that crashed onto this home. it s crazy. the tree s been around since i was like 6 years old. i can t believe the size of the hole that s in there. we ll give you the full forecast as to what s expected next, coming up in a few minutes. indra, thanks so much for that. the other big story we re watching out of washington, the government partially shut down, now in its eighth day. both president obama and house speaker john boehner are talking about ending it but they re not talking to each other. this while more than half of all americans in a cnn/orc poll say the gridlock is causing a crisis and major problems for the country. and the stakes are higher for another debate. will congress act to raise the nation s debt ceiling before the october 17th deadline? brianna keilar is live at the white house with more. good morning, brianna. reporter: kate, good morning. until now, all of these bills that the house and senate have been shuttling back and forth
libya is a country that still is having a lot of problems in terms of governance. nic was saying it faces implications how is that going to turn out? all sort of legal implications, questioning this guy without his legal. we re going to talk to clark howard coming up. ahead on the partial shutdown, no end in sight. still an even bigger crisis, of course, the october 17th deadline. the government is no longer able to pay its bills if congress does not raise the limit on the so-called debt ceiling. the u.s. could default. that is a big deal. ted cruz wants to tie any increase to obama care. he talked to candy crowley on
country. and back then i was hoping that maybe, just maybe, we would avert a government shutdown and not come anywhere close to the october 17th deadline for when the united states officially bumps up against the debt ceiling and doesn t have enough money to pay its bills. but after yesterday s performance on this week with george stephanopoulos, i m not so sure if he s going to choose his country over his caucus. clearly, as we all know from the whip counts that we re doing here at the washington post, that first read has done, the votes are there for a clean cr. and the votes are also probably there on the senate side for a clean debt ceiling increase bill. so at least in the house where a clean cr could get passed, the only person standing in the way of that happening is speaker boehner. and to that point, molly, listen to what jonathan chate writes in new york magazine. to weaponize the debt ceiling, you must be willing to inflict
maybe, just a slight chance of passing the october 17th deadline. if it happens, the world s not going to come to an end. but what happens to negotiations. i m going to wait till the very end to make a deal with you. that s what s happening. i think wall street s feeling pretty good that we will have a solution by october 17th. a dose of reality there which seems very much needed because yes, this is important. it s a crisis. but armageddon,that s perhaps not accurate. a lot of people are saying john boehner should just call a vote. it s just here s the money. there s no obama care attached. there is no what, we hate the alligators attached. boehner says no way. not only does he not want to, but he says he does not have the votes to put this in front of
acceptable form of negotiating. how do you think this is going to this is all going to end? i understand what the democratic position is on this. we also have the reality we re entering the second week of the shutdown and a lot of republicans, members of the house who come from safe republican districts, don t have to worry about general elections, when we get close, if we start getting close to that debt default deadline, it is one thing to have the principle of, you know, we shouldn t be negotiating over this, another to say, we re staring at a default here, we can t have that happen either. how do you expect this is going to end? i don t think we re going to confront a default. the forces within the republican party and wall street, finance community based, that understand the implications of defaulting on our debt. and john boehner as you indicated earlier has sent the signals that he understands the catastrophic consequences that will be brought about if we were to default