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Them. well keep an eye on it. coming up, britney spears has a message for lawmakers. scrambled politics is next. first, about 108 members or 20% of our elected leaders in washington are offering to donate their hefty salaries to charity during the shutdown. while many members of their staff are going without a paycheck. were back in three minutes. [ bird chirping ] ♪

It shouldnt be any different for a member of congress. >> that was president obama voiceing a common complaint of the american people. why should members of congress who refuse to do their jobs continue to get paid as 800,000 federal workers go without their paychecks. so far at least 108 lawmakers on the hill have now said they plan to donate or refuse to accept any compensation earned during the shutdown including some of the same people holding the government hostage like ted cruz and john bo...

Employees, and jenny mae, the mortgage agency keeps 43 of the 108 workers, and huds inspector general kept 8%, retaining the largest number of employees is the hud employees, and the environmental protection agency deemed 93% of its staff to use the old terminology, nonessential. such decisions raised questions in the minds of many americans about whether or not uncle sam can manage if pressed to do so to get buy on a lot less. >> they dont measure things like efficiency in the workforce, and as...

Youre a champion for jobs? why are you flushing 44,000 jobs down the toilet in south carolina? >> listen to the unions. all i can tell you is that this thing is stinking up the place in terms of what people thought they were getting. at the end of the day, by 2042, these two government programs were talking about are going to take more money to run than we collect in taxes today. >> are you saying that the system we have right now -- >> im going to challenge bernie. if you makeover $250,000 a ye...

Death-defying ride is brazilian, pedro olivia. >> he was competing for the brazilian national team and i was filming for a company that produces kayaks here in the united states and he was tell meg about these amazing rivers and waterfalls? brazil. >> a year after meeting, the two planned a ride that would push them close to the danger zone. >> our hope is to establish a new world record for the tallest waterfall run in kayak. >> the previous record is for 108 feet and to beat this, they look fo...

For hearings and classified briefings. and earlier this week, a senate committee approved a resolution that authorizes limited military action. doug mckelway picks it up from there on capitol hill. doug? >> thats right. shep. the senate today meeting in brief pro-form in a session mild to syrian resolution. that means when the senate returns monday at 2:00 p.m., debate will begin. make no mistake about it, shep, this is going to be a long hard slog for the president of the united states. the tal...

Also a number of frost advisories anywhere from parts of maine to parts of pennsylvania. in the interior northeast you can be waking up with frost on the car wind shields this morning. hopefully you have the equipment in your car already. the reason it is cooler out here is we had a strong cool front push through it brings in the cooler air in annicanada. the jet stream well off to the north is producing all of the hot temperatures today and even as we head into this weekend. take a look at satu...

Are burning. both have apparently been hit by aircraf aircraft. >> my first reaction was to get down to the scene as fast as i could. as i was drive iing down, emergy vehicles were going obviously flying down to the scene. i jumped behind a police car and drafted it all the way down and pretty much got two blocks from the scene. >> the very first thing we did was got establishing shots. >> i got close to the tower and shooting it but it was so tall i had to keep backing up to get a better shot. ...

I mean those are pictures that youre allowed to have. theres no nudity, nothing like that. we had to tear up your whole mattress because we thought there was something in there. >> 108. >> i dont care if they search the house as many times as they want to search the house. thats their job. the point is if they find the water bags, they dont got to rip it open in here because thats really disrespectful. weve got to sleep right here. >> these guys are creative. they have 24 hours a day, seven days...

>> out of this house here on the left where that lady is. surveillance of the operation is a big part of the groundwork that leads up to the actual raid. >> over at 108. >> going to stay at 108. then the rest of guys are going to go over and meet winston over at south boston. >> in preparation for a coordinated assault on south bostons drug dealers, officers from across the department keep around-the-clock tabs on all 12 suspects. >> we try to just get, you know, a patent down as to the comings ...