And less than an hour ago the Indian Nation issued a response saying we are thankful for his willingness to listen. Theyre inviting him to meetings in upstate new york next month so he can hear from native americans who find the name offensive. From the live desk, im Barbara Harrison. In 30 minutes, president obama and Vice President biden will meet House Democrats at the white house to look for a way out of the Government Shutdown. Now in its ninth day. And they will be trying to avoid a bigger crisis. Right now, signs of progress but still no major breakthrough in the talk to end the shutdown. Party leaders met briefly and democrats in the senate called for a end to the shutdown on the capitol step ls. We captured fireworks. Im on your side. Thats senator reids reaction after mayor gray pushed for money to fund d. C. Operations. A new poll out today says americans are putting more on republicans than democrats for the shutdowns. Congress right now has an approval rating, get this, of just 5 . The bodies of four Fallen Service members were brought home from afghanistan today. The grieving families pain is magnified by the news the shutdown prevents them from getting a benefit to help with funeral expenses and other costs. White house Officials Say president obama was very disturbed by the news and he directed the pentagon to work with budget officials and his lawyers to find a way to fix the issue by the end of the day congress is also scrambling to fix it. Veterans will feel the impact that this continues. He testified today at a hearing on capitol hill. He said nearly 4 million vets will not receive disability checks in november if the shutdown lasts a couple of weeks. That includes 100,000 veterans who work there. If the va veterans get furloughed and also receive disability checks, they wont have any income next month. Theyre expected to announce theyre slashing military and economic assistance to cairo. This move has been under consideration since they ousted the first democratically elected leader back in june. The u. S. Provides cairo with 1. 5 billion in aid every year. Its not clear yet just how much money the u. S. Will continue to send to egypt. Developing news now. It happened just a few minutes ago. The president announced janet yellen is his nominee. She will become the first woman to head the federal reserve. Right now a proposed casino is under way. Coalition to stop the sacrifice zone says theyre opposed to gambling in the area. Theyre also upset about the lack of minority owned business along the corridor. The protest runs until 6 00 tonight. Its taking place right now on the sidewalk of oxen hill park and right across the street from national harbor. A man who fell 15 feet through an arlington sidewalk grate is expected to be okay. He was walking between two Office Buildings near fairfax drive this morning when a steel grate collapsed and he fell onto the slap. It took crews nearly an hour to get him out. Reporter the rescue team started setting up a ladder truck with some rigging. They brought him up and transported him to the trauma center. The sidewalk is being inspected. The mans name hasnt been released. Hot spots for crime. Up next, metros top ten most dangerous situations. Not giving up on his son, the father of the yearold stowaway who jumped on a plane to vegas speaks out. And is free coffee the answer to end Government Shutdown . Veronica . And this is just the beginning. Take a look at storm team radar. The leading edge of the rain. We have days of rain ahead of us. How to stay ahead of the storm on the latest co right now starbucks is giving away cups of coffee. You have to buy someone else a cup of coffee before you get your free cup. The companys ceo says he hopes the offer will show lawmakers how to get along. The deal runs through friday. If youre looking for some air fare discounts for the holidays, Southwest Airlines is having a 72hour sale. Round trip tickets start at 98 for flights under 500 miles each way. The sale kicked off i didnt do. Rivals like united and delta are matching the prices. This years top five stations are all in the district. Heres a look at the top ten. Transit officials tell us crime in and around the stations is up from next year. More than half of the cases are snatch and grab robberies involving smart phones and tablets. Theyve been saying be careful how you carry items and things like that. There are some bright spots. Crime in parking lots is down this year, and there were also no rapes or homicides this year. Hes accused of car theft, sneaking into a water park and sneaking aboard a plane to vegas, and hes only 9. Up next his father talks to the cameras. Cameras. Also ahead, what exactly is im Terry Mcauliffe, candidate for governor, and i sponsored this ad. These are Birth Control pills. More than half of american women use them at some point in their lives but Ken Cuccinelli sponsored a bill that could have made common forms of Birth Control illegal, including the pill. Cuccinelli was one of only five senators to support this potentially radical intrusion into domestic, family and individual decisionmaking why is Ken Cuccinelli interfering in our private lives . Hes focused on his own agenda. Not us. This happened at the federal building. One person is in custody at this time. About 20 shots were fired. Our affiliate there in wheeling say the police are still on the scene. Its not clear if anyone was injured, but well continue to follow the story and bring you new details as they come into us. Im Barbara Harrison at the live desk. Aaron hernandez was back in court today. His attorneys want the judge to extend the gag order to keep the details of the case quiet if they havent been talked about in court. They also want prosecutors to turn over the evidence theyve gathered. Hes accused of murdering the man who was dating his fiancees sister. The prosecutors key witness says hernandez was alone with the victim just a few minutes before his death. But his account could be in question because he changed his story. The father of a 9yearold boy who somehow made it onto a plane to vegas without a ticket is speaking out. As leanne gregg reports, investigators are releasing new details about how the boy snuck past security. Reporter while investigators are trying to figure out how a 9yearold boy managed to sneak onto a Delta Airlines flight from minneapolis to las vegas, the childs father on the left wearing a costume to disguise his identity, says he struggled with his sons behavior. If i whoop my son, i get locked up. If i let my son keep doing what hes doing, i get in trouble. Somebody please help me. That plea after a series of events. In addition to the plane ride, the boy stole a 30foot delivery truck in minneapolis and crashed it into a police car, and that he has a history of taking the light rail to a suburb near the airport where he would sneak into a waterpark by blending in with families. Evidently he had been riding the train and getting on the train and rolling around and running off a little bit. Hes not whats called an honor student. He have his ups. He have his downs. The county Child Protection agency has been reviewing the boys situation since december. Back to how he pulled off his trip to vegas, sources say he arrived at the airport via light rail and got through security by staying close to a family. At the gate security video shows him talking to an agent who turned to speak with someone else. Thats when Authorities Say he must have made his way onto the plane. After flights turned off, they noted no unaccompanied minors were listed so they alerted authorities to meet the plane. A frustrated father reaching out for support. Leanne gregg, nbc news. Turning to the weather now. Its going to turn really wet. It is and its going to stay that way for a while, hey, vj . Thats right. Theres rain and then theres the ugly rain. Ditch the umbrella and go with a rain jacket. You want to stay dry. As windy as it will be tomorrow, you dont want to fight it the entire day. In the 60s running several degrees below average. 67 degrees. Our temperatures will drop down to the low and mid 50s across the area. There it is. Its gray right now. Theres the leading edge of the days of wet weather. Annapolis to bowie, just shy of d. C. You can see at the doorstep of bowie, maryland, bethesda, youre dry, but you have rain coming up very shortly. In the early part of the day tomorrow, thats when the rain will pick up in intensity. Thats where the heaviest rain is right now. Still our drempbling sloppy stuff, that waits for the early part of the day tomorrow as all this makes its way northward. Folks are asking why is it going to rain for so many days, as the storm comes up the coast, its slow moving. It will hit an area of High Pressure to the north. The winds around that are clockwise. Thats giving us a nasty fetch off the water. All helping to produce rainfall that could amount to over 2 inches in a few neighborhoods. So well get breezy conditions. Well get windy conditions. It all depends on where you are. Took you through thursday. Took you through friday. What to expect . Showers increasing. And the winds are picking up, too. Make sure to get a good start, an early start with the rain jack and the hood included. For your afternoon rush, its heavy rain and wind coming our way. So could be travel delays on area roads tomorrow. Your temperatures pushing early part of the day tomorrow to the mid 50s. 56 with windy conditions. Then 59 is our High Temperature around 2 00 or 3 00. It all depends on where you are. We have 50s here. Low 50s in winchester and lorain. Not excite as sloppy for the afternoon. Look at your fourday forecast shows nasty weather for the next four. But improving slightly on saturday and sunday. In just a couple of minutes ill take you through areas for the water to the mountains and show you how high the winds could gust in the areas with the heaviest rain out of this storm system. Thanks, veronica. Flu season is upon us. How the Government Shutdown could literally make you sick. Plus, life after. New information about the Affordable Care act. Today the Obama Administration clarified one of the least popular requirements of the health care law. Americans without Health Insurance have to get coverage by midfebruary to avoid penalties for being uninsured. Thats six weeks earlier than the previous deadline of march 31st. The salmonella outbreak that has sickened 300 people in 18 states has some wondering for the government could be doing more to stop the outbreak. In news 4, how the shutdown could impact your held. A family allergy care physician is here to explain. A lot of those infected have been hospitalized because of salmonella. The cdc put 30 furlough workers back to work. What should we make f of it . You never know how much you needed them until you needed them. Hopefully theyre going to be able to give the voice of experience. Whats happened in previous outbreaks. Be able to identify where the outbreak is from and most importantly how you treat it. Those people are coming back. They have to get the computers fired up and get back to work. Should we worry that our food can make us sick . When we read the seafood and foods and veggies are going unchecked because of the shutdown . Right. Heres the message. As frustrated as you are about the shutdown, you just have to stick with what you always know, which is be careful. Follow the rules. Cook the meat. Wash the fruit. All of those good things. Were really not sure whats happening out there. Lets talk about the flu. The season is here, and what do the shutdown and furloughs at the cdc mean were not getting . So if you go on their website it tells you were not getting much at all. It says the website is shut down. It means were not getting reminders to get the flu shot. Thats why you and i are doing this. Theyre there. Theyre in all sorts of clinics. Its available. Go get them. To come to see how well it worked. But there was a rotten time to have the shutdown happen compared to where the viruses are. Are we likely to see slower approval for new drugs and medical devices . Yes. Because theyre not at work. We profiled new segments. All of those in the pipeline are just setting there. Theyre waiting to get done for the people not there. That slows down the new devices that the public can have access to. But they have to wait. What if youre a patient about to get into a Clinical Trial . If youre going to nih and driving up to building ten, those people are aware theyve been slowed down. There are Clinical Trials happening all over the country and all over the area that is funded by nih. That money is drying up. The trials in force in other hospitals are still there, but youre not going to be able to get any new ones until the funding comes back. Dr. Jackie, more shutdown fallout. Thank you. Jim . Well take you live to the white house where president obama is about to sit down with democrats this evening, plus, hes been arrested for his role in the terrifying suv motorcycle and welcome back at 4 30, everybody. Im jim handly. Im pat lawson muse. Barbara harrison is at the live desk with details about an accident involving a pedestrian in springfield. Barbara . We just got video that came into a newsroom just a short time ago. This accident happened around 2 00 p. M. On franconia road at the intersection of commerce street in springfield. A woman was hit and killed crossing the street. She was not using a crosswalk. The pickup truck that hit the woman did stay at the scene. Right now, House Democrats are meeting with president obama and Vice President biden in a closed meeting at the white house down pennsylvania avenue the house just voted unanimously to fund death benefits for families of Fallen Soldiers. Steve handelsman is live on capitol hill for us with the latest on day nine of the shutdown. Lets talk about death benefits. Its reaslly an issue that has punched out and outraged americans. Its such an oversight. Such a symbol of the dysfunction in washington that both sides are rushing to fix it. Defense secretary chuck hagel went to Dover Air Force base amid outrage that the shutdown stand off went too far. The remains of four u. S. Troops killed in afghanistan were returned. But because of the shutdown, the usual 100,000 death benefit to help families with expenses were not paid. 26 families affected. Hagel and president obama are said to be very disturbed. Some could become homeless. Testified the obama secretary of veteran affairs. I just didnt think the holocaust members, this committee, or the congress would allow this to happen. Republicans blame democrats. The administration is playing politics on the backs of family who is have followen. The white house admitted death benefits should have been restored. The president expects this to be fixed today. The house voted a remedy unanimously and some saw signs of more bipartisanship. He called for both sides to reform tax laws but did not mention obama care. What a train wreck. How we with tax people for not buying a product from the eab wit see doesnt work. The and at dover, a sad reminder that much of government is not working for families as well as it could. After the house vote, the pentagon announced a private foundation will pay the full death benefit to eligible military families and be reimbursed by government after the shutdown. Still not unified. How long can this go on . Paul ryan is different than peter king who is being a moderate. Hes been the leader of the group of a couple of dozen of house republicans. Kind of the john mccain point of view. We cant win on obama care. We will necessary up government and tick off the american voter. And now paul ryan writes a big thing and doesnt mention obama care. Whatever he says later, however he may clarify it, this looks like divisions at the top level of the house republicans. All right, steve, thank you. Finally a turn around. The dow making gains today. Avoiding the threeday losing streak. The dow closed off 27 points. They were helped by news that president obama named janet yellen to name the federal reserve. The nasdaq did not fair as well. It fell 17 points and suffered the worst threeday losing streak in three months. Get your rain gear out. Are we talking about heavy rains or a long, slow soak sng. Were talking about moderate rain at least. The fact that this is days of rain. After such lovely weather that we had, the mild temperatures, the sunshine, this is Mother Natures way of balancing things out. I can tell you our wettest time period from late tonight at least into thursday evening. Youre looking at kennedy center. An overcast sky. 62 degrees. Rain coming up from the south, though. Humidity increasing. The other thing youre going to feel before long is the wind. The storm system gets closer and closer to us. Ive been watching this leading edge of rain approaching leesburg. You folks are wet before long. So you will need your umbrella this evening. Big story, though, the wind along with the rain. Here we are at 4 30. Look how the winds will ramp up through the overnight and early part of the day tomorrow. Close to that in annapolis, maryland. Packing 30 Miles Per Hour gusts inland. Right now there is the possibility as the winds gust very high from east to west for areas like annapolis. The steady rain could get coastal flooding and pick up an inch and a half to two inches of rain. The winds gusting up to 40 Miles Per Hour. Ill show you how high your winds are going to gust and if you have as much to worry about as the coastal communities do. Over 100 young science students from around the area join joined millions for science day. Students gathered to take part of the 2013 national science. A drunk driving charge against the son of former penn state football coach. Jon sandusky was arrested early this morning in fargo, north dakota. Police say they pulled him over