Tonight, several developing stories as we come on the air, the East Coast still getting

drenched by the remnants of a tropical storm, were that Hollywood studios may be close to

a deal with striking writers and a possible government shutdown now just days away.

First the storm, what's left of Ophelia pounding the northeast, battering the coastline

and threatening homes, trees falling in heavy winds and relentless rain stretching into

the work week as severe weather now moves into Texas.

Our weather team is standing by.

The showdown at the Capitol, dissension among Republicans as the clock ticks closer

to a government shutdown, President Biden urges Congress to do its job as a new ABC News

Washington Post poll as more bad news for the president, Mary Alice Park standing by

on Capitol Hill.

New hope for a possible breakthrough in the writer's strike, the talk said to be in the

home stretch.

Reports of Hollywood studios making what they call their best and final offer will it

be enough to end the now five month long strike.

Tragedy in Florida, six family members killed when a speeding freight train slammed into

their SUV, two of the victims, just children.

The migrant crisis, the new border patrol chief says everybody is overwhelmed in his first

interview since taking the job, human smugglers sent thousands of migrants into the US and

more busloads could be headed for major cities, Matt Rivers at the border tonight.

The mayor of one big city declares an emergency over the water supply.

What authorities say is contaminating that city's drinking water.

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