u.s. debt limit to a whopping $28.88 you can see there, trillion dollars. that s the amount the government can borrow to pay the bills it already owes and has nothing to do with future spending. so, what does this all mean? cnn s ryan nobles has more on the senate compromise as well as the major challenges still ahead. reporter: it wasn t easy, but the united states senate has passed a bill that is going to lift the debt ceiling temporarily through the first week of december and averting an economic catastrophe that could have happened if the debt ceiling wasn t lifted as soon as next week. republicans and democrats hashing out a deal that would basically just kick this problem down the road a couple of weeks, but avoiding that problem in the middle of october. but it still didn t come easy. republican leader mitch mcconnell working out a deal with chuck schumer that they hoped would mean they could bring that bill to the floor without any republican opposition, and then just
live her own life. and that wasn t the truth at all. jeff carlson had to tell his daughter, paris, her mom was not coming back. wasn t easy. what do you say? you don t know how to prepare them for the future. the future of living with this and the questions that are going to come up as she gets older. you know, he deprived her of her mother. he deserves to rot in prison for the rest of his life. he doesn t deserve to walk in society. later, marie s family and many others gathered for a celebration of marie s life. they sang karaoke and esta told us when marie s daughter, paris, comes to visit her little girl, the two cousins sit down at the piano and play music like they did years ago.
kayak. search one and done. reporter: it wasn t easy for ed mcfarland to sit in the courtroom and hear michelle carter described as a monster. to him, michelle was anything but. who s the michelle you knew? she was a quiet kid. helpful. very friendly. got along with everybody, and everybody seemed to get along with her. her senior class superlative was the kid most likely to brighten your day. reporter: ed was her softball coach. he d known the carter family for years. were these the kind of parents that came to every game? there would always be somebody at the game. if you needed somebody to do
these guys are a match. and then, i send the next batch out. and it s the same thing. it was really frustrating because there were some people that looked like fantastic suspects, up until the point that they were eliminated. a year of dna tests and not a single match. it was enough to wear any detective down, even one as passionate as lindsey wade. she had given her best. but now, she d made a tough decision. it was time for me to move on. in the spring of 2018, lindsey wade retired from the tacoma pd. working on cold cases is, typically, more frustrating than rewarding. because you can work and work and work and work, and do a ton of investigation. and come up with zero. and then, walk away? yeah. she had investigated both jenni and michella s cases for years. and saying good-bye wasn t easy. especially, to jenni s mom. by that time, had
achieve when we really work together as conservationists, as politicians, as law enforcers to get serious about conservation? absolutely, and it wasn t easy, though. i mean, the government initially weren t interested in hearing there was a problem and so, we had to learn how to communicate and bring on board the different government agencies. stopping the poaching meant dealing with the police, the kenyan wildlife service, the airports, seaports, road authorities, all kinds of different partners, including international organisations. i would say that that challenge fighting poaching and the trafficking of ivory was easy, compared to the kind of challenges we re facing now. 0ur enemies now are very difficult people to wrap your hands around. they are people producing food. how do you call that person an enemy? you can t commit a person to jail, right?