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Changes and assuming they get over this hazmat scare, the fact of the matter is, rating agencies are still likely to downgrade the state's debt. jeff lock, fox business network, has been following this closely. maybe he can bring us up-to-date. what's going on, jeff? >> reporter: as if there wasn't enough drama today in illinois already, neil, where we had this big showdown vote. you're looking at a picture of the gallery. everyone has been told in the capitol building to shelter in place. it's been a tough situation here. about an hour and a half ago, the capitol was put on lockdown as people...

Depression. you touched on something, and i think it was brilliant, as you typically do. what's going on in illinois, you could extend it to other states that have been in financial duress. new jersey comes to mind, maine comes to mind, vast unfunded liabilities. and to say nothing of our federal government, to say nothing of all of these governments and europe that has exceeded this sort of cradle to grape protection that some of them only now are trying to dewing themselves. so i guess i'll ask you, is there going to come a moment when everyone seems to realize we have over-promised and now ...

An american problem, but we -- >> neil: not much more. >> right. >> neil: ambassador, thank you very, very much. you'll begin to see what we're trying to put together for you here, a common theme, the ambassador mentioned not only going on in germany, in illinois, where the lockdown situation, a lot of protests there about budget cuts and a sort of complete rejiggling of their finance, the most severe we've seen since the great depression. and now what is happening in south america. venezuela. huge protests. scheer here is a country that had more money than what to do with, more oil, more th...

We are keeping an eye in illinois, in springfield. they are in a lockdown situation. everyone is expected to be all right. all of this, as the likes of which we haven't seen since the great depression. yikes. and it's also a story about people. people who rely on us every day to deliver their dreams they're handing us more than mail they're handing us their business and while we make more e-commerce deliveries to homes than anyone else in the country, we never forget... that your business is our business the united states postal service. priority: you ♪ (woman vo) to refinance? time (man vo)...

This happened. obviously -- only just as i've been on the phone has the public been told they can move back to their office building. perhaps that's signaling the incident here is over. >> to be clear, because the phone just cut out when you said that. are you hearing that people are being given the all clear to return? >> at the moment, people have just in the last few seconds been given the signal [ inaudible ] where i am but obviously [ inaudible ] around the entire precinct, the westminster station has been closed and there's a lockdown situation at the moment. >> have you been allowed to ...