engel jeret and peter higgs won the nobel prize in physics this morning for their discovery of the higgs bosen gives mass to the universe. also known as the god particle. bay area professors from stanford along with a professor from yale picked up a nobel prize in medicine yesterday. >> it's called the higgs bosen after peter higgs. >> that's right. >>> a car goes off a hillside. coming up the search underway right now. >>> here's a live look at the big board. the dow is down 37 points. it's slierding. it remains under 15,000. ahead we'll go live to jane king at the new york exchange. >>> coming up, three days before >> announcer: this is abc 7 news. >>> 6:45. developing news right now in san francisco. police and fire crews are combing the area around twin peaks reservoir for a missing driver. officials say a car rolled from 20th boulevard down the hillside to the reservoir around 4:00 this morning and caught fire. so far they haven't seen any sign of a driver or any passengers. crews brought in extra equipment to light up the area to see if they can find anyone who may have been thrown from

francois engler and peter higgs won the nobel prize for their discovery of the higgs bosen. it gives mass to the universe. it's been called the god particle. bay area professors randy shekt man and thomas sudhoff from yale picked up the nobel prize in medicine yesterday. >>> the government shutdown is in the second week. senate democrats are proposing to pass the bill in nine days. it could be unveiled as early as today and challenges republicans to a filibuster showdown. should that happen it could trigger a meltdown on the financial markets with the first ever possible default on u.s. obligations. meanwhile, president obama has increased the pressure on house speaker john boehner to hold a vote on a clean spending bill to expand 23u7bding and end the shutdown. the speaker claims the funding bill cannot pass unless republicans get changes to obama care. >>> and a new abc news washington post poll shows republicans are losing the most ground in the shutdown blame game. 70% of those surveyed in an abc news washington post poll disapprove of how the gop is handling the shutdow

in this ancient polem, it was about physics, specifically about higgs-bosen. this poll am stated that everything is made of invisible particles, which is what this award is about. it said that all particles are emotion and an infinite void, among other things. the other part of this poem which really outraged people is that it said that all religions are invariably cruel because humans are not unique. when you die, your particles just go back into infinity. >> the beginning to the key of all this? >> yes, it is a very important historical milestone. >> i cannot help noticing that the chancellor of germany is a physicist herself. has there been much reaction in germany, the kind we have seen in the anglo-saxon press? >> yeah, people get excited about it. the thing is, in much of the media, they say it is god's particle, which is a little ridiculous because even higgs does not call it that. now the name sticks around and that his story. the good thing with the nobel prize is a gets people thing, people interested in physics. >> the god particle is catchy. able w

won the nobel prize in physics this morning for the discovery of the higgs bosen, an elusive particlehat gives mass to the universe. also known as the god particle. randy schectman and thomas sudoff along with a professor from yale picked up the nobel prize in medicine yesterday. >>> the government is entering the second week of its partial shutdown. senate democrats are planning to pass a stand alone measure to raise the debt ceiling two in nine days. the measure could be unveiled as early as today. it could trigger a meltdown on the financial markets with the first ever possible default on u.s. obligations. meantime, president obama has increased the pressure on house speaker john boehner to hold a vote on a clean spending bill to expand funding and end the shutdown. the speaker claims a funding bill cannot pass unless republicans get changes to obama care. >>> a new abc news washington post poll shows republicans are losing the most ground in the shutdown blame game. 70% of the surveyed in an abc news washington post poll disagree with the way it's being handled. 60% disapprove of