Together with photos of the shutdown at different parks. According to the National Park service, 401 National Park sites are closed under this partial Government Shutdown. Over 20,000 furloughed staff. 3,000 staff deemed essential. 715,000 park visitors per day turned away. 450,000 in lost federal revenue per day. 300,000 in lost entrance fees. 150,000 in other lost spending. On the 715,000 visitors turned away, who makes that decision . How and why they are turned away . Guest under the federal shutdown, the Government Shutdown, congress basically has shut down the federal government. And so what that has caused is all the National Parks must close their doors. As you can imagine the National Parks is responsible for the protection of our National Parks and Public Safety. And so when they have to furlough 85 of their workers, they dont have the staff to keep the parks opened and to maintain them, provide the kind of Public Safety and assurances that people visiting the parks can count
Memorial which you might recognize as the building right behind us. I want to start by lets have a rounder applause for the United States marine band. Band. The president s own brass quintet. And we will hear a lot more from them over the course of the next couple of hours. So dont go away. They have a lot more to do. So ill start by introducing who i am and why im here. My name is david j kent. Im the president of the Lincoln Group of the District Of Columbia or the Lincoln Group of dc. I assume thats for the Lincoln Group and not for me in particular. Lincoln group is one of the most active lincoln organizations in the country and even though we are based here in dc. Our membership is worldwide and really worldwide but especially countrywide so weve been around since the 1930s. So we are very happy today to have helped organize this program. Along with the National Park service, and i especially want to call out jamie boyle who without whom this none of this would have happened. And
States marine band. Band. The president s own brass quintet. And we will hear a lot more from them over the course of the next couple of hours. So dont go away. They have a lot more to do. So ill start by introducing who i am and why im here. My name is david j kent. Im the president of the Lincoln Group of the District Of Columbia or the Lincoln Group of dc. I assume thats for the Lincoln Group and not for me in particular. Lincoln group is one of the most active lincoln organizations in the country and even though we are based here in dc. Our membership is worldwide and really worldwide but especially countrywide so weve been around since the 1930s. So we are very happy today to have helped organize this program. Along with the National Park service, and i especially want to call out jamie boyle who without whom this none of this would have happened. And and cosponsored by the Lincoln Forum of which harold holder is the chair and harold youll be hearing from harold in a shortly. So i
Maintenance and other projects to directly improve the enjoyment of our visitors however the authority to collect and spend revenues expires december 2014 nfl lies and renewed the park service would lose 108 million annually. I think its critical that the legislation passes congress of the park service and other Land Management agencies do not lose that particularly important Revenue Source. We are also looking forward to the views of National Park Service Director jonathan jarvis. He has been talking with us about a number of different approaches and let me now recognize senator murkowski on this matter and i particularly thank her again for all of the bipartisan efforts that she has been willing to take on and is one of the reasons we were able to get 14 bills cleared in the senate, more than anyone anticipated at this early date and wouldnt have passed it without senator murkowski and i thank her for her bipartisan approach. Thank you chairman and as you know we have been another op
Good morning, it is sunday, september 1, im mike mibach. Im claudine wong. Lets check in with your weather. Youve gotten rid of the whole chance for rain thing we keep talking about. They reported a few sprinkles in the overnight hour. A time lapse of the last two hours. This is the pattern that we will see for today as well as tomorrow. A mix of sun and clouds with a few passing sprinkles. Well show you in just a moment and the cooling trend will continue. Well show you how much cooler you can expect to be for today coming up. And it is day four of the bay bridge closure as work will continue today for them to open it on schedule. We want to show you a live picture of the new bridge and the old bridge right there next to each other. Yeah, we should get an update right here on the new span. We are told that some of the paving and the demolition work is taking a little longer than expected, but they still remain on schedule. They have given themselves some breathing room to make sure th