Look at the flag in center city. Thats going to be the case for most of the day. The northwesterly winds bringing some cold air. Its a steady wind at 10 miles an hour in northeast philly and trenton. A bit stronger in redding a 20mileanhour wind there. 20 degrees in philadelphia but factor in the wind and it feels like 9 degrees in the city. 0 in lancaster. 10 degrees below 0 in the pocono mountains. A cold start today but we will see a blustery day with sunshine warming us to near 30 degrees this afternoon. Well go through it hour by hour when im back. Lets check in with traffic reporter jillian mele. Good morning, bill. A much different scene than this time yesterday. This is a live look in northeast philadelphia. Torresdale at cottman avenue. The roads are dry. Not dealing with any slippery or slushy conditions out there. It is a good start. We are not reporting major stents on the highway. This is in center city the vine street expressway westbound as drivers would head out to 76 v
Continuing resolution on the floor right now. Lets get it done. Gentleman yields back. End this republican Government Shutdown. As the chair previously advised, the request cannot be entertained. Im craig melvin. Youre watching msnbc. The house and senate both at work today. House republicans left a morning pep rally saying they have no new proposals. Then all eyes turn to the senate. They took up a plan to reopen the government and raise the debt ceiling. That also went nowhere. As the mess continues inside, on the National Mall today, tea Party Founders cleaned up. But who will end the mess that the shutdown is causing for americans . We are following all the latest live from capitol hill. We wish they could find that same kind of innovation in washington, d. C. That we find here in utah. Also ahead, wideopen spaces. Today, several states are reopening National Parks. But at what cost . Well talk about that. And concussion crisis. A new book claims the nfl ignored the link between th
Done . Last night, Stephen Colbert explained why the deal broke down in the first place. Folks, france knows a suckers deal. Theyre the ones who sold us louisiana. We should have saved the receipt. And now our president s been outtoughed by the french. Thats like being outsobered by the toronto mayor rob ford. Good day. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington. The growing death toll in the philippines has risen to more than 2300 today. Chaos has erupted among some survivors desperate for food and water. Eight people were killed today when mobs overran a rice warehouse in tacloban, the island hit hardest by the storm. The mayor is urging residents to leave the city. Security forces exchanged fire with a gang today while trying to maintain order. Ian Williams Joins me now with the latest from manila. Ian, this situation getting more and more desperate. What can you tell us . Reporter thats right, andrea. Were hearing promises of more aid, of gaining momentum for this massive aid effort. But the
Public debt. The senate reacted and acted very responsibly. On two procedural votes, we got over 75 votes. On final passage, we got a majority. It was now the time is for the house to act. The house has to understand that playing ping pong politics only pings, it does not get to bottom line. We asked them to accept what we sent over so we could get into the real issues of what is fiscal 14 going to look like and how can we reduce public debt by 100 billion a year, do it in a balanced way and be able to keep our economy going, your government functioning and American People really at work. Capitol hill correspondent Kelly Odonnell is standing by and were listening to maryland senator barbara mikulski, whats the next step . Whats senate has been able to do with the democratic majority is critical in trying to keep the government open. They were able to keep enough votes to end the debate and put off the ted cruz effort to block this. Republicans got 19 votes, nowhere near enough despite
Ran on a plat foreign minister platform to repeal. Obama care is the law of the land. Two steps forward. Listen, the am scan people dont want the president S Health Care bill. 39 steps back. Speaker boehner hunkered down. Threat of the government shutdown. Shutting down the government. What kind of idea is that. But the debt ceiling. The debt limit we will introduce a plan. A cash flow problem. The president says i am not going to negotiate. I will not negotiate. Im sorry it just doesnt work that way. The Tea Party Republicans have taken it to a whole new level. The American People dont want the president S Health Care bill. Elections have consequences. Even if youve didnt vote for me, i bet you will sign up for the Health Care Plan five days before enrollment begins for obama care, president obama took a stand against republicans threatening a government shutdown. The president went to maryland and began by explaining why he wont consider defunding obama care. In fact, for the past fe