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we begin this morning with shutdown averted. senators managed to put aside their differences for now at least, passing legislation that will both keep the government in business and keep government relief coming to the victims of this year's many weather-related disasters. nbc's tracie potts joins us from washington with more on this. good morning. >> reporter: lynn, good morning. here's how it happened. 26 republicans joined democrats to pass this measure. they're doing it in two parts. first of all, a temporary extension, which basically extends government funding through tuesday u...

here's how it happened. 26 republicans joined democrats to pass this measure. they're doing it in two parts. first of all, a temporary extension, which basically extends government funding through tuesday until the house gets back next week. and then a longer-term extension that will extend funding through november 18th. the house will vote on that when they return on tuesday. now, this includes over $2.6 billion for fema. they were able to scale that back and not deal with the very controversial issue of cuts to some clean energy programs. democrats didn't want to see those cuts. bu...

Focusing on a health care bill that the american people didn't want including almost a trillion dollars in higher taxes as part of that health care bill. and penalties on employers instead of focusing on jobs. having a budget this year with a $1.6 trillion projected deficit, not counting health care and not counting freddy mae and fanny mac at a time when we're looking at a global economic risk because of the massive amount of debt that government has put in place. yes, he had a mess when he took office. but i don't think the focus on jobs, the focus on incentive vising small businesses has be...

a hate crime. karen parks is live at police headquarters with more on the incident. karen? >> jennifer and jeff. the officer said he was a victim of a hate crime. but the suspect's family tell a different story. charging documents say around 2:30 this morning, detective germane cook was driving near his job to home. while at a stop sign he was confronted by 20-year-old james kimble that yelled at him for speeding. the two argued. and he is accused of hitting the officer in the face with a glass mug. during the argument, officials say kimball used racial slurs and threaten to hang det...

the officer said he was a victim of a hate crime. but the suspect's family tell a different story. charging documents say around 2:30 this morning, detective germane cook was driving near his job to home. while at a stop sign he was confronted by 20-year-old james kimble that yelled at him for speeding. the two argued. and he is accused of hitting the officer in the face with a glass mug. during the argument, officials say kimball used racial slurs and threaten to hang detective cook. police are calling it a hate crime. suspect's family said it was self defense. >> they were going ch...