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we're following three big stories right now. two secret u.s. terror raids. one a success. one a big unknown. and accused terrorists in libya with a $5 million reward on his head is captured outside his home. also, navy s.e.a.l.s come under heavy fire trying to nab another accused terrorist in somalia. and also a week after the shutdown, hear what fellow
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workers and republican john boehner is saying now. >> welcome to "around the world." i'm suzanne malveaux. >> and iams michael holmes. snatching a most wanted terrorist abroad in daylight. >> right now, anas al libi is being held on a navy ship. there are a team of terrorist experts who want to question him. they want to find out what does he know about al qaeda. of course, that could be a lot. we'll get details about how this top secret operation played out from nic robertson. >> reporter: it's a big deal, 15 years on the run, a $5 million bounty on his head. anas al libi captured in less than a minute. the senior operative picked up in a predawn raid by authorities in his native libya. believed to be a mastermind of the al qaeda attacks on the u.s. embassies in kenya and tanzania
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in 1998, he is accused of conspiracy to commit murder, destruction of national buildings, and government, destruction of national defense facilities in the united states. according to al libi's wife who saw the takedown at their house in tripoli. he was on his way back from prayers early saturday morning when ten men rushed his car. and before he could snatch his pistol from the glove box, he was overpowered. it was all over in seconds driven away in three cars. the united states says it's a lawful arrest. >> the united states of america will not stop for those who conduct acts of terror. for those membered of al qaeda literally run and hide. >> reporter: but it may not be so simple, the libyan government is demanding answers calling al
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libi's capture a kidnapping. questions also about al libi's current al qaeda credentials, believed by this former colleague to be retired from terrorism. >> i don't it's a valuable source of confirmation. i still believe he was a very low -- >> reporter: he said al libi returned to tripoli two years ago living in plain sight of the weak libyan authorities, at the time when al qaeda was setting up training camps, ramping up operations in the aftermath of the overthrow of libyan dictator moammar gadhafi. according to him, there is no known ties between al libi and the 2012 u.s. consulate attack in benghazi that killed four u.s. officials including u.s. ambassador chris stevens. nevertheless, he says a warning for al qaeda, the us now in the
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offensive in libya. >> they tried to convince people america is soft, america won't go to war, americans are coward. that's exactly what they keep teaching from western years. >> i want to bring in nic from london. tell us about the interrogation process here. he is in u.s. custody. what is legallial allowed in terms of trying to get information that this guy? >> well, from what we understand, he'll be in the hands of this navy vessel very likely in the mediterranean sea. they will be able to sit him down, ask him questions, without torture, to try and find out what he knows. his wife has said he doesn't know very much. she indicates he left al qaeda in the 1980, but he's not been involved in the organization. this may be a man who will be living in plain sight in libya who is actually prepared to sit down and open up.
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we don't know that. we don't know how readily he will be trusted but that's what we expect to happen. >> he said he's been close to osama bin laden. i mean, he certainly played a role in the past. there seems to be little doubt. is there any suggestion or rumblings that al qaeda may retaliate for this sort of action? >> al qaeda has been digging into libya specifically since gadhafi was overthrown. talk men al zawahiri, the head of al qaeda has sent operate of us to training camps, they've been able to do that absolutely, their praft operatives are goin take this very baldly. there are other strong islamist elements that will want to take advantage of this. they will want to push this in
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the government's face to show they don't have control of the country. there are many that may want to try to attack u.s. targets and try to weaken this current libyan government. we're going to see in next days or perhaps weeks what they're going to try to pull off. >> thanks very much. nic robertson with the latest on that. >> we told you sources grabbed al libi and only one person outside of their home who witnessed, his wife. >> he had an exclusive interview. she defends her husband, she said he used to be in al qaeda, but isn't any more. >> translator: he's my husband and i know him. he was not in contact with anybody before he got back to libya. i came back before he did, in a year and a month or two, he had no contact with smith. it is true my husband was a member of al qaeda.
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he left al qaeda in 1996, two years before the bombings. he did not take part in any bombings anywhere in the world. he participated in the jihad in afghanistan. he was a member of al qaeda and he was personal security for osama bin laden. that's the truth. he did not take pat of any operation. >> she says she doesn't know who actually took her husband but she describes them as men who looked like they were libyans. they spoke arabic with libyan accents. you have to wonder whether or not this makes any difference at all, whether he was involved with the bombing or an extra treasure trove of information that he was involved with bin laden back in the bombing days. >> it's interesting what it says about the state of the libyan government. that the government who ostensibly was a friend of the u.s. wasn't involved in this.
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libya is a country that still is having a lot of problems in terms of governance. nic was saying it faces implications how is that going to turn out? >> all sort of legal implications, questioning this guy without his legal. we're going to talk to clark howard coming up. ahead on the partial shutdown, no end in sight. >> still an even bigger crisis, of course, the october 17th deadline. the government is no longer able to pay its bills if congress does not raise the limit on the so-called debt ceiling. >> the u.s. could default. that is a big deal. ted cruz wants to tie any increase to obama care. he talked to candy crowley on
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"state of the union" he's dead set on killing the president's health care law by tying it to any vote on the budget. >> debt ceiling historically has been amongst best leverage that congress has to rein in the executives. >> so, yes? >> yes. >> and what else? >> my point is there's great historical precedence. since 1978, we've raised the debt ceiling 55 times. a majority of those tyimes, 28 times, congress has attached very specific and stringent requirements. >> spoker john boehner appears to be siding with ted cruz and the caucus. here's what he said on abc just this weekend. >> the american people expect in washington, when they have a crisis like this that the leaders will sit down and have a conversation. we're interested in having a conversation about how we open the government and how they begin to pay our bills.
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but it begins with a simple conversation. the vote, not in the house to pass a clean debt limit. and the president is risking default by not having a conversation with us. the debt limit is right around the corner. the president saying i won't negotiate. i won't have a conversation. even though president reagan negotiated over democrats who controlled the congress back then. gave president george herbert walker bush had a conversation about raising the debt limit. during the clinton administration there were three conversations over the debt limit. you and i participated in three of those. and now he's say i am not going to do this. i'm going to tell you this, george, the nation's credit is at risk because of the government's refusal to sit down and have a conversation. >> speaker couldn't be more clear there. he doesn't have the votes on the floor to get a so-called clean
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budget passed that would reopen the government and relieve the tension about the debt ceiling but new york governor charles schumer said that's not the case. listen what he said on "new day." >> i'd reissue my friendly challenge to speaker boehner. just put it on the floor. let's see if we have votes. i have very little doubt if speaker boehner put it on the floor would pass, i think the real reason he doesn't put it on the floor it would enrage the tea party. >> let's bring in jim acosta at the white house. jim, i'm sure we can take a tally and figure out what the real vote is do they have enough votes to pass a clean resolution? >> that's what they've been saying after john boehner made those comments on the sunday talk shows, jay carney, on
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twitter yesterday saying let's prove it, let's have a vote at the house of representatives and see if the votes are there. suzanne, i want to give you a little bit of news on this debt ceiling front because as you heard the last couple weeks there's been no movement on either side, either house republicans or the president when it comes to raising the debt ceiling. perhaps some conciliatory language coming out of the white house this morning, suzanne and michael. i want to bring those to you because according to the white house official that spoke to cnn. the white house is now negotiable when it comes to the length of the increase. i talked to an official who said, quote, it's up to them to pass the debt ceiling increase. why is that important? if the president and congress could agree on, let's say, a short-term debt limit increase, perhaps until the end of the year, that would give both sides some breathing room to work out perhaps a larger compromise that
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gets the country maybe a year down on the road on the debt ceiling. a year down the road on a budget. and sort of takes away the specter on the debt default on act 17th. maybe just a little movement there, maybe perhaps just a millimeter, but perhaps at least a sign of some conciliatory -- >> but, jim in terms of the insecurity that all of this has created, i mean, that is the classic kicking the can down the road, isn't it? >> that is kicking the can down the road, michael. but they've been doing that in washington for some time. but it does raise the possibility that perhaps they can kick the can a lot farther down the road if they can get the short-term debt increase in the short term. if they can do it sooner than later and not go into got on october 17th, that might give everybody some breathing room. i want to point out that gene
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sperling, one of the president's top economic advisers, he was at a breakfast hosted by politico, white house officials want to stress that they're not offering any kind of concessions, toying with obama care, budget concessions, that sort of thing in exchange for raising the debt ceiling but they are perhaps willing to accept a short-term increase in the debt ceiling to get this crisis done with now. >> thank you, jim acosta. >> you know, the thinking the political thinking is they're going to move it forward until after the election. just keep it short term, short term. >> by the way, we're going to hear what arizona senator john mccain think about the shutdown showdown. he's going to be on piers morgan live tonight. here's more of what we're working on for "around the world" hear why billionaire
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the sky. we call this ants on candy. the good news is, the airplanes aren't that big or we would never see the sunshine. >> oh, boy, that looks busy. i'm not sure i ever want to the see that map ever again. thank you, chad. >> that's a little intimidating. >> it is. sad news, horrible crash at the grand prix of houston leading a three-time indy 500 winner injured. and a lot of fans hurt as well. we'll have that after the break.
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now to houston, incredible pictures, here they come. right there, that violent crash at the grand prix in houston. a three-time indy winner, dario franchitti was seriously injured in this wreck. he did get a concussion, a fractured spine, broken ankle but is listed in good condition. thank goodness. >> good lord, when you see that, it's unbelievable. it's unbelievable that he survived just flew into the fencing there and the debris came down on so many people.
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>> like snap nell. listen to one iwitness. >> they were working on the last lap. i knew to start filming there because i thought this would be the most intently fought lap of the race. when they were coming out of the corner, the last turn, i noticed one of the drivers was actually attempting to pass. his left rear tire actually went up on the driver. the car started coming in the air. this all happened less than a second. there was for time to move. there was no time to run away. the thought in my mind was that these were going to be the last moments i was going to be experiencing on earth. it was truly shocking. the car struck the fence and literally people say they heard a bomb. it sounded like there was a bomb that went off. and the car turned into debris. it was once an entire car. and then nothing but particles rained upon us.
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the fence exploded in on us. it was truly shocking. >> that guy is just lucky, absolutely lucky. >> unbelievable. small bits of dibbry. debris. it's amazing. >> we're looking at the markets here. you see the dow at 14,000, down 81 points or so. analysts say the markets are slipping because there are concerns, of course, that the u.s. is getting too low to breaching the debt ceiling. how big of a deal is this all of? >> one of the most respected in the world warren buffett said it's now being used as a political tool. >> it makes absolutely no sense to let it be used as a leverage. for abortion, whatever, tax falls, whatever, let that being a piece of legislation, but to tie it to something whether or not you make the promises of the united states government to people all over the world, as
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well as its own citizens just makes no sense. so it ought to be banned as a weapon. it should be like -- it should be like nuclear bombs, i mean, basically too horrible to use. >> yeah. >> richard quest joins us now. richard pretty blunt criticism from a respected investor. dow down 80 points. half a percentage point. it was down a lot more at the start of trading. tell us about what kind of threat this is to the economy and to the market. >> okay. you've really got the biggest threat at all of course is not the but shenanigans at the moment. the u.s. government will eventually reopen. a deal will be done. there will be a bounceback. barclays was estimating a tenth to a quarter percent of third quarter gdp. so the budget crisis on its own is really politics pure and simple. it's this debt ceiling issue that keeps coming back.
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the defaults and by far and away the most serious. the reason is very simple to understand. the u.s. debt is the back bone of the global economy. and there are trillions and trillions of dollars. 16 trillion. 13 trillion from the u.s. treasury. several more trillion in various other assets and backed securities. and they are the pillars holding up, if you like, the entire global financial system. now, michael and suzanne, if i say to you, look, i'm not going to pay back my debt to you. you'll say, thank you very much. that's the last time we lend you any money. and nobody really cares much ta tab. but if the u.s. government does this it's as if you're being told the sun isn't fliegtz east. it's as if you're being told that the earth is no longer round. and it's as if you're being told
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that gravity no longer exists. the financial world relies upon. >> so in light of all of those comparisons, i mean, investors outside of the united states must be pretty concerned. you're talking about to the far east as well as european invests. have we started to see any movement in reaction on their part? >> you look at europe and asia today, they're all tanking. or going down. >> well, the reason that we're not seeing panic and manic activity is a combination of rose-colored spectacles. nobody believes that the u.s. government would dare do it. nobody believes that there will be say default accident or technical default. putting it crudely, nobody believes the parties involved could be either so naive nor stupid as to take this thing right to the edge of the cliff on the off chance it might go
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over. now, i do promise you one thing, though, if we get to the end of this week and into next, and john boehner is still saying there will be for deal. and the white house is still saying over negotiation, that's the negotiation for clean debt ceiling, i promise you, we will start to see a reaction, and it won't be pleasant. >> it won't be pretty. richard quest in new york. >> we're getting close. >> the world is watching. >> yeah. an elite delta team captures an accused terrorist in libya. but without formal charges what kind of interrogation can take place while he's still in u.s. military custody? >> we'll talk to a former homeland security official about just that when we come back. ths by letting us know who's coming. the carts keep everyone on the right track. the power tools introduce themselves. all the bits and bulbs keep themselves stocked.
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the book. one not as planned. an elite delta force captured and another suspect in libya. and then in somalia, thousands of kilometers away, navy s.e.a.l.s went about a terrorist of al shabaab, they couldn't capture him alive so they backed off. let's talk about this with the first inspector of homeland security, now at the aspen institute. let's talk about the libyan, al libi. i'm curious what you think about the legal implications here. he's not on u.s. soil. he's on a u.s. ship. does this matter, doess it look like rendition. >> well, michael, there's precedent here. some years ago, a somali was captured. he was cap furd some two months without his miranda rights. and he proved to open up and was
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a huge treasure trove of information then was later told about his right to have a lawyer and elected to cooperate and he's been cooperating ever since. so this is perfectly proper and legal and i suspect we'll get a lot of information from al libi. >> one thing that is not clear, the timing of this. he was living in all intents and purposes in broad daylight. his wife said he wasn't involved in the bombings in kenya but left in 1996 from al qaeda. why now? >> there's a number of things about that, suzanne. one, there's no question at least in the beginning he was a operate al qaeda operative. he was one of the closest associates of bin laden, reported directly to him and was involved in the east africa bombings. this shows as the secretary of state said we will pursue you through the end of the earth through three governments, democrat and republican.
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i would take what his wife says with a grain of assault that he wasn't involved in terrorism. we'll find that out. at a minimum, he'll be hugely valuable to us farce institution is concerned. >> we've seen a lot of drone use as a tactic. you couldn't imagine a drone being used in libya. somalia is another story. are you surprised it wasn't used in that attack? >> no, i'm not, michael. i think we're seeing the future of counterterrorism operations playing out in both places. we're seeing a racheting back of drone operations as well for a number of reasons. in pakistan, in yemen, in somalia there's been a huge political backlash. it's proved to be a recruiting tool creating even more terrorists. also, we can't deduct and get any intelligence value from people. sometimes, there's a lot of
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collateral damage, civilians. for all these reasons, these kind of surgical strikes ideally we on duct someone and failing that we know who we kill. and that's the wave of the future. >> clark, the fact that we're talking about these, the top secret raids, 10 years ago or 5 years ago, this would not be something that we'd be discussing. you'd find out something that the navy s.e.a.l.s were doing five or ten years later after their operations. why do you suppose the u.s. government, the military, is making it known they have secret operations going after terrorists not only the successes, but the failures? >> that's a good question suzanne. there's no question that there is much greater transparency now. there's a lot of public pressure for that. and to some degree, i think the administration is responding to that. you know, the criticism in the snowden wake was we haven't been transparent enough. also largely good news story in
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the libya case. a mixed story, i'd argue, in the somali case. so i worry about the degree of transparency that we have here. there's no question about that. >> very quickly, i mean, what about the u.s. reputation? you've got u.s. special forces going into libya. the libyan ostensibly a friend that's got a hat to hang on, please explain, we didn't know about this. but what about the somalis, going anywhere they want and take anything they want? >> as far as libya is concerned it really is a government in name only, michael. we still haven't caught perpetrators of the benghazi from a year ago and that's in part bus of the dysfunction of the libyan government. so the government doesn't control the capital much less the rest of the country. and also there are indications that the government is tacitly supportive of this and protesting for political reasons. likewise, the same is true in
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somalia. there's not much of a government there as well. so these are lawless places and there's a long recognized legal principle that a country has a right to defend itself because we're not getting the cooperation of the somali government. >> the somali government allowing those attacks from the u.s. important to note. thanks so much. we're also getting news from the white house, we're hearing about some possible conciliatory language that could lead to a deal in the shutdown showdown.
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we have breaking news out of the white house. jim acosta following the shut down story here. as i understand, jim, the president is actually going to go to visit fema to actually -- >> that's right. >> -- make a statement there. what do we know about his trip, first of all? >> i can tell you, suzanne, he's
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there right now. apparently, he's talking to the fema employees working on tropical storm karen. he may be thanking those employees. they called it kerry back to the white house. we'll be able to put that on the air. as of right now, they only has the traveling press pool with him. that is what the president is going to be talking about, not only fema but the government shutdown and how congress should pass a continuing resolution to get the government back open again. he's also going to be talking about this debt ceiling increase. you heard house republicans and this white house going back and forth over the last 24 hours over that. house speaker john boehner saying that they don't essentially have the votes for a clean debt ceiling increase. white house saying calling back and saying that's not the case. if they hold a vote up or down, they can get the government up and running again and get an
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extension to the debt ceiling. so the president talking about some of those issues over at fema this morning -- or this afternoon, right now. we should get those comments in just a few moments. within the hour. the white house press briefing with jay carney will stay around 1:00. >> tell us a little bit more. you've been reporting on this conciliatory language, let's call it that, about the debt ceiling and the potential for default. you were saying earlier, this is the well-kicked can being kicked farther. what are you hearing about this? >> well, the can hasn't been kicked just yet. so we need to caution they still have to kick the can before it can be kicked down the road, guys. as you know, the debt ceiling comes up on october 17th. that's the rough date as to when the treasury secretary has said the nation could potentially go into default. and over the last couple of weeks there's almost been no negotiations, almost no hint of compromise on either side of this. this morning, a white house
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official told cnn that they are open to a debt ceiling increase to whatever congress decides. basically making it up to congress to decide how long that debt ceiling increase should be. why is that important? well, potentially, congress could raise the debt sealing for just a few months. that would give both sides to hammer out breathing room on a larger budget. but white house officials are also stressing that they're not offering anything in exchange for this, i guess, conciliatory language on the debt ceiling increase. they don't want republicans in congress to think they're able to get concessions on obama care and on the budget and everything else. they just want to make sure it's clear to this point it's up to congress to raise the debt ceiling and for how long. perhaps conciliatory language, perhaps it could lead to something. we'll have to wait and see. >> jim acosta, thank you for following this. it will be interesting to see how speaker boehner's response to this.
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over the weekend, the house passed a bill to approve back pay for government workers but they're not going to get the money until the government fully resumes operations, of course. that means 500,000 workers with paychecks are going to be drawn up in a week or so. >> they'll have to live off of what they got. lynn kirchbaum joins us. you'd already been furloughed one day every other week was that because of the spending cuts or the sequester? how did that come about and how does this add on to the woes? >> well, there's a serious problem with the sequester cut, 10% of every agency's pay without them being able to decide what they wanted to cut. so losing the funds for the sequester made it difficult for me, even from living paycheck to paycheck to make my bills so i
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had to start use might go home equity loan advance. >> lyn, what does this mean some practical terms. i understand your own sisters called you to see if you needed to borrow money? >> yes, that's true. i'm a single parent with two children, two adopted children from guatemala. the instability is affecting them. i'd like to be able to pay my mortgage. i'd like to be able to pay my utilities mind creditors. and it's very terrible that we're not able to go to work, when that's the thing that federal employees do. we serve the public. we need to go back to work and get paid. >> it does look like most workers are going to get paid once the shutdown is over. but your need is more immediate, that's what you're saying? >> well, i think everybody's need is more immediate. and there's some people who make less salaries than me that are more entry-level workers, we have our bills to pay now. the creditors are not saying
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we'll forgive late fees and interest rates. we need to buy food for our families now. >> right. well, lyn, we wish you the very best. and we certainly wish your children the best as well. please keep us posted, keep us informed as the days and weeks go on. this government shutdown continues. she's right. visa, mastercard, american express, they're not waiting. they've got fees. >> hundreds of thousands of people, too. >> she is just one of more than 500,000 federal employees out of work right now. in just a minute, we're going to get advice for those folks who find themselves out a job.
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before the break, we spoke with a furloughed government worker in philadelphia. she's about to get her last paycheck until the government shutdown is over. and she is in the same boat as about 500 other government employees. >> i want to talk to jeff gardere about this. they feel like a sense of stability, routine. if you had advice to give to folks, what do they do now? s especially because they're so worried about how to pay their bills. >> well, i one of the most
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important things they can do is to speak to other furloughed workers, other laid off individuals. but it shouldn't be a grieving session. it really should be an empowerment session to see what it is they can do as far as keeping their time. staying busy. the second thing is, they need to talk to family members. they really shouldn't sit on their emotions because that will make them sick. and the third, and very important thing, is to stay as busy as possible. find a routine. stay vital. if you're in a relationship and you feel that your contribution of money is no longer there, then you can contribute by helping around the house, finding old projects that you've been doing. because it's not just about the money, it's more important to be in a situation of where you're feeling vital, you're feeling empowered. so for many people, work is therapy. so keep some sort of work going on. >> and what is the risk factors for them? that's great advice on what to do. i mean, for people who maybe
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aren't doing that, what can come out of something like that in a negative way, in terms of, you know, psychological? >> i think psychologically, what we see is that a lot of these people do end up becoming depressed. they have what we call a mild depression which is a disstymieia, and they just feel that they're not contributing at all. their sense of worth is gone. and what we tend to see is a lot of anger. we're going to see that anger in the road rage. we're going to see the anger in relationships and marriages with families. because they really are very frustrated. they don't know what to do about this government shutdown. they don't know what to do about the politicians. and they feel that if nothing else, that people are fiddling while rome is actually burning. >> jeff, real quick here to wrap this, you know, we've been talking about these rewards that they have for people. consolation prizes, get a free
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beer, a mani-pedi, does that help or trivialize people's emotion? >> i don't want to see it commercialized or people making money off of people's pain or trivializing it. those of us who are working, who are employed, we're going to reach out to other brothers and sister, our fellow human beings, and make sure we can do whatever we can to help them out. we need to see humanity come out of this, even if year not seeing humidity in washington. >> all right, jeff gardere, we appreciate it. thank you very much. >> very stressful. now, she has many arms to the hindus. just one of many cool pictures from around the world coming up. stay with us here on "around the world."
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it lit up again. >> there is an unlit one that's going to remain unlit that is even going to tourney to the international space station. did you not see "gravity." doesn't work. the photos as well, take a look at this. indian hindu widows singing the hindu goddess. about 50 widows were brought to their native city to celebrate the hindu festival durga puja. unionists and you'll rights activists in brussels. they're standing inside claplas bubbles. protesting migrant workers. finally, indian chefs possessing with what is the long of the dolca. it's a fermented crepe made from
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