All options to get the safety and the reliability back where it should be. Coming up at 5 00, what riders think about this being a possibility. Reporting live, brianne carter, abc7 news. Jonathan you can understand folks jitters especially after shutting the lines down for a full day. What do you think metro should do to make repairs to the system . There are clearly still work that needs to be done. Join the conversation. We have it going on, on our facebook page. Michelle the elevator at the Washington Monument is back up and running. You will recall it malfunctioned yesterday afternoon leaving 19 people stranded halfway up the 555foot monument. They had to walk down a few hundred steps. But everyone was just fine. They just got extra cardio. The National Park service says it is still working to figure out why the elevator stopped working. We will take you inside the monument today at 6 00. Jonathan a man out riding his bike on a popular bike path in alexandria was j him. Police say
Barbara. A lot of federal workers were out here yesterday. We spoke with them at this metro stop yesterday. They were telling me they were very nervous. Today they say simply they are annoyed and without a paycheck. Its really happening . Ice really shocking. Reporter 800,000 federal worker, those considered nonessential, forced off the job without pay. No check, no checking email, no work, no answers for who knows how long. Morale is very low. Reporter its been 17 years since a shut down like this one. Many of the federal workers unsure of how the next few days will play out. Just going in and they ale give me my letter and send me home. Reporter spending just the morning at the office. We cant do anything. Basically weve got four hours to do the work it takes to have an orderly shutdown, and then we go home. Reporter as workers slowly trickled out of the Federal Center metro stop this morning, a few blocks away, park police were shutting down roads flanking the National Mall. I think
Lawmakers getting ready to return to capitol hill after a long night that ultimately ended in failure. The government is closing this morning for the first time in about two decades. It is hard to see if there will be an end to the gridlock. News 4s Melissa Mollett is live. Reporter its been a bitter partisan fight. Quite a blame game weve seen over the past couple of days. We know that lawmakers will reconvene at 9 30 this morning. Heres what we know about what will happen then. Were understanding from harry reid that he will move to table whatever the house was working on overnight which will end up killing it. Democrats say they wont approve anything at all unless that thing is completely clear of any demands to change the Health Care Law. The hope, of course, this morning perhaps to go to this conference and end up actually talking through their differences. Theres a way to resolve this process and that is to go to conference and talk through your differences. I would hope the sena
Tomorrow. Thank you. My hope. I would prefer to be at work. I would prefer to be contributing to my household. Reporter president obama had a midnight message for u. S. Troops. Theyll get paid, but civilians face furloughs. You and your families deserve better than the dysfunction were seeing in congress. Reporter democrats and republicans are disagreeing about whether to put the brakes on. Signup for Health Insurance begins today as 800,000 federal workers show up to close their offices. The last time we saw this happen, it was in the mid 90s. That shutdown lasted three weeks. If that happens this time, wed be right in the middle of washingtons next big debate over raising the debt ceiling. Were watching it all for you live from capitol hill this morning. Im tracie potts, back to you. Tracie, question for you. The Health Care Exchanges went into effect this morning. If that is a Sticking Point on all of this, how do we move forward knowing thats already happened and already rolling .
The right shoulder lane. Thats cleared. For folks traveling eastbound, no incidents. Westbound as well on 66. In fact, all the way from hey market to the beltway clear. Inside the beltway clear. If youre on twitter tweet us first4traffic. 5 02. We are five hours into the first Government Shutdown in 20 years. Soon lawmakers will return to try to once again agree to a funding deal but the outlook is not good. Were near the National Mall where we expect to see barricades go up around the memorials this morning. Melis melissa. Reporter were at the mlk memorial. No barricades here. As you mentioned, we drove around for about 20 minutes this morning to various memorials throughout washington. We did not see anything at this point. Of course we know its something that is going to happen here shortly. Lets talk about last night. Lets talk about whats going to also happen today. It has been a very bitter partisan fight. The senate will reconvene at 9 00 this morning. At that point harry reid s