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0 unfortunately, congress has not fulfilled its responsibility. it s failed to pass a budget. the senate has continued to reject our offers. we like to resolve issues, but we will not go to conference with oo gun to our head. the u.s. government shutting down after the congress fails to pass a spending plan and how the shutdown will affect you as leaders of both political parties continue to play the blame game. on that note, we say good morning to you. welcome to early start. we are here for you, right? that s right. the government is not but we are here. i m zoraida sambolin. i m john berman. it is tuesday, october 1st. 4:00 a.m. in the east. welcome to the wonderful world of the shutdown. actually it s not wonderful at all. frankly it is embarrassing and a lot of people are being hurt. it was a late night in washington with the house and senate each voting an each passing their own plans to keep the government running. but the republicans in the house refused to pass a version that did not, in some way, derail or delay the affordable care act and, instead, democrats refused to talk about it at all and now the federal is closed for business for the first time in 17 years. keep an eye on the clock on the right part of your screen. four hours now. we are four hours into the shutdown. the question is how much longer will this go on? are we talking hours? are we talking days? even possibly weeks and how badly will it hurt? joe johns is live for us in washington this morning. joe, give us the grisly details here. what happened? the house and senate and white house could not agree on a spending proposal to keep the government operating because a faction of republicans in the house want to undermine president obama s health care law. the back and forth on capitol hill went slightly past midnight, really about 1:00 a.m. the house improviapproving a re for seek a negotiation over the issue. the senate is expected back in session around 9:30 eastern time today. likely to table or kill that request which would put the government where we started. the standoff between the president of the united states and the speaker of the house who is standing up for the rank and file in his caucus and they don t like obamacare. listen. unfortunately, congress has not fulfilled its responsibility. it s failed to pass a budget and, as a result, much of our government must shutdown until congress funds it again. the house has made its position known very clearly. we believe we should fund the government and we think there ought to be basic fairness for all americans under obamacompare the senate has continued to reject our offers but under the constitution there is a way to resolve this process and that is to go to conference and talk through your differences. we are calling this a shutdown, joe, but some federal workers will still report to work this morning, correct? john, actually a lot of federal workers will report to work today. there are about 1.3 million so-called essential employees. 1.4 million active service military and others. those military folks are going to get paid because the president signed the bill covering their pay just last night, john. you talked a little bit about the timetable here when they come back into session and start talking. what is the time frame for getting things solved here? any chance they keep on working on this and hammer out a solution before the end of the day or talking about several days here, joe? anything, frankly, is possible. last time, 17 years ago, it took a long time. this is a manufactured emergency. they have the ability to come together really to figure it out and in fact, they could reach a short-term solution that could get the government going just while they continue to negotiate. but as i said, last time this happened, it went on for quite a few days. a bigger fight looms with the debt ceiling so we have to look forward. joe johns, thank you for getting up with us. i don t think he has been to bed. he has been covering this all night. the big question how much is this going to cost? lots. a lot of people are wondering what this means for them. very bad things. yes. some services will remain open as you just heard. count on getting your social security check on time. the mail is operating and as are medicare and medicaid. now is not the time to visit any national parks. they are officially closed. if you were looking to renew your passport, that could be tougher. some offices will be closed but you should be able to accomplish. veterans some disabled checks could be delayed. the disabled veterans are caught in the middle of this. thousands of government workers who will not go to work and not get paid and they are real people too. our hearts go out to them. if there was one person he is epi center of this explosion was john boehner, the house speaker. if he is in the middle of it may be cause he is bought in the middle of it largely by members of his own party. question is how did it get this far? cnn s brian todd explains. reporter: the group behind this strategy is led by a freshman congressman from north carolina, mark meadows. these contendingmen continue it s about serving their sqaents from back home. after starting all of this off with a letter in august, to their leader. by most accounts, house speaker john boehner didn t want it to get this far and didn t want to use the prospect of a government shutdown to push for defunding the president s health care law. according to a report, a small were the representative of the showdown and forced boehner s hand. . started with a letter to boehner from august from a obscure freshman congressman from north carolina, mark meadows. the letter said, quote. ryan who reported this for the new yorker says the idea gained serious momentum. conservative groups got behind his effort. reporter: soon, he says, the letter was signed by 80 republican representatives but some influential representatives slammed the strategy. karl rove wrote in wall street journal. columnist charles crauthammer said the following. we have to use what few leverage points we have and the continuing resolution is one of them. we can t move anything unless we have got some leverage. reporter: why did boehner go for it? he has 233 members. it takes right now 217 to get a majority in the house of representatives. so if he loses just a few members, he doesn t have his majority. 80, even though it s not even a majority of the republicans, it s enough for him to have to listen to them or he can t pass lechi legislation. other factors according to ryan lizs. he says outside conservative groups which raise money for the hard line congressmen for their districts have siphoned power away from the speaker s office. we couldn t get a response specifically to that or to the criticism from other republicans of this strategy from boehner s office. thank you very much. that was brian todd reporting for us this morning. today is a major mile on stone for the health care overall as well. it is the first day that you can actually buy coverage from the insurance exchanges. that is the marketplace where you can shop for various health coverage options to take effect on january 1st. critics say many people may pay more for coverage than they are paying right now but health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius insists there will be options for every american and every budget. 6 out of 10 people will have the choice, the choice of a policy for under a hundred dollars. it s a debate. do you want to have protection for basically every checkup, every visit, everything that you do? families can make a budget choice. the administration hopes 7 million americans will have signed up for coverage using the exchanges by next march. isn t is ironic that is what the argument is all about? yell and scream and shut things down to congress but this is starting today no matter what. other news now. two marine corps generals asked to step down in the wake of a deadly attack in afghanistan. major generals charles brighanist and another general was not taking part in an assault last summer. two marines died. more than a dozen coalition aircraft were destroyed. let s take a look at the forecast on this early tuesday morning. chad myers is in with that. a very good early morning to you early, early morning or good evening, if you re watching in hawaii. miami and ft. lauderdale thunderstorms throughout the afternoon. northeast is pretty good and could be early morning fog in atlanta and showers in portland and seattle. other than that, airports looking pretty good, especially throughout the afternoon. high pressure in control in the east. sunny. fell like a fall morning and then a nice really early summer kind of day. temperatures going to be nice. not a lot of humidity in the air and sunshine everywhere. remember, just because the temperatures are cool today, 80 for a high in new york didn t mean the u.v. is gone. the uv will be 8, 9 and 10 in some spots. a pleasant 71 as you family wake up i hope in los angeles. thank you, chad. coming up, diplomatic drama. the white house relationship with iran could literally reach new heights as one close ally issues a grave warning. why not? 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