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from unions who are demanding democrats prevent a shutdown to tea party members who were telling republicans that they need to keep their promises. and the virginia tea party federation, they shut her down. reporter: and as a shut down looms, so, too, and the politics as both sides are sizing up who americans will blame if the government is forced to close. and we talked to several officials on the democratic and republican side of the aisle and the bottom line is this: most of the negotiation is going on at the top levels of the democratic and republican leadership. many members are trying to call each other and get updates on what is going on. we have the news now. president obama is going to be hosting that democratic and republican leadership at the white house to try to hammer out a deal. and he s getting involved. fitz, why now? there is no deal yet but it s key this is being announced. what we were hearing is that if you start to see signals that the white hous
leaving a family homeless just before the holidays. and hands off. tonight the aclu weighs in on metro s plans for random bag checks. i m bruce johnson at the dupont central metro stop where a day after metro announced it will be launching random screening of passengers bags, many passengers are complaining and the aclu is suggesting the possibility of legal action. a customer has been randomly selected to have his items inspected. reporter: metro has a video on its website showing how the process works, a swab, an ionization machine and only if the scanner and an explosive detection dog alert on your bag will officers go through your belongings. but the plan is already close to provoking a passenger revolt. i think it s ridiculous. it doesn t actually stop terrorist attacks or crime. searches are not good. they are not good in terms of results and they are not good in terms of the constitution. 36 hours later a home is still burning. flames broke out around 6: