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welcome to aljazeera america this wednesday morning, i m stephanie sy. hundreds of thousands are federal workers are waking up this morning with no job to go to. the government remains shut down with no signs of progress and congress deadlocked. on tuesday, the republicans in the house proposed a measure to reopen national parks, and parts of the department of veterans affairs, but it was defeated on the house floor in a bipartisan vote. democrats rejected the idea as political cherry picking. they re using the parks as a pawn. this is about defunding the affordable care act on a day when millions of people are logging in to find out how they can enroll. it s really a remarkable historic day, where people can receive the promise of our founders, of life, liberty and the pursuit of anticipateness. the budget impasse resolves around a gop demand that any spending bill include a delay or repeal of the affordable care act. republicans hope the shutdown will force a co ....
this is the cbs morning news for wednesday, october 2nd, 2013. good morning. good to be with you. i m anne-marie green. well, as the federal government shutdown enters its second day, there s no progress toward a resolution to report. democrats and republicans are blaming each other. party leaders on both sides of the aisle warn the budget battle could last for weeks and could morph into an even larger battle over the debt ceiling. susan mcginnis is in washington. susan, good morning. good morning, anne-marie. there was some back and forth here on capitol hill, some billed proposed that take sort of a piecemeal approach to reopening the government, but most of it was finger pointing here at congress and the white house as americans across the country begin to feel the impact. day two of the first government shutdown begins and there s no resolution in sight. one leading republican says the shutdown alone may not bring democrats and republicans together. most bud ....
look at the color on the screen this morning. all those amazing storm shots yesterday. some rain boughs as rainbows as well. mother nature delivering this this morning. we ll have clouds around. mostly cloudy to start and even a sprinkle of clouds but sunshine will build in by noon. a little less humid. yesterday we were in the mid-had the strong storms. we re looking at just a few sprinkles. you see them here. not much going on but from fredricksburg to colonial beach into the northern neck, that s it. that s the area that s rained. this is ground clutter north of it. if it heads together, it will head toward st. mary s county, charles. upper 60s to upper 70s. here s what s in the news right now. president obama has authorized a request for 350 additional troops in iraq. the white house says the troops will help protect american diplomatic facilities and personnel in baghdad. the additional forces will be about security at the u.s. embassy in baghdad. a video sho ....
real money . the world breathes a small sigh of relief because economic news out of china was not as bad as feared and that gives you a sense of how nervous investors are right now. china s gross domestic product, the broadest measure of a country s economic health rose 7.3% cam compared to a year ago, down from 7.5%. the slowest rate since 2009. all of this is way down from the 14% growth back in 2006 before we even started this chart. 7.3% was better than what many economists expected. now, we are living in a world with so many unknowns that expectations take on huge importance. now, i want to remind you why what happens in china matters do you meanly because china s spectacular growth helped to prop up the rest of the world. you are invested in chinese companies through 401ks and irks. china is the biggest foreign holder of u.s. trsh ris. we are all interconnected and china is so big and important that any slowdown or recession there will be felt by all of us. w ....
the world breathes a small sigh of relief because economic news out of china was not as bad as feared, and that gives you a sense of how nervous investors are right now. china s gross domestic product, the broadest measure of a country s economic health rose 7.3% cam compared to a year ago, down from 7.5%. the slowest rate since 2009. all of this is way down from the 14% growth back in 2006 before we even started this chart. 7.3% was better than what many economists expected. now, we are living in a world with so many unknowns, that expectations take on huge importance. now, i want to remind you why what happens in china matters do you meanly because china s spectacular growth helped to prop up the rest of the world. you are invested in chinese companies through 401ks and irks. china is the biggest foreign holder of u.s. trsh ris. we are all interconnected and china is so big and important that any slowdown or recession there will be felt by all of us. we are nowhere ....