republicans and democrats are talking, just not to each other as the shutdown stalemate drags on. house speaker john boehner called for negotiations while the house called for a funding bill to reopen the government. wall street is watching, and i ll get out of the way here. the dow up closing at 76 points. and furloughed employees calling for an end too the shutdown. and then let s go to capitol hill now where congress is sit stuck. al jazeera s libby casey is there for us. what is the latest on efforts to unstick this educatio situationd the shutdown. reporter: this has come from house democrats. this is a group that has been dis em powered. it s between the house and senate. house democrats said if speaker boehner would allow a clean bill if he would let that go to the house floor they believe it would pass because they believe enough republicans would say let s just get this thing moving forward. the house has a work around, it s a petition. they need 218 members to s
coverage of today s events honoring president kennedy. but the effort to stop iran s nuclear ambitions. secretary of state john kerry is making an unexpected trip to geneva. nick shiffrin has more. today the u.s. hopes to make a deal that would stop that building and convince iran to give up the capacity to make the bomb. it is the president s policy that iran must not be allowed to obtain a nuclear weapon. think of a bomb as making tea. right now iran is enriching uranium, like to 20%. building a bomb would be more difficult, time consuming. allow u.n. inspectors more access to facilities. about the purely peaceful nature of its nuclear program. in return the u.s. would lift $7 billion of sanctions. what iran doesn t have to do, tear down its nuclear infrastructure. that s why centrally post oppos. it s a bad deal. secretary of state john kerry hopes to secure a deal that the u.s. believes will make iran more peaceful. diplomat disagreement for the first step
spending this day after thanksgiving shopping either online or in stores searching for great bargains. black friday really began just after thanksgiving dinner with people rushing into stores across the country. chaos turned violent in illinois when police an officer shot a man suspected of shoplifting. another officer was hurt while chasing that suspect. as the hours went on stores were still crowded but calmer. we re out with shoppers in the mall in new york. what do you see out there today? reporter: i m seeing america change before my very eyes. that s what is happening. they instituted the shopping from 8:00 last night thanksgiving really because the economy is so bad and because the time difference between this year s thanksgiving i and christmas is so short. many were upset with people not having time for family and friends. we re getting reports that people seem to love it. they were outside all the malls. 12 national chains opened up. macy s opening up at 8:00 on
82 miles per hour. that s how fast federal investigators say a commuter train was going when it de-railed on sunday. four people died when the metro-north train jumped the tracks on, on a curve, dozens more were hurt. investigators now know how fast the train was going. they still don t know for sure why it de-railed. let s take you to jonathan martin. he is at the crash site in the bronx. jonathan? reporter: hey, tony. you know, investigators have said from the start that this is a very preliminary information, but as you mentioned, these two black box data recorders have revealed key information. one frust from the front and one from the back, showing this train was going too fast echoing what a lot of these passengers and witnesses have been saying from the start. reporter: investigators with the national transportation safety board say they now know the commuter train that de-railed was going too fast as it approached a curve. the preliminary information and let
there is much we do not know about yesterday s deadly train derailment but we know this. it was traveling at an extraordinary rated of speed, almost three times the limit as it approached a dangerous term. several cars jumped the track leaving the scene of devastation. four passengers were killed. scores injured. investigate orders are trying to figure out what went wrong and why. jonathan martin has the latest. reporter: the question remains now: was this caused by operator error or some sort of mechanical error on the brakes. we know from the ntsb, speed was a factor. that s something that was reported early on by passengers and witnesses. investigators with the national transportation safety board say they now know the commuter train was going too fast as it approached a curve. the preliminary information let me emphasize this is preliminary information from the event recorders shows that the train was traveling at approximately 82 miles per hour as it went int