CNN Anderson Cooper 360 October 1, 2013 05:04:00
Has been in the process of letting hundreds of thousands of employees who are affected by this impasse know whether they're supposed to report to work today. the law divides the government employees into categories. they're now called accepted and nonaccepted. essentially what that means is some are considered essential, some are considered nonessential. the nonessential ones will not come to work. the essential ones will come to work. the elected leaders of the government will try to find a way out of this impasse. it will require negotiation, either a short-term fix or something otherwise. >...