different room in the house. one for the kitchen, one for the dining room, one for the living roo room. nobody could guarantee that after all that hard work the titanic stones wouldn t say we re not interested anymore or think something was soup there was some tense days leading up to august 9. when i took doug to show him that house, he loved it. he loved it. he fell in love. he said call that landlord right now and tell him you want it. he said it s low key, off of the back of the alley, inches if smokers come in from the alley. we didn t even use the front door. he wanted it. so i called, i was like doug wants he. he loves it.
there. that s about an hour ago. some hostaging running out of the cafe. there was gunfire, flash bang explosions. you can see police in their tactical gear wearing night vision goggles. you can see hostages fleeing off into safety again. they say the siege is over. the police from new south wales say the siege is over. how it all went down there will be questions. i want to go to reporter kathy novak in sydney. kathy, it was a long, long night 17 hours into this. apparently it all came to an end when the man, sheik haron as he likes to call himself started moving hostages inside that roo room. it certainly seems that way, john. all that police are saying right now, they will just confirm that as you say the siege is over.
distraught with fema, is that right? of course. almost everybody at that meeting has different issues with fema, whether you lost your whole house and you have flood insurance or you don t have flood insurance. you know, that s where they re at. some people lost half their house, cars, you know. there s a lot of discrepancy in how fema lets out the money, you know. i can tell you stories where people, i know two people who had the same amount of damage, and one person, and they live on the same type of concrete slab, foundation house, right. and one person s floor is not their living quarters because they had three floors and one person s floor is their living quarters because there s only two floors. that person got 2000. she had like 8 inches of water in her living roo room on the ft
skeptical social conservatives. i ll talk about that and more with this former rival who just dropped out of the race newt gingrich. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. formally this week, satellites would have been dominated by the race for the white house and the increasingly heating battle between the obama and romney campaigns. but president obama rewrote the script, catching the world by surprise with an unexpected trip to afghanistan where he marked the one-year anniversary of the death of the world s most wanted terrorist. one year ago from bases here in afghanistan our troops launched the operation that killed osama bin laden. the goal that i set to defeat al qaeda and denied a chance to rebuild is now within our reach. the trip wasn t without controversy, some critics accusing the president of playing politics with the anniversary of bin laden s death, questioning whether ro
that the nation has been on brink of this kind of crisis. let s go straight to capitol hill, our congressional current kate bolduan baldwin is standing by. the ability to finally fand a way out of this impasse and to avoid this looming government shut down and how this could all come out has to do with the big focus on the fema funding. the additional funding for federal disaster relief that democrats and republicans wanted to put in this short term spending bill. fema came out today to confirm that different from their prior predictions, that fema may be able to stretch their disaster relief funds that are much depleted and could run out, but they said they could stretch the funds through the end of this week. this is different than prior predictions which many had said would be depleted by the beginning of this week. in a statement, i will read you just in part, wolf, quote, estimates from over the weekend indicate the disaster relief fund could be fully exhausted by the