dogs and now some families are outraged.รง he does everything here, huh? reporter: for many home owners, a dog is more than just a best friend. it s a member of the family. you treat them the same way you treat your kids. reporter: but now, many dog lovers like colorado resident suzy salazar are having to choose between fido at home or a home without insurance. we were informed that you have a pit bull in your home and we have to drop your coverage. reporter: after being with the same insurance company for nearly 17 years, american family insurance dropped salazar in april. the company spokesperson explaining their decision to our affiliate kusa. we made a decision that there were certain breeds of dogs that we would no longer insure and pit bulls are one of those breeds. reporter: just two weeks ago, indiana resident brad ronkey faced a similar ultimatum. letter in the mailbox saying we had to get rid of our dogs.
reporter: out of the seven years shelter insurance has provided him coverage, his pit bulls have been around for the last five. i don t see how they can say they re aggressive when they never met the dog. reporter: forbes magazine says insurance companies tend to deny to these breeds, the top four, pit bulls, doberman pinchers, rottweilers and german shepherds. it s important that dog owners are responsible. reporter: the insurance information institute says dog bites account for one-third of all homeowner s insurance liability claims, costing insurance companies nearly $490 million last year. salazar says the company never asked her if she had a pit bull, adding that even after her efforts to get a vet s recommendation, they wouldn t throw her a bone. i am mad. i m upset. reporter: now, nationwide dog
bleacher report. let s begin with the perfect storm forming in our very imperfect congress right now. four days left until a government shutdown. senate leaders hoping to approve a spending bill by tomorrow that would keep washington running beyond october 1st. and also include funding for the president s health care law. when republicans scramble to find ways to stop obamacare, another bigger deadline loom, the debt ceiling must be raised in just about three week or america won t be able to pay its bills. dana bash live on capitol hill. reporter: you and i have seen this movie before. people out there who are fed up with congress careening from crisis to crisis won t be happy with the double whammy around the corner. it would be one thing for the government to shut down in four days. national parks would close, medical research interrupted. but then economic catastrophe may come 17 days later when the u.s. could default on its loans if congress doesn t raise the debt
0 with chris cuomo, kate bolduan and michaela pereira. welcome to new day, thursday, september 26th, 6:00 in the east. yes, of course it is. coming up, secretary of state john kerry and his iranian counterpart are meeting and it matters. why? it will be the highest level meeting between the country since the 1979 iranian revolution. what is on the table for syria and iran s nuclear problem? we ll tell you. and former president bill clinton sat down with piers morgan in a wide-ranging interview. they covered syria to the looming government shutdown, even talking about clinton s wife s, hillary clinton s presidential ambitions. a fight breaking out between the brewers and the braves, clearing the benches, really. only the first inning. save this till the end at least. it looked like hockey. we ll tell you why a home run brought both teams on to the field. that s coming up in our bleacher report. let s begin with the perfect storm forming in our very imperfect congress rig