hi, everyone, i'm tamron hall. coming up on "news nation," waiting for word out of the white house where president obama is meeting with speaker boehner and majority reader reid. we'll get the reaction from tom harken, congressman tom graves and sheila jackson lee on the possibility of a government shutdown. also, we have a live report from japan, where the strongest aftershock yet has rattled that country. new details for you. and a man accused of kidnapping a girl and holding her captive for two decades enters a surprise plea in court. that is all ahead on "news nation" in about 15 minutes. and breaking news we're following right now. a possible pipe bomb ex explosion near a synagogue in santa monica, california. police say some kind of device hit the roof of a jewish meeting center, one block from the santa monica synagogue. at least 100 people in the area have been evacuated as pipe bomb experts investigate the blast.