Controlled house. Republican lawmakers are threatening to give it the thumbs down. Today president obama warned republicans not to play games. Over the next three days House Republicans will have to decide whether to join the senate and keep the government open or shut it down because they cant get their way. On an issue that has nothing to do with the deficit. I dont know of anyone who wants to shut down the government. The only thing we want to shut down so obama care and the reason why is because the harm its doing to the middle class. The steaks are high and a shut down would have a major impact on d. C. Jennifer davis joins us with details and reaction. Hi, there, shawn. There was a lot of uncertainty as workers left their jobs this evening. The big question is will they get a paycheck come tuesday . Sheena hopes come next week she and her son will still be walking to the bus stop together when she gets off work. Lawmakers have time to avert a government shut down but if they dont she and her son are among those who will feel the impact. Losing that money is going to be a big hurt on me. Essential government activity would continue but an estimated eight up thousand to 1 million employees would have to stay home without pay. Several people are talking about most the stuff is negative what are they going to do daytoday how are they going to make ends paid. It would be challenging for us not getting paid but well deal with it and figure it out. Can they manage all of that. The host of federal radio indepth spent todays show updating how agencies began to plan for worst case scenarios. Nobody knows what will happen until tuesday morning. The department of defense says about 400,000 civilian workers could be furloughed. Nearly every agency would be affected. National parks and moo see yimentsd and money meants would have to close too. Most agent museums. Most agencies expect 4060 percent of their employees theyll have to go home. Theyre not going to work the entire time the shut down runs. Office workers and National Parks and smithsonian museums will be affected. Well see what happens to tourism in d. C. Here in the district. Plans are being made to keep the government open in the event of a shut down. This week mayor gray declared all operation eshins essential which means 32,000 of the workforce would be expected to report to work the mayor says the office of management and budget has not responded to the may yofr apps plan. My fox foxdc. Com we will post updates on our Facebook Page mayor apps plan. Another big story were following. History was made when president obama spoke by telephone to iranian president for 15 minutes. It is the first direct contact between u. S. An eye rain january president s in 34 years iranian president s tanned conversation was constructive. The two of us discussed our ongoing efforts to reach app agreement over iran apps Nuclear Program i reiterated what i said in new york while theyll surely be important obstacles to moving forward and success is by no means guaranteed i believe we can reach a comprehensive solution. The president says hes hopeful an agreement can be reached on iran apps Nuclear Program and the two sides might move closer towards normalizing relations new tonight u. N. Security council has voted to secure and destroy syrias chemical weapons. The resolution includes two legally binding demands. Syria must abandon its chemical stockpiles and allow u. N. Experts complete access. An International Conference is planned for midnovember. Now to a fox 5 alert. Thieves broke into a julie store and still no arrests. Prince georges county Police Hope Surveillance Video will spark new leads. Audrey barnes is in the newsroom with the latest. Shawn, river town jewellers has been in business for 25 years. Its familyowned with many loyal customers. Recovering from a 500,000 theft hasnt been easy. River town jewellers in auxin hill is the go too place for people looking for a familyowned business with good customer service. Ive been coming here for about 20 years and the reason why i like it is they will do your jewelry on the spot. You dont have to leave it. Hours after the owners finished helping customers three men cut a hole in the roof and slipped inside helping themselves to a safe full of jewelry. Officer bond of the Police Department showed us surveillance tape of the crime in progress. Theres this one guy here. Theres a second guy behind him coming down now. The suspects marked an x on the roof so they knew where to cut. They disabled the alarm and lowered power tools inside. They used a blow torch to get into a concrete reinforced steel safe. Its taken them away. Theyre in there for about two hours without a care in the world. This is video of the hole that got them into the safe where they grabbed whatever they could. The only thing they left behind were empty jewelry drawers. The family told us that they have been in business for 25 years and they have been wiped out in two hours. After exhausting every lead this he could detectives decided to release the surveillance tape hoping someone will see it and come forward to help them solve this brazen robbery possibly committed by an out of state gang. They were very highly organized individuals and we havent seen Something Like this in quite a long time. There have been other incidents out of the county you know in other states. While police try to solve the case customers have returned to support the owners. Theyve been here so long its like a family jewelry store. Crime solvers is offering a reward for information in this case. Were putting that number on myfoxdc. Com. Shawn. Thank you, audrey. Now to another news alert this one in Prince Georges County as well. A man remains in Critical Condition after being shot after a home invasion. Police say a woman was inside the home but was not hurt. The thieves ran away following the incident. A wake was held for one of the victims of the navy yard shooting. Richard ridgewell was a father of three daughters and a fan of baltimore ravens. His funeral is set for tomorrow. He was one of 12 killed by aaron alexis. Three others were shot and injured. Aaron alexis was killed by police. Its been two weeks since the shooting at the navy yard. Today a ceremony was held to recognize the firefighters, paramedics and e. M. T. s who sprang into action that day. Matt acklin has a closer look at our local heroes. It all happened so quickly that awful morning paramedic was at the Academy Teaching when the call came in. We need extra paramedics. Like whats going on . As units in the area started racing towards the navy yard rescuers jumped on a bus and headed across the river. Aaron remembers arriving at building 197. I thought all this is a lot more serious than what i anticipated and im pretty experienced medic but then that suddenly goes away and the medic comand says hey this is my job. On that monday morning the First Priority for the medical First Responders was to get inside to the injured patients. Remember firefighters paramedics e. M. T. s dont wear bulletproof vests so under Police Escort they went inside knowing there was danger and not knowing if the threat was gone. The most stressful part was entering into the building and hearing them say the guy is shooting again and having the Police Officers tell us to bend down and put the shields over us. Mark baker. Today mayor gray and chief ellerbe honored the first r responders. Giving them these awards and this pen with the date of the tragedy. Watching them running up m street with all their equipment rep prepared to go into building 197 is a moment ill never forget. The emotional toll this has taken on the First Responders is understandable. They all wish they could have done more to save those who didnt survive. People do i think some times because it is what you do for a living that you dont have nightmares that you dont think about that. Thats not true. In the district, matt acklin, fox 5 news. Tonight several people are behind bars in connection with the terror attack in kenya and now it appears the terrorists were not the only ones who damaged that mall. Plus caught on camera a frightening robbery at this fast food restaurant. Wait till you hear what saved the lives of a father and son. First weekend of fall how is it looking. I think its going to be real good. Weve had clouds but theyre going to get out of here. Well have the forecast coming up in a bit. i was honored to serve as governor of virginia. 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Forty years on, its still a classa nature reserve. Its our job to look after them. Its my job to look after it. A wild scene in philadelphia today. An ambulance caught fire inside a firehouse causing significant damage. Fortunately no one was hurt. Medics tried to put out the flames and they called for help. Crews had the fire out in nine minutes. Theres no word on what sparked the fire. Im down up in the newsroom. New reports suggest the Kenyan Military was to blame for the partial collapse of the mall. Hostages and militants are believed buried under the rubble. As the rubble of the westgate Shopping Mall continues to smolder forensic investigators from around the world are combing through the debris trying to piece together the deadly attack. Massive threestory hole appears to have been caused by over aggressive den january troops not al shabaab terrorists raising concerns the rescuers may have killed some of the hostages. Keep january authorities have found a car suspected to have been used by al shabaab and they are making progress but it will take several days to determine the attackers kenyan. This will answer questions about their nationality and gender. Three of the 11 people arrested were released but Kenyan Police are searching for a british woman the white widow some samantha lewthwaite. She is the widow of one of the 77 london bombers and shes known to have ties to al shabaab investigators say this was a coast give dated and sophisticated attack. In jerusalem, connor powell, fox news. Two men charged with murder of a soldier in the u. K. Pleaded un not guilty. Lee rigby was hacked to death. The two suspects have denied murdering the 25yearold and denied attempted murder of a police officer. The witnesses say the two men were calling for jihad and holding bloody knives following the attack. Their trial is scheduled for november. A new letter from the Inspector General at the n. S. A. Says 12 employees have misused government surveillance data. In the letter requested by Charles Grassley of iowa it was revealed six cases since 2003 have been referred to the Justice Department for possible pros tooths prosecution. Other n. S. A. Employees spying on boyfriends, girlfriends and spouses. Police are asking for your help in finding a suspect involved in an attempted abduction. They issued a warrant for this man who held a woman against her will between september 14th and 21st. Days later detectives believe the victim got into an argument with him but witnesses broke it up. A reward is being offered to an rest and conviction. A texas father is counting his blessings after an encounter with an armed robber at a fastfood restaurant. The gunman tried to shoot him but the gun didnt work. Justin joseph comes into this mcdonalds tuesday night with a gun. I thought i was dead. Mr. Armstrong is in the pink shirt with his son who runs for cover. The man takes on the gunman. I heard the gun clicking in my face. Fortunately for the potential victims joseph apps gun jams. He runs outside fixes it and fires a live round then heads back into the restaurant and again confronts the man looking for his son. I pulled myself inside of an office mcdonalds office and closed the door so im not sure what he was doing. I was waiting for bullets to come through the door. No one can explain why the core gun worked outside but each time when aimed at victims it locks up. My gut feeling is that the city of fort worth and fort worth Police Department avoided a major event. Police say he believed to kill multiple people and the man credits god for saving me twice. God is all it could be. Angels. Somebody was looking over me. Indeed. The good news no one was hurt. Police say the gunman was arrested. It took a decade and cost 100 million. Today the public got a look at the mt. Vernon estate home to George Washington. Were going to take you there for a tour coming up next. And tonight on the news edge at 11 a troubling trend among new moms. Find out why theyre heading back to their jobs quick consider than ever. afternoon years after years of planning the estate of George Washington formally opened the new library in mt. Vernon. Carl cameron was there and has more tonight. Three, two, one. 200 14 years after the death of the nations first president the National Library for the study of George Washington opened in mt. Vernon next to his historic mansion where hes buried long overdue the facility will contain the single largest collection of his personal works and effects and the library he said his collection would require. There are manuscripts and letters between washington and his wife martha. Virginia governor read off a list of his accomplishments. He was a surveyor, a businessman and a farmer, a property manager, great general, a tremendous leader, a congressman, a member of the house, president of the United States for two terms, and one of the best whiskey makers in america when he died. Thats quite a life. Primarily a research and scholarship facility it will be open for the public only by appointment. Washingtons words applied then and now. Now to be sure any historian will tell you that George Washington was a fiscal conservative but he also did not despise taxation. He called it unpleasant but vital. Two time pulitzer price David Mcauliffe gave the inaugural lecture. I think that his autobiography is not on paper his autobiography is in this place. I think this is one of the most important interesting sites not just in america but in the world. Private donations for paid for all of it. In addition the Library Seeks to go beyond the man what made him particular and his many accomplishments with a sixth grade education driven by ambition and can do spirit. Also ahead the giant donation to help give the National Mall a major makeover. The changes you will see very soon as fox 5 news at 10 00 continues. The d. C. Government acknowledged it doesnt conduct background checks onto people who enforce the laws of the taxi cab industry. It is an admission that angered cab drivers that must submit to the checks every two years. Paul wagoner has an update. If you want to drive a cab in the District Of Columbia there are certain rules and regulations. You must i agree to a background check, be fingerprinted and have your picture taken and if you pass your tests you can do it again two years later. In fact a form that driver must fill out asks have you ever had your license revoked and have you ever been arrested . But fox 5 has learned the men and women who patrol the streets in police style uniforms enforcing the rules have to do none of that. Thats ridiculous because thats not the way it should be. We spoke with a group of cab drivers as they waited near the willard hotel. Time after time we have to get back ground checks and just about every documents we have to bring supporting documents you have to prove it. That surprised me yeah because if they are criminals theyre going to hurt you. They dont care. If you want to continue your job you have to keep proving you got a clean record. Every two years we have to clear on criminal record and driver record and the chairman said he relied on the district Human Resources to conduct background checks and conducted none of his own. We do not have authority to probe into the background to that extend on individual applicants. But after learning of the lengthy criminal record linton said he would propose making a change. Well knowing what i know now i would probably propose that we can review we have a background check similar to the background check we have on drivers. Fox 5 has not identified the inspector in our stories because he has not been suspend and theres outstanding questions how he obtained the job in 2009. App applicants must fill out a vim nall history form and explain it for the previous 10 years in the fox 5 newsroom im paul wall near. A blogger has filed a report with the virginia transportation after noticing concrete falling off a bridge in arlington. Transportation Officials Say