Gerri our top story tonight to after 16 days, the shutdown may, may soon be over. The Senate Voting any time now on a bipartisan deal to reopen the government and allow the treasury to resume borrowing. The speaker of the house said that he will not try and block it when it comes up for a vote on this side of congress. Rich edson is live from capitol hill with the very latest. I guess the big question is, are there enough votes in the house to pass this . Well, sources are telling us gop aides say after they had a meeting in 3 00 of republican members that they do believe that there are enough votes and it seems likely this will eventually make it through the house. A bit of a road to go between where we are right now and that final passage if it does pass. The senate still has to pass it. We expect that to happen. If one senator stands up and object to this procedure this could really slow things down over the next few days. But we have heard from one suspect we thought it might be slowing this town, senator ted cruz said he will not try to slow this up. This could pass the senate in the next few hours, had over to the house where we expect House Republicans and democrats will join together and have enough votes to pass this. As for House Republicans, theyre all lying on this impending victory is that they defended the spending cuts. The sequester cuts, automatic spending cuts are still part of this deal. They live to fight another day and say they will continue in the future to target obamacare. They have collided. We commend the demo will continue to fight. Were not going anywhere. We are going to go take this te. And then reared going to go on for couple of days. Rickenbacker early next week and we will continue to fight the good fight for the republican cause, the conservative cause, is right for the American People it. Gerri if everything goes right on this one, no senator objects, and we expect that is how it will go and come to the house, we could be looking at a time which will of the clock and midnight. Then we could do it all again in the next few months. Gerri that is a very good point. I have to ask you, and looks like the republicans are saying were not calling with our tail between our legs, but i have to say, they are deeply wounded, i would think. There are republicans to acknowledge said this was the wrong way to go about this. They were defeated cmon down in the polls and this entire tax was a waste of time and energy and cause a whole lot in unnecessary of people. Theres a bit of a split. Whether or not this was a very good idea to do. But the whole defaults scenario that we were looking at right now seems to be avoided for now. Gerri for now. We will have our eyes peeled on my lawn. Thank you for helping a sound. And joining us now, former New Hampshire governor and senator. Welcome to the show. Great to have you here. And especially on a day like today. I would think that your 20 years in cgress would speak well to what we have seen. Was it necessary to go through these 16 days of the government shut down . No. Unfortunately the two sides tough on the wrong foot. They got off on positions were nothing was going to happen because the positions that were taken were not viable. Total repeal of obamacare is never going to happen in a hot in a divided government and the president took the position he was not going to negotiate. You cannot rea agreement under our system, it checks and Balance System which requires you to go across the aisle to do big things unless youre willing to talk. And so we wasted about two and a half weeks on we should have been talking about serious stuff like how to get the deficit and debt under control with a lot of grandstanding. Gerri there was a lot of talk. Most of it was in front of microphones and what people said was not nice. As i said, youre a 20year veteran. He led the budget committee. What is going on behind closed doors . Detention is this side, the stakes of as high. Well, we have a fundamental confrontation in this country over how were going to get our deficit and debt under control so that we not bankrupt our kids. The issue has come down to two issues. One is entitleme reform in the interest tax reform. A lot of major action has already been taken on the discretionary side, but these issues are big, complex issues that require everybody to sit in a room and try to Work Together in order to resolve them. You cannot shout from the sidelines. What happens here, a very small group of people took control of the microphone, as you said, and started shouting. There were folks who really wanted to govern stepping up and taking control and saying, listen, we will try to work. Gerri you have been very pointed. Here is what you said. The sell promotional babble of the few has bece the mainstream of republican political thought marginalizing the influence to an appalling degree. Is that ted crews . Well, yes. Folks who dont go to a table to govern but stand on the sideline. The purposes of promoting an ideological business which is now a going to succeed and which actually undermines the basic philosophy of the Republican Party to reduce deficit and debt to changing the way we pay for things and controlling our expenditures. You cannot accomplish effective governce unless you are willing to reach across the aisle and reach agreements that allow you to govern. And by definition in our system if if you dont cover nothing gets done. Gerri to that point would allow the people ofea party said and conservatives is that obamare was that, something that they never, not one conservative voted for it. They opposed it. Opposed all the way and it felt like they had a right to put a stamp on it. They absolutely do, and there is no question there are large parts of obamacare that could have been adjusted had we been debating those parts instead of the entire bill. In a divided government youre not going to repeal the signature piece of legislation. He was able to pass it because he had 60 votes in the senate. I vote against it. Think almost every republican voted against it at the time, but it is a lot of the land. Neville we have to do is work and adjusting it when we dont have control so that we improve it and make it more effective and also make it affordable. The big issue here, however, is the major entitlement programs. Were basically spending massive amounts of money that we dont have. Gerri we invented a new one, obamacare, another one that we cannot afford. Speaking of money, you are essentially working for wall street, and i want to get to the issue of the shutdown of potential cost that uld happen if that of the together tonight. People are optimistic among the we dont know. We have already seen costs. Dislocation in the bond market, money market funds kamal crazy things. And also we have seen jumbo loans, home loans. That market interrupted. What ultimately have been mistakes . It has cost 200,000 in the shortterm market because the rates were 9 higher on the 66 month treasury which translates into a 200 million. We also know that the overnight markets were in flocks and probably end up costing us more money. Not a dramatic amount of money but will be significant. Every dollar is an extra dollar that people have to pay in revenue. Another dollar we will have to pay interest on. Does not make a lot of sense to artificially create these expenditures. Republicans like myself for strongly believe we should be bringing it reining in theyre spending it increases our interest costs. Gerri if we did not pay Social Security payments that would be blamed on republicans. With the Republican Party have been blamed . It is being blamed either way. As a practical matter, if the jarheads the rocket, the rocket is the jar, is the jar the shephard suffers. We do not have the high ground. We dont control the megaphone. The president does. As a result you are seeing most of this blind on the Republican Party, this dysfunction. Think the president has to take a fair amount of blame himself. Everything that was inappropriate. Gerri he stayed away. He sai committees your pblem. I am not negotiating. He is supposed to lead us. Had he been in a room i think you would have been able to gath responsible folks who would have been able to work toward some time what i call a many grand bargain where we actually make a major step along the lines. The best approach about a week and half ago as to how you could get the deficit and debt under control which is the core problem here. That is the disease. Other issues of the political systems. Gerri we do nothing about it. I have to disagree with you. We have done about half of what we need to do, and it has been done on the discretionary side. 900 billion in Discretionary Spending restraint from the original budget accountability act. Discretionary on this cluster. And then unfortunately there was the tax increase which is another 600 billion. We have got about halfway down the road to where we need to go. We have not taken on the big issues, big spending issues which are the entitlement issues of which obamacare is part of the problem, but it is not the whole problem. As a matter, youre not going to get this country in fiscal house in order until we address medicare, medicaid, Social Security. Gerri amen to that. Congress is to put on its big board pin sensor thinking about the big issues. Gerri pretty close to accurate on that one. All right. We have more to come including ways to talk to your aging parents about money. Next, Hurricane Season may be winding down, but old man winter is just getting started. How you can use your smart fought to get ahead of mother nature. Waiting for the senate to vote on that bill to reopen the government and raise the debt limit. You are looking right there and our legislators. We are told the text of the bill has been finalized with the vote expected to happen any time. It will bring gerri going to keep our eye on the senate floor for the next hour. If they start to vote, we will let you know. First, a story that could have you losing your launch. The government budget battle has stopped the fda from doing routine food safety inspections and leaves lots of us to lots of us to think about food safety in reality half of the agency had problems pre shutdown. Joining me now, the food safety director for the center for science in the Public Interest in the author of is our food safe. I have to ask you, is our food safe . Well, we always wish that it was more safe. Right now we are watching a major outbreak linked to foster farms chicken. And consumers really need to watch out. Gerri lets go over some of the details. I have to tell you, i have been reading up on this and i am shocked by what i am seeing. The government told foster farms to shut down some of its plants. No, we dont want to. How can operate away from that . What usda did is issued a number of enforcement notices saying that they had a reserve things in their inspection that are troubling. And then they said, the government said if you dont clean these up were going to ask you to close down. Usda then did not ask foster farms to close down, and even more troubling to us, they did not ask foster farms to recall any of this need. Gerri that is contrary to what i have heard. Very interesting. A lot of people outhere saying that they expected them to shut down, but regardless they have not. They are operating. Will we know is, some 300 people in 70 states have been sick. Now, to that point, is this variants concerning . Absolutely. This salmonella, first of all the outbreak involves seven strains. Some of them are antibiotic resistant. That means that people who get sick with this salmonella are more likely to land in the hospital. And the infections are harder to treat than typical salmonella. So it is very important that consumers who think that they may have this product, this foster farms chicken in their homes, they may want to bring it back. Now, it is only coming out gerri bring it back, throw it out, get rid of it. That is certainly the advice. I have to ask you this question. It is not just domestic food. It is also food coming in from other countries, china in particular. Recently the government said, its okay if three or four plants in china bring in processed chicken into this country. I have to tell you, i think that is a bad idea. I think it is bizarre. We are actually shipping chicken over to china. It is being processed in china and then shipped back test. How can this possibly be sustainable, to say nothing of how the processing is done. I also want to bring your attention to the fact that a lot of our imported food is regulated by the food and drug ministration. Right now because of the shutdown, they are not looking at that food at all. They are not at the borders. There are only doing limited checks. Gerri even if they were on the job command terms of the form inspections, i understand is only 2 percent of the goods that come in the country get inspected. I guess the it lies at the end of the day is if youre buying something that is not from this country you have to super careful about what you buy. What do you say . Major out breaks linked to imported foods. We cant just say it is all in the imports because we have a lot of problems with food produced here. The bottom line is we need our food inspectors on the job. We need that. Gerri our food inspectors, when it comes to foster farms, there was a woman yesterday found a chicken head inside her whole foster farms chicken. Im not sure the inspectors of the helpful. You throw a lot of money and it, but when youre only looking at 2 percent of the food that is coming in from outside the country, there is not enough money to inspect everything and it is really on consumers to be vigilant and to make sure that theyre doing what they can to cook the meat the right way, pick up the products that are best for their family. It is always shocking to find something unexpected, like this woman did in her chicken, but it is not the things that you can see that are really going to argue. It is things like this antibiotic resistance salmonella that consumers really need to watch out for. Gerri we have to leave. Thank you for helping us out. It is a fascinating story in a am sure we will be back to you. Thank you. Of course we are waiting for the senate to vote on the bill to reopen the government to raise the debt limit. That vote isxpected to happen any time and will bring it to u. S. And as it does. Stay with us. Gerri the senate is about to vote on a bill to reopen the government. The house expected ks gerri Hurricane Sandy devastated the region, afterwards people were thinking it would be great to know there were things to help you in a disaster situation to help you handle it better, there are apps for that here with all you need to know, lance, good to have you on. You notice one of those topics, you think, what is she talking about. And i started looking at the apps, they are amazing. I have a question. If there is a big problem, my phone is not going to be fired up. So your phone may have some power. There is a company that is trying, selling a hand crank to generate party power, if you keep on hand any of those power breaks, you should charge your phone separately, you coop a few charge keep a few charged up, they will have power for you. Gerri back ups. Back up power is very important. Otherwise you cant get to the great apps, in my opinion can be lifesavers. Gerri i downloaded your first one, free. I have to det tell tell you it is cool. It is crowd reporting, what is happening on the ground. We the big events, what are you seeing, and important pictures, floods and danger zones, and app tries to verify some of the information. And it makes is useful, as they are happening in realtime. Gerri it is reporting there is a river flooding in south dakota, you click through get more information. Information is worldwide. If you were a big traveler, you will see a lot of details, people reporting on their own, i thought it was the groovy. Location base is alert is good. Gerri that is the first thing they ask, do you mine if we know your location. This one cost you this is important, you dont always know what to do in a situation, i was taking cpr training, some have not, what if someone is choking or is bitten, you know these are problem that happen both locally. Gerri you should have information on right away. And it will tell you what to do, and you will be a hero, probably worth the 2 bucks you spend. Gerri talk about r reunite, you say you can get with lost family members. Get your family on reunite, find events that are happening, the dangerous or disaster area, and look for people to there, people try to connect this bring people back together, a digital way of what happened when people put stuff on the wall or in penn station or whatever. Gerri s true. This is faster, this can work. Gerri it makes sense. The next one you have, you know we were travelling, my husband and i, in france this summer. My fear is we would have a car accident we were doing a lot of driving, what do you do if you have an emergency in another country . You get emergency it tells you, where is the embassy, police, you dont dial the same number you are going to in europe or in london if you are in trouble. It will help you connection with the right people, fire, police. Gerri proper authorities it puts you in ouch with them. The other one i like is American Red Cross shelter view. That may sound bad, but if it happens again that we have another one of these awful sandy storms, you might want to know where the show thars are. People in shelters are. People in colorado, they had those floods, they got pushed out of their homes, they needed to kw where they could stay, this will tell you shelters, and locations in the area, how many people are there and you know the updates it is realtime information from the source you probably help you because, if it is getting dark you need to know, you dont want to hop in our car or on foot, and walk and hope. That makes a ton of sense, lance, appreciate that you have the best apps. My pleasure. Gerri coming up next, white house urging quick action by congress to deal end to the drama in dc, st the shut down, shut down the shut down, well have a live report as we await a vote in the senate. Stay with us. Its as simple as this. At bny mellon, our business is investments. Managing them, moving them, making them work. We oversee 20 of the worlds financial assets. And that gives us scale and insight no one else has. Investment management combined with investment servicing. 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