Hospitals and drugstores are looking to improve health care, well talk to the president of cvs Minute Clinic that and more on this very busy thursday, october 3rd. Good evening everyone im sue herrera filling in for tyler mathisen. Im susie gharib. Forget the government shut down. Today it was about the looming debt crisis. Words coming from the u. S. Treasury today saying a default on the nations debt could be quote catastrophic. A scenario the treasury says will be worse than the recession were emerging from and pushed the markets sharply lower by the open. By midday there was slight relief after john boehner would not allow the u. S. To default. Boehner spokesperson says the speaker maintains the u. S. Will not default. That brought stocks back momentarily and if that werent enough, may ham outside the u. S. Capital after police shot and killed a woman who tried to ram her car through security barricades at the white house and then exchanged gunfire with the police. All and all, it
Of u. S. Aviation officials could delay jetliner deliveries. British based bae systems says pay and benefits for u. S. Employees wont change for at least this week, but they continue to monitor the possible need for furloughs going forward. One thing seems certain, though, the longer the shutdown lasts, the more furloughs we could see. Dominic chew, nightly Business Report in new york. And joining us now to talk more about what is happening in washington and what the implications mean for debt ceiling talks is andrew freedman. Welcome, pleasure to have you here. Thank you. Were you at all encouraged by this speakers indication he would not let the United States default . Does that give you the indication there is movement and progress on the hill . I dont know that it means there is any progress, but i am hardened by it nonetheless. I dont think well see a default here. The house of representatives is an unusual place. The speaker controls what legislation is introduced in front of the
When we began a feeding program in that area, our humanitarian workers were attacked. Woodruff those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Bitter cold, persistent and spread across much of the country today. Conditions were better suited to peng wins that people and gave new meaning to the term blue states. Im wearing long underwear, i feel like im going skiing but im not. Im going to work. Millimeters of americans spent another icy day in the polar vortex, from washington, d. C. Where readings started the day in the sing glits as soon as i got out of work i will make sure i bundle up and stay there. To most of th
When we began a feeding program in that area, our humanitarian workers were attacked. Woodruff those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Bitter cold, persistent and spread across much of the country today. Conditions were better suited to peng wins that people and gave new meaning to the term blue states. Im wearing long underwear, i feel like im going skiing but im not. Im going to work. Millimeters of americans spent another icy day in the polar vortex, from washington, d. C. Where readings started the day in the sing glits as soon as i got out of work i will make sure i bundle up and stay there. To most of th
In new york. Six days until election day. Today is the deadline to request your absentee ballot in massachusetts, washington, arizona. One week from now the country will be waking up from election day. We may not know who won but we do know the pandemic is driving americans to vote early in record numbers. About 69 million votes already cast. Remarkable. Thats more than half of the entire vote total from 2016. Overnight americas terrifying new normal was on display again. Over 73,000 new coronavirus cases reported. That is the fourth highest total. Almost 227,000 americans have died and yet the white house astonishingly is claiming credit for ending the pandemic on the list of science and technology accomplishments. Thats right. The white house according to the white house, the pandemic is over. Reporter on the flip side, joe Biden Campaigning in atlanta at a socially distanced rally. Hes trying to expand the map to nail down 270 electoral votes. There arent a lot of pundits who would