we begin with one of the largest real estate and business stories of the year amazon pulling out of its plans to build a second headquarters in new york acrossnd queens, just the river from where we stand right now. it is pretty amazing, this played out like a reality show. it was incredible, it really was. you have local politicians, national politicians in one of the world s biggest companies trying to move to new york and ultimately saying it s not worth the trouble. carol: you have cities and states court these big companies, give them tax breaks. it often works out with the company settling in the state with the best incentives. what happened here? ultimately, amazon and the politicians and their staffs ultimately totally missed their political moment in a really big way. the district right next to this one is owned by alexandria ocasio-cortez. the local politicians in this district, be they in the city council or state senate, opposed this deal vehemently. andeff
comcast supports c-span along with these other television providers giving you a front row seat to democracy. when house and senate are in session to help publishes their newspaper and this is the front page of the hill . gop blocks that hike bill. senate republicans filibuster the measure to fund the government and raise the debt ceiling leaving congress now at a crossroads on how to raise the nations borrowing limit. also recording this morning from the new york times and their headline, republicans block government funding, refusing to lift debt limit. emily cochran writing republicans on monday locked a spending bill needed two of the government shutdown and a federal debt default next month . moving the nation closer to the brink of fiscal crisis as they refuse to allow democrats to lift the limit on borrowing. in that article she says this about the debt limit. it is perhaps the most serious round of brinksmanship over america s debt that economists and analysts conce
man. the commissioner said it was a department issued weapon and the suspect, it appears, was attempting to disarm the off-duty officer. certainly, that is a possibility. he charged the detective immediately upon the detective approaching him. there is a violent struggle you can see where they re spinning each other around and around. at some point in time there are multiple discharges and there are a couple of which leave us with some concern. all we hear is pop pop pop pop, a lot of shots and people scrambling around. really scary. a baby seat in the car and that s scary, too. reporter: that suspect had a virginia id as well as a maryland tag on the black honda. police say they don t know exactly why he was here in philadelphia. they also say there was no evidence, at least right now, this was domestic terrorism related or this suspect was intentionally trying to run over or hurt anyone else. we do know the good samaritan has been treated and released from the hospi
family members stayed within range of the search that utilized heavy machinery in a back field. investigators are looking for any sign that will bring them closer to finding 19-year-old jimmy patrick, 18-year-old dean, 22-year-old mark sturgis and 21-year-old tom mio. the investigation focused on a farm at 2022 new hope. we re getting strong indications this is where we need to focus the majority of our resources. reporter: it s one of the properties searched the last few days, charge ding dinardo on unrelated gun charges. they searched the road on sunday where mark sturgis car was found in a home in bensalem earlier today where cosmo dinardo lives. one of the neighbors who asked not to be on camera said the dinardos are like family. sdp it s been very difficult. i ve been crying all day.ds spot their missing friend and concerns about his safety. he s always got a good spirit. we know our friend is not safe sorks that s all we re worried about. reporter: i spoke wi
in ten minutes. back to you guys. new this morning, families are out of their homes after this smokey fire in north philadelphia. it began around 2:00 this morning on west huntington street. you can see that the firefighters had to deal with heavy smoke when they put out the flames. fortunate lly no one was hurt. a search is on for a grandmother and her great grandmother. the pair was headed to north carolina for christmas but they never made it there. the family of this woman and her great granddaughter they re worried this morning. the two were last seen three days ago in virginia. here are the photos. they left mays landing on christmas eve, on the way to visit family in north carolina. relatives last spoke to them on the phone when they were at a gas station in rutter glen, virginia. but they haven t heard from them since and they never showed up at their destination. we spoke with the woman s grandson. he says that families members drove south in search of their