Between the house and the senate. Im joined by senator john carlos. Twice the bill was rejected. Talk about the mood inside right now. It is clear to us that the republicans in the house want to shut down the government. We dont have a budget starting october 1st and when they have not been willing to negotiate, you do a continuing resolution. You continue at last years level until you work something out. That is regular order. But the republicans want to move their extreme agenda, even though the Health Care Bill was enacted several years ago and upheld by the courts, we wont negotiate that way. We think government must stay open and then we can negotiate. But we wont be intimidated by their threats. So at this point the republicans want to close down government. And republicans say this is their form of compromise to send back a bill to the senate to delay the Affordable Care act. Do you believe this is a fair compromise . Absolutely not. Weve compromised at their level of spending and the continuing resolution, if the speaker would put it to the floor of the house of representatives, it would pass. So he clearly is yielding to the extreme of his party and trying to use this in an inappropriate way to advance their agenda. Reporter senator, we are less than an hour away from the shutdown and what do you say to the constituents to solve the problems. This is going to hurt people. It is going to hurt people who need Governmental Services and our economy. This is outrageous. I agree with them. But lets take a look at who is responsible for this and that is clearly the republicans in the house who blocked a chance to do what we normally do when we dont have a budget passed. Pass a continuing resolution. Reporter senator ben carter from maryland. Thank you for joining us. He is not the only lawmaker who has a lot to say about the events that have been unfolding here today on capitol hill. Today we were inside and we had a chance to catch up with other lawmakers. This is going to have devastating impacted. Reporter jim moran and Jerry Connelly each have about 60,000 federal employees this their respective districts throughout virginia. And now there are stern responses to them to the people they serve and to the republican counterparts they claim are recklessly sending this country into a shutdown. You have folks that dont know the consequences of their actions. They will find out. And eye robbicly ironically, the American People are going to find out the way in which their government, their federal Government Supports them every single day because when it is not there, they will feel it. Were going to fight very hard to keep the government open. Were introducing should the shutdown occur well introduce a bill at 12 01 tonight, jim moran and others to make sure federal employees are paid retroactively for whatever time they are furloughed. Reporter House Republicans are still hoping the senate will negotiate to delay the Affordable Care act for a year, something the senate said they would not budge on late monday night. And rob whitman also of virginia is staying optimistic as we approach the final minutes before the shutdown. The house put out different ideas to solve this and how to fix what we know are problems from the Affordable Care act. I hear it every day. And so i think this is a reasonable course of action and were going to continue to put our ideas our way. All they have done is say no, no, no. Reporter and now joined by democratic virginia congressman Jerry Connelly. Thank you. We heard you speaking in the piece that we just aired right now about a bill you and congressman moran want to introduce at 1 201 12 01 should the shutdown happen and tell us what that would mean for your forward employees. Federal employees, who, through no fault of their own, who have been furloughed or temporarily laid off have been reimbursed for that lost salary. Weve introduced subsequent legislation to make sure they are kept hole and that is what this would bill what this bill would do, keep them whole. And the Government Shutdown years ago but how is this different from that. About 17 years ago half of the government was affected. This time not a single appropriation bill has been passed by this congress. And so all federal workers who are considered nonessential are at risk. Reporter we also just received late word that the house is calling in a negotiators to sit at the table and try and negotiate a last minute deal. How do you perceive Something Like that would go with members of the senate and the house now having to deal with a formal negotiators . Well i think anything is better than a shutdown. But i think it does underline the incredible failure of the Republican Leadership in the house to be able to do what we have always done in the past, which is to find a mechanism to fund the government in the absence of an agreed to budget and passed appropriation bills. This is a sad and low moment for this institution. We spoke to House Republicans that are still optimistic, thinking that the senate will come to a compromise and therefore avoid a shutdown. Do you think they are being disingenuous by staying optimistic right now . I dont want to question the motives of any colleague but i will tell you that the dynamic here is that one side is saying, having lost through all of the normal routes in courts and the legislative and electoral process, we are not going to put a gun to someones head and say we dont care. How do you negotiate with people doing that to you . Reporter congressman Jerry Connelly, thank you for joining this. This will go well into the night and well be here just as you heard throughout the midnight deadline bringing you the latest as soon as we get it. Outside of the capitol, ken molestina, wusa 9. And were within an hour to go. And a shutdown could affect you even if you dont work for the government. And one of the several Tourist Spots that will not be open tomorrow if the government does not compromise by midnight. Take a look at it right now, because you will most likely not be able to check this place out tomorrow at all. Museums, memorials, monuments are the obvious casualty of the potential shutdown. But here is the thing. Are they finding ways to invade your life no matter what you do. Even if you dont work for the government. Reporter there are must sees and mustdos. The world war ii memorial all fountains and cameras. But look again, those are barricades and likely keeping people out tomorrow when the shutdown smacks down sightseeing plans. I hope for three or four days more. What do you want to do in the next three days . I want to visit more museums because they are wonderful. Reporter wonderful, yes. Closed, likely. Another potential casualty. He came from russia. And a passing bicyclist asking for a lastminute bill. Reporter when you run a liquor store you get to know the people who live and work around there. Most of the people around here work for the federal government and they are pretty worried about what will happen tomorrow and they said see you in two days. Reporter that means less ringing up for buehler and less money coming in to gamble liquors, and it is starting early. It is slow today. Reporter and then there is the directly affected like eric who work for the library of congress. It affects you monetarily and you think how long will this take and when will you come back to work. Reporter and that is because capitol hill is not just home to posturing, it is home to people too. What do you do tomorrow . Chores. Reporter he might not be alone. You think this might not affect you at all. You are even further removed. But it affects the economy. Debra alfarone, wusa 9. And now the effects of a partial Government Shutdown will be widespread. National parks and museums will close. Visa and passport applications will come to an end and as well veteran services. But air traffic control, food inspections, border security, the post office and checks for medicare, medicaid and Social Security will continue. We know you have questions. Like when it will begin. It will begin at the end of the fiscal year which is tonight at midnight. But there will be traffic in the morning because most federal workers will report for work tomorrow for about four hours to tie up loose ends before they are furloughed. Weve answered your questions about the shutdown on our website at wusa9. Com. Log on any time to find out what you and your family need to know. In the town, nearly everybody has an opinion about congress. So today at Dupont Circle we set up the wusa 9 soap box, letting anybody vent about the Government Shutdown. Shutting down the government in order to deny People Health care is absurd and insulting. Pretty disappointed in my elected officials, in both houses really. I dont believe they are going to shut down the government. I sometimes think it is them just having a fit a temper tantrum. What im thinking thinking about political factions are stalling out america. My nephew is in afghanistan and facing the affect of not getting paid and i think that is unfair. We send people to congress to run our government and instead we are getting pushed over this fiscal brinksmanship. Our survey is in line with most polls that find that most americans are get the government shutting down even for a short period. If the government does shut down, so will the national zoo and the panda cam. Right now it weighs 3 pounds and likes to wiggle and squirm around. We dont have to worry about them. They will be taken care of during the shutdown along with the other animals at the zoo. We have plenty more to come on the shutdown of the federal government. But first a 90 second look at what else happened in your world today. The nsa isnt only tracking data from your phone calls and email, it is using information to create a sophisticated web of social connections of some u. S. Citizens. According to documents leaked to the new york times. There is a much wider swath of people and americans are included in this. U. S. Attorney general eric holder is expected to sue the state of North Carolina over its new stricter voting law. The Justice Department believes the law targets minorities. Protecting the integrity of every vote cast. This problem is being renewed and refreshes. Maryland will come down harder on people that use hand held cell phones when they are driving. Starting tomorrow if you are caught talking behind the wheel you can be ticketed and fined up to 75 and goes up to 125 for a second offense and three times it is 175. Amanda knoxs new fear comes from this courtroom. From the safe ty of seattle, she is still protesting her innocence but said the wheels of italian justice can grind on slowly without her. She will not go back to italy. Next April Francis will cannonnize Pope John Paul ii and pope john xxiii. Appointing two saints in one day is a first. Who will spend up to a quarter of a Million Dollars for minutes in space. These people. More than 600 have seened have signed on. That is if the faa gives the okay. Topper shutt joins us with a look at your wakeup weather. Very nice way to finish september. High temperature 76. Average of 75. Very nice. How here is your wakeup wake weather. I dont think the kids will need a sweatshirt. Well come back and october will remind us of another month. Well explain. We are just Getting Started at wusa 9 at 11 00. Still ahead, the top five things our Sports Department would shut down if it were up to them. And after the break, well explain how a Government Agency spent 14 million of your i got you White Chocolate pumpkin. Oh, please dont call me pumpkin. No, White Chocolate and pumpkin. Oh pumpkin. Haha pumpkin is back at dunkin donuts. Hurry in for delicious pumpkin coffees and lattes today. America runs on dunkin. If you watched the june Ribbon Cutting and knew you paid 4 million for a project that includes toilets along the canal, you would probably have High Expectations for the bathrooms. Most importantly they are open when you need toes you them. Well they didnt open at all. And that is when russ ptacek started asking questions and this deal doesnt pass the russ smell test. It doesnt. And it is a litterle smell test because it is designed to eliminate smells. It was created to filter smells out of sewage gas out of land and provide bathrooms. And months ago, after the Ribbon Cutting, it hasnt done anything it was designed for. It is definitely locked. Danger signs, barricades and locked doors. That is now. Despite a Ribbon Cutting and a d. C. Water news release in june saying all d. C. And maryland facilities have been completed. But along the c and o canal, portopotties are the only option. Why dont they unlock it. They were scheduled to open in 2011 and then postponed to 2012. It is 2013 and they are postponed again. It is like way too long. Two of the Facilities Service toilets. All four contain technology that is supposed to clean the smell of sewage from the air, because under all of this Natural Beauty is a d. C. Water pipeline moving 60 million gallons of raw sewage every day. Wusa 9s call for action has been trying to get answers since may from the National Park service or d. C. Water. Both sides were pointing at the other as to who needed to take action. Months after the inquiries and months after the Ribbon Cutting at fletchers boathouse, all of the restrooms remain locked. Before labor day, d. C. Water allowed the National Park service to unlock the doors at fletchers but the restroom at old anglers inn nothing here works. What is the purpose of having it locked if they are supposed to be public restrooms. Reporter and what about the odor abatement, i noticed throughout the summer, there has been a smell around here. Not only is the bathroom locked, the odor abatement system isnt working either. Remember the guy who cut the blue ribbon . We made multiple requests to speak with d. C. Water gm George Hawkins but a spokesperson john lyle said that he and not hawkins is the best person to discuss the project. Well let me show you what your boss has said. He says relief is here. He said, quote, facilities have been completed. I never said the anglers facility was done. Then why on earth would d. C. Water have a Ribbon Cutting and issue a news release saying it is completed. I understand how you understood that but im trying to clarify what we meant. Reporter and as for the other three sites that are classified as completed. There are four that we believed are open so how many are open. Ill double check that and get back to you. You dont know . Ill clarify whether the other two facilities in maryland are open. Reporter weeks after that interview George Hawkins finally agreed to answer questions himself. The d. C. Project and all three maryland projects were completed. Did you say that . I did not verbally say that. Well cut a ribbon and formally open the facilities. Listen to this recording provided by d. C. Water. At two points and more than a minute in, listen there is no audio. We cant hear what he said. Did your own people misquote you . No it was just a statement of what is in the press release. I do not know the status of every project and the design. But you know now it is not completed. I know now we are in the commissioning phase. Do you acknowledge that could misled people that it was a mistake. I just did. To give the impression that everything was done and turned on, we apologize for that. Reporter and at all of the sites there is a sign that says 9. 7 million. And do you know what the full cost is . It is 14 million i believe for construction but ill have to check. That is about a 50 increase. Since the original contract was awarded. So this has gone way over budget. It is not the same work for more money, we are doing more work than anticipated. Reporter hawkins said the other two sites are in testing and finishing delays at the anglers inn odor station but it should open up soon. But you believe the bathroom is operational . I believe the bathroom is operational. Then why not let the park service open up that part of it . That is a possibility that i have not looked into and i certainly could. Reporter they hadnt looked into it until the interview last week and true to his word, tonight d. C. Water said they have passed on anglers site to the National Parks Service Ready to unlock, open and flush. And they are soon to begin testing this on the odor scrubbing unit which theyve begun testing at the other two maryland locations. D. C. Water said their focus all along has been on the odor system and that has been operational since the Ribbon Cutting at the one d. C. Location. As for the potomac location at old anglers inn, we visited there late today at about 5 15 and the danger, keep out sign is still up but they say they passed it on and it is now in the hands of the park service but with the Government Shutdown, it may be more delays again. Well have to go back after the government revs up again. So the completed project is still not complete and relief you may have to hold it. Im baffled by city officials that show up and dont have the answers. What did they think you would ask them. They couldnt answer your questions. It just baffles me. I was surprised about everything and also surprised about how long it took wusa 9s call for action we started on may and it took us this many months to get it answered, let alone the bathroom opened. Russ, thanks a lot. Good job. We want to go live back to the hill where you can see Chris Van Holland speaking from maryland there, standing be side nancy pelosi. Lets listen in quickly. They voted no. They voted to deny the house an opportunity to appoint budgets. What happened in the senate . I believe at least 15 times 18 times, 18 times majority leader harry reid and the budget chairman patty murray asked to appoint temporaries to work out the budget issues and 18 times people like senator lee said no. They blocked them. And i would point out senator john mccain said it was, quote, in sane for republicans to be blocking a negotiation on the budget since they spent all of last year calling upon the senate to have a budget. Now the speaker of the house earlier this year said he didnt want to engage any more with the president or the white house on negotiation, that he wanted to go through the regular order. Well the regular order means appointing budget negotiators. So the reason we are here today is that the speaker of the house refused to name budget negotiators, in the senate they blocked budget negotiations. Why would you do that . Because you have to compromise when you go to a budget negotiation. They didnt want to do that. And so instead we have a deliberate, very calculated strategy not to go through those negotiations but to wait until the government is on the precipice of shutdown because then they feel they dont have to compromise, they can just demand that democrats in the congress adopt their radical propositions, getting rid of the Affordable Care act and theyve threatened that the government will no longer pay its bills as the next step. They believe that that way they would no have to would not have to compromise. You are listen to maryland congressman Chris Van Holland explain the democratic side in all of this and in how they tried to move this on to the house and then get this law implemented but the republican side is there ought to be room for compromise and the democrats arent coming to the table to compromise which is why we are where we are. And check out the countdown clock there on your screen. You can see right now, 33 minutes, 35, 34 seconds until a Government Shutdown again at midnight. Well have much more on this. Lets toss it to topper and get a quick check on the weather. Hey, topp. 76 was the high today. Temperatures are comfortable. Looking outside from the michael and son weather cam. 64 is warm for this time of night. And temperatures will be above average over the next several days. Satellite picture, radar combined, still having High Pressure in control which means fair weather. So we are in good shape except for the fact we could use a couple of showers. Our water table is fine but our soil moisture is extremely dry. So grab your sunglasses tomorrow. A milder start and a warmer finish. Even warmer on wednesday. Almost like summer on wednesday. And then warm with afternoon clouds on thursday. But still temperatures will probably make it into the 80s or around 80 all week. So well break it down. Upper 50s to near 60 at 5 00 and 7 00 and then mid60s by 9 00. Low 70s by 11 00. A nice day, nice start to october. Although more reminiscent of september. And then upper 70s and warm by 1 00. Next three days, almost 85 on wednesday. 82 on thursday. A few clouds on thursday but it will stay dry. Next seven days. Well friday may see a stray shower. Low 80s. Mid80s on saturday. Maybe a shower or storm on sunday. Bulk of the day is fine. A better chance for showers and storms on monday but highs still around 80. Kristen will be back with sports right after this. Stay tuned. Im terry mcauliffe, candidate for governor, and i sponsored this ad. These are Birth Control pills. More than half of american women use them at some point in their lives but Ken Cuccinelli sponsored a bill that could have made common forms of Birth Control illegal, including the pill. Cuccinelli was one of only five senators to support this potentially radical intrusion into domestic, family and individual decisionmaking why is Ken Cuccinelli interfering in our private lives . Hes focused on his own agenda. Not us. I think it is fair to say each of us has one aspect of sports that we just cant stand and that we would change if we had the power to do it. So with all of the talk about the Government Shutdown, it got us here in the wusa Sports Department thinking. If we could shut down five things in sports, what would they be . Lets see if you agree. Number five, shut down the jackson jaguars. Being from florida this is tough to say, but they have been outscored 12931 and they are so desperate to fill the stadium they are offering fans free beer to attend the game. Which isnt that bad. You know how to get fans to buy tickets, sign tebow. It is that easy. Shut down the debate of cousins replacing rgiii as the starter. But he proved himself capable during the preseason, but this week we saw the glimpses of the old rgiii and he is finally making the big plays. And some said shut down celebration dances in football. I completely disagree. I think shutdown celebration penalties, from the salsa dancing, i cant wait to see what they come up week after week. Some look like a complete fool. Gronkowski. But can you tell me you havent done a celebration dance for good news. And shut down of the nba and mlb season, and when hockey is still playing in june and basketball never ends, something needs to change. Think back when they went through lockouts. Those years were way more intense and a lot more exciting. Wizards may have a chance. And number one, shut down the ncaa. Bring in a new college format which will pay college athletes. A recent study by business insider. Com said the average Texas Football player was worth 578,000, when you add in the television and ticket revenue going to the school, the ncaa needs to fix it. The guys work hard and they deserve something. What would you shut down . The lindsey guaranteed contract in sports. The guaranteed money. I dont know how to do it. It is too much and too long. And it will go up and up because you have to compete with the next one. Shut down reality shows, like when ocho cinco did that thick and ryan lochte when he did that. That was sad. And im a gatear and that was sad for gators. Dont limit bad reality shows to the athletes. There are a lot of bad reality shows out there period