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9/29: Red and Blue

Deadline looms for Congress to avoid a government shutdown; Candidates for Virginia governor face off in debate Source

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House votes to suspend debt ceiling through 2022 as Congress works to avert government shutdown

The House has voted to pass a measure that would suspend the debt ceiling through mid-December of 2022, and the bill now goes to the Senate. Meanwhile, time is running out to avert a government shutdown. Failure to do so would impact multiple agencies and leave thousands of federal employees furloughed. CBS News congressional correspondent Kris Van Cleave reports on the latest from Capitol Hill. Then Siobhan Hughes, a congressional reporter for the Wall Street Journal, joins CBSN’s Lana Zak to discuss that and more. Source

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CDC predicts COVID-19 deaths will likely decrease in coming weeks

The CDC is predicting deaths from COVID-19 will likely decrease in the coming weeks. It comes as Pfizer and BioNTech submits their data to the FDA on a pediatric COVID-19 vaccine. Dr. Adam Brown, an emergency physician and the COVID national task force chair at Envision Healthcare, joined CBSN’s Lana Zak to discuss the rest of the day’s COVID-19 headlines. Source

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