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What does that mean in a practical sense? social security checks and unemployment checks will go out. national parks will stay open. the mail will still be delivered and the tsa will still be operating at the nation's airports. coast guard and border patrol officer, air traffic controllers, federal firefighters, all those people will still stay on the job but working for free until the shutdown is lifted. most federal employees, including the cdc staff dealing with the flu epidemic are furloughed meaning they are temporarily out of work and temporarily without pay. they will get back pay but t...

Hadn't even been considering so he doesn't think the shutdown is his fat. >> he walked away from two bipartisan deals including one today in which i even put the border wall on the table. >> but just because government is technically out of money relevant agencies are still going to send benefit checks to people on medicare medicaid or social security, the veterans administration hospital is still running and the mail gets delivered except on sundays and you'll still get a pat down from tsa agents at the airport because they're open too but most of the irs is shutting down which is good news i...

Plus, a deadly helicopter crash what a reality show has to do with this terrible accident. and a man snatches a toddler but is stopped before he gets away. who jumped in and what happened to the would-be kidnapper? gregg: some new information now on a scam involving social security numbers. a shocking report finds that 6.5 million dead americans are actually still listed on the benefit agency's active rolls. fraudsters getting in and ahold of some of these numbers now. joining us from the fox business network lauren simonetti. hi lauren. >> this is unbelievable. a scam affecting the social s...

Things to do in this country. >> it's difficult because when you leave iraq you end up with a country running completely rampant. and al qaeda also gets a foothold there. this is a difficult situation to be in, to make this decision. maybe fewer troops is $20 billion that doesn't actually buy you anything. >> maybe. but the theory behind this is with that you can train up the afghans so they can stand up on their own. but the key question with al qaeda, and al qaeda seems to be resurgent in iraq, which they would not be if we had not invaded in the first place, the question becomes what become...

Obama, getting benefit checks to the long-term unemployed after congress failed to pass an extension before the holidays. >> let's get them done right now in a bipartisan way and everybody can share credit in doing something that's the right thing for the american people. >> reporter: house republicans want the $6.5 billion cost offset with cuts to other government programs. it's a concession democrats see little reason to accept convinced republicans come off as insensitive to struggling americans. they are considered a bill co-sponsored that does not cover that price tag, extending benefits ...