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I'm Melissa Lear.

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We've got breaking news on the government shutdown which is looming.

Elon Moy in Washington, D.C. has got the very latest, Elon.

There is a deal to perhaps not avert the government shutdown, perhaps limit the damage from a government shutdown. This is coming

from Senator Bob Corker who says that Vice President Mike Pence who was on

the hill earlier this afternoon along with Mick Mulvaney and Jared Kushner they met with

Chuck Schumer in his office and agreed to something we don't know exactly what

what we do know is that after that meeting Vice President Mike Pence, along with the

other representatives from the White House, went over to the House side of the Capitol

to meet with Paul Ryan as well as leaders of the Conservative Freedom Caucus.

Now that seems to be an indication that two sides are coming together,

perhaps the White House brokering the seeds of a longer negotiation here. We did get a statement from the

We did get a statement from Chuck Schumer's office

about how that conversation between the minority leader

and the vice president went and what he said was that Chuck Schumer reiterated

that any proposal with funding for the wall will not pass the Senate.

However, previous proposals including one that included $1.3 billion for border security funding,

that is still on the table.

That could perhaps provide a point of negotiation for these discussions going forward.

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