senator, new york mayor cory brooker won a special election giving the

senator, new york mayor cory brooker won a special election giving the rising democratic star an evenger political stage. and after the floods in colorado, saving special memories, one photo at a time. ♪ ♪ >>> hello and welcome to al jazerra america, i am stephanie sy. a potential global crisis was averted in washington. providing funding to end the 16-came government shutdown. the house followed suit late wednesday night and president obama quickly signed it quickly in to law. that means federal employees can head back to work on thursday and the government will be able for owe money and pay its bills, mike have care is in washington with more. >> reporter: just before the house voted in an overwhelming fashion to pass that senate bill as well, the president came in to the white house briefing room and struck a co conciliatory toe and said this is much work to be done time to put politics and elections aside. the president will appear at the white house 10:35 in washington to talk about some of the initiatives that he wants to take from here going forward but it's unclear if that die

frank lautenberg but also welcome a new member to the united states senate, the senator-elect, cory brooker. what a remarkable young man he is. he was a student at stanford, to get into stanford you have to be a regular order student. but also a tight end for the football team at stanford now ranked number five in the nation and there have a -- stle a great football program and cory booker everyone will find he's a very, very big fan physically. he after graduating with a degree from stanford in political science he got his master's degree in sociology from stanford. he then became a rhodes scholar and studied the united states history at oxford. he received his law degree from yale, what an outstanding academic record. stanford, a couple of degrees, rhodes scholar, oxford, yale law school, that's quite impressive and then served on the city council and men mayor for two years of newark. and a job that's been noticed all over the country. recognized the great work he's done. during this four-week period, mr. president, we're going to do a number of things. not necessarily in this order. but