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We are waiting to hear from house speaker john boehner. he's going to be talking about the budget, if there's any deal. but right now we want to head to washington and our washington bureau and tom foreman. he's actually at the cnn shutdown desk to tell us what else closes, stops or slows down if the government shuts down. hi, tom. >> how you doing? this really is a question that everybody has. what's going to be the difference if you have this big shutdown. the government shutdown, who's affected. an estimated 800,000 federal workers could be furloughed. u.s. troops wouldn't be paid on time. ...

Let's see how much money we can save shut down for a little while. it wouldn't and bad idea for a lot of these politicians to take a week's pay and give it to the government. >> we're getting lots of feedback from cnn i-reporters as the clock ticks down towards a government shutdown. right now let's look at the medical impact for that, we'll turn to our tom foreman, he joins us from the shutdown desk in washington. tom, we know scientists are involved in critical medical research. what happens if the government does shut down? is a day or two not a big deal but a week or more obviously more co...