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Point average. >>steve: its the same thing a lot of parents expect as well. thank you very much. 25 minutes from the top of the hour. government workers may be furloughed again today because of the shutdown, but for prison staff it is business as usual. except the guards and what not, theyre working without pay. however, guess who is still getting paid? the inmates. not kidding. here to explain from the council of prison locals 33 is sandy parr. the council represents 38,000 prison workers acros...

That. but the inmates, theyre getting paid. sandy, weve got a lot of people from washington watching in right now, looking in right now watching you. whats your message to them? >> its time to stop the political standoff. its time to get back to work, open up the government and figure out how to get your political bystanders, however you want to call it, stop the political games. i mean, really right now congress and senate, the house, theyre all playing games with our lives, and its time to end...

Reporter for the "washington post" david knack i mora. a couple of deals that he made thank you both for your time in september that would have this afternoon. >> thanks. prevented this. >> david, in his new interview he went back on them because he with the associated press, the president said he would be couldnt hold his caucus, the "happy to talk to republicans white house likes to say john about the health care law, the boehner cant even deliver a budget, the deficit." pizza, and there is so...

Max. it can do minor damage and heavy rain as it goes to the southeast. we have the blizzard warnings in effect. it is snowing in wyoming. its going to be quite a snowstorm. some areas are going to get one to two feet of snow. its a trouble spot. on top of that, we could see tornadoes in iowa throughout the evening. not a lot, but a couple. >> well keep an eye on that. thank you, bill. we have a trivia question for you with tropical storm karen coming up, we want to ask you, whats the costlies...

And rain all summer long. many areas certainly dont need more rain. >> it has been a record-breaking year for rain across the south. trees are standing in mud. when that wind comes across, 60, 70 miles per hour, those trees are going to fall down. >> reporter: despite the ongoing government shutdown, concerns over the storm are causing fema employees to return to work. >> fema has begun to recall currently furloughed employees necessary to serve functions of the agency that protect life and prop...

Government shutdown can be westerns over the storm are causing some fema employees to return to wok. >> fema has begun to recall, currently furloughed employees necessary to serve functions of the agency that protect life and property as they prepare for potential landfall. for tropical storm karen. >> reporter: karen is the 11th named storm of what has been an unusually quiet hurricane season this year with only ingrid and humberto becoming full hurricanes so far. last year, superstorm sandy hi...

Mr. morgan, eight months of closure after sandy, only to reopen the statue of liberty on july 4th, were in a pretty good economic hole to begin with. ellis island is yet to reopen prior to the closure. were hopeful for october 28th, which is the statutes birthday, if you will, anniversary so at this point were down, we would be lucky to break even had this not happened but now we will be 50 to 60% down every day, maybe more in revenue and at this point we have not laid off any employees, but, yo...

They had just begun the process of evaluating my records that were sent in when i was told that the shutdown was going to happen. >> what went through your mind when the person in the nih told you it would all be put on hold? >> so many emotions. i was upset and frustrated. this is a potential life saving drug and to be told that its going to be postponed because a decision hasnt been made and the shutdown occurred was rather upsetting. >> on piers morgan, the financial consequences. piers spoke...

Sitting under a tree -- >> trying to hydrate. >> well, happy october. >> yes. >> it is beautiful. a great start to october. as good as it gets. a lot of us still havent turned our heat on in the houses. maybe the ac in a few warm spots. dont need the jacket as far north as minneapolis. this afternoon, 77 in minneapolis, chicago at 84. were going to be 80 and beautiful down in d.c. and 80 in new york so this is great weather. down in the tropics it is okay, still can get big storms in okay, remem...

Voting for it, but certainly there are that many who want to see it happen. there are many hoping yes, and will vote no. weve seen this before on the fiscal cliff situation, sandy, violence against womens act. a number of members have put up the necessary governing votes. you see that will happen again today. i cant predict how many but im sure it will secure passage. >> if the government does shut down, you believe its house republicans fault? >> well, not going to say its the house republicans...