Department of public works. You can see repairs are under way right now. Reporter and our complete coverage continues with sky eye chopper 13 and captain jeff long with more on the repairs. Jeff . Reporter work crews are on the scene. Theyve got the work load up. You can see next to that gentleman, the pipe. Thats the 24inch pipe that broke. And as i move around here a little bit, youre going to see the broken piece of the pipe laying down there in that hole. And its coming up in just a second. You can kind of see it there, coming into view. Now, the bricks are part of the manhole. And a lot of those were blown away. But you can see the gentleman is standing by with a manhole cover. That was blown off of its location, over those bricks by the force of that water. There was a lot of debris on the road. Cleanup is going to be extensive. So they can repair that pipe and get water back to this neighborhood. Reporting live, im captain jeff long. And of course well yep you updated on those r
Danielle nottingham reports for wjz, from capitol hill. President obama and House Republicans are Standing Firm with the partial Government Shutdown in its 8th day. And a deadline to raise the nations debt limit, just nine days away. Lets stop the excuses. Lets take a vote in the house. Lets end this shutdown right now. Lets put people back to work. Reporter the president called House Speaker john boehner tuesday morning, reiterating, hes willing to talk about the budget after Congress Passes bills to fund the government and increase the debt limit. Without any conditions. Members of congress and the House Republicans in particular dont get to demand ransom in exchange for doing their jobs. Reporter Speaker Boehner said he does not have the votes to pass a clean, temporary spending bill or raise the debt limit. He wants the president to sit down and negotiate. Theres never been a president in our history that did not negotiate over the debt limit. Senate majority leader harry reid call
No signs of progress. End this shut down. Democrats and republicans a appear deadlock as were into day three. Hello again. Im jessica kartalija. Don scott. The stalemate continues in day three of the government shut down. A white house meeting produced no breakthroughs last night. The Major Players in the government shut down show down returned to their war of words today. Speaker john boehner wont let the bill get a yes or no vote because he doesnt want to anger the extremists in his party. President obama accuses Republican Leaders of giving into Tea Party Members who are obsessed with stopping his health care reforms. We should sit down and have a discussion. Because its my way or the highway we are here. Republicans are trying to take a piece mill approach to open some parts of the government. Today theyre pushing to pay National Guard troops. Senate democrats call that strategy a rash. A poll shows that more americans blame republicans for the shut down and that most americans wan
Were sent home tuesday. We need our jobs. Reporter on capitol hill, the finger pointing continued. 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. None of us want to be in this shutdown. The way to se resolve differences is to come and talk. And as you can see here, nobody is here to talk. 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 service workers, the president said they had become punching bags in a partisan fight. Repo
Like. But we begin with todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. My goodness. They wont even sit down and have a discussion. This is a negotiation the Republican Party is having with themselves. Theyre no closer to getting thing backes up and running. Tonal thing that everybody in washington can agree on it is not their fault. Americans across the country are feeling the impact. This not how you run a country. This Government Shutdown did not have to happen. Police removed what they described as a destructive device from the Jackson International airport. The airport was shut down and evacuated. The guard started going like this, like get back. He declared israel will do whatever it takes. Police pursued them. Here we go. Boom. Oh. Took out two cars. Leaders say top microsoft investors ro lobbying the bill gates to step down as chairman. Crew members announced that they knew the ship was sailing into dangerous water. Pirates in the playoffs for the first time. He has a little dog.