shall we? and there is another showdown over a possible shutdown. one week from today, the federal government will are up out of money. so with critical government programs and disaster relief hanging in the balance, congress is taking the weekend off. but they say they have good reason to. they needed to cool off a bit. cnn congressional correspondent indicate baldwin tells us what's holding up a deal. >> with lawmakers heading for the exits and after a long week of heated debate. >> that's the danger to this country is the $14 trillion deficit and the $1.6 trillion we add to it every damn year. >> wake up. wakeup. you can't kill these programs. this is the solution you are killing. >> reporter: congress leaves washington with no agreement on how to avoid another government shutdown. why the holdup as the september 30th deadline looms? neither side is backing down. top republicans and democrats continue pointing fingers at each other. >> harry reid is holding a bill up with full funding of what is needed right now for no reason, no reason but for politics. again, this is why the people just don't have the respect for this the institution and this town anymore. >> i can't understand their logic. do they want the government to shutdown? do they want fema to close and film ma will close. >> the house late thursday nightmare rowley passed a short-term spending bill that would keep the government funded through mid-november. the measure also includes what both sides say they care about most, urgently needed money for federal disaster relief in the wake of the recent floods, storms and wildfires. >> it is a reasonable, responsible approach. >> but that plan was quickly rejected by the senate. the democratic majority strongly opposed to house gop demands the disaster aid be paid for or offset by cutting money for clean energy programs. including one limpinged to the now bankrupt solar company solynd solyndra. yet, democrats contend these programs are createding jobs. >> is it really fair to fund disaster relief, we take american jobs? >> senator reid has countered with what senate democrats call a compromise saying they'll go along with the house measure providing $3.6 billion in federal disaster relief, less than senate dras wanted but not go along with the offsets in the house measure. the stalemate now forcing at least the senate to put off part of its scheduled recess next week. we'll see about the house. kate bolduan, cnn, capitol hill. all right. that's washington. but we need to turn to florida now. that is where a lot of the republican presidential candidates are spending their time. today we've got a straw poll coming up at the presidency five event in orlando a day after the candidates spoke to conservative voters at the cpac conference. >> we need a nominee who's not ashamed of the tea party, who's willinging to stand up for tea party values who believe we are taxed enough already. >> it's time to recognize cheaters for what they are. on my first day in office, i will issue an executive order identifying china as a currency manipulator and allowing us to apply tariffs on their goods where they're killing american jobs. >> i've also been governor of a state that under my leadership led the nation in employment. if we want to get america working again, we need washington to get out of the way! and with your help and people like you all across this great country, that is exact what we will do. we will get america working again and take this country back to the great values and the principles that have made america wonderful. >> you mitt romney and rick perry leaving florida, heading to michigan today for a major republican conference going on there. we'll have more on the battle for florida next hour and take you live to orlando where both of those major conservative conferences are going on right now. meanwhile to the president right now, no child left behind. the obama administration saying it will immediately start reviewing applications from states that want to opt out of parts of that education plan. president obama spoke about the reasons for the change in his weekly address. >> while the goals behind no child left behind were admira e admirable, experience has taught us the law had serious flaws that are hurting our children instead of helping them. teachers are being forced to teach to the test while subjects like history and science are being squeezed out. in an order to avoid having their schools labeled as failures, some schools lowered their standards in a race to the bottom. >> president obama has an important night ahead of him. he has a speech to the congressional black caucus. the caucus has been critical of the white house for the way the president has handled the jobs issue. unemployment among african-americans was nearly 17% last month. let's turn to the story that had so many of you buying hard hats and ready to duck. nasa's satellite, the size of a bus, coming crashing back to earth. it was going to break up into several pieces. reynolds, explain to us what we're seeing here. this possibly could be one of the pieces? >> it could be just another meteorite. it could be space dust. you have to remember the planet earth is affected by 20,000 of these per year. we're not talking about debris from space junk but meteorites. could be anything in the night sky. >> nasa tells us the thing did come crashing down and gave us a window of time it came but we don't know the where the stuff might be right now. >> let's break it into a smaller scale. have you ever seen a ticker tape parade in new york? imagine a parade where you have 26 little tiny pieces of paper. instead of the tons they throw out the windows, 26 tiny pieces over the avenue of the americas. let's imagine those little pieces of paper disintegrating as they get closer to the ground, trying to determine where those are going to go. that's the same job nasa is trying to do. there's a good chance it will never know what happens to any of them. we'll be lucky if we know where each and every one of these go. surviving parts are made of titanium, stainless steel that allow some of these to make it through the atmosphere. total mass 1,173 pounds. if you look at the original mass it, over 12,000 pounds, which gives you an idea of how much of this is going to disintegrate before it makes contact with the earth's surface. there's a chance too much could have landed over parts of the pacific ocean. we had video from hawaii which showed a contrail in the sky almost like you'd see from an airliner. we had video that came in from minnesota. the video from the minnesota from an i-reporter is interesting. they see streaks popping up. could that be it? could be. could it be something else? absolutely. so again, you never know. >> what else could that be? >> it could be pixie dust. sent in from kris rakowski. we have au kinds of things in the atmosphere. do i think it might be, yes, definitely there's a chance. what do you think t. j. >> i have no idea. >> you're going to put pressure on a man like me to make the call. >> you deal with all things spheric. appreciate you. we'll check in plenty throughout the morning. we're nine minutes past the hour. she's trying it again, trying to swim from florida to cuba. all right? she just got started a little while ago. and already, we have a problem. we'll tell you about diana nyad's third try here. also, a 14-year-old orders a barrel for a paintball gun. innocent enough. but you know what arrived at his house for him, viagra. that story is next. stay with me on this cnn saturday morning. to build usaa from free checking to credit cards to loans, our commitment to the military, veterans, and their families is without equal. ♪ visit us online to learn what makes our bank so different. usaa. we know what it means to serve. somewhere in america, a city comes to life. it moves effortlessly, breathes easily. it flows with clean water. it makes its skyline greener and its population healthier. all to become the kind of city people want to live and work in. somewhere in america, we've already answered some of the nation's toughest questions. and the over sixty thousand people of siemens are ready to do it again. siemens. answers. ten minutes past the hour now. you're seeing pictures inside a church. this ises in fry berg, germany, where pope benedict is visiting. the pope participated in a mass a little earlier. we were watching live pictures of that and now once again, a mass inside this church. but hundreds of people excited for this pope in particular coming back to his home country of germany. he hasn't been back there in some five years. but the ceremony we don't have a closer picture. we'd like to show you about, you we don't have an up-close picture here. we are at the mercy of the folks controlling this live camera feed so we're not able to give you a close-up shot of him. trust me when i say pope benedict on a visit to his home country of germany. earlier told you about that mass he was having there. he met with several victims of clergy abuse also while in germany. a statement says the pope was deeply shaken when he heard their stories. more than 600 people came forward in germany last year to say they had been abused. let's give a look at stories making news cross-country. a close encounter for swimmer diana nyad on her third attempt to swim from cuba to florida. she tangled with jellyfish and stung on her arms, body and face. she had to tread water and resume the 100 plus mile swim that could put her in florida sometime on monday. and casey anthony has to come up with another $120,000 to reimburse florida investigators. anthony as you know, was found not guilty in her daughter's murder but convicted of lying to investigators. her attorneys admitted that she knew that her daughter was dead before the certainly started. she's now being charged a total of $217,000 for the costs to certainly for her missing daughter caylee. and in massachusetts, 14-year-old boy simply orders a new barrel for his paintball gun. when the delivery arrives, he gets a box of viagra? and performance enhancing oils. >> i guess it was embarrassing because i was opening it up in front of my mom, you know, and my brother was also standing right next to me. >> well, you can imagine parents not too happy about this. the paintball web say the apologized for the mix-up. gave the boy his money back. how do you make this mix-up? 13 minutes past the hour now. it is hard to believe the fight mayor that three u.s. hikers lived through in iran is going to have a happy ending. two of them as you know are getting married. yeah, shane bauer and sarah shourd. the pair are now formally enxwanled following a ceremony in oman. shane bauer and josh fattal were flown to oman. fattal expected to be bauer's best man at the wedding. many of you may remember when sarah was imprisoned with the two men, she was released earlier last september but they got engaged while they were in jail in tehran. he asked her to marry him. they had to make rings out of string that they had there in jail. so they had already gotten engaged but now it's official now that he's out of prison. facebook is reinventing itself once again but you can imagine change is not good for everybody. and they have 700 million people to please. we have a look with our digital lifestyle expert mario armstrong. >> t. j., we're following two big systems in the atlantic and pacific. it's been a busy tropical season. in the pacific we've got hillary. more on those two systems in a few moments. you're watching "cnn saturday morning." gas and bloating. with three strains of good bacteria to help balance your colon. you had me at "probiotic." 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[ male announcer ] it's the at&t network. and what's possible in here is almost impossible to say. 16 minutes past the hour on this "cnn saturday morning." this kind of tells the story. this is a massive monster of a storm. a freak of nature. this thing is a powerhouse. >> one of the things you look for is you happen to look for that will circle in the middle, the eye is very well defined which gives us an idea it has pretty good structure. purples and red are signs of deep convection. the thing good about hill lalry which is a major hurricane, moving west-northwest at ten within maximum sustained winds of 140 miles per hour, gusts topping 165, this thing is roaring and expected to stay out to sea, getting a little bit closer to parts of say baja, california, but not expected to make landfall at this point. as it moves a bit more to the north, it is expected to interact with the cold current that runs from north to south. and that cooler current is certainly going to have an effect on us, expecting it to weaken. as we make our way back to the atlantic, the atlantic has been very busy this season. it remains that way with tropical storm oh meia. sustained winds from the northwest moving northwest at 14. but she's not the only game in town. more closer to the african coast just south of cape verde islands, tropical depression 17. we'll keep a very sharp eye on that for you. as far as ophelia is concerned, we do expect them to take more of a nor will i jog. as we fast forward into thursday, south of bermuda with winds sustained at 60 miles per hour. a strong tropical storm. one thing you can expect across the nation, scattered showers, possible thunderstorms across parts of the eastern seaboard into florida. could see some rain in the ohio valley and western great lakes. high temperatures for the day, 69 in kansas city, 74 in los angeles. 89 in billings.76 in new york, atlanta 81, 88 miami. houston 93. where it seems as though summer will never end in the great state of texas. t.j., back to you. >> we'll check in with reynolds throughout the morning. a satellite the size of a bus crashing back to earth. you know those late night comedians were not going to ignore that. also a hurricane named hilary reynolds was just telling you about. they had fun with that too. >> they have no idea where the six-ton satellite -- they don't know. in case it did hit somewhere in the united states, the obama administration is ready to blame president bush. we will have that for you. we have that for you. and you know, nasa did assimilation video what the damage might look like if god forbid, it was to hit a building in one of our major cities. it's frightening. take a look. >> some idea. >> some big weather news. looks like tropical storm hilary is picking up strength near mexico. it's expected to turn into a hurricane tonight. when he heard hillary was coming, one guy was like stay indoors and do not talk back. don't talk back, trust me. what's about to happen to you. >> 19 minutes past the hour now. coming up, have you heard facebook is making changes once again? we're going to show you what's new, what it means for you and your friends and maybe even your business. also, jim henson died more than 20 years ago, but internet search engine google is honoring america's best known puppet tier this weekend by letting you play puppet master. we'll explain. stay with me on this "cnn saturday morning." 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