Expressed strong confidence in what they saw as my gifts or emerging gift, i always doubted them. Woodruff those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by bnsf railway. United healthcare online at uhc. Com. And by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in the 21st century. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Ifill our lead story tonight negotiations in the senate aimed to break the stalemate in washington. The talks came with the partial Government Shutdown now two weeks old, and the debt ceiling deadline just three days away. Newshour Congressional Correspondent kwame holman begins our coverage. After meeting over the weekend and again this morning its senates top democrat and republicans found reason for hope. Majority leader harry reid. Im very optimistic. We reach we will reach an agreement. Its a reasonable this week to open the government, pay the nations bills an begin longterm negotiations to put our country on sound fiscal footing. And minority leader Mitch Mcconnell. Weve had an opportunity over the last couple of days to have some very constructive exchanges of views about how to move forward. Those discussions continue and i share his optimism that were going to get a result that will be acceptable to both sides. On the house side as Speaker John Boehner returned to the capitol it remained unclear how his republican rank and file would receive any resolution worked out in the senate. Hi. How are you. President obama raised that issue as he visited a dc charity food kitchen where furloughed federal workers are volunteering. I think House Republicans continue to think that somehow they can extract concessions by keeping the Government Shutdown or by threatening default and my hope ask is that a spirit of cooperation will move us forward over the next few hours. The president initially invited the house and Senate Leader to the white house at midafternoon. But that was postponed, according to the White House Press office to allow more time for a deal to come together in the senate. Meanwhile the partial Government Shutdown reached its 14th day, although some National Parks reopened over the weekend. So did the statue of liberty with the state of new york agreeing to cover the daily operating costs for now. Joining us now from capitol hill to bring us up to hill on where the negotiations stand is robert costa washington editor for the national review. Thank you for joining us, we just heard Mitch Mcconnell saying they were looking for a result acceptable to both sides. The president said it felt like things were moving. Where do they stand now . We do see a deal emerging within the senate. The house seems uneasy about the path forward but the Senate Bipartisan plan broadly speaking would extand extend the debt limit and it would fund the government until early 2014. And it without also set up a larger fiscal framework for talks later this year. A budget conference. So are we talking about kick the can down the road or is this budget conference real sm. I wouldnt say its kansas citying the can down the road. Of course, it is in a sense, a couple of wokes ahead, a couple months aheadment but what is important here is any major fiscal reforms or compromises cant be brokered within the incomes couple of days so congressional leaders especially reid and mcconnell decided to try to have those talks in november and december. Ifill what is d the negotiations on both sides have to give something up, in this scenario if it were to hold, what is the white house hiv gifing up . I think what the white house isive going up, its not so much giving up, so much, but trying to get through this impasse. When you talk to people at the white house and senior democrats, they want to escape from this and theyve tried to battle on sequestration over the past two days but they know thats just never going to pass the republican house. So for now democrats have pulled back this push to change the sequestration funding levels. Ifill and have the republicans competely pull back on their desire to change the Affordable Care act . Of course rhetorically speaking and politically they have not pulled back, but it looks look any concession republicans are winning here is minor. It would be a change to the eligibility requirements, the strength of the eligibility requirements for income regarding who is entering the aca. And thats the only thing republicans are really winning here beyond an extension of the debt limit and funding of the government and the budget conference. Ifill now robert, you probably wore a hole in the bottom of your shoes working the hallways on capitol hill in the last couple of week, much on the house side. So this is all being worked out we assume, so far, between the Senate Democrats and republicans, perhaps the white house. What about john boehner, what about the house . The question now for Speaker Boehner is will he allow the senatebrokered deal to come to the house flor in the next day or two. He knows there is a bloc of perhaps 40 conservative hardliners who will be resistance resistant but he knows there is a group of 100, to 150 House Republican whs would probably back it. So that is the question. Will he bring it forward, will he allow a vote on the stat deal. And the answer right now is unclear. Ifill hasnt the house turned Something Like this down before . It has. But i think politically when House Republicans, i was just speaking to a few of them at the capitol, they look at the pole numbers and want to make sure they avoid political pain related to default. And so right now there is definitely more of an urgency on the conservative side to get something done at least on the debt ceiling. Talk about look at the pole numbers. Do people talk among themselves on capitol hill about this u. S. Opinion backlash weve been seeing . Oh, certainly. There is a sense that the defund effort on the right, repeal obamacare effort has gone on quite too long, its actually hurt the party. And so one of the major leaders behind the scenes is paul ryan. That is why this element of a budget conference later this year sounds like kicking the condition down the road but its porn. It is a way for ryan and other Republican Leaders to promise future reforms and for perhaps future concessions from the white house if they just vote for a clean extension now of the debt limit and just postpone talks until later this year. I november we i know weve been here before but is the expectation that tomorrow things are going to come together for real on this deal . I think so. I think todays news, ive seen leader reid and mcconnell on the senate floor together. Thats significant news. The relationship has often been tense, for them to be working together at this hour is a crucial point. Robert costa, well all be watching as i foe you will too for the national review. Thank you so much. Thank you. Well have ifill well have more on the shutdown after the news summary. Wall street managed small gains today as the news from washington helped erase early losses. The Dow Jones Industrial average added 64 points to close at 15,301. The nasdaq rose more than 23 points to close at 3815. Three americans will share the nobel prize for economics for explaining how stocks, bonds, and housing values change over time. The winners are Lars Peter Hansen of the university of chicago; eugene fama, also from the university of chicago; and Robert Shiller of yale university. Shiller says after he got word this morning, the one person he tried to call was more focused on baseball. I called my brother, yeah. I thought my brother sleeps in and he might not actually know, in detroit. So i called him. And i said did you hear the news . And he said the tigers lost. laughter ifill shillers work, along with that of fama and hansen, has led to the rise of index funds and institutional investors, who bet on Market Trends instead of individual stocks. A top alqaeda militant captured in libya has arrived in new york to face trial on terrorism charges. Abu anas allibi was seized in a u. S. Commando raid on october 5. Since then, hes been held and interrogated aboard a u. S. Warship. Allibi is accused of plotting the 1998 attacks on american embassies in kenya and tanzania that killed 224 people. The taliban leader in afghanistan is warning the government in kabul not to sign a security deal with the United States. In a message today, mullah Muhammad Omar rejected any agreement that leaves american troops in afghanistan after 2014. He said his followers will go on fighting. More on this, later in the program. Italy moved today to prevent any more of the disasters at sea that have now killed hundreds of refugees. Just today, the Italian Coast Guard delivered more than 200 african migrants to ports in sicily. Theyd sent a distress call from their overloaded boat on sunday. Earlier this month, 350 migrants died when their vessel capsized. Dozens more drowned friday. In rome today, Prime Minister enrico letta vowed to ramp up patrols. From tomorrow italy will be operating a military and humanitarian mission. Usually important dimensions because for does is intolerable that the mediterranean has become the sea of death. The pedestrian rainian sea is our sea and we cannot tolerate what has been happening in recent days. Ifill many of the migrants are fleeing fighting in eritrea and in syria. Gunmen in syria have released three red cross personnel and a volunteer with the red crescent organization. Theyd been abducted on sunday, as they returned to damascus from delivering relief supplies. Three more red cross workers were also seized. Theyre still missing. In eastern india, authorities raised the death toll to 25 today, in the wake of a huge tropical cyclone. But it could have been far worse. The weekend storm packed winds of 130 miles an hour and destroyed thousands of homes. Officials evacuated about a Million People in advance, averting a far worse disaster. A cyclone in the same coastal area killed 10,000 people in 1999. The World Antidoping Agency will investigate claims that jamaicas star sprinters faced little if any drug testing before the london olympics. The Associated Press reported today the claims come from the former head of the islands drug testing agency. Jamaicans won eight individual medals at the games. They were led by usain bolt, who captured three golds. Still ahead on the newshour, the Government Shutdown ripples across the country; how investors here and abroad see the potential for default; improving education in pakistan; keeping u. S. Troops in afghanistan; and remembering the first latino novelist to win a pulitzer prize. Ifill we examine the effect its having on communities across the country. For starters, bob sands of public station oeta reports on the fallout in central oklahoma. With an estimated 40,000 people in central oklahoma who work for the federal government and a growing number of oklahomaans on food stamps or other government funded programs, just about every one knows somebody who is being affected by the shutdown. Or is about to be. The impact extends far ongovernment workers now to businesses and nonprofit organizations. There isnt anybody who has extra resources sitting around in a nonprofit because if they do theyre using them for programs and to fulfill their missions. So when some of those resources start to dry up or begin to look scarce, we really have additional stress on these organizations and a toll on the people who work there. Marnie taylor is president ceo of the Oklahoma Center for nonprofits. Those people who are used to depending on those agencies are possibly going to see cutbacks in those either to the going to pay, going to be slow to pay, never going to be reimbursed, whatever the. S are. They are absolutely nonprofits who have already heard youre not going to this is not going to happen any longer. And then the doublewhammy hits. Those people could have been donors to their church or to their nonprofits, are suddenly going to be on the other side of that and potentially be clients. Thats now happening at food pantries across the state. Rodny giveens is the executive director of the Regional Food Bank of oklahoma. A lot of people live from one paycheck to the other. And so if they dont have that paycheck coming in, they have to start macking choices, we dont want our government friends to have to make. Terry brice is state director for the women, be fants and Childrens Program that serves 90,000 oklahomaans with a focus on providing nutrition assistance to a vulnerable population. Our participants are coming into the clinics. Theyre getting nutrition education, all of our food that we provide has a specific nutritional value. And its just a Supplemental Program so we dont give them all the food that they need per month. Things like dairy products, cereal, fresh and frozen fruits and vegetables and whole grain products, specifically targeted to new mothers and their children. W, c is 100 federally funded. The program is on a short rope financially but is operating for now. To qualify for w, c a person has to be under 185 of the poverty level. In oklahoma, that involves a lot of children. Over 50 of all the infants born in the state of oklahoma are on the wic program. And thats just not true for oklahoma, its true nationally as well. And already the w, c program is feeling the increased need because of the Government Shutdown. We have had some individuals that have been contacted that program. And we put them on the program. And so certainly if theyre eligible for, theres a need for it as of right now we can certainly put them on the program. Thomas wright works at Tinker Air Force base in the sprawling air Logistics Center known as building 9001. Since 1984 he has been a jet engine mechanic. And while he is still on the job its now just busywork. Because theyre to the doing anything. Everybodys sitting around waiting. They dont know if they will have the money to do anything any more. Across town timothy hibner is an faa employee and Vice President of the American Federation of government employees. The union that represents many of the workers at the faa center. My paychecks are being used for the house payment. The wifes paychecks are being used for discretionary funds. And my house payment is pulled out of my paycheck if that paycheck dont show up, then that payment dont get made. Tim and others who are members of the faa credit union do have some of that stress eased a bit because their credit union is taking steps to help them. We are off in the short term lone at 0 interest, to make up for credit card payments that they may have missed. Because payrolls will be disrupted. Steve rasmussen is president ceo of the faa credit union, a Financial Institution where more than 35 of its members are federal employees. The credit union will extend shortterm loans longer if needed. And allow members to skip a house payment without charge. Theyve also lifted overdraft charges on checking accounts. Theyre even the 0 interest or 6 months. And the overdrafts, we havent seen those starts yet because everybody got paid that first week of the shutdown. Now after this week,s thiss when things really get to be a challenge for people. The budget and debt ceiling fight seem like distant issues to people on furlough. And has little meaning to their daily lives. It just seems like its a snowball that keeps rolling downhill that nobody is willing to stop. And i dont know why. On the many among the many we talk to about the shutdown one thought about the process was often repeated and best expressed by Tinker Air Force base employee thomas wright. You expect me to do my job, do yours. Among the other effects of the shutdown caused the oklahoma fat guard to cancel its usual week in training this month. And while some of the state conservation commissions 87 offices are open, they cant operate because they share space with the u. S. Department of agriculture. As the day goes by, its clear the impact of the shutdown is spreading. And will become far more evident if a deal isnt reached in washington by the end of the month when more bills come dow and more state agencies that depend on federal funding run out of money. For more on whss being seen in the woodruff for more on whats being seen in the states, we turn to other public media colleagues, representing three different regions. Cathy lewis, host of a Public Affairs radio callin program on whrv in hampton roads, virginia. Karen kasler, Capital Bureau chief for Ohio Public Radio and television, in columbus, ohio. And scott shafer, host and correspondent for the california report on kqed public radio. He joins us from San Francisco. Welcome back to the newshour to all three of y