Reid think that this shutdown is the west thing best thing that ever happened to them, politically. We in this house muchtd end this shutdown. Must end this shutdown. Reporter republicans wanted it to be part of the deal. Reporter director National Intelligence told lawmakers that includes about 70 of his civilian work force. This is extremely damaging. And it will increase, though, as this shutdown drags on. Reporter director clapper says employees not receiving a paycheck are prime targets for foreign governments, wanting to gain state secrets. On capitol hill, Danielle Nottingham, wjz Eyewitness News. The Republican National Committee Says it will pay to keep the world world war ii memorial open for the next 30 days. As we have been telling you, the Government Shutdown is having a widespread impact across maryland. It includes the Service Academy and sports fans. Complete coverage continues with vic, live in the newsroom. Reporter as of right now, all service athletics are suspended
Themselves. Reporter National Parks and monuments are also closed. It sends a terrible message. It sends a message didnt come to the United States unless youre sure everything is going to be open. Reporter some influential republicans, including congressman peter king and senator john mccain are showing displeasure with the tactics of their tea party colleagues. They say g. O. P. Lawmakers will meet today to discuss their next step. Tara mergener for cbs news, capitol hill. Many businesses in the d. C. Area that are open are offering specials for government workers who are not getting paid because of the shutdown. And if some of those furloughed Government Employees need to work off some of that stress because theyre so angry about how things are going, they can do it for free. Washington sports club is Offering Free Services as long as the shutdown lasts. During times of hardship, weve always been there for our community, as i said referencing the Hurricane Sandy victims and through o
Green. President obamas planned trip to malaise wra off now. Malaysias leader says the president called him to cancel citing the crisis here at home. The Prime Minister said hes sending secretary of state john kerry to represent the u. S. Now this trip is focused on boosting economic ties with asia and was supposed to include stops in indonesia and the philippines and would have been the first visit to malaysia by a u. S. President since Lyndon Johnson in in 1966. Day two of the Government Shutdown. The shutdown is costing millions of dollars each hour. Tracie potts is live with more. Reporter how do you get hundreds of thousands of people back to work . There is a new strategy on capitol hill today but its not clear if its actually going to get people back to work. Here is whats happening. Three votes to get certain parts of the government running again including veterans benefits, the National Parks and museums and the city of washington, d. C. , that funding is included as well. The
Trying to avoid or at least end the federal Government Shutdown. House took three votes to restore funding to specific areas veterans, d. C. Government and National Parks and museums. All three votes failed. Delia goncalves is live on capitol hill looking for signs of progress this morning. A new day, new hope, delia. Reporter we certainly hope so. A lot of those folks who were furloughed yesterday heading home probably sleeping in this morning, certainly hope there will be some kind of compromise very soon. A sign of that hope is that we are starting to see just a small handful of Congress Members who seem to be bending to the pressure, willing to compromise a bit but the blame game continues. President obama calling this the republican shutdown. Speaker boehner blaming democrats for slamming the door on negotiations. Case in point, last nights piecemeal bill, the house voted on that would have eased some of the pain immediately felt by folks by reopening National Parks, restoring fun
We could see sprinkles early day and mid afternoon as well. Temperatures on the chilly side. Right now in the 30s. After sunrise well see some improvement. Satellite and radar will keep a constant stream of some of this moisture through but the thunderstorms that stay well to our west. This will be a little bit after nuisance rain. Right now 38 in arlington. 37 in rockville. Yes, it will be cool but we will see an improvement as we head into saturdays forecast. High of 65 and back to the as on sunday. Monika . Well, things generally speaking look good outside. No major issues to report on our thoroughfares heading for 495. That includes the dulles toll road coming in from sterling. 66 coming in from manassas. A good time to head out right now. All of your lanes are open. Well take a live look outside and show what you it looks like on the beltway if youre planning to head here at the American Legion bridge. Its light across the Potomac River here and coming around from bethesda as well