Good morning. Im richard lui. We are now less than 20 hours away from a key treasury deadline. If an agreement is not reached, the nation could default on its bills. My expectation is it does get solved. But we dont have a lot of time and so what im suggesting to the congressional leaders is lets not do any posturing, lets not try to save face. Lets not worry about politics. Do whats right. Open the government and make sure were paying our bills. All right. Now, the house, tuesday, abandoned a lastditch effort to pass its own legislation. There have been no decisions about what exactly we will do. But were going to continue to work with our members on both sides of the aisle to try to make sure there is no issue of default and to get our government reopened. Some placing the blame squarely on House Speaker john boehner. Its about the psychology of one man and whether he is willing to put at risk his speakership by cobbling together a deal that will get the votes of democrats and republ
I dont know, im busy right now. I havent thought a lot about it. Thats today, wednesday, october 16th, 2013. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today on a wednesday morning. Im matt lauer. Good morning. Im Savannah Guthrie along side al roker and Natalie Morales. Remember 24 hours ago when it seemed we might get a deal. There was optimism in the senate but that was so yesterday. Overnight everything came to a screeching halt. And the deadline is looming ever closer. Thats right. This race to end the shutdown is todays top story. Lets get right to Peter Alexander at the white house. Peter, what can you tell us . Reporter good morning to you. Most americans are asking themselves is it over yet . I just spoke to a Top Republican senate aide that said optimism abounds. But this is crunch time for congress now facing intense pressure to come up with a senate deal and get it appro
Fine leaving the 205 interchange. Looks like we may have some roadwork eastbound because sensors are picking up slow traffic there. The 580 680 interchange over in you understand did thats still in good shape with no major problems to report to you for west 580 heading down the dublin grade and the bay bridge toll plaza is wide open so enjoy the light traffic. That light traffic stays with you across the bridge into downtown San Francisco. Thats a look at kcbs traffic. Thank you. Some breaking news now from Pleasant Hill. Loud explosions woke up the dove court neighborhood after a house caught fire. It started about 1 30 this morning. Firefighters say when they got there, the house and the cars in the driveway were all consumed by flames. The explosions happened near the cars. Several downed power lines made it difficult for crews to fight the fire but they kept it from spreading to other hopes. Bart management and Union Leaders are still talking in hopes of making a deal this week and
Thank you. Candy . Geoff certainly. [laughter] craig good night, everybody. Captioned by the National Captioning Institute www. Ncicap. Org ,,,,,,, this is kpix 5 news. Breaking news, we just learned there will be no bart strike tomorrow. Why hundreds of thousands of commuters have this man and a trip to disney land to thank. Lets get right to Christin Ayers who is outside the negotiations tonight. Christin . Yeah, the federal mediator coming out of a long day of negotiations in the building behind me a short time ago to let us know the trains will indeed run tomorrow. Weve learned the talks will also continue tonight, and they will keep going possibly into the Early Morning as they did yesterday. What is still unclear is whether that means the strike deadline has been extended to tomorrow or whether striking is even off the table. We really dont know. The federal mediator would not answer questions about that. We are intimately involved in the negotiation process. Were devoting all ou
Resolution. Reporter because after deadline after deadline has come and gone that last resolution leaves the threat of a strike tomorrow hanging over commuters heads. Can they just tell us in the afternoon . Id appreciate that. Reporter bart and its unions negotiated until after midnight last night emerging at around 10 00 to announce that trains would roll today. Negotiators are working in small groups trying to pick apart a 57 million package which bart calls its last best and final offer. We are intimately involved in the negotiation process. Were devoting all our efforts and energies to an agreement, the parties to achieve an agreement, and i will not be taking any questions. Reporter that man, george cohen, is a federal mediator. He is known as an ace in the bargaining business. He was appointed by the president so we are hoping he is going to be able to help these parties get something done today. I understand barts chief negotiator missed yesterdays session and that wasnt bad. R