i'm del walters in new york. these are the stories that we're following for you. president obama has set a meeting with house democratic leaders today as the government shutdown rages on. >>> chemical weapons inspectors set to tell us the progress of destroying syria's chemical stockpiles. ♪ >>> it is day nine of the government shutdown and there could be a small window of hope, a break through in the stalemate. both sides appear to be open now to a short-term debt ceiling extension and a temporary end to the shutdown. a could give them wiggle room to try to find a longer solution. president obama set to meet with house democrats this afternoon and plans to meet with senators and republicans in the upcoming days. randall pinkston joining us now. randall president obama said he would be open to that possible deal, how has that been received? >> right now we're not hearing very much hospitalal to the president's window of opportunity for a short-term debt ceiling deal. senator boehner also wants it to deal with debt ceiling budgets. and democrats are expected to bla

i'm del walters in new york.re back at the top of the hour. >> hi i'm lisa fletcher and you're in the stream. some native americans drive more than 100 miles to cast a ballot and they're fed up . voting, it is essential to our democracy. but some native americans in montana say they don't have equal access. they filed a lawsuit against county and state election officials asking for satellite voting on their reservations to begin 30 days prior to elect

now, here he is walter white-o-fied.an williams, right here. [ laughter ] here he is as walter white. hey, that's pretty good, actually. >> yeah. >> jimmy: that's not a bad look. here is harry styles from one direction. let's walter white him. [ laughter ] he looks like joey lawrence. next, we've got my man tom hanks. let's see what he looks like. yeah, that's nice. and finally here is vice president joe biden, and here he is as walter white. yeah, i love it. this one is from abbey lynd. "hey, jimmy. i can't believe it's already october. halloween is just around the corner and i have no idea what i'm going to be. could you give us some costume ideas and maybe do it as a rap?" [ cheers ] halloween is coming up soon, i know our own tariq from the roots loves halloween. tariq, do you mind rapping about some possible costume ideas? >> no problemo. ♪ ♪ well maybe i get a costume of my favorite cartoon spiderman, ironman, mf doom maybe me and my wife ♪ ♪ will come as the sun and the moon you and yours popeye and alice the goon

(laughter) let's talk about walter for a second. you've been living with this evil guy in your head for over six years now. is it going to be hard to get him out of there? >> you know what? it's -- yeah, i think it will be hard. my writers, my six writers and i spent a lot of time thinking about this guy and, yeah, he's a tough guy to have stuck in your head for 24 hours a day, six years straight. >> stephen: people ask me sometimes, like, when did walter lose you? he never lost me. >> okay. >> stephen: i was with him to the very end. it all made sense to me. >> okay, good, good. >> stephen: didn't always root for him but it always made sense to me. >> yeah, now that's -- i'm glad. he always made sense to me, too. if the character never made sense to us as writers or to bryan cranston as the guy playing him that would be tough to -- he never lost us that way. >> stephen: were you rooting for him? >> there was times it became extremely difficult to root for him because he was kind of a bastard a lot of times. (laughter). >> stephen:

i'm del walters.ere are your headlines. >> listen, i think the president wants to deal with america's pressing problems just as much as we do, but in order to deal with these pressing problems, we have got to sit down and have a conversation that leads to a negotiation that begins to solve these problems for the future and for frankly our kids and grandkids. >> john boehner putting a republican proposal on the table that would raise the nation's debt ceiling, the white house has said it wants congress to pass a clean debt limit increase. we are still waiting for the white house briefing to begin. more details as they become available. >>> libya's prime minister was ceased for a few hours today. he was abducted by a group of armed men who later released him unharmed. >>> the u.s. has halted military aide to egypt. >>> the death toll from a boat of african migrants that sank off of the coast of italy is climbing. the migrants came from somalia and artreeia. the wreck has lead to calls for action to tack

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i'm del walters these are your headlines.sident obama says he plans to meet with house democratic leaders today. he has blamed republicans for holding the u.s. economy hostage. senate democrats came out a time ago to talk about the ongoing budget battle. >> i'll say it once again. open the government, pay our bills. we are happy to negotiate on anything. we -- we have given boehner what he wanted. number 1, his number. we did that. it was hard to do. you have all heard me say that. number two, he said he wants a conference. we said we'll go to conference to you on anything you want, all you need to do is open the government and let us pay our bills. >>> and the president will nomination janet yeller as the head of the federal reserve bank. >>> in a news conference earlier today the head of the un inspectors saying can experts plan to visit 20 sites in the upcoming weeks. >>> the saying goes once bitten twice shy, and you would think that would also apply to sharks. >> reporter: greg pickering is either the unluckiest man or t

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i'm del walters. these are the stories we're following for your right now. >> everybody wins here if we work together to get this done. in fact if there's a good reason not to pass this common sense reform, i haven't heard it. >> president obama pushing his plan for immigration reform. >>> and congressional grilling on the problems with the president's healthcare website. >>> and trying to get to the bottom of the allegations that the u.s. listened to the german chancellor's phone calls. ♪ >>> president obama saying now is the time, this is the moment to pass immigration reform. he says now that the government shutdown is over, republicans and democrats should come together to fix what he is calling a broken immigration system. mike viqueira what does the president want exactly in >> well, as you reported the president says this is the moment. there is precious little time between now and next year, which is an election year in congress. bipartisan support now languishing in the house of representativ

>> >>> welcome to al jazeera america, i'm del walters. these are the stories we are following for you. >> the central argument is this, are we going to sit down and have a conversation or aren't we? >> both parties say they want to talk it out but no change still. >>> more weapons inspectors now headed into syria. and north korea puts its forces on alert. >>> the shutdown continues after the house and congress continue to fight over the budget. republicans are saying they will not raise the debt limit without negotiations. that is something the house with says it does not support. we're joined by randall pinkston at the white house. and speaker boehner says he is not drawing any lines in the sand, has there been any response from the white house? >> the white house continues to say if speaker boehner would allow the so-called continuing resolution, a clean bill with no amendment, that the shutdown could be ended right away. they are not quite so sure what to do about the debt ceiling, but the shutdown could be ended right away. meanwhile

i'm del walters these are your headlines. federal judge is going to decide if the city of detroit can go ahead with its bankruptcy case. that hearing will determine if the city is eligible for file. >>> pakistan's prime minister will meet with president obama today, the topic of drones expected to top the subjects. >>> the bishop of bling has been suspended after wanting to have a $42 million resident build. >>> a city in missouri, hundreds of people gathering in a call for charges against two boys accused of sexually assaulting a teenager and her friend. jonathan martin has more from maryville, missouri. >> reporter: marryville, missouri, a town of just 12,000 people finds it's a in the spotlight, as protesters gather with daisies. >> all of the evidence was there, and they still turned their back on her. >> the girls one 14, the other 13 at the time, say they were raped by two classmates, a 16 and 17 year old boy, a third teen is accused of recording the incident on his cell phone. the girls and their families say they endu

i'm del walters. these are the stories that we are following for you. >> there was no economic rationale for all of this. >> president obama telling congress to focus on the job at hand growing the economy. >> it's a relief. i'm really happy to be back. i love my job. i love my coworkers, so it's really good to be able to see them again. >> hundreds of thousands of federal workers are being welcomed back on the job. >>> and mr. booker goes to washington, the newark major, getting a senate seat. ♪ >>> after 16 days, it is now starting to look like business as usual for the federal government. hundreds of thousands of employees are now back on the job, the nation's parks and historic sites are reopening, and president obama welcoming the deal that ended the government shutdown and saad the u.s. from default. >> these twin threats to our economy have now been lifted, and i want to thank those democrats and republicans for getting together and getting the job done. >> wall street seems worry about the imp

i'm del walters. these are the stories that we are following for you. >> in these early weeks access to healthcare.gov has been a miserable experience for way to many americans. >> kathleen sebelius says the buck stops with her. >> and free after three years in captivity, these four french hostages are going home. ♪ >> the health and human services secretary is still answering questions on the capitol hill at this hour. the house committee grilling kathleen sebelius about the troubled affordable care website. beginning her testimony an hour ago with an apology. >> let me say directly to these americans. you deserve better. i apologize. i am accountable for you for fixing these problems, and i'm committed to earning your confidence back by fixing the site. >> randall pinkston us now live on capitol hill. randall apologizing, taking responsibility, so how does she say they are going to go about fixing the problem in >> she says the work is already underway, technicians are running tests constantly, and

i'm del walters. here's are the stories that we're following for you. >> i'm confident the republicans will allow the government to open and extend the ability of this country to pay its bills. >> lawmakers try to work out a deal as the deadline for extending the debt ceiling gets even closer. >>> as the u.n. inspectors could be buying time for the assad machinregime. >>> and muslims around the world gathering for hajj. >> three days and counting now until the u.s. government loses it's ability to borrow money to pay its bills. senate leaders are holding off last-minute talks but there is no negotiation to end the government shutdown. where do these things stand after another week of negotiations and proposals. >> reporter: this is what shutdown looks like when it meets debt ceiling. the deadline is running out. you're going to hear from the house, nothing from the white house today because they're observing the columbus day, public holiday. where we're at after the weekend, the deal that we thought w

i'm del walters. here are your headlines.retary of state john kerry is in london where he is meeting with world leaders about the war in syria. he said a political solution is the only way to end the conflict. >>> a weaker than expected jobs report is outtoday. employers adding 148,000 jobs in september. the report was delayed because of the government shutdown. >>> and counselors are available for students at sparks middle school in nevada today. monday was the scene of the shooting that left a teacher dead, and two other students wounded. the 12 year old shooter then shot and killed himself. >>> a group of young men from iraq have turned a lot of heads in the hip hop community. they recently performed in dearborn, michigan. >> reporter: the sounds of hip hop music emanate from the walls of the museum in dearborn, michigan. and these young men who traveled here from iraq are taking center stage. they call themselves the step grow. they have embraced urban american hip hop culture through dance. >> it's an opportunity to expr

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>> welcome to al jazeera america, i'm del walters. these are the stories that we're following for you. pakistan pressed for an end to those u.s. drone strikes as members of both nations are meeting in washington. as u.s. prepares to leave afghanistan is that country now ready to defend itself. left to die, syrian refugees rescued at sea are now speaking out. >> the tense relationship between the u.s. and pakistan are going to be facing a key test this afternoon. that's when president obama and pakistawillbe meeting to discusf drones. >> reporter: there are contentious issues between pakistan and the united states. it's been a rocky relationship for many years. particularly after u.s. forces raid deep in the party of pakistan that killed osama bin laden, and the continuing issue of drone strikes, which have increased dramatically under the obama administration. we saw amnesty report holding the united states responsible for civilian deaths and violating international laws. certainly those issues are going to be on the table. but what i

i'm del walters, and earth rises is next. for more throughout the day, go to aljazeera.com, where we have special coverage of the syrian refugee crisis. more than 1 million people have fled that country. and wall street is up. 55-plus in the points. >> i'm mei-ling mcnamara in canada here to discover how the great bear rainforest is being protected. >> i'm amanda burrell. i'm in london to find out how to make old houses green. >> and i'm yaara bou melhem in indonesia's south sulawesi looking at how the efforts of local people are restoring this mangrove forest.

writer walter kirn remembers the first time he laid eyes on it. >> standing unframed against the walls are what must have been $50 million, $60 million worth of mark rothkos, jackson pollocks, abstract expressionist masterpieces. >> reporter: that artwork was one reason that kirn never doubted rockefeller until years later, when the whole world would learn that the art was expertly forged. >> you wouldn't guess that the man is fake, the art is fake, the name is fake-- everything, you know. >> reporter: shortly after the art appeared, sandra boss married her rockefeller. >> who supported your family financially after you got married? >> i did. >> who controlled the finances? >> the defendant. >> reporter: kirn met the couple in 1998 when the marriage was already in trouble. >> i remember sitting there thinking, "this is a sad marriage. they don't love each other." it didn't seem like a happy place. >> reporter: but they stayed together and even had a daughter. in 2001, reigh storrow rockefeller was born. but five years later, sandra boss filed for divorce, and when things got contentiou

in fact, so was so much of the legislation, that critics like walter lipman and john mcgregor were writing about a constitutional crisis, that we couldn't get anything done. the other part about this is john kennedy's focus was the world. his only black adviser once said to him, you care more about germany than alabama, which is true. >> that's fascinating. a fascinating read. david, did you want to say one more thing? >> you look at the art of president kennedy, too. the cuban missile crisis, he turned down the advice of his top military advisers to launch a nuclear war. i think that gave him a whole different perspective, and we never saw what that really would have yielded. >> and he gets to meet the beatles. >> that is worth imagining. "if kennedy lived," jeff

here's walter siggelkow.alter siggelkow, entrepreneurs get launched for all kinds of reasons and in all kinds of settings, but this is one of the first times where it started around a beer with some buddies. that usually leads to more beer and maybe a hockey game or a baseball game, but in your case it led to a really good idea, so how did it start? - yeah, we were 6 guys sitting around a lake, overlooking a lake, having some beers and talking about the idea of building a better remote control system for the mining industry. at the time, we called it a better mousetrap. and, you know, that went on for a few months - nice summer days sitting over the lake in wanapitei lake, and eventually we just started the company up, the 6 of us, and that was the beginning of it. - was it a prototype? i mean, it's one thing to sit around and talk when you have no capital, and concretely how did you do it? - well, the whole use of these remote control systems in the mining industry was something that was adapted from overhea

>>> welcome to al jazerra america i am del zotto walters. these are the stories that we are following for you. a summit to bring more jobs to the u.s. the president plays host to global leaders asking them to invest. iraq's prime minister asking the u.s. for help dealing with the increasing violence in his country. and syria has met that deadline, the deadline for destroying its chemical weapons. ♪ ♪ >>> president obama is courting does biz and government leaders from around the world. he's trying to convince them to invest in the u.s. randall pinkston joins us now live from washington where the president is about to speak. and randall, we understand that there is good news to the economic front today. >> reporter: yes, indeed, there is, del zotto. the deficit, the nation's deficit has dropped to $680 billion that's the first time it's dipped below a trillion in about five years. that is very good news. the president to talk to talk up the advantages for foreign inning investors and are going to be using 32 trade missions around the world to

and then i turned around and looked at walter and walter was smiling and he went -- [laughter] i knew he knew now. >> we are, unfortunately almost out of time but before i ask you the last question, a couple of housekeeping matters -- i would like to. remind you of our upcoming speakers on november 5, we have rolled it on -- we have goldie hawn and then walt bettinger from charles schwab. i would like to present our guest with the traditional national press club coffee mug. [applause] >> thank you. [applause] >> and for the last question -- tell us, are there gay vulcans and if so, how do they socialize? [laughter] >> i can answer that. it's a changed world now. we have the new version of "star trek." the last two movies had younger actors playing our roles. the actor who plays spock, a vulcan, is played by zachary quinto who is gay. we have an out gay vulcan and he happens to be spock. [laughter] zachary is a real great guy and he's also a very serious actor. as you know, he was on "heroes," and i was mr. knocker mora -- nakamura, the father of hiro who has magical powers. zachary wa

and then i turned around and looked at walter and walter was smiling and he went - [laughter] i knew he knew now. >> we are, unfortunately almost out of time but before i ask you the last question, a couple of housekeeping matters -- i would like to. remind you of our upcoming speakers on november 5, we have rolled it on -- we have goldie hawn and then walt bettinger from charles schwab. i would like to present our guest with the traditional national press club coffee mug. [applause] >> thank you. [applause] >> and for the last question -- tell us, are there gay vulcans and if so, how do they socialize? [laughter] >> i can answer that. it's a changed world now. we have the new version of "star trek." the last two movies had younger actors playing our roles. the actor who plays spock, a vulcan, is played by zachary quinto who is gay. we have an out gay vulcan and he happens to be spock. [laughter] zachary is a real great guy and he's also a very serious actor. as you know, he was on "heroes," and i was mr. knocker mora -- nakamura, the father of hiro who has magical powers. zachary wa

snow walter white. [ laughter ] so, you keep the snow white outfit, but then you be walter white fromw -- it's amazing. >> no one would know who you are. you got to explain yourself. i'm snow walter white. [ applause ] i just thought -- i figured it'd be fun for you. >> thank you. >> jimmy: you're welcome. >> i'll send you a pic. >> jimmy: i want to -- yeah, please. i have a clip of "ender's game." you guys are going to love this. god, it's a good sci-fi movie. it's so fun. and you're great in it. here's hailee steinfeld in "ender's game." take a look at this. >> you know bonzo doesn't like to lose. he doesn't want an untrained launchie screwing up his perfect maneuvers. but the battle room is open 24/7. during free time, i could show you some moves. ♪ ♪ [ lasers firing ] >> impressive. >> jimmy: yeah, i got to see that. [ cheers and applause ] i got to see it again on imax. yeah, because it looks great. congratulations. hailee steinfeld. "ender's game" it's in theaters november 1st. you're great, pal. come back whenever you want to. robin pecknold from fleet foxes performs a pearl ja

. >> walter white from "breaking bad" was honored in albuquerque journal by getting his own obituary this week. they gave hem props for being cofounder of gray matter. >> a lot of people read that and thought walter white died. >> what if they mixed him up and thought oh, my god, that guy sold meth! >> we have franklin from gta5. >> everyone is losing their girlfriends and jobs. >> it was a side mission w

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. >> it's been two years since reporting the fbi and sec were investigating walter ask kelly ng. the criminal case is finally moving forward. many people have lost their live savings. >> over the past 35 year, walter ng and his son ran limited partnerships. then made loans to real estate developers. the charging document, united states of america versus walter ng and kelly ng say they looted funds by making withdrawals and charged with structuring for the purpose of evading requirements. being a hell of a long delay. >> the 81-year-old doctor is typical of the ng investors met through friends and lost more than $400,000. he had to delay his retirement, and. >> aprilly at last. i'll be happier when they're sitting in jail. and happier yet if able to extract anything, pu i think we may have lost every penny. >> the ngs face a civil case from the sec. and using assets to rescue a rapidly collapsing fund. one class action lawsuit thinks ngs and others may face additional charges. >> i think we'll find during this period, the people were supposed to be watching over them, they're ktan

i'm del walters.hese are the stories we are following for you. >> violence eruptses tens of thousands take to the streets on cairo. protesters marking the attack of forces at the signi. >> those members of al qaeda and other terrorist organizations literally can run but not hide. >> secretary of state john kerry speaking out hours after two raids were lunched targetting

i'm del walters. here are the stories that we are following for you. germany wants of answers about u.s. spy allegations. they are sending their intelligence chiefs to get them. >>> and a new push to stop the abuse of pain killers. the fda now making changes. >>> bulgarian officials say they have found the mother of that little girl pushed into the national spot light. >>> the u.s. is now trying to deal with the fallout from a week of damaging revelations about spying activities. germany now saying it will send its top intelligence chiefs to washington next week to try to get some answers from the white house. the spying allegations overshadowing a meeting in belgium. also today british prime minister talking about the leaker, and those who publish what edward snowden gave them. >> what mr. snowden has effectively done and what some newspapers are assisting him in doing, and that is going to make at it lot more difficult to keep our countries and our people safe. >> mike viqueira joins us now live from the white house with more on how the white house i

. >> walter cance can't no longerk and barely event. the growth of his body and brain are stunted.e has noting syndrome. thousands of children have it and there is no cure and eventioeventually it kills. his sis a sister grace has it t. most of the time she is too weak to couldn' comp out come out of. >> it's difficult to look at these two children. i look for support from any well wisher and without that i feel useless and they will die. >> a few kilometres away these children suffer from the syndrome but they have been coming to this special sen centr for a year. >> they are given basic education and bal balanced meald the staff he hem help them to wh every day. >> you can see them. they could not play, they are now. they would have no smiling on the their faces. >> now they laugh. they are still no not cured. the children still get seizures but they happen less frequently and the staff are trained by dock torgdoctors how to handle . medicines for epilepsy help and vet minutevitamins too. these two doctors run a charity for the syndrome, called hope for hu humans. >> the children

(walter murch) francis wrote a script involving a cross-country trip.t was an existential leap into the unknown. in fact, they wound up in nebraska. and they said, "if we can do this in nebraska, there's no reason we'd have to be in hollywood." it was 3 or 4 months after that francis had made the decision to set up american zoetrope in san francisco. francis wants to own everything that he needs to make a film. he wanted to own the cameras, own the lights and sound, own the editing machine, and the building. he didn't want to have to answer to anybody. he wanted to be able to mount a movie 2 days after he thought of it, if he, if he wanted to. that grew to a bigger version, later in the 70s, where he came back to hollywood and bought this studio, (fred roos) this physical old studio. that was the second incarnation of his zoetrope dream. every time i've seen a studio in different travels, you know, "ardmore in ireland" and my first impulse is to want to immediately buy it and bring a lot of people there and start it going again. but there are a lot of f

i'm del walters. here are the stories that we are following for you. >> are we going to sit down and have a conversation or aren't we? >> it is absolutely absurd what they believe is in the best interest of or country right now. >> the shut downcontinues. >>> more weapons inspectors will be heading into syria. and north korea putting its forces on alert. [ technical difficulties ] >> but they just did not talk to each other, now the debate over ending the government shutdown has also become about the debt ceiling. libby we are hearing reports that harry reid could rollout a stand-alone measure to raise the debt ceiling. what are you hearing about that? >> that's right, dell. watch for that today. a bill like that would still have to ultimately pass the house which as you know would be a heavy lift. a bill like this would require 60 votes to overcome a filibuster. for some democrats who are facing tough reelection bids next year, this could be a dicey vote, which is why it's believed this technique has

i'm del walters. these are the stories we're following for. >> you this is far left than main of us have hoped for but far better than some had sought. >> a deal now on the table. the shutdown and debt ceiling drama coming to an end. now we're waiting for congress to vote. >> this debate will continue until collectively the american people can make these-- >> but the gentleman from texas does not get congress to go along with what he said, but ted cruz said he will not block the deal. the white house briefing now under way. white house press secretary saying the president congratulates congress on the deal that was just reached. it happened 11 years before the debt ceiling deadline. senate leaders unveiling a bipartisan plan to a void a default. wall street relieved that the situation is almost over. it's just off its high off 200-plus points. but the plan contains few specifics to address the the nation's nearly 17 trillion-dollar debt, once again kicking the can down the road. we have libby casey, b

i'm del walters. these are the stories that we are following for you. a milestone for the destruction of chemical weapons in syria. >>> the iraqi president comes to america, an up tick of violence in his country has him asking for help. >>> and president obama is trying to convince business leaders from around the world to invest in america. ♪ >>> syria has taken an important step towards eliminating its chemical weapons stockpile. the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons says that syria has now destroyed the key equipment to make those weapons. that news coming a day before the dead line set last month. omar al saleh has more from istanbul. >> reporter: the opcw says they went to 21 of 23 sites declared by syria. the remaining two were not visited by the inspectors because of safety and security concerns. they removed some of the items in those sites to be verified and inspected at another location. now syria has met two key deadlines, but the most important one is yet to come, and this is called phase 3. it involves the destruction of

all walter reed bethesda employees are to report to work. if today is a day off for them, the day is still considered a day off. if they have scheduled leave, they are permitted to take that leave. >>> the u.s. military raided two second terrorist camps this weekend. delta force commandos captured abut amos in libya. and navy seals also stormed a camp in somalia. they were trying to grab a senior leader of al-shabab. >>> in africa, more than 50 people are dead from clashes in egypt between security forces and islamist protesters. supporters are calling for the return of morsi. the muslims chose this day because it is the 40th anniversary of egypt's last war with israel. >>> it is 4:32. metro has identified the contractor killed during a repair work assignment on the red lane early sunday morning. he is 41-year-old harold ingram from new jersey. he was killed and two metro employees injured during the explosion and fire in a tunnel overnight near union station. the men were working to replace a large rail when they were hit by a structure. >>

i'm dell walters in new york. we'll see you at the top of the hour. >> an al jazeera america exclusive. corruptions has reached is the higheshighest level of politics. how wide spread is this conduct? we'll run it down across america. an important follow up on a story we brought you recently. interpreters who risked their lives being kept in harm's way by political red tape. >> and the hemingway curse. one of america's moist america's families has been rocked by suicides. mariel hemingway will join us. >> we begin with corruption in california. >> in this report al jazeera investigative unit will look at a sting operation launched by the fbi. >> los angeles, a city where fame and infamego hand and hand. here everything seems larger than life. including it's politicians that state senator ronald calderon. >> he is one of california's most influential lawmakers. and he is a target of an ongoing investigation. according to a sealed affidavit obtained by al jazeera investigative unit the senator is for sale. a politic

i'm del walters. these are the stories that we are following for you. the way forward after the government shutdown. lawmakers getting back to the business of the budget. >>> about an hour from now we're expecting an announcement from the white house, the president set to name a new head of homeland security. >>> and some lebanese citizens say they are losing their jobs to the syrians fleeing the fighting. ♪ >>> the federal government has reopened and the nation can continue borrowing money to pay its bills. now congress and the white house are looking ahead. the house and senate are trying to come up with a plan while the president is pushing forward on other parts of his agenda. libby easier said than done. >> that's right. but we heard cautious optimism from center patry murray, and congressman paul ryan. congressman ryan laid pretty low over the last couple of weeks, but emerged in the final few days as someone who was talking and trying to find some negotiation point. here is how they described their starting points. >> chairman ryan knows i'm not

i'm del walters, and inside story is next.

walter heller left the council in 1964.1985, the man in this office rejected the idea that the government could fine-tune the economy. we cannot do it now, and we couldn't do it then. some of my predecessors believed they could. so far as the reagan administration is concerned, we recognize that. we try not to fine-tune because it would be a road toward disaster. what happened between the sixties and the eighties? the seventies happened bad years for theory and practice of macro-economics. monthly fine-tuning of monetary policy created havoc in the economy as martin feldstein explains. i think the 1970s, in particular, was a decade in which monetary policy pursued the wrong goals, was based on the wrong premises, and got us into terrible trouble. it was money's excessive growth more than anything else, that brought us to the double-digit inflation rates. in the seventies, fiscal policy was not much better. by the time congress got around to changing fiscal policy, a tax cut or an increase in spending it was too late. instea

i'm del walters from new york. you can go to www.aljazeera.com where the news continues 24 hours a day. >> hi i'm lisa fletcher and you're in the stream. some native americans drive more than 100 miles to cast a ballot and they're fed up . voting, it is essential to our democracy. but some native americans in montana say they don't have equal access. they filed a lawsuit against county and state election officials asking for satellite voting on their reservations to begin 30 days prior to election, just like everywhere else in the state. >> there's a law out there for almost anything that we want to do. and one of the laws is the right to vote. and all we're trying to do today is see that the state government, you know, helps us enforce that law. we want the secretary of state to stand beside us and say this needs to be done. >> election officials say they don't have the budget to set up those sites. also at stake, the potential for native american voters to change election outcomes. this controversy reaches beyond

man who went missing for gold -- mining gold, actually, is now missing this morning. 65-year-old walter steever left on a trip for the sierra a week ago today and hasn't been heard from since. kpix 5's anne makovec has the very latest now on the search efforts. anne. >> reporter: he minus gold in -- mines gold in the area often and knows it well. as for search crews it's a 24- hour operation to find that gold miner from san jose. the area is steep, rugged and difficult to search. >> we have ideas of where he normally travels and that's where we focus our searchers too. and we need to eliminate those areas so we can make sure we're moving in the right direction. >> reporter: when 65-year-old walter steever didn't return home over the weekend, his wife called authorities on monday. his car was found parked in a fire lane in a rural area near nevada city near owl creek and jones bar. about 1200 volunteers are scouring more than 120 acres again today. >> this is a pretty serious situation and nobody knows what the outcome will be at this point. >> reporter: steever was known in his san jose

i'm del walters, and these are your headlines.syria has now met that deadline for chemical weapons development. and the ocw said that the equipment has been reppedred inoperable >> >> president obama hosting a summit to create new jobs for america. he's trying to get business leaders from around the world to invest in the u.s. >> >> and british intelligence is worried about reports that the nsa spied on google and yahoo, and they're concerned about privacy invasion of u.s. citizens city. >> officials have announced new rules that allow passengers to use most portable electronic devices in flight. but don't expect to be chatting on your cellphone any time soon. the ban is still for text during the flights. >>> soon buying cigarettes or tobacco is going to be harder in new york city. that's because the legal age to buy cigarettes is about to go up to 21, and that will make it the toughest law in the country. >> reporter: cigarettes, cigars, tobacco, e cigarettes, will soon be off-limits until 21 to anyone in new york city. >> i'm a

i'm del walters. here are our top stories.akistan's prime minister meeting with president obama today. the topic of those drone strikes expected to top the agenda. the u.s. has care rid out a number of strikes leaving scores of civilians dead according to some reports. >>> secretary of state john kerry meeting in rome with prime netenyahu. focusing on negotiations with the palestinians and iran's nuclear am beneficiaries. >>> a federal judge is going to decide whether the city of detroit can go ahead with its bankruptcy case. it is the largest municipal bankruptcy filing in u.s. history. >>> 71 brush fires are burning across australia. firefighters are bracing for what could be their worst day yet. weather conditions are expected to worsen with hot temperatures and high winds combining in the forecast. andrew thomas has more from new south wales. >> reporter: john cameron was packed and ready to leave if necessary. down the road a neighborhood was putting up signs for fire members before she left, don't forget the animals. wat