The very first day of fall. Good morning to you, its september 23rd. Im victor blackwell. Parts of the Eastern Seaboard are Feeling Effects of Tropical Storm owe Feelasm The Storm Made Landfall along the North Carolina coast early this morning and strong damaging winds and heavy rain have been lashing the street ever since yesterday. 58,000 people are already without power along the carolina coast. And in virginia. Lifethreatening storm surge and Flash Flooding are also big concerns for people along the coast. Lets get right to cnn meteorologist allison chinchar. Where is ophelia now . It is not too far from where it was a few hours ago. Still hovering over North Carolina and the sustained winds are 65 miles an hour, still gusting up to 85, and the Forward Movement is off to the north at 13. But look at all of the outer bands on the northern side of the system. Thats why were starting to see some of those heavier rain bands, now spreading to states like new jersey, pennsylvania, and even into new york, and you even have some rain spreading into areas of connecticut and massachusetts. Nowhere near the center of this storm. However, the heaviest rain is certainly focused over virginia and North Carolina. We have even had a couple of Tornado Warnings off and on this morning, across this area. And very quick spinup, still a concern, and that storm will continue to make its way off to the north in the next 2436 hours. Taking with it all of those gusty winds as well as the very heavy rain. So by tomorrow, the focus really becomes more of the mid atlantic and especially into the northeast. Flooding is a concern, not only for today, but also for tomorrow. We could see the location of that, beginning to shift. Today, mostly a focus between North Carolina and virginia, stretching into the mid atlantic, where as tomorrow, the focus really more so becomes much of the northeast. The storm surge, most of the threat for storm surge is going to be farther north now, and not really much of a concern anymore, for areas of North Carolina, and as well as south carolina. But we have some pretty impressive peaks. For example, boeeaufort, North Carolina, three feet. And even throughout the area, across several other states including virginia, maryland, delaware, and now another concern is also the gusty winds. Youve got power outages, youve got some reports of trees coming down across virginia and North Carolina. And most of these sustained winds have been between 20 to 40 Miles Per Hour. But we have had a few of these wind gusts up around 50 to 60 Miles Per Hour in some of these spots and keep in mind when you get the ground saturated, it doesnt take necessarily a very strong wind to bring some additional trees and subsequentlily some power lines down. Allison chinchar, watching the storm for us, thanks so much. With the government on the brink of a shutdown, congress doesnt seem to have made any progress toward the funding deal and House Speaker mccarthys hands are essentially tied because some hard line republicans are threatening his job if he puts forward a continuing resolution. Now, the senate may have to take control of things. Senator schumer and mcconnell are now working to put porth a bipartisan bill in their chamber. Leader mcconnell and i are talking, and we have great agreat deal of agreement on many parts of this. Its never easy to get a big bill, a cr bill done, but i am very, very optimistic that mcconnell and i can find a way, and get a large number of votes, both democratic and republicans in the senate. Cnns Jasmine Wright joins us now from the white house. While this is a fight between the house and the senate right now, and those inner workings, how did the Biden Administration preparing for what comes from all this . Reporter well, omar, the white house is directing federal agencies basically to get ready for a potential shutdown. They issued guidance on friday, as we saw, many House Republicans leave washington, d. C. Without a clear path forward. So the White House Budget Office is issuing guidance, mandatory and standard guidance that they always issue when it is about seven days out from the September 30th Deadline when we know the government will no longer be able to fund itself, telling the agencies to put in place their procedures and plans if a shutdown were to occur. This is important, because every federal agency has different procedures and plans to put in place if there were a shutdown. That includes an outline of how many employees would be furloughed, it includes outlining how many employees would be deemed essential, and thus have to work through a shutdown. But it is not only jobs that are at risk here. Its also Essential Services that are key to the Biden Administration. Like food safety and food aid programs. Pay for military and Law Enforcement personnel. Travel processing and other very essential issues for this nation. So the white house here on friday was warning House Republicans not to put these things at risk. Take a listen. The republican shutdown does not have to happen. They can do their job and keep these vital programs and keep the government open. Our message is this should not be happening, we should not be putting american familys lives in turmoil. Now, that is what we heard from the white house on friday. But just across pennsylvania avenue, we also know on the house side, the House Rules Committee was putting together and really trying to prepare a series of individual bills to fund the government, and that House SpeakerKevin Mccarthy would hope to garner enough gop votes to have a vote taken on tuesday and pass and make its way to the senate. A couple of things are the problem here. First, we dont know if there will be enough house gop votes to pass. And also we know it would be dead on arrival when it goes to the senate. Take a listen to Kevin Mccarthy talk about his plan on friday. I think were making progress, and those who are hold holding up the passing the vote for the bill, we will work on that. Despite that optimism from House SpeakerKevin Mccarthy, we know if those bills did manage to pass, they would be dead on arrival, at the senate, of course, the white house does not support them, they called them extreme, making it the case that we are no closer to averting a potential shutdown. Omar, victor . We will see what happens. Jasmine wright, thank you so much. The strike by the United Auto Workers against ford, General Motors and stellantis, the company that manufactures cars under chrysler and jeep brands, has entered the ninth day. And the negotiations with ford shows signs of progress, the strike is spreading to more facilities across the country but only to more gm and stellantisowned locations. Here is more from cnns correspondent. Reporter now over 18,000 uaw members on the picket line after president fain of the uaw announced we be targeting 38 more facilities at gm and stellantis across 20 states, sending an additional 5600 members out to the picket line. And this is because president fain said that gm and stellantis needed a strong push to come with a better offer. However, if you notice, ford was not noted in those additional targeted strikes. President fain saying Real Progress was made with ford. And hears some details. According to the union, fords latest offer reinstated cost of living adjustments, which was something that many of these workers gave up in 2009. And theyre now offering more profit sharing. And temporary workers can now become fulltime workers in 90 days. And theres additional job security, which essentially means that if a Ford Employee is laid off, they will receive two years of income and benefits. But notably missing from the announcement on friday was where things stood with wages. We know that the union has been asking for a 40 wage increase over four years. The last public offer from the three companies was around 20 . Ford and the uaw saying that while they have come to terms with some of these other demands, theres still a big gap on the wage issue. And these new targeted strikes will certainly have an economic impact, this is going to impact dealerships. Because dealerships will not be able to get parts from specifically gm and stellantis, and this will then trickle down to the consumer, who is looking to bring their car in for a repair, potentially those parts will not be available. We have some recent economic reporting from Anderson Economic Group that says just in the first eight days of this strike, with just the three plants, we have seen a 1. 6 billion dollars economic impact. With these new 38 facilities that are now being targeted by the union, that number, omar, and victor, is expected to grow. All right, vanessa, thanks so much. With me now, the president of the United Auto Workers local 14. Thank you so much for being with me, tony. I want to first start with something that the president of gm, you work for gm there, in toledo, ohio, mark royce, wrote, in the oped from the detroit free press, he says that what the uaw is asking for is just untenable. And the company must invest in development. If we dont continue to invest, we will lose ground quickly, competitors across the country, and around the world, most of whom are nonunion, will waste no time seizing the opportunity that we would be handing them. Kind of, i guess, pitting against one another the demands that are coming from the uaw and their need to invest, especially in electric vehicles, and other technologies, whats your response to what mark reuss is saying . Good morning, victor. Thank you for having me. For the president of the company, mark reuss who makes 12 million a year and the Ceo Mary Barra who makes 29 million a year, they can afford their 36 increase over the last four years, were only 5 of the cost of the vehicle. And we fell woefully short and woefully behind in the last ten years. The money is there. When you look at the inflation reduction act, that incentivizes them to make the transition to ev, they will do just fine, theyre a for Profit Company and they want to make the leap to ev because they know thats where the future profits. Are so every four years they come up with a new reason why we cant get compensated correctly and were not accepting any more bad deals. So i can appreciate the sentiment, but they can afford it. So let me preface this question, by saying that no person who believes that theyre not being paid what theyre worth should fear asking for that because they dont want their job to disappear. But is there some consideration, how do you navigate the possibility that if they meet your demands, or get closer to those demands, that might urge them to move production or move some of this to mexico, where the cost to produce, the labor cost is far lower, how do you navigate that . Well, you do it with job security. Just like Chuck Browning who is getting job security in their ford agreement. Chuck browning is the best negotiator we have, and hes doing a great job with the uaw, he is the uaw Vice President of ford, they are doing a great job, and thats why there was no more strikes with ford. Laura dickerson and the regional director up there is doing a great job as well. It is through job security in our agreements. Were tired of this. And it helps to have, you know, President Biden show his support to us. If were going to put trillions of dollars into this infrastructure to make these vehicles go, these jobs need to be here in this country. Not china. Not mexico. And if theyre truly good u. S. Companies, like they want to claim to be, they would contribute to this Manufacturing Base in this country. The president started by saying that record profits should mean record contracts. And then sending on members of his Administration Just last night, announcing that he is going to michigan to join the picket lines. Whats your reaction to that announcement from the president . Well, you know, we have a saying here in the uaw, its your actions, not your words, and we know joe, you know, you look back to 2019 and the restructuring, he was over that with the obama administration. And theres a reason why we still have our pensions today. Some people said let detroit go bankrupt. And what that meant was a hard bankruptcy where we lose our pensions. But joe, the president , solidified our pensions, and he recently did it for all americans. To secure pensions. We appreciate that. I heard donald trump was interested in coming as well. Well, you know, in 2019, lordstown, told those workers not to sell your home, and they wound up closing that facility, and they sent the trail blazer down to mexico. We need to hold these ceos and their business decisions, we need to hold them accountable for their decisions. Its not helping this country out. Look showing up on the picket line is one element of the president s response. That aside, have you been satisfied how the president , hout administration has responded to the strike over the last nine days . Automatic. We appreciate their offer to send people, but weve been doing this for a long time. Local 14 here, you know, weve been around since 1935. And we had a great Sitdown Strike of 37. So with almost 90 years of bargaining experience, we dont need help just yet. Were making progress, like i said, at the ford negotiating table, with Chuck Browning. I think well be all right. Tony totty, president of the uaw local 14. Thank you so much for your time. Thank you. 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