started more than an hour ago, calling house speaker boehner and senate majority reed to the white house tonight for a mini-summit. its goal is to end the budget impasse and avoid a federal government shutdown. president barack obama asked congressional leaders to join him at the white house tonight believing not enough progress had been made during the day. at stake, funding the second half of the fiscal year 2011 budget. here's what the principals were saying earlier today. >> if we don't reach common ground by saturday, the federal government shuts down. >> reporter: president obama at a town hall meeting in pennsylvania. >> we've agreed to compromise but somehow we still don't have a deal because folks are trying to inject politics in what should be a simple debate about how to pay our bills. >> republicans have no interest in shutting down the government. >> reporter: house speaker john boehner with fellow republican leaders on capitol hill. >> shutting down the government i think is irresponsible and i think it will end up costing the american ta than we're already spending. >> reporter: the democrat point man, majority leader harry reed on the senate floor. >> some of us are making tough choices because we want to get this agreement finished. we want to complete it. we want to keep the country running and keep the momentum of the economy that's now ing jobs. >> reporter: republican leaders say they want massive spending cuts to create more jobs and chip away at the nation's $14 trillion debt. >> thankful one minute, or only imagine what the future could be if the debt was taken away. what could you spend that interest money on? what could you invest in for america? we've imagined what it could be and we're going to fight for it. >> reporter: democratic leaders say they keep offering concessions, which the other side rejects. >> what the republicans in the house are saying, not only do we want a cut, but we want to cut education, we want to cut cancer research and nih, instead of getting rid of the subsidies for the big oil companies. >> reporter: in the meantime, republican leaders in the house say tomorrow they'll call a vote on another shortterm resolution. >> so we're going to be prepared to move forward with ouring bill, that would fund our troops to keep the government open for another week, and cut $12 billion in spending. >> reporter: that legislation would also prohibit taxpayer funds for abortions in the district of columbia. dc delegate ellanor homes norton outrageous. >> you said the cloc ticking, they're burning the midnight oil at the white house. any idea on how long it will last. >> reporter: no, brian, we've got a camera waiting for the parties to emerge. who knows if it will produce anything, either an agreeme end roads to a middle g. when they come out we'll let you know what they have to say. no work, importantly, no pay check, that's what's on the line if the shutdown could happen. 15% of the workforce is in the dc area, about 120,000 alone. sherri ly has more on that part of the story. >> reporter: friday is d day, no budget, no jobs for nonessential federal workers. they'll be furloughed with no pay after friday until lawmakers can overcome the budget impasse. >> i'm a nonessential. >> reporter: so you won't get paid if it's shut down. >> i won't get paid if it's shut down, no. >> reporter: how worried are you? >> i don't know, i'm kind of worried. oh, god, it's kind of scary. >> reporter: these are people with families to support, food, rent, mortgage. >> obviously, you know, no paycheck, i have bills to pay, and i hope government doesn't shut down. >> reporter: essential workers, law enforcement, the military will keep working, but won't be paid until after the shutdown ends. >> come to work, show up every day doing your job, you know, you deserve the money. >> reporter: about 800,000 federal workers are expected to be hit. the office of management and budget has already told agencies to prepare staff for a shutdown, but some workers still don't know if they'll report to work monday. >> it will be a surprise if they tell me if i go to work or not. >> reporter: with barebone staffing, the public will fill the pinch too. paper tax returns won't be processed, delaying potential refunds and the smithsonian doors will be closed. >> i think that's a shame. people right now, the economy is bad. they can't go without paychecks. a lot of people live paycheck to paycheck. a lot of people that work in congress and the house need to get out and walk around and talk to real people. >> reporter: whether furloughed workers eventually get paid is up to congress. it's no guarantee. >> fox 5's sherri ly reporting. if you depend on social security and medicare, you still get those benefits. meanwhile, dc is ma contingency plans if the government closes. the district is the only jurisdiction in the country that won't be able to spend money in the budget if the government freezes. mayor gray promises essential services will continue but your garbage might pile up. trash collection won't start until one week after the shutdown. street sweeping will be suspended and that is just the beginning. >> all of dc public libraries will be closed. in addition, employees who are funded through the capital budget may continue to work, and that's because the capital budget authority has already been approved from previous years, and that's why they will continue, and we will have to obviously make sure that those employees know who they are. >> it's one thing for the federal government to decide that it can run itself on a cr to cr basis. it's another thing to tell district residents whose local funds alone are involved in this fight, that we are going to drag you into this fight and we're not going to let you out until we get out. police, fire and 9/11 will remain in service. public schools and charter schools will also remain open but all dmv offices will shut down. d dot says they'll have a skeleton crew on duty for emergency crews only. routine maintenance will stop. once again, you can visit the smithsonian centers only if the federal government shutdown does not occur. those are closed along with museums and the national parks, brian. businesses on capital hill are bracing for the impact possible shutdown. wisdom martin is working that angle. >> reporter: we went to bars on capitol hill and talked to them about how it would affect them. regulars who come in spending money after working in the area, could all change after friday. this pub is one of capitol hill's popular places to eat. they thrive on the crowd of work and customers who live and work capitol hill. but with this threat looming, customer cash flow could dry up. these are two governmenters who are regulars here. >> everybody would be -- i feel like for the last two weeks, anybody who works for the government has been kind of preparing themselves for this. they've been trying to save up in case it happens they can pay their bills and rent. >> i work for the federal government and i will be affected by it. i want to work and do my job. i'm being prohibited from doing that if it happens. >> reporter: the last time there was a government shutdown was 1995. paul maher was the manager of the pub back then. >> it was very short and also during what is naturally a time, in the couple first weeks of january. >> reporter: he says businesses didn't suffer that much back then. while businesses around capitol hill depend on the government workers for survival, hall thinks it will drive people into the restaurant. >> where else will they go? the hotels are filled. they'll have to spend time outside. these are a lot of tourists so we'll get the tourist business. >> reporter: if the shutdown lasts for a period of time, he says it would keep people away and would have a bigger impact on profits. for now, the hope is the elected leaders will come up with a plan for the budget and the government will continue business as usual. >> this has been going on for a year and the fact there's no compromise by now is kind of ridiculous. >> you have no effect on it. it's in other people's hands. >> it's important to know that some government workers are already saving and not spending because they just don't know what will happen, so that's money that's not going into the economy, brian. >> all right, wisdom. government shutdown or not, metro riders will be able to get around. the transit agency says even if the shutdown goes into effect, trains will run on a normal schedule to serve nongovernment commuters and visitors. one possible change, if ridership drops, it may operate more of the shorter trains to match demand and save cash. the impact from a government freeze has put some programs on hold. the irs won't process paper returns or tax audits and nih won't accept patients for clinical trials. no new trials will start. the fha will hold approval on small business loans. also, most federal government websites will shut down. our web team staying very busy on this story as you can imagine. head over to myfoxdc.com, one of our web producers will walk us through this. harry, wave hi. you go to our home page. there's a hot topics box on the home page, click on the government shutdown and craig if you go to the big screen, you'll see all of our coverage, local and national, and one of the things we've posted here on myfoxdc.com is this, our investigative unit found this earlier today. it's a fancy name, it's called legislative operations during a lapse in appropriations. we've posted it there. it's a hardcopy. essentially what it is is the contingency plan for the house of representatives if the federal government should shut down. what we found out is that congress members themselves get to decide whether they are essential employees and which staff members as well. who gets paid? that's a whole nother story. let me do this for you. you can follow us on facebook or twitter. it's easy as going to this page and clicking on this. let me read you a couple of tweets because the comments are just pouring in. this one says, well, i definitely agree that congress should not treat local government as a federal agency. no parking tickets is awesome. they see this as an upside clearly. there's more to come and at 10:30 we'll read more tweetes and facebook messages. they are really coming in by the hundreds. brian, back to you. >> fox 5 also following other big stories tonight. a close friend of president obama arrested for soliciting sex. details on that coming up next. plus, we're staying on top of a grade tampering scandal at a dc school. now we've learned more problems have popped up in the school system. plus a big decision is made on the new metro statio dulles airport. not everyone likes the plan. we'll be way up and way down with some of the temperatures over the next several days. i'll let you know what to expect tomorrow and we're already focusing on the weekend. there's lots to love in parts of our weekend forecast. i'll have it for you later on fox 5 news at 10:00. come right back. what's all this? 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>> the main thing they want to do is get the forms out of the schools as quickly as possible. they're urging the schools to ask that the security firm pick them up april 14th. >> thank you. a former dc firefighter who admitted to defrauding the department pleaded guilty to obtaining $3600 in payments for cpr training. nataly overton williams asked organizations to make their checks out to her instead of the dc government and deposited them. today, a judge sentenced her to seven days in jail and ordered her to pay back the money. more courtroom drama, this time involving the nfl and the players union. for the first time since the lockout, both sides appeared before a federal judge. dave feldman joins us now. >> five hours arguments on both sides, and the judge says i'll need two more weeks to rule. and what she's ruling on isn't whether there will be a cba, whether there will be an injunction to stop the lockout. she says both sides need to do the negotiation. she urged them to get back and do this. both sides entered the cou st. paul minneapolis. >> we presented arguments to the court to bring football back, to bring it to our fans, and to allow our players to get back to work and enjoy the game that they love. we're going to continue to do that. we hope that all of our fans continue to have faith with us, keep routing for the players. >> if we're going to get a resolution, if we're going to get the people back to the bargaining table so t reach a settlement and have a football season, it's going to be necessary that we do it in a normal collective bargaining context. >> so what happens next? >> well, so they're going to wait a couple weeks. these guys are still going to negotiate, and whoever nelson rules in favor of, brian, will have the leverage when they resume talks from the cba. so if she says no, there is no injunction to stop the lockout, then the nfl would have the edge. if she does stop the lockout, the players would. brady, paton manning, drew brees, tom brady, the biggest people named in this were not in attendance today. >> thank you, dave. in other courtroom action, the purgery and obstruction of justice case against barry bonds could go to court tomorrow. the defense didn't call one single witness. closing arguments are scheduled for tomorrow and the jury will begin deliberations. the federal judge dropped one of the perjury charges against bonds but the home run king still faces four other counts. monitoring metro now, it's been debated for a year. should a metro station ates airport be built above or below ground. today, the metropolitan washington airport authority made the decision and voted to build the station underground. the airport authority approved the underground plan even though it will be more costly, and promised to find cuts elsewhere. the airport authority decision isn't sitting well with state transportation leaders. they are still concerned about the cost. he says building an underground tunnel through the airport instead of an elevated track will likely add hundreds of millions of dollars to the project and would exceed the planned budget of $2.5 billion. a sacred symbol vandalized at a place of worship. the search is on tonight for the vandals who attacked the statue and workers say there i ironic twist to this. stay with us. - ( music playing ) - we know technology can make you more connected. but now it can make you more connected to your doctor through e-mail. test results from home. check records. change appointments. now doctors, nurses, techs, pharmacists are all digitally connected to each other. and ultimately connected to you. at kaiser permanente, we believe that if knowledge is power, shared knowledge is even more powerful. kaiser permanente. thrive. >> it is a crime that has pained a catholic community in virginia. parishioners can't understand why vandals would target of all things, a statue of the virgin mary. police are looking for the people responsible. beth parker has. [bell] >> they knelt at her feet to pray and her feet are the only thing left. pastor donald howard learned the news when a church employee interrupted one of their meetings. >> mary is missing. >> reporter: virgin mary, actually. this is a photo of the $8,000 statue before it was vandalized. >> i'm not angry about it, because things are things. and things come and they go. >> reporter: he knows that first hand. a previous statue was vandalized about a year and-a-half ago left smashed in the parking lot. the church sits right along route 7, but with some shelter from the landscaping and a couple of benches, they have created an oasis here. this wasn't just a statue. this is a place of prayer. >> some were sad, some were happy. so it was an all-occasion place to come and didn't have to come into the building. even at night they could be there. >> reporter: that place of peace is gone now, but pastor howard says he is not angry. he welcomes them to come to the church and pray. forgiveness is his line of work. in sterling, beth pa5 parker, fox 5 news. we're going back to a story that affects everyone in the dc area. a government shutdown looming on the horizon. democrats and republicans seem to find common ground. a meeting right now going on at the white house. we're monitoring that and we're breaking down the political battle next. >> you are watching fox 5 news at 10:00. the big story tonight, the looming deadline for lawmakers to agree on a budget. right now, neither sid budging. president obama meeting with top congressional leaders at the white house at this hour. the democrats say republicans keep moving the bottom line, and based on what the tea party wants. republicans say democrats are to blame for not passing a budget last year when they controlled congress. about 800,000 federal workers could be furloughed. mark fawkin joins us tonight with more on this possible shutdown. let me get this straight. the city council is ordering or declared that their staff are essential employees and the mayor is asking us attorney general to declare all city employees essential. >> one clarification, brian. the mayor is asking our own attorney general, irve nathan, we might as well mention his name, to give him a legal opinion. right now, 21,000 of the 35,000 dc job holders are declared essential. he wants to declare everybody essential, and he wants to see what the reprocusions. just got off the phone with the longest reigning city council member. he's going to deem his staff as essential and all the other council members will deem their staff as essential. eleanor norton told us her staff is essential. so everybody's in the game to say we're essential, and if you don't think we are, what are you going to do about it? >> so you call it political, civil disobedience? >> yes, and i congratulate them in doing it. the federal governmen treating the district of columbia not as an autonomous independent government entity, but rather just another agency of the federal government, and so they're trying to raise the profile and elevate the issue and say, wait a second, if you want to do this to we're going to act on our own. >> alan suder said today if you declare everybody an essential employee, they're going to turn around and say they're not essential so you can furlough them, right? >> right. we need a budget autonomy bill in the district of columbia that says this can't be done to us anymore. but even though norton had ample majorities in the house and the senate last time didn't get it through. that would have solved the problem. >> perhaps an upside, and if you think of the repercusions, perhaps not, they may not write tickets in dc. >> people are elated and for that. but they want all the revenue they can get. dmv would be closed and the fire and police and emergency medical technicians, all those people would be working. >> all right, and broader subject here, i guess an umbrella issue. are you looking at this as democrats versus republicans, or is this more a battle be republicans and the tea party? >> exactly, brian, republican leadership, cantor, the majority leader, kevin mccarther who's the next and most important, john boehner saying to his own troops, they don't owe any allegiance. they say we're working together to make a difference and a statement and also they're saying the internet and all sorts of facebook and all sorts of these other medium of communication, it's not like 1995 or 1996. we can get our story out, and so boehner really has to reign in his own troops. >> they say the center moves the country and we'll have to see where the poll shows whether the center wants the shutdown. >> the poll shows each party is blaming each other evenly. >> thanks for coming in. back to myfoxdc.com where our web producers are moing coverage and making additions even when we're not on the air. one of the things i wanted to point out right now is this, if you click on our home page, click on federal government, it will take you to our page dedicated to all of our coverage. how will a government shutdown impact you? if you click on that, it's basically sort of a questionnaire, your name, e-mail, none of it made public of course, but it sort of helps us tell the story, what direction to go in, how will the agency tell you about the shutdown, how will you prepare for a shutdown? fill it out if you have a moment and let us know so we can help cover this story for you. you can also follow u twitter and facebook. we have thousands already doing that, and they are sounding off about this possible shutdown. let's go to a few right now. we've put them in graphic form so you can really see them. we'll start with facebook messages. james writes, is there any way to fire these immature politicians? here's another facebook message from karen peak. she writes, we are so poorly managed. that is all i can say. no one has business sense and those that do are ignored. let's go to some tweets now. our twitter followers are saying this. j 5 online, scared money don't make money. here's another tweet, this one from kelly, will be looking for a temp job in the event of a government shutdown, an sure she's not the only one, as we reported at the top of the broadcast, about 120,000 federal workers just in the dc alone. about 800,000 across the country. go to myfoxdc.com, follow us, twit, facebook, you know what i mean. brian, back to you. >> he called us a name, he called us twit. tim kaine has his sights set on the us senate. two entertainment power houses are joining forces. how the hit show "glee" plans to use music from lady gaga. first, a giant boost in online shopping. neil cavuto has your business report. >> more americans are working and shopping. a new government report saying the unemployment rate dro in more than 75% of the country's largest cities. march retail sales were up compared to last year by shopping on the internet. online scales up 16 percent. sky high gas prices are keeping customers clicking and buying. to wall street, the dow up to 32 points, the green car passing the mile zone by toyota, selling 1 million prius. they have sold 43,000 so far this year. higher demand for food helping farm giant man seta harvest their grain. rising sales of corn seed boosted quarterly profits. netflix uses can go mad over mad men. they will start streaming episodes from the hit show's first four seasons starting at the end of july. that's business, i'm neil cavuto. >> first reagan national airport and the faa is reporting another air traffic controller fell asleep on the job. it came up after last month's incident at the dc airport. a controller fell asleep at the midnight shift in knoxville, tennessee in february. the faa says this type of unprofessional and inappropriate behavior won't be tolerated. the agency is taking steps to fire that controller. one day after throwing his hat in the race for sen former virginia governor tim kaine met with reporters to richmond today to talk about the race and why he's ready to run in 2012. fox 5's john henrehan has a closer look at what kaine is planning. >> reporter: former missionary worker, former mayor of richmond and former government tim kaine now wants to be a us senator from virginia. kaine stressed the country needs fiscal conservatives in government. >> beginning with cutting my own salary in the fall of 2006 and then marching through one round of budget cuts after the next, we cut over $6 billion from the state budget. >> reporter: tim kaine reminded reporters and a few supporters who showed up that the virginia retained its triple a rating during his tenure and had relatively high employment rates compared to the rest of the country. kaine also touted his ability to work across the political aisle and virginia's tradition of civility. >> as i look at this kind of harsh partisanship we're battling right now, there's a big debate about whether the government might shut down. i had to preside over a si debate in 2006 and we got together and worked it out. >> reporter: tim kaine is the third declared candidate in this race. former senator george allen, a republican, wants back the seat he held. jamie radke is trying to advance republicans who will vote in a primary that allen was conservative while in office. while kaine was a plaintiff governor, jim thompson says the race is wide open. >> while obama turned the state blue when he won the last election. the state has gone red in the last two elections and that's going to be a big hurdle for kaine especially if things go the way they did in the last election. >> reporter: there's the fact kaine served as president obama's dnc chair for the past two years and the president is no longer as popular as he was. >> the president and i are friends, and i support him and support the job he's doing. >> reporter: candidate kaine says he hopes barack obama campaigns in virginia, because that means virginia will be a key battleground state in 2012. in richmond, john henrehan, fox 5 news. coming up tonight on the news edge at 11:00, will the president and congressional leaders hash out a late night deal to keep the government running past friday? if there is a shutdown, what does it mean for the cherry blossom parade. find out what's being done to keep you safe in the air after a southwest airlines airplane opened up in mid-flight. ou >> if you're one of the millions of americans researching your ancestry, there's a whole new world of information opening up today. records from the civil war are now available on the internet. until now, you could only see them at the national archives. paul wagner has more on what these records can tell you. >> the union fought back. >> reporter: in the early 1860s, the us and confederate governments created millions of documents, many preserved today preserved by the national archives, but in order to see them you had to travel to washington, until ancestry.com took on the task of scanning them into files for all to see. >> there are over 25 million civil war records now in this collection, but specifically today for the first time online, ancestry is posting the us civil war draft registration cards. these are 3 million records of essentially the adult male population in the north, between 1863 and 1865. >> reporter: the records will be free to the public for one week beginning thursday. after that, there's a fee. ken burns, who spent countless hours at the national archives researching his documentary on the civil war says he was overwhelmed by what he could find there. >> and realized that whatever we brought it back, however long the series, we would only be scratching the surface of the records that are stored here and the kind of glories, both obvious and discoverable, that are part of the national archives. >> reporter: burns says he even found records from his own family, his great, great grandfather. >> it was a stunning discovery. he fought for captain mcclannahan's company of virginia horse artillery. >> reporter: the national archives says the national records now being digitized provide more than just the name and date. >> the list provides wonderful information about the individuals, their occupation, their residence, their marital status, just a great wealth of information to the so historian or the jeaniologist. >> reporter: the new digitized information comes from 631 volumes of union draft lists. paul wagner, fox 5 news. >> bringing 21st century medical care to a man who's been dead more than 2,000 years. the milwaukee public museum is giving a mummy a ct scan. they're working to see if the person survived brain surgery back in 600 bc. researchers are analyzing the scans right now. >> it's always new information so it's always exciting to find out something new about something that's been in the museum for over 100 years, and you're still finding out new things about it is always exciting. >> so far they're still working on the findings. that mummy is one of four being scanned. they were last tested 25 years ago before 3d scanning was available. very nice day today and looks like we have a couple of up and down days coming. >> tomorrow's nice, showers for friday. weekend will split the difference and sunday looks really summer-like. >> the mummy is not your average patient, but this is very close to spring weather isn't it? >> it's typical of april. it gives and it takes. it's going to give tomorrow so we'll be in nice shape. it's kind of pleasant out there tonight. last night, we were heading down to the freezing mark and tonight we're still at 57 degrees and i don't think the suburbs will get much colder than the 40s. all in all, it's a nice night and tomorrow will be delightful. we'll actually be a little bit warmer tomorrow than to pushing 70. today, we got up to 64 degrees, and we may not have quite as much sunshine in the afternoon tomorrow, but still, that's going to be a real pleasant temperature, and there will be a good mix of sun and clouds certainly in the morning. we're going to have some showers around for friday, could be here as early as the morning rush hour. scattered showers, lighter stuff on saturday as well. and while we'll hang onto some of those clouds on sunday, it looks like it will be really summer-like around here, maybe upper 70s, possibly warmer, so we'll watch that for you. a temperature trend for you with average being 63, we're above it tomorrow. that's the up side. the down side is we'll have a front moving through and friday drops down to 58 degrees with the showers, staying on the cool side for saturday and way up again on sunday at 78 degrees, so we are definitely keeping that trend going up and down in april. tonight is up for temperatures. we're at 57 degrees in the city down to fredricksburg it is 60, and i think you'll only drop to about 46 degrees tonight. front royal 41, hagerstown 42, so a lot warmer by some 10 to 15 degrees than it was last night. a little bit of a breeze helped that out too. it will be a nice, mild start in the morning. clouds around tonight, not as chilly, 47 degrees. tomorrow, i think looks like a great day, a warmer day than today, but there will also be a little bit of a trade-off, and that is not quite as sunny as it was today. our temperature getting up to about 70 degrees. show you the planner for tomorrow, playing up the warmth in the morning, by noon 62, and a mix of sun and clouds in the afternoon, temperatures 69 degrees at 4:00. speaking of the clouds and the showers, we've had a frontal system to the north, the cool stuff stayed up there. we have the warm stuff that's going to be moving in already really getting into place tonight, but i want you to see what happens for friday. this frontal system will act as a little bit of a railroad track. it slips down to the south and will allow an area of low pressure around it. brings chilly rains for us on friday, mostly showers, although around 9:00 or 10:00 we might get more moderate down pours. check out the satellite radar. we've had a little disturbance passing by to the north today. most of the showers stayed along the mason dixon line or up to pennsylvania. a little bit of snow mixed in there as well as we were watching. let me show you the future cast as we take you into time and give you an idea when those showers are going to be. the disturbance will move on out tomorrow. a little bit of the cloud cover affects us, so that's why it won't be as sunny tomorrow. going into friday, it looks like we'll start to see some showers developing, probably get a bit more widespread in the evening, and check out 10:00, maybe more moderate down pours, heading into saturday and some of those showers linger a little longer throughout the day but not nearly as wet on saturday. there will be some brighter spots and the real bright spot is that temperature at the end of the week as we get up to 78 on sunday. looks like it will be a good amount of sunshine, but some clouds as well. monday maybe we'll have a few showers and storms but pushing 80 so hello, getting closer to mid-april and things are looking up. >> say that again. >> hello. >> tomorrow will be night. >> don't be a twit. i'm just kidding. i'm just teasing you over your tweet error. >> this one calls me out on it. got to get with the masses. call it the perfect marriage, "glee" and lady gagan teaming up. fox has announced the cast will pay tribute to a singer in a 90 minute show in the next few weeks. 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