St. Thomas. The next stop is the u. S. Territory of puerto rico. They are all under state of emergency ahead of its arrival in the coming hours and days. Congressman carlos mandela represents the 26th district. Mass evacuations are underway right now. He is about to have right into the eye of the storm but before he does he was with a slide. He just struck a deal on extending the debt ceiling with democrats imagine that. Working with democrats and it appears to have worked. Can he do the same attacks are formed. In just one hour he will give them major speech. The Political Panel on what the president may have to give up to go along with that plan. On wall street the markets erasing some of yesterdays 1 sell off Energy Leading the average by some neat points. But we do have gasoline prices calming down yet is another liquid that is a bubbling higher. Lets start the countdown. If ever there were a group of stocks leading the Dow Jones Industrial that grade hurricane effect. The home dep
The nasdaq indicated up by close to 7. 5 points. In asia, you will see the nikkei actually was flat. It was down by 0. 03 hang seng was up bay half percent. The shanghai composite was up by 0. 3 in europe, in the early trading, will you see that right now it looks like things are mostly positive the dax is up by 0. 3 . The ftse up by 0. 6 . A couple big stories uber saying its ceo will head to london to meet with the transportation commissioner of london they will discuss londons decision to strip uber of its operating license. This coming 24 hours after theresa may called londons decision disproportionate. So uber may be back in business in london. Joe mentioned this earlier, big deal in my world ikea announcing its buying taskrabbit, it leets users to hire people to taskrabbit . I know this only because andrew has been into the idea of getting people do stuff for him do you like farming things out. Having underlings do your stuff. I see that here. When if possible. Kates not here tod
One faction of one party in one house of congress in one branch of government doesnt get to shut down the entire government just to refight results of an election. Keeping the peoples government open is not a concession to me. Keeping Vital Services running and hundreds of thousands of americans on the job is not something you give to the other side. Its our basic responsibility. You dont get to extract a ransom for doing your job. For doing what youre supposed to be doing anyway. Or just because theres a law there that you dont like. Affordable care act is moving forward. That funding is already in place. You cant shut it down. Republicans cant shut it down. Its the law of the land. So lets be clear about whats happening. Every Year Congress has to pass a budget to fund the government, to keep it running. But republicans dont care about that. Theyre more focused on scoring political points and raising cash. Republican senator mike lee is now actually fund raising off this fight. And c
History . Do discuss from the white house, jacob lew, rand paul from kentucky, and from the house, marcia fudge, chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. Plus my exclusive interview with Samantha Power on syria, iran, and that controversial comment about hillary clinton. Ive regretted it pretty much every day since. And president obama weighs in on the Washington Redskins name controversy. Im Savannah Guthrie filling in for david gregory. All that on this edition of meet the press on sunday, october 6. From nbc news in washington, meet the press with david gregory. Substituting today, Savannah Guthrie. Good evening, everyone. The latest on the shutdown in a moment, but first the leader in bombings in kenya and tanzania. Tanzania is now in u. S. Custody. It ends a 15year manhunt. He was seized in broad daylight near the tripoli capital on saturday. He will be brought to the u. S. To stand trial. An alshabab leader linked to the kenya Shopping Mall attack was linked to a town in southern
Critical for out nithe united s. Its a place thats lawless at times. The fact he felt safer going from iran to libya is very worrisome for the u. S. Operation incredibly risky. Why would they take that risk, and what do you make of the fact that it wasnt ultimately successful . The u. S. Has targeted alshabab for several years now, but were always nervous about going in. The reason we wanted to go after him is because he is leadership and hes the driver of the alshabab travel agenda, and that was especially after nairobi. Not getting him is bad because hes still in somalia, but we also didnt get the intelligence we hoped to gather from a raid. We turn now to day 6. Government shutdown. No agreement in sight. Senator rand paul will be joining me from kentucky in a moment, but first lets turn to treasury secretary jack lew here in washington. Mr. Secretary, good to see you. Good to be here. Were six days in. Has there been any permanent damage to the economy from this shutdown so far . S