Republicans control the house. We sent four different proposals over to the democrat colleagues in the senate. They rejected all of them. We asked for a conference to sit down and try to resolve our differences. They dont, they will not negotiate. I said happy to work with you mr. Speaker on a way out of this but we are where we are. Were through playing these little games on, it is all focused on obamacare. That is all its about. Bill that from last night. Now we move to today. Doug mckelway live from the hill again leading our coverage from there. Doug, at the moment is there a way out of this . Reporter bill, it is really hard to say. There is some speculation that there an escape route. It would come in the form of a grand bargain that would incorporate all the present crises from the continuing resolution, Government Shutdown to the impending debt ceiling which we hit on october 17th. These discussions apparently lowkey, theyre behind the scenes, largely being contained to republi
laughs laughs captioning sponsored by cbs nsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. Who knew that breaking out of prison could be so easy . Prison officials in florida admitted today they released a convicted murderer after receiving a forged court order. And if you think that kind of thing could never happen again, it did with another murderer less than two weeks later. A manhunt is now under by that the orlando area for these two escapees and we have more on this story from our Senior Correspondent john miller. John . Reporter scott, this scheme involves someone with knowledge of the law, legal documents, and the audacity to use the name of a famous judge. It was a lessthandaring escape. In fact, on two occasions 11 days apart the guards walked the killers out the front gate. Joseph jenkins and charles walker, both 34, were serving life sentences at this florida prison when officials released them. It happened after the prison received these f
This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. Every time there is a mass shooting, we ask the same question why . Tonight, we have a better idea of why aaron alexis opened fire at the Washington Navy yard last week. He killed 12 people before he died in a shootout with police. Among the victims was 63year old cathleen guard, and, at her funeral yesterday, the navy presented her family with a flag. The f. B. I. Said today that alexis was driven by the delusional belief that he was being controlled or influenced by electromagnetic waves beamed into his body. Bob orr has more about that and the pictures that the bureau released today. Reporter it was 8 15 on the morning of september 16 when aaron alexis appeared on the fourth floor of Navy Yard Building 197, prepared to launch his attack. Dressed in dark clothing, alexis was wearing two i. D. Badges and carrying a sawedoff shotgun. Surveillance video shows alexis moved deliberately down the hallway, checking doorway
With scott pelley. Pelley good evening. President obama called in reinforcements today for what he calls a tech surge to attack problems with the new Health Insurance web site. The Insurance Industry agreed to form technical teams to help fix the site. Since it went online october 1, people attempting to shop for insurance under the new Patient Protection and Affordable Care act have had trouble logging in. Some who did log in had the screen lock up. Others couldnt create an account. And some who did set up an account were later deenrolled. Then in an effort to fix the web site, it was designed to allow users to shop for insurance before they created an account, but that ran into trouble as well. Jan crawford has more about that. Reporter the new feature on the healthcare. Gov web site allows consumers to see plans now but they often come with the wrong price tag. Its incredibly misleading for people trying to get a sense of what theyre paying. Reporter Industry Analysts like jonathan
Controversial remarks. Gruber, he advised on romneycare and led to the Affordable Care act. Conservatives are now being played on almost con stant loop on fox news. Gruber is describing key parts of the legislation, essentially, as a grand bait and switch, designed to deceive american citizens. Its written to do that. In terms of subsidies, to get a law which says Healthy People are going to pay in, you made it explicit that Healthy People pay in and sick people get money, it would not have passed. Basically, call it the stupidity of the american voterover whatever or whatever. But, basically, that was really, really critical to getting the thing to pass. Combined with weeks of negative ads on my terms have made their mark. A new gallop poll showing approval at a record low of only 37 . Speaking of reporters from australia where hes participating the g20 summit, president obama responded the very first time to the fire storm. The fact that some advisor who never worked on our staff exp