illinois. this is really, vanessa, a one-two punch for these farmers. reporter: definitely. jim and poppy, this shutdown is not coming at a good time. after a tough 2018 for farmers and ranchers, the shutdown is very much unwanted at this point. so let s talk about what that trade war means for the farmers here. we re on brian dunkins farm here in northwest illinois and the biggest buyer of china and the biggest buyer of pork is mexico and they are not buying that much any more. and when you add the shutdown, brian relies on subsidies to make up the revenue difference he s not getting from mexico and china so he s waiting to file his application because he was waiting for the corn harvest to finish and his application is sitting on the desk in his office so he s not able to get that money and not able to get that check. but let s put it into
several major airports. one federal official calls it the blue flu, because of the blue tsa uniforms. join us from government regulation correspondent rene marsh. you were the first to break this story on friday. i m kurs curious about the folks calling in sick and does the tsa have the ability to plug in the holes so everybody that needs to be screened could get screened. reporter: we spoke with two senior tsa officials and two tsa union reps they tell us they are talking about when you look at major airports, at least four major airports, hundreds of tsa officers have called out sick since this government shutdown began. and they re concerned, they re telling me, is that this just means that air travel could be less secure because, they say, obviously they re doing less with more as these call-ins or
well. so two promises unkept so far. it s really interesting, bill. i ve begun to think there s so much focus on the wall, the border wall from the white house. they talk a lot about that. a lot of psychic energy put into that, while the opioid crisis continues, why people are suffering. it s just really helpful to have your reporting spell out how the people there see it all and feel about it. bill, thanks so much. speaking of people who know the reality on the ground. we just caught off whoever is not us, really. that s what we do. prosecutors naming a second suspect in the drive-by shooting death of 7-year-old jazmine barnes. larry woodruff. jail records indicate he s in custody but he has not been charged in connection with the shooting. the local sheriff says the first suspect, eric black jr., was arrested for failing to use a turn signal. he s accused of driving the car used in jazmine s death and
they ve lost their 7-year-old daughter. and there s been this back and forth, this discrepancy even in the description of the shooter. how is the family reacting to these arrests now? reporter: the family saying they are very grateful that these arrests have been made after the harris county sheriff vowed they wouldn t rest until justice was brought for jazmine. also this element of surprise. jazmine barnes mother and her sisters very descriptive in who they believe this gunman to be. we ve seen that sketch. a white male driving a red pickup truck but this came in by way of a tip. we got here because investigators learned that eric black jr. and larry were involved in this. and then eric black confessed. so here you have a scenario where, imagine the chaos of that moment. these children and their mother in a car as they are attacked. that red pickup truck could have been the last thing they saw but
perspective of where we are. we re in a conservative area and trump supporters and voters. so i asked brian whether or not the shutdown and these tariffs are playing at all into how he might be voting and how others might be voting, even come 2020. take a listen to what he had to say. i do think the president is in danger of losing a significant part of his base if the economic woes continue out here. if there is no resolve to these trade disputes. my fear is that we ll be watching in 2020 is are we bleeding for territory we already had? we re shedding significant economic blood out here. reporter: we spoke to a couple of other farmers in the area at a local diner and we asked them whether or not they are still supporting the president amongst all of this chaos with the shutdown and the trade war and they said that they are. but when i asked them about