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Raised soon, house conservatives were brushing off talk of dire consequences to come. >> i think most folks understand october 17 7/8 not the drop dead date. there are no payments due for a couple weeks. >> reporter: jim acosta, cnn, washington. >> so if all does go well this morning, we do expect we could hear from the senators even before the markets open. >> let's hope so. >> if there is a deal reached, the voting could begin today, although it could be pushed back through the weekend. senate leaders say they're close to a deal. the question is, how are investors reacting this morning. >> f...

the story is a bit different and the president fares a bit better. he now has a six-point edge over mitt romney, topping the 50% mark for the time in that survey. in an interview with nbc he talked about his accomplish ams in the face of republican opposition. >> even with a bunch of obstruction over -- on capitol hill, we've been able to save an auto industry. we've been able to take 750,000 jobs being lost a month and move it so it's 250,000 jobs being created this month. we've been able to make sure that we ended the war in iraq on schedule. we've been able to make sure that we ...

Complicated. you look at the housing and urban development, and nonessential workers can keep the blackberrys and laptops, but not allowed the use them, but the essential workers are to carry out essential functions like me taking media questions, but the question is how do you know if an e-mail is essential unless you check it, so t.j., it is down the each department or office deciding who is essential and who is not essential and who can use the blackberry and who can't. t.j.? >> there are so many parsparts this story, and we are all in disarrer ray trying ere ere e r disarreray, and thank y...