The world over the nations crisis. My interview with christine lagarde, head of the monetary fund. Ill ask her what kind of damage has been done to americas reputation and how that could affect the worlds economy. And former secretary of defense, leon panetta. Is the shutdown hurting our National Security, and what he thinks is different today from the last shutdown in 1996. Policy threats and basically holding the country hostage whether its on a continuing resolution or debt ceiling or raising these kinds of blackmail approaches. Im david gregory. All that ahead on this edition of meet the press for sunday, october 13. From nbc news in washington, the worlds longestrunning television program, this is meet the press. And good sunday morning. Wish there were better news to tell you but congress and plt obama are still crawling to the finish line in the race to end the fiscal crisis with the deadline this coming thursday. The focus is now in the senate. In session today, House Speaker j
Drizzle by early tomorrow morning. We will check the forecast for the reading festival and the sevenday. We are sending it down to don champion at jones falls. It is interesting to watch this weather. One minute it is drizzling like this and the next it is down pouring. That is jones falls back there. It is definitely running high and pretty quickly tonight. It is one waterway that people are watching rather closely tonight. Rain, rain, go away. Another saw been night across maryland area we need the rain going into the winter. X gene was among those venturing out admitting she does take her cautions. I go slowly and leave a lot of room between me and the car ahead of me. I try to bring my patience along. Imagine trying to drive through this. One woman tried going through to beter and she had rescued. Parts of the area have seen more than five inches of rain in the past two days. There was still road closures in many areas because of the water road ing here at york Baltimore County. Dr
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I want to ask each of you the bottom line question. Do we have an agreement on raising the debt ceiling and ending the Government Shutdown by thursday, and if the answer is yes, senator durbin, what do you have to overcome . What are the realisticing poist points that have to be overcome . Do you think youll have it by thursday and what are the sticking points you have now . Im a hopeful person and i hope we can do it. I hope sensible people prevail, because at this point it isnt just a shutdown and all the damage its caused, but if we default on our debt it will have a dramatic negative impact on the savings account of average americans. Whether or not we will sit down in a budget conference finally and start hammering it out, whether there will be a sequester cut come the first 15 days of the new year, the new calendar year, those are the basic elements that i think we need to work on. Im a yes, by the way. Deal by thursday . Yes. Because you would have overcome what obstacle . Becau
The two far right lanes. It was just offloaded and its close to be offrighted and towed bringing relief to drivers after a long commute. The Postal Service left a huge mess on 680 this morning. It ended up on its side and left all three lanes blocked. This delivery was headed to east bay post offices after being sorted at a san jose processing center. You can see what kept this from being a bigger mess. 41 holders were keeping things in place. Aside from the mail that actually got impacted or crushed by the flow of the 60,000 pounds, the mail was in tact. It did not scatter all over the roadway. Reporter the chp moved the truck so it was only blocking two lanes but towing it wasnt that simple. If the trailer was uprighted, it would create even a bigger mess. Because the privacy and Identity Theft concerns, they waited until the Postal Service arrived to unload the mail. That didnt happen for four hours. But as for the delivery people will get their mail . They will. Reporter postal off