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Shutdown. on the right-hand side you can see in green, those will continue. there are services there like social security checks. those will still keep on coming. so will congress's checks. they are part of a group that continue to get their money. now, they're exempt from shutdown procedures. emergency and disaster assistance also exempt. they will not stop. air traffic control and border patrols will also continue. they are all part of a group that's called "excepted." position that's perform emergency work involving the safety of human life and others. repercussions from past shutdowns have...

Waters, making them too rough to skim for oil. the coast guard today ordering those skimmers, those boats specially designed to collect oil off the surface, skimming it off the surface, ordering those boats back into port until the sea calms down. the fact is you don't need a tropical storm to stymie the skimming. long before the wind picked up here, it was already tangled in red tape. we are keeping them honest. people down here demanding to know where is the sense of urgency? i mean, we saw the exact same thing during katrina. emergency work hampered by people operating from the non-emergenc...

The coast guard today ordering those skimmers, those boats specially designed to collect oil off the surface, skimming it off the surface, ordering those boats back into port until the sea calms down. the fact is you don't need a tropical storm to stymie the skimming. long before the wind picked up here, it was already tangled in red tape. we are keeping them honest. people down here demanding to know where is the sense of urgency? i mean, we saw the exact same thing during katrina. emergency work hampered by people operating from the non-emergency rule books. rules that made sense or might ma...

Other important factor is sunnis who boycotted the previous elections voted yesterday in full force a hopeful sign iraq can function on its own after american forces pull out. >> steve, thank you. the government of turkey today reported more than 50 people are dead after a powerful earthquake in a rural part of that country. there's the map. the 6.0 magnitude quake struck east of istanbul. it destroyed homes in at least five villages and nearly 80 aftershocks have hit. emergency crews blocked off the area to make it easier for emergency work. >> toyota firing back today against critics, tryi...

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