Family. Nine members of the family have worked at the white house. I talked to one of the butlers who works every week at the white house. His uncle was the head butler. He told me my uncle ram the white house. They brought him in when he was 17 years old in 1959 during the eisenhower administration. He is still working there. He described how he used to work in the kitchen and they kept on giving him ice scream ice cream because he was skinny. It is incredible he remembers how the eisenhowers word. They are a dying breed. Tonight at 8 00 eastern and pacific on cspans q a. Over the next four hours, we are giving you a special mothers day presentation with the children and grandchildren of former first ladies, sharing tales of life in the white house. We begin with the grand daughter of lou hoover, the grandson of breast truman, and a daughter betty ford. Good evening everyone and thank you for being here. It is always a pleasure to be here. If what happened in the last few minutes back
Republicans and democrats are talking, just not to each other as the shutdown stalemate drags on. House Speaker John Boehner called for negotiations while the house called for a funding bill to reopen the government. Wall street is watching, and ill get out of the way here. The dow up closing at 76 points. And furloughed employees calling for an end too the shutdown. And then lets go to capitol hill now where congress is sit stuck. Al jazeeras libby casey is there for us. What is the latest on efforts to unstick this educatio situationd the shutdown. Reporter this has come from house democrats. This is a group that has been disem powered. Its between the house and senate. House democrats said if Speaker Boehner would allow a clean bill if he would let that go to the house floor they believe it would pass because they believe enough republicans would say lets just get this thing moving forward. The house has a work around, its a petition. They need 218 members to sign on to this petitio
Preventing divorce from reaching the sungen boat. A day after deadly protests in cairo, plus. Wanted, dead or alive, ill be telling you why malaysia has launched a nationwide rat hunt. Western forces have attacked an al shabab base in a town on the somalia course, according company csomalia intelligence o. The raid comes two weeks after a Shopping Mall was attacked in kenya. 72 people died at the West Gate Mall in nairobi. We have reporters in both countries, lets start with peter. Peter, what more do we know about this attack . This nighttime raid . According to al shabab it took place at 2 00 in the morning. They say a scad ron of western special forces attacked the beach and focused operations on asafe house that was right on the waterfront. They say that one of their soldiers was killed in the operation, but they say that no one of any significant command was there at the time and that none were hurt in the operation itself. They say that they have evidence that there was the raid
As the Government Shutdown stalemate drags on both sides are doing a lot of talking, just not to each other. House speaking john boehner maybe another call for negotiations while democrats called for the house to vote. Wall street is watching as stocks rose 76 points. As traders are optimistic that lawmakers can reach a deal and reaching the nations debt limit. Furloughed employees rally outside of the nations capitol calling for an end of the shutdown. Those workers got a show from president obama and Vice President joe biden. They went out to launch at a restaurant that is hel helping furloughed employees. Lets go out to Mike Viqueira to see what is on the president s table, mike . Reporter what is not on the table is the president s trip to asia, an annual summit that was supposed to happen in indonesia next week. The president will have to skip it. He sent john kerry in his place and were still in the shouting stage. There is no movement. The shoutdown continues, and these sides ar
Good morning. Welcome to aljazeera america. Im stephanie sy. Today is day four of the Government Shutdown, but a wild chase and shooting through the streets of washington led to a different kind of shutdown, with police putting the capitol itself on lockdown. Erika is here with more details about the chase from the white house to the peoples house that brought washington to a stand still. Good morning, erika. Good morning. Officers say the woman at the center of the chaos has a history of mental illness. This is 34yearold miriam carey. She grew up in new york city, but grew up in connecticut. She suffered from serious post partum depression after girl birth last year, which was around the time she was also fired from her job. While police are convinced she did not ram the gates of the white house by accident, they still dont know her motive. Investigators worked late into the night at the home of the woman who police say caused chaos at the capitol thursday afternoon. The 34yearold was