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>> good morning and welcome to al jazeera america. i'm morgan radford. you are looking at live pictures of the nation's capitol this morning where the house and senate will be in session today. members of congress are inching closer to a solution to the debt ceiling but at this point there is still no deal. a massive cyclone as strong as a category 5 hurricane is heading towards india. cyclone phailin. authorities have ordered thousands ofid