Good evening, I'm Jeff Bennett, and I'm Omnenevaz on the news hour tonight.

Speaker McCarthy rejects a Senate effort to avoid a government shutdown, while House

Republicans hold their first impeachment hearing into President Biden despite no concrete

evidence of wrongdoing.

GOP presidential hopefuls take the debate stage to make the case for themselves as alternatives

to the absent and leading candidate former President Donald Trump.

And thousands of ethnic Armenians flee after Azerbaijan forces violently take control of

the breakaway republic of Nagorno-Karabakh.

Stopping the food and all the essentials to the people in Nagorno-Karabakh, that is a

classic genocide, infringing conditions.

Welcome to the news hour.

Federal workers were put on notice today that a shutdown is imminent.

Millions of government employees and active duty military members could stop being paid

in just three days' time.

The U.S. Senate has been working in a bipartisan manner to prevent a shutdown, but the holdup

is with House Republicans, some of whom are refusing to support any short-term measure

that would buy Congress more time to act.

Congressional correspondent Lisa Desjardins on Capitol Hill, following all the twists and

turns, Lisa Congress now has less than three days to reach a deal.

The House and Senate appear to be moving in different directions.

What's the latest this evening?

This deadline is quite serious, and it is approaching more quickly now, however, things

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