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Workers and their Bank Accounts in the middle of it. Well hear from Speaker Pelosi in about 15 minutes. Then next hour the Vice President is meeting with kiersten nielsen. This afternoon the president will hold a round table discussion on border security. A lot happening on whats dubbed dday for the federal employees. T we have our reporters with us. Tom, let me start with you. Youve been digging in to these pain points for folks all around the country. And today is the day. Yeah. Day 21 of the ...

I do. You should write a book about it. It is really friday. We should go out and buy a book. I will see you back in an hour. There you go. Ali velshi and stephanie ruhle. Thank you, guys. It is day 21 of the Government Shutdown. Tomorrow will be the longest in our nations history. Today 800,000 federal employees are starting to miss their paychecks. Getting pay stubs with zero where their net pay should be. We have mortgage, car loan, cell phone, electric and gas and utilities. Are you going to...

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Our reporters are fanned out across the country talking to the americans directly affected by the shutdown. lly in virginia, tammy leitner in florida and morgan is in burbank, california. what did you find? >> reporter: theres a lot of pain out here, a lot of people being impacted by the shutdown. thats true here in virginia, an hour outside of washington, d.c. i spent a little time with daryl floyd, who is one of the furloughed workers. yesterday was supposed to be payday for him, but that chec...

Furloughed workers. as they consider what this shutdown means to them, i spent talking to daryl floyd and his wife isnt cynthia. i am going to let daryl explain to you. take a listen. >> if you dont have a job, you are not going to get along. then thats going to put pile-ups and expenses on each other. >> you know if you cant pay the bills then you will have financial charges and you know credito creditors, they may not accept it. so whats going on? especially with me and my wife sometimes tryin...

The shutdown. and hopefully they can pass a law that they will never use the federal workers as a hostage. so thats my message. >> because you feel like a hostage right now? >> yes, yes, absolutely. >> and, stephanie, while we head into day 21 of the government shutdown, cynthia and daryl are heading for a stem cell transplant down in little rock, arkansas today. >> ali, thank you so much. it is important to get out of this newsroom and tell these stories. and im not going to call it good news. ...

The shutdown ends. >> reporter: and katy, we talked to daryl and cynthia last night at here home in wood bridge, this morning they left for arkansas where cynthia is going to get a stem cell transplant. the issue is how long are they planning for? they want the government to reopen. the problem is they dont know are they budgeting for groceries for weeks or months? this could go on for months as the president has warned. what am i planning for at this point so they are down in little rock and th...

Days. i know you spoke with a furloughed federal worker whos concerned about medical bills. beyond the medical bills, they talked about what the emotional toll has been hilike for them. imagine what its been like over the holidays which should be the most joyous time of year. >> youre absolutely right. last night, we spent some time with daryl floyd and his wife cynthia. yes, youre talking about a financial toll that many of these families are feeling. for them its very emotional because on top ...