Engineers are rappelling the face of the Washington Monument to assess damage from an Aug. 23 earthquake that shook the East Coast, U.S. officials said.
that the nation has been on brink of this kind of crisis. let s go straight to capitol hill, our congressional current kate bolduan baldwin is standing by. the ability to finally fand a way out of this impasse and to avoid this looming government shut down and how this could all come out has to do with the big focus on the fema funding. the additional funding for federal disaster relief that democrats and republicans wanted to put in this short term spending bill. fema came out today to confirm that different from their prior predictions, that fema may be able to stretch their disaster relief funds that are much depleted and could run out, but they said they could stretch the funds through the end of this week. this is different than prior predictions which many had said would be depleted by the beginning of this week. in a statement, i will read you just in part, wolf, quote, estimates from over the weekend indicate the disaster relief fund could be fully exhausted by the