All. The winning team is celebrating with us today, thursday, september 26th, 2013. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a thursday morning. Im Savannah Guthrie. Im matt lauer. I dont care if you know nothing about sailing. This was cool stuff yesterday. All you need to know is that this team came back from an 81 deficit. Won eight straight races and retained the america cup. Thats cool. I hear theyre going to play pittsburgh next. Anthony from behind camera one over there. Thank you, anthony. I had nothing to say about sailing. People will be excited when they hear how they pulled this off. Todays top story and that is this looming government shut down. Nbcs Peter Alexander is in washington. Peter, good morning to you. Matt, good morning to you. Simply put, everyone is zeroing in on october 1st. Thats next tuesday. If congress doesnt reach a budget deal boy then, federal agencies close. Its also the first day when uninsured americans can sign up for the president S Health Care
Peter, good morning to you. Reporter matt, good morning to you. Simply put, everyone is looming in on next thursday. If congress doesnt reach a bug dell by then, federal agencies close. It is also the first day when uninsured americans can sign up for the president S Health Care law. With the clock ticking, here is where things stand. Its getting down to the wire. Lawmakers have barely 100 hours to agree how to keep the government funded or shut it down tuesday. Republicans remain deeply divided. Senator cruzs 100 hour talkathon, quickly dismissed by john mccain, which insisted it is not worth shutting the government down over opposition to obamacare. But we not as hard as we could in a fair honest manner and we lost. Reporter in northern virginia, people are being more contemplative about it. People will say they will think before they boy a volvo. Reporter a shutdown could mean furloughs, tense of thousands of workers have to settle for ious instead of paychecks. The National Museums