the sea walls, but i think the worst here is orr and it passed. amazing how well they ve weathered this here. we have not seen any damage. just a quick ride through downtown nassau, and it seems that they ve got lucky and their preparations really worked. some of the southern islands in the bahamas didn t make it well. we have reports of serious did he have tags in some of the settlements down there and even some of the biggest islands, cat island that are both popular tourist islands had just gotten hit there. still trying to get communications back up to get word and a look at damages on those islands as irene moves through. right here tentatively in nassau people are pleased that the worst didn t happen here and they made out relatively okay. randi. jim, we got reports of one community that was the 90% destroyed. are you hearing anything about injuries or even deaths? reporter: we haven t heard anything about injuries or deaths, but those communities in the settlements
and toothpicks, and then some people saying i don t want to try the cake because my mouth will get hurt. that s what is going on. this is something that we have been seeing over the last few weeks. is this really any different than the turmoil we have been witnessing? i think ali is spot on. you think back to just before the huge selloff and volatility last week, we had our own numbers that showed we had almost no growth. we have a new manufacturing number today, a regional manufacturing number that really hit investors hard. some analysts say it s a reliable number because it s a fresher number. this number is about manufacturing in august. the index was actually at one of the low points, and the drop was what analysts call stunning and saying it never has been this low without leading to a recession. when you hear things like that, especially with manufacturing considered one of the engines of growth in this country, that s also why you see investors sell at this point.
but cnn newsroom continues right now with brooke baldwin. speak of washington, we have a busy two hours ahead. randi, thank you very much. hello, everyone. are you ready for this? the debt deal is done, right? not exactly. we still need to see votes happening both in the senate and the house. on the house side, it looks like some democrats could be holding things up. we ll speak with one of them. we expect to hear from speaker of the house, john boehner this hour. we ll carry that live for you. so stay tuned for that as well. let s begin here. as the clock continues to tick, nine hours now remaining until a potential default of the u.s. government. and congress still hasn t voted on the debt reduction agreement announced last night. we heard the senate would be voting first. then we heard the house would be voting first. but the house still hasn t voted. that tells me there may be a problem rounding up some of those votes. we have just heard from vice president joe bide
up support for today, and essentially it would raise the debt ceiling and also save some $917 billion in spending over the course of the next decade, so we re keeping an eye on that as always, but first let s get to that developing story for you out of texas. an awol muslim-american soldier has been arrested near ft. hood with what the fbi is saying is a large amount of bomb-making materials. private first class naser abdo is now in custody after a sales clerk at a gun shop alerted police about this suspicious purchase. fbi agents then went on to abdo s hotel room where they found these bomb-making materials, enough apparently to make not just one but two bombs. i ll speak with the gun shop clerk, very astute man who made that crucial call to police in just a minute. definitely stand by for that. also stand by for a news conference. that s expected any minute now in killeen, texas. we ll take you there live as soon as that begins to be briefed and police in killeen and possib
hour. the details just coming in. an awol muslim american soldier now in custody in texas found with what the fbi is now saying is a large amount of bomb-making material near ft. hood. barbara starr is all over the story and will join nus a few minutes. first, debt debate but no deal. it all comes down to numbers. i don t mean 13-digit numbers with dollar signs in front of them. i mean this number. take a look here. five days until the treasury says it will run out of borrowed money. five hours, give or take, until the house votes on the so-called boehner plan, and it needs 217 votes to pass, and it s a slam dunk, right? wrong. 60 republicans are tea party members that want huge cuts in spending and no hike in the debt ceiling. here is where the big numbers come in. the republican speaker has staked his leadership on the plan to let the treasury borrow $900 billion right away, while cutting $915 billion in future spending. contrast that with the senate plan from majority lead