A warm welcome to the programme. We start in the us, where at midnight eastern time tomorrow the Us Government will run out of money to fund itself, unless congress can agree a last minute deal. If the story sounds familiar, well, it is. It would be the 22 time in the last 50 years, that Us Government services have had to be shut down because of a Budget Deadlock in congress. The last time in early 2019 saw a month of widespread disruption to the Worlds Largest economy. Erin delmore reports from new york. The clock is ticking. They will need to agree on a deal to fund the federal government passed september 13. The federal government passed september13. Right the federal government passed september 13. Right now the senate has bipartisan support for a bill but House Republicans have rejected it. Hardline conservatives calling for deeper cuts and tying any Government Funding Bill to the ongoing issue of immigration and security at the us southern border. House speaker Kevin Mccarthy has
721 million active users. so that s how they do it. if you re on facebook you re much closer to somebody else. that makes sense. steve: meanwhile, let s look and find out who is together under an umbrella. as you can see, widely scattered thunderstorms moving all the way from eastern portions of texas, up through the lower mississippi valley, tennessee valley as well, moving through portions of ohio and mid atlantic on this wet tuesday. meanwhile, the temperatures, as you can see right here in new york city, 46 degrees. 62 in raleigh. 60 to 70 is across much of dixieland. 70s along the gulf coast. look at that. right now 73 in tampa. and right now in rapid city, only 29. later today, we ll crank it up to 73 in raleigh. 78 in atlanta. and if you re in kansas city, missouri, 49. the skating world is no stranger to cancer. so this thanksgiving, the stars will take to the ice and help raise cancer awareness and taking part in this year s kaleidoscope on ice program,
something in there. we have heard the phrase of six degrees of separation here. that is a study that goes back to 1967. they updated it. facebook, university of milan updated. it s not six, it is now 4.74 degrees of separation. largely because of facebook and 721 million users. really, no more, average number of acquaintances that separate any two people in the word, 4.74. staggering though. it makes sense to me. raised questions about what a friend really is. we are all so connected. fascinating. internet connects us even well, more. this story out of the miami new times. cops summoned to a florida elementary school after a teacher sees a boy and girl 12-year-old, kissing in the school yard. the teacher has to call the police because she believed under the law the
republican candidates gather in the shadow of the white house tonight for the big cnn national security debate. it is the first test for newt gingrich as front-runner. cairo bracing for a million-man sit-in. police beating demonstrators on the fourth straight day of violence, and now late word three americans have been arrested. is there anybody out there? nasa relaunching a program to listen for alien life, searching for signs, on this american morning. captions by vitac www.vitac.com good morning. it s tuesday, november 22nd. ali and christine are off this morning. i m alina cho along with carol costello on this american morning. so glad you re with us. glad you re with us. up first this morning, breaking news out of cairo. three americans arrested outside the interior ministry in tahrir square accused of throwing molotov cocktails. thousands of demonstrators are packed into the square for a million-man sit-in. a short distance away, our reporter says soldie