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Welcome back, everybody reporter the Vice President greeted workers returning to the Environmental Protection agency with hugs, handshakes and breakfast. By the way, i didnt bring enough muffins. I brought muffins, so. Reporter tens of thousands of federal employees were back on the job, after last nights agreement. Elsewhere other signs of things returning to normal. In the nations capital, popular tourist sites reopened. The National Zoos beloved pandacam came back online, although the zoo remained closed until tomorrow. The senates ohio clock resumed ticking, its timekeeper no longer furloughed. And National Park sites across the country, from the Great Smoky Mountains to alcatraz island, welcomed back visitors. But at the white house, president obama said despite the latenight congressional action, americans were completely fed up with dysfunction in washington. He called on lawmakers to put aside partisan differences and Work Together for the good of the country. Now that the government is reopened and this threat to our economy is removed, all of us need to stop focusing on the lobbyists and the bloggers and the talking heads on radio and the professional activists who profit from conflict and focus on what the majority of americans sent us here to do. Reporter the president outlined three priorities for the remainder of the year passing Immigration Reform and a farm bill, plus reaching a long term budget deal. That process got underway this morning, with the four top budget writers in Congress Meeting for breakfast. Afterward, neither side offered any guarantees. Republican paul ryan chairs the House Budget Committee i want to have a budget agreement that gets this debt and deficit under control, that does right by future generations and helps us grow the economy. And were going to try and figure out if we can find an agreement to do that. Reporter democrat patty murray heads the Senate Budget panel. Chairman ryan knows im not going to vote for his budget. I know that hes not going to vote for mine. Were going to find the two common the Common Ground between our two budgets that we both can vote on. And thats our goal. Reporter the budget group was formed as part of the plan approved by congress yesterday that funds the government for just three months until mid january; and increases the debt limit through february 7. The deal passed the senate with overwhelming bipartisan support. But only about a third of House Republicans voted for the proposal. Many of those voting no said the deal failed to rein in the president S Health Care law. While the cloud of uncertainty hanging the capitol temporarily had been lifted concern lingered about the economic consequences resulting from the latest political standoff. Standard poors estimated the shutdown trimmed 24 billion from the nations economic activity. The president said the crisis not only had caused financial pain, but hurt americas reputation as a global leader. Nothing has done more damage to americas credibility in the world, our standing with other countries, than the spectacle that weve seen these past several weeks. Its encouraged our enemies. Its emboldened our competitors. And its depressed our friends who look to us for steady leadership. Reporter a longterm budget resolution is not expected come soon, most lawmakers left washington last night following the vote. Woodruff well have more on the fallout from all this, later in the program. In other news, stocks staged an impressive recovery on wall street today after the last minute deal to avoid a u. S. Default. The s p 500 closed with a record high. The Dow Jones Industrial average erased its early losses and ended the day down just 2 points to close above 15,371. The nasdaq rose 23 points to close at 3,863. There are new revelations the c. I. A. Is collaborating extensively with the National Security agency to carry out drone strikes against targets abroad. Thats according to documents the Washington Post received from n. S. A. Leaker, edward snowden. They showed the c. I. A. Relies heavily on the n. S. A. s ability to gather vast quantities of e mail, phone calls, and other data to track down terrorists. President obama plans to nominate jeh johnson to lead the department of homeland security. An Unnamed White House official said the president will make the announcement tomorrow. If confirmed, the former pentagon lawyer will succeed Janet Napolitano who stepped down in august. International researchers now say air pollution is a more serious cause of cancer than passive cigarette smoke. The Cancer Agency of the World Health Organization made that declaration today. Its the first time it has classified air pollution in its entirety as causing cancer, even though the risk to individuals is low. New jersey elected newark mayor cory booker to be the states next u. S. Senator. In the special election, the 44 yearold democrat won 55 of the vote to republican steve lonegans 44 . Booker will finish out the term of senator frank lautenberg, who died in office in june. He spoke last night to crowds of his supporters in newark. Too many people are forgetting that the lines that divide us are nothing compare to those ties that bind us. It forgets, this cynical attitude forgets the idea that ideal, the truth that we are all in this together. Woodruff well talk with senatorelect booker right after the news summary. More than 60 people were killed in a fresh wave of violence across iraq today. Most of the car and suicide bombings targeted shiite districts of baghdad. Nine car bombs detonated in the capital, including one near a playground that killed two children. The explosions rang out as iraqis celebrated the muslim holiday of eid aladha. The annual hajj pilgrimage in saudi arabia came to an end today. Nearly two million muslim pilgrims took part in the final day of commemorations in the holy city of mecca. They performed their last round of rituals before leaving the grand mosque islams most important holy site. In australia, unseasonably hot temperatures combined with strong winds to fan the flames of nearly 100 wildfires. And 18 of the fires in New South Wales the most populous state in the country were burning out of control. Smoke plumes stretched for miles, and even cast an orange haze over downtown sydney. Conditions are still too intense to get an accurate number of how many homes have been destroyed. We are unclear yet as to how Many Properties have been lost, but its suspected that by the time we finish counting, it will at least be in the hundreds. The fact is that todays conditions, both the hot, dry conditions but also the wind conditions have contributed to the difficulties faced by firefighters and communities on the ground. Woodruff nearly 1,500 firefighters are battling the fires, which Authorities Say are the most serious in a decade. The social Network Facebook has eased its privacy rules for teenagers. Facebook users between the ages of 13 and 17 will now be able to share their information and photos publicly, instead of with only their friends network. Facebook said it made the change to allow teens to have a more powerful voice when it came to positions or causes they support. Well have more on this story later in the program. Still ahead on the newshour the senates newest member; the Economic Impact of the shutdown and debt fight; a hightech approach to gun safety; what teens share online and the history and philosophies behind the stalemate in washington. Ifill now, for more on new jerseys new senatorelect. When he is sworn in, probably later this month, cory booker will be only the fourth African American elected to the u. S. Senate. But he brings his own celebrity with him, including as the subject of an oscarnominated documentary in 2005 street fight. I spoke with him a short time ago. Mayor booker, congratulations on your election last night. Thank you very much. Im grateful and grateful to have a chance to be on with you. Ifill you know, youre a big guy on twitter. Everybody knows you do a lot of communicating with people that way, and one of the questions i posed yesterday to you on twit ser why does he want to come to washington in the middle of all this . You have a lot of people in my world excited that you tweeted at me. Look, ive been a mayor who has been trying to push a city forward way lot of great people from all sides of the aisle, and we just faced a lot of headwinds because some of the things that often seem very obvious that washington isnt doing to help out. So take, for example, gun violence in my city. The majority of guns that we recover dont even come from new jersey. They come from criminal gun runners who are not lawabiding citizens, who should have a Second Amendment right. They come from criminals who can walk into secondary markets and buy weapons and having commonsense background checks that 90 of americans agree on make sense but were not getting it done. So on a number of frooshz kids that go through my colleges and get degrees and things that can barely spell. But as soon as we educate them and use our taxpayer dollars to do that, and they graduate, theyre ready to start businesss and to add to our economy we tell them they cant stay here and end up pushing them out of our country because they cant get a visa. I can go through dozens dozens of issues that would make new jersey stronger, more economically competitive and safer but were not getting it done in washington right now so i want to be a part of what i hope will be people coming to the get work done for the people of new jersey and the nation. Ifill you just named two issues, gun control and immigration, which dont seemed to be going anywhere, even in the democratically controlled senate. Why do you think your presence there will change that . Well, look, im i think you and i both know that one senator, especially now the 100th in seniority, wont necessarily walk down there and everybody will be spitting sunshine and rainbows. Im very knowledgeable of the challenges before me. And i also go there with the right attitude. Ive got a really i work hard and humbly and work as hard as i can and find creative ways to join with others to make a difference. I promised the people in scourge of new jersey i was going to work dismard find creative ways to move the ball forward and thats what i intend to do. I know we can do better. I know america can. And i know this current state of sort of brinksmanship, zerosumgame politics is note work for either party. Its not working for america, and i hope i can join with other people who want to go a different way. Im confident that American History is a testimony to the achievement of the impossible, and in newark, i come from the hard city where people said we couldnt make a difference, couldnt make a change, couldnt reverse trends like our population declining, our city tax base declining, but weve reversed those trends now. Weve done what others said couldnt be done and im ready to take that to another level. Ifill there are a couple of different examples of what a new senator in washington could do, that you can follow, especially senators with reputations that precede thernlg like yours. Hillary clinton came to washington, he kept her head low. Ted cruz came to washington and obviously didnt keep his head low. Which example would you try to follow . Neither. I want to be myself. I want to be as authentic as possible and that means doing like hillary clinton, having a humble heart, and focusing on getting work done, but also making sure im staying true to myself in the way they found the best way to get things done, and so in newark, we were everywhere tactical. You know, my first year in office, i think i spent most nights in a police car 2 00, three 00 4 00 in the morning, working on crime issues, up in the morning, greeting people at schools, trying to give heart to people in our city. But at the same time, sometimes we found it necessary to elevate newarks profile, to bring attention to our city, so we can draw investment. I dont know what the strategy will be in washington. The reality is, ive got to go down there as my mentor, people like bill bradley, have told me to do. Get to know your colleagues on both sides of the aisle, recognize that they, too, beat with the same heart, and the same type of blood. And learn procedure of the place because it does have its own rules. And then become a master of a number of issues that you can really make your own and drive the ball forward. And in every way possible be a scraper, try to find ways to score point, hit singles and doubles for the people you swore an oath to represent. Ifill last night during your acceptance speech, i said democracy was not a spectator sport. What do you say to people who are alienated by the whole process at this point . We cannot afford to surrender to cynicism. Think of the frustrating times of our past when many people should have thrown up their arms, when civil rights legislation kept failing, where lynchings kept getting worse, where women were did need again and again the right to equal suffrage. There were so many times when there was justifiable reasons even more so than now for criticism. Our generation who stares that t the incredible history of working through frustration, has no right to indulge in cynicism. We dont. What we have is an obligation to keep working tat, to keep fighting, to never give up. Washington has to work for america. Our nation was founded with a bunch of founding legislators who joined together to move our country out of the blocks and get us started and every generation since then has found a way to advance the ball down the field. So ive never been one who would indulges even cynical folks or that kind of negativity. I want to find ways to really find ways to create uncommon coalitions for uncommon results. And i know, im confident, i have faith that we can get some pretty remarkable things done in this country that were still a nation where impossible dreams can be made real. Ifill which is more important to you, that you are the fourth elected African American to the u. S. Senate in modern times, or that you are the 21st mayor to go straight to the u. S. Senate . I think those are both really important questions. The first, being the fourth African American, speaks a lot to our nation and really to my state that, that was not a central feet nur this campaign, even, shows a lot of evolution of our state. The latter to me is a very important. Because when i watch the senate, and again, from a distance, and i dont want to say they know all about that body or much about the internal workings, but when i step back, i often see issues that face urban space spn america, that face urban issues. Theyre just not being addressed. And a lack of urgency that ive had to live with as a mayor every single day that doesnt seem to be made manifest. And so i want to join with other legislators in that body who believe like i do that 85 of americans live in cities or in their suburbs and that weve got in fact the Brookings Institution now rightfully is talking about if you want to create a robust economy where the majority of our g. D. P. Is driven is in our cities. You have to have an urban vision for america. And i want to go down there with the practical skills that ive learned and add to that understanding and that sense of urgency, be and the reality that in america right now, there are large swaths of our country who are less and less seeing the kind of social mobility that my parents saw, who are more and more finding themselves in trappedz economically that they cant escape because they dont have access to the basics. And thats a threat to our economy. Ifill newark mayor cory booker, senatorelect from new jersey, congratulationses and thank you for joining us. Thank you very much, gwen. Its great to be on with you and talk with you yet again. Woodruff now, more on the 16 day shutdown and its repercussions on the entire American Economy and on the federal government itself. For the latter, we turn to Sylvia Mathews burwell, the director of the Administrations Office of management and budget. I spoke with her a short while ago. Sylvia burwell, welcome to the newshour. Thank you so much for having me, judy. Woodruff so how smoothly did today go . I think today went relatively smoothly, people got back to work and are starting to bring the Government Back up as quickly and effectively as possible. Woodruff but 16 days shut down. What are the the challenges of getting the Government Back up and running or some of the Government Back up and running af