reporter: he moved as a 20-year-old to miami to live that dream and within two years he was a drug kingpin. at least that's what federal prosecutors called him when he was arrested. a conviction followed. before sentencing, santos says he vowed to do his time and change his ways. boy, did he ever. it's tonight's bay area proud. >> did everybody check their e-mail today? i sent you ten questions. >> reporter: san francis-- >> today we're going to talk about the federal prison system. >> reporter: michael was in federal custody. >> i just want to share my experience with you. >> reporter: prison is where michael santos has spent the past 26 summers of his life. >> 9,500 days from entrance to release. >> reporter: it was in 1987 michael was convicted in federal court of being a drug kingpin of shipping kilos of cocaine from miami to seattle. before he was even sentenced, before he spent a single of those nights in prison, michael made one very good decision. he picked up a philosophy book and learned about socrates. >> when he had the opportunity to escape, he said, i'm not going to do that.

we'll be right back. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, kingpin. bust that went down at a bay area libra >>> cops say it was like an amazon.com for illegal drugs. the fbi nabbing a suspected drug kingpin. the bust that went down at a bay area library. that and more at 5:00. >>> a pair of ferocious bundles of joy just arrived at a south korean zoo. two white lion cubs drew an audience at lost valley safari park. they don't look ferocious yet. >> pretty darn cute. >> for many it was the first time seeing anything like these animals. the white fur is derived from a rare color mutation in the species and the zoo says there are only 300 of its kind left in the world. they are beauties. >> they are going to outgrow that litter box. >> oh, yeah. and get hungrier. >> in a big way. >>> a dance team's move to a popular song sidelines a wisconsin high school coach's career. coach lisa jolin was fired in august three days after a halftime performance to the summer song blurred lines. she says students always picked their own songs but school leaders received c

. >>> kingpin caught. a man in his 20s, under arrest, accused of running a billion-dollar black market for drugs. how investigators uncovered the amazon.com for narcotics. >>> and no fear. a fisherman, risking his own life to rescue one of the most dangerous animals in the world. >>> good morning. we begin this thursday with high-level white house meetings on shutdown. >> president obama and top lawmakers talking behind closed doors last night. for many angry and frustrated americans, it looked like a omising step. >> abc's tahman bradley is joining us from washington with more on how those talks turned out. good morning, tahman. >> reporter: good morning, diana. good morning, john. the good news is, at least all of the key players here in washington are talking again. the bad news, they're not any closer to striking a deal. the government shutdown enters a third day after a meeting between president obama and congressional leaders yielded no sign of progress. >> we are locked in tight on obama care. >> al

that should be noted i'm noting that right now i think we all should know that guzman the kingpin of mexican methamphetamine jailers works with the u.s. government by member states as we reported on the show the two thousand and eight financial crisis was driven in part from the closure of the cambio money exchange shops. connected to the mexican drug cartels which shut off the supply of actual physical dollars member we live in a fractional reserve banking system with very few actual physical dollars but when they cut off the supply as part of the beef that they had with the u.s. government who decided to crack down on that that money laundering and this includes of course h.s.b.c. they cut the supply of cash off which in turn caused the financial crisis of two thousand and eight it wasn't only until they turn the money supply back on that we saw some liquidity return to the market you know what we're going to get spend one moment but i want to point out that in light of silk road being shut down this sentence this statement here about sin alone is interesting in court documents a h

that should be noted i'm noting it right now i think we all should know that guzman the kingpin of mexican methamphetamine jailers works with the u.s. government by member states as we reported on the show the two thousand and eight financial crisis was driven in part from the closure of the cambio money exchange shops. connected to the mexican drug cartels which shut off the supply of actual physical dollars as member we live in a fractional reserve banking system with very few actual physical dollars but when they cut off the supply as part of the beef that they had with the u.s. government who decided to crack down on that and that money laundering and this includes of course h.s.b.c. they cut the supply of cash off which in turn caused the financial crisis of two thousand and eight it wasn't only until they turn the money supply back on that we saw some liquidity return to the market you know what we're going to get spent in one moment but i want to point out that in light of silk road being shut down this sentence this statement here about sin aloa is interesting in court documents a

and it was bad. >> without the kingpin, the crane is doomed.ds later, big blue and the roof come crashing down. >> watch it! >> there's no -- there's nothing you can do, you know. it's terrifying. >> the crane and roof fall away from jeff's yellow man basket seen on the right and miss him. but another crane on the left is hit. it's holding a man basket with three other iron workers in it. >> there was a crane holding my three friends and then my crane and then blue and mine was the only one left standing, i think. all of the other cranes went over. >> all three men lose their lives. it's a devastating blow. >> jerry star was a really nice guy. he was our union steward on the job. jeff is the guy i knew the most. and bill, diver we called him on the job, i had just met him. he was a real nice guys, you know. >> several other people are injured, including kasinski. he sustains a career-ending back injury when his basket is lowered and stopped too quickly. >> that was my last day on the job. >> an investigation finds several factors are to blame f

one of the kingpins in the antiquities racket is the golden dawn of a far right wing party.hose in thethere after more than money. -- in the know are more than money. >> they're out to provoke the albanian people, not just the orthodox community. these radicals are fighting to get pieces of albania to split off and join with greece. >> and orthodox trees calls believers to worship. -- and orthodox raised calls believers to worship. he is hoping the newly elected government will make good on its promises to protect albanians cultural treasures. then he says the signs of saying "here stands a state protected cultural monument" might have some meaning. what do you do when you are faced with rising energy prices? governments are looking for alternatives to imported oil. the british government buildings in the fracking method to pump up oil and gas from deep underground. that method is met with heavy resistance in the south of london. people have been protesting at a potential fracking site there for weeks. this used to be a sleepy village in west stuck six. -- stuck six -- susse

of course these young men have bosses, drug kingpins who hold the real power in the flavelsas. them. our guide, former dealer says that could be risky, but he will try. and that is how two days later we fiend ourselves in a tiny room, down a back alley with members of rio's most powerful gang, the red command. we are getting a rare glimpse at drugs being prepared. and that's when the man in charge here, shows up. he is draped in gold, and carrying a semiautomatic weapon. he agrees to go on camera as long as we don't show his face. he has several armed men in the room, looming over our shoulders, making sure we keep our promise. finally our chance to ask tough questions of one of rio's real criminal power brokers. he has a question completely by surprise. after days of trying to get here. now, we're not sure if we'll get out. also coming up, the other side in this war for paradise. the cops. are these really the good guys? they shot a woman who had a baby in her arms. when we made our commitment to the gulf, bp had two big goals: help the gulf recover and learn from what happene

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macdonald >>> a drug kingpin busted by the feds in a bay area public library. the rookie mistake that brought down an illegal internet empire. >> wow, i can feel the heat in here. >> it was just ranked the safest car in america. the roadway hazard that caused a tesla to burst into flames. >> the heat is on in the bay area. the numbers are coming up and the winds will blow. we'll have the forecast in a few minutes. >> the whole thing about no hot spots? unfortunately, that just changed. we have a new motorcycle crash causing busier conditions on highway 4. we'll have the latest on your morning drive coming up. >>> good morning, everyone. it's thursday, october 3. i'm michelle griego. >> hi, everyone. i'm frank mallicoat. 5:30 now. and it is the end of the road for an international drug kingpin who the fbi says ran a billion-dollar empire. kpix 5 reporter cate caugiran explains how he did it all. >> reporter: the fbi shut down the website and the san francisco owner they say used the alias dread pirate robber from the princess bride is behind bars facing life in

undercover agents posing as filmmakers convinced the kingpin pirate to travel to belgium. when he got there, he was arrested on criminal charges stemming from a 2009 hijacking of a belgian ship. a u.n. report has described hassan as one of the most notorious and influential leaders in somalia's pirate network. >>> there are surprising new revelations about the health of former president george w. bush. nbc news has confirmed a report in "the national journal" that the former president's heart problems were much more serious than previously reported. and he was, quote, very lucky that they caught them. the 67-year-old received a stent over the summer to open up blood flow to a heart chamber. sources familiar with the former president's medical situation tell "the national journal" his coronary artery was 95% blocked. >>> incredible video coming out of kansas. storm chasers capturing a severe storm that produced a landspout tornado about 15 miles from dodge city, kansas. it brought with it heavy rain and hard-hitting hail. nbc meteorologist bill karins here with more about t

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a young man is in custody accused of being an online drug kingpin with an operation that sold over $1 billion of narcotics. >> 29-year-old ross ulbricht charged with drug trafficking, computer hacking and money laundering. a second indictment accuses him of ordering people to be killed. he is accused of operating a hidden website called silk road. it was the drug world's equivalent of ebay, matching anonymous buyers and sellers. anyone could buy guns, ammo and forge documents through this website. "gma" will have details and comment from the fbi coming up later this morning. >>> new york city police have made an arrest in the wild confrontation between motorcyclists and the driver of an suv. christopher cruz is charged with reckless driving for slowing down his motorcycle in front of a car, setting the violence in motion. later, the driver plowed through the bikers, critically injuring one of them before he was pulled from his car and injured. >>> edwin miese in a coma with spinal injuries that may prevent him from walking again. organizers collected money for his family. and they hop

your average tech guy, but the fbi says this bay area entrepreneur is actually an international drug kingpin ran a billion-dollar empire off his laptop. good evening. i'm elizabeth cook. >> i'm ken b wstida. users could buy anything they wanted from heroin to hit men. joe. >> ken, the fbi says hidden away fl something called the teep web, part of the internet most of us have never heard of. now,itis gone. fbi shut it down. the san francisco owner who went by the name dread pirate roberts, he's behind bars. >> just last year during an interview with a friend, ross said he wanted to do right. >> i want to have had a substantially-positive impact on the tuch of humanity by that time. >> today he's in jail. >> staffers at the glen park ranch here a commotion coming from the science fiction area of the library and identified themselves from the fbi and said they were making an arrest. >> before the feds shut it down, federal court documents say his web site sold more than a billion dollars of illegal drugs in just two years. the site also soerld illegal services from fire works to fake ids to hit

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we wanted to go to the source of this misery, the drug kingpins. in a tiny room down a back alley, we scored a very rare interview with a drug lord, draped in gold and carrying a semiautomatic rifle. he demanded we conceal his identity. given how serious the crack epidemic is here, do you worry at all about selling that to the community? then, he surprised us with a question of his own. i took a moment to absorb this comment, and then the drug lord started chuckling. fair point. fair point. now, as rio prepares to host millions of sports fans, police have launched a war to uproot the gangs. but this urban counter-insurgency campaign is massively controversial, because rio's police have a long history of brutality and corruption. just look at this video of a police helicopter firing wildly in the middle of a neighborhood while in pursuit of a drug lord. it's extraordinary video and the police defend their tough tactics, but we met many people in rio who said, point blank, they would rather live under the gangs than the police. they have harrowing st

. >> a drug kingpin will be in court today. 25-year-old ross all brick known on-line as dread pirateest for running a black market web site for selling everything from heroin to hit men on-line. they shut down the web site believed to have den generated more than a billion dollars in black market money. he faces numerous charges ranging from drug trafficking to murder for hire. a bid to reopen the grand canyon in state funding is rejected. arizona's governor offered the idea to put over 2,000 furloughed employees back to work and allow tourists back into t the park's superintendent said he's not allowed to accept the money. this as the reclusive get away ca camp david remains open. staffers are at work and still getting paid. >> the blame game continues as we enter game four of the shut down stalemate for hundreds of thousands of government workers in financial limbo. this while washington is slimming down. the white house cancelling a planned trip to asia. all of this and still no deal in sight. >> elizabeth prann has more from washington. >> despite the dialogue there's no signs th

>> when i was federal prosecutor i would say the last guy in was ways t kingpin. whatever deal the feds require. sac anybody available they call for to testify against martoma and the other guy. that will be end of them. ths iceberg dead ahead that is what is coming for them. if this deal gets struck, those two have to plead guilty. they have no choice. melissa: how big after win is it for the government? >> i think it's a b win. it is awful, all full lot of money, 1.billion dollars. it sends a serious messa. they have been going after ts guy for years. melissa: forever. this is a huge deal. they have been after him forever and ever. he is a huge target. he is so well-known this is such a big deal on wall street i think it's a huge win for the government. >> it is, and i you read t indictment they had a lot on him. frankly these guys were a little dirty. the fact that the feds did their work which ultimately prevailed which is what we need for them to do. melissa: fred, thank for coming on. >> thanks for having me. melissa: cing up on "money," head for anconomic a

the kingpin of this whole thing and obama is blameless and let's get her. >> rob, should -- i mean ist possible she could have been murdered by the white house? i am just raising that question. is it possible in a realm of possibility that she was murdered by the white house? and i don't mean just the dc white house, any white house. >> well that would help. it could be. i am not saying yes and not saying no. i don't have the facts. i would like to see the investigation. i know no one is more upset or frustrated than obama himself. it makes me feel bad for him. bill, you were the face or ass of the website skinny butts .org that's how i discovered you. ever thought to going back to modeling? >> which was i, the face or the ass? i think the reason they didn't released the name, before she was known there was threats on twitter regardless. they tied the nameless motto, this person on a stock photo to all of owe bay you ma care. and -- obamacare. as somebody who gets vit trail i understand it. and now there is an account called not bill schulz. >> somebody has to take responsibility. >>

we wanted to go to the source of this misery, the drug kingpin.back alley, we scored a very rare interview with a drug lord, draped in gold and carrying a semiautomatic rifle. he demanded we conceal his identity. >> you get how serious the crack epidemic is here? do you worry about selling it? he surprised us with a question of his own. i took a moment to absorb this comment and then the drug lord started chuckling. now as rio prepares to host millions of sports fans, police have launched a war to uproot the gang, but this urban counterinsurgency campaign is massively controversial because rio's police have a long history of brutality and corruption. just look at this video of a police helicopter firing wildly in the middle of a neighborhood while in pursuit of a drug lord. police defend their tough tactics. however, while in rio, we met many people who said they would rather live under the drug gangs than the cops. an extraordinary statement. dan harris, abc news, new york. >> that is incredible video. >> so you wonder what are they going to do i

. >> it was in 1987 that michael was convicted in federal court of being a drug kingpin.g kilos of cocaine from miami to his home town of seattle. >> i made every bad decision you can make. >> before he was even sentenced, before he spent a single of those 9,500 nights in prison, he made a very good decision. he picked up a philosophy book and learned about socrates. >> particularly when socrates had an tunnel to escape, and he said no, i'm not going to do that. i live in a democracy. in a democracy i have the right to change the laws that i don't believe in but i don't have a right to break the laws. that's what totally trans formed my life. >> michael vowed then and there to do his time. educate himself and become a contributing member to society. what followed was an undergraduate degree from mercer university, a masters degree from hofstra university. michael was even on his way to a ph.d. until his warden shut that down. >> the warden said this is a threat to our security. we're not a university. this is a prison. >> still, making says that just enabled him to focus

he wanted to be kingpin, tough guy. he was always talking with us like he was in control.wool pulled over his eyes. we asked him what we could do, as investigators to help identify potential suspects and that's when he brought up the sex slasher film festival. >> there's always the link between sex and violence. i think it's safe to say the guy fantasizes a lot and he finds ways to vicariously experience the thing that is get him off. in this case, it's killing young women. like anybody else who has an obsession, he has ways he vicarious lly satisfies it. one way he gets off is slasher films. i know it sounds weird. what i would do is i would find the bloodiest, coolest slasher move that's out there that's never been shown, a vivid, lurid, sex murder kind of flick. >> the investigators decide to go. what they want bundy to do is talk about his involvement in his own crimes. >> can you see ted bundy contacting us in the future saying i'm ready talk? >> yes, i can see myself talking to you sometime. >> how about within the next two or three hours? >> nice try. >> i would cer

we wanted to go to the source of this misery, the drug kingpins.n a tiny room down a back alley, we scored a very rare interview with a drug lord, draged in gold and carrying a semiautomatic rifle. he demanded we conceal his identity. given how serious the crack epidemic is here, do you worry at all about selling that to the community? then, he surprised us with a question of his own. i took a moment to absorb this comment, and then the drug lord started chuckling. fair point. fair point. now, as rio prepares to host millions of sports fans, police have launched a war to uproot the gangs. but this urban counter-insurgency campaign is massively controversial, because rio's police have a long history of brutality and corruption. just look at this video of a police helicopter firing wildly in the middle of a neighborhood while in pursuit of a drug lord. it's extraordinary video and the police defend their tough tactics, but we met many people in rio who said, point blank, they would rather live under the gangs than the police. they have harrowing stor

. >>> in prince william county a judge will hear from lawyers trying to get an accused drug kingpin offjustin wolf was convicted for the 2001 murder for hire of a drug supplier. the prosecution is accused of coercing a key witness. an appeals court is trying to figure out whether wolf should be released from prison. wolf has been on death row since 2002 the. and this afternoon d.c. mayor vincent gray will officially open a new police training facility. the new facility is on the grounds of the old mpd shooting range. police chief kathy lanier says that new building will provide realistic simulations for recruits and for officers. today's ribbon cutting is set for 1:00 this afternoon. >>> the government is losing money by the minute because of the shutdown. the huge price tag this fight carries. >> and the messages online or on twitter. federal workers say they will not reply to e-mails or tweets. why a simple response could cost them their jobs. 6:36. >>> good morning. clear andcal. jupiter in the southern sky. that crescent moon hovering on this wednesday morning. if it feels like >>>

the al shabaab kingpin, mohammed mohammed alleged to have planned last week attack in that nairobi mall is a different kettle of fish. when he we were in somalia during the spring of last year kinnian and ugandan troops from the south and ethiopian from the north all but disseminated al shabaab in somalia. the al shabaab attack was a desperation measure to prove that the organization still had credibility. i'm told that the seal team operation to take out adeer mohammed was put together in less than 48 hours and the problem, of course, is that they found children on the objectives, decided to withdraw and pull back off the beach. they had come in from ships and they went back out to ships. greta? >> greta: yeah, ollie, in terms of the second one in somalia, it was just ill-conceived? did we go too soon? >> well, look it. we have got lousy humit. >> bill: by that you mean human intelligence? >> exactly. human intelligence has been almost nonexistent through much of this war. the drone killings that we have pursued so vigorously by the obama administration has produced very little or no u

this morning in prince william county a judge will hear from lawyers trying to get an accused drug kingpin death row. he was convicted for the murder for hire. the prosecution is accused of coercing a key witness during a trial and an appeals court is trying to figure out whether wolf should be released from prison. he has been on death row since 2002. this afternoon a d.c. high school teacher will be sentenced for receiving child pornography. prosecutors say he sent and received explicit fphotos of himself to male students at mckinley tech in northeast. solano was a science teacher and track coach. he faces up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. >>> this afternoon d.c. mayor vincent gray will open a new police training facility. the new facility is on the grounds of the old mpd shooting range in southwest. d.c. police chief kathy lanier says the new building will provide realistic simulations for recruits and officers. today's ribbon cutting ceremony kicks off at 1:00. >>> we are coming up on 5:50 on this wednesday morning. tom is back here with us. we are looking for record heat t

. >>> coming up, how the feds say they traced the kingpin of a billion-dollar drug dealing empire to this bay area library. and the silly mistake that led to his arrest. >> we really trying to create a community of travelers. >> how hostels in the bay area and beyond are seeing the types of customers you don't normally think of. >> anybody visiting the bay area right now is enjoying great weather and residents too. sunshine over the south bay, we'll talk about a big warmup when it arrives and how long it's going to last, that's coming up next. >> and coming up at 6:30, the major changes at schools that will impact every student in california. ,, running a billion- dollar oe drug empire. the f-b-i says 2 >>> a simple mistake may have been the undoing of a san francisco man accused of running a billion-dollar online drug empire. the fbi says 29-year-old ross ulbright used his own name on a programming messaging board while developing his online marketplace called silk road. the hidden site made commissions off the exchange of illegal drugs and services. the fbi says that ulbright was m

making it rewarding for the retail investors, to you and not the high-frequency trader hedge fund kingpinums. hear me out on this. there are two executives i believe care passionately about the stock and shareholders. vf corp reported amazing numbers this morning and gave you a 4 for 1 split. here's what i'm thinking, you don't get many better and smarter execs and they see what i see, a market dominated by trading bandits who knock stocks down! >> sell, sell, sell! >> you need a stable basis of shareholders to get away from the egregious pattern. you need retail shareholders to hold on the the stock. and he's about as rigorous as they get. talk about something apple needs to get away from. this ridiculous grip of predator and prey with the company stock being the prey! on october 28th, apple announces a 4 for 1 stock split. here's the bottom line, looking for an overlooked stock in a red hot market that has terrific catalysts, then look at apple. i can't think of a metric that's expensive. i can think of many more things that can go right and very few that go wrong. and that yield trampo

. >>> kingpin caught.d of running a billion-dollar black market for drugs. how investigators discovered the amazon.com for narcotics. >>> and a fisherman, risking his own life to rescue one of the most dangerous animals in the world. >>> good morning. we begin this thursday with high-level white house meetings on shutdown. >> president obama and top lawmakers talking behind closed

. >>> kingpin caught.d of running a billion-dollar black market for drugs. how investigators discovered the amazon.com for narcotics. >>> and a fisherman, risking his own life to rescue one of the most dangerous animals in the world. >>> good morning. we begin this thursday with high-level white house meetings on shutdown. >> president obama and top lawmakers talking behind closed doors last night. for many angry and frustrated americans, it looked like a promising step. >> abc's tahman bradley is joining us from washington with how those talks turned out. >> reporter: the good news is, all of the key players here in washington are talking again. the bad news, they're not any closer to striking a deal. the government shutdown enters a third day after a meeting between president obama and congressional leaders yielded no sign of progress. >> we are locked in tight on obama care. >> all we're asking for here is a discussion and fairness for the american people under obama care. >> reporter: president obama s

gilligan set out on a mission to turn a mild-mannered high school chemistry teach entire a murderer kingpinbreaking bad" won this year emmy for outstanding drama. a record 10.3 million people watched the finale sunday night. vince gilligan, we welcome you here. we're pleased to you have. >> thank you so much. >> everybody seems to love one line in the finale, it is "i did it for me." >> yes. >> you wrote the line? >> and i think it was a long overdue bit of honesty from mr. white. i think he was doing it for him all along. and he finally copped to it, which i know it's very important to have in that final episode. >> charlie coyier said the head of ame said the only thing that you asked was to end it on your own terms which you did that. what did you do at the end of that script? did you take a drink, did you cry, did you lay down? >> well, in the end, i wrote the end, usually the end it says "the end" at the end, this says "end of series." that last program, i do admit i teared up a bit. it was a emotional. it could be the last time i was ever going to write that character. >> did you have

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the issue is, should there be the death penalty for drug kingp kingpins.ke a textbook rebuttal of the issues at play. >> that gets to the point, in terms of the actual policy of the federal level, there weren't many implications here in 1988. it was an emotional test. how -- we see this sort of bloodless answer, how should very handled it, any candidate confronted with a question like that, handle something like that. >> first thing, you know, i sympathize with them a little bit in the sense that it comes out of nowhere and you're like you're in shock to hear the question. but as soon as he's talking about -- as soon as it is framed in terms of his wife, then you respond with some emotion, you know, and something like, well, you know, of course i would want retribution for such a horrendous issue coming into my family this is why we have the rule of law. not -- wouldn't be up to me in this case, and then move on. or however. some variation of that. but, you know, it was well known how emotional an issue the death penalty was. way back, i guess it was in 19

over 10.3 million viewers tuned in to see the high school teacher turned meth kingpin wrap up all unfinished business. the finale's record ratings put "breaking bad" only behind the sopranos and sex in the city. >> wait until walking dead. that's coming soon. >> the scenes that we're showing are very -- >> i saw jessie with a beard. i don't want to know anything. >> but that's because you're many seasons behind. >> no, i'm not. i'm in the middle of the third season. let me just check my machine. >> you check your e-mail. i'll say it again, the best finale ever. >> really? >> i don't know if you had view owes sopranos. people had views on the dexter ending. this was an ending to beat all endings. it was done so perfectly. >> the whole series was done perfectly. >> and yesterday i was thinking, how can it end, is there a way i can like walter and like jessie -- >> do you like skyler? >> that sounds like a yes. >> did you finally end up liking skylar? >> i know you don't like her. i never disliked her. >> yeah, you did. because you've argued with me. your wife like skyler, you like walt. >> i d

on the show, walter white was a meth cooking drug kingpin, so the sheriff was happy to see it put to haven't watched the show. i don't know the draw. >> thanks for watching today. >> now more on the debt ceiling show down. >> nothing has done more damage to america's credibility in the world. our standing with other countries, than the spectacle that we have seen these past several weeks. >> and it is not over yet. the count down to the next crisis is on. two days on the calendar that you will see when "your money" starts. we'll see you back here at the top of the hour. >>> the government is open for business, america can pay it's bills for now. i'm christine romans. >> congratulations washington. >> i want to thank the leadership for coming together. >> you once again narrowly diverted a disaster of your own making. >> holding the u.s. hostage -- >> in exchange for ransom. >> the debt ceiling was raised and the government reopened. in other words what should have occurred from the start. >> this whole shut down has been completely un

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