Their most recent amendment, the democratlead senate would be to blame for the impending Government Shutdown. Theres two bodies in congress for a reason. Just because one body has not done their job, doesnt mean the other doesnt want to. Reporter under the affordable plan or obama care would be delayed for another year. Gop leaders say if they agree to this, they will compromise on a budget to keep the government running and paying its bills until december 15. The latest action puts the future of the Government Shutdown in the hands of the senate. Its a move that harry reid has described as pointless and even stupid. Theres similar sentiments that enrage this woman who crashed the republicanlead rally. Its infuriating. They are disingenuous people. Reporter she took aim at the group. You have individual constituencies and you have made your constituencies right with republicans and the rest of the country is fed up with you. Reporter the tough talk came from all sides including the republicans who jabbed at the visibly absent members of the senate. When they dont show up for work today, thats a bad sign. Reporter and speaking of signs, theres none at this hour that the senate will agree to the republicans terms. The stalemate continues. Of course, bruce, monday at midnight, thats when the shutdown will officially begin. Were live in the satellite center, ken molestina, wusa9. Okay, ken, thanks a lot for that. Tourism pours in billions of dollars into the local economy. If the government shuts down, tourists might stay away. Hotels and restaurants would feel the pinch, and of course, local governments could lose millions, if not billions of taxes. As we do towards all the national parks. If im not working, im going to be at home and its going to hurt. Reporter this new york bus driver wants to remain anonymous. He brings visitors to d. C. By the bus load at least three times a week. For you know we need to put food on the table and pay rent. Were going to have to improvise. Pointing things out, making the best of the situation. By shutting down these museums, were going to lose all of our clients. Reporter james dupree has been a bus driver for nearly four decades. Busing people on historic tours and international parks. He brings thousands of tourism dollars to d. C. While the city he helps tries to find ways to take them away. I was hoping that they would get this together. And to look out for me and my family and everybody else also. Reporter the national zoo would be one of those smithsonian casualties that would shut down if the government does. And the people who are visiting d. C. This week have that in mind during their trip. These are some of their great features that the d. C. Area has to offer with the zoo and, you know, the museums and things like that. So when they shut down, they really take away from things that the families can do. Were going to try to get in as much as we can today. Reporter daniel smith is here from san diego. We scheduled it a long time ago. Not knowing what was going to happen as far as the shutdown. So were here. Were going to take advantage of the moment. There are so many other things that youll continue to have access to that we dont want to frighten any of the families that are planning on coming in. Reporter vivian pompellai says that the trip insurance will not cover the Government Shutdown as a reason to get a refund. Thats not going to happen. And the amount of money that youre going to have to pay to reissue your ticket could run as much as 200 a ticket. Nobody so far has hit the panic mode and said to me were going to cancel, were going, were not coming into washington, were not going on our travel. So lets all stay positive. Reporter in washington, surae chinn, wusa9. Now here is what may or may not be affected in about 24 hours if the federal government does shut down. Mail will be delivered. Social security and medical benefits would continue to flow. Food assistance programs could shut down. Active military would work, but their paychecks would be delayed. Americans, they would still have to pay their taxes. Also article i section 8 of the institution gives the Congress Constitution gives congress authority over the district of columbia. Lawmakers will apparently not try to shut the d. C. Government down. Mayor vincent gray informed that he plans to keep all city workers on the job and the d. C. Council on tuesday will approve emergency legislation to pay those workers from the citys reserved funds. Stay with wusa9 for the continuing coverage of the looming deadline. Well have the latest developments for you 24 7 on wusa9. Com and of course the wusa9 app. The burgundy and gold had to go on the road to oakland to find the cure, but tonight the team has their first win. Dave owens is here to tell us. I dont know if its the beginning of something great if it didnt start well and ended better. We were talking about it early, it wasnt pretty. It wont go down as one of the prettier wins, but the redskins are flying back to washington with big smiles on their faces. You dont get the extra point for style in the nfl, but Robert Griffin and the gang saying all the right things. Were not going to panic, were going to get the jobs done. Now early, the raiders were scooped. Just like that, its 70. Raiders jumped up 140 and then the redskins got it going. Slipping this one into a tight window who was balling today. Thats the go ahead score. Then the move came on in the lead and just went wild. He went over oaklands defender. Washington gets in the win column, its not pretty, but its in the win column. 2414. I was really pleased with our guys. We fell behind 14 points. It was very easy to look at the game going the other way, but our guys didnt let that happen. We came in here knowing that we need to come in 13 and we had to make the best of the situation. Going into this bye week, guys will be able to enjoy the bye week a little more after the win and then we came back as we need to get back on a winning streak to get back to where we want to be. Enjoying the bye week, an early bye week already. But bruce, you saw a lot of offense. Were going to talk about defense as it was a big part of the win here today, and they were able to rally. Yes, youve got to be worried. They are feeling it next week that theyre in trouble as they are rough right now. All right, thanks a lot. The Early Morning crash in Fairfax County leaves one man dead, two other people hurt, including a pregnant woman. It happened early this morning on the Fairfax County parkway. Police say the 44yearold abraham arragon was driving the wrong way on the parkway when he struck a Toyota Avalon head on. The driver of the toyota and his pregnant wife were taken to the hospital with nonlife threatening injuries. But the couples baby was born prematurely and doctors deny saying that the infant, a girl is now in serious condition. In chicago an argument between two friends escalates and ends with the suv crashing into the restaurant. It happened on the citys south side at r. J. s chicken and fish. The driver tried to ram his friend with the vehicle. The friend and a bystander were hurt. The suv slammed into the restaurant. One of those guys, they jumped towards his suv car and he pulled his car back straight to that guy. Surveillance video shows after the impact the driver tried to pull his injured friend into the suv, but eventually gave up and took off. Police were still searching for him tonight. Both victims are hospitalized in serious condition. Tomorrow, a retrial of amanda knox gets underway in florence, italy. Shell be at home in seattle, washington. Knox served two years in the italian prison for the murder of her roommate before the Appeals Court found her not guilty. But Italys Supreme Court found inconsistencies in that appeal, so a new trial was ordered. An interview earlier this month on the british television. Knox says shes not going back. People may say why not go back if you are innocent and you have nothing to fear or hide, why would why would you not go back . I have plenty to fear. I was already in prison wrongfully, convicted wrongfully. Reporter knoxs lawyers will represent her in court during the trial, as she would gladly take a Lie Detector Test to help prove her innocence. Cooler temperatures overnight. What to expect as we head back to work and School Monday morning. Well go outside right now with the first alert meteorologist erica grow. Reporter temperatures will be on an upward swing as we head into the new workweek. The dry stretch of weather looks to continue despite the cold front making its advancement towards the d. C. Metro area. Here is a look at your wake up weather as you have reduced visibility south and west of town. Areas of the fog to start out with temperatures in the 50s at 5 00 a. M. By 7 00 that fog will start to lift 49 to 56 for your temperatures. And partly sunny skies by 9 00. The temperatures between 54 and 60 degrees. Its going to be another pleasant monday. Ill tell you if that cold front has a chance to bring us any rain which is coming up in the first alert sevenday forecast. Back to you, bruce. Terrifying moments for terrorism on board the boat that catches fire. Stay tuned for the full story weekend traffic on the Chesapeake Bay bridge comes to a standstill after a barge catches fire. The fire started around 6 00 this evening on the barge beneath the new span of the bridge. That caused marylands transportation officials to shut down all lanes of the bridge. A fire boat put the flames out and the bridge was reopened about an hour later. In london 30 people were rescued when the tour boat caught fire. Passengers jumped into the water to escape the flames as the vessel made its way past the houses of parliament. They were quickly picked up by passing boats. One woman and a child were taken to the hospital for treatment of smoke inhalation. Three taser robberies in as many days in the northwest washington neighborhood. Tonight police are asking for your help in locating the suspects. The latest robbery happened around 3 30 this morning in the 1300 block of 12th street. Police say three persons of interests can be seen on surveillance video. The robbers are armed with tasers, say police. They may have escaped in a gray colored vehicle if that helps at all. Anybody with information is asked to contact d. C. Police. Dozens of people are dead in iraq today following the latest wave of violence there. The deadliest assault occurred when the attacker blew himself up inside the jihad mosque during the funeral killing at least 25 people and wounding 40. Officials say the bomber was linked to al qaeda and iraq. In northern iraq, twin suicide car bombs killed at least six curdish troops. More than 3,500 people have been killed in iraq since april. Nasas new Delivery Service made their First International delivery this weekend. This morning the space agencys partner Orbital Sciences completed their first flight loaded with 1,300 pounds of food, clothing, and experiments. It was the first craft launched by orbital on the rocket from virginia. In Downtown Washington a 24 hour fitness marathon is now underway near the white house to raise awareness about cancers that attack womens reproductive organs. [ music ] this is just one of the many fitness classes that are taking place during the 24hour event. Participants are also walking, running around the white house to call attention to below the belt cancers. The globeathon is taking place in 80 countries around the world this weekend. A california native has a oneman mission to change the world with kindness. Armon young sold all his possessions and walked from california to new york and now hes walking from new york all the way back to california. I took this bamboo pole out of my yard. I told my friends i was going to walk around and change lives with this and my friends thought it was funny, they didnt believe it. But three days later i got rid of everything and started walking across america. We believe were talking 7,200 miles thus far. He has carried hundreds of u. S. Flags on his bamboo pole. Half a Million People have signed those flags and agreed to perform acts of kindness. Coming up tonight on wusa9. Com. He was feeling different as you can reach over and hold their hands. Youre going to like this story. 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The newlywed took off on the honey moon. If that doesnt put a smile on your face, then what will . Thats good stuff. I dont necessarily need the rain, but do we have any rain in the forecast . Itll be a while off as we can enjoy the beautiful workweek before it arrives. All right. Overnight tonight, the patchy fog is developing. Especially if you are coming in from the south and the west of the district. Right now were still clear on the michael and son weather cam. Especially as they mention it before in Northern Virginia and out of the southeast. Now, the flow out of the northeast, that was bringing all those clouds, the marine layer as we called it, they have finally moved off to the east. Its such a weak cold front that we are just going to see clouds and not any rain here in the d. C. Metro. Temperatures, theyre going to get warmer, even after they pass. As it will be mighter and might milder and milder and the dry stretch is going to continue as we turn that calendar over into october. The current temperatures are down in leesburg. Its already 54 in gaithersburg and martinsburg. And down in 50 right now, which is a chilly night for some parts of the d. C. Metro, which will be allowing them to develop. But here comes the cold front. Dissipating as they make their way here. They will help to see some of the showers and the thunderstorms developing again as we head into monday afternoon. Well see lots of sunshines and the showers developing along that area. But the mountains, theyre going to bring out the last little remanence that will be left with the cold front. So as they make their way towards us here, well be completely dry. Overnight tonight. Patchy fog as we mentioned. 49 to 56 for your overnight lows. Out of the southeast. So very light wind speeds. Helping to allow that fog to develop. As we step out the door tomorrow, partly sunny with temperatures in the 50s and the 60s. Pretty nice. Winds are being more southerly there for them and as they move on through, youll get that off the mountains, helping them get up to 83 degrees with partly cloudy skies. High pressure will move back in with the high of 83. Definitely feeling like late summer. A lot of sunshine, staying with us. The system will be with us on friday. Thatll bring us a chance for the isolated thunderstorm. But the bulk of the rain will be arriving here on saturday as it looks like we could see the heavier rain. The timing is not good, but were going to enjoy a beautiful workweek before it arrives next weekend. Okay, thanks a lot. We appreciate it. In pittsburgh, they crowded this weekend. To witness the arrival of the giant rubber duck. They made their way under the bridge, to a crowd of anxiously awaiting fans. Some came dressed in their garb. Others came with the duck calls. But everybody was eager to greet them there. And do you believe it . It is actually happening. We saw it about a month ago as she started telling people as they gave them the strange look. Its great. Oh my gosh. I cannot believe that. Its funny. And its a project thats about joining happiness and also about connecting people and over the globe. We just know what their response is and here we are overwhelmed. The giant duck is a part of their rubber duck project, which was created to create the harmony across that globe. So far they have made their way to amsterdam, belgium, australia, china, and now pittsburgh. Next, redskins, they win, rave [ male announcer ] at northrop grumman, we know in the cyber world, threats are always evolving. At first, we were protecting networks. Then, we were protecting the transfer of data. And today its evolved to infrastructure. Finance. And military missions. Were constantly innovating to advance the front line in the cyber battle, wherever it takes us. Thats the value of performance. Northrop grumman. Well yesterday my esteem colleague said if the redskins lost today the season was gone. I think she was on to something. Yes, its much to be desired and dallas has won two if there was a time to get moving, then today was it. Washington and oakland, never easy to go in there. This is h