Good morning at the top of the hour, this day is starting off nicely unless youre a federal worker on furlough i guess. Sharon is watching traffic. Its meteorologist tim williams in for marty bass over at first warning weather. Were starting off with temperatures around 60 degrees en route to a high of 84. Warm with sun and some clouds. The over night lows staying around 60 degrees. Well go into your first friday of october at 87. Our first chance of any rain or thunderstorms that weve had in a while. That will be tomorrow. 87 degrees though. Some parts of the area south of the metro could see temperatures close to 90. Your complete first warning Weather Forecast coming up. How about the roadways this thursday morning . Here is Sharon Gibala at wjz traffic control. Were mostly seeing 50s and 60s on the roads this morning. Theres a look at your Speed Sensors around the area. Lots of mid 50s. A couple of lower 60s out there. The average speed on the beltway still 55 as it should be. Same
And the talks about the Government Shutdown just nine days away. Lets end this shutdown now. Lets put people back to work. Reporter the president called House Speaker john boehner, reiterating, hes willing to talk about the budget once they push this through. The members of the house of congress dont get to do this. Speaker john boehner wants the president to sit down and negotiate. Theres never been a president in our history that did not negotiate over the debt limit. Never. Not once. Reporter republicans argue the debt limit is the only leverage they have to get democrats to reign in government spending. What theyre learning is the no obligation loan. They want no strings attached. Reporter if the debt ceiling isnt raised by october 17th, the u. S. Will run out of money to pay its bill. And economists say it could throw the country back into a recession. In washington, danielle nottingham, wjz Eyewitness News. Senate democrats are planning a vote this week to provide new borrowing,
Have our act together. Wall street pays the price for d. C. Dysfunction. The dow is down 481 points since the Government Shutdown started. President obama will nominate janet yellen. Meanwhile because of the Government Shutdown they denied benefits to the families of the fallen american soldiers. Im embarrassed. Homes have been evacuated. No one has been hurt. This morning an nypd detective is due in court. Hes the latest suspect in the motorcycle road rage incident. He was caught on video pounding on the range rover. Were hearing for the first time from the father of the mississippi 9yearold who managed to stow away on the flight to las vegas. Delta has a new promotion. Kids 9 and under fly free no questions asked. They rally outside the capitol building. Not only are they jumping off bridges. Theyre jumping out of hot air balloons. All that theyre moving along to the American League championship. Some controversy in the motor city. The fans reach out over the railing. And all that ma
Has told house of representatives and the American People go jump in the lake. Washington pushes a Government Shutdown to the brink. Without a deal, the government wont be able to play employees or provide Services Beginning at midnight. Its all about obamacare. We offered to compromise. Enough is enough. Do you think that is really going to happen . Im afraid i do. We had a citation run off the end of a runway. We need you there immediately. A small plane crashed at the Santa Monica Airport in california. The plane hidt a storage hang ar. The same storm is hitting washington. 45 or 50 miles an hour. One of the hottest shows on tv breaking bad aired last night. Gayle king and charlie rose stayed up to watch sniet what are you doing here . I saw you on charlie rose. Scary moments in london. A tourist duck boat caught fire with 30 people on board. Thankfully they were quickly rescued by police. Overtime. It sucks. Nobody likes to lose. You treat her good. Im being very nice. I will be wa
Government shutdown began. Theyre more interested in playing politics than doing whats right. Democratic leaders in Congress Finally have their prize, a Government Shutdown that no one seems to want but them. Theyre obsessed with the healthcare law. And theyre obsessed with hurting this president. Reporter for a fourth time, this senate removed language, weakening the president s healthcare law from a temporary spending bill and sent it back to the house. Reporter House Republicans wanted senators to come to the negotiating table and work out their differences. The senate refused. I wont even have people sit down with the negotiators. I mean, for heavens sake. Reporter now, the house is working on another proposal, one that would fund the veterans administration, park service, and d. C. City government. President obama accused House Republicans of holding the economy hostage. Reopen the government. Restart the Services Americans depend on. Reporter in a letter to federal workers, the p