the government shutdown heading in to its second full day and with federal agencies closing and hundreds of thousands of workers staying home, there is no end in sight to this stalemate. open enrollment for obama karras millions of americans log to sign up for health care but technical glitches and heavy internet traffic slow down for people across the country. a bomb squad removes what is being called a destructive device. and new hope ho*efp to women having for women having ahard t. the latest on the inning ter tilt at this breakthrough.

welcome to al jazerra america, i am richelle caray. we are a few hours in the day two of the government shutdown. hundreds of thousands of federal employs are on furlough, many federal offices are closed and veterans have stopped receiving care. just a few hours ago, the g.o.p. offered a measure reopen nationanational parks and some f the veteran a fairs, but it was defeated. republicans cherry picking some of the few parts of the government that they like, this is a quote. from capitol hill, libby casey has more. >> reporter: day one of the federal government shutdown is about to turn in to day two. tuesday was spent lobby blame. back and forth on capitol hill. senate democrats are stick to go their ledge to only support a clean funding bill. they say while they want the government back up and running it's not worth tearing apart the

federal health care law. toned the day, senator harry reid, majority leader in the senate, called on house speaker john boehner to, quote, stop the game. a growing number of republicans are saying that it might be time to talk about passing a clean spending bill without dealing with the federal health care law right now. but despite that. gop leadership is pushing forward and not giving a lot of ground o tuesday they did try one new tactic, they tried fund being three parts of the government rather than passing a whole giant spending bill. they tackled veterans affairs, national parks and museums and also the city of d.c. funding and put forth three bills to fund just those things, they failed in the house without enough deck contract i can support. democrats say it's all or nothing. the house and senate both come back in to session wednesday morning, but ther they are no cr to a compromise than they were when the government shutdown. >> that was libby casey reporting. president obama is standing firm, he is urging house

republicans to pass a spending measure that doesn't undercut the affordable care act. better known as obama care. white house correspondent mike viqueira has that part of the store eu789d good evening to you. story. >> reporter: good everything to you, it's only a matter of time before house republican have his to cave and pass a clean spending bill that takes out all of the delay and defunding of obama care that they have been pushing time and time again only to be batted back by the senate. president obama took to the rows garden earlier today, sroubdzedd by people who would benefit from the affordable care act, obama care as it is known, he spent half of his time talking about congress, taking connectio repuo task for holding the country ransom and the government ransom heading in to its second debuts they insist on did he funding at fordable care act. telling them to knock it off, did the president. >> my basic message to congress is this, pass a budget, end the government shutdown.

pay your bills. prevent an economic shutdown. don't wait. don't delay. don't put our economy or our people through this any longer. >> reporter: and while the president has made private phone calls for congressional leaders on monday he spoke with all four, house and senate republican and democrat and we know that on tuesday he at least spoke by telephone with nancy pelosi, the house democratic leader. he's largely left it to harry reid the senate democratic leader to execute the tactics and strategy in this legislative fight in congress. the white house is also staying away from this to certain extent saying it's all up to house republicans to decide to ultimately pass that clean spending bill. jay carney today, had an interesting analogy. >> that suggests that the president could take over the house, and pass one himself. and he can't. he cannot order or force, you know, call out the national guard to get speaker of the house to put a clean c.r. on the floor.

>> reporter: so the white house strategy here is to simply wait republicans out, they think john boehner will have to ca i have and pass a clean spending bill on the hous house of representas with help from democrats that is something that is going to be a very difficult decision for john boehner. as far as the public is concerned, they are holding both parties responsible. yes, marginally more of the public holds republicans responsible, but both over 50% in blaming both republicans and democrats. back to you. >> that was mike viqueira reporting. let's take a look at some of the agencies affected by the shutdown, nasa, 9% of employees were furloughed. that's more than 17,000 people. at the epa. 94% of employees are staying home. 97% of i r.a. workers, that's about 85,000 people, 87% at the commerce department. 59,000 at the department of the interior. treasury, we are talking about 80 wees of the workers there being affected and the biggest

number was at the department of defense, more than half of the civilian workforce there furloughed, that is 400,000 people. smallinger numbers at justice homelands security and veterans affairs, more than 1200 staffers were sent home. vet vans are feeling the immaterial fax. on tuesday 91 world war vets arrived in washington on what's called an honor flight from mississippi they were told that they could not tour the world war ii monument. but congress intervened and police let them in. all memorials are closed because of the government shutdown. in florida the jacksonville international airport has reopened after it was evacuated for the past several hours. the facility was closed after two suspicious packages were found, one was in a terminal the other a parking garage, one was a did he truck stiff device that

had to be rendered safe before it could reopen. plane loads of passengers were left stranded on the tarmac. >> and the airlines are doing everything that they can to get operation normal again. >> authorities would not confirm local news reports that two suspects had been arrested. a key part of the president's affordable health care act, the health exchange are now open for business. it did not take long for the federal remember are website and some state sites to get overloaded after millions of americans logged odd for information. president obama says everyone has to be patient. >> we are going to be speeding things up in the next few hours to handle all of this demand that exceeds anything that we had expected. consider that just a couple of weeks ago apple rolled out a new mobile operating system. and within days they found a glitch. so they fixed it. i don't remember anybody suggesting apple should stop selling iphones or ipads or threatening to shutdown the

company if they didn't. >> david schuster takes a closer look at the sign-up process. >> hospitals, pharmacies, community center, libraries a lot of different place that his will help you sign up for the affordable care act exchanges, but a reminder this is just for people who don't have health insurance or who pay for health insures yourself if you have employee-based health insurance this is not for you. but the easiest way to possibly sign up for this, is going to be by going to health care.gov the website that president obama think the obama administration have been talking about that they set up it breaks it down by state. you put in what state you live this nba anin and it will applye information. there is how many days you have left before you face an irs tax penalty. as we will all face next spring. this is the one of the main messages popping up because of so much demand, so much interest at least and curiosity, health insurance marketplace please wait. we have a lot of visitors on our site right now working to make sure that your experience is

better. but if you do get through, once the software is improved or less people are on the website, it's going to start to bring up information, for example, when you click on new york, new york say of health has information about getting started hugh to log in, how to register in, washington, d.c. this is a website that they have built. dc health link and one of the interesting devices for everybody is the thing called a cost calculator. where you can actually estimate what it will cost you before even signing up. you put in your household age, 25 years old, one dependent, your annual income, $40,000, calculate and here is it spits it out, $200 for a bronze plan, 220 for silver, 274 for gold. and on oh, by the way, the website is built to remind you that you are eligible for various tax assistance because of your income level. this is the basic premise of the system, it will feel very much like booking an airline ticket. or hotel reservation on kayak oregon bits, that's the idea. and, again, everybody has until next spring to get health insurance otherwise, you face a

tax penalty. ♪ ♪ >> meteorologist: i am meteorologist rebecca stevens son. enter starting out with plenty of showers and thunderstorms around parts are the gulf coast, we'll continue to see these scattered around parts of southern louisiana, and over in to northwest florida, but we are tracking a new storm system, something we have been looking at for a few days, it's a cluster of thunderstorms, developed in to an area of low pressure. just south of cuba. and this will be tracking northward in to the gulf of mexico and by friday, expect to be watching it for about a 50% chance of developing in to a tropical depression. so we'll be monitoring that because it can bring a lot of rainfall in to places that already are well above where they normally are this time of year. when it comes to rain. now, the other thing that we are watching is temperatures, boy, are they getting chili, chilly especially to west and north upper 30s to mid 40s

overnight tonight and we'll even have cool temperatures to the east, but what's happening is there is a gold front moving in, we are seeing snow levels fall as well. so across the west, we are going to stay cool through the day. and we are going to get some mountain snow in to the rockies. especially along idaho, montana borders, is probably where we'll see the higher amounts. we have a winter storm watch going in to effect for our wednesday in to thursday for that specific area. but when it comes to temperatures as a whole, noah, before the government went in to its shutdown had issued us an october temperature outlook and this is indicating that we have the best chance of being well above normal for california, nevada and parts of arizona. if you see the areas in white, northwest, southeast, that's just equal chances of being either above or maybe below normal for a period of the month. otherwise you can see it looks a little warmer in to the midwest. so we'll be tracking this incoming rainfall and showers coming in as snow for the mountains, snow levels dropped in to the washington cass

states, close to 4,000 feet for a period of time and they are varying up and down a little bit. but where we know we'll get up to a foot of snow will be the 7,000-foot level and above in to the sapphires and the bitter roots, we'll have more on your weather coming up. >> disarming syria, u.n. inspectors back in the war-torn country to begin the difficult process of destroying chemical weapons. the israeli prime minister brings his warning over iran to the united nations, what he says it will take for him to trust the fellow mideast nation. bill it's got gates out of microsoft? while some up investors are pushing for him to be ousted from the software giant. what happens when social media uncovers unheard, fascinating news stories? >>they share it on the stream. >>social media isn't an afterthought. it drives discussion across america. >>al jazeera america social media community, on tv and online. >>this is your outlet for

those conversations. >>post, upload, and interact. >>every night, share undiscovered stories. come, it is here. >> yes, let the games begin. he is fighting for his baseball life and some $46 million. a-rod and all of his attorneys were there fighting his 211-game suspension. the hearing is expected to last less than five days, after that the group will decide to uphold, reduce, or overturn the suspension. if the suspension is upheld, rodriguez would lose some $32 million in salary, and he wouldn't be back on the field until he is 40 years old. the big story tonight, people, the rays will be taking on the

rangers in a tiebreaker in arlington, so we decided to bring in our mlb columnist rob parker. >> welcome back. in syria, a team of 20 u.n. inspectors is now in damascus, they have a month to disable the country's ability to produce chemical weapons. but as we report, progress may prove difficult with the region's escalating violence.

>> reporter: u.n.-backed inspectors are in syria for the delicate task of scrapping the country's chemical weapons. they have until mid 2014 to complete their mission. a risky operation amid growing violence across the country. downtown is a battle zone. all government buildings in the city are based here. >> the problem that we are facing is that we have to see every building to ensure that the whole area is safe. >> reporter: the fighting was so intense here, that most of the buildings were destroyed. >> despite the lack of resources our fighters are doing their best. they are from fighting for their people in the city. >> reporter: these fighters also clam to have condition talked

one of the biggest i'm checkpoints. but it's a fight that comes as a price. people here live constantly in fear of snipers, they block alleys with curtains and covers. to prevent snipers from shooting at pedestrians and rebels. from the outskirts of damascus, rebels post third degree video, it appears to show bodies of government soldiers that were killed while trying to launch an attack. despite daily shelling and air strikes, the rebels still hold territory. coconsolidating their gains the rebels have set i'm new training unit, they say these are the best fighters in the area. ready to pass on their knowledge who whoever is willing to fight against president a sad's army. >> we are an independent unit,

our goal is to teach the rebels the art of war. fighting tactics, using weapons and storming buildings. >> reporter: this is a rebel storm hold. for months government troops are using their military might to recapture this strategic area which is a few cloc kilometersem the presidential palace. al jazerra. >> iraq is seek its wars spike of violence in nine years, 979 people were killed last month alone, car bombings in iraq have become a daily occurrence, the vast majority of the victims are civilians who are believed to have been killed by attacks in al qaeda groupings. the president of iran and the founder of twitter. jack dorsey tweeted out to hassan rouhani. goal this. good evening president rouhani are citizens of iran able to read your twice?

>> his account responded this way. my efforts gear to ensure my people will comfortably be able to access all info globally as is their #right. the newly elected rouhani has been making strides on internet use i can four years after his predecessor banned social media in the country. iran's leadership may have softened its tone but israel's president is not buying it. diplomatic editor james bays has more on the speech at the united nation says. >> reporter: it was a forthright speech. the israel a prime minister telling the world what he thinks about iran just days after the historic phone call between president obama and president rouhani. >> i wish i could believe rouhani, but i don't. because facts are stubborn things. and the facts are, that iran's savage record flatly contributes

rouhani's soothing rhetoric. >> reporter: one yearlierer, netanyahu had drawn a diagram showing how close he claims iran was to building a bomb. >> last year when i spoke here at the u.n. i drew a red line. now iran has been very careful not to cross that line. but iran is positioning itself to race across that line in the future at a time of its choosing. >> reporter: he said israel would only trust iran when they agreed to four points. to seize all nuclear enrichment. to remove their stoc stockpiles. to dismantle infrastructure they could uecke use to breakout capability. that's the final stages of building a bomb. and to stop all work at its heavy water reactor. without these israel would retain the military option. >> israel will not allow iran to get nuclear weapons.

if israel is forced to stands sd along, israel will stand-alone. >> reporter: within minutes a iranian diplomat exercises their right to reply. >> this is an extremely inning imflammatory statement by the last speaker in the general assembly's general debate, in which he made allegations against peaceful nuclear activities of my country. i do not want to dignify such unfounded accusation with an answer other than category i i cannily rejecting them all. >> reporter: iran's nuclear program will be back in the spotlight in just two weeks time after all the conciliatory talk detailed tech knowledge negotiations in genevaing, it will be a big test, james bays. >> the leader of greece's far

right golden dawn party will be in court today. four members of the party went before a judge on tuesday after being arrested this weekend outside hundreds of their supporters protested, the investigation in to the party was launched after the killing of a leftist kne musician whicht to a series of climbs link todao golden dawn party members. solemn nonsense, that's what pope front sips called effort to recruit people. it's the second widely publicized interview of francis in as many weeks in which he has called for tolerance on issues including abortion, contra session and homo sexuality. francis is currently hosting a group of cardinals at the vatican to discuss church reforms. bill gates few at microsoft is being challenges a few major investors are trying to get bill gates to step down as chairman of the software company, they are worried that his presence on

the board is preventing the company from innovating and staying with the times. the call follows ceo steve balmer's announcement in august that he plans to retire within the next year. september's lackluster auto sales comes off more than two years of consecutive monthly sales gains for u.s. automakers that spring of strong sales is something to a part of the market that may maybe some people nervous, subprime buyers people with less than perfect credit reports, stacy advertisee has the details. >> reporter: you get a car and you get a car -- okay, maybe it's not that easy, but it is easier to get an auto loan these days everybody if your credit isn't stellar. and many people who used to be considered prime borrowers are now finding themselves in less than prime territory. >> it's customers that have had some hiccups, defaults on major credit card loan, for example, other car repossessions in the past, or foreclosures on mortgages. >> reporter: experience new

vehicle loans for buyers with less than prime credit scores increased 8% in the second quarter from a year earlier and banks are wrappinbanksbanks arer loans. >> not everyone has stellar credit but people know that they need cars, i think because of this opportunities, we are seeing a lot of growth and subprime as banks and other lending institutions see the opportunity to finance people and you know, and make money off of it. >> reporter: and the risk for lenders may not be all that the subprime name implies, transunion says difference wednesdadelinquencyrates, five t are where they are two years ago, car loans are one of the last bills consumers default on. >> people see the valley think most in their car. >> it's the gate what toy their lives, how they go to work, how they go to school. people gem don't default on their car loans. >> reporter: stacy tisdale, al jazerra, new york. >> a record 84.5% of people buying cars in the second quarter financed the deals with loans or leases, that's according to ex-pee ex-vinnie.

up from 80% in 2008. amazon is looking for a few good workers for the big holiday shopping season the online retail giant says it's hiring 70,000 temporary workers, that is 40% more than last year. the company said many temp jobs will become permanent jobs after the holidays, though, it did not give' exact figure. wal-mart is unveiling its largest distribution warehouse to wheat examine amazon. it follows the recent opening of another large warehouse in fort worth, texas, the wal-mart warehouses will be dedicated to handling internet orders, wal-mart's online sales account for $7.4 billion of $469 billion in total revenue. a final vow, why the curtain is going down for good on the famous new york city opera. and the london into welcomes a new member to its family. new images as it's a first tiger cub in more than a decade. and the new procedure giving women who have been unable to

get pregnant a shot at being a mother. on august 20th,

>> new york's famous fat lady goes eye excellent after 70 year old, the city's opera is shutting its doors and filing for bankruptcy. that's because it couldn't raise enough money to stay open. opera company had hosted an emergency funds raise ago peel but fell short of the $7 million required to stay in business. a new commercial fishing method could change the seafood industry. the process unveiled recently in new zealand prevents fishermen from catching smaller ocean species they don't want. the fish swim in to that under water pipe that lets the little ones escape and that allows the crew to catch only the larger fish preventing a lot of seafood waste and also really saving a lot of money. the london into has released this new video showing the birth of its first tiger cub in seven type years. last month's birth was captured by hidden cameras in the tiger's den. into officials kept the pregnancy a secret so that they can leave the first-time mother

in piece gate the sex of the cub won't be released until mid november. there may be new help for women who want to have a babe i can it's a new kinds of infertility at this treatment. >> reporter: a clinical researcher holds the first baby born by the pioneering technique called in vitro activation. the 27 japanese women who took part in the experimental study suffered from a rare condition preventing them from producing normal at of estrogen, the result follicles in their ovaries cannot properly mature in to fertilized eggs. >> they reach minute paws at 40 years of age. and they cannot have their own children. the only choice they have is to have egg donation. auror adoption so we are tryingo figure out a way that this patient can have their own mature eggs and then can have their own babies 78 the scientists found a way to unblock a signaling pathway to awaken the dormant follicles

this cutting process actually disrupts the break. so that all the follicles grow, this was a real prize. >> reporter: the researchers collected m mature eggs. one other woman has become pregnant as a result. it's a breakthrough but one whose 10 shall is stil potentia. >> this treatment has not been done for large numbers of women so we are cautious but it holds much more potential than so many other things that have been tried in the past. >> there you go. >> reporter: but it could be years until the process becomes a standard treatment. >> researchers hope to test the meth out women with early menopause cause bide cancer, chemotherapy radiation as well as infertile the women in their 40s. that does it for this edition of al jazerra. remember news at the top of every hour and you can go to our

website as well aljazerra.com for all the latest head lines, thank you very much for your time, do keep it here.