jennifer davis has more from washington, d.c. >> reporter: it's certainly getting down to the wire as the president obama visits the capitol to try to rally democrats and gop leaders are doing the same thing on their aisle. after weeks of intense and divisive debate, finally there is a debt deal. >> now, is this the deal i would have preferred? no. >> reporter: they agreed to it but -- >> neither side got as much as they hoped. but that's the essence of compromise. >> reporter: parties are holding close-ed-door meetings -- closed-door meetth. arm twisting may be necessary. lin earl democrats think too much has been dollared with no new -- liberal democratics think too much has been passed. >> reporter: others in the gop believes defense is taking too big of a hit. >> there's no question we can cut some things from defense but we need to protect our country. >> reporter: still, leaders are striking a generally optimistic tone. it raises the debt ceiling, cuts $trillion over the next -- $1 trillion over the next decade. here are the numbers -- in the senate, they need 60 to pass the agr

jennifer davis is live now in north carolina, tracking the damage along irene's path. >> reporter: hi ken and you know the good news is once irene moves along, there is some nice, king5 weather behind her, but the bad news is that she is slow to move on of she hung over this section of north carolina all day today, 12 hours of pounding winds and really difficult and hard rains and now this storm is taking aim at the rest of the east coast. irene is a monster, slow-moving storm and now that she is moving out of north carolina, she is taking aim at the rest east coast. a savage storm with a damaging wrath and irene is churning with winds packing a dangerous punch of the monster storm spent most of the day in morehead city, north carolina. managing to find the one grocery store employ in this town some scrounged up whatever they could. >> we really didn't want to have to break the grill out and try to figure out how to vent out of garage. they had lights on and i came to get something to eat. >> reporter: irene is blamed for several fatalityiates. a 7-year-old boy was killed when this fr

. >> jennifer davis is live for us in more head city.k down. i am happy to report that oh, rein moved it out. itt pass there. and we were pounded with rain and wind. it was experiences that we will act. now in the area 20,000 without electricity. and one million people and at this point, it was not practicing. when the sun comes up and they will do and if you may father. a lot of details. some people getting 12-15 inches of rain and see how that recedes and we upon the peers good news. >> they are shuth down the george washington bridge which connects new jersey and manhattan. high winds is likely the season and weather conditions being cited. hurricane hurricane irene is over virge and we'll have the latest up date for you. there you can see the picture. helps eliminate plaque at the gumline, helping prevent gingivitis. it's even clinically proven to help reverse it in just 4 weeks. new crest pro-health clinical toothpaste. life opens up when you do. may take several days for the national weather service to confirm. the district fire ch

we are live with stranded travelers but we begin with jennifer davis. >> reporter: hi, there, healthier. irene is finally moving on. much to the relief of folks here in north carolina although she left once it got dark so we have to wait until the sunrises to see the full extent of the damage. it's very dark here. more than a million people without power between virginia and north carolina tonight. >> jennifer, you mentioned the power outages. any update on the new number and when officials might get some power restored? >> reporter: we're easily at a million if not more and there is no telling when it will be restored. this isn't just a localized event where if it was big you could bring in help but there is a regional vent. i remember has just begun her trip off the east coast and electrical and power crews will be slammed from here to new england. so we were warned, everybody was told have enough supplies to last for several days. we lost power at 2:00 a.m. last night and there is no telling when it's coming back. >> jennifer, what type of damage are you seeing there? >> you know, we

we begin with jennifer davis where the winds are picking up in carolina. >> we are starting to see gusts of wind that we have not seen today. but it's clear that irene is almost here and then she will move up the east coast. >>> waves crashing in and making it the up the steps here. earlier in the day it was sunny and many people took advantage of the clear skies, pulling boats out of the water. >> boats will not be there in an hour. >> much of the year is bored up. people left lifts for irene. you have to go deep in history to find a storm like irene. >> you have to back to 1960. that is why locals say they paid attention to evacuation orders. >> i remember my parents talking about hurricane hazel and you never know. so it's better to be safe. >> those that cannot board to stay at hotels there's shelters that they can stay at. >> some of them are hurting, the inconvenience of it and they know, that they are going to be protected where they are. >>> three of hose shelters are here in -- three of those shelters are here in town. they had at least 200 people, families and singles and elder

we begin with jennifer davis where the winds are picking up in carolina. >> we are starting to see gusts of wind that we have not seen today. but it's clear that irene is almost here and then she will move up the east coast. >>> waves crashing in and making it the up the steps here. earlier in the day it was sunny and many people took advantage of the clear skies, pulling boats out of the water. >> boats will not be there in an hour. >> much of the year is bored up. people left lifts for irene. you have to go deep in history to find a storm like irene. >> you have to back to 1960. that is why locals say they paid attention to evacuation orders. >> i remember my parents talking about hurricane hazel and you never know. so it's better to be safe. >> those that cannot board to stay at hotels there's shelters that they can stay at. >> some of them are hurting, the inconvenience of it and they know, that they are going to be protected where they are. >>> three of hose shelters are here in -- three of those shelters are here in town. they had at least 200 people, families and singles and elder

live in atlantic beach, i'm jennifer davis, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> stay with ktvu and ktvu.com forhe latest on irene. at 10:30, an event expected to attract .25 of a million people that has now been cancelled because of that hurricane. >>> police say william fuller was picked up last night. suspect pierre daniel was killed at the scene and his brother freddy daniel is hospitalized with a gunshot wound. a security guard is also recovering from a gunshot wound. tonight police are telling ktvu that they were looking at the daniels brothers in connection with a brinks truck robbery at hilltop mall in may. >>> today the union lashed out at lumis saying the company's budget cutting tactics are dangerous. they used to work in crews of threes, now they work in twos. >>> police say they have now identified a young man fatally shot after someone recognized his distinctiontive tattoos. police now say they belong to 18-year-old evan chapman of oakland. this tattoo on his left forearm said teresa. chapman also had a series of arms tattooed on his left arm. chapman was shot, at this point no arr

live in atlantic beach, i'm jennifer davis, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> stay with ktvu and ktvu.com forhe latest on irene. at 10:30, an event expected to attract .25 of a million people that has now been cancelled because of that hurricane. >>> police say william fuller was picked up last night. suspect pierre daniel was killed at the scene and his brother freddy daniel is hospitalized with a gunshot wound. a security guard is also recovering from a gunshot wound. tonight police are telling ktvu that they were looking at the daniels brothers in connection with a brinks truck robbery at hilltop mall in may. >>> today the union lashed out at lumis saying the company's budget cutting tactics are dangerous. they used to work in crews of threes, now they work in twos. >>> police say they have now identified a young man fatally shot after someone recognized his distinctiontive tattoos. police now say they belong to 18-year-old evan chapman of oakland. this tattoo on his left forearm said teresa. chapman also had a series of arms tattooed on his left arm. chapman was shot, at this point no arr

jennifer davis filed this report from the coastal sfi. >> waves crashing into this pier in atlantic beach. it was some of the first signs that irene is just around the corner. earlier in the day it was still sunny, and many people took advantage of the clear skies to prepare for the powerful storm's arrival. ray jordan was one of the many people pulling their boats from the nearby marina. >> there are two boats in there and the owners were getting them out. they said they won't be there in an hour or so. >> much of the area was boarded up and emptied out. but folks left messages. one list smeftd storms that struck north carolina in recent years. they say you have to dig deep into history to find a storm similar to irene. >> you have to go to september of 1960, hurricane donna striking this beach as a hurricane 3 to find a storm of comparable size and intensity. >> that's why a lot of locals say they paid attention to evacuation orders. >> i remember my parents talking about hazel in 1954. you never know. i said it is better to be safe. >> those that can't afford to stay at hotels have thr

leaders have agreed to the program but jennifer day vern -- davis -- program. jennifer davis is live with more. hi, jennifer. >> reporter: hi, maureen. a lot going on. the president says this process has been messy and it's gone on way too long. today, it's the leaders' job to see if they can get rank and file members on board. >> the leaders of both parties in both chambers have reached an agreement that will reduce the deficit and avoid default. >> reporter: that announcement alone feels like a victory. but congress still has to vote on this. >> this agreement won't make every republican and democrat happy. but both parties gained more ground than they wanted to. >> reporter: this proposal, the first is cutting about $120 trillion in spending over the next years and raising the debt ceiling by $900 million, the second establishes a committee to decide on another $1.5 trillion in cuts to be voted on by the end of the year. >> there's now a framework to review that will ensure significant cuts in washington's spending. >> reporter: the president says everyone h

jennifer davis live for us in d.c. thank you very much for that update. you read the headline at the top of the 6:00 and said they called the government back. i thought you were talking about the united states of america. you were talking about london because fire rages there after three days of riots. i thought when the president came to the microphones yesterday, he was going to call congress back and he was going to say i am calling them back to do something about our economy immediately. nope. >> you thought he was going to do that? >> thought the president had a plan? >> i did. >> everybody thought ok, when they heard the president is going to make a speech from the state dining room at 1:00, they thought ok, he's got something to say, this is going to be big. if you take a look at how the stock market reacted, you can tell exactly how much he did say. when he started, the dow was down 410 points. and 10 minutes after, it was down 323 points and 30 minutes after he spoke, it was down 605 points and the problem was he said nothing. he lectured once ag

jennifer pharr davis did it in just seven weeks. the fastest time in history.. congratulations to you on a successful mission. you had a chance to rest now. >> for us. it's going to take months, i think, to rest. but we're enjoying our time off of the trail. >> you got some videos, great pictures of it. what was it like when you finally, got to the end, crossed the finish line, you had a nice little welcoming committee there, what was going through your mind, what was the 2350e8 feeling? >> it was completely overchemming. we had worked so hard for 46 days to get there. i think at the end it was just this relief of all emotions. of happiness, of sadness that it was over, of fatigue. i mean, everything could finally just come out. >> yeah, brew, did you have any doubt in your mind that she would be able to do this in record time? >> i would never say doubt. i think there was uncertainty. i mean you just don't know what's going to happen. i mean, the last time she did the trail, the very last day she almost stepped on a rattlesnake. that would have ended the recor

for more reaction, let's go to fox news reporter jennifer davis joining us live from our d.c. bureau. good morning to you. >> good morning, guys. all eyes on the global markets today to see how they react to news of this s&p downgrade. u.s. stock futures have tumbled. asian markets down. what's going to happen on wall street? that's the million dollar question today. the news from s&p came after those markets had closed on friday. downgrade going from triple a status down one notch to double a plus. s&p says this is a reflection not only of the political gridlock in washington and fact that the ratings agency doubts whether or not lawmakers can come together to work this problem out but also about the fact that they say that debt ceiling deal last week didn't cut enough. s&p wanted to see $4 trillion in cuts. we have not heard from the president publicly on this issue but the treasury secretary was out this weekend and he says this was -- this decision by s&p showed terrible judgment on their part. he said it was based on flawed math and so we will wait to see from -- and hear

jennifer farr davis finished a trek and hiked and ran an average of 45 miles a day for more than sixcalls hiking her passion, career, and calling. >> soccer goalie hope solo drove the pace car at the brickyard 400. the first win in 167 nascar races. of course according to tradition, the end is crew. kiss the bricks. >> hours away from passing a compromise. as soon as the opening bell rang. how are we looking? >> we were looking better at the opening bell. we saw the dow surge in the first couple of minutes and it's off a bit. the dow up 50 and the nasdaq better by 11. wall street thinks the deal will get done and it puts it behind. now the focus is on the broader economy and economic growth and job growth which is also anemic. we are getting the jobs report and what you are seeing is wall street taking a step back and saying let's take a look forward in what's going to happen. right now it is pretty. you are not seeing as much optimism and that's why the rally fizzled out a bit. >> we will keep talking. it dominated the headline for a weeks. this argument over the nation's debt is no