we begin with the government shutdown just hours away. lawmakers on capitol hill are at odds on a funding bill. without a deal, the government won t be able to pay employees. or provide services beginning at midnight. you see the clock there. is there any chance of a deal? d devin dwyer has been working all the angles. he has the latest. good morning, devin. reporter: we haven t seen a federal government shutdown since 1996. it could happen at the stroke of midnight. that is when the government runs out of money just as obama care is set to kick in. the clocking ticking towards a shutdown. the halls of congress are eerily quiet. no negotiations. no emergency meetings. the bitter dispute over obama care is spilling out on the air waves. the president is the one saying i will shut down government if you don t give me everything i want on obama care. it s wrong to use a shutdown of government as a lever to make change. reporter: to keep the government open, house rep
the incredible moments caught on tape as these boaters steer right through five water funnels. what were they thinking? and good morning, america. so much to get to this monday morning. starting with the major confrontation on capitol hill. government runs out of money at midnight tonight. right now, no solution in sight. you see the countdown clock ticking right there. tick, tick, tick, tick. hundreds of thousands of jobs on the line right now. wide-ranging effects for millions of americans. and this is all happening at the same time as the new health care laws go into effect at midnight. that s right. the issues are joined at the hip. the consequences are enormous. we have full coverage of both. let s start with jon karl at the white house with the latest on the shutdown. good morning, jon. reporter: good morning, george. a deadline of midnight tonight. a congress hopelessly deadlocked, a shutdown seems all but certain. the federal government is already preparing to
they are desperate for this bill to fail. reporter: the political stand juf with a midnight deadline has real consequences for federal workers and americans. at the pentagon 50% of all civil yamgian employees will be forced to stay home. 112,000 workers at the treasury department suffer the same fate. 16,000 labor department workers will also stay at home. joe jones who cuts hair in mississippi air force base has a message for congress. if they were to lose their paychecks like everybody else would lose their paycheck it would motivate them to solve the problems they are facing now. reporter: perhaps that isn t even enough motivation to avoid a government shutdown. karen travers, abc news, washington. stocks were mostly down this morning as they watched drama unfold. stocks fell the sixth day out of the last seven and ended the week with a decline. boeing is dealing with yet another problem with its 787 dreamliner. this time forcing an unexpected landing in icelan
certain. the government is about to shut the lights. barring a last-minute breakthrough, here s what happens at the stroke of midnight. about 800,000 federal workers deemed nonessential will be told not to show up for work tomorrow. all national parks and monuments will be closed. if you need to get your passport renewed, do it today. many passport offices will be closed. many in the military, including the more than 1.3 million on active duty are considered essential and will remain on the job. they likely won t get paychecks until an agreement is reached. the department of homeland security will furlough about 14% of employees. it s not a complete shutdown. the social security administration will continue the write checks to requitirees. the checks will get to you normally. so will your bills. medicare and medicaid ben fish qulars be covered. the department of health and human services will furlough almost half of their employees. members of congress and the president and v
the monster cyclone phailin heading state for the state of odissa. hundreds of thousands taken to government shelters. tourists have left beaches. phailin is so large it s the size of france. twice the size of hurricane sandy and fills almost the entire bay of bengal, supercyclone one of the biggest india has ever seen. said to expect sustained winds of 167 miles an hour and gusts of 200. seth jamil has more from india s coast. these are the waves that people come to the beach to look at. couple of meters high and much more frequent than they usually are. this is literally the calm before the storm, cyclone phailin. now, the outer edge it is really to the north of here where the main part of phailin is expected to hit. there we hear hundreds of thousands have been evacuated into shelters and several units of the national defense forum have been stationed there. this is not going to be a repeat of 1999 where thousands of people were killed. they re telling people to get out