federal money, and not their local money. . reporter: a third group, she says, are her own employees who have been deemed essential workers, but who will work through shutdowns without pay. she also says that this couldn t come at a worse time for the district. reporter: of course, that is a time when lots of tourists descend on the city not only for the cherry blossom parade and festival, but just for this time of year for spring breaks and things like that. coming up on news 4 at 6:00, we ll hear more about how lawmakers are doing and how they re preparing and how some places that you wouldn t expect to be affected by the shutdown are indeed and one of them is a creek. we re live on capitol hill. back to you. derek ward. thank you, derek. about 800,000 federal workers nationwide will be impacted if the government shuts down. jane watrel continues our team coverage in the newsroom with that side of our story. jane? federal analysts say a high concentration of civil