institutes of health in bethesda maryland so mckenna could start taking an experimental drug. with the government shutdown, the family was told there s a chance mckenna might not get the medicine. i hope it doesn t affect me or anybody else who needs the drug. reporter: her father waited and worried, tweeting wednesday morning, government shutdown needs to end. now hurting sick people. have the house come here to apologize to my young daughter and others. i m very angry. finally here and our government can t get the act together. reporter: they thought they d have to go home to florida without getting the medicine. late wednesday a turnaround. the treatment could go forward. mckenna s fortunate. about 200 new patients including 30 children aren t so lucky. they won t get to join nih studies just yet. patients are being put on hold until government s back in business. mckenna s dad says this just isn t right and has a message
they that the house would bring up a bill to fund the government with no strings attached at the levels that they are right now and he feels that john boehner has given up on his word. so those are the kinds of things going back and forth. again, senate democrats are saying, we re not negotiating on the shutdown, we re not negotiating on the debt ceiling, which as we ve talked about so many times would be more catastrophic for the economy if the u.s. defaulted on its loans. that s where we stand now as republicans are going to continue to pass these piecemeal bills, maybe even through the weekend. through the weekend. and so they ll pass the house, they won t go anywhere in the senate. and the recriminations go back and forth. you ll be sitting down with senate majority leader harry reid in a little while, right, dana? reporter: that s right. i m going to be sitting down with him in his suite back there and talk about all of these things, talk about maybe some an interesting ex
the same time. this, as we are now in way deep into day three of the government shutdown. another day in limbo for almost 800,000 federal workers who were furloughed and another day of uncertainty for the american people. as of right now, the toll for this man made economic disaster stands at an estimated $900 million in lost federal wages and other economic activity, that according to an independent study by the consulting firm ihs global. 9 $900 million, equal to the yearly budget of the small business administration. yesterday the president invited congressional leaders, democrats and republicans to the white house. a quick talk, more than an hour, but with no apparent results. afterwards the house approved three individual funding bills, one funding the national park service, a second funding the district of columbia, and a third funding the national institutes of health. we are trying to find the things that we can agree on in common where there s a majority vote in bo
0 president obama came out firing at congress today, telling republicans to put a clean bill on the floor and vote already. but will that fly? we re talking to two house members with very different views. also right now, we re keeping a close eye on tropical storm karen to hit the gulf coast this weekend. we ll be tracking the path as it barrels through the gulf. right now on wall street, the dow is in negative territory. down by triple digits, below 15,000. the federal shutdown means no monthly jobs report released tomorrow. i m wolf blitzer reporting from washington. today there s the white house briefing room, jay carney, white house press secretary, expected to walk in fairly soon and brief reporters what s going on, answer some tough questions at the same time. this, as we are now in way deep into day three of the government shutdown. another day in limbo for almost 800,000 federal workers who were furloughed and another day of uncertainty for the american people. as of righ
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