but the greatt tension in tord thursday's zedline the government's potential default on its debt. jim acosta is at the white house and with just over 60 hours left now on the clock, all hope seems to be with two men who don't like each other too much. any signs of progress at all this morning? >> reporter: not net john. to give you a sense of how desperate things are becoming in washington the only movement reported in the last 24 hours is a phone conversation between the senate's top two leaders, harry reid and mitch mcconnell. they have to work together if it means averting a big crisis. with the clock ticking down to debt ceiling day it's come down senate majoty leader harry reid and minority leader mitch mcconnell, who started orchestrating a deal to reopen the government and avoid default. >> i've had a productive conversation with republican leader this afternoon, our discussions were substantive and we'll continue those discussions. >> reporter: the question is whether they can get there in time. >> both leaders realize how difficult default would be, the devastation it would cause to america. >> reporter: but talks over the weekend appear to stumble again as republicans accused reid of overreaching by seeking additional concessions from republicans over those forced budget cuts in the sequester. >> now is e time to be magnanimous, sit down and get this done. >> reporter: the white house said president obama was standing firm, in a phone call with nancy pelosi, that there must be clean bills to extend the debt ceiling and end the shutdown with no strings attached. tensions are boiling over. >> this is the people's memorial. >> reporter: texas senator ted cruz led a protest over the closing of the world war ii memorial on the national mall that drew this verbal attack on the president. >> i call upon all of you to wage a second american non-violent revolution, to use civil disobedience and demand this president leave town, to get up, to put the koran down, to get up off his knees and to figuratively come up with his hands out. >> usa! >> reporter: veterans and tea party activists grabbed monument security barricades and dumped them in front of the white house. before a rowdy face-off with park police in riot gear, one man waved the confederate flag. others called for impeachment. >> they gave them back to president obama piling them in front of his house, our house, i'm sorry, in front of our house. >> reporter: while another tea party backed senator was calling for compromise. >> i think we should have an agreement in advance. >> reporter: now at this hour a bipartisan group of senators is scheduled to meet on their own plan and the group is led by west virginia democrat joe manchin and maine republican susan collins. some of the elements include pushing back of the debt ceiling into next year, a deal to reopen the government but it also includes a delay in the medical device tax that helps pay for obama chair, the white house has been cool to that idea but we'll walt and see as the clock clicks, excuse me, ticks closer to october 17th, whether the president might be able to move on some of these issues, he says he doesn't want to do a deal that has stringd attached to it. as you saw with that commotion yesterday outside the white house, that is an indication how difficult it is going to be to push any deal through the heart where a lot of tea party backed republicans are suspicious that the point. >> a frayedon slip you say toast, we could all be toast if they don't get this going. >> the clock ticks while the stalemate in washington is sending shudders through the stock markets the ripple effect. investors appear to be losing confidence that a deal will be hammered out before the deadline. alison kosik the closing bell just under a half hour away. what are you sensing? >> we're looking at the opening bell in less than a half hour. this as optimism from last week quickly fades because that's when the dow gained a total of 460 points, recovering all the losses it wracked up since the shutdown started october 1st. if the market perceives there's no deal you'll see the market give back the gains that it took last week and the global view of the u.s. standoff, center stage at a finance conference, jamime dimo and christine lagarde the managing fund's director sat down with richard quest to express the feeling of the group. >> they are concerned because the u.s. is the biggest economic, economy in the world, because it trades with all of them, because it has massive financial consequences for them as well, so it's an international concern that was expressed. >> and the nervousness is not just playing out in the stock market. also in the start they were borrowing market. the interest rate on the one-month treasury bill is moving sharply higher as investors get more worried whether the government will pay the treasury note if a debt ceiling deal isn't done. big companies use the t bill to park short term cash and a disruption could have repercussions for the entire quit market and we could see that trickle down to the interest rate we pay on our credit cards and mortgages and car loans, you name it. this is a real life drama playing out on capitol hill that could happen in the homes of many americans. >> we know it's about confidence for investors but for traders it has to be frustrating. . >> the funny thing is the 11th hour deals have become just an everyday occurrence but they are growing pessimistic. lot of the traders last week were saying there will be a debt deal, they're growing more pessimistic and that's why you're seeing the market react. one thing that wall street can do and may do is send in a strong little nudge more than a nudge to washington by having a sell-off more than one day and maybe pushing washington to make a decision sooner rather than later. >> a strong little nudge hit you in the 401(k) we all feel that nudge going on. alison kosik, thank you so much. other top stories, parts of central texas trying to dig out and dry out after seeing flooding this weekend, crews rescued several people from vehicles. a foot of rain fell in a 12-hour period turning roads into temporary rivers, even whitewater rapids. an aationthree inches of rain are in the forecast today and that could create a flash flood hazard. overnight in los angeles a bottle of dry ice exploded at lax, temporarily shutting down the international terminal and delaying several flights, that explosion apparently happened in an employee bathroom. thankfully no one was injured but the sfooib investigating. a columbus day weekend celebration near miami nearly ended in tragedy. 45-foot boat capsized dumping 30 people in biscayne bay. boaters responded rescuing everyone, luckily for them including a dog on board rescued also. no reports of serious injuries. the case is under investigation. now we have an unbelievable story of survival. >> this is one you'll be hearing a whole lot about. this is a 72-year-old man, ishes a hunter and he's alive after he was lost in a forest for 19 days. >> 19 days, nearly three weeks, zhou how did he do it? he ate snakes, frogs, lizards and algae. cnn's miguel marquez has more. >> reporter: 19 days lost in the wilderness, injured and dehydrated and a 72-year-old man survived. gene penaflor vanished in the mendocino national forest in northern california. he was on a hunting trip got separated from his partner and suffered a serious fall. >> reporter: when he finally woke up he was disoriented, suffering a head injury. he was stranded in the middle of nowhere, forced to eat lizards, frogs and squirrels just to stay alive. >> the process the three squirrels were dead because of me. >> reporter: he scavenged water from a drain source and huddled under logs to stay out of the snow and rain and kept warm by making fires using leaves and grass. meanwhile penaflor's family spent every single one of the 19 days praying he was still out there, still alive. >> 19 days i know was nothing for him so i knew he was there. >> reporter: rescue teams have been searching for penaflor for weeks. he was found saturday by a group of hunters at the bottom of a ravine. by then he could no longer walk on his own. he was carried on a makeshift stretcher. thankfully and miraculously he is okay. mr. penaflor thought he was going to die out there. >> 19 days, why wouldn't you? >> absolutely incredible, but he cut a lucky break. he had water to survive on, and he finally was able to get some hunters near enough to get to them. >> he had such a benefit being an outdoorsman, he was a hunter and sounds like he opted for smaller game and such, he decided not to go after the big game. he had a gun with him, didn't he? >> he didn't have a choice. he fell down a ravine, took a crack to his head, near a water source there but he couldn't move very well. so he saw helicopters overhead, he saw a deer in the distance but couldn't get to them so he was eating whatever was right around him, squirrels, you've eaten a squirrel before i'm sure. >> what an incredible story, 19 days. i'm sure by that point a week in his family had already written him off. >> his son thought after 14 days we're getting into trouble and it is amazing. he kept going. we water. >> you can't last for a while without water. >> he was able to get the hunter's attention and they saved him. >> what a story. >> sounds like the guy you want to go camping with. i have a great story, with one swing of the bat the boston red sox are right back in the american league championship. >> this is why you're excited about this. >> david ortiz, big papi, one swing, into the bull pen, torey hunter, back with his hands raised, erased a huge deficit in the ninth inning, the walkoff by jarrod saltalamacchia, down 5-1 in the eighth irnning. game three is tuesday in detroit. >> here is the question, as you watched the game live are you doing live play-by-play as it's happening? >> imeterrified hiding in the corner sweating bullets and pacing. i can't talk at all, live play-by-play. >> tuesday don't call berman. a lot of talk in washington. >> unfortunately not a lot of time. will we get an answer from capitol hill today about possibly adestroyeding the debt ceiling and hitting it? senator joe manchin said there is compromise to be had. is there? we're live from d.c. next. 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[ male announcer ] don't be like the burns. welcome back everyone. checking our top stories now an american arrested in egypt after a car bopping. he's now been found dead. james lund was discovered hanging by his shoelaces and a belt at an egyptian police station. >> he died on the very same day his detention was extended for 30 days. an investigation into it has been ordered now. police in england looking for a man in the case of missing girl madeleine mccann, she vanished six years ago vacationing with her parents in portugal. authorities say the man pictured in this computer generated sketch is between 20 and 0 40 years old. two witnesses say he was in the same resort town the day madeleine disappeared, she was 3 years old at the time. it is officially ski season in colorado. >> wow, look at that snow! >> this is the arapahoe basin west of denver, an 18 inch base. >> when are we going? >> right now. it was the first resort to restart its chair lift. across colorado they've been making snow for weeks thanks to cold temperatures and ideal humidity. natural snow has been packing in the powder. >> important questions, snowboard or ski? >> ski, ski. >> we'll get by. i'm a snowboarder. productive, substantive, hopeful and optimistic, how some members of congress characterize talks this weekend as the u.s. senate now takes the lead in washington's attempts to stave off a debt limit debacle. >> despite the talks, there's still no deal. maybe you're waking up this morning thinking there might be one. there is no deal. bipartisan plan crafted by democratic senator joe manchin of west virginia and republican susan collins of maine is getting some attention as a possible way out. here is what manchin told cnn earlier this morning. >> the bullet points in the deals proposed basically we look at from the affordable health care act, postponing for two years the medical device tax, not expending it, basically postponing it, that's a compromise. also verification, verification of people signing up to make sure they're not scamming or frauding the system. also we agreed skru to go to conference. we couldn't get them to set down a budget conference. we've done that. we've agreed to cr in the debt ceiling being extended out, that's up to the leadership. we have a template that works and agreed on the template as far as what the details are, needs to be worked out by leadership and we want to help them. >> joining us from washington is erin mcpike. good morning to you. manchin has said a template has been agreed to, the white house doesn't like that that medical device tax is delayed. is this at least a starting point for a deal, do you think? >> it is but there was a lot of excitement over this deal, potential deal over the weekend, but some people are saying maybe everyone spoke too soon. democrats are interested in talking about it but there's no deal. i want to read to you a statement that six senators put out yesterday afternoon after there was talk of a potential deal, these senators, six of them, five were democrats, including joe manchin and one independent, they said we have been involved in productive bipartisan discussions with senator collins and other republican senators but we do not support the proposal in its current form. there are negotiations but there is no agreement. michaela, last week at this time we were talking about how both sides weren't talking, they weren't negotiating. that was the break-through both sides are talking and negotiating. will it be done by thursday? that's the jury is still out but i've talked to a number of senators including rob portman a republican from ohio who has been part of the talks and is he also optimistic that something will be done by thursday but of course things have been slow going up on capitol hill. >> erin we're appreciative there are all of the pockets of discussion going on finally in washington. particularly on the senate side. the question is, say the senate does pass some kind of proposal here, similar to the collins/manchin bill. is there any sign that the house particularly with the conservative wing in the house republican party would sign on to the senate bill? >> well no and what we're looking at now again what we were talking about before the shutdown even started is house democrats joining with moderate house republicans. we do know that leader pelosi, nancy pelosi who is the leader of house democrats and president obama spoke yesterday, so it would seem to suggest that they are trying to craft some kind of agreement between the democrats and the moderate republican. the medical device tax obviously as we have been talking about is not popular to repeal at least for the white house, but democrats in the senate don't support it necessarily, so that's going to be the sticking point that nancy pelosi is going to have to work through for democrats. >> it's interesting with the senate resuming talks this afternoon how many more developments, how many more back room conversations and negotiations and phone calls. erin mcpike thanks so much. we'll be watching this clearly. developments seem to be happening by the hour, the minute. >> so much still needs to happen for this to get through. >> in four days, the other thing that's remarkable. still to come for us, stuck 20 feet above the railroad tracks. >> you could say this is a bad day, a woman dangling from a bridge over a south florida river. we're going to show you her dramatic rescue coming up. all right i want to tell you about a a harrowing rescue that happened over the weekend. >> harrowing is one way to put it. >> all caught on camera. >> all went down on a railroad bridge in ft. lauderdale, florida. that is a woman holding on for dear life. the bridge started going up while she was on it. >> there are so many questions, john. >> so many questions. >> one of them, why was she on it in the first place? john zarrella joins us now. we hope to explain. john, tell us what you know about this odd situation. >> michaela, john, i wish i could tell you why she was on it. we heard just about everything, some people saying she went out on the bridge to take pictures, others saying it was a shortcut for her to get home. behind me you see the new river in ft. lauderdale and that there is the railroad bridge she was stuck on. now imagine you're up there and if you fall you're either going to hit the tracks or you're going to end up in the water, neither one a very good option, but that was the predicament a local woman found herself in over the weekend. look at this. your eyes are not playing tricks on you. that's a 55-year-old south florida woman dangling more than 20 feet up from a raised rail road bridge. >> i would have been flipping out, like oh my goodness. oh my goodness. >> reporter: she clung on seemingly frozen to the crossing, her legs locked, hands pressed tight to the structure. for about 20 minutes she just hung there. below a crowd of onlookers snapped photos, some ended up posting on twitter. after a flurry of calls to 911, the ft. lauderdale fire department hoisted a 20-foot ladder and brought her down to a cheering crowd. the ordeal over, she was safe and apparently unharmed. sometimes you just get lucky. it's unclear what she was doing on the bridge in the first place, it's marked with a "no trespassing" sign and a warning siren when it's about to go up and there is another nearby bridge for pedestrians to cross. the woman wearing pink had reportedly just finished a cancer walk saturday morning called "making strides against breast cancer" when the bridge went up with her on it. the bridge over ft. lauderdale's new river is remotely controlled. once she walked out on it and it started up there was no way stop it and no way for her to get off. city officials are not too happy with what went down over the weekend. they issued a statement yesterday saying "we're thankful that the individual involved in this life-threatening incident survived but the decision to trespass on private property was an unfortunate poor choice that endangered the trespasser's life and the lives of the first responder." just a little bit ago, the bridge was down when a train went across it, and we timed it after the train passed, it was about a minute, a minute and ten seconds before the bridge went back up, and that is the position the up position that it remains in unless a train is coming. john, michaela? >> we understand that she had just finished a walk or run for breast cancer awareness month so she likely was pretty fatigued yet she was able to keep her strength to hold herself in that position in a pretarious position for some time until rescuers were able to get there. >> reporter: fortunately it was only about 20 minutes before the rescuers were able to get her down. >> only. >> reporter: only. and fortunately the bridge was not perfectly straight up and down, that little bit of a tilt could very well have saved her life. >> obviously we wish her the best, but there were a lot of people in florida joking about the fact the one thing she held on to the whole time was her purse. i said that during the piece and you said -- >> this is serious business. >> you have to hold onto something it's going to be you