Deal Reached To Fund Government For Six Months; India Blackout Affects 600 Million
BALDWIN: This just in. Agreement in Washington between the Senate majority leader, the speaker of the House and the president announcing they agree to fund the government for the next six months. Basically the news in that is that the government will not be shutting down at the end of September. Take a listen.</s>SEN. HARRY REID (D-NV), MAJORITY LEADER: We'll fund the government for the next six months through the first quarter of 2013. It will provide stability for the coming months. It will be free of riders. This is very good because we can resolve these critical issues that affect the country soon as the election is over and move on to do good things. It puts this out of way.</s>BALDWIN: Our senior congressional correspondent Dana Bash, she is working the story. She's going to join me live next hour. Again, this is all happening before Congress goes on vacation until September. More than half of India's 1.2 billion people are in a blackout suffering through second huge power outages in just two days. It's stranded train passengers, snarling traffic, cutting power to New Delhi. Take a look at this map with me because the power grid failure covers a huge section of the country. This is 600 million people affected, maybe more. No official word on the cause. A young girl and her brother are shuffled around really from foster home to foster home. Years of abuse and then they are separated. Fast forward to now. She is still looking for her brother. You're about to hear her story live including the inspiring reason she's in Washington, D.C. Don't miss this.