Today. Reporter good morning. Its unclear what congress can accomplish today, but there will be meetings in the house to see if perhaps there could be a partial funding for just some different issues. One of those would be d. C. Government. Another issue regarding veterans. But its still unclear how thats going to go. Last night didnt go well between john boehner and the president. He says he feels the president is not willing to compromise when it comes to his Affordable Care act. The new Health Care Law that went into effect. Democrats say they are standing firm. We have divided government. Democrats control the white house and senate. Republicans control the house. We sent four different proposals to our colleagues. They rejected all of them. I can only conclude that they wanted to shut down government. I think that that has a purpose for them. We know what that is. They want to overturn the Affordable Care act. Its not going to happen. And frankly, thats not what our constitution h
Government shutdown, but more and more lawmakers are making another offer in the meantime. Danielle leigh joins us on capitol hill with that. Reporter good morning. So many federal workers arent getting paid so we. Ed to find out what are lawmakers while the shutdown continues. At least 108 of them have said they will go without pay as long as the shutdown continues. 56 republicans, 52 democrats and among those are five lawmakers from maryland and virginia. One is eric cantor is refusing pay. Also john delaney says hes going to donate his pay to charity. Tim kain is asking his salary be withheld. Now if youre wondering why with the shutdown wasnt their salary removed, they are paid by mandatory funds, not discretionary funds. Live in capitol hill, im danielle leigh, back to you. 4 32. Leaders at university of District Of Columbia is trying to come up with a contingency plan. They held an emergency meeting last night. They received federal funding. Its the only Public University in the
It will only run six car trains for the time being. The Transit Agency usually mixes in some car trains. This is a 10 reduction in capacity during rush hours. Business is down 22 because of the shutdown. You wont notice any differences if you take them to work this morning. Those Rail Services are keeping their current schedules through the endover the week. They will let riders know if they will operate an s schedule tomorrow. Were following every development. The house convening at 10 00 this morning. The senate convenes at 10 30. We have not heard whether president obama plans to meet again with congressional leaders. Theres little promise for progress on the hill this morning. An hourlong meeting of leaders and the president ended with frustration. Richard jordan is on the National Mall this morning with more on what we can expect today on capitol hill. Reporter things are too tense here. But there will be some steps made in congress in the house. Lawmakers will be looking at indiv
Could be close to solving the mystery of one of the americas biggest art thefts. We begin in syria where violence is spiking ahead of president ial elections. The suffering will be highlighted in a big way tomorrow by pope francis. More on the pontiffs visit in a moment. First an attack at a Syrian Campaign rally where dozens were killed. Nobody claimed responsibility for this attack, but we heard from islamist rebels based in the region that today marks a new campaign, an offensive by them to support the rebels and the fighters who are there, fighting the troops of Bashar Alassad. The government in the past few weeks has been on the go, trying to regain control of many areas from the rebels, to give the president ial electi president ial elections dew on 3 june credibility. They want to tell the worth people are supporting the elections. Many are taking part. The results will be valid. The opposition is saying the opposite, saying the country is at war. Bashar alassads elections are a
Colorado legalized marijuana this year. I hope it doesnt lead to a lot of paranoid people who think the federal governments out to get them. From commander in chief to comedian in chief. The lighter slide. What we are doing now is helping facilitate the needs of around 700 families, more than 4,000 people have been displaced either directly or indirectly by what happened. A spokesman on the fall out from a catastrophic land slide. Hello and welcome to al jazeera. Its a national day of mourning in afghanistan where nearly an entire village was buried by a wall of rocks and dirt. 2,000 are dead. Officials say theres no hope of finding survivors after the mud slide. Our reporter reports that there are safety concerns for residence of the village. Reporter a mass prayer for a mass grave. These afghan villages have given up on finding survivors of the land slide. Now they want to locate bodies of families and friends. A focus has moved to helping hundreds that lost their homes. Translation