This government is hurdling toward a shutdown and the American People deserve much better. Reporter if theres a shutdown, National Parks and passport offices will close. Applications for government insured mortgages would be put on hold. But most government functions will continue, including delivery of the mail and Social Security checks. Airport screeners and the military would stay on the job. And so would members of congress. Cbs news, washington. The house is still in session tonight. Heres a live look at the debate on capitol hill. If the government does shut down,800,000 federal workers could be called to stay home next week. What about congressional staffers . Federal law prohibits it for essential employees but for nonessential employees its up to them to decide who may be told to come to work. Government shut down will have a Ripple Effect on families and businesses. Surae chinn talked to Small Business owners today on capitol hill that are bracing for whats to come when the federal workers stop coming to shop and eat. Its going to hurt, but theres nothing we can really do about it. Reporter he has been bartending at kellys irish times for two years. The eatery and watering hole is steps away from federal government offices and union station. I was working last night. There were customers complaining to the bar tender because they got their furloughs. Your bread and butter is not just your customers but government workers. We get a lot of government workers, lobbyists, people that are hear in talks at capitol hill. Reporter federal workers go to whats convenient, the shops and restaurants across the street. These locally owned businesses are trying to figure out how to survive and bracing for the worst if the government shuts down. And their customers are furloughed. Behind the capital in southeast, sweet lobby is souring on the prospects of fewer customers. If there is a government shut down im sure its going to affect all the businesses in the area because not only will the Government Agencies shut down but people are going to be worried. Theyre going to be fearful and cut back on their spending when that happens. Its really the busiest time for events in the Events Industry in this area. Reporter he owns a Lighting Company and he has scheduled events at the smithsonian. The air and space museum, Natural History museum and all those type facilities will close down. The events there hire my Lighting Company to do events there as well as indicatorrers and decorators and florists will be impacted by the shutdown because the events wont happen because the facilities will be shut down. If this happens d. C. Might be the next detroit because when half the city is unemployed or doesnt have a paying job, and all the subcontractors there are getting paid by the federal government to do work and nonprofits, this could become detroit in close to two months but who knows. Reporter on capitol hill, surae chinn, wusa 9. The owner of the Lightning Company has had no cancellations but some of his clients are now looking at other venues just in case the shutdown does occur. Stay with wusa 9 for continuing coverage of the looming deadline. Well have the latest developments 24 7 at wusa9. Com. And our wusa 9 app. The fundraising event in Charles County tonight raising a lot of money for a good cause, but also a lot of eyebrows. Thats because the prizes given away by volunteer firefighters include guns. Armando trull has that story. Reporter buy a 45 raffle ticket and win a rifle. Thats going to be an ar15 were going to give away. Reporter for any of nearly a dozen hunting weapons from browning, beretta and other gun makers. Your first number is a one. Reporter the sportsman bonanza is for voluntary fire departments. We have to compete with other organizations and nonprofits and try and make any amount of money that we can make on fundraising events. As you can see with the crowd thats here today, our numbers that im expecting right now are probably well over 40,000. 40,000 means a world of difference. It means new equipment, new training, you know, everything uptodate, top of the line to keep us safe and keep the community safe. Reporter but this years raffle was held in the Volunteer Fire Department a few miles away. Aprarntly Prince Georges County has an issue with firefighters raffling off firearms. They say the county is uncomfortable withholding the event at a county firehouse because it sends the wrong message. But the other two are rural areas where towns hunt for sports. This helps out with buying gear and stuff shall that goes up every year. Reporter event organizers stress that all maryland laws are being followed. You still have to go through the criteria that anybody else would do to purchase a gun. Reporter one reason for the significant turnout is that on october 1st, maryland will enact some of the toughest gun control laws in the nation. However, just one of the weapons raffled off is on the list of guns that will be banned next week. On brians road armando truly, wusa 9. A government activist filed a federal lawsuit on thursday to block the new gun law before the new requirements on assault weapons and large magazines go into effect october 1st. The new gun law bans 45 types of assault weapons, the people who own them now will be able to keep them. Starting tuesday, talking on a handheld cell phone while driving becomes a primary offense in maryland. Now, this means a Police Officer can pull you over and ticket you if he sees you engaged in conversation or texting on your cell phone while operating a motor vehicle. Drivers caught using a hand held phone face fines the first time of 75. 125 for a second offense. And 175 for yet a third offense. Virginia and d. C. Already have that same law. A house fire in chevy chase, maryland destroys a family home and shuts down a part of busy connecticut avenue. The fire started before 7 30 tonight in the 6800 block of connecticut avenue. Fortunately, nobody was hurt. Montgomery county fire investigators still trying to determine the extent of the damage and exactly what caused this blaze. In kenya a candlelight vigil to remember the victims of last weeks slayings inside a popular mall. Al qaeda launched an attack inside the West Gate Mall p. They denounced the blood shed. We all have to stand together to fight this kind of terrorism. We do not need this at all. They were not related to me, but they are related to me. This incident has brought us all together. We feel for them. We feel for the families. What has happened is not good. Very sad. Also today, three kenyan newspapers reported that the countrys National Intelligence service had warned the government a year ago thatmilitants were planning to carry out suicide attacks on that Shopping Mall and on a church in nairobi. Meantime a survivor of last weekends attack is talking about his harrowing experience. Kenyan Real Estate Agent says he thought he was about to witness a robbery and that turned out to be much worse. At one point, i had them engaging a lady, asking the lady saying ill give you money. And money. He said we are not here for money. We are jihad. He says several people around him had been shot. He managed to escape to the malls parking lot. Decent saturday for us. What about sunday . Lets go outside to first alert meteorologist erica grow. Reporter i think sunday will be even better than saturday. Of course, if you werent happy with the cloud cover that we had during the day, looks like well see more of those peeks of sunshine. Heres your wakeup weather forecast. Plenty of clouds in place to start off the day. 50 to 58 degrees. We still have the onshore flow producing the low deck of clouds. However i think it will lift off quicker as we head into the morning on sunday. Expect some significant amounts of sunshine by 11 00 a. M. , a mixture of clouds and sun. 57 to 65 degrees at 11 00 a. M. Still going to be a little bit on the chilly side. Temperatures reaching into the 80s in the seven day first warn forecast. Ill tell you when that arrives coming up. A woman was walking her baby in a man is shot to death in southeast washington and tonight homicide detectives want your help in finding out who did this. It happened just after 12 30 this morning in the 3,000 block of 30th street southeast. 34yearold of southeast washington had been shot several times. Police are offering a reward of up to 25,000 for any information in this case. A new york mom walking her 8monthold baby in a stroller fights off an attacker. This happened in broad daylight friday morning on a well traveled green way in new york city park. Mary jane jarmin was pushing her infant son when a stranger approached them. He climbed over a railing with a broken bottle and told me come here. I started screaming, trying to draw attention to myself. He came at me. To protect my baby, i just turned to fight. The man took off in a chase by police and park staff, but he somehow got away. Search is on in Prince Georges County for the thieves mind the daring Jewelry Store heist. Take a look at this cell phone video released this week by police. Back in may thieves cut a hole in the roof and lowered themselves inside the river town Jewelry Store in oxon hill. They spent hours inside the store, used a blowtorch to break into a safe. They escaped with jewelry worth about a half million dollars. A popular d. C. Attraction is about to close its doors. The National Aquarium on pennsylvania avenue will close for good on monday. Its been housed in the department of Commerce Building since 1992 but renovations mean it has to move. A search is made for another home and the fish and animals will be sent to the National Aquarium up 95 in baltimore. Where can you get a tour of a marine derrick, visit a petting zoo and watch acrobats in the same place . Youll find out when we come back. Its looking like a pretty nice sunday on the way. Well get im terry mcauliffe, candidate for governor, and i sponsored this ad. For 30 years ive worked as an obgyn, my job is to protect the health of women. So im particularly offended by Ken Cuccinelli. 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There was hundreds if not thousands of people about on capitol hill. The fall festival offered a peek at capitol hill life with tours of the marine barracks, Historic Buildings and an outdoor beer garden. More than 40 restaurants served up international cuisine. There was also a petting zoo and acrobats. There were competitions including the funkiest looking vegetables, the best home brew and the best pie. Did you know that tomorrow is National Coffee day . Were told you can get special deals on a cup of joe at some participating coffee shops like dunkin donuts, crispy cream and a few others. Kept looking for the sun where i was. Great for getting outside. When you have comfortable temperatures, comfortable humidity, its hard to complain. For National Coffee day were going to have really nice weather to sit outdoors and enjoy that coffee. Lets take a look at the michael and son weather cam. Pretty clear out there right now at Reagan National though a few clouds. Thats it. 64 degrees. Nice comfortable dew point of 52. Light winds out of the east, but with that dew point in the 50s and temperatures falling into the 50s tonight, we will see some areas of cloud cover and fog. Thats your first weather headline as we head through the evening, well see the clouds develop once again at area of High Pressure producing that easterly flow bringing in that low deck of cloud cover. In the afternoon on sunday, well see more of that sunshine that weve been looking forward to. Temperatures will remain close to averagefor this time of year. The mid70s sticking with us back to scho. Back to work an then well have changes on the way. A weak cold front is approaching. Ill show you if thats going to give us y chce for rain. Doesnt look very likely. 52 in gaithersburg. 54 in leesburg. 50 in manassas where were starting to see reduced visibility due to the cloud cover and fo satellite and radar, you cansee the proaching cold front and you can also pretty clearly see how weakit is, just a thin line of showers. Not much in the way of heavy rainfall with this system. And the only areas that ly are gettinpoundewith the rainare well to the south of the ectory that its not going to move through the d. C. Metro. Were still under this bubble of High Pressure but the funneling of the winds up against the appalachians have been producing that Morning Cloud cover. Thats going to breck as we head into sunday afternoon. But here comes that cold front. This little line of showers is going to move through as we head through the afternoon and evening on monday. Possibly producing a sprinkle but a lot of us will stay completely dry and ive been hearing a lot of complaints o my Facebook Page and twitter account. We need the rain. Its going to be awhile before it arrives. Overnight tonight partly cloudy and patchy fog especially south and west of town. 50 to 58 for your overnight lows with light winds. Sunday morning partly cloudy, a little on the cool side. Its almost october so temperatures in the 50s and 60s not bad and in the afternoon partly sunny with a high between 70 and 76. Winds out of the east at 510 miles per hour. More clouds if you head toward the east, southern maryland, places to the shoreline will see more cloud cover. On monday with the weak front moving through, partly cloudy skies. Were not going to see a lot of rain, maybe a sprinkle on monday into tuesday. Its such a small chance i didnt even put it on the maps here. 80 degrees by tuesday and the 80s will stick with us in the first alert sevenday forecast. On wednesday lots of sunshine. A high of 83. On thursday, more of that sun getting up to 81 degrees and then a cold front makes its way toward us finally bringing us our first significant chance for rain in more than a week and a half by the time that arrives. And that will be on friday and saturday. So gentlemen, its a few more days before we really have a chance for any rain. I like the weather though. Yeah. Youre a gentleman. I dont know what i am. Weve got to win come tomorrow night. Dont you think its must win . Absolutely. I mean, you can paint it any way you want to paint it, theyve got to win tomorrows game. Theres news out of oakland tonight, and well update you on that. The skins got a lot of work to do it, some of it between the white lines, some of it when the ears. What the skins are thinking 24 hours before a mustwin game. Now game on with dave owens live from the wusa 9 cadillac sports desk. All right, so heres what youve got. There are statistics out there that will guide your opinion on whether the redskins beat oakland tomorrow. Let me help you out. Tomorrow is not about numbers. Its man up sunday and the skins have to figure out a way to win a Football Game by any means necessary. Much of the success will center on mr. Rg3 of course who saw positive signs from griffin last week. We also saw two critical turnovers. Griffin and the gang clearly not shying away from reality. Theyre 03 and theyve got no one to blame but themselves. The fact of the matter is it comes with the territory being a quarterback in the nfl. When we dont have success, theres going to be criticism. Youve got to be able to stand tall. Were killing ourselves. The first game was dropped ball. The second and third, turnovers. Were putting ourselves in great positions. Third down comes, were off the field. I dont know about a great Football Team but maybe pretty good. Heres the latest from oakland. Prior has been medically cleared to play. He sustained a concussion against denver. The team says they want him to pass one more test tomorrow just to be extra careful. Want to do that with those head injuries. They still have not said whether he will start. Ravens headed to buffalo tomorrow and theyll be playing with a limited ray rice if he plays as well. Rice nursing an injured hip. Running the ball has been an issue when rice has been healthy. Ravens averaging 3 yards a pop. For hard nosed physical team like the ravens, thats something they take personal. Yeah, we need to run the ball better. We need to clean a couple of things up. When you look at the film, were really close. Were blocking things well. Its just a little thing here or there. We want to start the game well and start the half well. Thank you, jim harbaugh for that. Football sunday begins early around here, 11 30. We have a new show where we preview upcoming games. Then its the nfl day, of course. Ravens. 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