national monument. where we re going to be enjoying 2 minutes, 22 seconds of totality. reporter: that s when the moon blocks the sun completely. one of the images from the last time. and next monday this total solar eclipse will be 70 miles wide, 3,000 miles long. across 14 states. and all of it as frank reynolds promised right here live on abc news. may the shadow of the moon fall on a world at peace and abc news of course will bring you a complete report on that next eclipse 38 years from now. 1:00 p.m. eastern next monday. set your dvrs. i ll see you then. good night. new at 6:00, the i-team digs into videotaped evidence given
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of our viewers. they were able to do this after all of this discussion and all of this fight over specifically inclusion of fema funding. additional fema funding of in the short-term resolution. what is happening right now, john, is there is going to be a series of two votes, actually. and it s a clean or simple and this basically is the measure that everyone basically agreed to. funding fema as well as not shutting down the government and it strips away all of the obstacles that had really been holding up the agreement to this point. the second measure that they will be voting on is actually here s the confusing part. a one-week extension. one-week short-term spending extension. and the purpose of this is simply the house is out this week, as you well know. if they can t get members back in time, or they can t get an agreement to pass it very quickly. they will need that one-week of funding to avert the government shutdown and get the house back in time to vote on this mea
getting plenty of attention that way. she could say, look, i m not going to run for president, but here is someone who i think would be a good republican to challenge president obama. on the thirdly, she can keep the status quo, and 2ki7 dips the into the presidential waters, but does not jump in. if she continues option three, it will be more difficult to get more national attention the next time she tries to do this because the gop national race is starting to pass her by, and if she wants to get in, this is a good weekend for her to do so. yeah, i vote for option three. i would like to think it comes to a close sooner or later, but my hunch is that it goes on for as long as she can get away with it. thank you, mark murray. thank you, mike. the republican candidates debate is going to be right here on msnbc at 8:00 p.m. eastern next thursday. and a death at the top california mansion, and now
first as we head here into the labor day weekend with a brutal report on the job market. basically, it has come to a grinding halt. the unemployment rate for august didn t budge an inch. here you have the number. it is still sitting at 9.1%. the net number here, that s the important part. the net number of jobs created in august. zero, none, goose egg. private employers did add 17,000 jobs last month. but do the math. government eliminated 17,000. so the net change is zero. this really is a once in a blue moon event. if you think about it. the last time the bottom line on jobs was zero was all the way back in february of 1945. 45. that s before the baby boomers were even born. the weakest jobs report in almost a year comes amid consumers wavering confidence in the economy. we ll been following that jumpy volatile stock market. on the heels of the big debt ceiling fight and washington s credit downgrade. you throw all that together, then you look ahead here. we re less than