Emergency Death News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

All right this morning, two military families dealing with the deaths of their loved ones already just days ago on a training exercise now dealing with even more pain. because of the government shutdown, they will not receive the emergency death benefits. cnn's barbara starr is at the pentagon with the story. we're seeing the real life consequences, barbara, of this government shutdown. >> if you want heart break, listen to this, there was an army apache helicopter with two officers on board in the early morning saturday hours that crashed in a training accident at ft. irwin, california. both ...

>> i'm ashamed. i'm embarrassed. >> reporter: lawmakers complaining that families of fallen u.s. service members are not getting emergency death benefits because of the government shutdown. the outrage spread to the white house. wednesday, president obama told norene ginnsler -- >> when i heard about this, i told the department of defense we should be able to get that fixed. >> reporter: in late september, several days before the shutdown, the pentagon warned this would happen. >> we would also be required to do other bad things to our people. examples, we couldn't pay death gratui gratuities....

Emergency death benefits because of the government shutdown. the outrage spread to the white house. wednesday president obama told doreen gentzler of nbc's wrc. >> when i heard this story i told the. department of defense we should able to get that fixed. >> at a press conference in late september several days before the shutdown the pentagon warned this would happen. >> we would be required to do some other pad things to our people. we couldn't immediately pay death gratuities. >> wednesday as the remains of four service members killed in afghanistan last weekend arrived at dover air force ba...