right now on early start, kevin mccarthy s hail mary pass. and the speaker moved the ball forward just days before the u.s. government is set to shutdown. plus, pressure grows on the democratic u.s. senator under indictment, accused of taking gold bars and many other expensive glittery things as bribes. and new this morning, the big breakthrough in hollywood, writers just reached a tentative deal with studios to end their strike. good day to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m kasie hunt. it s monday, september 25th, shortly after 5:00 a.m. here in washington, where a government shutdown, just five days away, it s 2:00 a.m. out west, where republican candidates are already starting to camp out ahead of wednesday s presidential debate at the reagan presidential library. and president biden and former president trump both preparing to head to detroit, where workers are on strike against the big three automakers. and we haven t even gott
[upbeat music] it s hard to believe that just a few months ago the first wave of covid-19 had emptied the streets of naples and italy was in lockdown. thankfully, i ve arrived during a brief moment of normality. restaurants are open and masks are not required outside and we ll be sticking to the local rules. napoli is a truly thrilling city. the second you arrive you re engulfed by a magnificent chaos and there s no point in fighting it. people here do things their own way. take the energy of new york, mix in the gritty elegance of new orleans, add 3,000 years of history and cook it all up in the heat of the world s most famous volcano. that is napoli. i m stanley tucci. i m italian on both sides and i m traveling across italy to discover how the food in each of this country s 20 regions is as unique as the people and their past. this place may be looked down on as the poverty-stricken underdog of italy. but the people who live in this region have their own way of doing thing
as the gop candidates get ready to debate for a second time without trump. will any of them be able to break through? i don t think we need people who are in it for themselves seeking retribution. i ll ask former new jersey governor chris christie why trump is still dominating the party. plus, shutdown risk. house republicans struggle to agree on spending bills and now another government shutdown is just days away. they want to shut the whole place down. it doesn t work. house republicans continue to be in the midst of a civil war. will speaker mccarthy turn to democrats for help? i ll talk to democratic congressman james clyburn of south carolina and transportation secretary pete buttigieg. and taking bribes. democratic senator bob menendez of new jersey resisting calls to resign. the senator and his wife accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes. federal agents found gold bars and cash stuffed in envelopes hidden in the senator s clothing. how
this there s no way. they have the wrong. her mother was nearly killed by a bomb. i remember coming out to the truck, put in the key and then kaboom. the police told me this bomb was meant for you. they say to you who does not like you enough to try to kill you? i could think of no one. but police could. and if the target was a surprise, so was the suspect. whoa. it s you. but he claimed he was framed and a man named indian joe could prove it. even he admitted his story sounded crazy. if i was a guy out there watching dateline, i wouldn t believe this. this is like watching a tv show. you re telling us to go search for the one-armed man. yes. well, we found indian joe. that s all true? oh, yeah, that s all true. what else would we find? there s a maniac out there. hello and welcome to dateline. family and faith were everything to connie hoagland. a devoted mother of 3 and wife of a church leader. so when a car bomb shattered life as she k
,. ,,. that s the kind of stuff like it never forgets. she was the single mom who kept him safe. she was also keeping a secret. she was really working for the cia? that s my understanding, yes. and undercover job handling classified documents. but the real intrigue started when she went missing. we knew something was wrong. i didn t want to believe that this was actually a reality. we had concerns that may be the same classified information. it could turn into an espionage in from investigation. espionage? was this some sort of spy caper? or maybe was something closer to home. what we got was the information that we break this case wide open. the case of a see a mom. could prove from kherson help solve this mystery? never gonna give up on anything. hello. and welcome to dateline. the sun rose and sat on her boy marcus. when the single mother met andre jackson, a soledad with two kids zone, marie thought she had found the man of her dreams and