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Honeymoon. The honey homoon is other. We had a really nice time. Thank you so much for saying that. Its a honeymoon for us when ever youre on. Feels like a vacation. Its easy, great. Congrats. You made a beautiful bride. Thank you. The next hour of cnn this morning starts now. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to cnn this morning. It is saturday, september 30th. The end of the month. Im amara walker. I mean, it officially means fall at this point. Almost to october, its fall. Im omar jimenez. Those are the first words i chose to say this morning before the show. Im in for victor blackwell. Thanks for joining us. Here is what were watching for you this morning. The clock is ticking. And the u. S. Is creeping closer to a Government Shutdown as lawmakers work on a lastditch effort to hammer out a deal to fund the government. What we expect to happen today and the impacts a shutdown could have on everything from child care to air travel. A deluge of rain sparks flash flooding across parts of new york, shutting down mass transit and flooding homes and vehicles as you see there. Were going to show you the damage left behind and where were seeing more rain this morning. Georgia prosecutors signal they could start handing out plea deals to some of the defendants in the 2020 election subversion cases. What that means for the other codefendants in that case. Pandemicera program that provided Child Care Credits to families is set to expire today. The Immediate Impact this could have on millions of families just ahead on cnn this morning. The government is barrelling towards a shutdown with no solution in sight this morning. Today is the last day for congress to pass a funding bill to keep the government open. And less than 17 hours left until that crucial deadline. Today, both the house and the senate will convene for a rare saturday session to try to come to some kind of lastminute solution. Try is the keyword. House speaker Kevin Mccarthy has failed once again to pass a stopgap bill in his chamber. And now hes warning that the senate bill wont pass either, calling their bipartisan bill dead on arrival. But Senate Minority leader Mitch Mcconnell says theres only one path forward. The choice facing Congress Pretty straight forward. We can take the Standard Approach and fund the government for six weeks at the current rate of operations, or we can shut the government down in exchange for 0 meaningful progress on policy. Now, if the government shuts down, it will be far and wide reaching. The biggest impact will be on federal workers. Millions of people could be forced to work without pay. We have Live Team Coverage all morning long as the deadline is quickly approaching. Cnn Priscilla Alvarez is at the white house with how the president and his team are preparing. But first, cnns Annie Grayer Live On capitol hill. All right, annie. Weekend session here. What is Kevin Mccarthys plan with less than 24 hours left on the clock. Reporter omar, its unclear if he has one. After the Shortstop Gap Bill failed on the floor yesterday. Republicans met Behind Closed Doors for hours trying to come up with a plan on how they can fund the government. Just to give a sense of how wide the disagreement is right now, 21 House Republicans voted down the shortterm measure yesterday. Only four can be against it and have it still pass. Now members left the meeting last night still without a clear plan of how to fund the government. This really is going to come down to House Speaker Kevin Mccarthy and how and if he can keep his members in line, keep his conference together. Listen to what republican Congressman Ken Buck has to say about the situation. This was a vote where people didnt have faith that Kevin Mccarthy was going to do the right thing. We passed a bill on the debt ceiling. We negotiated a significant higher number with President Biden. People dont have faith when it comes time to negotiate hell do the right thing. Reporter so, a big question here is can mccarthy keep his conference together . Some republicans are furious at how hes been handling this. Members like matt gaetz are threatening to oust him from the job, depending on what decision he makes. On top of all that drama in the house, the senate will also be meeting today to take a vote on a measure for their shortterm spending bill, but that bill wont be done before the deadline runs out at midnight tonight. And the bigger issue with that bill is it has funding for the war in ukraine, which republicans in the house do not support. So, members from the house and senate will be back in session today without a clear plan of how to keep the government open. Days like this where im glad i am not a member of congress. Annie grayer, thank you. Meanwhile, President Biden is remaining in d. C. This weekend as the white house preparing for the potential shutdown. The administration has been rolling out new warnings all week about the effects of a shu shutdown, saying republicans are to blame. Tell us how the Biden Administration is preparing for a shutdown just in case. Reporter well, President Biden will be briefed on what is happening on the hill over the course of the day and the days to come by his staff. But what he is also making clear in an interview with propublica, its House Speaker Kevin Mccarthy who made, quote a terrible bargain, as he struggles to get his conference in line. The speaker made a terrible bargain in order to keep the speakership hes willing to do things that he i think he knows are inconsistent with constitutional processes. Number one. Number two, i think it says that there is a group of maga republicans who genuinely want a fundamental change in the way the system works. And thats what worries me the most. Thats been the message from white house officials over the course of the last few days that the onus is on republicans to avoid a Government Shutdown. But in the interim, the administration has to prepare. And what that means is that, as you mentioned, millions of federal workers may be furloughed. Some of those notices already went out this week to some to a lot of the work force including personnel at the white house who also received instructions as to whether their going to be furloughed what that looks like and who would be considered essential. That looks like senior aides learning the jobs of junior aides to try to get by if their furloughed. Now in terms of the impact, there are several agencies who are preparing for change here, including, for example the Small Business administration would not be able to process new business loans. There would be delays in longterm Disaster Recovery efforts. Theres a risk of millions of women and children going without food assistance. As well as federal workers and active duty troops not getting paid over the course of this shutdown. So, the administration as a whole is bracing for this. The white house is bracing for this, hoping that there is a deal that can be struck to extend funding. But in the interim, there is certainly a lot of preparation under way. Yeah. Of course another impact is congress credibility as we see this play out. Priscilla alvarez, thank you very much. Joining me now is the president for the committee for a responsible budget. This organization regularly engages with federal lawmakers on fiscal responsibility. Maya, appreciate your time this morning. Whats your prediction . Is a shutdown inevitable at this point . Is there anything that can be done to avoid a shutdown . Reporter it seems unlikely. Certainly conventional wisdom is that were headed towards a shutdown. Everybody is making plans accordingly. I do think theres a tiny slimmer of hope that they just agree on a clean cr and couple more weeks to negotiate on these actual Funding Bills. But, i think most people would disagree with that prediction. The real issue i think is even once the government shuts down, theres the exact same problems of what theyre going to do to open it as there is to keep it open. So youre not resolving anything. Youre not making this negotiation any easier. And the fall is going to be incredibly bumpy if we dont ultimately come to a decision about the Funding Levels and how were going to fund the government for the new fiscal year which starts tomorrow. You make a very important point, right. Lets say they miraculous come to some agreement, a clean continuing resolution or stopgap bill, but that only solves the problem for 30 to 45 days, right . So its about what happens after. How can we avoid this what seems to have become an annual drama that plays out to the very last minute . Well, exactly. Were at this point now where especially in the world of budgeting we just hop from one crisis to the next. Never really resolving the underlying problems. Its why everybody feels a bit of deja vu it was just a few months ago we were having countdowns to whether we were going to default or not which was a worse situation than this would have been both of them clearly bad and demonstrate a failure to governor not only to our citizens but around the world. I think the real problem starts with the fact that we no longer budget in this country. The house and the senate put out their budgets and work to reconcile those. The House Budget Committee did put out a house budget but a senate Budget Committee never even bothered to do that. There hasnt been widespread buy in to the Funding Levels as a result we have senate bills that are above what were agreed to and contingency in the house that wants to fund below what was agreed to. So the old thought of a deal is a deal isnt really applying here. Frankly, we have to overhaul the way we budget to fix it and we have to get at the big underlying issue what are we going to do about our National Debt. It is a huge and growing problem. And none of these Funding Bills are aggressing it. Is it overhaul even up for discussion . I ask because your website says your organization regularly engages with federal lawmakers on fiscal responsibility. What were seeing play out right now is not fiscally responsible by any means. When was the last time your organization spoke with members of congress about this issue . Oh, yesterday. There was a whole lot of discussion on capitol hill. One of the things that i like about our organization is were nonpartisan. We work with Bipartisan Group. For instance, yesterday, there was i thought a great step forward, which is a Bipartisan Group in the house led by bill hazinga and scott peters put forward the idea of a fiscal commission. Attach it to one of these options to keep the government funded. At the same time, appoint a group of experts and members of congress who would spend over a year looking at all these issues, put everything on the table so were not negotiating this tiny slice of the budget which isnt going to fix the problem and try to figure out what to do about our National Debt that is about to reach record levels, our Interest Payments are more than we spend on all children at the federal level. So many warning signs. So, there is there are encouraging signs. We do talk to members on a bipartisan basis all the time. They understand the problem. When you look at some of these things grabbing the headlines, the discussion about the Government Shutdown isnt making any progress on how you fix the overall problem unless they include Something Like commission and Start Talking about the bigger real issues that are really hanging out there because we have been avoiding them for so many years now. Yeah. Theres so much at stake. Millions of federal workers will not get a paycheck. Many of them will be forced to work without collecting a paycheck. And of course, get paid back pay when the government reopens. That does not apply to contractors and theres a lot of contractors at the nsa and what have you. Lets talk about credibility. Did mention this off the top. Im sure americans are rolling their eyes, here we go again. Our lawmakers are not law making, not doing their jobs. But also when it comes to Credit Worthiness, right . Last month we were talking on our air about fitch downgrading the u. S. Credit rating to aa plus. Moodys is now issuing a warning. When fitch downgraded the u. S. , they pointed to this, the repeated debt limit political standoffs, eroding confidence and fiscal management. Thats what fitch said. Now, moodys could perhaps at some point make this move. Does that concern you . Absolutely. It should concern all of us. The fact that two to three major Rating Agencies say our Credit Worthiness is no longer the top of the bunch and third is warning it could change and pointing to two issues. We have an unsustainable fiscal situation and we have a Governance Structure that isnt working. Its hard to see how we maintain our role in the world frankly if this continues for too long. In the more immediate run, every time theres a downgrade, theres a risk that that pushes up the Borrowing Costs. We still need to borrow a lot of money. People are going to charge us more to do that. And because our debt is already so high, every time Interest Rates go up just one percentage point above what theyre already expected to be, that adds about 2. 7 trillion in our Borrowing Costs over a decade. So, in just a few years, even if those rates dont go up, well be spending more on Interest Payments than we are on national defense. The fact that that could continue to increase because our bad Credit Worthiness, that is a real cost to all American Families. Maya, appreciate you joining us this morning. Thank you. Still ahead, with a possible Government Shutdown just hours away, were going to take a much closer look at how it could affect air travel and flights. Plus, a State Of Emergency in New York City after torrential rain flood the city. Wow. Look at those images. Plus, the expiration of a covid era program could force millions of American Families to make some tough decisions when it comes to childcare. What it could mean for working parents. Thats ahead. We are less than 17 hours away from the United States first Government Shutdown since 2019. And if that deadline comes and goes, the affects will be significant from National Security to the military, child care, even air travel and flights could be impacted. Yeah. One of the biggest impacts the nation could see would be at our airports. So get ready for longer wait times potentially. We will see. Former Department Of Transportation Inspector General and cnn aviation analyst mary schiavo is here with us. Good morning to you. We have a lot to talk about here. One, you were the Inspector General, just to give people context, for the Department Of Transportation during the countrys longest shutdown in history, 35 days. So from a transportation standpoint, what kind of crisis do you see when a Government Shutdown happens . And what do you expect some of the immediate ripples here to be . Well, you know, actually theres whats supposed to happen and what actually does happen. I think my shutdown was 2016. It was during the Clinton Administration and the longest was during trump. And whats supposed to happen is there are essential personnel, which would be all of air Traffic Control, air control maintenance, licensing, hazmat, Accident Investigation and all contractors that keep all the equipment running, theyre supposed to be on the job. Now, granted, the federal employees are on the job without a paycheck until at the end of the furlough then the government goes ahead and pays them. Thats whats happened in history. Its supposed to continue working for all essential employees. What really does happen is after a while things start coming apart. Its furlough time, regular rules dont apply. People call in sick. People get tired of working without pay. Things slow down. Theres a high absentee rate. Theres a high sickness rate. So things generally start falling apart. Technically thats not supposed to happen at all. If youre deemed essential, get to work, be the good air Traffic Controller you always are and supposed to function. Remember at the faa there will be 25,500 employees still at work. Thats a lot of people that will do their jobs. But remember, the tsa is not part of the faa. All 55,000 of them are supposed to be on the job. But its a lot of stress on families to go to work for potentially 35 days without a paycheck. Its a big stress. Of course 35 days was during the trump administration. Just a few years ago. Right. There are the immediate effects here but also transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg has talked about systems at the faa like the notice to air missions in particular long being in need of improvement and more investment, not to mention a shortage of Air Traffic Krcontrollers as we hav seen of late. Take a listen to what he said to wolf blitzer yesterday. Were racing to deal with these staff shortages. Its harder and harder to say we expect you to come in and do this job and were not going to pay you for it. So my question out of that is how big of an impact does a shutdown have on developmental priorities and initiatives like that. Thats what gets shut down during the Government Shutdown, things like new rule making, writing and making new laws. Analysis and assessment, Long Range Planning and of course training. And this Training Issue, remember, is not because the Government Shutdown. This Training Issue started way back during covid when the faa simply stopped hiring and training, not thinking perhaps what was going to happen after covid ended. Or at least was manageable. So this Training Issue and staffing up the faas air Traffic Control has spent a long range problem. They will have over 13,000 air Traffic Controllers on the job that they say they need approximately 15,000 or more and so they have those in the pipeline training. But in a shutdown, training has to stop. Well, and there were definitely growing pains coming out of covid, of course, the Staffing Levels that were decreased during that time and trying to ramp back up again. But beyond air travel, what other forms of travel could see significant hit here . Well, you know, its really interesting is other parts of the Department Of Transportation, highway administration, for example, if the employee is funded by something other than the direct appropriation from government, for example, funded by a trust fund or have other funding, then theyre not affected at all. For example the federal highway administration, they keep going to work. They dont have a lot of people who will be furloughed. The flip side is federal rail, for example, most of theirs are funded by congress, by taxpayer dollars. So most of federal rail probably will be on furlough. It varies department by department within the d. O. T. And for example my office, the office of Inspector General, about three fourths of those people because theyre doing investigations and audit and longterm projects, longterm planning and evaluation, a lot of those will be furloughed. So it goes department by department within the department or agency by Agency Within the Department Of Transportation. But by far the federal Aviation Administration will have the most people that stay on the job even without pay. Look, before we go here, even knows about the potential Government Shutdown at this point. But theres another aviation specific deadline that could also expire today, essentially looks at Reauthorizing A Number of faa policy instructions, just how important is that reauthorization and what does it cover here . Right. The faa reauthorization, you know, really need to think about it is just giving the federal Aviation Administration Legal Authority to do its job. Remember, government has no authority except that given it by law. And so the reauthorization has to occur. Now it occurs about every five years. Back when i was in the department, went through it a lot more because you didnt have the longerterm funding, legal capability. But, it has to be reauthorized because otherwise many of the functions that the faa performs would not be authorized by law to do so. Now, the faa worries that if that lapses they will not be able to collect. They will not be legally authorized to collect. A lot of the taxes and funds that airlines or rather Airline Passengers pay into the government to keep the airports and runways and Navigation Systems and air Traffic Controllers on the job. So theyre worried that the lapsing of that reauthorization would lapse also the Legal Authority to do literally all that they do and collect the payments to do it from the traveling public. A lot of factors that could play into what happens over the next 24 to 48 hours. So we will see what happens. Mary schiavo, thank you so much. Still ahead, record rainfall in New York City generates life threatening flooding. Overwhelming streets and subways. Well have more next. The power goes out and we still have wifi to do our homework. And thats a good thing . Great in my book who are you . No power . No problem. Introducing stormready wifi. Now you can stay reliably connected through Power Outages with unlimited cellular data and up to 4 hours of battery backup to keep you online. Only from xfinity. Home of the xfinity 10g network. This morning, so many people in the northeast are waking up to an overwhelming flooding situation. City streets have completely transformed into flowing rivers. Yeah, this is what it looks like in brooklyn. And some travelers at Laguardia Airport ended up using plastic bags to protect their feet while navigating, yes, through the airport, through the high waters. Look, i dont know if thats doing much protection based on the amount of water thats there. Im shuttering looking at that water. Well, cnns Allison Chinchar joins us now from the cnn Weather Center where there is not water on the ground. Youre not wading through water. But youre talking about plenty of people who are. Yes. And there is more rain in this area. Thats the last thing these folks need. Here is a look at some of that video from yesterday. Again, see these streets just covered in water. Some six or eight inches deep which is not safe to drive in. We have more rain right now, most of the heavy rain is really focussed over portions of rhode island and connecticut, but you also got some heavy rainmaking its way across massachusetts. Youve got some around new port, rhode island, Bridgeport Connecticut seeing pickup in rain and oyster bay in new york. It will be off and on. The bulk of the rain i wanted to emphasize is going to be light. Were not expecting the crazy five, six, seven inch amounts we had yesterday, but there are still some Flood Warnings in effect. Again, not necessarily for the new rain today, but it takes time to get rid of all the rain that fell yesterday. For example, jfk setting an alltime record yesterday, picking up over eight inches of rain. Valley stream new york picking up over nine. Many other locations not just in new york but connecticut also picking up five, six and seven inches of rain as we went through the day yesterday. So, again, still some rain expected as we go through the morning. The bulk of this rain really starts to push out to sea once we get to Lunchtime Today and then finally by tomorrow, a nice day from start to finish with some sunshine in store. However, we are still expecting maybe an additional one inch of rain on top of what theyve already had. Allison chinchar, thank you. A judge has ruled that trumpera justice official Jeffrey Clark cannot move his Georgia Election interference case to federal court. According to two Congressional Reports Clark wanted to send letters to stop officials in states where trump lost in 2020, falsely claiming that doj uncovered major Voting Irregularities and pressing them to consider intervening in election results. Now clarks lawyers argue that he was acting in his federal capacity role under then president trump. And prosecutors say they could offer more plea deals to Donald Trumps codefendants in the Election Interference Case in georgia. This comes after Bail Bondsman scott hall agreed to testify in future proceedings in the Fulton County case. Hall is one of 19 charged in the sweeping indictment. Hell get five years probation for his guilty plea. Cnns Katelyn Polantz has the latest. Reporter pieces are falling into place as the first trial related to january 6th and accusations against donald trump is set to go forward in a little less than a month. And the first piece that fell into place on friday is that a defendant in that 19 defendant case in Fulton County, georgia, has pleaded guilty. His name is scott hall. Hes a Bail Bondsman in georgia. He pleaded guilty to five misdemeanor charges, conspiracy counts related to interfering in elections. Scott hall, you may not have heard his name before, he isnt a minor player, though. He is a person in georgia that was very well connected after the 2020 election. He was in touch with a top official at Donald Trumps Justice Department named Jeffrey Clark who is now also a codefendant with him. He was also in touch with people who were leaders in the Republican Party who became fake electors for donald trump, additional codefendants and he was part of that effort where people are accused of hacking into Voting Machines or systems in coffee county, georgia, a rural county after the election. And so, scott halls plea deal, it does include him already been sentenced. He must testify on top of that at upcoming trials if hes called by prosecutors. And that trial that is set to go in october when Jury Selection will begin in Fulton County, georgia that is currently against two of the 19 defendants in this case, Sidney Powell and ken chesebro, both attorneys who warranted around donald trump after the election. Donald trump is not set to be a defendant at that trial, but both powell and chesebro, as they get ready for trial, theyre also going to have to make decisions just like other defendants in this case. There were attorneys, prosecutors in this case in Georgia On Friday who indicated that they are going to be offering plea deals to them and to potentially other people in this case. Thats very expected. There is very likely others that would be taking plea deals just as scott hall did in this case. But ken chesebro and Sidney Powell have to make their decisions first since theyre going to trial first. At the same time, there are other pieces coming into play here where the case is not being moved. Its not being split up further after several people who had affiliations with the federal government in some way, those fake electors as well as Jeffrey Clark, the Justice Department official, tried to move their case to federal court. Trial court said no, it will Stay Together in state court. Right now two sets of people going to trial first in october and then the rest later on. And were going to be watching for more possible guilty pleas in the near future. Kaittelyn polantz, cnn washingt. Still ahead, ukraine says russia launched 50 drones in a new wave of attacks overnight. How ukraine is fighting back. Ukraine says russia launched at least 50 drones in a new wave of attacks overnight. Military Officials Say 30 drones were shot down but others hit an Infrastructure Facility causing a massive fire. Ukraines military is using the resources it has on hand to fight back, including vampire attack drones. Cnns Frederik Pleitgen has this exclusive with the Ukrainian Drone unit. Reporter ukraines Army Attacking in the east around bakhmut. For the ukrainians, this is an extremely important but also very complicated and potentially very dangerous mission. Were going to be located very close to where the russians are. Were with the front line drone unit called code 9. 2. Their drone the ukrainian made vampire, the crew attaching the bombs as Artillery Whistles over our heads. The vampire is fully night vision capable and plays a sound track showing it means business. The team leaders call sign is gru. He confirms because ukraine doesnt have a modern air force tonight, they are the air force. The drones see in the night like in daylight, he says. We see the infinity. We hit the vehicles, cannons, everything we need to destroy. Groove also says russians from the Wagner Private Military company have returned to the battlefield around bakhmut. Yes, there is wagner here, too. They swiftly changed their commanders and have returned here, he says. Were breaking through their line of defense and hitting them well. As the drone takes off, the battle is already well under way. The ukrainians using western extended range Artillery Shells and cluster munitions to attack Russian Ground forces. Groove is already busy targeting the russians. Oh, something is burning, he says. His unit also managing to take out a russian Main Battle Tank by dropping several bombs on it. The Ukrainian Army now starting to push forward. Our Photo Journalist Dan Hodge Films powerful explosions as Armored Vehicles advance in the moonlit night. Were now hearing a lot of fire, a lot of outgoing fire, a lot of incoming fire as well as the ukrainians are trying to move forward. They say they want to take a key road away from the russians. But the russians are fighting back, Firing Flairs to unmask the ukrainians advance and hit kyivs forces. Groove remains unfazed, hunting a russian tactical vehicle before destroying it. The code 9. 2 drone team often hunts russian armor here, recently even destroying a modern t90 tank in a highly complex operation. After more than a half dozen missions, the drone returns a final time. But as we try to get away from the battlefield, a tire bursts on our humvee. No time for a spare, we push on. We just witnessed an extremely tough battle between the russians and the ukrainians, both sides going at it for hours with very heavy weapons. The area where we were, shells landed close to there on various occasions. Now, were heading back to base. Hobbled but rolling after a long night on one of ukraines most dangerous front lines. Fred pleitgen, cnn, bakhmut, ukraine. Incredible reporting from Fred Pleitgen there. Still ahead, the expiration of a covidera program could force millions of American Families to make some tough decisions when it comes to childcare. What it could mean for working parents. Thats ahead. The expiration of a pandemicera program could force millions of American Families to make really tough decisions. A federal program that provided children Child Care Credits to families across the u. S. Will expire today. And an effort to extend the multibillion Dollar Program faces an uphill fight on capitol hill. According to the century foundation, more than 70,000 Child Care Programs could close across the u. S. Without those funds and by their estimates, that will leave 3. 2 million children without a child care program. Join ing me to discuss a Child Care Cliff is julie cashen, a senior fellow and director at the century foundation. I really appreciate you joining us this morning. First off, give us those numbers again. It is really astounding to know how many people will be hurt when this pandemicera program will expire. Lets talk about the number of families and those people who work at these child care ce centers. Thats right. So what we expect is that 3. 2 million children across the country could be impacted by the loss of this funding. That will impact our parents, who will be forced to make really tough choices about leaving work, cutting down their work hours, shifting their shifts around, and it will impact the entire economy. We have estimated it could impact the economy to the tune of about 10. 6 billion. I think whats important to know that even before anyone had heard of the covid pandemic, parents were already breaking the bank to afford child care were stuck on long wait lists because there wasnt enough child care. This funding made a huge difference in stabilizing a sector that had long been precarious before. When this money goes away, we expect that the impacts will be serious, although they wont happen all at once. Tomorrow, were not going to see a huge closure of Child Care Programs, but this will happen over time. My parent knows how expensive child care is and can be. 24 billion was allocated to the child Care Industry when President Biden signed this American Rescue plan act or this pandemic era stimulus man. Plan. Give us a sense of how these Emergency Funds were being used to prop up and help the child Care Industry. So Child Care Providers were struggling to make it work before the pandemic, having to charge parents a lot of money and still not being able to afford to pay early educators higher wages for their valuable work. So when the pandemic came, their revenue decreased because children were pulled out of the programs. So that made things even worse for them. What they were able to do with this money was pay for Operating Costs like rent, utility, pay for Safety Equipment and the biggest part was paying higher wages. They created bonuses and stipends so the wages could go above previously 14 an hour. This made a huge difference for we kruting and retaining a great workforce to care for kids. So what kinds of impacts do you expect to see over the next several days and weeks as these Emergency Funds expire. You said its not going to happen overnight that these centers are going to close, but i imagine slowly, theres going to be layoffs and prices being raised for parents to stubs constitute or fill in those gaps. Thats exactly right. Child care providers do this work because they love children. They want to support the parents in their communities. They are doing everything they can, but what they are going to have to do is raise prices to make up for the lack of funding. We already know Child Care Jobs are down 40,000 before the pandemic. That means that theres already Staffing Shortage in child care. So in order to get more people into the sector, they are going to have to raise wages, which means raising prices. Thats what were going to see first. Then well likely see them serving fewer children or shutting some classes and then last resort hopefully will be actual closures. However, we have already seen in wisconsin 42 child care providlready closed. Others are talking about having raised their rates by 60 per kid per week. So the impacts are already starting to develop. With this shutdown looming, very likely, we know that a lot of these head start programs, wic program will obviously suffer as well. Which provides health to lowincome families. We really appreciate your time. Thank you. Ann address and family discover cuisine. It airs tomorrow night. Heres a preview. We are getting ready for the festival. A weeklong celebration of food, drink, and culture. And yes, of course, we need to look the part. 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