Route 50 both directions earlier construction inside the beltway coming in from landover and thats cleared so all lanes are open at this time. Inner loop braddock road also had activity, breakdown had lanes closed but that cleared very quickly. If youre commuting through that stretch between 95 and 66 youre goods to go this morning. We also have a live shot that shows you Current Conditions along the Woodrow Wilson bridge, in the inner loop on outer loop through that stretch. Send it back over to you. Thank you, aamanda. If youre just waking up, there was no breakthrough in the night. The threat of Government Shutdown is now larger than ever. Thats right. The senate isnt scheduled to convene until later on this afternoon and so far there is no sign of compromise on either side. Devon dwyer has the latest. The clock is ticking toward a shutdown but the halls of governor are eerily quiet. No meetings. The bitter dispute over obamacare is on the air waves. The president says shut down government unless you give me everything on obamacare. Its wrong to shut down government for a change. They want to delay obamacare by one year and eliminate a tax on some medical devices. But president obama is refusing to budge. Your hate for this president is coming before the love of this country because if you loved this country you would not be closing it down. Were fighting for the american people. Without a breakthrough, a partial Government Shutdown takes effect at midnight. 800,000 federal workers will be told to stay home. Some offices closed and services slowed down. It could delay first time home mortgages, slow Airport Security guides and even food safety inspections. Outside of washington Many Americans are simply fed up. If they would lose their paychecks like everybody else that might motivate some of the problems theyre facing right now. Members of congress and the president will keep getting paid even if the government shuts down but it could come at a cost to taxpayers. The white house estimates the overall cost of a shutdown at 2 billion. Thank you. 4 34s your time. This begs 9 question how does a shutdown on capitol hill impact the markets on wall street. Our Team Coverage will continue with linda bell, shes live at bloomberg headquarters in new york and has much more on what we can look for from the markets today, linda. Jummy and scott, theyre clark amid the Government Shutdown, the dow may fall 100 points at the opening bell. On another story sources tell the wall street journal that twitter could file for ipo papers to go public as soon as this week. Its been discreet so far earlier this month confidential filing through regulators through what else, a tweet. Twitter could start training early november if its at full spade. Company extending benefits to samesex spouses, exxon mobil. After a ruling of dome ma. Conversion of last major on the issue. Target isnt the only retailer signing on chic designers. Ill tell you who kohls has teamed up and the Government Shutdown youve been talking about, could be bad news for home buyers. That story coming up in the next hour. Linda bell, reporting for abc7 news. Linda, thank you so much for that. Well see you later on. New this morning, attorney general eric holder plans to announce a lawsuit against North Carolina and its new voting rules. Scale back the early vogt and impose strict id efforts. Latest effort by the Obama Administration to fight a Supreme Court ruling that struck down parts of the Voting Rights act. The lawsuit said North Carolinas laws discriminates against minorities. They say theyre necessary to prevent voter fraud. The retrial of amanda knox and her boyfriend begins in italy. Knox will stay in seattle. The two were convicted in 2009 of murdering knoxs british roommate. They were each sentenced to more than two decades behind bars. They walked out of prison in 2011, though, after an Appeals Court overturned those conditions. Italys Supreme Court ruled a retrial was needed. It said the jury that acquitted them did not consider all of the evidence. 4 36 is your time, 55 degrees, and new this morning, raising the stakes in the commonwealth. The effort to bring a new court battle over gay marriage. Joggers, changes youll need welcome back, everyone. 4 39 on this monday morning and speaking of welcome back. I know. Whos back, scott . Oh, jacqui. Great to see ya. Stop it. Its great to be back. Feels so good to be here. And so looking forward to spending the next days with you guys as well as eileen who is here southwest shes not going away, dont worry for all you eileen lovers this morning as well. Lets bring you some energy and give you information that you need to get through your day and, first of all, i want to start out by talking about a little bit of fog thats been developing. This is our visibility map. Check out manassas, visibility down to half mile. Culpeper doing ok, but youre going to see patchy outlying areas. I dont think it will be enough to make for an ugly commute this morning but we dont want you to be caught off guard. 48 at dulles, govern, winchester, 46 dries there, and 51 degrees in fredericksburg. Our express forecast will have a little bit of cloudsness for the next few hours but increasing sunshine into the afternoon. A High Temperature around 76 degrees. Picture perfect weather, your sevenday forecast when i see you engw parkway. Lets look at our traffic situation this morning. Heres amanda. Thank you, jacqui. Were just looking at some construction along the inner loop causing some moderate delays. We have no big problems in the morning quite yet. Left lane, alena drive, between route 50 and route 4, coming down toward branch avenue and the Woodrow Wilson bridge. You may experience some of those moderate delays. Really not too bad, though, otherwise. 66 moving right along 69 Miles Per Hour coming into fairfax toward the beltway eastbound, 95 virginia moving right along stafford, quantico, to the beltway, youve got delayfree conditions. Good clip, 68 Miles Per Hour there in quantico. And then weve got a live shot for you that shows you Current Conditions along 395. So if you are traveling inside the beltway this is 395 near cemetery road. You can see youve got very light traffic headed northbound in the through lanes and hov lanes at this time. Send it back over to you. Amanda, thank you so much, 4 42 is your time, 55 degrees, and in just 20 hours, we could be in a Government Shutdown position. A look at the impact it could have on anything from City Government to your mail service. Plus something just about everything in d. C. Can agree on, its good that the redskins finally got a win. Big question will their momentum last after the bye checking our top stories now at 4 45 this morning. A partial Government Shutdown the happen at midnight if congress cant come up with a funding bill. Legislation to avert a shutdown, oneyear delay in implementing the healthcare law. Harry reid said democrats wont go along with that delay. D. C. Mayor vincent gray will keep d. C. Government workers on the job even if the federal government shuts down. Dubbed all city workers, quote, essential employees. Federal law require nonessential employees sent home. Essential employees get to stay on the job. That decision could result in fines. The mail Service Largely avoids affects of a Government Shutdown. Agencies not affected by the Treasury Department by the u. S. Postal service would be relatively unaffected. Some postal employees may face a furlough. Not enough to shut down the agency and youll get your mail. 4 46, new this morning, a group called the American Foundation for equal rights is joining a lawsuit against virginias laws against samesex marriage. The Washington Post reports gop lawyer ted olson and liberal democratic lawyer david buoys are teaming up. They amended the constitution to forbid samesex marriage. And recognition of unions performed elsewhere. Right now gun sales in maryland are going through the roof. Its a consequence of a new law that takes through the fact. And as tom roussey reports it kicks in the same day a court will hear a lawsuit challenging it. Right now were cleaned out. Nothing left to sell. At the maryland range in upper marlboro, handgun are sold out and if you want assault weapons panned starting tuesday youre down to one choice. Governor Martin Omalley signed the new state law in spring. Not only does it ban 45 types of assault weapons, it also requires fingerprinting, a license and Safety Training before residents can go a handgun. If they get it now, they wont have to do that. So theyre trying to beat that deadline. Dont want to go through the hassle and extra expense. Kathy dunn is on one of a recordbreaking marylanders who have bought guns in advance of the deadline. She doesnt believe the new law benefits anyone but the criminals. Its going to hurt the people who are law abiders and the criminals will have a great time. There are many who support the new law. Guns, problems. Do we really need assault weapons . No, we dont. At this Shopping Center we found some who think the law strikes a good balance. Its good to be able to see that people will have to go through some kind of training to get a weapon. You should have that. Opponents of this new law in maryland have filed a lawsuit to try to stop it. Tomorrow in baltimore theres a hearing scheduled where a judge is expected to decide whether or not to temporarily block the law. Now, that hearing scheduled, again, tomorrow on the very day that law is supposed to take effect. In the newsroom, im tom roussey, abc7 news. Thank you, tom. Another law that takes effect in maryland tomorrow headaches hand hell cell phone use while driving a primary offense. That means the police no longer have to pull you over for Something Else to cite you for that violation. Another new law requires passengers in maryland to wear seat belts while traveling in the back seat of any vehicle. 4 48 and in the day day ahead, today will be your last chance to take in one of d. C. s secret treasures. The National Aquarium is shutting down. The aquarium first opened its doors in 1885 and moved to its Current Location in the basement of the Commerce Department in 1932. But the hoover building where the department is currently housed is undergoing major renovations so aquarium officials decide now is the time to pull the plug. Doesnt it make mondays a lot easier, a redskins win. Nodding yes. Three straight losses to open the season. Robert griffin iii and the Washington Redskins finally finally get a w, touchdown pass late in the third quarter, anderson pick six, over come the deficit to beat the banged up raiders. 2314. Rgiii said the win is exactly what the skins need to get back to where they want to be. We have to make the best of the situation. Bye week, guys will enjoy the bye week more after this win and come back and get on a winning streak to get back to where we want to be. One player out of the game with bruised ribs. Next week they have a bye. When they come back they take on Division Rivals the dallas cowboys. That will be another w. I want it now, people. Two weeks to get ready for it. Yes, and everyone is excited about the redskins win, weve got jacqui back, the world is right. I love it when you come in off a good weekend like that. And the weather has been fantastic as well. Been over a week, though, since weve had rainfall. We could use a little bit. Its quite a ways down in our sevenday forecast before we have any of that coming back into play. This morning were dealing with dry conditions but we have a fair amount of cloudiness. 58 degrees is our temperature. You can see our dew point is 52. Our winds are calm and theyre going to be very light throughout the day today. Temperatures outside of the city are a fair amount cooler, in the 40s, 48 in gaithersburg, 48 dulles, 54 in quantico, thats got to be an error in culpeper, youre not 34, its 46 in winchester. Satellite picture. Two of the components that were dealing with. First of all you can see the area of cloudiness with a few showers pushing in from the west. Thats a cold front thats starting to fade out and so it will have very little impact. Winds light and variable. Well have a few clouds associated with this but i dont think well squeeze out moisture, too dry for that. Low pressure on the coast not close enough to impact us either. Sandwiched in between the two today and expect quiet conditions overall. Call it partly cloudy skies today. Well be pretty close to where we were yesterday temperaturewise, between 7277 degrees. As we head into tonight partly cloudy skies expected, 4858 degrees, tomorrow mix of sunshine and clouds, 7782 degrees and well see those warmer temperatures in the 80s for the better part of the rest of the week, even mid 80s i think by wednesday, then well see some changes as we head toward the weekend, a few more clouds, strong cold front, enough to drop us down in the upper 60s on sunday, we have to watch on the timing but looks like it will hold off in the late in the weekend. A great looking week, a kuch on the warm side. Checking on the traffic, amanda meadows is at wtop, hey, amanda. Hey, jacqui. Were watching a tractortrailer accident that could cause delays if you commute three anne arundel county. Route 97, we just got word a tractortrailer accident, possible fuel spill, 97 southbound, route 32, commuting through maryland anne arundel county, that off ramp is closed down. Not too bad 270, good clip southbound 70 Miles Per Hour, route 234, construction working, alternating luxurious from did you mean priest, Prince William parkway to dumfries, fivemile stretch. 95 things moving along nicely near Prince William parkway, northbound lanes headed away from us, moving right along, our traffic tracker is out on the roadways, hes on the inner loop approaching the wilson bridge you can see hes moving right along on the inner loop headed toward alexandria. If you want more information on that accident on route 97 or that construction on 95 in virginia once you get in your car you can always put it on 103. 5 fm wtop, traffic updates every 10 minutes on the 8s. My good friend rita kessler just got in. Send it back over to you. Thank you, amanda. 4 53, now 55 degrees. Is it racism or an honor for the dead. Controversial symbol along the virginia highway. Too young to play. How much money maryland casinos will have to pay up for allowing underage gamblers. Well be ri 4 56, if you drive down 95, up see a Confederate Flag prominently displayed along the highway causing controversy. Supporters want to honor the souths civil war dead but opponents say its a hate symbol that represents slavery and bigot industry. Two dozen instances of underage gambling will cost maryland casinos thousands of dollars. Maryland live casino and gambling regulators agreed to the First Financial penalty for underage violations. Maryland live will pay 24,000 for incidents. The state can impose a maximum fine of 5,000 for any under an incident for any underage gambling. Nasa hopes to launch a gamechanger into space next year. Theyre working on a 3d printer. This toast tersized device will greatly reduce what they need to bring in space. It doesnt print on paper, spools of plastic. It can make tools and spare parts. Its slated for fall of 2014. 4 57, 55 degrees. The religious leader who claims driving say danger to womens reproductive systems. Saint hood coming up, it is the