groceries. jenny benjamin is one of thousands of air traffic controllers working without pay. she parks her car with a sign in the windshield will vector for food. a lot of our controllers, you re vectoring people in the airspace. lately vectoring hasn t put bread on the table. at her home in the colorado foothills, lights and stockings are still hung. christmas was delayed until her husband joe returned from iraq barely a week ago. it s a different feeling and the focus isn t on welcome home. now there s the added stress of what s happening with both our financial fuch. reporter: joe is in the air national guard. his return means he ll no longer be paid. what was once a dual-income household now has no income at all. they have savings but only for a while. i can t last months or years like the president mentioned that this could go on for. reporter: jenny went with her