danielle nottingham reports for wjz, from capitol hill. president obama and house republicans are standing firm with the partial government shutdown in its 8th day. and a deadline to raise the nation s debt limit, just nine days away. let s stop the excuses. let s take a vote in the house. let s end this shutdown right now. let s put people back to work. reporter: the president called house speaker john boehner tuesday morning, reiterating, he s willing to talk about the budget after congress passes bills to fund the government and increase the debt limit. without any conditions. members of congress and the house republicans in particular don t get to demand ransom in exchange for doing their jobs. reporter: speaker boehner said he does not have the votes to pass a clean, temporary spending bill or raise the debt limit. he wants the president to sit down and negotiate. there s never been a president in our history that did not negotiate over the debt limit. sena
department of public works. you can see repairs are under way right now. reporter: and our complete coverage continues with sky eye chopper 13 and captain jeff long with more on the repairs. jeff? reporter: work crews are on the scene. they ve got the work load up. you can see next to that gentleman, the pipe. that s the 24-inch pipe that broke. and as i move around here a little bit, you re going to see the broken piece of the pipe laying down there in that hole. and it s coming up in just a second. you can kind of see it there, coming into view. now, the bricks are part of the manhole. and a lot of those were blown away. but you can see the gentleman is standing by with a manhole cover. that was blown off of its location, over those bricks by the force of that water. there was a lot of debris on the road. cleanup is going to be extensive. so they can repair that pipe and get water back to this neighborhood. reporting live, i m captain jeff long. and of course we ll ye
. debt ceiling. congress can t agree on ending the government shutdown. and there s a bigger problem looming. the ongoing feud in washington and how it s impacting families of fallen soldiers. hello, everyone. here s what people are talking about tonight. the federal budget standoff is in its eighth day but there s a bigger fight to come over raising the debt ceiling. if congress missing this deadline the impact on americans could be worse. we re in washington where tensions are high. reporter: president obama and house speaker john boehner appeared before the media on tuesday. we shouldn t have to fight this hard to keep our government hope. what the president said today was if there s unconditional surrender by republicans he ll sit down and talk to us. reporter: neither offered much progress. they want to pass a spending bill and a debt limit increase without amendments. we may have our differences democrats and republicans but we should not hold the fu
at the top of the hour that s a live look at spaghetti junction downtown. no problems there. south of there on the baltimore/washington parkway lots of problems. sharon will details those after marty s first warning weather. 56 degrees right now. that s going to be 8 degrees above normal. that 56 is going to also be 6 warmer than this time yesterday. there s a fall feel to the morning. there s first warning doppler weather radar. there s a slow moving low that s spreading clouds into the area now. clouds in the forecast until early sunday morning. not a ton of rain but showers around. 65 at lunch will be your daytime high with showers beginning in the afternoon. call it state route 295 or the bw parkway, here is sharon gibala at wjz traffic control. good morning. 295 definitely the big issue at the moment. 295 southbound just after 175 an accident there still blocking all lanes. traffic is being diverted off onto 175. an accident in aberdeen on route 40 at carroll avenu
a car traveling westbound on liberty struck michael as he was trying to cross the street. patrons from in your by bar heard the impact and ran out to help. police say the teen s body was found about 20 feet west of the traffic light. his right leg is broken in four places. his left leg was totally shattered. on monday, he had a very extensive surgery, inserting rods and begins to piece the like together. the leg together. surveillance video shows the car traveling through the intersection, slowing down slightly after the crash, and then taking off. the video is in black and white so invested they so investigators cannot make up the type or color of the car. one witness describes it as a compact four-door, and another, as a blue or 10 car or station wagon. police officials say lack of evidence has made the investigation evidence. there was no debris left behind. there were no skid marks, no signs of any breaking. betty colson has spent the day since the crash pas