Good morning, everyone. Welcome to week skwrepbweekend wit witt. Investigators in los angeles are trying to figure out why a 23yearold, who friends say showed no signs of problems, strolled into lax yesterday and started shooting. One tsa agent is dead. Five hurt in a scene of total panic caught on video by this report by tmz. So word from the hospital on his condition. Along with the rifle, he was carrying 150 round of ammunition, as well as a note that said he wanted to kill tsa employ and pigs. No words can explain the horror that we experienced today when a shooter took the life of a member of our family and injured two tsa officers. I received a call not long ago from president obama who not only shared with me his cole doll lenses. It could have been much worse if agents on the scene werent well prepared for emergency situations. Not more than three weeks ago we took every one of our officers, patrol officers and a couple hundred officers from the Los Angeles Police department and we practiced the exact scenario that played out today. In just a few minutes, well have a live report from los angeles and new details about the suspected shooter. But first to politics. New this morning, president obama sending this message to both parties in congress. Work together to pass a budget. Heres the bottom line. Congress should pass a budget that cuts things we dont need and closes tax loopholes that dont help create jobs so we can free up resources for the things that do create jobs and growth. Building new roads. Building new bridges and schools and airports. That creates jobs. Too Many Americans still cannot even access the online exchanges and for the few that have, they are experiencing sticker shock. The president told us that obama care is more than a website. I agree. It is more than just a website, and the problems run far deeper than a few technological glitches. The white house released a Progress Report on the website fix saying it is improving with users waiting less than a second for wages to load, compared to eight. They are work to go improve application process. Wanda summers and ed okeefe. Good morning to you both. Thanks for joining me. Good to see you, alex. As the the house and Senate Negotiators met on tuesday, they are just waiting to reach a deal and we reach the debt ceiling february 7th. Will it turn into another 11th hour fight . Or might we get something done until we all talk about it minute by minute. It is congress. So the 11th hour seems to be when most things get done. What we have heard this week is this is not going to explode into some kind of a grand bargain as perhaps the white house. Now, theres hope, it is likely this will be a piecemeal fix to avoid this, to perhaps deal with the across the board sequester cuts. Not a lot of optimism. This will be a quick and painless process. Okay. Ed, i was looking at your recent article. You write house and Senate Negotiators hope to strike a deal on a new farm bill. You say if no deal is reach the price of milk could double. What are the Sticking Points here . Its this funky thing, if they dont pass a farm bill, it reverts back to something that was passed in 1949. It would cause the price of milk to spike. Whether or not that happens remains to be scene. Most people on the hill believe it was bigger budget negotiation and deal that has to get passed by midjanuary. Not only are dairy prices at risk. A lot of people lost food stamp money this week. Its not necessarily going to get replaced. It shows the kind of things that are falling by the wayside as congress sits around and is unable to make a deal. Speaking of food stamps is, part of the budget snaps the s. N. A. P. Program, the one that provide the stamps is. Yesterday 5 billion in cuts took effect. Thats 36 less per month for recipien recipients. What is behind these cuts, lana . This is from a temporary program to 2009 and the stimulus. Will there be further cuts . As you noted, over 47 million. Thats one in seven people. Directors of food banks say if further cuts come down they would have to at least double the amount of out put in order to feed needy families struggling to make ends meet. Few more numbers to go through, ed. 87 of food stamp recipients are in homes with kids, seniors or disabled. 900,000 veterans rely on food stamps. For every dollar in s. N. A. P. Spending, 1. 70 is generated for the community. And they want to cut 30 million from this program . Its unlikely the number will be that high. Remember, the Senate Passed a version of events that would only cut 4 billion. House republicans would cut 39 billion. They have to find a middle. This would be the big Sticking Point as they continue talking about it. Farm bill, why does it have anything to do with food stamps. But they are put together in order to get them out of business. Its been delayed two years. Both sides are sticking to their proposed cuts. So at some point hopefully in the next few weeks they will try to figure out a way to meet in the middle. 40 billion, 4 billion. Maybe 22 billion. Probably not. That will be the big Sticking Point as to whether to get something done. Its just a spending thing. The government is spending too much. The obama care, how is this playing out, juana . Kathleen sebelius testifying on capitol hill about rollouts, problems. I look forward to seeing just how have they press it. More congressional hearings certainly to come. A lot of theory on this straight ahead. I was up in pennsylvania yesterday with Matt Cartwright talking to voters about it. He shared a lot of information and honesty with them. It seemed to work. Fewer showed up who said, i learned a few things i may not like the law but i appreciate that he showed up and explained some is things. Maybe it shows public support at least in those areas of the countriment they will spend the week attack it as well. We had a pretty lengthy conversation as well. So i agree. Juana and ed, thanks so much. Take care. Frightening video shot by tmz. Authorities say a gunman opened fire at a security checkpoint. Miguel almagare has the latest. We know the suspect has been identified as 23yearold paul ciancia. He entered inside terminal 3 behind me and opened fire, killing a tsa agent, injuring at least seven others, before he himself was shot and taken into custody. This all happened very early friday morning during the middle of the morning commute. It was 9 30 a. M. The terminal was packed with passengers. Police say he walked in, pulled a highpowered rifle out of a bag, shot at tsa agents, killing one, then moved past security. Police followed him down the terminal where he made his way 100 yards down the terminal, past security where they engaged him in a gun battle. Passengers were running, screaming, hiding in bathrooms, running out to the tarmac, doing what they could to save their own lives. Heres what one passenger told us yesterday. I wasnt sure what was happening. I thought it might have been a bomb scare. I saw a man Walking Around with a shotgun. Initially i thought, okay, this is an undercover policeman pause he was walking pretty cautiously. Didnt seem like he was in any particular hurry. Then it became clear what it was and i quickly picked up my bag and ran out. The airport was locked down several hours. 167,000 passengers were impacted by flight delays and cancellations. Lax, as you know, is the third Busiest Airport in the country, alex. Things are slowly returning back to normal. Terminal 3 remains shut down. The suspect is in custody, alex. Thank you for that angle of things. Well have more coming up. See you again. Thanks. In the wake of the lax shooting should all tsa officers be armed . I will read some of your tweets throughout the day. Residents in Central Texas are cleaning up after heavy rains and flooding. The storm claimed the lives of four people. Meteorologist dylan dreyer is here with the forecast. That cold front that brought all the rain to parts of texas and eventually up and down the east coast is dragging in temperatures. 38 in minneapolis. Only going to top out around 48 degrees. Look at the east coast. We should be in the mid to upper 60s. Its balmy this morning. Temperatures start fall. By sunday, highs in boston, 48 degrees. 48 for a high in new york city for the marathon. 54 in washington. 64 in denver. Temperatures will be a little bit below average. Look at what happens in boston. From 63 to 48 tomorrow. And then we stay in the 40s as we start off the workweek. Wednesday, we should get back into the 50s. Now that it is november we are going to see things cooling down quite a bit. Unsettled in the northwest and the great lakes region. The cold front is finally moving out of here. But a closer look shows you some of the heavier rain moving through detroit. Mostly sunny skies across a good part of the country. Except for the northwest and the great lakes recently. Isolated thunderstorms still possible through northern florida. Tomorrow it clears out even more. Entire eastern twothirds of the country will see a lot of sunshine. Some of that snow work into the mountain ranges. Well see some showers is. For the most part, tomorrow looks fairly quiet. It is going to be much, much colder than it will be across the country today. It is sweater weather. Thank you, dylan. It is also time to set your clocks back. It happens tomorrow morning 2 00 a. M. So set your clocks back one hour before you go to bed. Why did the Romney Campaign assign unusual names. Chris matthews joins me next. 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What it will do is create opportunities for anyone who runs against him to begin there. That will be their first draft of their investigation of the guy. But i didnt see anything there that made it troubling about him being president of the United States or Vice President. Not yet. What about the Vice President ial campaign search called project goldfish. Tim pawlenty, they called him goldfish. Marco rubio, pescado, which is fish in spanish. Paul ryan, fishconsin. And puffer fish. Thats making fun of his girth. Hes overweight. Thats not funny. He is what he is. Perhaps flaws if youre a westerner. But most east coast people know people like Chris Christie and like him. Hes very much a man of his region. To me hes philadelphia, south jersey. Wise guy attitude. We like people with attitude. Generally they show themselves to be real about people like pawlenty and people who dont see it as fully animated. You know what i mean . Yeah, yeah. Totally. I want to say