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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dave Mattingley. This is day 41 of the government shutdown, but for the first time since it began, Congress is a step closer to ending it. Eight members of the Senate Democratic Caucus voted with Republicans yesterday to advance an agreement to reopen the government. They did so without a guaranteed extension of federal health care subsidies set to expire at the end of the year. That's been the key demand of Democratic lawmakers since the shutdown began. Here's Senate Majority Leader, John Thune. I'm hopeful that we can finally bring the shutdown to an end. And I don't need to go over all the reasons why it's imperative that we get the government open as soon as possible.

From the truly precarious situation we are in with regard to air travel to the fact that our staffs have been working without pay for a full 40 days now, all of us, Republicans and Democrats, who support this bill, know that the time to act is now. Democratic Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois was among the Democrats who broke ranks with others in his party's leadership. He called on Thune to keep his promise to hold a Senate vote to extend the expiring health care subsidies by mid-December. It's not clear how soon the Senate and House could give final approval to the measure to end the shutdown. The government shutdown resulted in thousands of airline flight cancellations and delays over the weekend. The FAA continues to reduce flight capacity. at 40 major airports across the U.S. because of air traffic control staffing shortages.

NPR's Joe Hernandez has more from Philadelphia. Juliet Montefusco was flying from Philadelphia to Florida to meet up with her sister and other family members. Her flight was on time, but she said one part of her family got delayed for hours, including five kids. First time on a plane, first time on a big vacation, first time to Disney. And they had to wait in the terminal for like five hours the other day, which says, sucks, right, for a bunch of kids that have never been on a plane. Transportation officials say air travel headaches could get even worse as Thanksgiving approaches. Joe Hernandez, NPR News, Philadelphia.

Some employees at a NASA facility in Maryland are describing conditions there as organized chaos amid a change in culture. NPR's Katie Riddle has more. The Goddard Space Flight Center is in Maryland, and it's been a crown jewel of scholarship and innovation for NASA for years. But this year, say employees, they've seen a sharp change in culture and climate. Information withheld from employees, labs closed without reasons, and buildings suddenly shut down. Casey McGrath is an astrophysicist there. He spoke in his personal capacity. Like the upper management is pushing fast and hard to shut down buildings on campus without actually telling anybody what they're doing.

The White House and NASA both did not respond to a request for comment on this story. Katie Rettle in PR News. Wall Street futures are higher this morning. This is NPR News from Washington. The Israeli government says remains it perceived from Hamas are that of an Israeli soldier killed in Gaza in 2014. The 23-year-old soldier was killed shortly after a ceasefire between the two began 11 years ago. The family of Hadar Golden had been publicly seeking his return since then. A super typhoon that hit the Philippines over the weekend.

weekend has killed at least two people. More than a million people evacuated their homes ahead of the storm. As Michael Sullivan reports, this latest storm follows a deadly typhoon that hit the country last week. Fung Wong came ashore in northeastern Aurora province with sustained winds of up to 115 miles per hour and gusts of more than 140 miles per hour. It set off floods and landslides and knocked out power to entire provinces, even as the country dealt with the devastation left by typhoon Kalmagi, which struck the country on Tuesday, leaving at least 224 dead. At least five more people were killed after Kalmagi cleared the Philippines and slammed into an already storm-battered Vietnam. Fung Wong weakened as it traveled across the

northern Philippines overnight before blowing into the South China Sea, its forecast to head to the northwest towards Taiwan. For NPR News, I'm Michael Sullivan in Chang Rai. Former NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabu has died at the age of 84. His family in Maryland says Tagliabu died of heart failure complicated by Parkinson's disease. He served as the league's commissioner for 17 years from 1989 to 2006. I'm Dave Mattingly in Washington.