Welcome to Aljazeera America this wednesday morning, im stephanie sy. Hundreds of thousands are federal workers are waking up this morning with no job to go to. The government remains shut down with no signs of progress and congress deadlocked. On tuesday, the republicans in the house proposed a measure to reopen National Parks, and parts of the department of veterans affairs, but it was defeated on the house floor in a bipartisan vote. Democrats rejected the idea as political cherry picking. Theyre using the parks as a pawn. This is about defunding the Affordable Care act on a day when millions of people are logging in to find out how they can enroll. Its really a remarkable historic day, where people can receive the promise of our founders, of life, liberty and the pursuit of anticipateness. The budget impasse resolves around a gop demand that any spending bill include a delay or repeal of the Affordable Care act. Republicans hope the shutdown will force a compromise. I think its fair to say none of us want to be in a shutdown and were here to say to the Senate Democrats come and talk to us. This is how we resolve our differences, and can work our way out of this kind of situation. But president obama is standing firm. Hes urging House Republicans to pass a simple spending bill. The basic message of congress is this, pass a budget, end the Government Shutdown. Pay your bills. Prevent an economic shutdown, dont wait, dont delay, dont put our economy or our people through this any longer. Im more than happy to work with them on all kinds of issues. I want to get back to work on the things that the American People sent us here to work on, creating new jobs, new growth, new security for our middle class. The put somedown is having an Immediate Impact on many government workers who can ill afford unpaid time off. We have the story. The shutdown is expected to furlough 800,000 federal workers across the nation, including tax collectors and food inspectors. I dont understand why the activity of the government should be stopped, because of concerns about one aspect of legislation. The Nations Capital is being hit hard by the shutdown, because tourism here is big business. Visitors spend 6 billion a year generating more than 70,000 jobs. From National Parks to the national museums, here in the district, it was the same story, doors shut, tourists disappointed. Was this part of your plan taking a bike through here . No. We just thought since we cant get into any of the federally run buildings that this would be the next best way to see whats here. Virginia settled for a snapshot outside the smithsonian. She and her husband are from oregon. Our son who lives in oregon, his job, even though he works for the county, he could not work today, because they use the Communications System of the federal government, so it is amazing how many people in farreaching areas of our country and i would assume the world are affected. Amazing and at the world war ii memorial, rather ironic. Men who fought for their country had a fight to visit the memorial built to honor them. Well, lets hope they solve it and dont hurt too many people. For however long the shutdown lasts. Randall pinkston joins us live from the capitol. There is another deadline approaching october 17 to raise the debt ceiling. Are there fears that this budget impasse could reach into that . More than fears, possibly plans on the part of House Republican leaders. We just heard from the House Budget Committee leader paul ryan say that he wants to combine both the budget problem and the debt ceiling limit to put pressure on democrats and president obama to reach some kind of of accommodation with republicans over the Affordable Care act and also to further reduce government spending. He points out that this has been done before, most recently in 2011 that resulted in those questers, the quest reactions of shutdowns and cut backs in federal spending. This could just delay the debate for another couple of weeks. Meanwhile, president obama is set to depart for a tour of asia, but now his trip is shortened. The white house put out a Statement Last night on a phone call that president obama made to the president of the philippines. In that phone call, the president told the filipino leader that he, president obama, would not be traveling, but that he would delay that trip for later in the day. Later, there was an addendum handed out by the white house, saying the president would base his travel plans depending on what happens with the budget battle. It now appears as you indicate that the deadlock is going to continue. Weve heard some saying they have discontinued plans. Theyve had cancellations for events, so this thing could go on for a while. All right. Randall pinkston reporting from washington. How long. If the Government Shutdown lasts for several days or weeks. Furloughed workers wont be collecting a paycheck. The average paycheck is 70,950. Not every federal employee earns that much. Looking at the workers in National Parks and services, on average, they make 30,950 a year. National monuments and sites are closed and nearly 20,000 employees that run them are on unpaid leave. Visitors staying at Mount Rainer National park are shut out. There is truly in paradise. The mountain is in an early and sudden snowstorm. Below at the parks main entrance, there is a cold reception of a different kind. Visitors are turned away. We thought wed be hiking for days and days in the National Park. They planned their vacation months ago, flying in from fort myers, florida. Our own government is Holding Us Hostage because they cant figure out a way to deal with situations. As part of the Government Shutdown, 192 mount ranier employees are furloughed. They received notices on tuesday. We are going to have adequate staffing on to be able to provide the type of access, the type of services or storage respond to emergencies that people get into here. Only essential staff are staying on. No one knows if theyll be paid. The National Park is 370 square miles of wilderness and beauty. October usually brings 130,000 visitors. Every day the park is closed, it loses 2,000 in entrance fees. The impact of this shutdown spans well beyond the park and employees. Businesses like this one outside of the park have already notified workers their hours will be cut and depending how long the shutdown lasts, they may have to close. This whole thing is ridiculous. It affects so many people. I feel bad for everybody working here, too. Coming down, we said theyre not going to do that. They wont do that. Their stay has been cut short. Thursday, the inn will close and visitors asked to leave. Oh, boy. Heres my shut down folder. Back at park headquarters, the superintendent is also being furloughed. The park belongs to the people and to not be able to open them and make them accessible, enable them to serve their purpose, thats a very sad situation for the country. In the parks 114 year history, it has only closed four times, two now for Government Shutdowns. The bureau of the interior said it will lose 450,000 in entry fees each day the parks are closed. While the government remains partially shut down, a key part of the Affordable Care act, Health Care Exchanges are open for business. It didnt take long to get overloaded after millions of americans log on for information. President obama urges patience. Were going to be speeding things up in the next few hours to handle all this demand that exceeds anything that we had expected. Consider that just a couple weeks ago, apple rolled out a new mobile operating system, and within days, they found glitch, so they fixed it. I dont remember anybody suggesting apple should stop selling iphones or ipads or threatening to shut down the company if they didnt. The rollout of the Affordable Care act hit a road block in Washington State where the exchanges were off line most of the day. We have that story. Washington is one of the 16 States Running their own insurance exchanges, and the c. E. O. Of exchange here warned us all in recent days that there might be bumped in the road. Sure enough, on day one, rollout day, there was quite a a bump. This woman drove more than an hour to get help enrolling in a new health plan. Where she regularly comes for care, she didnt get very far. We spoke to her through an interpreter. Its difficult for me if i do not get no Insurance Coverage for my health and im not able to get all the medication that i need. The states website was overwhelmed by users shortly after it went on line, put in maintenance mode while workers worked on it. This staff went through new training sessions on the plans to help patients and a half gate the options, but they, too, rely on the website. Social worker Rebecca Parker got the same rude on line welcome as so many others. Then came into the office and tried to access it myself, and a little disappointed that its not up and running. Harbor view is where many use the emergency room as a dropundoctors office. They hope the act can change that. We have patients that dont have health care coverage. For many, this will be the first time in their adult life that theyve had any kind of coverage at all. By noon, the website came back up but didnt function smoothly. Some users continued to experience problems while work continued on the glitches. For this woman, it was a disappointing day. She is glad to have gotten started but has to solid answers about enrollment. Very excited, and i also worry that im not able to get it. The state has eight approved insurers shopping 46 different insurance plans, and the website is the doorway to all that information. Right now, that door is shut and the closed sign is out, the website taken down for tweaking. We dont know when it will be back again. The federal website and many state Exchange Sites are still having technical problems this morning. Erika, youve been testing sites yourself this morning. Were you able to get on and look at anything . Yes, 2 00, 3 00 in the morning, you would think it would be a breeze to get on line, because not as many people would be logging on. Some state run sites are still down as we speak. The new york site where nearly 10 million visitors caused login problems says its unavailable. Health care. Gough that runs the website for 30 states is running. It took more of a click of a mouse to get information. The federal Governments Health insurance marketplace site has so much web traffic still, its slowing the site. Even in the wii hours, it took hours to get through the login process. We were having glitches in the marketplace. Whenever we went in to access the on line information, we were unable to. The marketplace was telling us to follow up later. I had better luck at staterun sites. Once i got on line, i looked at the plan options for a 35yearold woman making 60,000 a year. I checked out health plans in connecticut, colorado and california. In hartford, the lowest cost bronze plan for my individual criteria cost 220 a month. The same stats in denver net a bronze plan of 178 a month. In los angeles, california, the cheapest bronze plan is 188 a month. Then i adjusted my search criteria for the same 35yearold woman, but this time, she has an annual income of 30,000. Immediately, the difference sites showed eligibility for a tax credit. In connecticut, it comes out to be more than 100, bringing the cost of the cheapest plan down to 117. In colorado, the tax credit it only third dollars. Even though the prices of insurance plans start out less there, the end result costs a bit more at 147 a month. Something we learned through the process that will be really helpful to people, you can get has tax credit up front, meaning you do not have to wait until tax time to cash in on the credit. Just a reminder, enrollment runs through march of 2014, but if you enroll earlier be where you can get coverage by january. Were you able to get on to the federal site . No. It has been five hours and upstairs at my computer, it is still in a head in pattern. Im sure youre going to get off set and keep trying. Of course. In florida, Jacksonville International airport is open after a bomb scare forced police to slack way the terminals last night. Thats where we are this morning. Is it business at normal there . So far, it is. Travelers and cars, vehicles moving into the airport, a beautiful morning here, but a scary evening last night, as two packages were found, one in the terminal, one in a parking lot around here. One of them, Authorities Say was deemed destructive, taken by the bomb squad off site and detonated. People sat on the tarmac in airplanes and buses came out to get the passengers. This woman waited hours outside the Jacksonville International airport for her daughter, mary. The airport shut down for more than four hours. When i pulled up and they said theres a bomb threat, i said im not leaving here without my daughter. Police found two suspicious packages, saying one had a destructive component. Our bomb squad did find a device that needed to be rendered safe, then the process of doing that, removed it from the area. Passengers were stranded on the tarmac and terminals evacuated. Everybody just started running, a lot of people that were behind the counters started ducking behind where the packages go and everybody started running to get out. The all theyre was given late tuesday night. They say it could take a while for everything to get back to normal at airport workers scramble to reschedule flights. No one injured, thats the good news, but many passengers nerves rattled last night. Folks coming in this morning trying to get out of jackson International Airport, people flying in. We can hear the airplanes. Authorities say at this point, there have been no arrests, so we will watch and see exactly what unfolded last night and wait for more details throughout the day. Back to you. We know you will. Robert ray live at Jacksonville International airport, thank you. A disturbance at the tropics, we have your national forecast. Good morning. Good morning. Its been a threat quiet tropical season overall, but still were in that time of year. We have this disturbance far into the western caribbean. Thats what were watching now. You can see that cluster of showers and storms. Its looking a little organized. Better than average chance that over the next couple of days, this is going to develop heres the broader look at this. We have different computer models that help forecast this out. Almost all bring the disturbance into the gulf and along the gulf coast. Even if this doesnt develop into a storm, that moisture is going to move in. Its interesting, with the furlough, still at your lowed and scheduled for a flight to schedule this later today. Well see what happens today. Through the rest of the gulf, we have moisture coming in. The gulf moisture, we fired up showers and storms not across the entire region, but on and off youll see moisture. A lot of the country is very quiet, but more rain along the coastline. Another winter storm is moving through states such as wyoming give us the chance for snow. Coming up, well talk about that system a little more closely and see where the roads are going to be particularly treacherous through today and tomorrow. Back to you. Nicole, thank you. The israeli Prime Minister talks tough on iran. Iran is a wolf in sheeps clothing. A wolf who thinks he can pull the wool over the eyes of the International Community. What he says israel is willing to do to prevent a nuclear iran. Plus a new medical break through providing hope to infertile women hoping to have a baby. 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Netanyahu urged the International Community to keep up the pressure on irans leaders and force them to give up nuclear ambitions. An exchange between the president of iran and the founder of twitter. Jack dorsey tweeted out to rouhani, good evening, our citizens of iran eager to read your tweets. His account responded its time for our business block. How are the markets continue to go react to the Government Shutdown . Investors didnt seem bothered yesterday, but