federal workers like diane wood. i m a federal worker, now ie, got to worry every night.ev reporter: dianeer has worked at the interior department for nearly four decades. she can t afford to be furloughed and feeling both anger and fear in the face of a shutdown. i ve given them 39 years of a my life, but never have i felt despair with what is going to happen to my life. reporter: y the officer personnel manager which oversees the entire federal workforce, has contingency plans on file in case of a shutdown for more than 119 federal agencies but whether oren notci you get furloughed depends on a vague criteria ove who is and who is not essential. the white house has posted the shutdown plans online, generally active duty military, political appointees and those responsible for health and safety are deemed essential. why would they take all of .f reporter: diane doubts she falls into any of those essential categories.ntl if she did her job the way theye do on ca
thank you very much new this morning metro is expected to admit liability in that deadly red line crash back in 2009. washington examiner is reporting metro and three exempt companies, settled 7 of the 9 death cases, and many injury cases they filed court documents this week saying they would stipulate to liability, to avoid significant riskcosts. now to our big story the payroll tax cut, lawmakers on capital hill are close to an agreement on extending it. if they do not renew the payroll tax cut anyone getting a pay check will see their taxes go up and soon too. stacey cohappen live on capital hill with the cohan live on capital hill with the latest. we are talking about that piece of money that comes out of everyone s pay check that goes to social security tax, that is a tax we pay and we have been enjoying a cut in that tax actually 160 million americans have been enjoying that payroll tax cut. it amounts to $20 a week for the average worker and now appears congres
has left us a little fog across it is year. we have a fog advisory for points to our south and west. be ready for the potential for some dense fog in spots. visibilities in a few places have been reduced to a quarter mile or less. there is a live look at your hd radar showing you the activity. we ll be in for a beautiful day once we get the fog out of here. nice looking tuesday shaping up. temperature at reagan national, 57 degrees. winds are very light out of the north at zero miles per hour. plenty of sunshine. enjoy today because things go downhill from here. highs in the upper 60s and mostly sunny this afternoon. thank you. the trial of a woman charged with killing a coworker at the lululemon store in bethesda is under way. brittany norwood is accused of fatally beating jayna murray inside the clothing shop. more than # 5% of potential jurors said they had heard of the case. the man accused of plotting to kill the saudi ambassador to the u.s. plead not guilty even t
3307. they ll be here another hour. let s check in now with tucker for a check on the forecast. midweek or hump day forecast. it is. just a couple of days until the weekend and you notice the flags out there flying. that s the story today. the sunshine is back but we re going to have winds maybe 40, 45, 50 miles per hour around here later today so we ve got a wind advisory. we ll start with that this morning. other than that it s a bright day. all those counties in brown, we are der a wind advisory until 6:00 this evening so that is most of the viewing area. it s off to the south toward st. mary city and across the bay. many of us under a wind advisory. the cold front has now moved through. we can see westerly winds 40, 45 or even 50 miles per hour during the course of our afternoon. there s your satellite-radar. you can see the cold front race through overnight. did bring some light shower activity to the area and still bringing very light showers down across the south