national park service cooked up a new kind of contingency plan, and that is they basically furlough about 85% of their employees. and then they try and keep the parks open just with a skeleton staff. i ll read you a little extract. they say staffing will be held to the amount needed for the protection of life, property, and public health and safety. so if they deem that public safety, health is at risk, then they may close down the park. also, listen, those volunteers who are working their day jobs and cleaning the toilets here, they say they don t know how much longer they can do it. so, anderson, if this drags on a lot longer, they could just close the whole place down. back to you. thanks very much. coming up, did you happen to notice what was on the table today, literally, while the president sat with his cabinet and spoke with reporters? the curious case of the fake movie poster, next on the ridiculist.
garbage and toilets filled to capacity. the nesbitt family from texas was planning this vacation to joshua tree for months. now they re cutting it short. well, it s impacted ours for fun, but it s impacted people s livelihoods and people s jobs. nick watt joins us now. nick, if the shutdown drags on, is there a chance the park will have to close completely. reporter: there is. that used to be the way of things, but last year the national park service cooked up a new kind of contingency plan, and that is they basically furlough about 85% of their employees. and then they try and keep the parks open just with a skeleton staff. i ll read you a little extract. they say staffing will be held to the amount needed for the protection of life, property, and public health and safety. so if they deem that public safety, health is at risk, then they may close down the park. also, listen, those volunteers who are working their day jobs
people placed on furlough. that means they stay home without being paid essentially a leave of absence while their work is not being done and here s who that applies to most nafta workers, most national park rangers and park safety officials. most of the parking and housing and urban development remember, we have a space station in orbit. an american astronaut is on board. nasa says they will have staff watching the space station. the satellite, a mission on mars and america s other space interests. now, that s a lot of numbers. what will that look like to you after christmas day if the government is not back in business? first, the post office will be opened. air and rail travel will still function as normal. social security offices will still work. that includes timely delivery of benefit checks. what about national parks? yes and no, some parks will leave the gates opened but with a skeleton staff on duty in case of emergencies. any buildings will probably be locked, closed for
their lives by that much on a map. by wiping out the tourism industry and the center of the economic engine for the entirety of bay county. it missed it by that much. instead, hit tyndall air force base. i know they had largely evacuated there. i spent a lot of time at tyndall over the years covering stories back during local television. it s a lot of concrete block buildings and they can handle this sort of stuff. the u.s. military will get you organized and get you out. the rafters are out of there and they had a skeleton staff there and wore all hoping and praying they re just fine. we ll know soon enough. look at the eye of this storm. it s getting wobbly now. the huge rain band is heading to steel city, chippley. this is part of the panama city viewing area.
they beam it could have caused concussion-like symptoms. the mystery is what could cause a concussion without any physical trauma being involved.. the mystery is what could cause a concussion without any physical trauma being involved. there s no physical evidence to back it up. they feel they know what devices could be behind it. while this is still very much up in the air, it has had real affects. you have skeleton staff now here at the u.s. embassy in havana, all non-essential personnel, families have been sent home. if you are cuban, you can no longer get a visa here. if you want to visit family americans in u.s., if you are an american citizen like me, you couldn t get your passport renewed here. cuban diplomats have been expelled. it has a real impact on relations. and has had impact on the health of some of the diplomats and their families when they were brought back. thanks so much. i appreciate it. coming up for us, more