republicans have said publicly they'll vote to fund the government with no stranges attached. more and more republicans are backing down because they're losing ground against the president, and blame over the shutdown. a new abc news/"washington post" poll shows 70% of americans disapprove of how house republicans are handling the negotiations. that's up seven points in one week. 51% disapprove of what the president has done. on wall street, there's growing worry on the shutdown's impact on the economy. the dow is down 193 points since the beginning of the shutdown. >> a one or two-week shutdown is manageable. start getting into two, three weeks and longer, and the impact is significant. >> reporter: and a bigger economic threat is looming. on october 17th, america will go into default, unless congress raises the debt ceiling, the amount of money the country can borrow. the obama administration is warning that social security benefits for millions of americaning could be put on hold, john and diana? >> tahman bradley live for us in washington this morning. thank you. brings us to our facebook question of the day. what do you blame most for the shutdown. darlene says, the tea party and those afraid to stand up to them. karen is pointing the blame at democrats. i blame harry reid and obama. in that order. kim says, all of them. there is no one side. they each have a part. suspected terror mastermind abab anas al libi, can be held without giving miranda rights. he is wanted in connection with the bombing of two baertss in africa, that killed hundreds of people. police have made a fourth arrest in the terrifying rod rage incident between motorcyclists and the driver of an suv. police say a 29-year-old brooklyn man has been arrested on charges that include gang assault. detectives are looking for three more people in last sunday's attack on alexian lien and his wife on a manhattan highway. shooting suspect james holmes will be back in court today, as his attorneys continue battling prosecutors. they are arguing about evidence uncovered by police following the july 2012 attack that killed a dozen people. among the evidence are holmes aeon line dating profiles who include the phrase, will you visit me in prison. prosecutors want them admitted in evidence. holmes' attorneys claim the searches of those profiles violates holmes' rights. across the pond now. new leads in the disappearance of madeleine mccann have investigators cautiously optimistic may they find the little girl alive. maddie disappeared from a seaside town in portugal. cell phone records have turned up leads. and 41 people are under investigation. and it's giving her parents new reason to hope. >> in the event that we are getting closer, just by filling in more pieces of the jigsaw. >> you have a lot of temporary visitors. and tracing all of those people, linking real people to the phone numbers you have, is going to be a significant challenge. >> the mccanns sit down next monday for a show called "crime watch." they hope it will trigger more leads that may bring their daughter home alive. now, to a health scare at a los angeles area school. three teachers at malibu high have been diagnosed with thyroid cancer. and a third of the teachers have complained about construction on moldy class problems. the results are expected any day now. back here on the east coast, demolition gets under way on the boardwalk in seaside heights, new jersey. that boardwalk was devastated by a fire last month, just a few months after much of it was rebuilt following hurricane sandy. investigators say the fire was sparked by wiring damaged in last year's hurricane. and a giant experimental blimp has been damaged by the partial collapse of the roof of a hangar in southern california. debris fell on to the $35 million airship that started leaking helium. a hazmat team was able to stop that leak. the hangar is 17 stories tall and dates back to world war ii. powerful storm in new york city, left behind a trail of trux. >> the storm was quick, with most of the damage limited to parts of new jersey. strong winds uprooted trees, slamming them into homes and power lines. many communities are still in the dark. meantime, some 1,500 miles to the west, the cleanup of a snowstorm continues in parts of the upper midwest. some farmers in south dakota last half their cattle. some don't have power. the rare snowstorm dumped up to four feet of snow. time to check the weather across the nation. showers will follow, with snow in the mountains of idaho, montana and wyoming. it's going to be sunny and dry across the rockies and into the midwest. rain showers will stretch from the coastal carolinas into florida, with some areas getting one to three inches of rain. >> cool in the west coast. warming across the midwest. and cooler across the northeast. only a matter of time before apple comes out with another iphone. we're learning about a big feature the next generation will have. plus, a soldier killed on american soldier. who investigators have in custody is getting a whole lot of attention. and the wrong worker to mess with. a gunman comes face-to-face with a clerk with an even bigger weapon. mmemmeemaaaa welcome back, everyone. the nation's new $100 bill goes into circulation today. the fed begins distributing them to banks and financial institutions this morning. the new bills have several high-tech features to make them more difficult to counterfeit. last week, we told you about best buy's price cut on apple's iphone 5c. now, radio shack and walmart are following suit. walmart is selling the device for $49 through the holidays. a $50 gift card to buy the iphone, cutting the price to 50 bucks. the iphone has been on sale for a couple of weeks and there's reports about an iphone 6. the next generation will be released in september of 2014, with a larger 4.8-inch screen. hard to keep up. >> yeah. general motors testing a pilot program where customers can go through the car buying process online. it's called shop, click and drive. 100 dealers have been participating in the tests. gm says it's resulted in the sale of about 900 cars. meanwhile, have you seen anchorman ron burgundy as chrysler's spokesman. the will ferrell character is in four, new ads. touting the features of the durango, in addition to its fuel efficiency and engine, ron burgundy touts its spacious glove compartment. i have to see that. can we get a commercial for gm? >> you can pack 70 packs of gum in there. pretty big deal, if you ask me. >> stay classy. when we come back, off to the wilderness. a reporter becomes the story after being stranded for days. this morning, she's telling her story of survival. a young football player wanted to wear pink for breast cancer awareness. but how his coach reacted to the idea has landed him in hot water. ♪ [ male announcer ] rocky had no idea why dawn was gone for so long... ...but he'd wait for her forever and would always be there with the 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