News Wrap: GOP hardliner blasts McCarthy’s plan to avoid government shutdown

John Yang:

Good evening, I'm John Yang. Tonight as the maker break week reporting a government shutdown begins, House Republicans are still looking for a way out of their spending stalemate. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy wants to pass a 45-day spending bill to fund the government beyond next Saturday. But hardline Republicans are insistent on full year bills with big cuts. This morning on Fox News, one of the hardliners Matt Gaetz of Florida blasted the speaker strategy.

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R) Florida: We knew September 30 was coming all year. And Kevin McCarthy has been dilatory, he's been fiddling like we (inaudible) burns.

Woman:

As we understand it, they're doing this this upcoming week. So we will —

Matt Gaetz:

Right. Because we are making them. They're doing it with a political gun to their head and you are welcome America.

John Yang:

This week, McCarthy will try to pass four of bills needed to fund the government for a full year as well as a short term stopgap measure for the rest of the government.

French President Emmanuel Macron was ending his country's military presence in Niger and bringing the ambassador home as a result of July's military coup that deposed Niger's democratically elected president. France, the West African nation's former colonizer has kept about 1,500 troops in Nigeria to combat terrorism in the region, but huge protests have called for the French to leave. Macron says all French forces will be out of the country by the end of the year.

NASA got a special delivery from space this morning. A capsule about the size of a car tire landed in the Utah desert, ending a seven year 4 billion mile round trip to collect the biggest haul of samples from an asteroid ever collected in space. The material will be analyzed at the Johnson Space Center in Houston and eventually labs around the world.

Scientists hope what they find will help unlock the mysteries of the creation of the earth and our solar system. It's the most extraterrestrial material to be brought back to Earth since the end of the Apollo lunar program.

And two milestones today for women in sports. At the Berlin marathon Ethiopian runner Tigst Assefa shattered the women's world record by a full two minutes. She covered the 26 mile course in two hours, 11 minutes and 53 seconds. Assefa only started running marathons last year. Before that she was a middle distance runner.

And tonight's US women's national soccer team match against South Africa will be Megan Rapinoe's final game with a team and her two decades on the national squad. She helped with two World Cups and an Olympic gold medal. She still has three more games and the National Women's Soccer League regular season before fully retiring. After that, Rapinoe says she'll continue to fight for women's rights and equal pay.

Still come on PBS News Weekend, the unexpected high cost of emergency medical transportation, and the story of Lydia Mendoza, the first queen of Tejano music.