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280,000 employees are furloughed and another 420,000 are working without pay. the smithsonian and zoo will be closing its doors january 2nd. >> the federal workers want the wa wall. >> reporter: the president said they want the shutdown. but the employees we talked to are fed up. >> extracurricular activities putting food on the table for their kids, those are things that make it more disgusting whats happening with the federal government right now. >> reporter: lawyuren is a loca steward with t...

Undecided or dont want the choices, 18% dont know or prefer someone else. >> andrew cuomo is not running for president but a $280,000 payment made to a popular iowa campaign consultant is raising eyebrows. during a radio interview cuomo denied that payment. >> i paid a consultant $280,000 it would be news to me. >> so the report is wrong? >> stranger things have happened. >> not really a denial. cuomos aids say he will introduce a plan to legalize recreational marijuana in new york as part of hi...

Hatch said himself in the past. back in 99 in the clinton impeachment, he said, there it is, this great nation can tolerate a president who makes mistakes. but he cannot tolerate one who makes a mistake and then breaks the law to cover it up. what do you do with that now? >> there is no way they are going to impeach donald trump over $280,000. i mean, look, the prosecutors theory here in this indictment, this is flam flam. theyre basically saying if only the american people had known donald trum...

Was guilty of violations to the tune of $2 million. he paid a $275,000 fine. this whole thing was cohen was $280,000. it should just be a fine. >> juan: its apples and oranges but i will leave it alone. we need to go to a break. what happened with barack obama, it was a matter of overpayment, underpayment. it wasnt a matter of guess what, im going to take money and use it to advance my campaign without closing. he hid the fact that he was paying money to these women. >> dana: unless they call th...

Handled in a very transparent and open way by the board. but, however, we are where we are now and the news report are horrifying. theyre very disturbing. good republican activists dont engage in this behavior. and we think theres a lot of innocent victims. including candidates on both sides of the aisle. the 280,000 people who cast legitimate ballots. and the people who face not being represented when congress is seated on january -- >> so what does success look like to you? have you spoken to ...

Electorate, could have decided out of 280,000 votes. >> the low reporting indicated mccray who is a convicted felon was hired by the republican campaign and then paid other people to go around door to door collecting peoples absentee ballots and they required two signatures to witness the signature of the voter. one witness signed 45 absentee ballots and another signed 43. another witness signed 44 and five people who signed multiple ballots listed their address as the same one bedroom apartment...

Not return the ninth congressional district had about a quarter of those ballots not returned and in bladen county, they had about a 40% non-return rate. those are extremely high non-return rates for -- while it may be only 3-5% of the electorate, could have decided out of 280,000 votes. >> the low reporting indicated mccray who is a convicted felon was hired by the republican campaign and then paid other people to go around door to door collecting peoples absentee l ballots and they required tw...

Strong in anchorage with 280,000 people. the taps pipeline that goes from the knot slope of alaska to valdez, that lifeline of alaska has been shut down as a precaution. theres no reports of damage or injury associated with that pipeline. the good news is, no reports of sear you injuries anywhere in alaska. theres no reports of major structural damage like high rises. those buildings seem to have come through very well.neil? >> neil: and the operators of the trans alaska pipeline said as a preca...

As well. so you have severe damage to a lot of the roads. i did talk to some people in hotels there. one in a marriott said his shook pretty well, for about a minute, but there was not significant damage to that hotel. but there are reports of people diving under desks and trying to just get away from falling debris. this is a 7.0 earthquake. 19 miles now centered just about seven miles north of anchorage, in a place called pointed mackenzie, which is not very populated. the city of anchorage, a...

Have cancelled the tsunami warning. everybody that was asked to move the higher ground can now return to their desks or their homes or wherever they were going? >> that is correct. >> dana: mike angove, we appreciate you coming on. well stay in touch with you. dan springer, if youre still there, tell us about the epicenter. you said you know mount mackenzie is not highly populated but if it did this much damage 15 to 20 miles away from anchorage, what might it have done up there? >> reporter: po...