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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Giles Snyder.
The Senate is expected to be back in session today after adjourning late yesterday afternoon without taking any action to end the federal government shutdown, which is now on its 40th day.
The shutdown is the longest in U.S.
history, and so far there appears to be no bipartisan path to bring it to an end.
Here's NPR's Ava Pukach with more.
According to the flight tracking website FlightAware, cancellations so far today top 1,000, and there are more than 400 delays as the Federal Aviation Administration limits air traffic at major airports around the country due to safety concerns.
55-year-old Matthew Morse was traveling out of Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston.
The shutdown has not only disrupted flights, but has threatened food assistance that millions of low-income Americans rely on and left federal workers without pay.
The Philippines is being hit by a super typhoon.
The storm, named Fung Wong, is bringing sustained winds of more than 150 miles an hour, along with torrential rain.
Ashish Valentine reports on the second powerful typhoon to hit the region in the past week.
The Japanese public broadcaster NHK is warning people to stay away from coastal areas following a powerful earthquake that rattled northern Japan.
Officials issued a tsunami advisory after the quake struck off the coast with a preliminary magnitude of 6.7.
There are two nuclear plants in the area, but NHK says no abnormalities have been reported.
Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharra is in Washington.
He is to meet with President Trump at the White House tomorrow.
His visit comes two days after the U.S.