Much more on this for you on the at 4 00, 5 00, and 6 00 on news4. Police are trying to figure out who shot two people in the district just after 3 00 this morning on somerset place near 7th street in northwest d. C. Police found two men suffering from gunshot wounds to the legs. Both victims were taken to the hospital. They are expected to be okay. Fire officials in Prince William county say two people were found dead inside a triangle mobile home after an Early Morning fire there. The flames sparked around 3 30 this morning around Fuller Heights road. Crews are still looking for one person. Megan mcgrath is live there with more on the investigation. Megan, what can you tell us . Reporter you can see across the street here whats left of the mobile home and investigators who are gathering outside. When firefighters put out this fire and went inside, they relatively quickly found two bodies. But theres a third Person Associated with the house who is still unaccounted for. Now, is that i
Calendar. Its when the country hits the debt ceiling. Economists warn that failing to raise the debt ceiling would be infinitely worse. Its now week two of the Government Shutdown that both sides insist they want to end. Congress should do whats in the best interest of the economy and the american people. Reporter House Speaker john boehner is demanding the president make a deal. Mr. President , its time to have that conversation before our economy is put further at risk. Reporter next up, that october 17th deadline with concern growing that Congress Wont raise the debt ceiling by then. What is the debt ceiling . Its the equivalent of the governments credit card limit, when the country runs out of money to pay its bills and cant borrow another dime. The u. S. s debt limit is 16 trillion. Trillion with a t. Then what . If congress doesnt green light the government borrowing more the u. S. Could default unable to pay its its. Theyre all scheduled to get their payments november 1st. Big p
But a private charity stepped in to do what the government did not do. Take care of the families of fallen u. S. Service members. This morning a solemn ceremony. Some families paid for the flights themselves. Because of the Government Shutdown they didnt get death benefits. 100,000 normally paid within 36 hours of a death to help cover immediate cost. The charity has stepped in to take the place of the government. Im hoping this say temporary measure and not longterm but were in it as long as we need to be. The mother of Jeremiah Collins back home in milwaukee. For the sacrifice our kids are making at the age that theyre making them, i dont understand how this can be a benefit thats withheld. I will not i wont ever understand it. Reporter another of the fallen, special agent joseph peters, a 24yearold intelligence ofcer from springfield, missouri serving in afghanistan after two tours in iraq and the father of a 20 month old son. His wife ashley issued this statement. It is upsetting b
Welcome to al jazerra america, i am stephanie sy. We have some breaking news to report out of libya this morning. Lib january Authorities Say they dont know the whereabouts of Prime Minister ali zeidan who has been kidnapped by gunmen at a hotel in tripoli. Security guards at the hotel described the situation as resembling an arrest with the Prime Minister taken by force at gun point. Al jazerra has learned he was taken by a group called the linear Operations Chamber it comes days after he asked the west to help stop the spread of militancy in his country. He says those militants were using libya as a base to export weapons. The kidnapping comes days after a raid by u. S. Special forces who captured an al quada leader there. Well continues to follow the story as news break. Edward snowden arrived in how caw on sunday hoping to see his son. The former nsa contractor was granted ahead sigh legal in russia last month. Hes responsible for leaking details of government surveillance programs
Gotten little behind. And so in may we declared we were going to do this until the end of the year. Our 2014 budget has 50 million in it for overtime. And thats essentially what i was counting on to be able to transition to that. So we do have a plan. We do need that piece of the budget recognized so we can. Sume our overtime option we begin t we as to close out the year, before we knew a shutdown was going occur and how much carry over we were going to have, we thought we were going to be able to carry over 40 million to add to the 50 million in the budget so to give us a good run at the year of additional overtime so the numbers would be up there closer to 100 million, 90 million or so. That 40 million was used to as our operation going for long as possible and as many claims lined up before the end of the month. Thank you for that. We had a hearing about some difficulty with legislative back s acouple of weeks and had difficulty getting an answer like that. So i appreciate that. Tha