Chris jansing reports. At this hour, two debates that could shake the final months of the race for the white house. Donald trump and joe biden agree to go one on one with a moderator no audience. Our brand new reporting at the back channel conversations that took place between the campaigns. Where is Rudy Giuliani . Prosecutors say theyre trying to serve him with an arizona indictment but they cant find him, and its not for lack of trying. Well explain. Plus weve got new details about the ship that caused the baltimore bridge collapse. What were learning about Power Blackouts on board the day before the accident. And markets rising to all time highs after the u. S. Releases a key inflation report. What it all means for your bottom line. Our nbc News Reporters are following all of the latest developments and we start with the date. At least tentatively set for the first biden trump debate of 2024. Nbcs mike memoli is at the white house. We just learned there have been these Back Channel
Calling their plight and you might understand this unacceptable. You as members of the armed forces should not be expected to should they are burden. I find it unacceptable that coast guard men and women have to rely on food pantries and donations to get through day to day life as service members. The shutdown taking a serious toll on the fbi. The Fbi Agents Association warns Crime Fighting operations for both are suffering for a lack of funds. Cnn obtained an email to move from less busy airport to move to the under strain ones from tsa sickouts. Some screeners are calling out in protest. Others say they cant afford to keep showing up for free. Have they v they done anything within the last 24 hours to get there . Jimmy and poppy, it looks like the pain will continue in the short term. Tomorrow the senate will vote on two proposals. Theyll a a procedural vote. Mitch mcconnell bringing the bill to the floor that includes 5. 7 billion as well as recipients of the temporary protected sta
groceries. jenny benjamin is one of thousands of air traffic controllers working without pay. she parks her car with a sign in the windshield will vector for food. a lot of our controllers, you re vectoring people in the airspace. lately vectoring hasn t put bread on the table. at her home in the colorado foothills, lights and stockings are still hung. christmas was delayed until her husband joe returned from iraq barely a week ago. it s a different feeling and the focus isn t on welcome home. now there s the added stress of what s happening with both our financial fuch. reporter: joe is in the air national guard. his return means he ll no longer be paid. what was once a dual-income household now has no income at all. they have savings but only for a while. i can t last months or years like the president mentioned that this could go on for. reporter: jenny went with her
union to washington this week. my name is jenny benjamin. reporter: she warned public safety is at risk and some controllers look to take on second jobs. we need to be perfect at this job. and we don t want people taking extra jobs because they re not coming to work rested now. she met with staff of both colorado senators who urged the president to reopen government. they don t agree on border security, but benjamin doesn t care, she just wants to be paid. we don t care how it happens. we want the shutdown to end as soon as possible. it needs to be today. if you re wondering, jenny did fly commercial from colorado to washington and back so she still has enough confidence to fly herself but she says the airspace is less safe today than before the shutdown and it only gets worse the longer this drags on. we had an air traffic controller tell us the same last week. real consequences. scott mclean, thanks very much.