Board. A pad hdle boarder gets up a close with a great white. We will talk to him about that encounter. From nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone, welcome to today. Im savannah guthrie. Im matt lauer, i like to paddle board, my whole body freezes up when i paddle over a jellyfish. So can you imagine what you would think if you paddled over a great white shark . No. In walk, here is something we havent seen in twoandahalf weeks, federal workers coming out of the metro center, returning to work, 400,000 will now that the shutdown is over. At least one guy. What do you mean . The president signed the bill after midnight, now, obviously, this has cost so much money. 400,000 people going back, National Parks will open up. Some longer than other, but back in business. This is a huge political fight. When up look at what it cost the u. S. To go through this, experts say it is in the billions. Reopening the government is the top story. Lets go to White House Correspondent peter alexander, good morning to you. Reporter good morning to you. Nice to have that countdown clock off the screen. This is what we got early this morning just before 1 00. The memo from the president s director, it says simply, all members on furlough may return to work. A federal worker is enjoying her first day back at work at tax court. She said it felt like a vacation. A lot of americans did not feel that way a. 16day shutdown, at least for now this crisis is finally finished. Early this morning the first signs the u. S. Government is once again opened for business, barricades removed at the washington monument, furloughed workers back on the job. Im quite glad to go back to work. Reporter overnight the president set a debt deal to law promising this ugly epide wont happen again. We can let this cloud of unese and uncertainty from our businesses and the American People. Reporter racing to beat the deadline, the senate voted overwhelmingly to end the shutdown and avoid a possible default. I think one of the most important things we have been able do is get senate and the congress together. Reporter the house quickly followed suit. Despite 144 no votes, many from Tea Party Conservatives would elittle nate the president S Health Care law, earlier, House Speaker john boehner concealed defeat. We not the good fight. We just didnt win. A house stenographer seen raventing then removed from the floor. This is not one nation under god, it never was. Capitol police said the stenographer was taken to a monita hospital for evaluation. Its a temporary fix, extending the u. S. Ability to borrow money to pay its bills. Even one of the female senators credited with putting problem solving of bipartisanship acknowledge the challenges ahead. While we acknowledge something for the short term, we all know that is just the beginning, the big work is still to come. Still after all this, senator ted cruz the architect of the failed shutdown strategy showed no regret there this is sadly a classic instance of the washington establishment selling the American People down the river. Reporter listen to this, the cost of the economy by one good estimate roughly 24. The president is not goi to waste time trying to kick start his domestic agenda, again today, white house officials tell me he will be speaking at the white house this morning. One of the primary focuses will be his next priority, immigration reform. Peter alexander, thank you. Nicole wal loss served for former president george w. Bush. Robin gibbs is a political analyst and president obamas former White House Press secretary. Good morning to you both. All right. We have the shutdown, the billions of dollars to our economy, all the talk about obama care and the debt ceiling and americans telling members of congress they trust them less now than at any time before. Both of you the same question, for you the republican side, what do republicans walk away with after all this . Well, i have a toddler and a wise dad on the playground once told me laughing leads to crying. I think this a place to the situation republicans find themselves in. Four weeks ago when the idea of a Government Shutdown first came about, i think it was senator byrd said, its the stupidest idea ive ever heard. I think a lot of Establishment Republicans never thought it would come to this. A twowoke Government Shutdown, the fact that it did sends a clear signal to all republicans to listen very carefully to what the tea party is complaining about, what theyre angry about because they have no i think limits to what theyre willing to do. Did the republicans walk away as a party with anything . I think they walked away with is an understanding of how far the tea party is willing to go, there is nothing sacred. I think to the extent we learn from this, we really need to communicate with each other. Seeing jerry mcguire, theyre fighting, saying i thought we were starting to communicate with each other. I think thats where we are with the party. What do the democrats walk away with . Reporter i dont think there are any winners, i think we averted a disaster that we should have averted anyway. If anything, weve established hopefully the idea that we wont see Government Shutdown and ultimately the debt ceiling used as a fess leverage to get demands that cant be passed anyway or certainly couldnt even by a tained in an election. All right. Thats an interesting point. So last night the president stood before cameras to talk about the reopening of the government. He wasnt going to take questions. There was this Little Exchange at the end. Listen to this. Thanks very much, everybody. Mr. President , diengt will happen all over again in a few months . No. He says no, ted cruz says we kicked the can down the road. Take me to january 17th, we are out of money the debt creaming comes up again, what is the republican strategy going to be if at that time . The shutdown strategy was a disaster. I think it was. I think we missed as a party to talk about two things to unite, the opposition of the Health Care Law that was rolled out so disastrous that it calls for the firing of someone responsible for that and the debt ceiling. What happens this woke as we raise the debt ceiling. Republicans missed the opportunity to talk about our ballooning federal dent i think if we spend the next eight weeks talking about those two policy issues that unite republicans, we could be in a different place. What is the democratic strategy next time around when those two dates hit the calendar . Lets hope in the next eight weeks put Party Identification aside, build on what senators reed and mcconnell, a democrat and republican were able to do in coming together and figure out how we get to the 15th of january and the 7th of february without seeing the sequel of what we saw, which is government by crisis. Let get together to figure out how to fund our government like every other business and household rationally does and avoid this we should never be in the six. If cooler heads will prevail for only eight weeks, we can do that. Just real quickly, five second each, robert start with you, biggest winner in this, biggest loser. No winners. Biggest loser was our economy, the crisis in confidence and how we are viewed in the world. Nicole. I agree on the losers, i say the bipartisan women in the senate stand out for all stars. They deserve the credit for saving the country. Thank you both. Really appreciate it. We should mention nbc news will bring you the president s remarks live later this morning. As people were mentioning, the shutdown, perhaps more attention would be focused on the ofardable caring a. Millions of americans unable to navigate through the site and sign up for insurance. Tom kos tell la has been covering this story. He has the latest. Good morning to you. Reporter good morning t. White house says 15 Million People have visited the websitement it insists the website is improving and people are getting through and signing up. It isnt saying how many. By some estimates, it could be less than 1 of the website traffic. If the obama care website were a patient, it would probably be in intensive care right now. After more than two weeks, healthcare. Gov is getting failing grades from supporters. I hope they get someone fired for how this thing is supposed to work. And the white house, itself. The glitches absolutely must be fixed. People are getting on and enrolling. Reporter the Washington Post called eight complete train wreck, the sentinel says the Administration Needs to fix the problems and fix them now. At healthcare. Gov, go to our live portal. Reporter on october 1st, we met the Schultz Family in phoenix eager to sign up for insurance through the federal website, 17 days later, they still havent been able finish the process. As time went by and we realized it was taking longer than expected to seen up, you know, the excitement became more like a question mark. But were not giving up. Reporter when you see this as a software programmer, what does it say to you . Amateur hour. It looks like it was created by someone who has never delivered commercial software before. Reporter he owns a Software Company in virginia. Nobody should see this. This would barely make beta testing. Reporter one problem, it demands users input their personal information before they begin to window shop for insurance, something retail websites like amazon. Com dont do. Programming experts say a lot of work needs to be done. If they dont change management, this project is demand, because we have already seen what the existing management considers ready for shipping and its not. There are allegations that the administration waited too long to draw up the blueprints for the website, then had too many contractors involved. Meanwhile, many of the state sites running their websites are getting high marks for how well theyre running, colorado and kentucky in particular. All right, tom costello, thank you very much. Natalie is here. Good morning to you all. Edward snowdens father is back in the United States this morning after a trip to russia to visit his son. He spoke to reporters at jfk airport in new york. Edward snowden is wanted by the u. S. Government for leaking information about american under surveillance prachls. Wednesday night his father was asked what advice he gave his son. To stay. To stay but thats my advice. Thats not necessarily what my son will do. He is comfortable. He is happy and he is absolutely committed to what he has done. He said he couldnt see his son coming home until there are some major changes in the u. S. New york mayor cory booker is headed to washington t. Democrat defeated steve lonergan. Booker is the mayor of new jerseys largest city for seven years and plans to run for a full term next year. An update now on that 9yearold minnesota boy who stowed away on a flight to las vegas earlier this month. The judge ruled on wednesday the boy should live apart from his parents. The judge granted a petition to declare a boy a child in need of protection or services. He also ordered individual therapy for the 9 y50er8d and Family Therapy for his parents who were in court on wednesday. The parents were granted visitation privileges. A massive fire destroyed a Department Store overnight in thailand. Flames and thick smoke shot hundreds of feet into the air and forced the evacuation of People Living monita in the island of phuket. The island broke out in a warehouse and stred spread to a store neempblt damage is estimated in the millions of dollars. Wait until you see this, a danish diver set a new Guinness World record by swimming 200 feet beneath the surface of the frozen lake wearing only a speedo, gock goggles him. The record was filmed by the Discovery Channel for an upcoming documentary. Still pretty incredible. Yeah. How far did he swim . 250 feet. Under the water but for a minute and 26 seconds held his breath. In a speedo. In a speedo. Cant you have a wetsuit. I think the idea is to be as cold as possible. I will go jump in hot lava and warm up. Lets show you what we got. Hey, if you decided its a good time to head down to washington, d. C. Now the Government Shutdown is over, well over the next three days, things are not looking too bad. We see the showers, afternoon showers as you head on into the weekend. Right now, wove got a frontal system that will be pushing through the east. This thing runs all the way from new england down into texas. Ahead of it we got nice warm air. That will be bringing in all the moisture. We got cooler air coming in. You get the two combined. You will see showers and thunderstorms from chicago into cleveland, into the Midatlantic States t. Good news is it clears out pretty quickly. We got nicer people dont have to think about where their electricity comes from. They flip the switch and the light comes on. Its our job to make sure that it does. Using natural gas this power plant can produce enough energy for about 600,000 homes. Generating electricity thats cleaner and reliable, with fewer emissions it matters. Wow, thats your latest weather. Thank you very much. We have new details on a bullying case we told you on wednesday. The sheriff is trying to come up with a way to charge the parents of a 14yearold girl accused of bullying a classmate who eventually took her own life. Heres nbcs michael potter. Reporter this girl jumped this cement plant haunts the sheriff grady judded. My heart was broken. I want to make sure is that we do everything we can to send a loud message that parents have to pay attention. Reporter Authorities Say sedgwick was bullied by other girls, physically and online. Two girls were arrested and charged with aggravated stalking of a minor after the oldest allegedly posted a message days ago on facebook show knowing remorse. Judd said the girls parents failed to monitor their girls behavior. At this point in the investigation, we dont have a criminal case against any parent. We wish that we did. Reporter nbc legal analyst says its a hard case to make. Unless there is proof the parents actively encouraged the bullying, there may be bad parenting, moral responsibility, but there wont be a crime. Reporter the attorney for the 14yearold denies she was a bully. She is a care taker and very comforting and loving to other kids and kids in the neighborhood. She socializes with a lot of people. Reporter the attorney denies the girl wrote the facebook entry. The parents say she was hacked and they monitored her. You know the parents were doing the best job they could with what they knew. Sheriff judd says the other girl and her parents accepted responsibility but they would not speak with nbc news. The longtime hope is for this death to prevent other and raise awareness. Lets check in with tamron. Shes in the orange room for carson. We know the internet can be here today, gone tomorrow. Something is a hot viral sensation one day, the other day were not talking about it. This photograph of the josh hargas the soldier that gave that salute around the world, it is still resonateing today, trending on a lot of websites. His wife taylor has spoken out in a new interview. Heres what she has to say about her husband. I was just overcome with pride. Thats my husband. Hes an amazing man. I think that people should know that my husband, number one, a hero and that there are still other heros in the fight and there are still heros that arent coming home to their family members. Im very fortunate that hes here. Im fortunate that hes still alive and we still get to have our life together. Very early in my pregnancy, so its still very new to us. I feel good. Im happy. Josh is happy. Were looking forward to having a baby. We are thankful to everyone that shared his story. Hes the kind of person that people should look up to as a he. Reporter hes the kind of person a little boy should look up to. We are so happy for them as you heard there, they are expecting their first child. Taylor posted the picture of josh on her Facebook Page october 12th. We pofsted it and have gotten over 50,000 likes, thats five times as we normally get on some of the things we post on a daily basis. Its proof this is resonateing. Hearing taylor and that theyre expecting a new baby, this young couple. He is only 24yearsold. We will never forget him. Hope flirks when he gets out of the hospital in texas, he will come on the today show and we will meet him in person. Coming up, some new calls to reopen a Sexual Assault case that has on the apart a small missouri town. This morning, the mother and her accuser speaks out. We will hear from the doctor that did Angelina Jolies 7 23. And the sun is coming up in West Palm Beach florida. Looks absolutely beautiful there. A pad him boarders Close Encounter with a great white shark. What was he ah, this is just what the eight layers needed. Hey, guys. 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