Newsroom starts now. Good morning, everyone. Im carol costello. Thank you very much for joining me this morning. Most of our government is shut down. Lights out, doors closed, tops down, at least for now. Im going to start far away from pennsylvania avenue and begin in main street. Instead of hearing words like brink, catastrophe, revolt being spewed by our government in washington, i want to start with the facts. Fact number one, congress will still get paid today. In fact, the average lawmaker will make 669 just today. Thats nearly 3 1 2 times what most of us, the average american, will make. Fact number two, youre fed up with congress. Theyve sunk to an alltime low. Only 10 of you say lawmakers are doing a good job. Just 10 . Thats down from a high of 84 in the days after 9 11. Fact number three, thousands of federal workers who often live paycheck to paycheck are left in the cold. 800,000 employees are on unpaid leave. They are among some 2 million americans who are civilian federa
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