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nonessential. rene marsh continues their coverage live from the world war ii memorial in washington. good morning, rene. reporter: good morning, kate. right where i m standing dramatic moments yesterday. it all had to do with that government shutdown. we ll show you that in just a second. but in the meantime, as those lawmakers continue to play politics on capitol hill, some families are feeling the real-life consequences of the shutdown. we all are essential. reporter: day two of the shutdown. furlough congress. reporter: outrage across the country, already reaching a fever pitch. we want to work! everyone is angry. i mean, angry. i came here to work today. i m not allowed to. i m not essential. none of us are. i m doing the walk of shame. reporter: more than 800,000 federal employees likely taking that same walk or drive. this in my hand is a notice of furlough that all employees were given this morning.
for having those ideas. we could compromise like jocelyn said and we could agree somehow. carl, what do you do if you re president and congress won t compromise? i ll tell them i ll tell them, get along just now because people are going to be losing their jobs. what s the president supposed to tell congress? nicole? the president is supposed to tell congress that you better get back to what you re supposed to do. what if they say, no? then the president fires them. he can t. only the voters can. he s not a king. who s going to fix it? nicole, how do we fix it? you can fix it by if the government is shut down, then that s a very hard one. right. how do we settle things that we don t agree on, jocelyn? you should do the right thing, not the wrong thing. you should at least give the
announcer: you re watching new day with chris cuomo, kate bolduan and michaela pereira. billy joel. welcome back to new day. let s get to michaela for the top news right now. let s talk shutdown. 800,000 furloughed federal workers feeling the squeeze as the federal government shut down and enters its second day. both parties blaming one another. a gop plan to re-open parts of the government dismissed by democrats. president obama calling it a republican shutdown, making it clear to the gop that obama care is, quote, here to stay. an arrest in a scary incident at jacksonville s airport, the airport now back open this morning after two suspicious packages were found, one had a device that had to be deactivated. no word yet on exactly what was in the package. the fbi is now part of the investigation. two people are under arrest for an attack on a new york city driver caught on camera.
reporter: what s worse, we re about to hit the debt ceiling. treasury secretary jack lu, again, warned congress if it doesn t raise the u.s. s ability to pay its debt, it will default october 17th. gop leaders blame democrats for refusing to sit down and negotiate. my goodness, they won t even sit down and have a discussion. reporter: president obama said his signature program isn t up for discussion. the affordable care act is still open for business and it is here to stay. reporter: frustrated taxpayers made sure their voices were heard, too. people are tired of a congress that can t govern this country. you guys are worthless! reporter: and this shutdown now, we have just learned impacting president obama s scheduled foreign trip. he was supposed to leave on saturday for a four-stop trip in asia. we ve learned from the white house, chris and kate, that at least two of those stops have been canceled. that would have been obviously to the philippines as well as to