Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today on a monday morning. Im matt lauer. Morning. Im Savannah Guthrie along side al roker and natalie morales. Everybody is watching washington this morning. The u. S. Capitol open for business but for how long . A beautiful shot. Its not so beautiful inside. If you could be a fly on the wall. The big vote coming at 2 00 in the senate today. That will kick things off. A Chain Reaction following that. Well get a lot of perspective on this this morning. Including from bill oreilly. Hes here in our studio this morning. He has a new book called killing jesus. Well talk to him about that as well. That is our top story and its hours away now. Peter alexander has the latest on whats unfolding. Peter, good morning to you. Matt, good morning to you. Anything is possible, but it looks to be an almost uncertainty. That the government will shut down beginning at midnight tonight. Democratic and republican aids aides are predicting that much. The senate wont even begin considering the house bill until late this afternoon in what is as much a partisan crisis as a fiscal crisis the country is barrelling toward its first shutdown in 17 years. Its decision day. Congress has until midnight tonight to avoid a Government Shutdown but no one is getting their hopes up. House republicans are refusing to fund the government unless the president s healthcare law with enrollment set to begin tomorrow is delayed one year. The American People deserve to have time to see what this will do before its implemented. And the house plan is a nonstarter for Senate Democrats or the president who huddled with advisors on sunday insisting republicans agree to fund the government without conditions. Dont shut down the government and fail to pay the governments bill with the debt ceiling. Reporter the democratic controlled senate didnt even meet sunday. The halls silent. Instead, theyll wait until this afternoon to reject the house plan. Just hours before the government shuts its doors. House republicans are furious. They have refused to even consider the compromise that we have offered. Reporter among the republicans demands, a one year delay for the president s healthcare law, the repeal of a tax on medical devices, and guaranteed pay for u. S. Troops even if there is a shut down. Texas senator ted cruz is defending the republican strategy. The American People overwhelmingly reject obamacare. They understand its not working. The only people that arent listening to the argument are the career politicians in washington. Republican lawmakers are considering one last ditch option that they may throw on to the mix that would require a change. The staff and white house would have to pay for their own insurance through the Health Care Law without the help of government subsidy to help with that cost. Peter alexander in washington, thank you. The Washington Post called that idea a declaration of all out war. Lets get to chuck todd. Good morning to you. Youre going to take a bit of a contrary position to conventional wisdom this morning. You dont think its inevitable that the government shuts down tonight . Whenever theres time on the legislative clock something could happen. What john boehner has going on inside among House Republicans is while there are that small band of loud conservatives that are wanting to not cave and not give in to anything. Do whatever it takes to stop the healthcare law, there is a growing chorus of moderate republicans telling boehner dont do this. You remember how bad this was for the Republican Party 20 years ago. What are you doing . Youre putting the majority at risk and boehner has a couple of options, savannah. He could blink as far as buy time and do a clean funding bill for one week. Anything is possible when theres time on the clock. So we should be careful assuming were careening toward the end. Well it seems to me this all comes down to who thinks they will get the blame for a shutdown. For 17 years its been that the republicans paid for the shutdown in the 90s but new republicans arent sure thats true. They say healthcare was more unpopular than anything debated in the mid 90s. They think this is a different time. The way people get their information is different so it wont be just the big, bad Mainstream Media controlling the narrative. Theres a lot of reasons they think things will be different this time but theres one article of faith that i always put my analysis in when you see the show downs. Which party is united and which party isnt . Democrats are united. There is no democrat that is ready to break ranks. The republicans are fighting so thats why you have to assume at some point boehner is going to blink. Is it today or does he allow the government to shutdown for a few days and then blink. Thank you. Special coverage all this week on air and online to answer your questions about the Affordable Care act as it takes effect. Matt. Thank you. Bill oreilly is the host of the Oreilly Factor on fox news and the author of a book called killing jesus. Well talk about that. Good to see you. Is it really . Is it really good to see me . Come on. Its always good to see you. Come midnight, is the government going to be up and running or shutdown . I dont know. This is why people dont Like National politics because these pin heads theres sincerity on both sides but they should get something done. What should happen is they should extend government funding for three or four weeks. They should sit down and hash this thing out. Thats what should happen. Thats not hard. They should get something done. Every expert you talk to says this will be bad for the country, both sides know that, and yet here we are standing on the edge of the cliff again. Washington is addicted to crisis, why . Well, the democrats have to stand by their guy president obama and thats his signature obama and thats his signature achievement but if the president were thinking clearly he would say, you know what, we may have some things to iron out here. I still stand behind obamacare and i want the healthcare but we might have some problems here. So lets give the people an option for a year. You dont have a mandatory. You dont have to sign up, if you want to you can. Problem solved. By the latest count theres been Something Like 40 efforts in the house to get rid of obamacare or defund it and as john mccain said last week we fought a great fight. We lost that fight. The Supreme Court has upheld obamacare as constitutional. Do you think the republicans should move on . No. Its a bad deal for the folks. Thats absurd. Its the law of the land. They can tweak it lauer. They can tweak it and make it better. Right now its hurting the economy. Doctors say theyre going to quit. Nobody knows what theyre going to pay. Heres the solution, you want to sign up, good, sign up, starting tomorrow. If you dont, well give you a year to shake it down. Thats the solution. And the republicans would buy into that. Taking obamacare out of this for a second and getting back to this addiction to crisis in washington, do we play into this as members of the media . Do we love a good crisis and in some ways fan the fire . Some ways fan the fire . We have to report whats going on but the politicians use us, but i dont like to be put in with you lauer. Sorry to do that with you. Ted cruz is a great example. Ted cruz wants to be president. So hes the first term senator from texas. How does he get wellknown . He gets this. He blows it up. Everybody knows his name. Everybody is paying attention to him. We cover it. Now hes a leader in the Republican Party for conservative people. People use the system and theyre smart enough, cruz is a smart guy, to know how to do that. Not saying hes not sincere. He is but hes certainly exploiting the situation. So there you have it. Despite what you think it is good to have you here and youll come back in the 8 00 half hour and well talk about your new book killing jesus. Youll like it. I have liked it. You read it . Lets get to breaking news overnight. A deadly plane crash in california. Natalie. Thank you. The ntsb investigating the fiery crash in california after the small plane ran off the runway and slammed into a hangar. We have mike taibbi with the latest in california. Good morning. Good morning, natalie. Officials still dont know how many people were on board the eightseat cessna. They call the crash unsurvivable. We were playing baseball and we heard a boom. Reporter according to the faa, the twin engine Cessna Citation similar to this one took off from hailey, idaho, veered off the runway and crashed into a fire. The runway is not clear. We need you there immediately. With the flames, he felt it could have been put out with a fire extinguisher and there was an explosion. Reporter firefighters battled the blaze, but unable to get to the with wreckage. During the collapse, the sheet metal wrapped around the plane and encasing it. To get that off will take a while. Reporter the flames and wreckage prevented officials on providing information on board or conditions. We did not see anyone get out of the airplane, unfortunately. Reporter this airport is located in the coastal Tourist Destination of santa monica. A lot of planes are owned by major figures from business and entertainment. There will be more information as the day goes on. Natalie. Mike taibbi, thanks so much. President obama will meet with israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu for a meeting at the white house. The meeting is expected to focus on the future stability of the middle east, especially developments. Netanyahu is expected to deliver strong words of caution in how the u. S. Deal was iran. Defense secretary chuck hagel visited the zone. He is expected to talk about the American Armed forces. And a stunt in china this weekend. Jeb corliss in a suit flew through a gap 60 feet wide at the top and 11 feet wide at the bottom. Corliss said it was exill rating. It was the most spectacular and scary stunt he had ever done. At one point, he was two feet away from the wall. That is what you call cringeworthy. He deployed that chute 300 feet aboveground. You can make it through the 60 foot gap, but get hung up on a walkway . The words he used was gnarly. I would have used a different word. Not one we can say here. Exactly. You have news on storms in the Pacific Northwest. That is right. We told you friday. It happened. Take a look at the rain. The heavy floods have been going on in parts of oregon, Washington State with heavy rain. It is continuing today. We are talking about massive amounts of rain, flooding and Power Outages and high winds. Lets show you what they picked up in the Pacific Northwest. We are talking about record amounts of rainfall falling. You can see olympia, 8 inches of rain. Astoria, 10 inches. Wettest in oregon and into seattle. There is more rain on the way. You can see the heavy rain. In the mountains, the cascades we are starting to see snow as well. Winter weather advisories. Wind gusts of 80 miles per hour. We are looking for another 1 to 3 inches of rain across the Pacific Northwest into the cascades. Heavy winds and heavy rain and lots of flooding. Big problems. We will get to your local weather coming up in the next 30 seconds. 7 c1lf at the corner of a little flu shot and a world of difference. Now through october 14th, when you get any immunization at walgreens, well help provide a lifesaving vaccine to a child in a developing country through the u. N. Foundations shot at life campaign. Together, we can supply up to three million vaccines. Its easy to make a difference at walgreens. Simply get a shot. And give a shot. At the corner of happy and healthy. Good monday morning to you. Im meteorologist Christina Loren. Kind of an interesting weather day ahead. Expecting a few light showers, show you the future cast. Most between 9 00 and noon, that will mostly be the case up in the north bay. By 3 00 p. M. Mostly sunny skies over most of the bay area, clouds lingering hugging the coastline until about 2 00 p. M. Today. 67 degrees in San Francisco, 75 in fremont, 76 in san jose. And thats your latest weather, savannah. Al, thank you so much. The former russian spy anna chapman is back in the hot seat as a host of a Television Show. She sat down with nbcs Richard Engel. Good morning to you. Good morning. This is a bit of a strange one. You remember her of course. U. S. Officials accused her of being a honey trap sent to the United States to seduce powerful americans and send information back to moscow. She remains very secretive but certainly not camera shy. Reporter it was the biggest story of its kind since the cold war. Ten russian spies living quietly in the United States uncovered and deported in 2010. Among them, anna chapman, a sexy red head. The fbi recorded her transmitting electronic messages to russian handlers while shopping and discussing a fake passport. Anna who pleaded guilty was a tabloid favorite. A real life bond girl. Dubbed the spy that loved us. After revealing photographs taken by her exhusband came out she parlayed all of the attention into a modelling career. Posing for maxim magazine and walking the catwalk at moscow Fashion Shows and got her own tv show about alii aliens and ghos called mysteries of the world. Chapman agreed to sit down with a rare interview with nbc news to promote her Television Show. You lived a very mysterious life. One you still dont like talking about and now youre on television. Does that seem strange to you . Im a very private discreet person and i still dont do many interviews because i just dont like to share. And i dont believe that people would be interested in knowing about somebodys life. They would be interested in knowing about your life. But its still very hard for me to believe this. Going into the interview, chapman told us she considered details of her personal life too sensitive to share and we found out how sensitive when we asked about a public Marriage Proposal she posted on twitter to edward snowden, the nsa programmer who escaped to russia after revealing classified details about american intelligence. Online you recently tweeted a Marriage Proposal to edward snowden. Im not going to discuss this. Was it serious or a joke. Richard. You cant discuss even something you tweeted online. You said, marry me, edward snowden. Were going to cut this. You cant talk about that . No. She walked out. The girl in red. Still in the spotlight, but still an enigma. In some ways its ironic that chapman hosts a Television Show about aliens and ghosts because the fbi investigation into her sleeper cell was code named ghost stories. Theres so much weird about this. So how long did you actually interview her before she walked out. Probably five or six minutes. She didnt want to talk about her personal life or time in the United States and as soon as we started heading in that direction, the interview is over. I cant do this. I got the sense that somebody had told her dont go there. Dont talk about this. Interesting. But she was more than happy to promote the show. Promote the show. I like how she said richard. Did that work. It was one of the more bizarre interviews ive done. Like natasha from rocky and bullwinkle. Thank you. Let us check in with carson who is in the orange room this morning. Good morning, everybody. How yall doing . A couple of big things happening in the overnight were going to talk about. First of all, the potential looming government shut down. About 800,000 to 1 million federal workers could be out of work. Were asking you at today. Com would a Government Shutdown affect your family . Yes, no, or not sure. Also a ton of chatter about the breaking bad Series Finale last night. The thing about the finale is did it work, was it good . Did you hate it . Early results saying 80 said they loved the breaking bad finale which they said was perfect. Well see how it stacked up a little bit later on. Back to you. Carson, thank you so much. Straight ahead, the amanda knox murder case back in court in italy once again. Her former boyfriend may go. What does he think about her not attending . Well ask him in an exclusive interview. 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