Our founders would be ashame evidence what this country has become. Its dysfunctional. We ought to be ashamed of ourselves, thats nuts. The federal government grinds to a halt. Shut down for the first time in 17 years. 800,000 federal workers will be furloughed. The house the senate and the white house could not agree on a proposal. Were hoping to get through. House republicans did not want to pass the budget deal until the delay was made to obama care. Theyre so fixated on embarrassing our president theyve lost their mind. The Dow Jones Industrials lost 128 points. New york police revealing shocking video, a motorcycle rider surrounding an suv after a biker is rear ended. Pulling the driver out of the suv and beating him. Ucberkeley, a power outage led to evacuations. In the pacific northwest, more rain outside of olympia. Ef1 tornado. A Police Cruisers dash cam captured amazing heroism. All that and in the park do you doubt me . No. A mascot owning up to a bet he lost. And all that m
From russian. Its something the russians deny. They say they feed weapons badly. At the same time as you said the government here in kiev as well as the europeans and the russians are trying to get the peace negotiations off the ground. They are set to meet wednesday in minsk, the capital of belarus. As we speak today, there is a meeting to try to get some of the details of such an agreement going. The big question is going to be how much territory are the prorussian separatists going to get . There was an agreement to a ceasefire that happened last year in september. Since then the prorussian separatists have gained so much more control over the line there. Are they willing to accept to give some of that up chris . Thank you very much from kiev. Lets move to what is actually happening on the ground. We have Nick Peyton Walsh who is monitoring the situation. He was the First Western journalist in the town of Eastern Ukraine leveled by prorussian separatists. Nick i hope you can hear us
everyone at va should be focusing on how best to accomplish their missions. so i ask the committee and rest of the congress to help us by resolving this physical impasse now so that va and federal partners on whom we have to rely to do our work can get back to work full-time. fulfilling president lincolns call to care for those. let s step away from this. i want to go back to ken fisher of the fisher house. he provides housing for military families desperately in need. has offered to give money to grant money to reimburse military families for death benefits and such. so as you re listening to this hearing and the politicians talk, what s going through your mind? well, a couple of things, actually. one, not once in all of this and, you know, i work very closely with chairman miller and obviously with the secretary, not once did i hear anything about the death benefits and the resumption of that.
short-term way to fund the government and avoid default. day nine, the government shutdown is getting real. for families of troops killed in combat, they will not get automatic death benefits during the shutdown. $100,000 to help cover funeral costs and travel to dover air force base to witness the dignified transfer of their loved ones remains. in north carolina, food assistance for poor women and children cut off. furlough congress! reporter: and 27,000 furloughed government workers have signed up for unemployment as they go without pay. just eight days until the united states could default, president obama phoned house speaker john boehner, both sides indicating the divide is as deep as ever. we have to stop repeating this pattern. reporter: later, president obama appeared in the white house briefing room, opening the door to negotiations if republicans agree to a short-term solution to re-open the government and increase the debt ceiling. if there s a way to solve
brianna, tell us, why is the president s offer being received by his republican colleagues as not what it appears to be? well, republicans are really looking, i think, for some way out. and it s really, i will caution you, it s sort of unclear 24i79 th at this point that this is a breakthrough. this may be a short-term way to avoid a default and end the government shutdown. day nine, the government shutdown is getting real. for families of troops killed in combat, they will not get automatic death benefits during the shutdown. $100,000 to help cover funeral costs and travel to dover air force base to witness the dignified transfer of their loved ones remains. in north carolina, food assistance for poor women and children cut off. furlough congress! reporter: and 27,000 furloughed government workers have signed up for unemployment as they go outpay.