♪ live from cnn center, this is "cnn newsroom" with michael holmes. >> welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. i'm michael holmes at the cnn center in atlanta. appreciate your company. the gloom of an expected government shutdown has lifted in washington, at least for now. with u.s. president joe biden signing a 45-day stopgap measure to keep the government functioning and the military paid. 24 hours earlier, it seemed almost impossible that u.s. house speaker kevin mccarthy would reach across the aisle, but he did on saturday and democrats helped him get the short-term bill over the finish line. after complaining that critical aid to ukraine had been cut out

of the package, the senate passed the house bill 88-9. cooperating with democrats could put mccarthy on a collision course with gop hardliners who have been aggressively calling for his ouster as speaker. here's what he had to say after the bill passed with more than half of the republicans voting for it. >> the bill on the floor in suspension so there's no will that can pass with one party or the other. when are you guys going to get over that it's all right that you put america first? that it's all right if republican and democrats join together to do what is right? if somebody wants to make a motion against me, bring it. there has to be an adult in the room. i am going to govern with what is best for this country. >> cnn's manu raju takes a look at how the last-minute deal unfolded.

>> reporter: after a chaotic day, congress gave final approval on a bill to keep the government open for 45 more days. this after speaker mccarthy changed plans, reversed course, relied on democratic votes to get this bill out of the u.s. house. for some time, speaker mccarthy had wanted to pass a bill along republican lines. just get republicans on board. but he struggled amid opposition from a handful of conservative hardliners who refused to give him the votes. also, those same hardliners warned if he decided to work with democrats, that could cost him his job as speaker. at the end of the day, after a meeting on saturday with his conference, mccarthy decided to roll the dice, go take on his hardliners directly, and try to keep the government open with democratic support. that happened are they passed a bill out of the house that had overwhelming support, bipartisan support. half, more than half the house republican conference voted for it.

all but one democratic house member voted for it as well. now, then it moved over to the united states senate where the senate approved it overwhelmingly 88-9. nine republican senators voted against it. but it didn't come without controversy, namely the decision by speaker mccarthy to not include ukraine aid in this final package. the white house had pushed for $24 billion in ukraine aid to be approved this year. but the senate was trying to approve as part of the bill to keep the government over $6.2 billion of that package. mccarthy had a different idea. because of opposition within the conservative ranks of his conference and divisions within the house gop, mccarthy decided to not include ukraine aid as part of this package, leaving open the question, can congress get behind and give approval to ukraine at this critical time in its war against russia? it is unclear if that will happen, but that will be a major

point of contention when congress resumes and deals with this funding issue again in 45 days. this comes as there is still a threat to mccarthy's spe speakership. a number of members expressed their dissatisfaction with his handling of the talks. >> i think it's shameful in many, many ways. >> we cannot continue to kick this can down the road. >> i'm disappointed. i wish we'd fought. we didn't fight. >> we should have forced them to come to the negotiating table and come to conference and hash out our differences. >> reporter: none of those members said they would actually vote to oust speaker mccarthy. i asked every single one of them if they're ready to do that, they would not go there, raising questions whether the effort to push him out will succeed. matt gaits, the ringleader of that effort, has not said explicitly. this is a threat that's been over the speaker. when i asked the speak bear this, he said, "bring it on." manu raju, cnn, capitol hill.

joining me is maria cardona, cnn political commentator, democratic strategist. jason osborn, former republican stra strategist, ex-campaign advisor to donald trump. he joins me from baton rouge, louisiana. thanks for staying up late for us. so mccarthy got more democratic votes than he got dr. his own party. he relied on the enemy. even some of his own colleagues are saying that. where do the events of the last week or so leave mccarthy in terms of his job security? >> i think we're reaching -- slowly reaching a point where, if i'm mccarthy and other members of his leadership team, i'm going to call matt gaits''s bluff. we can't continue down this road where every single time there's a vote or issue mccarthy has to worry about whether he's going to have a revolt against him within his own party.

i think, though -- as we're moving forward here, mccarthy does have 45 days to try and accomplish what he has set out to do, which is to pass 13 appropriations bills out of the house and hopefully have the senate step in and pass them as well so that we can get that portion of the agenda taken care of. but i do think that kevin mccarthy certainly is breathing a sigh of relief today. it's not the way that he wanted it to happen, but it happened. and i think he's turning to the next page to go on to the next battle. >> maria, as a democratic strategist, how should democrats handle what's happening in a political sense? heaven forbid bipartisanship became the preferred way of doing thins in congress. what do you think? >> well, i think clearly democrats did exactly what they had said they would do for weeks, which is work with a sensible speaker mccarthy if he was going to bring to the floor

a clean cr, which he finally did, and democrats decided that that was the right thing to do. and of course they were going to vote for this to keep the government open. but they also stressed that this was all wasted energy, wasted time. chaos that was not needed, stress on the american economy that was not needed. embarrassment on the global stage that was not needed if only mccarthy had realized from the get-go that he needs to govern by putting country over party, by putting the american people before his own job ambition. so i think democrats said, finally speaker mccarthy is doing the right thing. he came to his senses and asked for help from democrats to pass what we all knew in the end had to be a bipartisan bill to keep the government open. but he could have avoided this way before if he had not broken his promise that he made with the white house and with other

democrats back in may, to be able to, again, keep the government open, focused on what they had agreed to months ago. >> and when it comes to the system, i mean, the public reaction to the whole political dysfunction is clear. i wanted to pull up research from pew. we're a little more than a year from the presidential election. nearly two-thirds of americans, 65% say they always or often feel exhausted thinking about politics. 55% feel angry. and there's another one too that says, 8 in 10 americans, 86%, in fact, say that the following is a good description of politics. i'll quote. "republicans and democrats are more focused on fighting each other than solving problems." jason, another shutdown. there was a near debt default not long ago. what needs to change to have effective governance rather than the nonstop idealogical battles and dysfunction that the public clearly hates?

>> listen, i've been doing this now for 30 years. i know in the beginning you said former republican strategist. i don't know if i've retired yet. since the '90s, and that's what i can speak to is the '90s through now, the congressional approval and political approval or politicians' approval is always very low. and i don't know that we're going to reach a point where things will change too much except when we can get rid of some of the folks like matt gaetz on our side and there's a few on the democrats' side that i think are stirring the pot and making things difficult for people to actually get a job done in many ways. i mean, i remember back when we had a moderate republican. we had a conservative democrat. and those folks tended to band together and respect each other and try and get things accomplished.

i'm afraid we're at least a year away from shutting the door on some of these more outspoken folks on both sides, quite frankly. but i wish i had a magic wand to be able to answer that question and come up with solutions. but i'm afraid i don't. >> yeah, maria, senator john fetterman, it was interesting. he made the comment, quoting here. "pushing the snooze button solves nothing, because these same losers will try to pull the same s-h-you know what in 45 days." it really does make the point we're talking about that this keeps happening. looming shutdown is a routine phrase for journalists these days. we're going to an international audience. this stuff doesn't happen in other major countries with the regularity that it does here. >> that's exactly right. and that's why i stressed in my first comments that this is a global embarrassment. because this is not what should be happening in the greatest country in the world, in the greatest democracy in the world.

but the fact of the matter is that our political system has been poisoned by republican maga, what we call maga, make america great again, trump-inspired extremists who are the ones that were holding kevin mccarthy hostage in the house of representatives. and i agree with jason, that this is not going to go away until those maga extremists are gone. and i know he likes to include democrats in here. but let's be very clear. that is a false equivalency. there is no one on the democratic side that has ever done anything that the maga extremists in the house of representatives just tried to pull with kevin mccarthy. and we have never had a speaker of the house that has kowtowed to the extremists the way kevin mccarthy did. lord knows nancy pelosi never, never had that problem. and so the i extremists on the republican side have to go. i hope kevin mccarthy is able to continue to put them to the side

and make sure that they know that what they need to do as a party is to put the country over party and govern. that is their job. we're going to be in political peril if they don't realize that. >> we do have to leave it there, thanks so much. >> thank you, michael. ukraine aid takes a hit in a move that avoided a u.s. government shutdown as we were just discussing. we'll get reaction from a ukrainian lawmaker to that decision coming up.

ukraine is starting a new tradition today to honor military members who gave their lives for the country. president zelenskyy urging all ukrainians to drop whatever they're doing at 9:00 a.m. local time, which was about an hour ago, and remember their fallen heroes. it's all part of a holiday season as "the day of defenders" which is usually in about two weeks from now. but for the first time being celebrated on october 1st. for more, katie polgraves joins us from london. this coming up as the u.s. spending bill passed without

ukrainian military support included. sunday marked by ukrainians, the day of the defenders. explain that for us. >> reporter: good morning. this is a somber moment for ukraine. this is a day to remember those that have died, that sacrifice for their country. that is what zelenskyy wants to project, that these are sacrifices, grave, serious sacrifices people are matthew mcconaughey making on a daily basis to continue this fight against the russian invasion. but of course as always for zelenskyy, there is a global message as well as a national message. while this is a national day of remembrance, a national day of mourning for the lives lost in this conflict, it's also a day to tell the world about why they continue to need support, why they continue to need aid and assistance from their western allies as you've been discussing. that may now be in doubt from some allies, including the united states. why also this sacrifice is so

significant. this is really about life and death for the ukrainians. also, it's worth noting that today is not only the day of this remembrance, but also it's the first day of military conscription in the annexed areas as well, in these areas suffas kherson, zaporizhzhia, lieuhansk, donetsk, areas currently under russian occupation. those areas are going to have military conscription into the russian army. this is really demonstrating how significant this war is for ukrainian civilians on a day-to-day basis, and therefore, to remember the lives lost, the sacrifices people have made, is of extraordinary national significance. as we're seeing this global support for ukraine waver effectively, not just with the u.s. spending bill that we've been discussing but also if we look at europe as well, we've been talking about slovakia potentially having a political shift. we've also been seeing in the last couple of weeks that dispute with poland over grain that was then resolved.

again, it shows how fragile that support is from ukraine's allies and how crucial it is for zelenskyy to ensure that as we go into the winter months, his counteroffensive gradually progressing but dragging, particularly as we head into the colder weather in the winter months. this is something zelenskyy is concerned about. he needs this western support. so these kinds of moments of global reckoning, remembering the lives lost, showing the ukrainian sacrifice on a day-to-day basis of incredible political and symbolic significance as well. >> katie, thanks so much from london. one former republican lawmaker has slammed the decision to exclude ukraine aid from the u.s. stopgap measure. former congresswoman liz cheney posting that the vote happened on the an vest satisfactory of the 1938 speech by the former british prime minister neville chamberlain. the so-called "peace in our time" speech is widely seen as

his attempt to appease nazi germany. cheney's post saying, "appeasement didn't work then, it won't work now." for reaction to the decision to keep ukraine aid out of the u.s. stopgap bill, i'm joined by ukrainian parliament member owe less oleksiy gocheranko. most republicans in the house, and certainly the senate, are in favor of that support. what message does funding being withheld send to ukraine, european partners, and of course russia? >> that's not a good message. united states, we're telling loudly, president biden and also gop members, republican members of senate and congress, that

united states will stand with ukraine as long as it takes. but now we see that the stopgap bill is without money for ukraine and support of ukraine. and this is a very bad signal, because the united states is the key ally of ukraine. and without this ally, we really don't have chances in this war. it should be clear. but if ukraine would fail in this war, it would mean just one thing that emboldened putin will attack further european countries, and that time american soldiers and officers will fight and will die. then ukraine, we have the day of ukrainian defenders. many of them are they had. this is the highest possible price we are paying. the united states by financial support can help us to restore international order, to restore international law, to show its leadership in the world, to

solve so many problems. in general, i mean, it's one of the best investments in the united states history. by 3% of united states military budget, using these, ukrainian army destroyed 50% of russian military capacity, at least in conventional weaponry. and russia is the second-biggest rival in the united states after china. so it's great investment. i think it was a great mistake yesterday to exclude ukraine. the message is bad, both for ukraine and definitely this is something -- a bad message for moscow involving putin. >> it as small group, but it is a growing group on the republican side who oppose more money. what would you say to those republicans if they were listening right now, what would you say to them? >> i would say to them, just show what you did and ask president reagan, would he like it? is it a normal -- is it a good

move to involve in russia, to help aggressive, to leave your key ally in ukraine, ally of the united states, at the moment when this country desperately needs your help? i don't think this is in best practice of this great party, republican party. i have all respect to both democratic party and republican party in the united states of america. but i feel that some of republican congressmen, they lost maybe some core idea about united states leadership in the world. and without this leadership, the world will be much more dangerous place to live in. also for americans. so i don't think this move was in the best interests of american citizens. i think quite opposite, that it was a mistake. >> right. >> it's not late to fix mistake, and it should be made. >> to put a sort of ribbon on that, a top official from the

pentagon actually told lawmakers on friday that the department of defense has, quote, exhausted nearly all available security assistance funding for ukraine. nearly all. ukraine isn't in the package passed on saturday. what is going to be the potential impact on the battlefield if aid is not forthcoming, if it does stop? >> that can be disastrous. without military support, ukraine will not be able to continue its pressure on russians, but quite opposite. russians will restart their offensive. that can be we solved. definitely, we will fight. we are fighting for our country and we will fight with support or without support. we don't have any other choice, this is existential for us. but what will be the message for the world?

what will chairman xi about maybe he can attack taiwan or other dictators in the world, make their bold moves? so what we'll have in the world that will be a world of like a jungle, where predators are hunting peaceful nations. i don't think this is the world the american people would like to see. so i think that this -- again, i hope now that we have time this 45 days, that should be fixed. not just for ukrainians. yes, we're suffering, our children and women are killed. but it's not just about us. it's a much, much wider picture. the future of the next decades is decided today in ukraine. and we can't lose it. >> that's a very good point, ukraine is obviously the focus. but it's about a lot more than ukraine. and democrats and republicans certainly in the senate say that they will get that funding, that

it will come through. but worrying, obviously, for ukrainians. oleksiy, thank you so much, appreciate your time there. now to slovakia where a party headed by a pro-kremlin leader is heading for a win in saturday's parliamentary election. former prime minister robert fico's party has taken more than 23% of the vote. let's get perspective from cnn's scott mcclain from london. for a while you had two candidates, a progressive and this candidate who wants to cut off aid to ukraine running neck and neck. but as the count wrapped up, the news isn't looking good for ukraine. >> reporter: that's right. this was expected according to the polls to be much closer than it was. robert fico's party outperformed

what was expected in the polls, and that is worrying for certainly the ukrainians and those who are supportive of continuing to send aid to ukraine. slovakia has been one of those countries that has sent helicopters, artillery systems, air defense systems, you name it, since the outset of the war. that may slow down, perhaps come to a stop. robert fico has blamed, in his words, ukrainian nazis and fascists for provoking russia into war. his general argument is that, look, the longer we send weapons and ammunition to ukraine, it just prolongs a war that the ukrainians are not actually capable of winning. so he is framing -- he has framed his argument as one of peace. you can understand from slovakia's -- or the ordinary slovak point of view why this is appealing. you have a country that is dealing with the high cost of living, dealing with inflation, dealing with hosting some 100,000-plus ukrainian refugees.

all of these things straining the public purse. so ending this war sooner rather than later, a lot of people would argue it should be done. robert fico will need a coalition partner, as you said. the results so far, his party has won just abouted 23% of the vote. the next-closest rival, 18%. down at the bottom, the republic party is the far-right party which shares its view on ukraine and on russia. the only other party that does. he hadn't ruled out linking up with them, but they actually fell short of the 5% threshold that in slovakia you need to be granted seats in parliament. most likely he will form a coalition with the halas party, 14.7% of the vote. they've been vague about the ukraine issue saying, slovakia has provided all it can afford

to provide but also it is a manufacturer of ammunition and for the sake of the economy, that should continue to be sent. but whatever happens here, michael, it will take a few weeks for all the dust to settle on the coalition talks and for there to be an actual government in place. >> we'll see how it unfolds, scott mcclain in london. the u.s. house speaker turns to democrats to pass a spending bill, and it could cost him his job. a former republican lawmaker weighs in next.

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you're watch watching "cnn newsroom." washington has approved a last-ditch plan to avert a government shutdown. both houses of congress passing the continuing resolution on saturday night just hours before the deadline. president joe biden later signing the bill which will keep federal agencies running through mid-november. in a statement, mr. biden challenging lawmakers to approve a long-term spending plan saying, "there's plenty of time to pass government funding bills for the next fiscal year, and i strongly urge congress to get to work right away. the american people expect their government to work." earlier i spoke about the stopgap spending bill with cha cha charliedanta. i asked him what the house speaker had to do to get this passed and whether his actions could affect his job security. >> it would be a bipartisan

bill. a clean continuing resolution or stopgap measure with disaster funding. they kick the can on ukraine funding. i always felt if they had a bill like this, they'd get 300 votes in the house. they got 335. the senate pretty much accepted it as is. it's not much a surprise this happened. i believe mccarthy was under tremendous pressure, tremendous pressure from his right flank not to engage in a bipartisan solution. but he did the right thing here. and i think that hakeem jeffrey is was there, as expected, to provide a lot of votes and support. and so this is a good outcome. that said, they'll have to deal with ukraine funding sometime between now and november 15th or 17th, whenever this resolution expires. and they're going to have to negotiate the full appropriations bills, all 12 of them, for the next fiscal year. they're going to have to do all of that.

we're not done with this problem, but at least this buys some time. >> when you talk about that right flank, how has mccarthy's keel with the devil, those maga republicans -- to get just get the job of speaker, how has that impacted him? how beholden is he to them? and how is it impacting how the business of running the government is going? >> it seems the speaker's modus operandi has been to appease that element. which has empowered them and embombedened them. i think what he has discovered, the more he gives, the less he seems to get from them. he gave them seats on the house rules committee, on the house appropriations committee, gave them an impeachment inquiry. it didn't really translate into any help with these matters of governance like funding the government or passing the debt ceiling. so he has to -- mccarthy needs to resort to bipartisanship.

i think he has to marginalize those members. whatever that number is. five to 15 or so of those hardliners. he's going to have to marginalize them. the way he does that is by engaging in bipartisan deals without hakeem jeffries. that's the way out. appeasement doesn't work, obviously. i think the speaker discovered this rather belatedly, and of course he did the right thing by putting that bill on the floor. the body of longtime democratic senator dianne feinstein has arrived in san francisco aboard a plane from president biden's military fleet. former speaker of the house nancy pelosi accompanying the late senator on her final journey home. the two women spentogether in c glass ceilings in congress. dianne feinstein was the firstf and the first woman from california to serve in the u.s. senate where she became the longest-serving female senator in u.s. history. she died thursday night aged 90.

people are being allowed to return home in illinois after a deadly crash involving a vehicle carrying those of gallons of ammonia. five people were killed when the semi truck crashed into a village a couple hundred miles south of chicago. hundreds of residents forced to flee. the fire department says testing indicates the danger from the ammonia has dissipated. also in the u.s., a warehouse burned for several hours in arkansas. the flames possibly fed by cleaning supplies in the building. you can see huge plumes of smoke going up from the blaze. the fire department posted an alert on facebook warning residents about a significant structure fire in the area. officials say no one is hurt and the fire is being contained. still to come, desperate scenes as thousands of ethnic armenians flee a breakaway region in azerbaijan.

also, we'll check on ukraine's progress to build what it calls an army of drones.

more than 100,000 people have arrived in armenia after fleeing the breakaway region recognized as part of azerbaijan. many people are said to need urgent medical attention. thousands caught up in what you see there, a massive traffic jam on the mountain highway to armenia. almost the entire ethnic armenian population has now left. a journalist describing the upheaval she witnessed.

>> reporter: this exodus unbearable. not only because of psychologically. is many people here, they are becoming refugees, already served time in their life. >> armenia has asked the eu for urgent help. meantime, azerbaijan denying allegations of ethnic cleansing, saying people left the region by choice. ukraine plans to build what it calls an army of drones to take on russian troops on the battlefield. cnn's fred pleitgen went with a ukrainian drone unit to see firsthand how effective those weapons can be. >> reporter: ukrainians currently say they have a lot of momentum going for them in the south of the country, where we see that main thrust of their counteroffensive, also here in the east. one of the things we recently witnessed was a massive battle around the city of bakhmut where the ukrainians are trying to take back ground from the russians. here's what we witnessed.

rolling into battle as night falls, ukraine's army attacking in the east around bakhmut. for the ukrainians, this is an extremely important but also very complicated and potentially very dangerous mission. we're going to be located very close to where the russians are. we're with a frontline drone unit called code 9.2. their drone, the ukrainian-made vampire. the crew attaching the bombs as artillery whistles over our heads. the vampire is fully night vision-cancel and plays a soundtrack showing it means business. the team leader's calcine is group. he confirms because ukraine doesn't have a modern air force, tonight they are the air force. "the drones see in the night like daylight.

we see the infantry. we hit the vehicles, cannons, everything we need to destroy." groove says russians from the wagner private military company have returned to the battlefield around bakhmut. "yes, there is wagner here too. they swiftly change their commanders and have returned here," he says. "we're breaking through their line of defense and hitting them well." as the drone takes off, the battle is already well under way. the ukrainians using western extended-range artillery shells and cluster munitions to attack russian ground forces. groove is already busy targeting the russians. "oh, something's burning," he says. his unit managing to take out a russian main battle tank by dropping several bombs on it. the ukrainian army now starting to push forward. our photojournalist dan hodge

films powerful explosions as armored vehicles advance in the moonlit night. we're now hearing a lot of fire, a lot of outgoing fire, a lot of incoming fire also as well, along the ukrainians are trying to move forward. they say they want to take a key road away from the russians. but the russians are fighting back, firing flares to unmask the ukrainians' advance and hit kyiv's forces. groove remains unfazed, hunting a russian tactical vehicle before destroying it. the code 9.2 drone team often hunts russian armor here, recently even destroying a modern f-90 tank in a highly complex operation. after more than a half dozen missions, the drone returns a final time. as we tried to get away from the

battlefield, a tire bursts on our humvee. no time for a spare. we push on. we just witnessed an extremely tough battle between the russians and ukrainians, both sides going at it for hours with very heavy weapons. and the area where we were, shells landed close to there on various occasions. now we're heading back to base. hobbled but rolling after a long night on one of ukraine's most dangerous front lines. there's two things that really stood out to us as we were witnessing that battle under foal that night. on the one hand, the use of drones which has vastly expand the past couple of months as this war has been dragging on. also the amount of ammunition that the ukrainians were using, especially artillery ammunition. it's one of the things, of course, they have said to their partners is that if they're going to be able to sustain operations at this pace, they need a lot more ammo. fred maken, cnn, eastern ukraine.

still to come on the program, a dramatic come-from-behind victory at the rugby world cup. fiji defeating georgia to inch closer to a berth in the quarterfinals.

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university has inaugurated its first black president. claudine gay became the 30th president since harvard's founding in 1640, and in her inaugural speech, gay said she is humbled by the prospect of leading harvard. as for the students and faculty, the consensus is gay's appointment is long overdue. turning to spain where the mercury is rebounding after a post-summer cooldown. in madrid, forecasters say temperatures are far above normal for this time of year. spaniards have reached for their summer wardrobes once again after what has been a period of cooler rainy weather. the outlook is calling for temps in the mid-30 degrees celsius range, around the low 90s in fahrenheit. that will be in madrid. it will be even hotter further south. this after what was a blazing-hot summer of extreme

heat all across the region. now to the rugby world cup in france where fiji, argentina, and scotland all advanced on saturday, wor their way into the later rounds. scotland set to face top-ranked ireland. "cnn world sport" anchor patrick snell with highlights. >> saturday, encouraging news for france regarding their captain, antoine dupont. the scrum-half is back with the squad after undergoing surgery on that fractured cheekbone. dupont could make it back to the feel for the quarterfinals in mid-october if france make it there, of course. to saturday action. fiji find themselves trailing nine points down. they come from behind to see off the challenge of georgia. this in pool "c" to all but cement their place in the last eight for the first time in 2007. isaiah going over for the game's opener in the second half, opening try in that second half, to give his team real momentum there on saturday.

more to come from venia bosse diving for another one to seal the end, 17-12, a victory they had to work for, hard as well. a late penalty earning georgia a losing bonus point, but defeat means they can't now advance to the finals. fiji is second against wales and will guarantee their spot with a victory over portugal last weekend. third place australia could qualify from pool "c" but the wallabies two-time world champs no longer controlling their destiny. pool "d" action, south american nations went head to head. argentina taking on chile. this the first time these two countries had ever met in the world cup, and the pumas in control. nicholas sanchez going over for a try on his 100th appearance for argentina. a really special career moment for him. argentina would add seven more

tries, including two from juan martin gonzalez as argentina rack up the points to win it 5 59-5. argentina now setting up a winner-takes-all showdown against japan for second place in pool "d." argentina's victory also eliminating samoa, 2003 champs england already through to the last eight. pool "b," scotland needing a bonus point victory and the scots leaving nothing to chance against romania. scotland running in a total of 12 tries, four alone coming from darcy graham. there was no stopping the 26-year-old who really is one of the best finishers in the game. graham proving again exactly why his four tries are now taking his tally for the national team up to 24. you'd think counting. scotland win 84-0. next up, it's ireland, the top-ranked team in the world. and that one will decide who

will progress to the quarterfinals. australia trying to keep its hopes alive on sunday when they take on portugal. defending champ south africa facing tonga. busy day ahead. with that, it's right back to you. >> thanks, patrick. go, australia. the powerball jackpot in the u.s. has soared after there was no winner again for i think the 30th draw in saturday night's drawing. the lottery's website says the prize is now an 8-watering $1.04 billion. those opting to take the jackpot in a lump sum would get $470 million in cash before taxes, so really it's not worth it. it's the second-largest jackpot this year. the next drawing is monday morning. thanks for watching, everyone. i'm michael holmes. laila harrak with more news after the break.

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