speaker john boehner is saying the senate like the house should be in session to address the budget emergency. the senate took sunday off despite the escalating scandal. it's up to the senate and jerry conley said no compromise means big consequences. >> billions of americans are signing up for all kinds of benefits and veterans and social security and medicare. all of that will be in the backlog. >> it is scheduled to meet at 2:00 this afternoon. harry reid said they will strip the measure to delay the health care law as well as another that will repeal attacks on medical devices. we have a shut down to deal with if they don't come to a compromise. >> hundreds of thousands of federal worker who is live here and work at agencies across the region will feel the impact. many are concerned about what will happen tomorrow.

melissa is live on capitol hill with the reaction. good morning. >> that's right. we talked to a lot of federal workers and a lot of them say they are anxious and wondering and waiting to see if congress will go through with the shut down. >> we workers are paused and we don't like it. we really don't like it. >> 800,000 federal workers hanging in the balance. they are rushing to work this morning and could be sent home tomorrow if the congress doesn't pass a bill before funding expires tonight. >> it's unfair as a federal worker we are all kind of like we are part of a tug of war. >> for they blow through the deadline, they would be forced off the job without pay. many keeping tabs on the showdown as they walk, toting newspapers and eye on their phones. barbara is frustrated. she has been a federal employee

for 20 years. >> everybody wants to work. everyone needs to work. >> federal employees have to report to work on tuesday, but unless they are considered essential, they would be sent home after four hours. >> we cannot check e-mails and cannot update our websites as part of the social media team and cannot update social media accounts and can't monitor them. when we leave work, we have to leave everything there and walk away. >> the republican plan does include pay for military members who have to stay on the jo the group of 800,000 makes up about 40% of the federal workforce. >> we have to do a lot more work with less people. >> states, cities and towns could feel the pinch yet again. >> it's not political party, but

the american people. >> as they wait for word, many will be watching tv throughout the morning when they can catch a break or two. it it will be a long day. could be the last full day for quite sometime. news 4. back to you. >> thanks, melissa. we are waiting to hear if vincent gray will protect city workers from a shut down he's designated all as essential to try to keep them on the job. d.c.'s attorney general said the mayor could be arrested if are spending any money congress has not authorized, each local tax dollars. stay with us as we cover every angle of the shut down and how it will impact you with trash pick up and getting a passport. ten ways you could be impacted.

turning to the weather, beautiful fall-like temperatures this morning. tom has another beautiful forecast. >> i'm running out of adjectives. another gorgeous autumn day. that is a live view over the city camera. the weather center reports temperatures coming in around 70. here's another look at the sky. the sky watcher camera is showing ail royal blue sky over rather green urban forest around the metro area. there is more further west in the upper 60s. fairfax county and al vandt ria

and the district are considered 70 degrees. gorgeous into the afternoon. how much warmer it will be getting too. we have a heat wave coming this week. certainly warmer than average anyway. we will look at that in detail and a look at october as well on this final day of september. barbara? >> we have breaking news at the live desk. let's go to angie goff. >> dozens are in the hospital following a train collision in chicago. 33 people were hurt after a cta train headed east collided with stopped at the station. the injured being taken away from the scene. this happened in the forest park area in the last couple of hours or so. part of the line has been suspended as investigators continue to try to figure out why that out of service train was on the tracks in the first place. angie goff, news 4. >> thank you, angie. right now crews are trying to fix a broken water main on 28th

street between cathedral and woodley. some people do not have water right now and they will not get it back until that pipe it fixed. we are told the work is not creating traffic issues at this time. newa news 4 midday, a family wrapped up a news conference to talk about the devastating effects of synthetic marijuana. 22-year-old charlie ekler's family plames k 2 for his death. it will be illegal to buy synthetic marijuana in maryland. drugs like k 2 and twice are sold in tobacco shops and convenience stores. there no age restrictions to purchase the drugs. several new laws are about to go into effect. is geared towards drivers. adam is live with what you need to know before you hit the roads. >> what you need to know is put

the phone down. if like to chat away, put the phone down. drivers getting the message. hang up or go hands free. the new law starts tomorrow, october 1st. drivers are very happy to hear about this new tougher law. >> i think it's insane. you have a full supporter of taking the phones out of the car. >>. >> doris is responsible for precious cargo behind the wheel and can't understand why so many are not paying attention when they drive. >> i can't tell you the number of times we passed people or people passed us and their head is down looking at their lap. you know they are not driving. >> you see people on the devices distracted. starting tomorrow talking on a hand held phone works from a secondary to a primary offense. an officer can pull you over for talking on the hand held cell phone. get caught once and it's a $75

fine. some acknowledge it will be a change. >> do you talk on a cell phone while you are driving? >> are sometimes, yes. rarely. >> chandler walks everywhere. but she wishes drivers would pay more attention. >> i think it's dangerous and there should be laws against it. people get into car accidents just to text? >> another law kicks in tomorrow. it's a seatbelt law. everyone in the back seat has to be wearing a seatbelt or it's a 50 $ fine. live in bethesda, news 4. >> maryland's new gun law to ban 45 different assault rifles and magazines that hold more than ten rounds. people will also be fingerprinted during the gun buying process. today is the last day you can visit the national aquarium. it will be closing doors in the basement of the commerce building.

renovations are forcing the aquarium out. the owners are looking for a new location. the staff is planning to move the animals to the national acquire wrum in baltimore. . >> president obama is preparing to welcome a foreign leader to the white house. we have the latest on the meeting and the issue keeping the white house and capitol hill busy today. a possible government shut down. plus after their first win, the redskins may not be in as bad of a place as you might think.

. >> i'm angie goff at the live desk with new information just in on the terrible train collision in chicago. we learned from our sister station in chicago that they are reporting that one of the trains

involved in the crash may have been stolen. this after they spoke with the mayor of forest parks. this is a suburb that was stopped a a station in the city. the other was traveling the wrong way on the same tracks that hit the train that was stationary. the conductor of the train said that he didn't see any controls. the mayor is saying they are treating this as a crime scene. meanwhile dozens are recovering in area reports from the accident. we are told that none of the 33 that are hospitalized are facing-threatening jurisdiction. news 4. >> a group of inspeckors wrapped up another investigation. the un team left this morning and headed back to lebanon. they inspectioned six cases of alleged weapons use.

their goal is to dismantle the manufacturing ability by november 1st and destroy the current weapons by next year. right now israel's is here in washington. benjamin netanyahu is sitting down with president obama at the white house. they are expected to talk about syria as well as iran and that comes days after iran's new president spoke with president obama on the telephone. the first time the leaders have spoken to each other in more than 30 years. as the president meets with netanyahu, they are wondering if anything can be done to stop the government from shutting down. we have more on the approaching deadline. we have less than 12 hours now. >> we do. midnight tonight is when the government would shut down. about 800,000 federal workers and a lot of people would be without a check if the

government does shut down. there is a chance, a small chance that we do avert a shut down, as long as there is time on the clock, speaker boehner can potentially after the senate actions this afternoon say let's do a one or two-week funding measure and clean cr. his office said there is a 50-50 chance. >> the house is in session. the senate doesn't meet until 2:00. why isn't there more urgency? >> they voted over the weekend and they voted on friday to send a continuation back to the house and they sent that back and said we are not going to completely defund obama care, but say it should be delayed boy a year and repeal the device tax. the senate said we will reject anything that has anything to do with the health care law. they passed this and harry reid said we will not deal with anything that has this to do

with the health care law. they will send another back to the senate. ba being to where we started. >> i heard chuck todd said if they do this by secret ballot, they would pass this. >> probably true. when you look at roll calls, people are concerned with their name on something that they would be attached to that vote. because of the way this has been drummed up, this is a proxy for voting for the president's health care law. if that's the case, a lot of republicans who might have voted for a clean resolution to keep the government open for a few more weeks would have voted for that. because of the way it is billed for the president's law, they are against it. >> let's talk about the affordable health care plan. it's about to happen unless they stop it in its tracks. they are supposed to get going. what is it that people don't like about it? >> republicans think it will who

blow a hole in the budget and it's bad for small businesses. because it's going to be complicated and they have to buy insurance. we are still struggling where there is a lot of people who don't make a lot of money who have to buy insurance or face a penalty and a tax that they wouldn't have had to pay before. that's the argument on that side. the white house said this is something that more people than not will have insurance than didn't have it before. you can see this new poll is out by nbc news and kaiser, 29 people are angry and only 24% are enthusiastic, including less than half of democrats. that's why there is such an uphill battle. >> many of them don't understand what they are angry about. >> 15% of people in another kaiser poll said they even knew that the exchanges were opening october 1st. >> thank you. we will see what happens

tomorrow morning. you probably will be up late. for more check out first read on nbc news.com. new today pope francis announced the late pope john paul ii will be declared a saint the week after easter. he made the announcement in a meeting to celebrate the blessed john paul ii shrine here in the district. they will offer prayers. the designer is off michigan avenue in northeast near the catholic university of america open until 8:30 this morning. >> we will talk about this weather. we are all so happy we haven't seen any rape, but are we needing to worry about that? >> the water supply is fine and not an agricultural issue really yet. >> pumpkins are already?

>> showing up at all the garden centers and the corn stalks are shooting up. starting to look like autumn. we don't have much in the way of the autumn color. i took this photo over the weekend. west of frederick, maryland. it's lush with green ferns. i hiked up to annapolis rocks. this is looking south along the mountain. many of the trees are all green. spotty colors showing up. also there in annapolis is a great place for rock climbing. i was going to join this guy, but i didn't have enough rope. post your photos to weather at nbcwashington.com. there is a view of the capital. a mostly sunny sky and a southerly breeze. 68 now at reagan national. in prince george's county,

around 70 degrees. mid-and upper 60s and the rest of northern virginia, most locations are near 70 and that includes fairfax, alexandria, falls church and arlington. in the 60s, shenandoah valley. it is a beautiful autumn day and highs this afternoon should be reaching the mid- to upper 70s. the light wind and lots of sunshine. the temperature graph showing that it's going to be turning cooler this evening after sunset. it will be dropping down into the 60s. by midnight should be back down to the mid 60s. this is the last day of september. we certainly do need rain. looking forward as we get into october. joining us on the mall is chuck looking at the rainfall deficit and wa we need into october. >> absolutely right. america's back yard. the national mall. you can see the grass browned

out quite a bit there sections that are lush and green, but those are the parts that have a sprinkler system to help. typically as you know, we tend to get the rain in short doses. over this year we had days with at least one inch of rain. those days alone account for more than 40% of the total rainfall for the entire year. that's about wa we expect. about to ten of the rainfall days per year. the last time we had one was on july 18th. it's 2 1/2 months since you have seen a big soaking rain. as you go forward, we only average about 3 1/2 inches of rape for the month and we are at about a half inch behind already in rainfall for the year. the other thing that we know about, temperatures start to fall. the average high drops from the 70s to to the 60s and drop from the mid 50s to the mid 40s by the time it's time to talk about trick or treaters.

>> around then is when we get the color around washington. usually the end of october when we get the color beginning to show up. then tomorrow it's going to feel more like summer. highs reaching the low 80s and sunny on wednesday. a touch of summer on wednesday. into the mid 80s. on thursday mostly sunny and warmer than average trend continues. the highs in the low to mid-70s and staying above average into the weekend. it does look like we will stay dry. the next chance of rain may not be until perhaps late on sunday. >> looking good. thanks a lot. >> it's 11:23. what a d.c. couple will change their name to for the right price. a love story set to music. the show is coming to our area for the holidays. you will meet the star.

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>> we want to give you a sense of how odd this science has been for the red skips. the record is 1-3. they just won the first game of the year and they are just game out of first place. the head coach is not too thrilled. >> everybody is losing the division, you feel like you might gain a little bit of momentum, but we have to worry about ourselves and start playing good football. >> the skins are off this week. they will play the cowboysa october 13th. they have a bye week going on. the game could be for first place. >> a d.c. couple is willing to

change their names for charity. that's jeff and jessica who will change their name to van squiggle bottoms to raise money and if they reach their goal they will have to change all their do you means. so far they raised more than $4,000 towards changing their name to van squiggle bottom. >> what will close and what will not if the government shuts down at midnight? coming up, the list and who may have to go without a paycheck. >> amanda knox back on trial in italy. will her former boyfriend testify against her? storm team 4's tom will look at

>> right now we are a little more than 12 hours away from a government shut down. the house is in session while the senate will be later this afternoon. as tom costello reports there is a lot at stake if lawmakers can't agree. not everything will shut down. >> the military will continue to operate, but instead of paychecks, those in uniforms could get ious to collect pay at a later date. that could happen if they vote to pay the employees. 1i68ian employees could be furloughed. the federal reserve,if bi, dea and federal courts will operate normally, but if it lasts longer than two weeks, they could run out of reserve funds. the mail will keep coming through snow, rain, heat, even a government shut down. most homeland security

operations will continue, but the if, da said they would be unable to keep up most of the food safety oversight. 6600 employees could be furlough and hud would be shut down and same with the department of interior which means the national parks would close. if you are coming to washington, the smithsonian museums and the zoo would be closed. the department of labor, emergency, commerce, and the epa are expected to shut down. irs funks would cease, but social security checks would still go out. veterans could see benefits, but medical services should continue. nbc news, washington. >> we work to cover every angle including how it will affect you even if you aren't a government worker. heads over to nbcwashington.com. an italian court kicked off the second appeals trial for the

murder of her british roommate. she and her roommate were acquitted, but they decided to overturn the case and the court cited inconsistency including the question of a motive and d in na evidence as reasons to retry the case. knox will not travel to italy for the trial. knox's ex-boyfriend rafael said he will return to court to testify if called. he called it a never ending nightmare. >> my life is still on hold and i cannot move on and make plans for my future. i don't see any real future for me instead of standing in had the trial forever. >> knox said she may testify via video. right now investigators are waiting for the whereckage to cl

after a small plane crashed in santa monica, california. the crash was unsurvivable. the plane was attempting to land when it went off the runway and crashed into a hangar. they described a huge fireball. the plane was coming from haley, idaho. the star of mia farrow is expected to be sentenced for molesting two boys. he pleaded two counts of child abuse. two men came forward saying farrell abused them between 2000 and 2008 when they were younger. the abuse happened at pharaoh's home in the edge water area. he faces up to years in prison. >> some principals are not making the great. only about 45% of principals received ratings of highly effective or effective.

more than half of the principals earned developing or ineffective ratings. the bottom 8% lost their jobs this past spring. the ratings are based on observation on student progress. here's a live look this morning at union station. city leaders are celebrating 25 years since the station reopened after a massive restoration project. throughout the day, you can see a number of artifacts and photos as well as interactive model and future plans to expand the station. the station was built in 1907. it cost $160 million to restore and reopen in 1988. check in again with tom who is outside to enjoy this weather. what's it feeling like out there? still chilly? >> comfortably mild. you top the sit on a bench and

fold your hands and smile. quite green around here. we are getting dry leaves beginning to fall. the sky over washington now. lots of sunshine as we take a look. sunny and warmer than average each day. tuesday into thursday. wednesday afternoon they hit mid 80s. average high this time of year is low 70s. 's we get into the weekend, warmer than average and the next chance of rain may be late on saturday. >> the head of the health and services department, they addressed oncologists at the association of american cancer institute's annual meeting. she threw out scary numbers like the estimate that 580,000 people

will die from cancer this year. but she also commended the men and women in the room noting the care of childhood cancer as a shining example of their hard work and achievements. >> today 80% survive years or more and there now more than 300,000 long-term childhood cancer survivors living in the united states and those numbers are growing every day. >> the research being done by the men and women of the conference helped to decrease the incident rate of 200 different types of cancer in recent years. the annual meeting ends tomorrow. >> make plans for the holidays right now. it will premier at the national theater for week only. you better get the tickets early. december 25th through the 29th and the director of the show is here with one of the stars.

>> this is the show that always brings in the plays. high schools and on broadway. this is a big with big shoes to fill with people who had that in the past. >> i play clara. clara sings summertime. >> clara gets the best song. >> we heard a little bit of it. tell us about your role? >> clara is on the show and represents all the promise of catfish rowe. the future of she and her husband, jake. they represent everything that's positive and good to come. >> this was one of the first shows to feature an all black cast. they gave really celebrated actors and people didn't even know who they were.

how difficult was it to resurrect and try to make it as difficult as it was? >> it was done as an opera. it is done with an opera cast and size. we wanted to make a revival that returned the show to its roots. we have an impactful version so you get to hear the songs you love. the a 23-piece orchestra with an emphasis of the love story and the acting and the people in the community of catfish row. a desire to introduce the work to the next generation of audience. >> it is a very famous show. it is not just summertime. can't help loving that man of mine. >> ain't necessarily so. >> i love you. >> that's one of the most beautiful songs ever written, i think. >> you will be at duke ellington doing a master class.

>> a graduate right here. >> you graduated? >> there is no way i would be singing if it weren't for that school. it has the training and confidence to go out into this world. >> that's fantastic. you will be there today teaching. both of you? >> ayes. >> work with the students with singing and acting? >> are they are intertwined. >> also talk about the social history of this piece. this is one of the masterpieces. it has history and performed here in 1936. the theater was desegregated because of the performers. they demanded that when they performed here. >> it's a 345izing. a lot of folks want to get their tickets now. >> december 25th. >> christmas day. runs for five days. people will be mad at me for not asking you to sing. we will have to do that another time. good luck.

tickets available through the national theater box office. >> yes. >> gas prices dropped below $3. where we are seeing the lowest prices in the area and plus using local ingreed ydients thae in season right now. the key to a local chef's the key to a local chef's cooking.

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fredericksburg. they could keep falling for the rest of the year. drivers should expect more falling prices as production companies switched to a winter blend. that could change if there is a hurricane or anything that disrupts production. aaa reports the prices for regular is 3.ive in the district and 348 in west virginia. apparently companies with female bosses make more money. according to a new report, firms where work make up a third of the board member make more profit. the companies have multiple female managers. >> investors are watching what will happen here in washington over the next 12 hours. we will check in with hampton pearson with how stocks are

trading. down because of the craziness in washington? >> absolutely. stocks are in negative territory with the likely hood of a shut down. checking the dow down 93 points and the nasdaq down eight. s&p down eight. that's one of the key items where they look at what's happening here. from the labor department, we get the minutes of the last federal reserve meeting and policy makers decided not to end the economic stimulus. that will be released and on october 17th, we have the dead line to make a deal to raise the debt limit. now while the markets are heading down ahead of the possible shut down, analysts say losses could be temporary and stocks would recover well when washington resolves a fisk 58

crisis in the last shut down that lasted three weeks. the s&p 500 intext fell nearly 4% and rose nearly 10% over the following month. when congress was fighting over raising the debt ceiling and they lost the credit rating, the dow tumbled 1700 points and took months to recover. shifting gears totally, would you believe things go better with apple? apple is the new most valuable brand in the world according to a closely watched report from the group for the last 13 years. coca-cola has been the number brand. the report estimates that the apple brand is worth $98.3 billion, up 28% in the last year. coke up 2% at $79.2 billion. what a change. >> you are not kidding. have a great day and enjoy the

beautiful weather. >> you have a great day as well. we are in the kitchen with the chef at the grill room. thank you for coming. this looks so incredible. i know you are swedish and we are making something called beat root cured wild salmon with cream. salmon rowe. is this what we can make at home? >> absolutely. i have the salmon filet. equal amounts of sugar and salt. it needs to cure for 48 hours. white peppers and mix that. we are going to cure this in beat root.

>> these are just regular boiled beats. >> it's like a potato. it takes maybe 30 minutes to cook. we slice it and layer it. this is a traditional swedish recipe. atting the beats give it a twist. >> we see the beats in the grocery stores and i often wonder how you make them. you can boil them and eat them, but this looks like a great idea. what happens now? >> this is finished. this is how fast it is to cure cal mon. we need to cover it and put it in the fridge for 48 hours and then it's ready. the finished product looks like this. . >> it actually turns the color of the beats? >> it absorbs the juice from the

beats. now we have goat cheese cream. >> you can eat it like this. 48 hours with the salt and sugar mixed in. using local ingreedients and the grapefruit and the beats and golden beats. what is this? >> a goat cheese cream. >> the goat cheese and half goat cheese and half half and half. warm it up so it melts and we will assemble the fish. we are using the salmon sliced. this is nice and easy to prepare. it lasts a few days in the fridge and it's versatile. >> it's beautiful. that's the finished plate over there.

are you going to put more things on top? >> i am garnishing with toasted hazelnuts and grapefruit vest. >> this is grapefruit? >> grapefruit. >> what is that? >> dill flowers. >> that's beautiful and smells good. >> a small salad with this. >> tell me how you know how to pick a good piece of salmon. it has to be fresh. >> it's easiest to buy whole fish. you can look at the gills. most people buy the filet and you have to look at the color so it's nice and pink. >> okay. we have a big fresh salmon in front of us. that's the way you would buy it if you were back in sweden. >> absolutely. yes. >> you have a salad to go with it.

this is fabulous. we have a honey vinaigrette that we will serve it with. >> i will change the plate so we can see how it looks. that is beautiful. absolutely gorgeous. i will try it at home and try to make that. to see if it tastes as good as you do. >> thank you very much. >> brand new over there. >> thank you very much. >> it's 11:53. coming up, katy perry's shout out to a local school and tom will be back with another

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north stafford high school featuring perry's hit song roar. she tweeted i can hear your roar nshs. we posted it on our facebook page. terrific. time for a check on the forecast. >> it's a wonderful day and temperatures around much of the region and ought to be peaking in the low to mid-70s and much of the area may be in washington. then warmer than average temperatures each day with sunshine all the way into the weekend. morning lows on the cool side, but afternoon highs back down on wednesday. summertime in the mid-aches and into the weekend with increasing clouds and showers late in the day. that's the next chance of rain.

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>> that is the way to start on a monday when it came to jay cutler, no excuse. welcome to "access hollywood live". billy is off today. helping me welcome once again alphonzo rivera. >> thanks for being here. >> billy would be bum because we have scandal week. >> i get the first day of scandal week. how cool is that. >> look who we brought in. scott foley is here. [applause]. >> i have to say captain jack ballard i was hoping you would come in the uniform. >> i'm glad i'm not. a little