Certain. The government is about to shut the lights. Barring a lastminute breakthrough, heres what happens at the stroke of midnight. About 800,000 federal workers deemed nonessential will be told not to show up for work tomorrow. All National Parks and monuments will be closed. If you need to get your passport renewed, do it today. Many passport offices will be closed. Many in the military, including the more than 1. 3 million on active duty are considered essential and will remain on the job. They likely wont get paychecks until an agreement is reached. The department of Homeland Security will furlough about 14 of employees. Its not a complete shutdown. The Social Security administration will continue the write checks to requitirees. The checks will get to you normally. So will your bills. Medicare and medicaid ben fish qulars be covered. The department of health and Human Services will furlough almost half of their employees. Members of congress and the president and Vice President
That provision of the Affordable Care act. Much of the east coast has spent this friday cleaning up the mess left behind after the first major winter storm of the year. People across the region woke up to heavy snow. More than two feet falling in some parts of massachusetts. And when the storm moved out, frigid temperatures moved in. We begin our coverage with richelle carey. Shes at columbus circle. Can you walk us through this day. I know it was a real pain during the Early Morning commute, but how are things going in the afternoon . Reporter i think its going much better, youre right, tony, when storms come in often the most difficult is in the morning when plows out are and children are needing to get to school. However, 1. 1 million children got out of school for snow day. It is dangerously bitterly cold here in new york city. And of course in boston as well. I know john terrett will have much more on that. That is what went into the decision to Cancel School today. I know people
Relocate to San Francisco. Reporter one big question, however, is who is going to pay the 70 million that still is owed on the renovations to the oakland arena for the warriors . The legal issue that were talking with the warriors about, thats the major issue of dispute. The bottom line is there are a lot of balls in the air at once. Reporter as for the fans, worried about the as leaving . I think they are going to stay. We are worried about them leaving. We like them to be close by. Reporter now, the as have since issued a statement saying, number one, that they dont owe any back rent, although they do say they did [ indiscernible ] some payments and number 2 there is no mention of subsidies in the current deal that they put before the stadium coliseum authority. But its pretty clear that despite all the good intentions and good words going back about a week ago, this is really coming down to money, big money. Ken . Yeah, phil. If im not mistaken, arent the taxpayers, alameda county,
Hi, friends. Good morning. Its the 17th of april. Im anna kooiman. We do have a fox news alert for you now. A deadly earthquake in ecuador sends people screaming. The 7. 8 magnitude quake shaking a nation. At least 77 are dead. More than 500 are injured. Buildings flattened, now the military is being called in to search for survivors. Plus an exodus from gitmo. Nine detainees some listed as high risk sent to saudi arabia. Now the question is whether the country will be able to stop these men looking into killing
americans from rejoining the fight. And what does George Clooney think about the expensive fundraiser he just threw for Hillary Clinton. 353,000 for a couple to be a cochair. Do you look at yourself around thats an obscene amount of money . Yes. I think its an obscene amount of money. At least hes aware of. Are these poisoning politics . He thinks so. He just threw one. Fox friends begins right now. All right. Tomorrow is tax day. So come on down to the plaza this morning, reli
Tonight, after our exclusive with one of the students, what weve now learned. Good evening and its great to have you with us here on a tuesday night. And we begin with that bombshell from the white house late today. Fbi director James Comey Fired by President Trump. It came without warning. Just last week, he testified about the fbis investigation into russias meddling into u. S. Election. Comey saying at the time that it made him mildly nauseous, that he might have impacted the outcome of the election. Comeys relationship with the president has been closely watched. Right here in their first meeting at the white house, the president in fact joking that youve become more famous than me. Well, tonight, that fbi director has now been fired and our chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl with new reporting here, what led to this stunning decision. Reporter tonight n a terse letter, President Trump informed fbi director james comey, youre hereby terminated and removed from office, ef