i'm john in new york. next in line, the woman, the president has chosen to head the federal reserves. ithe challenges she faces and hr responsibility. >> whenever we do these things, it hurts our credibility around the world. >> the idea that we can continue to spend money that we don't have and give the bill to our kids and grand kids would be wrong. >> discussing differences, offer, counter offers and acquisitions in washington. still raising concerns about

american adults when it comes to basic, reading, writing and ma math. >> the shut down, the debt ceiling is an unpredictable time for the u.s. economy that could mean critical challenges for the new head of the federal reserve. the white house says president obama will nominate janet to replace ben bernanke when he steps down in january. kimberly reports. >> running to central pwa*pbing system in the united states is one of the powerful jobs in the world. the person in charge can direct the wallet of every american and the global economy. the chair sometimes called sets the price of pwro of borrowing . the u.s. money in the world

economy by buying and selling u.s. treasury security. president obama has announced he will nominate janet for the job and the current head of the u.s. central bank, ben bernanke steps down at the end of january. put if confirmed by the u.s. senate yellen takes over at an unpredictable time. the the u.s. central bank has been pumping money in to oh the nation's struggling economy. over the summer, bernanke said the prab teuthe practice of prie money will be winding down. when u.s. interest rates started to rise bernanke made an announcement. >> in neither its asset program or ford guidance retkparding the funds rate progress. >> the rapid shift in thinking left investors around the weld wonder whether they can still look to the u.s. to take a lead

on physical policy. >> we still the around t aren't robust recovery by any means. it's where were on growth. we really reached the limit to what we can do with these measures. >> it may be up to yellen to figure out how and when to stop the bank's unprecedented practice by stimulating the economy ^py printing more money. the ton employment rate ^py 7%, timing will be everything. yellen will face a tough political climate it' already in a heated budget crisis and soon improve of a white house request to raise the u.s. debt limit to country can continue paying its bills. >> the white house delay on nominating yellen has cause canned uncertainty. the u.s. can no longer be trusted to manage its money.

why would the announcement be made now? >> we've been waiting for this announcement for a hr-pbg time. this isn't a very curious and sloppy process by which the white house early on that day and summers it was favorite even though many people thought that janet yellen was a shoe in ifer the job. it was the summers camp and the yellen camp so it got ugly. as far as the timing, pacecally they already delayed it more than they wanted because of issues like syria and like the shut down and so they had to get it out there and had to get the ball rolling so she could be

confirmed by the time that ben bernanke's term ends at the end of january. >> she's taking over at a pivotal time in the united states. is this a good choice? >> well, she certainly qualified -- it's hard to argue with her background. she's also really active in the academic of monetary policy and monetary economics. she's a really expected economists in her field. she's been the number two since 2010 at the feds and has not been a very quiet number two. she's been very vocal and been very open about expressing in differences -- and so she seemed like a natural fit for the job. a lot of people were expecting

that she is the potential tphopl any. there's a lot of observes who suggest she's going to follow pebernanke's leads on a number f cases. >> i think that's generally true. i think she's going to be as cautious as bernanke was if not more while pulling back when the economy is still under weak footing. one of the reasons the fed decided to not reduce the stimulus at it september meeting was the fact that you have an economy that's wildly. ton employment rate is still high and you have the expectations of a government shut down tk which ended taking place and the cloudiness about forecast. we're not getting the key economic jobs. so, it's a very difficult

situation but unlikely that she's going to veer off course. thanks for rejoining us tonight. we appreciate it. >> thanks for having me. >> neither side seems to have any ground. instead we got what was more a political finger pointing between the white house and the republican party. the if the took the stage first today. mike has more in the briefing room this afternoon. >> the president actually picked up the phone and called john boehner. they had a brief discussion and dualing press conferences, he was in the briefing room for more than an hor today. it was clear that we went right back to where we started. that is at a stand out. the president had two missions today. we wanted to continue calling on john baneer to allow a vote on the so-called clean spending bill that will keep the government open for a period of time. only up until next month putting

pressure on john boehner sayinging the votes were there if only he this allow democrats to help us push across the finish line. >> i'm suggesting to the speaker and will continue to be. let's stop the excuses, let's take a vote in the house and end this shut down right now. let's put people back to work. there's enough reasonable in the house who are willing to vote yes on a budget that the senate has already passed. that vote will take place today. the shut down will be over. then serious negotiations will proceed around every item in the budget. >> now, there are those who he calls the denyers and they look at this impending deadline of october 17th. they say it's not that bad, the president is harming people needlesly. he can pay his -- they are having none of that. he was sounding the alarm that a

default was going over the debt ceiling will be catastrophic to the nation. we have senior citizens who are counting on thei their socil security check on time. we have companies doing business that have payrolls that they have to meet. if they do not get paid on time they may have to layoff workers. all those folks are potentially effective if we are not able to pay all of our bills on time. >> for a brief time we thought we saw a short or brief opening for for president. he said he would agree to a short-term ebs tense of the spending bill and the debt ceiling. that would bring him to the table with republicans. john boehner appearing an hour after the president appeared here at the white house. shut that door quickly. very completely. >> mike at the white house for us tonight. speaker boehner was quick to speak this afternoon.

holding a news conference of his own. for that we go to libby casey from capitol hill. for the republicans to sign on raising the debt ceiling. >> the debt limit has opinion used to carry significant policy change. he put forth his own bell to raise the debt ceiling. it's a -- it's pretty much

doomed in the house. he says that the republicans fault. he said they keep changing the target. >> now the shut down is not the

only crisis.. according to markt watch.

if. we will come from the latest polling. 56 of americans say it will be a bad idea that the debt ceiling is not raised to 38%. it will be a good idea for the country. we have the economic chaos.

it's up legitimate seniors that seen kwhrors not -- they will spepbs tpaoeu public anger about not raising the debt ceiling and pressure republicans even more. . >> we have new information for you on what has happenened here. let me move over so you can see the storm that we're talking about. the storm has upgradeed this hour of activity to a cyclone. a cyclone, typhoon, hurricane are all the same types of system. it just depends geographically what you're talking about. we're very concerned because it's a closed up area. it will make land fall somewhere

and the new -- it is going to make land fall in india. you see where those lines are to the right of the track. that's the most area that wear talking. india and bangladesh are more susceptible in other parts of the united states pause of the infrastructure that's here and we will watch this area very carefully. we had a tropical depression to the east of the philippines that is expected to make land fall by friday then out here towards the south china sea. another system, a lot of rain and this system as you see the track is going to get just to the south of m manila. that's like a bowl so it's very easily. that's another thing we're going to be watching. vy your wednesday morning forecast in thefection part of the hor. hour. >> too americans are falling. hind in basic education.

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have occupied ... what happens when social media uncovers unheard, fascinating news stories? it drives discussion across america. >> share your story on tv and online. north korea says it's outraged that the u.s. is preparing for naval exercises off the coast of south korea. they warned this be already disastrous consequences. >> reporter: this is the "uss george washington" on friday. on tuesday it was due to gather for other ships offshore to three days of naval exercises. they were delaye delayed by wea. a statementfy korean's people

armys said the military received an emergency order from its supreme command to keep themselves ready to launch operations any time watching with high every move that the u.s. an japanese aquestions from source in the public force. north core row yeah warned that unpredictable disasters if they continue to behave in this way. >> translator: we speculate the more urgent order to put on alert if designed to criticize the united states aircraft carryers arrival in our port and its counter measure against us. >> reporter: the spy agency told them kim jung-il intended to

reidentify in the last few years. north korea started its nuclear reactor and assessed a long range rocket at the launch site. both events happening in august. relations between the coryians s had been improving but the tone shift again with north korea attacking the president by name. >> localings in the u.s. seem to be facing tougher tobacco regulation. the parliament voted in favor of banning a flay rored tobacco but rejected a proposals and called for e-cigarettes in medical

devices. it it sky rocketed in the u.s. and in europe put has not been regulated. >> america's students have been falling. hind other countries when it comes to subjects like reading an math. a new study says american adults are falling. hind as well. jonathan martin has more. >> adults in this nationville literacy class are trying to catch up for the 21st century. they are not alone. more than 165,000 people ages 16 to 65 in more than 20 developed countries. they measured and compared reading, math skills and the ability to resolve problems. test ranked. low avenue rang in all three categorys. the u.s. ranked 16 out of 24. 21 was from the bottom in math skills and 17 in problem solving

using technology. along with basic reading and math, they were also t*esd like g mileage and sorting expiration date from grocery store tags. >> they have a major impact on adult skill level. >> we're not surprised about that. >> the literacy council director said these core abilities are necessary for most jobs. almost everything in every job is computerized in some way. it's also going to effect our personal lives pause if you cannot read you will not do e-mail. you aren't going to be able to read documents at work or even things around computer. debra is in nationville, tennessee. she said they fail to learn critical skills and failed to develop the capacity on what they have learned beyond school.

>> the important literacy skills that we need to encourage among our younger people and there for in our adults is the ability to use what they read. to draw conclusions, to support their thought processes, to actually read the content and the context and be able to use that. >> u.s. education secretary arnie duncan agrees saying adults that had trouble reading doing math, solving problems and using tech nothing will find the doors of the 21st century closed to them. michael is here with sports and the detroit tigers made a big statement today. >> they needed to with their backs against the wall.

an 8-6 win. austin jacksons providing the go-ahead rbi as the american league champs now go pack to oakland for game 5 on thursday. in the nfl, the season for the jet's quarterback mark sanchez is over p-fr ever getting started. he had season-ending surgery to prepare a torn -- sanchez who hasn't play and injured in the third preseason game was advised by doctors to have surgery after 7 weeks. and they lost their top running pack for the rest of the season. ahmad brad saw. that's a look at your sports headlines. more sports news heading up later in the program. thank you, michael. >> diane niyad made history when

she swam 110-miles from cuba to to the united states. this time it's right in the middle of new york city. juan carlos molina explains why. >> reporter: for 48 hours diane niyad is swimming virtually non-stop in this two lane pool built especially for her in the middle of new york city to help the victims of super storm sandy. >> it's a whole focus. those people who endured. my feeling is the least i can do is endure for these 48 hours. >> hurricane "sandy" hit her hard. she said let's go to new york and see if we can do this. >> reporter: she made history tree styling her way from cuba to florida in just under 53 hours. she called that the swim of a lifetime. this swim is about helping people who are still struging a year after "sandy" struck.

the least we can do is raise funds and put their stories back on the front pages. >> the family from staten island is one of those families in need. we didn't get much money to evacuate. we had maybe two hours where they finally said, okay, get out." so we packed up half we could that we felt was valuable to us an we left. >> reporter: their home was come phraoeplly destroyed, their neighborhood unrecognizable. >> sand everywhere. the there were dumpsters or containers throwing all over the place. there were cars all over on top of fences. it looked like -- i thought it was movie set when e we got back. >> this u you meek to event will raise funds for americare a non-profit relief organization that helped raise millions for "sandy" victims. >> this hurricane "sandy" happened a year a go. this will help raise money for people who r-p in great need.

now americare teamed up with proctor & gamble to put this on. it paid to make sure that every penny raised here goes to directly to "sandy" victims. today, a special volunteer is her 13-year-old daughter alyss oh a joined ny tka* for 15 minutes of her two-day mission. a mission to bring relief to tense of thousands. juan carlos molina, new york. >> you heard concerns about big economic problems that congress raises the debt ceiling by next week. next, we will get details what, it means and what could happen

to the economy as a result. also president obama skeupg an important su know i summit th the stand off. china is looking to throw its weight around. a live report from the conference coming up. . antonio mora brings you smart conversation that challenges the status quo with unexpected opinions and a fresh outlook. including yours. >> what do you think? >> consider this. unconventional wisdom. that's all i have an real money. victoria azarenko

welcome back. south korea restarted its reactor as they put their thr* top troops on alert. the north says it was ready to confront the u.s. and the south over naval exercise set for this week. twel white house confirms the president settled on a replacement for ben bernanke. president obama will nominate tomorrow afternoon if confirmed by the senate. yellen will be the first woman to head the bank.

it is near hi day nine of the federal shut down and president obama is sticking to his position. the house speaker john boehner an the unconditionle surrenderer by the gop. mike has more. >> well the nation isle days in the shut down. there'sle 8 to go the first ever in the federal government and tuesday. tkpwapb with a lot of fun. president obama picked up the phone and called house speaker john boehner and spoke for ten minutes. by the time they finished a pair of dueling news conferences. first president obama then john boehner it was clear today was going to end just as it be tkpapb with a stabegantoday jus. president obama rejected claims that steps can be taken

to avoid default even if congress fails to act. >> there's no sill vir bullet. there's no magic wand that allows us to wish away the chaos and results if for the first time in our history we don't pay the bills on time. >> mr. foreman oh obama said a first term deal will be enough to bring him to the stable with republicans. >> absolutely. what i said is i will talk about anything. >> it was small opening but a little more than an hour later house speaker john baneer shut it down. what the president said today if the there's unconditionlele surrender by republicans -rb that's not the way our government works. >> boehner refused to back down. no vote to raise the debt ceiling. >> there's going to be a negotiation here. we can't raise the debt ceiling without doing something about what's driving us to borrow more

money and live beyond our means. >> the republicans want to talk about these things again i'm ready to head up to the hill and track. i will even spring for dinner again but i'm not going to do it until the more extreme parts of the republican party is issued threats by our economy. families of the fallen who are not receiving their so-called debt benefit of $100,000 when a loved one dies in com in combat. >> i'm ashameded. i'm embarrassed.

we all should be. we have americans who have fallen victim to a reality that we cannot sit down and talk to grown ups. >> the deadline to raise the debt ceiling here is growing and so is the debate on what's happening. jonathan teaks a closer look at the impact. >> the shut down means the government is not working put the default -- he's in his checkpoint and just last thursday. the farmers paying loans and also on that very same day the treasury spent

$143 billion-dollars just from the thursday. $33 billion-dollars so to pay those bills it porrows money but we are about to hit the america's credit limit. this is what it is. it's a huge number and not enough. the united states government needs soon a trillion more dollars just to pay the bills. what gets paid, what doesn't, no one knows for sure. the military pay or money for local cities and schools can all. at risk in theory. there's a huge impact on the economy and the value of a dollar an american products sold overseas are not worth as much. so 401ks all go down. folks will see higher interest rates. now some argue it may not be -- perhaps the treasury can pull

off and many economists warn a default will be flo globally. it is now under way in bruni and the ten members will be joined by other and the age of summit on thursday. what would be the big issues that the summit there. >> first a little housekeeping. it's mapping out and have a tkpoel that they want to be one community and want to the make sure that they are on track far and been delayed a little pit.

the second issue is the character and been on going issues with china, japan and the philippines. that's going to be a subject that will come up a lot and decide somewhat if you will directly on china and japan and the united states. those are really th the biggest. united states will be part of that. this is a place where the united states can bring up those issues and they going to do that. china has done a push back. that's going to be interesting how that unfolds on thursday.

it's the partnership and will be the world's largest trade agreement and wasn't there to help push forward and it wasn't complete by tend of the year so that was much more impactful. it still sends a signal and the administration has had time and time again that they are pivoting some middle east to asia. yes that sends a signal, diplomates and politicians have been telling me. it was disastrous put again how much john kerry can do. it's earlier in the week with bali. >> scott, thanks very much. another deadly fire has swept through a garment factory in bangladesh and at at least ten

people died. dozens were were inskr-r rid the factory was closed when the fire started. about 200 workers were inside. the cause of the fire has not been determined. this is the third major factory accident in bangladesh since last november. it comes six months and more than 1100 people. >> plans are on track put fighting continues on the ground. a battle in northern syria where rebels try to take over a military base. >> one of syria's many rebelle groups have an assault in the northern providence. about 45 fighters are involved. their equipment is together and antiquated put they backed down. >> translator: i'm givinging myself, my house, my blood and

my son in the name of god for the head of the revolution and for all the children of this country. we are coming to you with the help of god. god the great. >> the rebels call this cannon a hell fire it's made in makeshift factories and it's just as likely to backfire to hit the target. rebelle groups have long complained that they need more up-to-date weaponry. there's no real winner. it's part oh of a battle. to describe it with the inaccurate but it's clear and there is progress in another fund. syrian state tv will show the state regime.

other protestors were arrested as well. a new type of malaria vaccine has a help to -- the risk of the deadly disease is in half. we have the story from kwraepb. kenya. she had -- and they were giveen

does not work. >> she has been my latest since she was 5. this time it was different. we lost after three weeks. >> reporter: but the hope from millions were leading half of the world. malaria's epidemic. it's the sad and final place of clinical trial. it's for children five years old a success rate of 46% and it. tkpwapb decades ago. >> an malaria is not going to be by one. it will require -- it will require. >> reporter: the trials have been going on for three years. in 11 african country, 5,000

children were vaccinated. it's best stein the of malaria. >> some health experts. it's too complex. and they are getting nowhere. when we try something out we are discovered and it's about -- and the child may not be with over 600,000 people dying. they will have to reduce it by a small margin is a big step

forward. >> a famous artist comes to the arabian peninsula. the tim pact of these giant sculptures. >> coming up, the story -- and that's the football file.

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understanding the how particles were able to acquire math using what we use in the world today. michael is back with sports. >> especially in detroit where that's been rough and rugid. tonight the tigers who represented the american league in last years world series faced elimination in game against the oakland as. just like the city, the tigers were going to go out fighting. oakland managed to take the fans out of the game early by jumping out to a 3-0 lead. these not until they get the tigers and their fans back in the game with a 3-1 home run to tie it at 3-3. the tigers bring in the starter

in relief in 7th inning. >> i thought there was chance -- and i was able to do that. he had the whole series and put some good ideas against me put i got ahead of him. it was a big pick me up and so close to getting out of it.

i know he's a great basketball hitter. he ran it down and it's one of the greatest times i ever had. >> the game four between the red sox and the rays in the pot tom of the 8th inning. they also lead the series two games to one so pos stone hangs on to win. they will advance to the championship series. >> we hear stories about thrill of victory versus the agony of defeat. we rarely hear about. darren haines has a story oh of a moment that changes the lives of one high school football player forever. >> i can still hear the sounds. >> i didn't know it was him at first. >> i lifted up his leg and he was just hanging there. >> on october 19th, 2009 in

montana, it was the last game of the season for the high school football team. hen he suffered a broken leg requiring immediate surgery. >> i e just felt something wasn't right and when they did the surgery and took some of the musclele i knew we were headed down the path and wasn't good. >> they had my mom and dad break the news to him. he chose an a an am pew teugs. >> after six surgeries he awakened that his life will not. the same. >> just having to accept that there is just hard. the doctor came in right away and explaining to me everything i was going to be able to do.

i don't think i will play football again but there's other options and i thought to myself, watch me. >> after the dodgers gave the okay to go home, tony gave himself the oh okay to get back to work. >> look how many days i had with the first team cam and that was with the plan all alodge t alony then. then with a prosthetic blade he was running. but there were trying times. >> i could just see it in his eyes. he started crying. he was like, "i can't do this anymore" me and the coach were telling him you can't give up. >> reporter: he was training the harder than ever to achieve that from his hospital bed. sit return game two touchdowns and recorded sacks.

>> i'm back. i ain't going anywhere this time. >> it was very emotional to see such hard work to learn how to walk and learn how to punt. to know what it takes to play the game. >> it was on this field where a broken leg could have ended a dream but he had a dream not meant to be broken. his determination to rise again turn his life long dream in to a reality. >> my heart just sank when i read that e-mail. i called my mom and she's at work and woke up my dad. >> seeing his face and what he always wanted is continuing. he knows what he's worst. >> determination, presevere kwrepbs, those two words.

>> thank you -rb mike. >> in the world of art t jamie is considered by some to be a rock star. his words are often controversial. we are in doha, qatar where the art is now on display. >> after three years in development, this is the moment the top secret work is unveiled. form bad boy, damian has built his reputation and the commissions ^py the head of qatar's authority. >> it's the very last and that isn't shocking. it's something like that. for education of woman.

>> the commission to go outside and a woman's center. it's the public campaign under stimulate in to the national psyche. >> it can be empowered for the too u khur and a very long term beyond oil and gas. it does sound a bit dry. part of that is also about questioning about interacting with new ideas and new things and new forums. >> the debate has already started. some people have criticized depicting iconic moments in football. they depict the human fold. it's got just about public or

international art. it talks about a pilgrimage to mecca. many deal with death put it's his monument to life that are a common lasting landmark in the city. >> these are works are huge. when you stand underneath them you get a sense of the scale and the power. and they are seen by thousands of people every day whether they are interested in art or not. it's at the intersection at a big part of the city. each person that sees it is going to have a different pwrer interpretation to have a different meaning. stay with us. kevin is back with a check of the national forecast next.

well, if you have travel plans tomorrow on the highway, especially 95, were looking at some bad weather. take a look at what's happening here at the satellite and radar across the carolinas that's where the bad weather is going to be. that's the old tropical storm "karen" and a cold front that has come together and this is what we're seeing now. let's go closer and seeing this area of low pressure staying there. you see the clouds pushing to the north where we will see quite a bit of rain in this area. four to five inches of rain is expected all the way up to parts of new jersey. so, yes, 95 corridor and listen all the way down towards south carolina. we are looking at some peter conditions -p up to the northeast. remember we had that severe weather pushing through and we had a lot of cold air that came in to play and we do have some frost warnings -- frost

advisories an effect for six states. that's for tomorrow morning after we get past sunrise, though. we do expect those to be gone. low temperatures right now. the low temperatures especially here across the northeast and port lan rain the 38 and across the white mountains. these 31 or 32. out toward the west we see some cold air coming in as with well. an area of low pressure is beginning to make its way towards the corners region and what that means is temperatures are dropping in that area. we expect to see vegas dropping down to 71 degrees as your high. we'll be watching this area getting ready for flu season. that's a look at your national weather. have a great evening.