country has been without a fully funded federal government. in a new poll out this morning, republicans are getting most of the blame. 63% of americans say the gop is not doing enough to cooperate. about half, 52%, point to president obama. one of the casualties of the political gridlock, delay in the death benefits for families of fallen servicemen and women. susan mcginnis is in washington. susan, good morning. >> anne-marie, good morning. this poll showing disapproval on the part of the americans is not having much impact on capitol hill. both sides seem to be having the same positions they had nine days ago. we're hearting hostage a lot. the buzz word these days seems to be "conversation." the latest progress, though, could be in the area of getting funding for families of fallen u.s. soldiers. the bodies of four servicemembers killed if the

line of duty this weekend arrive at dover air force base today. the government would typically pay for the families to be there to welcome their loved ones. >> i'm embarrassed. all of us should be. >> reporter: the families of 17 servicemembers have already been denied benefits, including a $100,000 payment due within 36 hours. >> the death gratuity is to help with funeral costs and immediate living expenses. >> the house is expected to restore today those benefits but an agreement to end the shutdown is still nowhere in sight. >> it's pretty much the same thing every day and we're not really getting anywhere between each side. >> president obama warned republicans he would not negotiate until congress reopens the government and raises the debt creeling. >> we can't make extortion routine as part of our democracy. democracy doesn't function this way. >> republicans say first democrats must agree to spending cuts. >> we can't raise the debt

ceiling without doing something about what's driving us to bo borrow more money and to live beyond our means. >> now, president obama and speaker boehner did speak by phone yesterday, first contact between them since last thursday, but as you can see from both of their comments, anne-marie, they didn't seem to get anywhere. >> indeed. susan mcginnis in washington. thank you, susan. stocks were hit hard. yesterday the dow dropped 159 points. the index is down 481 points. if congress raises the debt ceiling it could get worse. >> reporter: the u.s. treasury already using emergency measures to pay its bills but by october 17th will be down to $30 billion. >> reporter: mark patterson former treasury chief of staff under president obama says

before the end of this month the u.s. government will owe $12 billion in social security payments and $6 billion in interest payments on the debt. and on the first of next month, another $58 billion is due in social security, medicare, and military and veterans benefits. the president would have to decide who to pay and who to delay. >> when i was at the treasury, we looked at all the options for sort of contingency plans. they all have sort of god-awful consequences. >> reporter: if, for example, the government can't pay interest on the treasury bills, it could cause chaos in the financial markets. as lloyd blankfein said at the white house last week -- >> we're the most important economy in the world, reserve currency in the world. payments have to go out to people. if money doesn't flow in, money doesn't flow out. we haven't seen this before and i'm not anxious to be part of the process to witness it.

>> reporter: a debt crisis could cause interest rates to double on new mortgages, credit cards, student loans, and auto loans. >> this is a country that pays all of its bills on time all the time. not a day late or a dollar short. that's the u.s. treasury. if we operate a different way we're asking to become a country that has debt problems like greece. >> one wall street analyst says calculating the u.s. default is like preparing for a huge asteroid impact. on the "cbs moneywatch" president obama picks the next head of the federal reseven and neiman marcus unwraps its christmas catalog. gigi stone is at the new york stock exchange with that and more. good morning, gigi. >> good morning, anne-marie. this afternoon president obama is expected nominate janet yellen to be the next chair of the held real reserve. yelin is currently vice chair.

she's behind fed efforts to keep interest rates near record lows to support the kmichlt economic on servers say her nomination could be a steadying influence as washington fights over the budget. >> if you're worried about, you know, the craziness that might happen in the next two weeks you're looking at yelin and saying, boy, here's an adult in the room. >> reporter: if confirmed by the senate, yelin would be the first woman to lead the fed or any other major central bank in the world. asian stocks were mixed. tokyo's nikkei add 1in' while hong kong's hang seng lost half a percent. wall street faired worse over the shutdown. yesterday the s&p 500 fell 20 points while the nasdaq fell 756789 both the biggest one-day losses in six weeks. >> expect to pay more to heat your home this winter with energy prices on the rise.

there is one exception, heating oil which the government expect to cost you 2% less than last year's record-breaking prices. and the world's first smartphone with a curved display korea.n sale today in south samsung galaxy round has a 5.7 screen and a slight curve. it provides a more comfortable grip than flan excite phones. it hasn't decided whether to release it outside of korea. after a case of mistaken identity sent its surges staring. it was after twitter announced its upcoming ipo. it's one letter different than what twitter chose and it isn't

even yet available to buy. and neiman marcus is out with its christmas present. the highlight of the catalog is a 5.9d custom diamond ring and it includes a trip to africa to trace the stone. it sounds necessary. it makes up 40% of the catalog. i don't know about you, anne-marie. that still sounds expensive to me. >> that's definitely not inexpensive. ly be getting my highlighter out as soon as i get my catalog though. a new york police detective is due in court this morning. he was arrested late tuesday for his involvement, alleged involvement in the violent confrontation between a pack of motorcyclists and family in an suv. the detective was off duty at the time of the incident. his lawyer says he was only a witness, but investigators say video shows him pounding on the suv. coming up on the "morning news," house arrest. more than a half dozen members

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police in washington, d.c., arrested at least eight democratic congress members at an immigration rally. the demonstration yesterday sought to pressure republicans to call a vote on an immigration reform bill that's been stalled in the house. officers arrested the lawmakers who were among an estimated 200 taken into custody for blocking a street. and the makeup of the next congress could depend on what happened at the supreme court on tuesday. the justices heard oral arguments in their first major case of the new term. as jan crawford reports, the case involves a challenge to limit campaign donations. >> reporter: in court the battle lines were drawn. liberal justices defended rules that limit the overall amount of money people can give to different candidates and political parties.

justice ruth bader ginsburg suggested the limits promote democratic participation, adding the little people will count some, and you won't have the super affluent as the speakers that will control the elections. the conservatives indicated overall limits on contributions to candidates instead infringe the right to free speech. justice samuel alito -- what i see are wild hypotheticals that are obviously not plausible. the case was brought by alabama businessman sean mchutch inwho argues he should be able to. after hitting the cap i think this is a fundamental free speech issue about your right to spend as mump money on any candidates you choose. it doesn't make any sense to say that my 18th race was an alabama

house race and i also wanted to donate to a florida senate race that i couldn't do that. >> reporter: but campaign finance advocate says there's a cap that would add up to millions. >> this case is not just about mr. mccutchen and whether he can give a few extra contributions. it's about whether he can give $2.5 million to support congressional candidates. that's where the danger comes. >> reporter: now the sharp division shows how contentious it's become. they seem to agree there was no case to use this case as a sweeping ruling to get rid of all campaign contributions. straight ahead, your wednesday morning weather, and in sports, fan participation. a key playoff home run makes it out of the park with a little help from the spectators. no matter how busy your morning you can always do something better for yourself.

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here's a look at today's forecast in some cities around the country. new york, partly sunny today. miami will see scattered thunderstorms, and chicago will be sunny. dallas sunny as well and morning rain in los angeles. time now for a check of the national frachlt mid-atlantic and carolinas will see heavy rain. in the west, showers and mountain snow will stretch from southern california into the northern rockies, and the midwest is sunny and warm.

in sports now, the boston red sox finished in the sell over the american league last year but now they're headed to the champion league series. boston wins the series, the red sox managed just six hits but it's enough to win the game 3rks-1. boston gets the oner of the oakland/detroit series. the tigers facing elimination at home in game four and they get some luck. victor martinez ties the game alt 4-4 with a seventh inning homer and it has to be reviewed because two fans reached over the rail being u the umpire rules it is a home run. the tigers tack on three runs to win it, 8-6. the pittsburgh penguins are denying reports that all-star player james neal was injured while playing whiffle ball. last week the team play add game

of whiffle ball on the ice. well, the penguins have not disclosed how neal was hurt, only listing him as week to week. the penguins were also on the ice last night play iing hockey. jussi jokinen finishes his career with a second career hat trick. the penguins are off to a 3-0 start to the season. and longdy stance swimmer diane nyad is putting her endurance to the test again. the 64-year-old indonesia into a pool right here in new york city tuesday and is aiming to swim for two days straight. nyad is raising money for victims of superstorm sandy. last month she became the first person to swim from cuba to florida without a shark cage. and when we return, trouble past. we'll hear from a father of a 9-year-old boy who sneaks on a flight from minneapolis to vegas without a ticket and it wasn't

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here's a look at today's forecast in some cities around the country. washington, d.c., morning showers. atlanta, cloudy. sunny in st. louis and denver and mostly cloudy in seattle with a high of 58. two scientists behind the so-called god part cal one the nobel prize. peter higgs and francois englert. they split a prize of 1 ppt $2 million. and we're now hearing from a

father of a young boy who managed to fly from minneapolis to las vegas by himself without a ticket. it comes as a leaked memo reveals top lead investigators made several home visits and considered him to be a, quote, challenging child. >> reporter: the fiancee of a 9-year-old boy who hopped a delta flight from minneapolis to las vegas without a ticket is asking same question as investigators. >> how can you let emanuel sneak past security, get on the plane without anyone stopping him? >> the father who spoke to the stationdy not wish to be identified. last week his son was seen on surveillance video being screened at a tsa checkpoint. airport officials tell cbs it shows the boy darting past a distracted agent. >> we're not bad parents. we didn't think nothing of it.

>> the crew realized he wasn't supposed to be there and las vegas police took him into protective custody when the plane landed. the boy has a troubled history. the father said two days before the trip to las vegas he took a 30-foot refrigerated truck on a joy ride and landed into a police car. >> from what h the officers told me he was about to be tased when they realized he was a young boy. >> investigators are investigating to incident. investigators say the boy scouted out the airport the day before. the leaked memo says the boy's mother works at the st. paul minneapolis airport. coming up historical robert dow lick on his new book on the kennedy white house. i'm anne-marie green. this is the "cbs morning news." ] he loves me. he loves me not. he loves me. he loves me not.

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. good more than. welcome to wusa9. today is wednesday, october 9. buddy check 9 day. don't forget to call your buddy. i'm andrea roane. it's ladies morning here. >> it is ladies morning. one of our favorite mornings. i'm jessica doyle in for mike hydeck. monika samtani has your

timesaver traffic. >> we had ladies a couple of weeks ago. we're an all woman team for the entire week. we're going to have a downturn in our weather. it was messy on monday and then yesterday was nice and today will start out nice but things will be heading downhill as we head into the afternoon. so i would bring the umbrella with me as i'm heading out the door because you're going to want it for the afternoon drive back home. as you're heading back inside to your house once you get out of that car. 59 degrees the at 8:00 a.m. by noon 63. still peaks of sunshine but by 4:00 we'll see the rain moving in. 63 degrees. temperatures definitely held down today by the clouds and rain and that persistent flow out of the northeast at a to 15 miles per hour throughout the entire day. it's 52 right now in leesburg. it's 54 in manassas. 55 in fredricksburg. 58 in downtown washington and 51 degrees right now at andrews. you can see cooler temperatures off to the north and west where

we don't have as much cloud cover. the clouds helping to kind of keep temperatures from falling too much during the overnight. you can see that rain approaching. it looks like it's already here but this is a very slow moving system. so it's going to take until we get to the mid, late afternoon hours before the rain actually moves into the beltway. i'll have more on how long this coastal system is going to be a factor in our first alert seven- day forecast. right now let's get a look at timesaver traffic with monika samtani. good morning. >> good morning. overnight there had been an accident on veers mere road and now between the twinbrook parkway and randolph road, several signal lights are out here in the rockville area. we're told by step co. that it will -- pepco that it will be about 6:30 this morning before they can turn all of those lights back on there, the signal lights. be aware of that problem and treat of course that as a fourway stop. coming in on 270 from gaithersburg all the way into rockville and bethesda you're going to be absolutely fine.

here if you're planning to head northbound 95, we'll go here first. no problems to report in spring field up to 395. in virginia looking great. southbound 95 there had been construction overnight at the fairfax county parkway and they're promising that they're picking that up as we speak. back to glue monika, thank you -- back to you. >> monika, thank you. it's day nine of the government shutdown and seems like the democrats and republicans are improving their finger pointing skills rather than actually getting something done on the budget. president obama and john boehner spoke by phone yesterday before trading jabs in front of cameras. >> everybody is getting sick of all of this. the president still wants boehner to vote for a bill without strings but the speaker wants to negotiate over obamacare before he holds a vote or discusses the debt limit. >> reporter: the bodies of four american service members killed in the line of duty this weekend arrive at dover air

force base today. the government would typically pay for the families to fly to delaware to witness the return of their loved ones but that money is now on hold, a casualty of the government shutdown. >> i'm embarrassed. all of us should be. >> reporter: the families of 17 service members have already been denied benefits, including a $100,000 payment due within 36 hours of death. >> the death gratuity is extended to help cover funeral costs and help with immediate living expenses. >> reporter: the house is expected to vote today to restore those benefits but an agreement to end the shutdown is still nowhere in sight. >> it's pretty much the same thing every day and we're not really getting anywhere between each side. >> reporter: president obama warned republicans he would not negotiate until congress reopens the government and raises the debt ceiling. >> he can't make extortion routine as part of our democracy. >> reporter: republicans say first democrats must agree to spending cuts. >> we can't raise the debt

ceiling without doing something about what's driving us to borrow more money and to live beyond our means. >> reporter: the treasury department says it will run out of money to pay its bills on october 17. susan mcginnis, cbs news, washington. the international monetary fund issued a warning to a u.s. default on its loans would push the country back into a recession and hurt the global economy. the district has remained open throughout the shutdown but it can't afford to for much longer. mayor gray is demanding to meet with president barack obama and congressional leaders about the shutdown. the d.c. council approved legislation allowing the city to use emergency reserve funds to pay municipal employees but the mayor told wusa that it would only last for seven to ten days. it's going to be kind of hard to end the shutdown with some of the lawmakers in jail. at least eight congressional democrats were arrested yesterday after an immigration sit-in