And good evening, everyone. Im erin burnett. Outfront tonight, the United States in crisis. The countdown is on. 11 days until the government shuts down. So what does it mean for america . Very serious consequences for the Financial Markets and for the economy. Apocalypse every three months. Bleeding over into the consumer sector. Its going to do great harm to the American People. Hundreds of thousands of federal workers will be sent home without pay. This is among the most fiscally reckless and Dangerous Things you could do. Democrat, republican, market expert, man in charge of the american economy. Washington is failing begin. And this time some republicans say they have a plan to keep funding the government. But only if they take funding for obamacare out of it. Now, as weve said before, that is a nonstarter. And whether you love or loathe obamacare, that is not the point. Its a guarantee of a shutdown. And while theres plenty of waste and abuse in washington, the truth is a shutdow
Crashing down. And then the man responsible for 12 murders. You know he heard voices, thought he was being followed, reportedly suffered from ptsd but he still got security checks. Was it an oversensitivity to Mental Health issues that did that . Plus his mother today spoke out for the first time. Youre going to hear what she had to say. And police find two cars in a muddy lake with bodies inside. A lot of bodies inside. And these cars, you wont believe it. Have they just solved a 40yearold mystery . Lets go outfront. Good evening, everyone. Im erin burnett. We begin with the breaking news. A record high stocks surge today dow jumping 147 points. Dow and s p closed at new highs. I think this is so significant. Nearly five years to the day after the financial crash and crisis, when this country is still facing an unemployment crisis, a major milestone, and a good one for the markets. Well, the reason for the record, the fed announced it would not stop the flow of easy money. And it is t
there? yeah. reporter: john alba porter is believed to be one of the victims in the second car. he and two friends were last seen driving a 1950s chevy when they disappeared in 1969, a year before the teenagers went missing. this could be what that car looks like now. his granddaughter debbie says her family used to look out on to this water and wonder. we d always, no, grandpa maybe grandpa s in the lake. you know, maybe he had an accident and he s in the lake. you used to say that? yeah. even since i ve been married and an adult, we would come up here and, you know, maybe grandpa s in the lake. you know? maybe that s where he s at. a random thought that may turn out to be oddly prophetic. ed lavandera, cnn, oklahoma. such a strange case. that is a lot more happening tonight. susan hendricks has the 360 bulletin. the authorities in colorado now say that seven people are confirmed dead due to the massive flooding. three others are presumed dead.
expedition. no one really knows. but we did see investigators uncover two corroded rifles from the car. investigators say they have not ruled out foul play yet, but they suspect that these six victims accidentally drowned, that the cars rolled back into the water and the victims were trapped inside. the cars were discovered by a team of divers with the oklahoma highway patrol. darrel spawn and his colleagues were testing new sonar equipment. you can t see anything the it s too murky. reporter: it wasn t until the cars were pulled out of the water that the gruesome and mysterious discovery was made. could have been a shoe. but then whenever we brought them up onto the shore, that was whenever the doors opened and you could see the skeletal remains in them. reporter: that s your grandfather right there? john alba porter is believed to be one of the victims in the second car. he and two friend were last seen driving a 1950s chevy when they disappeared in 1969, a year before the
the federal office of personnel management. the navy says it also did its own background check on alexis in 2007 and there were no red flags. the the incident with the police. i mean it happened six years ago, is that the only time the shooter has gotten a background check to our knowledge? anderson, not by a long shot. a source familiar with the situation told me today that alexis got a background check in mid september of 2012. the background check at that time was done by another well-known provider of background checks. the navy also did its own security clearance, as well. alexis went to work in japan as a subcontractor with a company called the experts and left the job around the end of last year. and then this year, the source says he went back to the experts in july and had to go through the same process again. so from what we can tell, this guy was vetted by the government and private contractors at least six times in the last six years. that s a big deal.