Works as a pitch man. Look, im not lying this is the cbs morning news for tuesday, october 8th, this is the cbs morning news for tuesday, october 8th, 2013. Captioning funded by cbs good morning, good to be with you, im annemarie green. Well, the partial Government Shutdown enters its second week this morning with no sign of a compromise. President obama and House Republicans traded new accusations as the country lurches closer to the debt ceiling deadline. Senate democrats plan to introduce a bill as early as today to raise the borrowing limits. Susan mcginnis is in washington, susan, good morning. Annemarie, good morning. We are into day eight of the shut down, nine days away to the country reaching its debt limit. No movement here on capitol hill. Now, both house of congress will be working today as a plan forward as americans wonder when they were will be working together. Reporter House Republicans will meet behind closed doors this morning to strategize about how they will handle
The battle lines are drawn. Republicans against democrats. The president said yesterday that this shutdown was caused by republicans. However, House Speaker john boehner says its the democrats who are not coming to the table to talk and come up with some kind of solution that will end the shutdown. Now this is going to have an impact not only on tourists but, of course, on the workers, furloughed workers and those who are not furloughed, the essential workers. You are still going to those furloughed work eers will feel e impact come october 5 when paychecks will stop going out. Any worker receiving some contributions for student loans, that will stop. Even essential workers, restrooms will not be cleaned as often if at all. The dining rooms will not be open. And mobile devices, all nonessential federal workers are being told to turn off their mobile devices. Now later today in a couple of hours we are going to see some of these furloughed workers being brought in by their union over to
Negotiate is hurting our economy and put putting our country at risk. Reporter but the president says only congress can approve funding bills. And hes calling on Speaker Boehner to allow a vote on a no springs attached bill that the president believes has support to pass. The reason Speaker Boehner hasnt called a vote on it is because he doesnt apparently want to see the Government Shutdown end at the moment. Reporter it wasnt just the two sides debating. The government is expected to run out of money to pay its bills on october 17th unless the country raises its debt limit. China, americas largest creditor is calling on the u. S. To call its political stalemate. Work with us to bring about stability around the world. Reporter the senate has begun work on a new bill to raise the debt limit. The first vote could come as early as friday. Now, it looks like democrats are going to try to get republicans to agree to a lungterm, trillion dollar increase in order to avoid hitting the debt cei
Worst tragedys in its history. Im lester holt. This dateline is the ultimate cliffhanger. Special correspondent reports into the death zone. Reporter the mountain is mysterious, deadly, irresistible. Its closest thing you can get to being in outer space. Reporter it dares climbers to risk everything for the glory of standing at the highest point on earth. Over the years, hundreds of them havent made it back. The thing about dieing on everest is that its not a painful, gruesome death, its just about giving up and just sort of floating off. Reporter if that doesnt stop the throngs from coming every spring. It looks like people lining up to go to a rock concert except theyre all clichling at 25,000 feet. Inches away from death. Reporter so it was that one day last year the people youre about to meet crossed paths on the summit of everest, ominously known as the death zone whether they all faced heardbreaking choices that would mean the difference between life and death. We had this sense
Good morning. I am jennifer franciotti. I am lisa robinson. We will have the news in a moment. First a look outside with the weather with ava marie. We caught up we are above normal now. The rain can stop any time. The rain will continue at least for your sunday. A good excuse to be lazy today. 53 degrees at the airport with rain being reported. Humidity at 9 p percent. Areas of fog that is what you have to watch out for. The light showers continue to redevelop over Baltimore City. The heavier storm move off to our west. This is a chance for rain around baltimore especially for the first half of the day and then we will stay cloudy even into the afternoon with a slight chance for rain. Temperatures mid to upper 60s. Thanks, ava. Back to the Grocery Store today for food stamp recipients who couldnt check out today because of the easy t benefits cards. The cards wouldnt work. It was related to the government shut down it turns out a computer failure is to blame. John champion has more. I