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welcome to al jazeera america. i'm del walters. these are the stories that we are following for you. the senate convening right now and lawmakers say a deal may be in place to raise the debt ceiling and beat the deadline on default. a positive reaction on wall street, the dow up close to 200 points. ♪ we are now just 12 hours away from the u.s. reaching its debt limit and potentially losing its ability to borrow