and the gannett foundation that a food pantry in northern virginia will be able to feed hundreds of people. peggy fox joins us from the acts food pantry in dumfries virginia with more on the story. a happy story to tell peggy. reporter: the story is ask and you shall receive here at the acts food pantry in dumfries. on mondays the shelves were bare. they told the community about it. we helped them tell the community about it and take a look. they ve gotten so many donations in that now the problem is they ve got to figure out where to put it all. bright and early a huge truckload of food showed up from the capital area food bank with pallets of all kinds of food. after news of the pantry s temporary closure, the community responded big time. with more than 12,000 pounds of food and $60,000 in donations. it s pretty pretty mind blowing. it s it s amazing i mean one day everything s bare on the shelves. the next day it s i mean look at it. just crazy. reporter: the
federal money, and not their local money. . reporter: a third group, she says, are her own employees who have been deemed essential workers, but who will work through shutdowns without pay. she also says that this couldn t come at a worse time for the district. reporter: of course, that is a time when lots of tourists descend on the city not only for the cherry blossom parade and festival, but just for this time of year for spring breaks and things like that. coming up on news 4 at 6:00, we ll hear more about how lawmakers are doing and how they re preparing and how some places that you wouldn t expect to be affected by the shutdown are indeed and one of them is a creek. we re live on capitol hill. back to you. derek ward. thank you, derek. about 800,000 federal workers nationwide will be impacted if the government shuts down. jane watrel continues our team coverage in the newsroom with that side of our story. jane? federal analysts say a high concentration of civil