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 From npr news in washington, I’m Lakshmi Singh. The Obama administration is raising concerns about russia’s decision to step up its military presence in Syria or Moscow has begun an air campaign. It says it wants to help Syrian President Bashar al-Assad fight the isis. Washington is deeply skeptical. As NPR’s Scott Horsely reports administration officials suspect Russia is using its military power to prop up the Assad Regime which the US accuses of committing atrocities against Syrian political-dissidents-turned-rebel fighters.

The US and Russian militaries are supposed to be talking to avoid running into each other in Syria. But US Defense secretary Ash Carter says there was no formal contact before the Russian air strikes began. Carter says the Russians appear to be targeting opponents of Assad but not in territory occupied by the Islamic State. White House spokesman Josh Ernest says Russia’s involvement is a sign of Assad’s weakness.

Russia will not succeed in imposing a military solution on Syria any more than the US were successful in imposing a military solution on Iraq a decade ago, and certainly no more than Russia was able to impose a military solution on Afghanistan 3 decades ago. The WH argues that Assad must step down to bring an end to his country’s long running civil war.

Scott Horsely, NPR news, Washington.

The Senate has voted in favor. Now it’s up to the house. Law makers have until midnight tonight to pass short term legislation to keep the government funded, and unlike the brinksmanship of deadline eve two yrs ago there is not much talk about a potential shutdown, but as NPR’s Elsa Chang explains this is just the calm before the next storm.

No one is really breathing a sigh of relief because everyone here knows an ugly fall awaits with a thicket of issues the congress has been trying to avoid for a while. There is the highway fund that expires next month so lawmakers will have to figure out a long term way to pay for new roads and bridges. There’s also the debt ceiling. The treasury secretary says the country’s borrowing limit needs to be raised soon or the government won’t be able to pay its bills. And congress will also need to decide what to do about spending caps about defense and non-defense programs, all before averting a government shutdown again in mid December. Elsa Chang, NPR news, the capital.

Hurricane Joaquin is shaping to become a much more powerful storm over the next couple of days as it gets closer to the US. This hour the storm is nearing the central Bahamas with top sustained winds of 85 m/hr. Rick Nat, the director of the national hurricane center in Miami says it is doubling up on resource just to nail down the storm’s trajectory.

We are gonna be throwing in a lot more aircraft resources at this problem because it is still not certain whether Joaquin will directly impact the US, East Coast, or will stay out to sea.

The threat of several floods and damage to the eastern US is escalating. Before the close Dow was up 236. This is npr.

In South Dakota, a student is in custody after he allegedly shot and wounded a high school principal at a school outside XXX. Keely xxx of South Dakota public broadcasting reports that authorities say that the principal is listed in stable condition. Authorities say that a teenager struggled with his high school principal. Officials say the student pulled a hand gun and shot the principal once in the arm. Jim Holbac is superintendent of xxx school.

The assistant principal ended up tackling the student and the athletic director came just shortly after and held him down before law enforcement came. Holbac says staff executed lock-down procedures and police took the alleged shooter in custody. Authorities cleared the building before evacuating the students and reuniting them with their parents.

For npr news I’m keely xxx in Harrisburg South Dakota.

XXX county sherrif Stanley Glanse is expected to resign after he is indicted by a grand jury on two misdemeanors in Oklahoma. the charges are connected to a volunteer deputy’s fatal shooting of an unarmed man in April. US businesses added jobs at a healthy pace in September, that according to a private survey. Payroll processor atp says that employers added 2,000 jobs this month, that’s up from 180 jobs in the previous month. Americans are spending more freely and buying big ticket items such as new cars and homes.

Before the close the dow is up 236, 1.5 percent in 16, 285. Nasdaq was up more than 2 percent at 4,620. And the s and p 500 up nearly 2 percent at 1,920.

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