And good morning to you, everyone. Welcome to cnn this morning. It is saturday, september 30th. The last day of the month. Im amara walker. October is almost here. Im omar jimenez in for victor blackwell. Amara, good to be with you, so close but so far away. I feel close to you. Same to you. Great to see you, omar. Were watching a lot of news this morning. In fact, here we are again. Just hours away from a Government Shutdown. Lawmakers still cant agree on a deal to fund the government past midnight. Were specifically talking about the house right now. The last ditch efforts are under way to keep that from happening. And the impact of a shutdown could have a huge impact from our National Security to clean drinking water. Well discuss. And flood waters ripped through parts of New York City, submerging cars, disrupting mass transit. Look at those images there. Prompting water rescues. Well show you the damage left behind and where were tracking more rain this morning. Police make an arre
Hello, and welcome to our viewers joining us from the United States and all around the world. The u. S. Government less than 4 hours away from shutting down ahead well look at the republican infighting thats making a deal nearly impossible. Plus, a State Of Emergency in New York City as highways, subways, and even Laguardia Airport are flooded. And a Murder Mystery nearly 30 years in the making. Police just arrested a suspect in the shooting death of rapper tupac shakur. Announcer live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with leyla harrak. The u. S. Government is down to its final day of operation before it must shut down. On friday u. S. Republicans roundly rejected u. S. House speaker Kevin Mccarthys latest attempt to gain their support. Unless theres a break through this weekend active duty troops and Border Agents may soon have to work without pay. Food assistance for millions could be at risk. Government loans to farmers, students, Small Businesses wouldnt be processed and air t
on. the advocates talking to customs and border protection officials at the airports weren t getting answers, referred to the white house. it took a while for the white house to respond. late sunday night the white house did a briefing for reporters on a background basis they couldn t be named in the story directly. this is not the normal way to do it. the administration is saying the reason we did this we want the element of surprise, potential terrorists or folks will not try to come in by a date certain to announce this down the road. we have to do it overnight. this caused great confusion and held up people who were coming to the country legally, even green cardholders and not only reporters having truck getting information from the white house, we re getting conflicting information from dhs and the white house sometimes giving us completely different kind of statistics and information what was who was affected. the ari melbe is here and we ll talk to him about the legal perspect
including twa flight 800. thank you for lending your expertise this morning. how much is the airline legally required to offer the families? and why are the dispersements not equal? that s an excellent question. the airline under the montreal convention is automatically liable for an initial of $176,000 u.s. dollars. after that, the amount of its liability is not capped. it s liable for additional damage beyond that. unless the airlines and crews that it took all measures necessary to avoid the loss or another party solely responsible for the loss. in my view, the airports weren t able to meet that district burden of proof, so it will be like for unlimited damages. but it will depend upon the jurisdiction in which the action is brought. and the montreal convention mandates the jurisdiction which a claim against an airline may be brought.
nightmare. icy roads made driving conditions treacherous. airports weren t much better. more than 2,300 flight were canceled across the u.s. on thursday. just as forecast, the snow and frigid temperatures arrived early last night. parts of new york could get ten inches of snow or more. there s a state of emergency this morning in new york and neighboring new jersey. you have our sympathies for being out in the cold. we were talking earlier, we almost thought you were like that guy in in south park, kenny. you re so bundled up. reporter: no. no. when i pull up this part, looks like kenny. there you go. you got it. that s it! the spitting image. that s it! i got to get you a serious question. what are emergency officials