Reporter until the shutdown ends, president obama is still refusing to negotiate. Lets stop the excuses and lets take a vote in the house and lets end this shutdown right now. Lets put people back to work. Then serious negotiations could proceed around every item in the budget. Reporter and the president demanded a promise not to default on october 17. Some house republicans, more house republicans, are now reported ready to reopen government and to raise the Borrowing Limit in return for a promise of meaningful talks on obama care and other spending. Im steve handelsman, news4. The families of more than a dozen Service Members recently killed in action are being denied death benefits because of the shutdown. The families are entitled to a 100,000 payment. That money often helps cover the cost of funerals and provides Financial Assistance until Life Insurance policies take effect. The house is drafting a resolution to restore that payment. It could be introduced as early as tomorrow. T
Much more on this for you on the at 4 00, 5 00, and 6 00 on news4. Police are trying to figure out who shot two people in the district just after 3 00 this morning on somerset place near 7th street in northwest d. C. Police found two men suffering from gunshot wounds to the legs. Both victims were taken to the hospital. They are expected to be okay. Fire officials in Prince William county say two people were found dead inside a triangle mobile home after an Early Morning fire there. The flames sparked around 3 30 this morning around Fuller Heights road. Crews are still looking for one person. Megan mcgrath is live there with more on the investigation. Megan, what can you tell us . Reporter you can see across the street here whats left of the mobile home and investigators who are gathering outside. When firefighters put out this fire and went inside, they relatively quickly found two bodies. But theres a third Person Associated with the house who is still unaccounted for. Now, is that i
Announcer this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Substituting tonight, harry smith. Good evening. It is a week since a jury in florida found George Zimmerman not guilty in the death of Trayvon Martin. Since then americans have been grappling with the means of that verdict. Race has been an ines capable part of that conversation. Yesterday a pensive president obama spoke for 19 minutes about the case. He said Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago. Across the country today there were vigils and rallies. Michelle franzen is in Lower Manhattan with the latest. Good evening. Reporter good evening. The verdict in florida is a flash point over the laws, self defense laws and about race. Crowds gathered in protest and in prayer and called for outrage to be turned into action. Some echoing the president s own words. A day after president obama weighed in on the Trayvon Martin verdict. Trayvon martin could have been me 35 year ago. Thousands turned out in a show of solidarity as jus
A Delhi man was injured in a pickup truck rollover on Friday night. The Delaware County Sheriff’s Office says 48-year old Douglas Cornell was driving