mary ann rafferty, fox news. >>> the minnesota government is shut down. political leaders couldn't agree on how to solve the budget deficit. talks between mark dayton and top republicans fell apart well before the midnight deadline. dayton is demanding tax increases, but republicans refuse. tens of thousands of state employees have been laid off and state parks are shut down on this holiday weekend. >>> the senate has canceled its july 4th recess. called to work next week to work on the debt ceiling. democrats want higher taxes for wealthy americans to go along with any cuts. republicans asked the president to come to the hill to talk. >>> timothy geithner says he's staying put at the treasury department. yesterday there was speculation that he would leave the obama administration following the current round of budget negotiations. he commutes between d.c. and new york and has a son who is finishing up high school there. but he says i live for this work. it's the only thing i have ever done. i believe in it. >>> we have more on this bizarre story out of m

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mary ann rafferty has the story. >> reporter: crews are trying to capture 42,000 gallons of crude oilpe line ruptured saturday near laurels. operations were shut down within six minutes of the spill. >> we do not know the cause of the incident. the investigating team has conformed, and they are working diligently to try to determine that, but at this time we do not know the root cause. this is a very unusual event. >> reporter: the oil is being spread over a large area, making it harder to clean up. >> the line itself was shut down as quickly as we could and then we proceeded to close other lines along the line to isolate as many segments as we could. >> reporter: most of the soiled areas are within 5 to 10 miles of the spill. >> from my own assessment, it doesn't look like we're going to be able to use it. there's oil all over the top soil and i don't want my animals eating that. >> reporter: a spokeswoman for the epa says the staff spotted oil at least 40 miles down stream. there are other reports of oil as far as 100 miles away. >>> well, the good news is it looks like the weather