Plunging over the fiscal cliff. Three storms in one week. The west coast is getting hammered by rain. A live report minutes away for you. Good morning. Welcome to early start this tuesday morning. Im Christine Romans. Im zoraida sambolin. Its 5 00 a. M. In the east. We begin with breaking news. Iran claiming it has captured a u. S. Drone. This is video from state television in tehran it shows two revolutionary guard commanders examining what appears to be an intact scan eagle drone. We dont know if its the one they claim they captured. Moments ago a u. S. Defense official told Barbara Starr the u. S. Navy has fully accounted for all unmanned vehicles operating in the middle east region. We have the latest developments now from cairo. A u. S. Source says that if the iranians do have something, it is not an actively operating u. S. Navy drone. What would that mean . Could this actually be a fake . It could be. Its not clear right now, but iranian officials have a different story. We dont
Gerri is obamacare limbo and Insurance Agent in North Carolina tells us an unusually high volume of his obamacare applications are being sent back to him. Applications that still appear to be part of the overall obama care enrollment numbers but have yet to be officially approved and people applying for health insurance, theyre in limbo. With us now that Insurance Agent, dennis hill. Joining us paul howard from the manhattan institute. Dennis, thanks for coming on the show tonight. At what rate are you seeing applications returned to you . Well, were getting a pretty good rate now that, about 40 . Were doing a good many applications each week and seem to be getting works lately. Gerri dennis, that is about two in five of the applications youre getting are coming back to you and youre a broker with some 16 years worth of experience. Youve been around for a while. You know how to do this business. What do you think is going on . Why are they getting rejected . Were still having problems
Romney has avoided that problem. He went in the rose garden and said this was an act of terror. We got to name this condition hes going through. Russia, this is without question our number one geopolitical foe. Im not familiar with precisely with what exactly i said. I think its called romnesia. But i stand by what i said, whatever it was. We are just hours from the third and final debate of 2012, and tonight is the last chance for these candidates to command an audience of millions and to persuade voters that they deserve the trust of the American People for the next four years. Both the president and mitt romney have arrived here in boca raton, florida, and as they take the stage tonight, the polls could not be tighter. The race is dead even at 47 according to our new nbc news wall street journal poll. The president still leads on the commander in chief question, but that gap is narrowing, down from seven points to just three. Now within the margin of error. With tonights focus on Fo
Electronic gear, and on the latest mission to track u. S. Subs and intercept u. S. Communications. What can the u. S. Navy do about it . Youre in the situation room im wolf blitzer. This is cnn breaking news. Breaking news, President Trump tonight is facing a chaotic effort to keep the government running, his own mixed messages have left lawmakers scratcing their heads about where he stands. The government will grind to a halt tomorrow night, looking at the clock, counting down with 31 hours to go unless Congress Passes a spending bill. Lets go to our chief white house kcorrespondent, jim accosta. Can they stop the shutdown . Well see, wolf. The shutdown is more than 24 hours away, and despite the need for urgency, gop leaders are deciphering tweets in search of clarity of what he wants. Republicans may be in charge of the white house and congress, but with the shutdown looming, dont tell that to President Trump. Ill the democrats want a shut down to get off the subject of the tax cuts
Steve harrigan is reporting from West Palm Beach where the president is spending his holiday weekend. Steve, what else are we learning from this report . Molly, this New York Times article cites at least four unnamed sources, both u. S. And foreign officials that it says say that the one time unpaid Foreign Policy advisor to the Trump Campaign may have been the source for all of the fbi investigation into the 2016 president ial election. They claim that he in a london wine bar told an australian diplomat that the russians had hacked Hilary Clintons emails and that they had dirt on Hilary Clinton. President trump may have been responding to this article a short time ago when on twitter he posted the following the president was defending his own use of twitter against what he calls the fake news media. Molly . All right, what else is coming up on the white house agenda . A couple of key meetings coming up in the week ahead. First on wednesday, congressional leaders both democrats and rep