provide 45 days of Government Funding before the next time they have to do this up on capitol hill. It includes federal Disaster Relief assistance as the white house requested, but it does not include aid to ukraine which is a Top White House priority. House democrats overwhelmingly supported the measure and now head the over to the senate. Lets go straight to capitol hill and our manu raju whos been up there all day. Hes going to be going into the evening, i guess. Whats the latest,
Collins showing off this water color painting made for her by feinstein. Feinsteins desk on the senate floor was draped in black with a vase of white flowers. Thats the senate tradition. She was the longest serving woman in senate history. She was 90 years old. She was 90 years old. Ac 360 begins now. Captions by vitac www. Vitac. Com tonight on 360, Breaking News on the Government Shutdown just days away. Also 27 years after Tupac Shakurs murder, the man who ordered his death, police say, is in custody. Some of the worst rain new york has ever seen and its not over. Breaking news. In the likelihood 24 hours from now, one minute past midnight, the federal government will shut down. In a moment, youll meet some of the men and women who will be left without paychecks if it does but still have the bills to pay. First, the man largely responsible for it, House Speaker Kevin Mccarthy. Its not what hes done thats led to all this. Its what hes been unable to do. Speaker mccarthy has not been
This is cnn Breaking News. Hello, again, everyone. Thank you so much for joining me on what is seriously a marathon saturday. On capitol hill and wherever you are. Im fredricka whitfield. We begin with this Breaking News from capitol hill, where were watching an 11th hour Stopgap Spending Bill potentially come to reality. The house is yet to vote on it, but there are so many moving parts today, youre seeing the minority House Minority leader, hakeem jeffries, who has been using his magic minute to speak to the chamber there, imploring that all of this was avoidable, there could have been some bipartisan effort to keep Government Spending well before this juncture, but here we all are. Lets get to cnns lauren fox on capitol hill. Brand new reporting that you have about not just whats going on in the house, but apparently whats happening in the senate, and how all of this is coming together. Whats going on . Reporter let me paint a picture for viewers at home. Basically theres been a del