breaking tonight the government may still be shut down but some of the national treasures are open for business. how can that be? grace gallagher is live in the west coast newsroom with developments. trace? what s happening is the federal government is leasing back the national parks to the states at least for a short time. in return the states get to keep all the money the parks generate. so the governors have to sit down and figure t out if the math works and if it s worth it. the governors of washington state, wyoming have said no thanks. several other states struck deals. take a look at this. utah is paying $166,000 per day to keep open its eight parks. arizona, 93,000 per day to re-open the grand canyon. new york paying $61,000 plus to open the statue of lib ertliber. colorado $40,000 for rocky mountain park. and $15,000 plus for south dakota to re-open mt. rushmore.
government may still be shut down but some of the national treasures are open for business. how can that be? grace gallagher is live in the west coast newsroom with developments. trace? what s happening is the federal government is leasing back the national parks to the states at least for a short time. in return the states get to keep all the money the parks generate. so the governors have to sit down and figure t out if the math works and if it s worth it. the governors of washington state, wyoming have said no thanks. several other states struck deals. take a look at this. utah is paying $166,000 per day to keep open its eight parks. arizona, 93,000 per day to re-open the grand canyon. new york paying $61,000 plus to open the statue of lib ertliber. colorado $40,000 for rocky mountain park. and $15,000 plus for south dakota to re-open mt. rushmore.