Government shutdown, but more and more lawmakers are making another offer in the meantime. Danielle leigh joins us on capitol hill with that. Reporter good morning. So many federal workers arent getting paid so we. Ed to find out what are lawmakers while the shutdown continues. At least 108 of them have said they will go without pay as long as the shutdown continues. 56 republicans, 52 democrats and among those are five lawmakers from maryland and virginia. One is eric cantor is refusing pay. Also john delaney says hes going to donate his pay to charity. Tim kain is asking his salary be withheld. Now if youre wondering why with the shutdown wasnt their salary removed, they are paid by mandatory funds, not discretionary funds. Live in capitol hill, im danielle leigh, back to you. 4 32. Leaders at university of District Of Columbia is trying to come up with a contingency plan. They held an emergency meeting last night. They received federal funding. Its the only Public University in the
Reporter until the shutdown ends, president obama is still refusing to negotiate. Lets stop the excuses and lets take a vote in the house and lets end this shutdown right now. Lets put people back to work. Then serious negotiations could proceed around every item in the budget. Reporter and the president demanded a promise not to default on october 17. Some house republicans, more house republicans, are now reported ready to reopen government and to raise the Borrowing Limit in return for a promise of meaningful talks on obama care and other spending. Im steve handelsman, news4. The families of more than a dozen Service Members recently killed in action are being denied death benefits because of the shutdown. The families are entitled to a 100,000 payment. That money often helps cover the cost of funerals and provides Financial Assistance until Life Insurance policies take effect. The house is drafting a resolution to restore that payment. It could be introduced as early as tomorrow. T
On the senate side majority leader harry reids latest offer to House Republicans was rejected. He called to fund the government and then negotiate on spending levels. In order to pass the socalled clean bill 17 republicans would have to break rank. This morning there is expected to be another round of political pingpong and nbcs Danielle Leigh joins us from washington with the latest. What is ahead today . Reporter from the looks of things this morning we could expect the shutdown to last at least another day. Here on capitol hill lawmakers will have another day. The Republican House gets back to work at 10 00 this morning. They are going to try to continue to fund the government one piece at a time. Obama care excluded. On the todo list is to fund the medical care for veterans. They have voted to open u. S. Parks and memorials and National Institutes of health. Democrats say they want to fund the government all at one time. Today on capitol hill the protests are also going to continue
Valley, page county. Gusts up to 50 miles an hour. The rest of us will see winds gusting 30 to 40 miles an hour. And a very cold start early tomorrow morning. Temperatures in the 20s will lead to windchills in the teens to start off with. A low of 27. 33 by 11 00. About 37 degrees for a high tomorrow on thanksgiving. That will be the coldest thanksgiving in well over a decade, and for you to check in with storm team 4 any hour of any day, all you have to do is download our weather app, search nbc washington weather in the itunes store or on google play. Thank you, doug. How about the conditions on the roads right now . Shomari stone is live trying to find out. Reporter hey, how are you guys doing . It is cold out here as Doug Kammerer just told you. Im standing by where the beltway meets i95 north and the traffic is moving rather well right now. Of course, its subject to change over time. The roadways are relatively clear for you folks thinking about hopping on the roadways now to the
Consumed president obamas time. It is essentially the sole focus at this point. Here on capitol hill there are efforts to try to get the government running again but not in a format that democrats plan to accept. Last night there were votes to get pieces of the Government Back on track, veteran services, the city of washington, d. C. Which is federally funded and a few other things that republicans voted on but those votes did not pass. They are going to try to again today with a new rule to pass it with a simple majority. It is probably not going past the senate. Democrats say it is all or nothing. We are not going to pick out certainer parts where people can come back to work. Epenitentiarial epenitentiarially essentially what all of that means, grid lock. And the Government Shutdown could just be a warmup act. Treasury secretary jack lew says he is using extraordinary measure to avoid hitting the debt ceiling. Lew says by october 17 the nation will have about 30 billion left to pay