Howard weve all seen this movie before way too many times, its washington Melodrama Beloved by the media, suspenseful story, a ticking clock. Its a selfinflicted crises with a Government Shutdown hanging in the balance, and journalists start issuing dire warnings of all the people whod be hurt if the feds cant pay their bills. Talk about a waste of time, an endless parade of dysfunction. Its real americans who will be paying the price while the elect representatives who are suppose to be working for you, they arent doing that. A Government Shutdown that will leave roughly 7 million women and children without s. M. A. P. Benefits which means they could go hungry. Active duty Military Members will go without pay. Howard the warnings come true and the focus shifts to how long the politicians will keep squabbling before coming to their senses, or theres a last minute if deal. Thats what happened last night. And usually that means a stopgap funding measure, in this case about six weeks, tha
Good saturday morning to you. Welcome to cnn this morning. It is saturday, september 23rd. Im victor blackwell. Victor, its good to be with you. Im omar jimenez in for amara walker. Thank you for spending part of your morning with us. So, i dont know if ive seen two men anchor a Network Cable network broadcast. Thats huge. At least the last 35 year. And then two brothers, anchoring the show. It is good to have you this morning. Come on. Come on. This is history right now. Its history. Good to have you, omar. Lets have a good show. Thousands of homes are without power as Tropical Storm ophelia lashes the east coast with strong winds and heavy rain. We have a look at the cities in the storms path and the impact well see throughout the day. Plus the country is quickly hurtling towards a shutdown talks among the republicans in the house have broken down over a deal to fund the government. How federal agencies are preparing and the talks to keep a shutdown from happening. The uaw is turning
Has ignored a global outcry and declared jerusalem israels capital president is also moving the American Embassy there while israel has hailed the decision wild leaders have expressed anger and concern. Hamas leader has called for a new Palestinian Uprising following trumps announcement Ismail Haniya says the decision was unfair and provocative palestinians on the streets of bethlehem are responding by holding protests and Israeli Soldiers have fired tear gas and water cannon at demonstrators and this is a live scene in bethlehem in the occupied west bank well theres been a strong reaction from hamas which controls the gaza strip israel has called for a new policy an uprising or intifada. You acted. Today im stressing that jerusalem is unified no East Jerusalem no west jerusalem jerusalem is a Palestinian Arab Muslim city and is the capital city of the whole of palestine today i am saying that palestine is unified from the sea to the river unified palestine will never be divided into t
Demonstrators in several palestinian territories crossed with israeli troops who fired live ammunition and tear gas in the occupied west Bank Thousands needed the call from palestinian leaders to mobilize for three days of free without the honeys has more from them on the. Anger and disappointment and the sense of betrayal some of the feelings among palestinians now still they remain defiant saying that regardless they do consider jerusalem the capital of a future palestinian state now this march is a show a few new usually you would see the many flags of the palestinian factions this time only the palestinian flag is raised. And thats the only thing we can do this time declinations a slap for us here to wake up and realize the Peace Process was just an illusion its the biggest insult to arabs even before palestinians saw kuwait emirates jordan all of them venture here in palestine we defend it but we cant do without support but if those peaceful protests there were also clashes across
Been killed and more than seven hundred injured in violent clashes with israeli troops across the occupied west Bank East Jerusalem and the gaza strip the u. S. President s recognition of jerusalem as the capital of israel has also sparked protests around the world mike hanna reports. An animated discussion between the u. S. Ambassador and the palestinian representative just one of the urgent conversations taking place around the room even before the session began the packed chamber testament to the depth of International Concern and some argue the credibility of the Security Council itself is under attack if it comes with the us not to act accordingly to what its minded use which is a person having peace and security then the council might become another occupied territory. Speaking by video link from jerusalem the u. N. Special coordinator condemned the unilateral u. S. Action if the Israeli Palestinian conflict is not resolved in line with relevant un resolutions and in a manner tha