amount of fema funding in this short-term spending bill. fema announced today that it s able to basically stretch the funds that they have in this federal disaster relief fund which is helping recovery efforts for all the natural disasters the country has been facing. they re able to stretch the funds to make it through the end of this week, which is a different estimate, which is a better picture than they ve been painting previously, that they felt the coffers were going to run dry early this week. by doing that, it s key because the end of this week is the end of the fiscal year which really essentially takes the big obstacle that was holding up agreement off of the table. it makes it a moot point. and that is because the fight was over federal disaster relief in just the end of the fiscal year 11 which, as we know, is just the next few days. democrats and republicans were fighting over whether that bit of fema funding should be paid for or should not be. republicans want
federal disaster relief fund which is helping recovery efforts for all the natural disasters the country has been facing. they re able to stretch the funds to make it through the end of this week, which is a different estimate, which is a better picture than they ve been painting previously, that they felt the coffers were going to run dry early this week. by doing that, it s key because the end of this week is the end of the fiscal year which really essentially takes the big obstacle that was holding up agreement off of the table. it makes it a moot point. and that is because the fight was over federal disaster relief in just the end of the fiscal year 11 which, as we know, is just the next few days. democrats and republicans were fighting over whether that bit of fema funding should be paid for or should not be. republicans wanted it paid for, democrats didn t. that issue is taken off the table, as we see, the senate was able to move forward in a 79-12 vote to push through
efforts for all the natural disasters the country has been facing. they re able to stretch the funds to make it through the end of this week, which is a different estimate, which is a better picture than they ve been painting previously, that they felt the coffers were going to run dry early this week. by doing that, it s key because the end of this week is the end of the fiscal year which really essentially takes the big obstacle that was holding up agreement off of the table. it makes it a moot point. and that is because the fight was over federal disaster relief in just the end of the fiscal year 11 which, as we know, is just the next few days. democrats and republicans were fighting over whether that bit of fema funding should be paid for or should not be. republicans wanted it paid for, democrats didn t. that issue is taken off the table, as we see, the senate was able to move forward in a 79-12 vote to push through this clean short-term extension, push it through and p
able to basically stretch the funds that they have in this federal disaster relief fund which is helping recovery efforts for all the natural disasters the country has been facing. they re able to stretch the funds to make it through the end of this week, which is a different estimate, which is a better picture than they ve been painting previously, that they felt the coffers were going to run dry early this week. by doing that, it s key because the end of this week is the end of the fiscal year which really essentially takes the big obstacle that was holding up agreement off of the table. it makes it a moot point. and that is because the fight was over federal disaster relief in just the end of the fiscal year 11 which, as we know, is just the next few days. democrats and republicans were fighting over whether that bit of fema funding should be paid for or should not be. republicans wanted it paid for, democrats didn t. that issue is taken off the table, as we see, the sena
arabic networks saying he is walking around in tripoli and calls rebel forces criminals and traitors and rats. more and more the rebels do believe he is still in or near tripoli. in fact, they think two days of fierce fighting near the airport could be pretty significant. we are covering every angle of this story with multiple correspondents on the ground. sara sidner is in tripoli central square and we have arwa damon and frederik pleitgen and zain verjee. let s get to arwa damon right near the airport on the latest on the clashes. there were grad rockets fired at the airport complex earlier today. the fighting around here has been quite intense. and the rebel commander who led the assault on the airport believes that that fighting is directly linked to the whereabouts of colonel gadhafi himself. translator: the clashes are fierce because i think a route for gaffy to escape to other places. traffic all day and breaking people in the sunset and we spotted a convoy. possib