check, what about my tax refund. so the answer i know this sounds kind of lame it depends. the irs says if you filed a paper return or refund it is going to be delayed. that s likely to affect the millions of people especially who took advantage of the first time home whier tax credit last year. they were the ones that had to file by mail. they ll definitely feel the effect because that $8,000 check, don t wait around for it, it is going to be late. electronic filings though will still be processed. more good news, those tax audits are going to be suspended. as far as social secure an medicare checks go, your checks will be mailed as usual. but here s what i find very interesting in all this. congress will still get paid. isn t that nice. lot of people going to get kind of upset about that one. say do your jobs! come on, guys. what about other government workers, department of labor, fda, are they going to get paid? for the government workers it really depends on where you work,
could be, of course, that possibility. and we knew that here. but the japanese television screens immediately light up with the map showing you exactly where and you can bet that anybody who might be near the water at that time would take those warnings extremely seriously. if there is any positive news, it is that so many areas have been so devastated from the initial tsunami, it is unlikely there would be too many people still in those areas to be hit by this event. nonetheless, the warnings go out. that s where it stands right now. and marty, you said at one point the tsunami had already hit certain areas. do we know where those areas are? reporter: well, the immediate concern was miyagi prefecture and the area near sendai and that sort. so that s where we re presuming right w. we haven t been told specifically, but those were the closest to the epicenter and the way this works, those tend to be the first struck. the difference that can happen sometimes is depending on how the w
information as they possibly can about the impending tsunami, as well as the earthquake, the impact of that earthquake that struck really just about 40 minutes ago. it is still breaking news. we are getting lots of information from those on the ground. we re going to continue to update you on this breaking news story as we get more information. we are also following another major story. the clock is now ticking. the budget negotiators, they re talking because president obama has called for another white house meeting less than two hours from now. what are they going to get done, we don t know. so far, no deal to prevent a government shutdown by tomorrow s deadline. our cnn s brianna keilar is following the developments on capitol hill. and brianna, so they ve been summoned back to the white house. what does the president hope to do in that room? what does he hope to say to them? what do they need to do the next 24 hours? reporter: i think it has to do more than anything because thi
amendment. president obama and the democrats say the budget battle is turning into a fight over ideology, that issues like abortion should not determine whether there is a government shutdown. for speaker bainers, republicans are just cleaning up the fiscal mess left by democrat. so, is the budget battle over ideology or physical responsibility? write to me at facebook.com/carolcnn. i promise this time around i will read your answers later this hour. last hour there was lots of braefking news so i couldn t. we will get back to you. here s a look at what s ahead on the rundown. hospital mistakes maybe ten times higher than previously thought? we ll find out how many patients are affected. also, donald trump live. we ll ask him about his political plans. plus, if the government shuts down, which party would be
there has been reports of some disruption. this is not something like fukushima-daiichi by any means. there are reports of power disruptions. some plants shut down when you get a significant enough shake. it s being worked out exactly what their power problems are. we know in some of the cases the backup diesel generators have come on line. no problems with the cooling, no reports of any threat what so ever to those reactors. it s just that they ve suffered some power disruption. and then getting to the fukushima-daiichi plant, the news seems to be good s never a word it use for the facility, but at least stable i guess is the terminology that s probably better to apply. they report that there has been no surge in any of the radiation up there. they say that the reactors are unchanged. and they also report that the containment water levels continue to remain unchanged, as well. that s a good indication that there has not been a rupture some pipe, that there s some major leak that s b