those, usually. >> mark, kelly. it's great to talk to you as always. and send my very best to gabby. >> thank you, piers. thank you very much. good faith and negotiations continue between the republican leader and me. i'm very optimistic. >> i share his optimism we have a share that will for both sides. >> good faith negotiations? sharing? did you hear right? good news out of washington finally. senate leaders nearing a deal to end the government shutdown and avert a disaster. >> insurance executives have been warning the administration bluntly this whole system is not

ready for prime time. >> two weeks after launching, if you can call it that, obama care still plaiged wigued with probl. we will show you how hard it is to sign up. that's ahead. a utah doctor accused of poisoning his wife so he could be with his own mistress. >> that is quite a case. good morning. welcome to "early start." i'm john berman. >> i'm zoraida sambolin. it is 4:00 a.m. in the east on tuesday, october 15th, 2013. >> news in washington because it seems different than what we have been saying. there might be actually be good news this morning. it might actually be happening. fingers crossed. congress actually getting a little bit of something done. the top men in the senate working overtime to build a compromise plan that would reopen the government and raise the debt ceiling and thanks to

women in the senate who worked hard behind closed doors to make this possible. the deal we should point out not done yet and it still could fall apart. come on, guys, this is washington. there is optimism on capitol hill maybe we could get out of this mess without imploding the economy. jim acosta hat latest. >> at present, we know it's been a difficult time for everyone. >> reporter: lo and behold two experienced capitol hill brawlers and senate majority leader harry reid and senate minority leader rich mcconnoll may have found the path to budget piece in california. >> wernts there yet and tremendous progress and everyone needs to be patient. >> reporter: both men shared the news on the senate floor they are close to a deal that would reopen the government and raise the nation's debt ceiling before a potential default in less than two days. >> i think it's safe to say we have made substantial progress

and we look forward to making more progress in the near future. >> is there a deal? >> reporter: but as vice president joe biden indicated by staying mum on the subject, it's not over yet. here is how the deal would work. the government funded through mid january. the debt ceiling extended to early february. in a nongop opposition to obama care changes to that law are also under consideration including new income verification for health care subsidies. those are tweak to obama care the president may not support and he is all but pressuring the republicans to at that time senate deal. >> if republicans aren't willing to set aside some of their partisan concerns in order to do what is right for the country, we stand a good chance of defaulting. >> reporter: a new poll finds the public is furious with the gop with 74% saying they disapproval how republicans have

handle the budget. but some are holding their ground still demanding concessions. democratic senator barbara boxer compared the gop tactics to acts of violence. >> when you start acting like you're committing domestic abuse, you've got a problem. i love you, dear, but, you know, i'm shutting down your entire government. >> reporter: jim acosta, cnn, washington. four minutes past the hour. from the streets of tripoli. al libi facing charges on terrorism today. he was interrogated by u.s. agents on a ship in the mediterranean. he was brought to new york over the weekend. he is accused of planning the bombings of and embassies in

africa. the nsa is harvesting hundreds of millions of contact lists from e-mail and instant messaging accounts all over the world. many of them belonging to u.s. citizens. well over 500,000 from facebook and e-mail accounts are intercepted from the agency on a ta typical day according to the "the washington post." countless have been booted off for or blocked from the site entirely. later today officials are expected to release new information on the website's performance. but as for how many have actually signed up? that is still a mystery. here is cnn's drew griffin. >> reporter: since day one, cnn senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen has tried day after day, night after night, even in the wee hours of the morning to sign up for obama care. it was not until day 14 she

could finally log in. >> you know, even with your own computer, you have to be incredibly diligent. i mean, i sat there and tried to log in three times and failed and had to create three new accounts in order to get success. it took a lot. not everyone is going to to want to game the game the way i did. it took a huge amount to get in today and this was on day 14. >> reporter: what is troubling here is that the failed rollout wasn't a surprise to anyone involved with it. >> insurance executives have been warning the admission bluntly that this whole system is not ready for prime time. >> reporter: bob heads a consulting firm trying to help guide physician groups and hmos and major health insurance companies through the industry changes. >> the administration didn't seem to understand the seriousness of it. they were blasa about it and they continued to insure the industry there weren't going to be any problems. >> reporter: back in june, two more alarms. the government's own accounting office found the rollout was

having technical problems and critical deadlines not met. one report concluded that despite the 394 million dollars spent, nevertheless much remains to be accomplished within a relatively short amount of time. in fact, even before the rollout, the obama administration behind the scenes was warning there would be glitches. no big deal. a theme even the president himself repeated once the rollout got off to a troubled start. >> 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 shut down the company if they didn't. >> reporter: the main problem is that it's overloaded and suffering from its own popularity and too many people in need of health care and rushing to sign on all at once

even though they have until march 31st to sign up. that sounds good but is that what is really going on? answer, it sounds good but nobody knows how many have signed up and changed their story in the process. at first, the administration said they didn't know. >> 48 hours, no, we don't have that data. >> reporter: then we were told to ask someone else. a few days later, wait a month. >> i want to clear this up. we will release data on regular monthly intervals just like was done in massachusetts and just like what was done and is done when it comes to medicare part d. >> reporter: so while we can't get the national numbers we got a hint by calling individual states. as of this monday in the 14 states and the district of clurve th columbia we were able to get the actual numbers of people who have signed up and paid for obama care. that number?

20,994. there are another 96,980 signed up who have not paid. drew griffin, cnn, atlanta. >> they want 7 million by the time it's over. it is early and a lot more sign to sign up but are they signing up at the rate to make this viable and have the computer glitches doomed it? >> i was talking to jake tapper and they were talking about the debt ceiling debacle if we didn't have this as our lead story, we would be talking about obama care. >> we will see. under way this morning in geneva. officials are meet with a team

of arabians. the goal is for iran scaling back its nuclear ambitions and opening up to inspections. the tone of the talk due to recent talks from rouhani who wants a deal from six months the tone of the talks said to be better than before. it is freedom this morning for three kidnapped red cross workers and a red crescent volunteer in syria but the fate of three others is unknown on this day. this was in northern syria, no one has taken responsibility for the abductions but al qaeda affiliate is warning western aid workers they risk kidnapping or even death if they enter syria. >> a shame. people just trying to help other people. al assad is raising eyebrows worldwide after apparently saying the nobel peace prize, quote, should have been mine. they say it was a joke made as the syrian leader talked about

this peace prize recipient. he is working in syria to destroy his regime's massive arsenal of chemical weapons. we have been fooled by pictures in photo shop, right? this one from north korea particularly bad. it was put out by the state news service and shows kim jong-un visiting inin ining a children' in pyongyang. look closely. it's ovent they were superimposed on that image. the north koreans aren't saying anything about this particular image. >> he has small feet. what can we expect from the weather on this tuesday? >> i'm attempting to travel. >> tom has the latest forecast. >> good tuesday morning. a quick look at your weather across the u.s. but, first,

travel delays. a few trouble spots. chicago, thunderstorms. minneapolis as well. now down to the south, a lot of moisture that's been moving in toward the state of texas really from our tropical storm off the coast of baja, california. call ahead if you have flights. let's say into the dallas metro plex. keep your seat belts fastened and tray tabled in the uplocked position because heavy amounts of rain. maybe 5-inch totals that will move into texarkana and little rock maybe too. look at the cooler autumnal weather. cooler weather on the way into the plains. still warm in the southeast. look for the low 80s to mid-80s into parts of florida. enjoy your tuesday. >> our thanks to tom for that. i don't want to fly to chicago today. one place i won't want to go is chicago. is that where you're going? >> yes.

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welcome back to "early start." jury selection begins today in a notorious case in utah. a prominent citizen, a pillar of the community accused of killing his wife. as jean casarez reports, an allegation that has torn his family apart. >> reporter: martin and michelle macneill seemed to leave a ch m charming at the he a prominent doctor and lawyer and their end came to a tragic end one april night in april of 2007.

>> who is in the bathtub? >> my wife! >> is she conscious? >> she's not. i'm a physician! i need help! >> sir, i can't understand you. can you calm down just a little bit? >> i need help! ied into an ambulance! >> reporter: michelle was found tub in their bathtub by their youngest daughter ada who was 6 at the time. macneill is accused of murdering his wife six years after her death allegedly killing her so he could be with his mistress. he says she accidentally died. prosecutors say they will show evidence he poisoned her with an overdose of medication when she was recovering from a face-lift. a face-lift prosecutors say he forced her to have. medical examiners found a powerful cocktail of drugs

including valium, percocet and ambien in her system. >> we are aware of the challenges we face in this case but we make no excuses. >> reporter: since her mysterious death, michelle's two oldest daughters have been showing up for pretrial hearings in support of their mother and accusing their father of the unthinkable. >> my mother is just a wonderful human being. she deserves justice. she should never have trusted my father. >> reporter: among the state's star witnesses will be at least one of his daughters. part of the effort to send him away for life. prosecutors say macneill used his medical knowledge in a plot to kill his wife. the motive? prosecutors say macneill was carrying on a long affair with gypsy willis who moved into

macneill's home shortly after the mother's death. >> my father orchestrated this whole plan in order to murder my father. >> jeann mcasarez, cnn. she managed to swerve across three lanes of highway traffic. that is when her daughter stepped in and called 911. >> she was right here and she hand me the phone. >> and she tried to hold my hand. >> i went like, mom, mom. >> my whole body was just convulsing and i couldn't speak. she had panic in her voice but she was able to do it. >> the girl has the cutest voice

ever. she stayed on the phone until the ambulance found them. this was all part of a plan the pair had rehearsed. the daughter obviously, knows that the mother has issues. they started rehearsing this when she had a similar scare just one week ago. good for them, being prepared. >> that was very, very smart. very smart on behalf of that mother. you never know when something like that could happen. >> that girl is adorable. >> she is a hero now. an artist revered around the world selling his work on the streets of new york for pennies on the dollar. question is did anyone realize they were getting the deal of a lifetime? that's coming up next. [ male announcer ] pepcid® presents: the burns family bbq. guys, you took tums® a couple hours ago. why keep taking it if you know your heartburn keeps coming back? that's how it works. you take some tums®. if heartburn comes back, you take some more. that doesn't make any sense. it makes plenty of sense if you don't think about it! really, honey, why can't you just deal with it like everybody else? because i took a pepcid®.

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nothing. i'll figure it out. we will get to the news here. so you almost certainly know his name. he is like the no famous artist on earth. banksy is now in new york unleashing his whimsical works on the big apple and he may have pulled his biggest stunt yet. here is cnn's ivan watson. >> reporter: the british street artist banksy strikes again. the idea of bringing art to the people in unexpected ways. this time on a random street corner in queens, new york. within hours, fans of all ages posed next to a stencil quoting russell crowe's fight generally from "gladiator." what we do in life echoes in eternity. >> it's historical in many ways. you can say she got her photo taking in front of a banksy that is no longer in existence. >> reporter: banksy surprises audiences with his art that pops

up on buildings and cities around the world including here on israeli security walls in the occupied west bank. within hours banksy has turned this into and open air art exhibit of sorts in queens. the idea is a few days ago, fans could have bought one of his original canvass for just 60. on sunday, this was an unidentified man selling his stencils along new york's central park. he waited all day but only three people bout banksy's art for a total of $420. bargain basement prices in the high priced world of art. >> i think this was to poke fun at collectors and different buyers of his works. >> people like you? >> exactly. >> reporter: alex is a collector who plans to auction off earlier banksy art work for tens of thousands of dollars apiece. >> he is always about being accessible, being open to the

public and just doing things for, you know, the city, the culture. >> every day this month, banksy has said he will unveil a new piece of art in new york. the authenticity confirmed on his website. this truck full of puppet animals in the meat packing district, another example. but missing this opportunity to buy banksy's art for next to nothing is driving some of his most loyal fans crazy. >> i think what banksy did is brilliant. i think he really needed a statement yesterday. >> you're kicking yourself? >> big time. >> reporter: and you love this guy? >> yes! >> ivan watson, cnn, new york. >> i wish i was lucky enough to get some of that art. what are you doing thanksgiving? >> eating, clesleeping and watcg football. what else can you do? >> much more. bun of the biggest retailers says it will for the first time ever open its doors on

thanksgiving evening giving shoppers an early chance at black friday deals. many rival stores do that already and many say the customers have asked for this change so employees say the shifts on thanksgiving will be staffed by volunteers! >> macy's is going crazy. they were doing the macy's thanksgiving day parade and everybody would celebrate macy's and go shopping somewhere and it was driving the owner crazy. could it be true? a deal to end the government shutdown? >> lovely. >> and the economic catastrophe? it would be lovely, indeed. could it happen or could it all break down? we will give you the latest new information happening this morning when we come back. with angie's list, i save time, money, and i avoid frustration. you'll find reviews on home repair to healthcare, written by people just like you. find out why more than two million members count on angie's list.

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i keep hearing over and over is i never thought i'd need a food pantry but here i am. >> a deal to end the government shutdown said to be near this

morning but not coming soon enough for these furloughed workers feeling all of the pain. i actually helped prop his body up in the proper position so they could perform the cpr. >> this is such a sad story. a heartbreak on a carnival cruise ship. a child drowning on his family vacation. this morning, questions of safety on board. could this have all been prevented? saving your kidney for a rainy day is like saving a fire extinguisher while watching your neighbor's house burn. >> a couple giving the gift of life and donating a kidney to complete strangers. the story behind their generosity. >> welcome back to "early start." i'm john berman. >> i'm zoraida sambolin. the leaders of the senate say they are close to end the

standoff that was paralyze the capital and raising the debt ceiling and reopening the government but they aren't there yet and have two days to work out the details and get the house on board before a potential default. >> i'm very optimistic and we will reach an agreement that is reasonable in nature this week. to reopen the government and pay the nation's bills and begin long term negotiations and put our country on sound footing. >> i share his optimism that we are going to get a result that will be acceptable to both sides. >> the current framework outlined to cnn includes funding the government through january and extending the debt ceiling until early february. some changes to the obama care law would be considered including require income verifications for health care subsidies. and senate republicans will sit down to discuss this potential compromise later this morning but it could face an uphill battle in the house where republicans yet to indicate how

thee fell about striking any sort of deal that does not defund or delay the health care overhaul. >> it still has to get through the house and it could be very hard. the timing is very dicey. it could be thursday, thursday when we are on that day where we hit the debt ceiling when they have the vote in the house, if they have a vote or it could drift past that. this is still going to be a very turbulent, volatile week. >> when you look at the details they are kicking the can, right? february is a new deadline. >> budget talks in december. government stop being funded into january and debt ceiling in february. all we really do is kick the can down the road. the question is it six months, a year, two years? there is always more discussions further on. be just good to get out of this crisis one way or another. >> it's like another one is looming. >> it's hurting real people as they are sitting and talking no matter whether they signed a solution the ripple effects are

felt coast-to-coast. the people feeling them is the furloughed government workers and hurting them where they live. here is that part of the story. >> i'm not essential. >> reporter: the day before the government shutdown, cnn met dee alexander, a secretary at the department of agricultural. >> you don't know how long it's going to last. >> reporter: two weeks later, the shutdown is still in effect and alexander has stopped paying her car loan. >> i decide i have somewhere to live at our par my car loan. you also have to figure out what about food? >> reporter: on saturday she received the last paycheck she will get until the government reopens. $600 less than usual. some of the furloughed have turned to food banks for help like this one in maryland. >> what i keep hearing over and over is i never thought i'd need a food pantry but here i am. >> reporter: the ripple effect of the shutdown means no more car recalls.

the national highway traffic safety administration has stopped looking for automobile defects and the centers for d s disease krhas stopped tracking e flu. quote, i can attest to the very real potential for unnecessary pain, suffering, and death when the work of public health officials is curtailed. he wrote in an op-ed. and in south dakota, ranchers digging out after an unexpected blizzard are dealing with tens of thousands of dead cattle. called the united states department of agriculture for disaster assistance and this is all they hear. >> the u.s. department of agriculture offices are currently closed to the lapse of federal government funding. the office will reopen once congress is reopened. >> reporter: ruffle 200 people in that pantry we showed you received food and on top of the same group that passed out to the same families last week.

clearly after receiving that final paycheck, families are now beginning to feel the pinch. rene marsh, cnn, washington. >> it's important to remember that real people are affected by this every day. >> they need to restock the food pantries. the shutdown is hitting the white house garden. a blogger watching the garden says it's overrun with weeds and produce. the reason the shutdown means gardeners cannot tend to the garden or harvest the crops because of the shutdown. white house workers cannot do it either because of the furlough. >> us that awful. the world war ii are gathering to end the shutdown an calling themselves the military coalition. leaders from 33 veterans organizations including the vfw, american legion and iraq and

afghanistan veterans of america will make the case that the shutdown is hurting veterans, members of the reserves and their families by cutting off access to pay and to benefits. a 6-year-old boy is dead after drowning on board a cruise ship. it happened on the carnival victory on last day. a caribbean voyage. a deejay saw the boy struggling and passengers tried to help but could not help the boy. >> i heard all of this commotion. i helped prop the boy's body in proper position so they could perform the cpr. everybody was crying. they had to pull the mother away and the father. the father was next to his son pleading and begging his son to stay alive. >> drowning on cruise ships do not happen often.

cruise ships are not responsible to have lifeguards on board. the cruise ship is extending its sympathy and offering assistance to the boy's family. the jerry sandusky sex scandal has cost person state $50 million so far and did not include 60 million set aside for the victims. the university is paying off a $60 million fine imposed by the ncaa. sandusky is serving 30 to 60 years in prison for molesting ten boys. just a few months ago, the court said the university of texas could continue to use racial criteria but made it harder for departments to justify the actions. the national journal says

president bush's main artery was 95% blocked. the 67-year-old had a extent put in tho open that blockage in august. the problem was discovered during his annual physical exam. president obama has made a last-minute campaign video for new jersey senate hopeful corey booker. tomorrow is the special election to fill the seat held by the late frank lautenberg. this comes the video from president obama former alaskan governor sarah palin campaigned for lonegan in new jersey. they believe if they can convince trump to run, he would be a dynamic candidate and he may be the only republican with

the name recognition to pull off beating cuomo. right now trump says he is not particularly interested. >> i'm sure he'll run just like every other time that he's run for office. oh, wait. walmart may have to absorb the costs of shopping spree. giving customers temporarily unlimited balances on government funded cards in stores in louisiana. it happened saturday. this is amateur video of it right now. the shopping carts were overflowing. look at that! shoppers were, obviously, excited. the store shelves were completely wiped out. >> computer glitch. retirement may ab word for many americans. a survey founds 82% of those 50 and older plan to keep working into their golden years. 43% say they have less than a hundred thousand dollars to get them through retirement. wow.

the director of the a.p.norc poll says it shows a shift in attitudes and more proof that retirement is no longer a complete exit from the work force. let's get a sense of what the weather holds today. >> good tuesday morning. a quick look at your weather across the u.s. but, first, travel delays. a few trouble spots. chicago, thunderstorms. minneapolis as well. now down to the south, a lot of moisture that's been moving in toward the state of texas really from our tropical storm off the coast of baja, california. call ahead if you have flights. let's say into the dallas metro plex. keep your seat belts fastened and tray tables in the upright locked position. because we are going to have heavy amounts of rain. maybe 5-inch totals that will move into texarkana and little rock maybe too. back behind the front where the area of low pressure is moving

across minnesota. look at the cooler autumnal weather. 45 in denver area. 74 dallas. slightly behind the front, cooler weather on the way into the plains. still warm in the southeast. look for the low 80s to mid-80s into parts of florida. enjoy your tuesday. >> good luck traveling to chicago today. for one san diego couple helping others has become a family affair. meet alexus and charles wesley. we know they are the first husband and wife to give away their kidneys using the national kidney registry. >> saving your kidney for a rainy day is like saving your fire extinguisher.

>> pretty generous people. >> wow. >> the reason for their generosity? their own children have a rare joint disorder that has required a lot of surgery. they have gotten so much help over the years they say they felt it was their turn to help others. the donation chain they start is likely to save at least ten lives. >> isn't 245 just remarkable? the gift of life. thank you. that is beautiful. coming up, the senate nearing a deal to end the government shutdown and aretire a predicted economic disaster. big question, will the house go along with it? >> big question.

last night, they did go at it. >> really? are you talking about something completely different? >> yes i am! >> "early start" is back. time for the prime time pop. the best from the cnn's prime time interviews. they were going at it with the prime time interviewers. >> we start with erin burnett. she talked about a possible deal coming out of the senate with heidi hidecamp. >> that problem will result in

one of our witnesses during the banking committee and increase the mortgage interest rate 1%. i mean, these are real consequences and i'm convinced that we have made the case and that everybody understands that we can't play roouussian roulet for this. what that deal will look like i think ultimately will continue to evolve over the next 24 hours. >> we are also talking about the shutdown and the debt sealing. anderson cooper talked with michael grimm on whether the house will go along with the senate deal. >> so you've heard the details. the deal coming together in the senate. government funding through january 15th and debt ceiling increase through february 7th. is it something you can accept at this point? >> i think only because the circumstances we will accept it. we likely to change something nominal and pin it back because procedurally it's better to come

from the house. things can work quicker because of procedures but putting that aside it's substantially the same package. it probably will pass here but i think it's unfortunate that we missed an opportunity. old sides behind closed doors we do have a debt problem and this was an opportunity to fix at least part of it to take some steps forward and we didn't do it but at least the sides are talking right now. from where we were, that is glimmer of hope. the fact that vice president biden is involved tells me the president is serious this time about getting something done. >> on piers morgan live a 'cha the with suze orman. >> you have a few months to get your act together. you have a few months to really take to heart that you have been elected to represent every single person in the united states of america whether they have money or they don't have a penny to their name and you need to understand that if you don't help those that have nothing, you are also hurting those that

have something and you, urs, by your own actions, are bringing down the greatest country in the world and it is on your shoulders. so you have a few months, everybody, to get your acts together. you better not come back in january and february and say, oh, we're waiting until the last minute again. use this time to really help the country that you have been elected to take care of. >> some strong words from suze orman but i have to say i hope she doesn't hold her breath on this one. i like having her around. coming up, the dodgers finally getting on the board taking down the cardinals in game three of the national league championship series! there is their rookie but he may have been celebrating a little wee bit early there. andy scholes will break it down coming up next on "the bleacher report."

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with their backs against the wall the dodgers came through with a clutch win over the cardinals in game three of the national league championship series! >> good baseball. andy scholes joins us now with "the bleacher report." good morning. the dodgers, well, they really had to have this one. they couldn't afford to fall behind 3-0 in the series. l.a's offense had been struggling. yasiel puig hadn't gotten a hit until the series and check him out in the fourth inning. so excited he connected. he celebrated. the ball off the wall. they don't call him the cuban missile for nothing. he celebrates again. dodgers win. first pitch tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on tbs. red sox and tigers game three of their series gets going at 4:00 this afternoon.

andrew luck has been hyping up the colts offense that philip rivers after beating the colts 19-9 last night, rivers jokingly said he wasn't even sure he was playing in a prime time game because he only saw luck and all of the promos. rivers got the last laugh. the colts have another big one on sunday night as peyton manning faces his big return to indy for the first time as a bronco. today you'll see the priceless reaction from the boston after big papi's grand slam. he isn't too happy about the celebration during bp yesterday, torii hunter said he got his hands up. help me first and then cheer, fool! hunter later tweeted out he was just joking around. item right. >> i bet he was -- he is one of the most well-liked players in

the league, torii hunter is. my wife showed my sons that video again and again. not because of the home run. did you see what the red sox players did when torii hunter fell into the bull pen? everyone got up to help torii hunter first and then they celebrated. >> i think he is wrapped up in the moment. >> andy scholes, you are a terrific man. thank you so much for bringing that to us. we really appreciate it. coming up for us next. how rihanna is helping police catch criminals in thailand. trust me, this may be not what she intended.

58 minutes past the hour. welcome back to "early start." we are take ago look at the top cnn trends on the web this morning but we start with rihan rihanna. she has done it again getting somebody in trouble because of her tweets. this time a twitter message about a lewd sex show she attended in thailand. authorities there saw the tweet

and have now arrested a bar owner who faces a month in prison for featuring naked dancers. remember two weeks ago? a 20-year-old man and 16-year-old boy were picked up after rihanna posted this picture of herself. >> trouble. walking dead is apparently infectious. the show is now the most watched able program of all time behind "early start" actually. >> if you dressed up like that, i would be tuning in too, berman! >> the fourth season premiere on sunday and drew more than 16 million viewers! >> wow! >> more than any other cable show on cable ever. even maybe a little more than "early start." it even beat "the big bang theory." 40,000 tweets were posted in the first minute of its east coast

airing. >> what is it about zombies? >> i don't know but it is an idea for us. >> i say halloween you dress up as a zombie and see if we like it and keep it. "early start" begins right now. good faith and negotiations continue between the republican leader and me. i'm very optimistic. >> i share hit optimism we will get a resolve that is good news for both sides. >> senate leaders trying to avert a debt disaster. the latest on these developing high stake talks ahead. that was for the first time but i get panic kicked in. >> we are talking about

madeleine mccann here. 3-year-old madeleine vanishing in the night missing for years. now new hope that police could be close to a break in the case. welcome back to "early start." i'm john berman. great to see you this tuesday morning. >> i'm zoraida sambolin. it's nice to have you with us. we begin with the breakthrough that may be happening in washington, d.c. we have all been waiting for it. democrats and republicans and the senate working together to come up with a plan to reopen the government and raise the debt ceiling. see the lights are on. they must be working. it's far from a debt deal yet and many obstacles. the senate caucuses will meet today to discuss the plan and not clear if the house would go along with any deal. as jim acosta reports, now there is real optimism that perhaps a potentially catastrophic default will not happen.

>> at present, we know it's been a difficult time for everyone. >> reporter: lo and behold two experienced capitol hill brawlers, senate majority leader harry reid and senate minority leader mitch mcconnell may have found the path to budget piece in california. >> we aren't there yet and tremendous progress and everyone needs to be patient. >> reporter: both men shared the news on the senate floor they are close to a deal that would reopen the government and raise the nation's debt ceiling before a potential default in less than two days. >> i think it's safe to say we have made substantial progress and we look forward to making more progress in the near future. >> is there a deal? >> reporter: but as vice president joe biden indicated by staying mum on the subject, it's not over yet. here is how the deal would work. the government funded through mid january. the debt ceiling extended to early february. in a nongop opposition to obama care, changes to that law are also under consideration, including new income

verification for health care subsidies. those are tweaks to obama care the president may not support and he is all but pressuring the republicans to take the senate deal. >> if republicans aren't willing to set aside some of their partisan concerns in order to do what is right for the country, we stand a good chance of defaulting. a new abc news/"the washington post" poll finds the public is furious with the gop with 74% saying they disapproval how republicans have willing hadle hadle handled the budget. but some are holding their ground still demanding budget. but some are holding their ground still demanding concessions. democratic senator barbara boxer compared the gop tactics to acts of violence. >> when you start acting like you're committing domestic abuse, you've got a problem. i love you, dear, but, you know, i'm shutting down your entire government.

>> reporter: jim acosta, cnn, washington. democrats and republicans will meet with their caucuses today in the senate. this bill must still get through the house even if there is a senate deal. that, by no means, certain. a lot of work still to be done here. four minutes past the hour. al qaeda suspect al libi facing arraignment charges today in new york on terrorism. he was arrested earlier this month in libya. he spent last week being interrogated on a ship in the mediterranean. he was taken to new york over the weekend and received medical treatment. his wife telling reporters he suffers from hepatitlpatitis c. he is accused of planning the bombings of and embassies in africa. the nsa is harvesting hundreds of millions of contact lists from e-mail and instant messaging accounts all over the world. many of them belonging to u.s. citizens. that is according to documents

given to the "the washington post" by nsa leaker edward snowden. the first time we are hearing about this operation at the address. well over 500,000 from facebook hotmail and facebook accounts reportedly are being intercepted from the agency on a typical day according to the report. could be a different from iran. they are meeting with representatives and five other nations. the goal is try to work out a plan that would keep iran from developing nuclear weapons and this time perhaps it could be different. jim sciutto is live in geneva this morning. it does seem the talks are at least beginning with something of a different tone, jim? >> reporter: no question. a lot of people involved calling them the most hopeful talks between the u.s. and iran in years now. that is a low standard but there is optimism on both sides and a

sense of a willingness particularly for iran to back off what is an immovable position on their nuclear program, particularly following the election of their new president and the outreach took place in new york during the u.n. jen assembly including famous phone call between president obama and the iranian president. this is the first test to see whether that outreach is substantial. the word of the day from u.s. officials taking part in these talks is clear-eyed. quote, they are going into the talks clear-eyed and language repeated by secretary of state jon kerry saying they are looking for something substantial and what plan are the iranians coming to the table to move the talks forward. >> with the clear eyes they are using to consider this, what would the u.s. be considered success in these talks? >> reporter: a number of standards. one is iran has to reduce their enrichment of uranium. they have to provide much more transparency, including access

to some of these nuclear facilities that have been kept secret from international inspectors. also part of the deal, at least from the u.s. and the western side, would be shipping some of this enriched uranium out of the country so it could be turned into fuel for nuclear reactors and something not transformed into something you could turn into a nuclear bomb. these are the standards coming in and it remains to be seen, particularly on that issue of shipping some of the enriched uranium out of the whether, whether the iranians are willing to give in on that. the foreign minister of iran said that would be a red line issue for iran, something they wouldn't be willing to give up. on the other hand, he says he believes that the u.s. can reach an agreement with the iranians within a year and expects a road map out of these talks so you're hearing hope and optimism from the iran side. >> see if it furnishes into anything as they meet behind closed doors. great to have you here on "early

start." thank you, jim sciutto. it is freedom this morning for three kidnapped red cross workers and a red crescent volunteer in syria but the fate of three others is unknown on this day. this was in northern syria, no one has taken responsibility for the abductions but al qaeda affiliate is warning western aid workers they risk kidnapping or even death if they enter syria. syrian president al assad says the nobel peace prize, quote, should have been mine. it was said it was made as a joke as the syrian leader talked about this. time for a check of the weather today. indra petersons is here with that! >> welcome back! >> thank you so much. it's gorgeous this week but

maybe not everybody. >> not everybody. >> in maine, it was beautiful. this is the storm over there in the northeast over the weekend and currently tracking another storm track is across the country. a cold front slowly moves across the country. the reason i say slowly it's key. we are looking a tropical depression here. look at the streaming in towards texas. you have this tropical moisture and you combine it with the slow moving cold front and once you have that remember the rain they had over the weekend? looks like texas is still dealing with even more rain the next several days and even 3 to 5 inches is still possible with the system as it continues to make its way across. with that we will look at flooding concerns in the region today. that is the big story as you look out at the forecast today. everybody else the big story is temperature changing as the cold front continues to make its way across we will look at the cold air filling into the region so the beautiful temperatures in the midwest will back off and drop down. but at least it's try for like a

day. >> i'm supposed to be headed to chicago. can i get a personal weather forecast there? >> absolutely. it will be sent to your inbox in a second. >> thank you. appreciate it. new tips coming up in a mysterious cold case kidnapping. are police close to figuring out what happened to 3-year-old madeleine mccann? plus. >> my whole body was convulsing and i couldn't speciak. >> i was scared. how this 8-year-old daughter stepped up to save her mother's life. amazing story. it's time for our morning rhyme. tweet us. we have good ones this morning. #early start and #morning rhyme. we will read the best ones on the air in our next half hour so you still have time. it's hard to see opportunity in today's challenging environment. unless you have the right perspective.

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leads in the case of missing 3-year-old madeleine mccann. she, of course, disappeared while with her family on a vacation six years ago. police say they now have a name for a man that they would like to talk to. as erin mclaughlin reports on a live television broadcast, her family begged for public help and finally solving this mystery. >> reporter: a new plea from the parents of madeleine mccann. >> please, please, have the confidence to come forward now and share that information with us and you can unlock this whole case. >> reporter: a chilling memory. now six years old. kate mccann described when she realized her daughter was missing in their holiday hotel in portugal. >> i looked at the bed and i couldn't make it out and i realized she is not in that bed. i wonder if she has woken up and gone to the our bed? she wasn't in our bed. and that was the first time.

i guess, you know, panic kicked in. >> reporter: it's all part of an international appeal to the public for more information about madeleine's disappearance. >> even if it's just 0.1% chance she is alive, we will continue to fight for her. >> reporter: part of the push? scotland yard releasing computer-generated sketches of a man they say was in the area at the time madeleine van issued. >> the man who is white with dark hair had a child in his arms. the child is described as being between 3 and 4 years of age with blond hair and possibly wearing was jammass so that itself is significant information. >> reporter: a 25-minute re-enactment of that night has been shown on television and giving updated time line and allowed them to eliminate old theories and explore new avenues in the investigation. madeleine's parents say they have never given up hope that they will find their little girl. >> we don't know what has happened to madeleine. we don't know who has taken her. probably our best chance of

finding that is identifying that person. >> it doesn't matter how much heart sake we have put ourselves through as long as we get the results we need. 15 minutes past of the hour. in missouri a family is pleading for justice after they say their daughter was raped and their children harassed and the case against a perpetrator dropped because they say of his family's political connections. at story first reported by t"th kansas city star". daisy coleman says she was 14 when a football player raped her and another teenager reportedly videotaped it. the suspect was arrested and then the case was dropped. >> the only reason the prosecutor didn't move forward in this case is he didn't have any victims. the victims chose not to be involved in this case. they chose to not cooperate and to not speak to not do anything. >> that is absolutely not true

and they talked to her in the hospital room. i have the police report. you can see her full story. she told them everything. >> daisy and her siblings say she faced onslot of bullying. they tried to sell their house and move but then that house mysteriously caught fire. the sheriff says since charges were dropped he cannot reopen the case. breaking her silence this morning. the mother of baby hope the little girl murdered in 1991 then stuffed in a cooler and left along a new york highway, marguerite is telling the paper she is devastated. baby hope was identified after more than two decades. police say a distant cousin has confessed to sexually abusing the girl and suffocating her.

>> reporter: jolene size and her daughter were cruising along when mom felt the onset of a severe migraine. not your average headache, she says. it comes with paralysis and even seizures. she knew she had to get off the road so she managed to cross three lanes of traffic. that is when her daughter took control of the situation dialing 911. >> she was right here and she hand me the phone. >> and rhett saw the whole thing and she tried to hold my hand. >> i went like mom, mom. >> my whole body was just convulsing and i couldn't speak. >> started to shake and i was really scared. >> she had panic in her voice but she was able to do it. >> that little girl was still talking to the dispatcher when the ambulance arrived. the pair had actually practiced all of this after a similar incident a week earlier. very smart. >> very smart. >> little rhett is a hero this morning. >> i love her voice.

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i keep hearing over and over is, i never thought i would need a food pantry but here i am. >> a deal to end the government shutdown said to be near this morning but, honestly, wait until you see how it's affecting these real people furloughed weeks of pain. >> i actually helped crop his body up in the proper position so they could perform cpr. >> heartbreak on a carnival cruise ship. a child drowning on his family vacation. this morning, questions of safety on board. could this tragedy have been prevented? saving your kidney for a rainy day is like saving a fire extinguisher while watching your house burn. >> incredible couple giving the gift of life. donating kidneys to complete

strangers. we have the story behind their amazing generosity. >> we should have a story of the day every day and challenge ourselves to find stories like that. isn't that beautiful? fabulous. welcome back. i'm john berman. >> i'm zoraida sambolin. 29 minutes past the hour. smiles and hope that maybe they will end the government shutdown and avoid defaulting on the nation's debt. democrat harry reid and mitch mcconnell say they have made tremendous progress, in fact, in nor reid's words but they are not there yet and they really have not much time left. just two days left to work out the details. the hard part is getting the house on board before a potential default. >> i'm very optimistic that we will reach an agreement that is reasonable in nature this week, to reopen the government and pay

the nation's bills and begin long-term negotiations to put our country on sound, physical footing. >> those discussions continue. and i share his optimism that we will will get a result that will be acceptable to both sides. >> amicable tone is so different what we heard two or three weeks ago. the current framework outlined to cnn of this deal is funding the government through mid january and extending the debt ceiling until early february and some small changes to the obama care law would be considered including requiring income verifications for healthy subsidies. senate republicans will sit down together in their caucus to discuss potential compromise later this morning i believe at 11:00 this morning. the big question, though, in the house. will the house of representatives approve this? will speaker boehner allow it to go to the floor at all for a vote? if it does not clear the house, this problem still remains. they have only until thursday,

thursday to get this all done. >> i just don't like the idea they are kicking the can down the road. you know? we will be here again. potentially. >> but we are not there now at least if they bet this deal done. >> 31 minutes past the hour. we are 15 days into the shutdown and many furloughed workers are starting to feel the pain. as cnn's rene marsh tells us that is one of the wide ranging ripple effects of a government closed for business. >> i'm not essential. >> reporter: the day before the government shutdown, cnn met dee alexander, a secretary at the department of agriculture. >> you don't know how long it's going to last. >> reporter: two weeks later, the shutdown is still in effect and alexander has stopped paying her car loan. >> do you died decide do i have somewhere to live at? or do you decide do i pay my car loan? you also have to figure out what about food? >> reporter: on saturday she

received the last paycheck she will get until the government reopens. $600 less than usual. some of the furloughed have turned to food banks for help like this one in maryland. >> what i keep hearing over and over is i never thought i'd need a food pantry but here i am. >> reporter: the ripple effect of the shutdown also means no more car recalls. the national highway traffic safety administration has stopped looking for automobile defects and the centers for disease control has stopped tracking infectious diseases like the flu. something the agency's former director could have dire consequences. quote, i can attest to the very real potential for unnecessary pain, suffering, and death when the work of public health officials is curtailed. he wrote in an op-ed. and in south dakota, ranchers digging out after an unexpected blizzard are dealing with tens of thousands of dead cattle. called the united states department of agriculture for disaster assistance and this is all they hear.

>> the u.s. department of agricultural offices are currently closed due to the lapse of federal government funding. the office will reopen once congress approves funding. >> reporter: roughly 200 people in that pantry we showed you received food and on top of the same group that passed out to the same families last week. clearly after receiving that final paycheck, families are now beginning to feel the pinch. rene marsh, cnn, washington. >> our thanks to rene marsh for that story. one other consequence of the shutdown to tell you about this morning. the shutdown is hitting the white house garden. a blogger watching the garden says it's overrun with weeds and produce. produce is rotting on the vine. >> what a shame. >> the reason? the shutdown means gardeners cannot tend to the garden or harvest the crops because of the shutdown. white house workers cannot do it either because of the government

furloughs. a lot of the garden is donated to food pantries. >> another consequence there. 34 minutes past the hour. the world war ii are gathering to call on congress to end the shutdown an calling themselves the military coalition. leaders from 33 veterans organizations, including the vfw, american legion and iraq and afghanistan veterans of america will make their case that the shutdown is hurting veterans, members of the reserves and their families by cutting off access to pay and to benefits. a tragic story to tell you about this morning. a family is in mourning after a tragic drowning on a cruise ship. it happened on the carnival victory on the last day of a four-day caribbean voyage. a 6-year-old boy was swimming with his 10-year-old brother when a deejay saw the boy struggling. and passengers tried to help but could not revive the boy.

>> i heard all of this commotion. i actually lifted the boy up. i helped prop the boy's body in proper position so they could perform the cpr. everyone was crying. the family was distraught. they had to pull the mother away and the father. the father was next to his son pleading and begging his son to stay alive. >> sounds so awful. drowning on cruise ships do not happen often. cruise ships are not required to have lifeguards on duty. parents are supposed to be responsible for their children in the pool. the cruise ship is extending its sympathy and offering assistance to the boy's family. >> i hope they get lifeguards. some times so many people in the pool that you can't tell what is happening. 36 minutes past the hour. the price tag for penn state for the jerry sandusky sex candle is $50 million so far and does not include the 60 million set aside for the victims. the university is paying off a $60 million fine imposed by the

ncaa. sandusky is serving 30 to 60 years in prison for molesting ten boys. supreme court today wading the question of affirmative action on college campuses. they are challenging the state's voter approved ban on deciding who gets into college. a few months ago, the court said the university of texas could continue using racial criteria in in addition but making it much harder for institutions to justify affirmative action policies. it was far worse than anyone thought. the national journal says president bush's condition was so serious that it was life threatening. president bush's main artery was 95% blocked. the 67-year-old had a stent put in to open the blockage and was discovered in his physical exams in august. so the physical exams are important. >> lucky they caught it. president obama stumping for

senate seat to be filled by the late frank lautenberg. booker's lead is shrinking a bit. the latest poll shows him with a ten-point lead above republican steve lonegan. lonegan had former alaskan governor sarah palin campaigned for him over the weekend. some new york republicans believe that donald is the man to beat the incumbent in new york's governor election next year. the donald for his part is throwing cold water on the idea. he says the draft trump movement is news to him and he is not particularly independence in the job either. >> interesting. because usually he fans the flames of candidacy. he has run so many times before.

not really. close to 1 million dollars the price tag expected to keep krog. the associated reports kansas has paid more than 913,000 to two private law firms helping it defend abortion restrictions enacted since governor sam brownback took office. the planned parenthood of kansas calls it posturing but opponents say blame those for challenging the law for driving up the cost. denver is close to making it tougher to use marijuana. despite a colorado law that made possessing small amounts of pot legal, the city council is considering an ordinance make it illegal to use pot if anyone else can see it or smell it so that means no smoking even on your own property. if the odor happens to go from your own backyard to the one next door. civil rights advocates are calling the proposal overreach and calling it unconstitutional. a weekend shopping spree

leaving two walmart stores all but cleaned out. check this out. the company is left footing the bill here. customers using their government funded debit cards discovered a computer glitch gave them unlimited balances so what did they do? ? they tried to spend unlimitedly. they would buy everything they could! in reality, there was a limit the whole time apparently and walmart will likely have to absorb the losses. >> yikes! >> yikes is right. what kind of weather can you expect as you walk out the door this morning? indra petersons is here to check out the forecast. >> not bad today. we saw the rain pushing out of the area. you can see yesterday's radar of the remnants of that storm. we are watching the next storm in the pipeline and see it today. it's bringing showers from minnesota down through texas. but the big story again will be right around texas because of tropical moisture from tropical depression that is already here.

you can it here in baja. the moisture is funneling into texas and this matters because you have tropical moisture and moisture hanging around the gulf and you have this slow moving cold front. what are we talking about? anywhere 1 to 2 to 5 inches of rain in the region and saw flooding over the weekend and it looks like we will still have that concern. another system makes its way through later on this week. texas is a bull's-eye here the next several days. the northeast look at the temperatures. not too bad. 70s. maybe overnight drizzle and maybe thicker marine layer. eventually see it funnel across and see the temperatures drop. maybe tonight deep marine layer and drizzle but not like this weekend. >> thank you. coming up. >> it is so easy and really, really simple way to save someone's life. >> this is a first in generosity. a san diego couple stepping up to give the gift of life. that's coming up neck. [ male announcer ] if you think all batteries are the same,

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welcome back to what is that show called? >> "early start." welcome back. we are here every day. this is a couple that gives new meaning to the word generous. they are fantastic. meet alexus and charles wesley of san diego. last year he donated his kidney to a strange and now she has done the same and giving away away her kidney to a man in new york. they are the first husband and wife in the country to give away their kidneys using the national kidney registry. >> saving your kidney for a rainy day is like saving your fire extinguisher while watching your neighbor's house burn. >> you give up maybe three or four weeks of your life in terms of having to go through recovery but you can extend someone else's life by 10 or 15 years. i really wanted to be the person who is willing to do that. >> amazing generosity. the reason for this, they say, their own children have a rare joint disorder that has required

many surgeries. they say they have received so much help over the years, they felt like it was their turn to help others. they started this donation chain and it's likely to save at least ten lives. that's amazing! >> so inspiring. you think what can i do? that is an amazing story. good for them. time for the morning rhyme. our tweet of the day. today is from phillip floyd who has been sending us a lot of great ones today! i say this guy is a wrapper but this caught our eye. >> i like that. it's creative. check out his feed. he is on it today. you can come up with your own tweet. you can win the morning rhyme contest. tweet us with the rhymes. keep us going early in the morning. let's take a look what is coming up on "new day." hey, guys.

>> good morning! >> t-minus 2. only two days. >> we have made it here, unfortunately. >> this is the one of those races you never want to win as to who gets closer to the deadline. what we are hearing the senate believes they can make a deal but a lot of obstacles here. first, you have the extreme conservatives in the senate and then the house and whether the president is going to be okay with whatever happens here. so a lot of moving parts. we have good roads into it and good analysts this morning. we have members of congress c e coming on from the senate to let us know the latest position on this deal and what is on the table and take to get it through and that is our big story this morning. we will have more on president george w. bush health scare we are learning about. he exercises and is known to be very healthy so we will talk about a cardiac specialist how serious the scare was and how it was detected and what you can take away with this.

serve it as a learning experience for us all. >> regular checkups, begin with that. a great idea. see you in a little bit. appreciate it. >> thank you. coming up, the dodgers taking down the cardinals last night. their secret weapon? a rookie. that's next in "the bleacher report." new brakes help you stop faster and safer.

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welcome back to "early start." with their backs up against the walk, the dodgers came through with a clutch win over the st. louis cardinals in game three of the nlcs. it was a great game. andy scholes is here to tell us about it. andy? >> good morning. the dodgers, well, they really had to have this one. they couldn't afford to fall behind 3-0 in the series. they had to find a way to get the offense going. they scored just two runs in the first two games. dodgers rookie sensation yasiel puig hadn't gotten a hit until the series and check him

out in the fourth inning. so excited he made contact. he celebrated. the ball went off the wall. he got a triple after all of that celebrating. dodgers win. first pitch tonight at 8:00 p.m. tonight on tbs. red sox and tigers game three of their series gets going at 4:00 this afternoon. video from big papi's grand slam in game two has gone viral because of the priceless reaction from the boston cop in the outfield. torii hunter crashing over the wall isn't too happy about the cop celebration. d during bp, he is supposed to be protecting. he didn't help me when i fell over the bull pen wall. he was just kidding.

andrew luck has been hyping up the colts offense that philip rivers after beating the colts 19-9 last night, rivers jokingly said he wasn't even sure he was playing in a prime time game because he only saw luck and all of the promos. the colts have another big one on sunday night as peyton manning faces his big return to indy for the first time as a bronco. guys, you got to go to bleacherreport.com. today on the website you can watch 5 hundred--pound black bear play tether ball. >> how cool is that? >> he's good! >> i've seen black bears play tether ball. this one has skills. >> looks like he is barely trying. >> he ducks and knows when he has a good serve going. he keeps it going! he would be huge at summer camp! >> finding an opponent is a challenge for him. >> black ber at summer camp? not a good idea. >> andy scholes, thank you. >> we will be right back. huh...fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance.

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welcome back, everyone. 57 minutes after the hour. one bon jovi fan this was even better. the super sta singr singer walk her down the aisle. she started an online petition begging john bon jovi to come to her wedding. bon jovi was already in town so he showed up at the wedding! she tweeted his presence changed her life forever! >>. >> apparently the groom was also there.

>> he is all alone! >> that is hilarious. >> that is a great story. rihanna has done it again and getting someone in trouble because of her tweets. this time a twitter message about a lewd sex show the singer attended in thailand. authorities have saw the tweet and arrested a bar owner who faces a month in prison for featuring naked dancers. remember two weeks ago? two men were arrested after she posted this picture of herself with the protected animal. >> doing anti-crime crew stayed to thailand right now. >> i don't think they will be inviting her there. >> see you guys in a little bit. >> good morning. it's time for your top news. >> we have made tremendous progress. we are not there yet and everyone just needs to be

patient. >> can they seal the deal? the senate closing in on an agreement to restart the government and pay our bills. but obstacles remain, big ones. we will break them down for you. the big question this morning? will house republicans let a deal pass? breaking overnight. another small explosion at los angeles airport and reports of multiple dry ice bombs found unexploded. some close to planes. who is behind it? surprising revelation. new information on just how serious george w. bush's heart surgery was months ago. how could someone so healthy have had such severe blockage? your "new day" starts right now. >> announcer: this is "new day" with chris cuomo, kate bolduan and michaela pereira. >> good morning. welcome to "new day." it's tuesday, october 15th, 6:00 in the east. we are "t" minus two days from the debt ceiling deadline. it seems they're actually

working down there, senators scurrying from office to office, meeting more than once in a day. >> look how fast they're moving. look at the urgency. the president applying pressure and hopefully on board with what's on the table. that leaves the house. the wild card in this situation. will its conservative members see this compromise as failure? clearly, this is already a failure, new polling confirms just how much this has hurt republicans for sure and democrats as well. we'll get into that coming up. plus, he was a wanted terrorist for more than a decade up until he was captured two weeks ago in libya. this man, accused of masterminding the twin u.s. embassy bombings in africa 12 years ago. he's set to make his first court appearance in hours. and unbearable grief and tragedy aboard a carnival cruise line. a 6-year-old boy drown in