it's our top story as we go across america. texas, the flames broke out on the third floor of a building under construction and spread quickly to a building next door. both of them completely destroyed. a third, partially damaged. nobody hurt. the complex was six months from completion. no word yet on how the fire started. >>> florida, a woman dangling from a railroad bridge 22 feet above the tracks in ft. lauderdale. that bridge closed to pedestrians, and it's not clear why she was there when it started rising. >> the track was down, and they

while this has been caused by washington, the impact from it has spread across america throughout this country. in a moment the prospects for a solution to this any time soon. but first tonight, how this government closed for business is hitting hard for so many. we begin with nbc's miguel almaguer.

it drives discussion across america. >> share your story on tv and online. >> one of the largest land sales in the world are wrapping up in michigan. auctioning off 19,000 foreclosed properties online. most delinquent in paying taxes for three years. blighted structures, vacant lats, industrial buildings, homes that are practically move-in ready. the minimum bid is $500. the goal rejuvenate detroit and generate a little money for the struggling city. around 9,000 properties already have been sold, almost 700 properties have not gotten any bids and will go back to the city. our cameras followed one of the detroit residents who is trying to help. >> it's a busy time for herb who heads up his own real estate investment firm in detroit. detroit-born and raised he wants others to get involved and buy back the real estate. >> it's 7300 to current high bid. what do you want to do? >> in the thick of a class to teach and help other detroiters to buy foreclosed homes. all together he and his class bought over 200 homes at an 80% discount. >> this is crazy. the houses

>> they share it on the stream. >> social media isn't an after-thought, it drives discussion across america. >> al jazeera america's social media community, on tv and online. >> this is your outlet for those conversations. >> post, upload and interact. >> every night share undiscovered stories. >> back in the 1930 a lot of the folks that were working out in the fields tended to be black. now those people are latinos that are coming in. and the latinos are just as disenfranchised, they don't have a lot of power. and especially with the current climate around immigration and how we have seen a lot of racial tension towards latinos, it has made it very difficult for us to be able to update these laws that haven't been touched in decades. >> we tried to move forward on changing the regulations in terms of how young children are treated in the agricultural areas and we ran up against a lot of opposition from major industry, the farm bureau and big business. we're talking about special interests here, big special interests. it was kind of a david and goliath if you ask me. >> in 2009, hilda solis

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it drives discussion across america. >>al jazeera america social media community, on tv and online. >>this is your outlet for those conversations. >>post, upload, and interact. >>every night, share undiscovered stories. >> meteorologist: i'm meteorologist dave warren. it is severe weather tracking through the northeast. this line is moving to eastern pennsylvania and down towards baltimore and washington, d.c. this red area, a tornado watch, the storms have a potential to spin there, already seeing gusting damaging wind. that's what is in effect now. the last 12 hours quickly moving across the state and pushing through pennsylvania, new york and new jersey in the next hour. this line not a solid line but severe weather moving through eastern pennsylvania. we're seeing damaging wind gusts closer to the capitol here, washington, d.c. moving through baltimore, maryland, all of this will move east. these storms moving 30, 40 mph, and so a quick storm is what we have throw th through the after. it is a warm front so the tempe

. >> social media isn't an after-thought, it drives discussion across america. >> al jazeera america's social media community, on tv and online. >> this is your outlet for those conversations. >> post, upload and interact. >> every night share undiscovered stories. >> a major victory for same-sex couples in new jersey. governor chris christie has told the state to drop its appeal for the ruling allowing gay marriage. >> i declare joseph and orville to be lawful spouses in the statstate of new jersey. >> senator elect corey booker did the honors just after midnight. the first same-sex couple to tie the knot at newark city hall. we have more. >> as the couples gather at city hall just after midnight new jersey became the 14th state to allow same sex unions. >> the state of new jersey becomes far greater by recognizing the equality of god's children. >> reporter: mayor and senator elect corey booker vowed never to marry anyone unless he could marry everyone in it this state as the first of nine ceremonies began there was a handful of protesters outside and one who briefly tried to disrupt

it drives discussion across america. >> share your story on tv and online. ♪ >>> welcome back to al jazeera. here is a look at your top stories. secretary of state john kerry is in london meeting with world leaders about the war in syria. just moments ago, kerry saying the political solution is the only way to end the conflict. >>> a weaker than expected jobs report is due out today. employers adding 148,000 jobs in september. it was a late report. unemployment dropped to 7.2%. that report delayed due to the government shutdown. >>> police have not yet said what was the motive behind the deadly shooting in nevada. a 12-year-old opened fire killing a teacher and two of his fellow students, wounding two of his fellow students and later killing himself. >>> this next story comes as a bit of good news. >> if drink a cup of coffee is part of your daily grind, it could be an increasingly cheaper habit. and that is thing to increase in production. production this season will exceed demand by nearly 4.5 million bags, and that's on top of a 10 million bag surplus from last year. the packed warehouse

it drives discussion across america. >> share your story on tv and online. >> if fires in the american west are getting more frequent, and costlier to fight - the question is why? >> this is very combustible, and in fact, the small stuff is what carries the flame. >> stephen pyne says there is a perfect storm of factors - the build-up of dry brush, warmer temperatures due to climate change, and decades of poor land management. >> excluding fire from systems that had known it for thousands and in some cases millions of years. >> and now there is a new problem to contend with. >> in the last decade alone, some estimate two out of every three new homes in the us have been built in fire-prone areas. >> what we're doing is recolonizing rural america. just as agricultural frontier in the 19th century gave rise to a wave of fires that burned over whole communities we've repeated that in a new form. >> the black forest fire was in an area of colorado that's seen some of the most intensive spread of this kind of development - projects like cathedral pines, which was

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it drives discussion across america.re your story on tv and online. >> obama administration officials said they need to enrol 2.7 u.s. redents between the ages of 18 and 35 in exchange plans to balance risks and hold down costs. will they enrol come 1 october - should they pay the face. >> joining me now is jen mishory, deputy director of young invincibles, she's in washington d.c. and yevgeniy feyman, a research assistant at the manhattan institute. thank you for being with us. i want to start with you yevgeniy feyman. the young people are crucial to the success of obamacare. >> absolutely. they'll balance out the risk pool, they'll keep premiums that need the insurance, and the administration is reaching out to them. >> jen, the young invincibles are in the 18-34 group. antonio mora brings you smart conversation that challenges the status quo with unexpected opinions and a fresh outlook. including yours. >> what do you think? >> consider this. unconventional wisdom. [ technical difficulties ] >>> nearly 2 billion barre

it drives discussion across america. >> share your story on tv and online. >>> fourteen days into thehutdown in washington, and senate leaders are said to be fashioning a deal that could reopen the federal government and head off possible u.s. default. this is what we know as of monday evening. democrats and republicans would end the shutdown by funding government spending through mid-january. both sides agree to raise the debt ceiling amount to allow the government to pay its bills through mid-february. in return, negotiations would begin in earnest on the budget that was supposed to take effect on october 1st. both sides will go back to the table to discuss the next round of the forced spending cutting known as sequester. and on obamacare both sides would agree to delay a tax on medical devices. this is not a done deal by any stretch and it just kicks the can to another fiscal crisis after the holidays. the question i have got is, is the deal actually good for the economy? for america? stan calender thinks so, saying that the worst deal for the economy is one that is not done at all

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they are being talked about all across america today. americabout all across and talk about on sunday all across american families gathered together about the rightness about what we as republicans are attempting to do. we are attempting to save this country and the american people and the free enterprise system. i'm having to have a government run health care system. this system has been estimated to cost twice of what is was expected to do. since it has come into play, for every one full-time job there has been six part-time jobs created. we do not want a part-time working america, mr. speaker. our country cannot be the greatest nation in the world if we are a part-time working society will stop -- society. the american people did not agree with this bill at the time it was passed, but despite that, the democrats around this through the house and the senate signed by the president in record time despite millions of americans protesting all across america the same day it was passed in the house. issue that hasn harmed american businesses

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dispute that the million and a half farm workers that do backbreaking filthy dirty hard work across america and pick our fruits and pick our crops, and keep our agriculture strong, i don't want my kids doing that, nobody sends their kids to school so they can pick lettuce and tomato and garlic. it doesn't happen. you always will need workers that are willing to come and join you. >> but congressman, the comprehensive immigration reform isn't going to get through the congress. is it worth getting started? >> here's the problem, there has to be -- john mccain, i think it was 2000, i wanted -- 2002, i wanted to go visit him. so 11 years ago i went to see him and i said senator we need to get this done. and after about an hour of talking he was kind and generous to me. he said lou, here is your challenge. your challenge is to get democrats to tell unions that they got oallow more workers to come to supply our future. i said what's yours senator, to allow them to legalize. that is the grand bargain. >> john mccain has famed right? >> they passed a senate bill. >> but in terms of getting his repu

it drives discussion across america. >> share your story on tv and online. >>> a federal court has found america liable for fraud in a trial that stems from the 2008 financial crisis. the banking giant was found guilty of selling bad mortgages to fanny may and med imac through a subsid vary country identified financial. the justice department says it plans to seek $850 million in damages, bang of america has already spent more than $40 billion on disputes related to the 2008 financial crisis. >>> amazon.com customers will have to shell out more money if they want to get free shipping. the minimum purchase for that benefit is going from $25 to $35. the change comes ahead of the crucial holiday season when online shopping and package shipping activity sores. the online retailer has been growing at a break-neck pace and is seeking new ways to raise profits. >>> pope francis has take unusual steps suspends a bishop in germany he has been at the sends of a scandal about his lavish lifestyle being called the bishop of bling after spending more than $42 million for con truck construction of hw

it drives discussion across america. >> share your story on tv and online. >>> u.s.ces are approaching their lowest levels in three years. right now the average price nationwide for a gallon of gas is $3.35. industry analysts say the falling price of crude oil could bring it down another 20-cents by december. the last time gas was 3.15 was during 2010 holland say season, people who live in southeast chicago say every time the wind blows black dust blankets their yards and home. the dust is pet coke a byproduct of refining oil and residents say they have had enough. >> reporter: from her second floor apartment susannah gomez can see what looks like mounds of black soot. >> see how it's much thicker. it's not like regular dust. >> reporter: because of concern about what is in the air, she tries to keep her kids indoors. >> it's hard to breathe around it and it just gets very sticky. in the summertime you can see it stuck on your skin. >> reporter: it turns out that these piles of crumbly black powder are a high sulfur, high carbon by properties of crude oil called pet

it doesn't emanate from washington it emanates from all the points across america. when those people don't feel the certain toy make investment because they don't know what will happen next, whether mortgage rates are going up or costs are borrowing or going up, people will be laid off their customers won't buy they do the safe thing and keep their money in their pockets. when individuals do that you don't think that you have an effect on the economy when a lot of people do it you show economic growth we can't afford that to happen. >> let me play devil's advocate. the stock market went up and down depending on pessimistic or optimistic about ideal. wall street seemed to some shrug off the washington drama. they'll figure it out by the time that they have to. >> el with, i tell you two things, one is, yes, the moves on the stock market were small, but, in fact, the snp500 which is how most people are invested is down over 4% from one month ago exactly. what else could you ascribe this too? interesting rates haven't gone up in the last month. nothing else has happene

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it drives discussion across america.zeera america social media community, on tv and online. >>this is your outlet for those conversations. >>post, upload, and interact. >>every night, share undiscovered stories. >> welcome back. a terrible accident in tennessee involving a church bus, the bus blew a tire 20 miles northeast of knoxville, the bus crossed the medium and slammed in t slay big rig and turned over, 14 willed and 14 -- eight people killed and four own injured. ceos of big banks met with president obama to discuss the debt ceiling. the nation's borrowing limit must be increased by october 17th if it's not the government could begin to defaulting on its bills. the bankers warn that would brad badly hurt the the economy's country. most vulnerable people are feeling the impact in very control ways, m melissa chance >> reporter: some of the mo poorest people. seniors entirely dependents on their social security checks and men and women fresh out of rehab and many are also homeless, a prolonged shutdown would impact

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it drives discussion across america. >> share your story on tv and online. determining using some sort of subjective interpretation of their policy as to whether or not your particular report was actually abusive, because if it doesn't contain language that specifically threatens you directly or is targeted towards you specifically, they may not consider it abuse. they may consider it offensive. and in that case they just recommend that you block that person. >> i don't want to minimise this, because i mean, there's some really horrible things that are on line, and it's not - it's not just twitter, what has happened through social media and the anonymity of the net is that you see websites, hate-filled websites targetting all sorts of groups, popping up. there has been a huge number of those that exist as well. all next week america tonight investigates the campus rape crisis. >> serial rape is the norm on college campuses. >> i know that when i did report, i was blamed. >> then this friday at nine eastern, we open up the conversation in a live town-hall eve

. >> host: on your travels and in your search what did you find across america when it comes to establish religions, established christian religions and gay and whether or not that it's acceptable? >> guest: if you look at american history you find reactions across the entire spectrum. you find open hostility and you find great silent discomfort. you find embrace. it really depends on where you look. the thing about all of this is though most of these people are trying their best to do what they think is right and i think the motive does matter in a lot of the situations. most people are trying to be loving even if it doesn't feel like love to some of the rest of us. >> host: can you give an example? >> guest: so the hardest example for people to accept from westborough baptist church in topeka kansas. when i went very very much wanted to dislike the church. they are so angry. it seems like they are so hateful and yet they tried to explain to me that what they are doing is out of love because they believe that they have been instructed to love their neighbor and how can you love your neig

across the board. you know what this is? this is red america.state where many ranchers vote for these reckless budget-slashing republicans, these tea partiers are the ones who complain about welfare queens and pork programs. now, i would venture to say they'd like to have that storm back. i'd venture to say they could probably use a little federal support right now. but of course today john boehner didn't address the shutdown. he addressed the debt ceiling. now what do you think in middle america? is this the way you want your country to look? now, this is an obscure story. here i am in new york city. i bet nobody in new york city is thinking about this. it's one of these middle of the country flyover places. well, you know what? you want to go down to your local steak house here in new york city? you know where all the prime beef comes from from? where all those cattle are laying dead in america. joining me now, our rapid response panel, clarence page of the chicago tribune. ej dion of "the washington post," and katrina vanden heuvel of the nat

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>>> on the streets of oakland, california and all across america, good kids are going bad. >> every major city has a place where the girls can be found. >> that's one right there. >> i've seen them as young as, you know, 12 years old. >> they're the young and the lost, the runaways. the survivors of child sexual abuse, forced into the service of johns and pimps. >> we're talking about american children being bought and sold by american men in epidemic proportions around the country. >> today all it takes is the click of a mouse to send our most vulnerable kids into an underworld of degradation, drugs, and despair. >> you're pissing me off. get the -- do you want me to break your camera? >> it's a career that's like the pits of hell. >> all right. this dude is actually exposed right now. >> tonight msnbc goes undercover with oakland's human trafficking task force as they battle to rescue the young and the lost. and turn the tables on the johns and the pimps that take advantage of america's children. >> what's going on? i'm on tv. ♪ >>> just across the bay from the glitter of san francisco

it drives discussion across america. >>al jazeera america social media community, on tv and online. this is your outlet for those conversations. >>post, upload, and interact. >>every night, share undiscovered stories. >>> investors across the globe have pulled hundreds of billions of dollars out of stocks since the economic meltdown five years ago. and now there is a whole new reason to be scared as washington messing around with the debt ceiling. if you are willing to venture deals. >> reporter: when kristin byars wanted to save money for her wedding, she went to a website called smart ypig.com. >> i saved $20,000. >> smarty pig is one of a growing number of websites that allows savers to save for specific goals. these sights are insured by the government for deposits up to $250,000 but offer higher interest rates. >> it's an internet-based bank. so they don't have all of the brick and mortar stuff. and they know it's to save for a goal. so people will be less likely to be taking money out and putting it back in all the time. >> reporter: investors might also want to consider credit

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we need to expand the reach of health insurance across america. we're going to. and this effort to defund obamacare and now this vitter amendment, we have to defeat both of those efforts. once this program is in place and splernz this protection -- and americans have this protection, you're never going to take it away. once you have that piec peace od with affordable health insurance, and 6 out of 106 the people who go into the health insurance -- 6 outer of 10 of the people who go into the health exchanges, will pay less than a cable bill for health insurance. finally they get health insurance. that's what it's all about. once it happens, once it moves forward, it will become one of the basic things in america that we count on to protect ourselves and our families. we've got to defeat this vitter amendment. it is just pathetic that we've reached this point, the shutdown of the government and the idea of defaulting on the debt, that it's come down to this amendment. it really is sad. it doesn't speak well for those on the other side who started off with this loft

it drives discussion across america. >>al jazeera america social media community, on tv and online.his is your outlet for those conversations. >>post, upload, and interact. hundreds. >> united nations weapons inspectors have begun dismantling syria's chemical weapon stock. it is a hard job made worse by the raging war there. >> disardisdisarmament, leaked reports indicate that syrian president bashar al-assad is cooperating. but it's difficult to assess how big the stock piles are and where they are located. active war zones make the job all that much harder. and according to some analysts mid 2014 may not be realistic. >> the main technical challenges are to be able to destroy the weapons and the chemical components in a safe and secure way in the middle of a war zone. it's never been done before. u.n. inspectors have never had to go in and seize a control and destroy weapons of mass destruction while fighting was still raging. >> others though are skeptical about president bashar al-assad's reasons for cooperating with the international community. suggesting he could be disposing

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. >> social media isn't an after-thought, it drives discussion across america. >> al jazeera america's social media community, on tv and online. >> this is your outlet for those conversations. >> post, upload and interact. >> every night share undiscovered stories. ♪ >> the food and drug administration says that painkiller abuse has reached epidemic proportions in the u.s. now the fda is taking steps to limit the access to some of the most popular prescription drugs on the market. powerful drugs like vicodin with killing people. >> reporter: popular prescription medications are a new effort by the fda to control them. the drugs contain hydrocodone. the ingredient found in these drugs was prescribed 131 million times to 47 million patients in 2011 alone. the decision comes at a time when prescription drugs account for about three quarters of all drug overdose deaths in the us. west virginia leads the nation in the rate of fatal drug overdoses. but not everyone welcomes the move. tighten restrictions could have unintended consequences. >> by making it harder to prescribe and dispense, ou

. >> social media isn't an after-thought, it drives discussion across america. >> al jazeera america's social media community, on tv and online. >> this is your outlet for those conversations. >> post, upload and interact. >> every night share undiscovered stories. >> the u.s. manufacturing industry has lost about 8 million jobs over the last 30 years. some jobs were lost because technology means fewer labor hours needed to build things but some jobs went overseas to places where wages and benefits are lower. that is known as offshoring. but in the last few years, ge ge motorola and caterpillar have led the reshoring trent. patricia sabga reports. >> reporter: images of u.s. manufacturing jobs migrating overseas. but that picture is slowly changing. according to a recent survey by boston apolog polling group, acy considering it. a nearly 50% increase in the last 18 months. >> what we've seen over the last ten years is the cost in china which were extremely low have been rising 15 to 20% a year. >> ists not just labor cost. proximity to customers. since 2010, more than 200 u.s. manufact

i think it's important for parents and the community across america at large to understand that. >> i hear parents across the country saying they may be the safest place, but in a violent world, they are also saying they're not safe enough anymore. >> well, i think that the question for school districts and for school boards is what can we do in our very limited way to address the issues before they arise. school boards across the country are taking steps to be prepared for emergencies, not just school shootings, but all kinds of emergencies, like natural disasters. whether it's a shooting at sandy hook or a natural disaster as hurricane sandy, school boards are putting policies in place to try to stem any issues, to address them as soon as they happen and keep kids safe as best as they can. >> with the numbers going up, guns, video games, movies, becoming more and more prolific, violence becoming a way of life, is it simply that we are just becoming a more violent society and that is being mirrored amongst our youngest? >> i'm not a social scientist, so i can't really give you a comm

it drives discussion across america. >>al jazeera america social media community, on tv and online. this is your outlet for those conversations. >>post, upload, and interact. >>every night, share undiscovered stories. >>> across the country, tourists hoping to visit landmark monuments have discovering they have been shut down too. there are [ technical difficulties ] >> tourists today has been the hardest part. especially the foreign visitors for most people like that, this is a once in a lifetime opportunity. it's hard to tell them, you know, we're closed and, you know, will it be open tomorrow? i don't know. it's sad. >> fairies to the island still pushed off for grumpy passengers who brought tickets weeks ago. >> stupid. what else can i say. stupid. >> fairies are still running but they are only allowed to circle the island. >> this family came in from arizona, and it is not as close as they had hoped. >> i think it's pretty pathetic. there are people that have come from europe and all over the world, and it's a shame. >> reporter: visitors to the statute generate $174 million a y

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. >> social media isn't an after-thought, it drives discussion across america. >> al jazeera america'sial media community, on tv and online. >> this is your outlet for those conversations. >> post, upload and interact. >> every night share undiscovered stories. >>> welcome back to al jazeera america. here is a look at your top stories. the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons says that syria has now destroyed key equipment used to produce chemical weapons. >>> iraq's prime minister saying terrorists got a second chance to thrive in iraq because of the civil war in syria. he said the world needs to help iraq deal with the insurgency. >>> and the president is courting leaders of some of the biggest interthagsal corporations. they are in washington for a summit, where the president is trying to attract foreign investment. >>> women's rights groups are outraged in kenya. they are demanding justice for a 16-year-old girl who was gang raped after coming home from her grandfather's funeral. >> these people are protesting the punishment of men who were convicted of the incident

. >> social media isn't an after-thought, it drives discussion across america. >> al jazeera america's social media community, on tv and online. >> this is your outlet for those conversations. >> post, upload and interact. >> every night share undiscovered stories. >> welcome back. today is national prescription drug take back day. it's sponsor by the drug administration. it's an opportunity for people to bring in expired prescription medications. drug take back programs lower the chance that prescriptions will be abused. this is the last time ther therl be federal funding for this program. another agency helping the program is the federal drug association. joining us today to talk about this is arthur kaplan, at nyu. thank you for your time. >> thanthanks for having me. >> this is a major policy shift. the key points being your refills cannot be prescribed for as long a period of time as they have been, and to get refills for these painkillers specifically for things like vicodin, you would have to go in personally to the pharmacy. your doctor cannot call it in. do you think this will

. >> social media isn't an after-thought, it drives discussion across america. >> al jazeera america's social media community, on tv and online. >> this is your outlet for those conversations. >> post, upload and interact. >> every night share undiscovered stories. >> welcome back to inside story. we're talking about the dangers of air pollution. with us is andrew leung. and from los angeles, doug brugge, and from mexico city from the national institute of public health in mexico. were talking about the public perception of air pollution and the feeling that it's not that big of a deal. why is there that perception, and why is there the danger? >> i think people have just not been educated about how important this issue is. the report on global burden of disease which came out based on 2010 data found that fine particulate air pollution globally was responsible for 3.2 million death as year. that is a very large toll. and part of that is for cancer. the new report from who recognizing that the fine particulate pollution is a carcinogen point points to deatm cancer, from cardiovascular

. >> social media isn't an after-thought, it drives discussion across america. >> al jazeera america'social media community, on tv and online. >> this is your outlet for those conversations. >> post, upload and interact. >> every night share undiscovered stories. >>> welcome back to al jazeera america. here are today's top stories. >> let's be clear. there are no winners here. these last few weeks have inflicted completely unnecessary damage on our economy. >> president obama taking lawmakers to task today for the shutdown, calling it a manufactured crisis, warning them that it puts the economy at risk. >>> thousands of government workers are going back today. many reporting earlier this morning. the government has a provision for them to get paid back. >>> the major of newark, new jersey is getting a new job. cory booker won a seat in the u.s. senate yesterday. he will fill the seat of the late frank laudenberg who died in june. >>> an international conference could take place by the end of the month regarding syria. inspectors say inspections have taken place under a backdrop of viol

while this has been caused by washington, the impact has spread across america throughout this country. in a moment the prospects for a solution to this any time soon. first tonight how this government, closed for business, is hitting hard for so many. we begin with nbc's miguel almaguer. >> reporter: in talladega, alabama, wendy robinson has been furloughed. a single mom with three mouths to feed, today she got her last paycheck. robinson blames congress. >> i do think that it is nonsense. they need to get their acts together. >> reporter: a teacher in the government-funded head start program, robinson also lost her child care and has no savings. >> i'm at a loss for words really about it. i'm not used to not giving my kids a christmas. >> reporter: in oaklawn, illinois this center is offering discounts on formula and will soon run out of money. >> i do not think that congress is even thinking about the little people like us. >> reporter: single mother of three, rebecca warpowski is worried and unemployed. >> i need these programs to help me survive. >> reporter: at the feeding south