Serving federal centers are threatened and that is on top is of of the problems were already seeing. Because of the accumulated expects of the sequester which we almost have overlooked because it didnt seem very bad. Bad this region last 26,500 jobs last month. Reporter there could be a delay in federal checks like social security, unemployment rates could rise and Interest Rates could gold up leading to more expensive auto loans, and credit card bills slowing economicmic growth. The longer this goes on thes on more well feel the impact often our open finances andance the economy as a whole. Raising the stakes even higher the debt ceiling. A default would have much more serious consequences. The government could beould required to cut spending byy about 1 3. It undercuts confidence so businesses dont hire. Consumers dont spend and undercuts holiday sales, housing sales. Reporter wall street which is used to washington stalemates is not reacting well to this latest crisis, ais, sign that confirms the almostlm slowdown in our economic recovery. Fullers advice fu you need to save your money. You need to be not, spend anything extra. Ing not worry about the national nat economy and how you are spending or lack of spending is going to affect that. Af thatfe was laura evans reporting. Its important to note a Government Shutdown will notil impact many of the services that we all rely on. Social security and medicarecare benefits will continue although they may take a bit longer to go out. Youll still get your mail. Air travel will continue. Active duty military willary stay on the job, and the the president ensured theyll get paid as will law enforcement. Of course both democrats and republicans are weighing in on the shutdown. More an what they propose and why they couldnt compromise when melanie joins us in a few minutes. W she will be live to tell usl more about that. Lets get a check of the weather meantime. Mea that, you know, is at least something pleasant to thinkhink about. Yeah, at least we got thehe weather back, welcome back, by the way. Good to see you, good to be seep. Thank you, thank you. Ank lets get to the forecast. Yes. I got t. 60 Reagan National. Were cool but were not 53 b. W. I. Marshal. More of the same with a noted warming trend starting with today. We should be in the low 80s later on this afternoon. A little more humidity, not summertime but well have broken clouds here from time to time so it wont be perfectly sunny. Y. Our old cold front is coming com through and bringing a little bit of cloud cover. Otherwise nicelooking day. 82. Mostly sunny skies. Kie were going to stay in the 80s for much of the week . 82. That is warm for what weve been experiencing. That is about 8 degreesdegr above normal. Thanks. Lets get our first look at the morning traffic. Good morning. Ning 86. Thats thats what we saw in california. Cali its warmer and sunny. U yes. Right now on the roads we have reports of Police Activity eastbound along 66 approaching nutley street. Checking the cameras, i dont see delays or lanes blocked. Eastbound to the capital beltway all of the lanes are open. Southbound coming in from shadyville road light volume. Lanes are open on the top stretch between college parkrk and bethesda. Light volume headed through silver springs. Overnight constructionti cleared on the 5 northbound. But here. Still have lane blocked herel northbound trying to, would your way past land mark. That is a check of the fox 5 ontime traffic. Back to our top story, the partial Government Shutdown is now in session. S lawmakers failed to reach ah budget by midnight. Several Government Agencies will close andand hundreds of thousands ofhou federal workers may be offbe the job for now. Melanie joins us with more onit what this all means, they dida3d it. Reporter they did. You know, i have to be honest, i didnt think it would come to. This isme i think cooler heads would prevail, but despite an offer from senate democrats,emoc House Republicans held fast to their demands to changesands to the Affordable Care act. A few minutes before midnight the directive went out to execute plans for an orderly shutdown. The most visible sign the many tourists sites around washington, d. C. Monuments, National Parks and smithsonians will be closed. Furlowed federal workers will laptops andr offices to turn foarntion committee timett cards and post out of office messages. In several back and forth session there was no give on other side of congress. House republicans voted toed keep the government open with conditions like delaying the affordable healthcare care. Republicans now asking the senate to appoint knee dpoash yateors wholl work toward a compromise. Under the constitution there is hea way to resolveolve this process, this is to goo to conference and talk through your differences. D i would hope that the senate would accept our offer to go to conference and discussnd this so we can resolve thisreso for the american people. Mer im fine with that but itut doesnt take a genius toen figure out that the proof is watching the House Republicans because theyve lost their minds. They keep trying to do thedo same thing over and over o again. The senate is scheduled to meeting again this morning thi where its expected to once again reject the latest proposal by the house. Local economists do say if the steal mate lasts for more than a few day it is would start to impacts the recovery. A lot of question its forits the workers who get furlowed will they get paid . That is up the backpay is up to congress as well. Its not guaranteed. That is going to have to be put into whatever budget compromise they come up with. Is there a benefit if theyre trying to have this meeting now. What have they been doing before that . Theyve been asking for a compromise. Asking for afor conference committee. Ommi there hasnt i dont understand why it takes untiles this point to negotiate it. Ne right. I mean n all right. All just the way it works inks congress. I guess so. Ss thanks. Local governments will remain open including the district. But counties are suffering too. The take a look at how Prince Georges County will be impacted by this. Proximately 10 of the work force hold a federal job. That means itll cost businesses 19 million foron each day the government is shutdown. The shutdown will also cost the county an estimated 270,000 a day in income tax revenues. Wall street will feel, felt the prospect of the shutdown. The dow dropped almost 130, the nasdaq lost 10 and the the s. P. 500 fell 10 points pu wall street looks for a better opening with stock futures up. Es even with the shutdown, a major part of the new healthcare law is in effect. As of this morningorni millions of americans can enroll in new healthcarehcar exchanges. This is a look at the new healthcare. Gov website. The Affordable Healthcare Act requires all americans to have Health Insurance or you will face fines. People who do not have healthcare on the job can apply online and those with lower incomes can get subsidies to pay for the insurance. It also bars Insurance Companies from denying de coverage to people because of preexisting conditions. Coming up forget about using your cell phone behind the wheel in maryland. El its a first offense nowow and the fines are going up. A breakdown of the changes coming up. The new gun laws also in effect today. Were going to have more on that when we return. Times now is 4 35. [ mom ] in my family, were big cereal l lovers. 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Several new laws went into affect in maryland including one that targets people whople talk on their cell phones while driving. Karen graws houston has the story. Reporter its a new day and we are a society of cell phone users. Walking around, or driving around. You cant drive 100 yards00 down the road without seeing three or four people talking tal on cell phones. E reporter itsll already illegal in maryland but motorists can only getcyted when an officer pulls them the over for doing Something Else illegal too. The police will have the authority if they see you without using the phonehone holding it by hand they willd th be able to pull you over and cite you. Cite reporter distractions and dangers for now instead of being a secondary offense,ffn talking or texting on a cell phone while driving becomes a primary offense. Ry distracted driving in the state is pan dammic. We know that its a factor in almost 58 of all crashes inin the state. Reporter so state and st local officials want motorists to hang up and drive. But will they . I think people are going to do it regardless. And by then now trying to hide while theyre doing it is theyll probably cause more accidents. I dont have a problem with it. It. Especially the texting part. Know one should be test texting. Reporter there is no official warning period so bebe prepared to get ticketed. Officers will be aggressively out looking for people, talking on their celle phones while driving. Pulling them over and writing them tickets. Th the fines are 83 for the first offense, 140 for a second offense and 160 for a third and subsequent offense. T reporter no excuse for not knowing. Even signs on the pellway are beltway are putting out the news and information about the seat belt law thatha says everybody in the car has to be buckled up. 12 other states and the District Of Columbia c laws that make talking on thethe phone while driving a primary offense. Marylands new gun law also went into effect at midnight. 45 different semi automatic a hand guns and rifles are banned from being sold. It reduces the detachablee magazine capacity from 20 to 10 rounds. Gun advocates tried to blockck the new laws. Maryland attorney general said the lawsuit was filed too late and lacks merit. What investigators believe may have distributed to the train crash near glig a review as the caps get ready to kick off a new season. Son. How this year will bell different. The airline fees you may be willing to shell out. Willing . I got my ticket. Too. Last minute upgrades could have you flying in style. Well tell you ball them after we check in with mr. Style tucker bawrns barnes. Low 80s for the often high temperatures. H you will a the details on then weather and if you listen carefully, you will hear it. billy is back. So what can i get you . well take something tasty and healthy. 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The cause is still under u vision and Authorities Say one train was likely unmanned u at the time of the accident. A sad update to the deadly crash on the fair fax county parkway. The seconds woman involved in iv the incident lost her baby. The man and woman were rushed to hospital where she delivered the baby early. Police are trying to figure out if alcohol was a factor in the crash. The d. C. Police officer d shot in the legs in nastysty yard massacre is back homeack with his family. Scott williams was released from the hospital yesterday. St officers williams and hiss family have asked for privacy as he continues to recover. The three other victims who have been held off the the shootings have all been released. Time to being ro the red. Football seasonal rows in. Fall rolls in if and now hockey season upon us. The capitals open a new season against the blackhawks in chicago. In this year, the caps will play in a new division. The metropolitan features some of the east heavy weights like the penguins, rangers, flyers, islanders and the the devils. I didnt realize they changed up. I didnt, either. D i the top three teams in each division will eastern an automatic bid. Hockey, everybody goes tooes the playoffs. Forever. Yeah. Each conference will be allowed to earn a wild card spot so it will be more difficult to punch a full season ticket. So is. A lot of playoff teams. A long season. Lo ng hockey is here. Football is here. I went to the preseasonsea game. That was fun. You doing a little, you li were analyzings the situation, seeing who isho going to be good . Yes, i was watching the players. I dont know. Maybe having having a good times, maybe theyll win this year. That would be nierks to actually take it all the way until partially. Not let us down in the playoffs. That would be nice. Kicking us off, no need to cross your fingers about the weather. It will be close to perfect to later this afternoon. Aft its going to be a little li warmer than yesterday. Y yeah, maybe a little wetness wet if you are working outdoors. Start to hit the mark. Mar easier to sweat. I dont remember the last t time i turned on my a. C. It has been a couple ofuple weeks. Next couple of days, maybe its well, border line, going to be low to mid 80s, many of us can withstand. Did you play a lotterytt ticket yesterday with yesterdays highs . s 76 the winning number at Reagan National and b. W. I. Marshall. A little warmer this afternoon with temperatures in the low 80s, so were cool tonight or early this morning. But were not terribly cold. 60 washington. 54 lennardtown. Yesterday we had lots of 40s north and west. Not so much today. These temperatures are up from where they were 24 hours ago and they will be up a little later this afternoon as well. A little bit of cloud coverloud to start your day. When you dont have any raine a or anything else to talkalk about, you talk about cloudsal of the there wek go. We got a few clouds rolling through. Not expecting much of anything. Should be a dry afternoon forer us and a mostly sunny day but well be dealing with cloudsi from time to time. Thme t that is the weak cold front i mentioned to you yesterday. Otherwise high pressureise really parked weather ahead. Will keep things quiet here this afternoon and with winds out of the south and the Southwest Well warm up top the low 80s for the nextext couple of days. Thats going to start tosta change up the forecast. Not only here in washington in area but across much of the country here by the end of the weekend, early next week. 82 today. Plenty of sunshine. Wewind wut out of the west. Cool overnight but not cold. That is a warm seven day. Low to mid 80s around here wednesday, thursday, friday, and sat. Well start to see clouds andlou an increasing chance of showers. Maybe rain. Still have to time out the storm system but we are going to get a wet day. Might be monday or tuesday the rain arrives. Need the rain, thank you, tuck. Julie, good morning to t you, welcome back. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thankth you. Lots been going on since ive been gone. Yeah. I would say so. D you dont think about wheno you are in the land of stars, you know what i amie a saying. Southbound along 270 off to a a quiet start out of rockville. No issues to road. R headed out to the split allplit of the lanes are open. Light Traffic Volume out herelue on the roads. Oads 95, 295 quiet. Overnight construction we had reported is cleared. Inbound 50 is a good startod out to the beltway. Northbound 395 lingering construction. Headed northbound, southboundhbu the lanes are open. No issues to report at the wilson bridge. Traffic flowing freely. Eastbound 66 the police po activity we reported earlier near nutley street, whatever happened there. Ened now gone. Lanes are open. That is a check of your fox 5 ontime traffic. Thank you. We asked you on our Facebook Page if you were a federal worker what is your game plan for today . Many are backing up what we thought would happen. Go into the office for four f hours, officially receive a furlow then go home. Hen some of the workers saidwo they signed their paperwork yesterday so they dont to go in today. One face boch fine said she is recuperating from surgery but has to go in to sign the furlow letter. We want to know just how the shutdown will be carried out today. So like our Facebook Page and postyour comments. Tweet us and use the hashtag shutdown. If you are rubbing out the door running out the door give yourself extra time. You will likely have tove wait in line longer. A recent study of fast food restaurants finds mcdonaldsalds posted its slowest ever drive through time in the last 15 years. The anch order took thrminutes o the industry blames more complicated menu items thatems take longer to prepare. We want mortoe and more ande more. We want it our way. No onions, whatever it is, so, yes,. More fees from the air linesir but these you might actually like. Delta airlines is offering passengers lastminute upgrade. How about renting an ipad preloaded with movies. Paying for the seat next to ne you to be empty. And buying a hot first class f meal in coach. It depends on how much it costs. Everything is priced in. Ed you are right. I want to know what the wha fee is first for that seathat next to me. Delta airline equipped its flight attendants with wireless devices