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kate has the details. it s complicated. it s a little messy. tell us, what is happening right now? bottom line is this. the senate senate democrats, senate republican leaders have been able to reach an agreement to avert a government shutdown. that s the big headline for most of our viewers. they were able to do this after all of this discussion and all of this fight over specifically inclusion of fema funding. additional fema funding in the short term resolution. what is happening right now, john, is there is going to be a series of two votes, actually. one thing we re looking at has to do with a clean or simple measure funding fema. this is what everyone was looking for, fwunding fema as well as not shutting down the government. and did strips away all the obstacles that had really been holding up the agreement to this point. the second measure that they will be voting on is actually here s the confusing part. a one-week extension. one-week short-term spending e ....
amount of fema funding in this short-term spending bill. fema announced today that it s able to basically stretch the funds that they have in this federal disaster relief fund which is helping recovery efforts for all the natural disasters the country has been facing. they re able to stretch the funds to make it through the end of this week, which is a different estimate, which is a better picture than they ve been painting previously, that they felt the coffers were going to run dry early this week. by doing that, it s key because the end of this week is the end of the fiscal year which really essentially takes the big obstacle that was holding up agreement off of the table. it makes it a moot point. and that is because the fight was over federal disaster relief in just the end of the fiscal year 11 which, as we know, is just the next few days. democrats and republicans were fighting over whether that bit of fema funding should be paid for or should not be. republican ....
there, or are you alone? reporter: i am alone except for the crew and some other reporters. i had to look around. we re sort of in a bubble. you know how that is, but, where do we start, ali? oh my gosh. there is so much to talk about in this case. when you talk about propofol. we didn t know anything about propofol before michael jackson. some people get it when you go into procedures but you didn t know the name of it. as you said, opening statements, starting about 8:45 local time, which is 11:45 eastern. that s when the judge will come in, give the jury instructions, about 15 minutes. after that, the arguments are expected to start in this case. the prosecution and from the defense. that are ge on for a bit. 10:15, they ll take a little breather. after that, ali, they re going to come back, continued with the arguments. we don t expect we don t expect doesn t always go as planned, we don t expect the first witness to start testifying until a little later on th ....
militant group that may be as big a threat to the united states in afghanistan as al qaeda or the taliban. the obama administration appears ready to formally call the haqqani network what so many people believe it is, a terrorist organization. our foreign affairs correspondent jill dougherty is at the state department, she s been digging on this story. what are you learning? wolf your know, the political pressure here in the united states has been building to put the haqqani network on that list of terrorist organizations. but what really put force behind the argument is a violent action by the group itself. reporter: violent attacks in afghanistan, american blood spilled. haqqani operatives planned and conducted that truck bomb attack as well as the assaults on our embassy. reporter: now u.s. officials tell cnn, secretary of state hillary clinton is on the verge of designating the al qaeda linked haqqani network as a foreign terrorist organization. one official ....
inclusion of fema funding. additional fema funding in the short term resolution. what is happening right now, john, is there is going to be a series of two votes, actually. one thing we re looking at has to do with a clean or simple measure funding fema. this is what everyone was looking for, fwunding fema as well as not shutting down the government. and did strips away all the obstacles that had really been holding up the agreement to this point. the second measure that they will be voting on is actually here s the confusing part. a one-week extension. one-week short-term spending extension. and the purpose of this is simply the house is out this week, as you well know. if they can t get members back in time, or they can t get an agreement to pass it very quickly, they ll need that one week of funding to avert the government shutdown and get the house back in time to vote on this measure. john? what changed? this morning into the afternoon we were told that you sti ....