very calm and the capitol does have things, sort of a formula for this and they followed it pretty well. and everybody got their alerts on their blackberrys from the senate sergeant at arms office telling them what to do, why they re doing it, and how long they think it could last. dana bash, we ll come back to you later in the hour. i m joined now here at our site outside the capitol by congressman matt cartwright. he was on the hill. he heard the shots ring out. congressman, what happened from your vantage point, where were you and where did you go? jake, what we had done, we had just finished in the house the first series of votes. it was something after 2:00. outside the speaker s lobby, there is a balcony. it is on the south side of the capitol, faces south. i was having a quiet chat as many members of congress do with jerry connelly, congressman from northern virginia, having a
workers being told today? well, sol of them are being told a lot, and some of them have seen the contingency plans for the department so they have an idea of how it is going to be playing out, but some may not. by and large, the departments have seen it coming and time to draw up some plans and some of them run for dozens and dozens of pages to explain specifically what to do with the blackberrys and the phones and what to do when they go home. tom foreman reporting live from washington. still to come in the newsroom, his home vandalized by hundreds of partying teenagers, and now a message to system of those parents, and she is not holding back. she will join us live next. tool, you tell us what you want to pay, and we give you a range of coverages to choose from. who is she? that s flobot. she s this new robot we re trying out, mostly for, like, small stuff. wow! look at her go! she s pretty good. she s pretty good.
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we have to. reporter: at the pentagon and federal agencies across washington, senior managers have been consumed with preparing their departments. probably thousands of hours of employee time better spent on supporting national security. reporter: furloughed workers might have to come to work tuesday and have four hours to close up their office. shut down blackberrys, shut down equipment, and turn around and go home. reporter: a radio station popular with federal workers has been inundated with questions. what s been the reaction from your listeners? sudden panic. people are thinking about how long is this going to last, if it happens. how am i going to pay my bills. reporter: there is still time to avert a shutdown. here we are, i guess this is like the movie high noon. as soon as you walk through that door, come on, i ll hold my fire. reporter: but right now, it s the employees being held hostage to negotiations. these folks don t make a lot of money. they re
concert promoter aeg live. the family claims aeg hired dr. conrad murray and the doctor was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in jackson s death. the defense says jackson picked his own doctor and is responsible for his own death. blackberry takes another hit. t-mobile, the nation s fourth largest wireless provider, is taking it off the store shelves. alison kosik is at the new york stock exchange. this is bad. add insult to injury. blackberry taking it on the chin yet again. this time from t-mobile, saying that it plans to stop carrying, stop selling, blackberry devices in its stores. an executive telling reuters that keeping stock in the retail distribution system was inefficient since blackberrys are mostly purchased by businesses who don t do their shopping in the stores. so this is just the latest blow in a string of terrible news for the company. blackberry said last week it s cutting 4500 jobs and said it would post an almost $1 billion loss in the latest quarter.