Being headstrong and hot tempered. Senator harry reid thanked officers involved. These brave men and women put their lives on the live on the line every day. They are risking their lives without pay because of the shutdown. Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the deadly use of force. She was unarmed. The Government Shutdown continues tonight. House republicans say since the president will be in town this weekend, it is the perfect time to start negotiating. The house will stay in session tomorrow so they can continue passing bills that would reopen arts of the government. And a response, the white house threats. D fresh veto president obama said the shutdown could be over today it House Speaker john boehner would let the house vote on a spending measure with nothing attached. Lockheed martin will furlough close to 3000 employees if the government remained shut down. That includes employees are able work because the facility where or requires closed a government inspe
Because both sides are digging in their heels. Workers are wondering how they will feed their family. Making a living if the governments shuts down. If the museum shuts down, she will be hurting. I do not know where i can make my money. As of right now, things are not looking good. Side wayay, it each and the other. Blamed the other. Accepted theot compromise that republicans have reached out to you. They are doing it intentionally and the houses not in order. Obamacare to delay for one year is the price they are dementing. Demanding. They are not here. This is the old football strategy. When you get to where you want to be in a football game, you run out the clock. The clock is ticking. Tourists are caught in the middle. Yeah. Washington, d. C. It is not nice. Im really sad. The senate will reconvene less than 10 hours before the midnight that line. Housenate could kill the bill and that would set us back to square one. Abc 7 news. 24 of this with 24 7 hours to go. Budgetave more on t
Anders its. Sevenday the government shut down now enters its seventh day. Executives are urging employees to use any remaining Vacation Time to help reduce the strain of the furloughs. Hundreds of thousands of pentagon employees will return to work this morning. That is one of the only right spots from washington as the shut down and tears its seven day and counting. Hallie jackson has the very latest. Good morning. It looks almost like a double dose of negative news this morning. The u. S. May be closer to a default. I have nothing else in the drawer. Jack lew is warning of consequences if the u. S. Runs out of money to pay their bills in less than two weeks. Congress is playing with fire. John boehner once any deal link to spending cuts and changes to the healthcare law. The votes are not in the house and the president is frisking default by not having the conversation with us. Trigger. Default could an economic crisis. This would be a major change of life for almost all americans. S
They are desperate for this bill to fail. Reporter the political stand juf with a midnight deadline has real consequences for federal workers and americans. At the pentagon 50 of all civil yamgian employees will be forced to stay home. 112,000 workers at the Treasury Department suffer the same fate. 16,000 Labor Department workers will also stay at home. Joe jones who cuts hair in Mississippi Air force base has a message for congress. If they were to lose their paychecks like everybody else would lose their paycheck it would motivate them to solve the problems they are facing now. Reporter perhaps that isnt even enough motivation to avoid a Government Shutdown. Karen travers, abc news, washington. Stocks were mostly down this morning as they watched drama unfold. Stocks fell the sixth day out of the last seven and ended the week with a decline. Boeing is dealing with yet another problem with its 787 dreamliner. This time forcing an unexpected landing in iceland. The plane was flying fr
Warmer temperatures on the way. We should make it in the mid to upper 70s in the afternoon. But 80s on the way. Details on that coming up in your sevenday forecast and Eileen Whelan will be joining us as well. Wtop, get the latest on your traffic, amanda meadows, hey, amanda. Hey, jacqui, good to see you back. We do have some construction as well as a new incident in maryland thats causing delays this morning. This is going to be along about 97 or interstate 97 right there at route 32, weve got an accident there, this is a tractortrailer accident, were getting reports of multiple tractortrailers and a fuel spill. Thats got off that on ramp on to 97 westbound completely closed down. Cleanup probably will take some time. Through the outer loop in maryland, college park, silver spring, moving right along between 95 in maryland and 270. Youve got things going at a good clip. Hot spots, brake lights in the morning, 95 north and southbound, not too bad for this time of the morning but constr