white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders said that it was a constructive meeting tweeting they listened to one another and both have a good understanding what the other wants. a group of new house members went to the senate floor looking for senate majority leader mitch mcconnell to discuss the shutdown with him but couldn't find him. >> okay, guys, we went to mitch mcconnell's office where we went to the senate. hash tag where's mitch? >> according to an analysis by the "new york times" the 800,000 federal workers that hadn't been paid during the shutdown have missed on average more than $5,000 in wages so far. combined that's more than $200 million per work day and while the median federal salary is $77,000 about one fifth of the workers make less than 50,000. many said they have less than a month's worth of savings. here's how widespread the hardships have become for