Announcer this is early today for wednesday, october 2. Good morning, im page hopkins. It is day two and still no sign of letting up. Millions are feeling the effects of the first Government Shutdown in 17 years. It goes beyond the closure of parks and museums. Did you know new patients will not be accepted into Clinical Research trials at the National Institutes of health . About 200 pasht hu00 patients, children with cancer, will be turned away this week. The fda cannot continue review and approval of new drugs. Conservation efforts to protect endangered species will stop. Tracie potts live in washington. Good morning. The impacts are far and wide. So much, that president obama is shortening his Upcoming Trip to asia . Exactly. We learned this morning from the white house that they cant get the people in place for the back half of that trip as a result of the shutdown. The president has called the heads of malaysia and the philippines and said, im sorry, i wont be there. He will be h
Good morning, everybody. It is day two and still no sign of letting up. Millions are feeling the effects of the first Government Shutdown in 17 years. It goes beyond the closure of parks and museums. Did you know new patients will not be accepted into Clinical Research trials at the National Institutes of health. About 200 patients will be turned away this week. The fda cannot continue review and approval of new drugs. Conservation efforts to protect endangered species will stop. And sites contaminated with hazardous chemicals, not all of them will be cleaned up. Tracie potts joins us now in washington. What are the latest developments overnight . Reporter betty, good morning. Here on capitol hill, there is a Skeleton Crew runs things. President obama is reportedly canceling part of his asian trip for next week. And hes blaming the tea party for insisting on scaling back health care to get this government running. They will get their Social Security check. Reporter but mothers and chil
Our nations debt limit. Line, wecrossed the are going to a place we have never gone. The u. S. Reaches its Borrowing Capacity on october 17. The house agreed to pay for furloughed government workers. The shutdown is causing more layoffs here in maryland. Furloughmartin will 3000 employees. Executives are encouraging employees to use any remaining Vacation Time to hes the strain of the furloughs. It was a heart pounding win over the dolphins. Ense beat up on miami. Twoiami had 27 carries and touchdowns. Suggs finished the game with three sacks. This is a very tough Miami Dolphins team. I would not be surprised if we see them again. That puts the ravens into a threeway tie for first in the afc north. They played tough. 71 degrees at the airport. A nineyearold hops a plane to las vegas without a boarding pass. Baltimore 695 at national pike. We will get a closer look at weather and traffic when we come back. What does that first spoonful taste like . Ok. Honey bunches of oats. Ching mmmm
Anders its. Sevenday the government shut down now enters its seventh day. Executives are urging employees to use any remaining Vacation Time to help reduce the strain of the furloughs. Hundreds of thousands of pentagon employees will return to work this morning. That is one of the only right spots from washington as the shut down and tears its seven day and counting. Hallie jackson has the very latest. Good morning. It looks almost like a double dose of negative news this morning. The u. S. May be closer to a default. I have nothing else in the drawer. Jack lew is warning of consequences if the u. S. Runs out of money to pay their bills in less than two weeks. Congress is playing with fire. John boehner once any deal link to spending cuts and changes to the healthcare law. The votes are not in the house and the president is frisking default by not having the conversation with us. Trigger. Default could an economic crisis. This would be a major change of life for almost all americans. S
Today. Reporter good morning. Its unclear what congress can accomplish today, but there will be meetings in the house to see if perhaps there could be a partial funding for just some different issues. One of those would be d. C. Government. Another issue regarding veterans. But its still unclear how thats going to go. Last night didnt go well between john boehner and the president. He says he feels the president is not willing to compromise when it comes to his Affordable Care act. The new Health Care Law that went into effect. Democrats say they are standing firm. We have divided government. Democrats control the white house and senate. Republicans control the house. We sent four different proposals to our colleagues. They rejected all of them. I can only conclude that they wanted to shut down government. I think that that has a purpose for them. We know what that is. They want to overturn the Affordable Care act. Its not going to happen. And frankly, thats not what our constitution h