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. >>> if you're one of the hundreds of thousands of furloughed federal workers sit issing at home todayu cannot check your work e-mail. according to "the washington post," it is ill laegal to chec your e-mail. the law was passed in 1984. if you check your work e-mail you could be faired. a lot of federal workers are being told to turn your blackberries off until the furlough is over and then when you come back, physically back to work, then you can do that stuff. >> hard to decompress and unplug. >>> stay with with us. news 4 continues at 5:00 a.m. >>> new this morning, new fallout from the government shutdown. now even president obama's schedule is taking a hit. >> plus, why some federal workers are going against shutdown orders and putting in time today anyway. good morning, everybody. i'm aaron gilchrist. >> and i'm eun yang. welcome for this wednesday, october 2, 2013. we are following news in prince george's county where an officer was involved in a deadly shooting. we will check in with molette green at the live desk soon. >> first, though, be possible record heat for today. storm

but down along the mall, around phoefpbt federal buildings near all of of the museum iss, it is a different story. >> it looks like ghost town here. no tourists. you look out of window where we are working no one walking around i hope they come resolve quickly. take closer look and you will see garbage piling un. d.c. mayor today saying city trash collectors would start picking up litter in some federal parks but around here, crows are doing most dirty work you can forget about finding unlocked bathroom down here. and unfortunately prepare using the corners of the rest rooms like by the doors it is really disgusting. people foe birds in by the government shut down there, are two many to name. but in is la plaza mexican rest run on capitol hill. at lunch time today, it is desserts ised. >> i have kids and family my business still low. who take care of us? owner says this about as bad as he has seen it in 12 years he has been serve hot meals here on pennsylvania avenue. it is like going don't hill. we got to did something. we are hearing all kind stories of hardship caused by god shut down. f

bills today included one whichch would retroactively pay federal workers their back pay for any a days lost this week.see but the democratic senate iss unlikely to act saying they wane to pass one single spendingin bill, not just the ones republicans want.blicans >> and it continues. conti thank you.thank y >>> the washington national cathedral is opening up its i doors to couples scrambling upg to come up with a new wedding venue. they will hold their back up ceremonies this weekend there. t we found ground keepers sprucinc up the property to makeak everything wedding ready.dingea >>> the government shutdown isgm making it hard for families to make end meet. one nonprofit expect increase ie people that need help and whatpw they didn't expect was a recentc surge in generosity.ener beth parker has their story. >> a geographer at the censusheu bureau but today mapping out a o path to a better community.mu >> it feels good to give back to the community and to do something to be productive, not, just sitting at home watching t.v. t. >> garcia is a regular volunteen at the nonprofit martha's table but this week she has extra ext time.ti >

iss operating. john: the washington monument? it is still there. >> somebody passed to a market. >> but they put barricades around it the national pa service closed a part that sits on federal land even though the federal government provides no maintenance for operation or maenads spee mayfair big on things better visible if they close the building for the irs they just lock the door but for the public places then they put up barriers so you cannot get close even ford's theater where president lincoln was shot a national historical monument but it is a working feeder that is a non-profit company already comes from the private sector but they had to close because the building is a national park even though the theater has nothing to do with it. john: and you point out not politicians but people everywhere that cars are designed in the computers in california the reason we have greenelevision in bigger houses every year until the recession just a fact we get a sandwich every day at lunch are done by the people in the private sector working for profit in their own interest and i guess you talk about being impeded by government not being helped. the idea that shutting down the

have to ask yourself with the unanimous vote we suffer federal employees, if it is so important to ease the pain for them what about the vets? feel it issot important to feel the pain is eased on them? what about the sick children that need access to clinical trials? is it not important to ease the pain of the shutdown for them? federal just the employees that the democratic minority thinks is important? host: the house republican leader recent -- republican leader speaking to reporters yesterday. gallup polls the saying that economic consumer confidence has plummeted. you can log on to the gallup polling site. new concerns about the potential of the government defaulting on its lows. that deadline, according to the treasury, is october 17. the washington post has taken a look at the impact the shutdown has had based on region. isber one on the list colorado springs, colorado, home of the u.s. air force academy, followed by virginia beach, an area heavy with defense honolulu, hawaii is third. the d.c. region is fourth. is sixth., utah san diego is number seven. a gusto, georgia and south carolina number eight. rounding out the list to s

issed americans will pay $100 a month. >> they'll have a plan if that is their choice. >> and that number would be even ier, would be better if more states chose the option of using federal funds to expand medicaid to cover the low income population? >> that's just a marketplace snapshot. those are people that will be in the marketplace. >> madam secretary, i don't think i heard anyone from the other side of the aisle today, my republican colleagues, ask you how can congress work with you and support you in fixing this website and fixing this problem? i hope that we all agree we want this website fixed. i would yield to anyone that would disagree. seeing no one accepting that. i'm glad to hear that we agree with this. now madam secretary, what can congress do to work with you to fix this website? >> well, i'm not sure that there is hands on work that cyou can do. maybe we have some technical expertise, but i would say getting accurate information to constituents is helpful. letting people know that they can check out the facts in the law. that they may be entitled to some financial support. that cancellation of policies means that the policy that they had may not exist b