making news in america this morning -- shutdown showdown. day eight. the budget battle in washington enters its second week with a bigger economic threat nearing. we're live in washington. unexplained illnesses. teachers at a high school claiming that the campus is toxic, following a string of medical conditions. a masked gunman tries to hold up a deli. but the clerk had a scarier weapon on standby. no more bottles of beer on the wall, after a surprise, all caught on camera. good morning. we begin with the fiscal crisis

in washington. the social security administration, warning that checks to millions of americans may be in jeopardy unless the debt ceiling is raised. >> just over $2 billion will be lost in worker productivity will be lost by the end of today. and the plan to give back pay to furloughed federal workers has stalled in the senate. abc's tahman bradley is tracking it all for us from washington. >> reporter: good morning. this is getting dangerous. in just nine days, the country will run out of money to pay its bills unless congress acts. and that, of course, is just one problem in washington. the other, getting the government back up and running. president obama upped the pressure on house speaker john boehner to hold a vote on a clean bill that would extend government funding. >> the reason that speaker boehner hasn't called a vote on it is because he doesn't apparently want to see the government shutdown end at the moment. >> reporter: the speaker says a funding bill cannot pass unless republicans get the changes to

obama care they're demanding. but an abc news vote count says that is not the case. 217 needed to pass. all 200 house democrats, plus 17 republicans have said publicly they'll vote to fund the government with no stranges attached. more and more republicans are backing down because they're losing ground against the president, and blame over the shutdown. a new abc news/"washington post" poll shows 70% of americans disapprove of how house republicans are handling the negotiations. that's up seven points in one week. 51% disapprove of what the president has done. on wall street, there's growing worry on the shutdown's impact on the economy. the dow is down 193 points since the beginning of the shutdown. >> a one or two-week shutdown is manageable. start getting into two, three weeks and longer, and the impact is significant. >> reporter: and a bigger economic threat is looming. on october 17th, america will go

into default, unless congress raises the debt ceiling, the amount of money the country can borrow. the obama administration is warning that social security benefits for millions of americaning could be put on hold, john and diana? >> tahman bradley live for us in washington this morning. thank you. brings us to our facebook question of the day. what do you blame most for the shutdown. darlene says, the tea party and those afraid to stand up to them. karen is pointing the blame at democrats. i blame harry reid and obama. in that order. kim says, all of them. there is no one side. they each have a part. suspected terror mastermind abab anas al libi, can be held without giving miranda rights. he is wanted in connection with the bombing of two baertss in africa, that killed hundreds of people. police have made a fourth arrest in the terrifying rod

rage incident between motorcyclists and the driver of an suv. police say a 29-year-old brooklyn man has been arrested on charges that include gang assault. detectives are looking for three more people in last sunday's attack on alexian lien and his wife on a manhattan highway. shooting suspect james holmes will be back in court today, as his attorneys continue battling prosecutors. they are arguing about evidence uncovered by police following the july 2012 attack that killed a dozen people. among the evidence are holmes aeon line dating profiles who include the phrase, will you visit me in prison. prosecutors want them admitted in evidence. holmes' attorneys claim the searches of those profiles violates holmes' rights. across the pond now. new leads in the disappearance of madeleine mccann have investigators cautiously optimistic may they find the little girl alive. maddie disappeared from a

seaside town in portugal. cell phone records have turned up leads. and 41 people are under investigation. and it's giving her parents new reason to hope. >> in the event that we are getting closer, just by filling in more pieces of the jigsaw. >> you have a lot of temporary visitors. and tracing all of those people, linking real people to the phone numbers you have, is going to be a significant challenge. >> the mccanns sit down next monday for a show called "crime watch." they hope it will trigger more leads that may bring their daughter home alive. now, to a health scare at a los angeles area school. three teachers at malibu high have been diagnosed with thyroid cancer. and a third of the teachers have complained about construction on moldy class problems. the results are expected any day now. back here on the east coast, demolition gets under way on the boardwalk in seaside heights, new jersey. that boardwalk was devastated by

a fire last month, just a few months after much of it was rebuilt following hurricane sandy. investigators say the fire was sparked by wiring damaged in last year's hurricane. and a giant experimental blimp has been damaged by the partial collapse of the roof of a hangar in southern california. debris fell on to the $35 million airship that started leaking helium. a hazmat team was able to stop that leak. the hangar is 17 stories tall and dates back to world war ii. powerful storm in new york city, left behind a trail of trux. >> the storm was quick, with most of the damage limited to parts of new jersey. strong winds uprooted trees, slamming them into homes and power lines. many communities are still in the dark. meantime, some 1,500 miles to the west, the cleanup of a snowstorm continues in parts of the upper midwest. some farmers in south dakota

last half their cattle. some don't have power. the rare snowstorm dumped up to four feet of snow. time to check the weather across the nation. showers will follow, with snow in the mountains of idaho, montana and wyoming. it's going to be sunny and dry across the rockies and into the midwest. rain showers will stretch from the coastal carolinas into florida, with some areas getting one to three inches of rain. >> cool in the west coast. warming across the midwest. and cooler across the northeast. only a matter of time before apple comes out with another iphone. we're learning about a big feature the next generation will have. plus, a soldier killed on american soldier. who investigators have in custody is getting a whole lot of attention. and the wrong worker to mess with. a gunman comes face-to-face with a clerk with an even bigger weapon.

welcome back, everyone. the nation's new $100 bill goes into circulation today. the fed begins distributing them to banks and financial institutions this morning. the new bills have several high-tech features to make them more difficult to counterfeit. last week, we told you about best buy's price cut on apple's iphone 5c. now, radio shack and walmart are following suit. walmart is selling the device for $49 through the holidays. a $50 gift card to buy the iphone, cutting the price to 50

bucks. the iphone has been on sale for a couple of weeks and there's reports about an iphone 6. the next generation will be released in september of 2014, with a larger 4.8-inch screen. hard to keep up. >> yeah. general motors testing a pilot program where customers can go through the car buying process online. it's called shop, click and drive. 100 dealers have been participating in the tests. gm says it's resulted in the sale of about 900 cars. meanwhile, have you seen anchorman ron burgundy as chrysler's spokesman. the will ferrell character is in four, new ads. touting the features of the durango, in addition to its fuel efficiency and engine, ron burgundy touts its spacious glove compartment. i have to see that. can we get a commercial for gm? >> you can pack 70 packs of gum in there. pretty big deal, if you ask me.

>> stay classy. when we come back, off to the wilderness. a reporter becomes the story after being stranded for days. this morning, she's telling her story of survival. a young football player wanted to wear pink for breast cancer awareness. but how his coach reacted to the idea has landed him in hot water. ♪ [ male announcer ] rocky had no idea why dawn was gone for so long... ...but he'd wait for her forever and would always be there with the biggest welcome home. for a love this strong, dawn only feeds him iams. compared to other leading brands, it has 50% more animal protein. ...to help keep rocky's body as strong as a love that never fades. iams. keep love strong. now you can keep love fun with new shakeables meaty treats. new kellogg's raisin bran® with omega 3 from flax seeds. plus plump juicy raisins.

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now, for a look at your morning road conditions. driving should be slick along the lower east coast, with rain heavy at times. rain will make driving tricky in the pacific northwest, with snowmaking driving treacherous in montana and wyoming. >> storms could cause airport delays in charlotte, north carolina. three soldiers charged in connection with the murder of a fellow soldier are expected in court in washington state. the suspects and the victim were serving at a joint base

lewis-mcchord near seattle. >> the main suspect had asked for first aid for a knife wound on his hand. according to police. >> he told the person, he asked for aid. what happened to your hand? well, i stabbed and killed a guy over the weekend. >> well, the stabbing apparently occurred when two groups of soldiers exchanged words as they passed on the street. police thought it might have been racially motivated. but now say that is not the case. a newspaper reporter is hospitalized in stable condition this morning after being stranded in the texas desert for two days. kathy frey, a reporter for the arkansas democratic gazette, was vacationing with her husband inside big bend ranch state park. frey was too weak to continue and urged her husband to look for help. >> when they came over the ridge, and they came down there, they told me they couldn't believe i was still alive. that's when i asked if he made

it. and they said, yeah. she's alive. he told us you were out here. >> frey was found dehydrated, sunburned with bruises and bruises all over her body. police in long island, new york, are on the hunt for a would-be convenient store robber who was chased off by a store clerk who fought back. surveillance video shows the suspect pulling a gun out on the clerk. the clerk pulled out a machete. no one was hurt. the suspect did get away. but he got away empty-handed. and check this out. a horrible shopping trip. the two women browsing the booze aisle. you see a worker there. stands up. next thing you know, that happens. the entire shelf comes crashing down. talk about cleanup on aisle 12. that may have been hundreds of

bottles destroyed. everyone's heartbroken. >> cleanup on aisle 12. >> everyone's okay. >> we need backup. >> except for the hundreds of bottles. >> that's a shame. now, to portland, oregon. and a controversy stemming from a football uniform. anyone who watched nfl football over the weekend, saw plenty of pink. >> it's part of the league's breast cancer awareness effort. over the weekend, a youngster in portland decided he wanted to wear pink socks, as well, to honor his mom, who has cancer. that didn't go over so well. >> i was walking over the field. and the coach asked me if i was going to play barefoot. i said no. he said i couldn't play because i was wearing pink socks. >> the portland youth football league's commissioner says there's no league rule about wearing pink socks. i have a funny feeling we'll hear from that coach. >> especially during breast cancer awareness month. >> i think he'll say he didn't realize what was up. >> that's the story. time, now, for sports.

more sports. the dodgers are moving on in the playoffs. and a walkoff home run in tampa. >> here are neil and stan at espn. >> how is it? good morning, neshg. i'm neil. he's stan. we're on the "sportscenter" set in los angeles. >> i'll be baseball. you can come back and do football. >> okay. >> national league division series. the braves and the dodgers. l.a. looking to close it out. bottom eight. runner on second. nobody out. juan uribe can't lay it down. that's strike one. next pitch, can't lay it down. so, tim wallach has a word with uribe. just hit a home run. and uribe, follows instructions. off david carpenter. his second home run this past season. the dodger s win it 4-3. they're moving on to the national league championship series. the red sox looking to close out their series. bottom nine. koji uehara.

jose lobaton. gone. lands in the rays' tank. and the rays stay alive to beat the red sox, 5-4. gino smith, 11 turnovers this season. none in this game. but there's no way this rookie's going to lead a fourth quarter comeback against that atlanta defense on atlanta's turf, is he? three seconds left, nick folds, kick it. kick it good. 44 yards. the jets win. the falcons have lost three-straight. they are 1-4. >> pretty impressive, gino smith. also, impressive the way you summed it up. >> i think it's impressive the way you summed up how i summed up the highlight. >> let's just end this now. back to you. >> all right, guys. up next, "the pulse." another couple from "dancing with the stars." and no one expected this elimination. and perfect prank. an elaborate set of unsuspecting customers at a coffee house. coming up. ♪ wow...look at you.

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battling terminal brain cancer. after being eliminated, harper says it was important to carry her message to those facing challenges. and she said, you just have to carry on no matter what. customers dropping into a coffee house in manhattan got a few more jitters they had bargained for. >> and it was not from an extra jolt of caffeine. it all started out with what appeared to be a woman getting agitated with a guy who spilled coffee at her table. watch what happens next. >> get away from me. get out of my way. >> it was all staged. those are actors, except for the people drinking the coffee and getting scared. wires, remote controls, all a publicity stunt to promote the remake of stephen king's classic horror film, "carrie," set to hit theaters next friday. you remember carrie with the powers of the mind? >> i do. i can't imagine what it would be like -- and then, she moved the chairs and tables. the books fell out of the book shelves. everybody's freaking out. >> creepy carrie.

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while i was on a combat patrol my c in baqubah, iraq,nned out. a rocket-propelled grenade took my arm off at the shoulder. when i came home, i felt alone. my family was around me, but i couldn't talk to them about what i'd seen and what i'd done. i remember just thinking, man, the way i am right now, i don't want to live. i was discharged from the army, and i've been working with the wounded warrior project since 2007. warriors don't have to be severely wounded to be with the wounded warrior project. we do have a lot of guys that have post-traumatic stress disorder. being able to share your story, i guess it kind of helps you wrap your mind around what did happen over there. just because you've left the military doesn't mean your life is over, because when these guys are coming home, i'm kind of leading and training them, instead of for combat, i'm leading and training them to heal. and if i come away with anything from the wounded warrior project, it's them giving my life back. my name is norbie, and yes, i do suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, but i'm okay.

abc 7 news starts now with live breaking news. >> i'm eric thomas. >> i'm christ continue zooe. let's begin with breaking news in the south bay. a driver falls asleep at the south bay. he plows into a dozen cars. >> reporter: good morning. this is a mess here off of camden avenue here in san jose. you can see where the work truck came to rest against an apartment building. i want to show you how this happened. this is camden avenue right here. you can see the mess that was left behind. the truck was coming this way when it hit this toyota 4-runner which was parked on the road. ran into the sign. hopped up onto the grass on donna lane. you can see the tire marks in the grass. hit a fire hydrant. the fire hydrant is not there.

it came to a rest against the apartment building right there. now the man who owns the volvo says he actually moved his car to this side of camden. that man said he had actually been hit. his vehicle had been hit twice on the other side of camden. he moved it to this side of camden and be now it got hit again. now a gas meter was hit and there was a leak, but firefighters were able to cap it off. i see pg and e back there working on the gas meters to make sure everything is okay. obviously the impact into the building woke up the residents. they're allowed to go back inside. many are shaken up. some people are dealing with their cars being damaged. firefighters say the impact actually created some cracks throughout the building, kind of like what happens during an earthquake. i did talk to an officer and he said it does not appear that the driver had been drinking but there's still no word on whether or not he will be cited for the accident.

matt keller, abc 7 news. >> matt, thank you so much. time now to check in with leyla for the weather. >> hope you had a nice evening. >> boy, a little bit of patchy fog to start us off this morning. we're looking at mostly clear conditions for most of the bay area. live doppler radar satellite. not seeing any returns yet in terms of moisture. that's expected to come later tomorrow evening as you take a look at our emeryville camera. you can see the twinkling lights. nice and clear conditions. it's going to turn cooler tomorrow, even cooler still today and yesterday as you may have noticed. but much cooler by next weekend. also some snow in the sierra. that is our forecast. the explore ra tore yum camera. a dark camera. as we take a look at our first forecast, we'll be in the mid 0 7 70s. i'll have your accuweather forecast. we have some construction projts