Certain. The government is about to shut the lights. Barring a lastminute breakthrough, heres what happens at the stroke of midnight. About 800,000 federal workers deemed nonessential will be told not to show up for work tomorrow. All National Parks and monuments will be closed. If you need to get your passport renewed, do it today. Many passport offices will be closed. Many in the military, including the more than 1. 3 million on active duty are considered essential and will remain on the job. They likely wont get paychecks until an agreement is reached. The department of Homeland Security will furlough about 14 of employees. Its not a complete shutdown. The Social Security administration will continue the write checks to requitirees. The checks will get to you normally. So will your bills. Medicare and medicaid ben fish qulars be covered. The department of health and Human Services will furlough almost half of their employees. Members of congress and the president and Vice President get paid during shutdowns. All of this at a hefty price tag to takes payers. The white house estimates the overall cost of the shutdown will be at least 2 billion. The senate took the day off yesterday. Hay dont come back to work until 2 00 this afternoon, leaving just ten hours to find a solution before the government partially shuts down. When they come down, all signs are that the senate will pass back to the house a government funding resolution without any of the addon that the house had. What happens next . Reporter there is one path out of this. That will go back to the house. The house would have to axwrgreo what the senate has said. They would be willing to fund the government partially. Nothing about obama care. That would require the speaker of the house to go against many of the conservatives in his party and say, enough is enough. Right now, no indication hell do that. Jon karl, thank you very much. Another countdown going on that will have an impact on millions of americans. One of the key pieces of the Affordable Care act will go into effect at midnight. Rebecca jarvis is here now with all the information you need to know. People need to know this, dont they . Reporter there is a lot of it. Good morning. Tonight, for the first time, every american will have a look at the insurance plans offered under the Affordable Care act. Report this is morning that the Obama Administration is working to overcome technical glitches. Heres how it all affects you. When the clock strikes midnight tonight, every american will be able to shop for Health Insurance. Obama care, a bill that requires all americans to Purchase Health insurance by 2014. If you dont have Health Insurance you have to get it or face fines. Get ready to shop at the Health Insurance marketplace or exchange. Think of it as a Health Insurance mall for your state. Each store represents a different Insurance Company. Youll get an easy to read map and get options to see what makes the most sense for you and your family. If youre one of the 3 in 5 americans insured by your company, you will continue to be insured by them. You have the option to get a better deal at the marketplace. Since most employers pay a portion of your premium, a better deal sun likely. Its still worth taking a look. If you ignore obama care and dont Purchase Health insurance, youll still have to pay up. Youll face a fee up to 95 and there are 47. 50 if you dont enroll. Even with a Government Shutdown, were still expecting implementation tonight. It will be on a statebystate basis. The information is there. It is. Rebecca, thank you very much. All of this a hot topic on your show on sunday. People are fed up. Theyre just fed up with how washington works or doesnt work. Theyre ready to blame both sides. Republicans likely to get a little more blame. The last time we had anything of this scale was 1995 and 1996. The economic consequences were enormous. No question it hurt economic growth. It soured people on the government then as well. Now to the rains in the northwest. Sam, some of thiss is the last legs of a typhoon . Belief ve it or not. Its just the remnants. Three terrible storms hit the northwest just since the weekend. Lets go through. We just pulled the sheet from astoria. Alltime wettest september on record. Wettest threeday total for september on record. Look at the numbers. The alltime monthly i highs. Never better in september thanes astoria. The rain events on the coastline. Still raining in that area this morning. Its impossible to clean up when the rain is still falling. As morning breaks, the Pacific Northwest is under record rains, wicked winds, and fuhr yos flood waters, bracing for more. The wind so strong and i cant even cop tan myself right now. Reporter 85mileanhour winds hammering parts of washington. Two inches in one day pours through the roof of the areas seatac airport. Some areas getting the rain they would normally see in a month in just one day. Storm drains cascading with overflow. Look at it, malcolm, look at that thing going. Reporter in oregon, over 12,000 residents still without power. Washington state, 8,000 more are in the dark. Off the coast of oregon, the coast guard pulled one captain to safety. Winds all across the west so strong that trees are already tumbling on the washington shoreline. It sounded like a small thunder or the beginning of an earthquake. I was like, thats a tree. I heard the crack. Wind advisories on the coast this morning. More rain coming in. Another wet day. Its lighter rain like theyre used to this time of year. Coming in for the rest of the week. Thank you, sam. Josh is on assignment. Lets get the rest of the top stories from amy. A Small Plane Crashing in santa monica, igniting in mass i have fire. One witness describing the moment of impact. Plumes of smoke billowed into the air after a twinengine jet catapulted off the runway. We heard a boom. And then we heard another one, there were three. Reporter this eyewitness said he watched the plane touchdown just before 6 30. I watched it land. It was a perfectly normal landing. You didnt see anything that made you go uhoh . No. It was a landing and the tire popped off afterwards. Reporter firefighters arrived as the hangar was collapsing. Fire Officials Say it is unlikely anyone could have survived. The whole hangar that the plane went into was completely involved. We could not get in. The hangar collapsed. That type of luxury jet can seat up to nine people. It was registered to a real estate company. Well pass along information as we get it. A new wave of attacks across baghdad. At least 51 people killed. Tensions escalate among rival muslim groups. In london, investigators are trying to figure out why this duck tour bus burst into flames, forcing the passengers to jump into the water. All 28 passengers and crew were rescued. And people in florida are being warned about a deadly bacteria lurking in sea water there now blamed for killing a ninth person. Man died last week after he was exposed to the bacteria while fishing. Health officials are warning people not to eat raw seafood. One for the blooper reel. Watch the tuba section. One member starts to trip, well, guess what . Oh, oh. Oh they all went down hard, one after another. No injuries reported. Kids are all now internet stars. Theres a Silver Lining. That had to hurt. Oh, gosh. Buck it up, tuba players. The show goes on. Thank you, amy. Now to a scandal shaking the u. S. Militarys nuclear program. The number two boss in charge suspended under investigation for gambling. Suspected of possibly using fake poker chips at a casino. Martha raddatz is in washington with the latest. Reporter this is an officer who was holding the nations highest security clearance with access to americas most closely guarded secrets. Now hes being investigated for a felony. He is one of the top commanders in charge of the nations sensitive nuclear arsenal, aboard sub marines, bombers, and landbased missiles. This morning, vice admiral tim giardina has been suspended and is the focus of a criminal probe. Civilian investigate nrs iowa, where hes stationed, said the career navy officer, who they say frequented a casino near his Head Quarters was using counterfeit poker chips to increase his winnings. This led us to go ahead and contact the authorities. Reporter at that point, Navy Investigators stepped in. The commander of the u. S. Nuclear arsenal ordering a probe. These Senior Officers have to be beyond reproach. They have to be beyond anything that would besmirch their reputation, that of the Naval Service or the u. S. Military, especially when it deals with nuclear weapons. Reporter sources say the investigation is ongoing, though no charges have been filed. Giardina, a decorated submarine officer who has been Deputy Director since 2011 could face prosecution within the military as well as felony charges in iowa. The admiral has not commented. Sources tell abc news, the use of the counterfeit chips involved a significant amount of money. George . Okay, thanks. Now to another trial for amanda knox getting under way right now in italy. She spent four years in prison for murdering her roommate before the con vision was overturned. Gio benitez with the story. Reporter this morning, amanda knox finds her name, if not herself, front and center in an italian courtroom. Facing a retrial for the charges that she murdered her roommate, meredith kercher. Knoxs attorney rejected the notion that knox wasnt there because she knows hes guilty. Shes always maintained her innocence. Im going to keep fighting this. Im not going to stop fighting this. Reporter shes endured a roller coaster ride through the italian justice system. She was accused with her then boyfriend, raffaele sollecito, of stabbing kercher to death. This spring, the Italian Supreme Court rejected the decision to free her and ordered the case be retried. By then, she returned to seatle and returned to school. The longer it plays out, the longer its going to take me to get my life back. And to move on. Reporter kerchers family was not in court this morning. Their lawyer says he believes knox is guilty. She understands her friend and roommates family wants to know how their daughter died. Even as knox herself viows to prove shes not the person who did it. Im not ever going to accept the idea that anyone can say that i did something that i didnt. Its not okay. Reporter and over the weekend, kerchers family, which believes knox is guilty, issued a statement asking her not the visit their daughters grave. If knox is convicted again, theres a slight chance she could be extradited. That would be a big diplomatic fight. Thank you, gio. It would, george. Now daredevil boaters. They spot this water spout and do they head away . No, they head straight for it. Matt gutman shows us what happens next. [ yelling ] reporter Kevin Johnson calls this water spout slalom. Others would call going through these five tornadolike vortices crazy. They were boating. The dog doesnt care. Reporter they had been lobster fishing when they spotted this rare system with multiple water spouts. Similar to small tornadoes on the water. Sud lynn, the funnels all around them. On the other side of this one, three or four more. Reporter intense enough for johnson to keep the snorkel on. Settling right beneath a water spout. How many see water spouts and tornadoes from this perspective. Reporter so, what to do, get out, right . Then were going inside. Reporter and by inside, he means drive right through it. Theres the spray, the wind, and that cackle. [ yelling ] it opened all my hatches and everything. Reporter experts warn this could have been a dangerous move. The swirling winds could have flipped the boat. Johnson disagrees and says he would have done t again. These are f0 tornadoes. There was no real danger. It was a calculated risk. Reporter next time, he might consider a bigger boat. Matt gutman, abc news, miami. Wow. I dont know if i would suggest doing that. And then, then the coast guard has to come out and rescue you when your boat flips over. I hope the Insurance Company that holds that boat is paying attention as well. People, i cant think of anything more seriously ridiculous to do than this. Honestly, all for the sake of video and for people to talk about you online. Lets show you what is going on here. Almost perfect weather. You want to brag to somebody how gorgeous it is from the great lakes to the northeast. The problem is, the rest of the country is just about as beautiful. 75 in philly. 64 in boston. The 60s are going away. Maybe in the 80s by the time we get to the middle of the week. Its 80 in oklahoma city. Kansas city, 79. Its just about beautiful all the way across the country. Houston, 87. Thats the weather around the nation. Dont drive your boat to the water spout. Dont do that. Its still in my mind. Still many my mind. A good morning, washington beautiful sunrise underway. Temperatures are cool, but not too bad at reagan national. 57 degrees in our nations capital. It is 50 and culpeper and your temperature at the airport is 46. We will make it into the middle 70s with harley cloudy skies. Warming things up the rest of the week. High temperatures in the 80s. One tough place of weather we have to talk about. Along the gulf coast, a lot of storms there. Well do that in the next half hour. 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There is heavy traffic there. It is due to an earlier incident. Our mapping system shows that bright red. At route 50, we have a breakdown on the left side. We have metro delays on the orange line at dunn loring due to a train malfunction in both directions. We are taking a look outdoors. Our temperatures are not too bad. Clear on the clear side. 57 degrees at this hour. You can see the clouds have been rolling in. We do not expect showers today. High temperatures in the middle 70s. Thank you for watching. We will have an update coming up. One more time. That you did this. For the family. I did it for me. I liked it. I was good at it. What a confession there from walter white in a block buster finale of breaking bad. Millions gathered to see it. So many fans on seeshl media. No, no, no, no, no. No stop it right there. I havent seen it yet. Freeze it. Freeze it. I guess a lot of dvrs were working last night. Were not going to give it away. Wow. You guys should have taken the tease on that one. That was really close. People at home are doing the same thing, no we will talk about it without revealing anything. Also ahead, amys haunting interview with the woman whose husband committed the unthinkable, the amish shool house shooting. The wife is peeking out and why she thinks he snapped. Incredible interview, amy. No shock. No huge expense. How to get pregnant. Jen ashton is with us. How about the cast of the beloved show, china beach . Remember it. Back together for the First Time Since the blockbuster finale. The stars are reunited for our cameras. Youre not going to remember how many