the centers for medicare and medicaid services took the lead role of commanding the project without therastructure and manpower to handle the various activities of contractors working together. medicare and medicaid agencies were in charge of coordinating the work of more than 50 contractors. "the new york times" reported, quote, confidential report from the health and human resource department show senior officials repeatedly expressed doubt that the system would be ready on time with lack of resources and other factors. from the beginning politics has been intertwined with the policy. the affordable care act implementation in spite over the debt ceiling moving forward obamacare will be a campaign issue for democrats and republicans. >> until democratic friends it's going to be the political gift that keeps on giving so the shutdown will be old news next year. obamacare's faults will be front and center in 2014 if we don't screw this up. >> reporter: in a recent poll healthcare exchanges received poor reviews. the majority say the launch of healthcare.gov have not gone well. 30% survey

which is what is being expanded on medicare medicaid is a program for poor people and the states that are not expanding it the problem is going to be the poor people are not going to have access to it but that's the sweet spot start target that you're talking about is mostly middle class younger people and they will qualify for obamacare even in the states that are turning down the medicaid expansion i would guess that in fact i would predict that if we just saw. day before yesterday john casing hardcore right wing republican you know deep in the pockets of the koch brothers the whole thing we just saw him say ok i'm going to go against my own republican party in my own state and we're going to take the medicaid money. the reason why is because people in indiana are going to hire rather are going to be looking around going hey why is it that people in other states in tennessee can get you know good impact free health care through the medicaid expansion but we can't low income people working class people. low income working class people who might be working two or three jobs who a

they do not want to cut social security, medicare and medicaid. that's the real world. then you come back to washington. what are people saying? let's cut social security, medicare and medicaid, let's not invest in our infrastructure and create jobs, and in fact let's give more tax breaks to the wealthy and large corporations. so this is an alice in wonderland world. the american people are saying one thing and the lobbyists around here and many members of congress are saying something very different. madam president, when we talk about the deficit, which in my view is an important issue and we should be proud, by the way, that we have cut the deficit in half in the last few years. we have more to go but we should take some credit for that. it is very important for us to remember how we got to where we are today, $17 trillion national debt and a $650 billion or so deficit. and i find it interesting that some of those people who are most active in causing the deficit are now standing up saying oh, i'm really worried about this deficit that i helped cause, and therefore we

with more on this, former administrator at the centers for medicare and medicaid services under presidentne of the designers of medicare part b. welcome back to the show. the president says he wants to sign of 7 million people for obamacare. the exchanges' open tomorrow. it is the starting gun for nsumers and obamacare. is this thing going to work? >> i think that it is and it will be a lot more than 7 million. october 1st is not a. it is probably next august. gerri: why next august? >> some glitches. that is just going to happen. these are technical glitches. your insurance companies, called today and state tom sculley made steward 70 percent of poverty, they're going to get that wrong. politically emotionally that will go away. the issue is next summer how many feel it will sign up and how they will the program be and will it work? the issue to me is, that is a helluva lot of money. gerri: i think your point is it will work all too well. people will grab on to free money because you get subsidies if you are at 400 percent of poverty. so people are going to sign up for it willy-nilly try

think of social security, medicare, medicaid. keep our children's water and food clean. so i think we got to remember that and tell the tea party, you know, we're in this together. and stop tackling good government workers. tackle those overpaid, undertaxed ceos and wall street. focus our ire on not denouncing government, but recapturing it for the common good and shared prosperity. we can speak that way. and in new york city, ed, we lived it when this city was ravaged, as was new jersey, parts of vermont by hurricane sandy. >> exactly, exactly. >> clarence page, you think that events like this can change people, how they think politically? >> especially if people put into context. you know, the farm bill is misnamed because most of the money goes to food stamps, which the right wing views as a give away. but it's actually helps people to eat, working people, as well as folks who are in poverty. and it also helps the farm industry. because it helps more of their products to be sold. it helps the grocers out there. everybody wins.

. >> reporter: but a former aide of medicare and medicaid says cgi was forced to deal with late design changes ordered by the government. >> it would back up the ability to test, to see if everything was functioning properly. >> reporter: last june a report foreshadowed these problems, warning that the website may not be ready to go live in part because of all the ordered changes. and there are state web sites that actually got pretty good reviews. brian? >> tom, thanks. >>> speaking of health, health is in the news tonight. we mentioned this earlier. it's about specifically the danger in the air all around us. the world health organization is warning tonight that air pollution is indeed a major cause of cancer. our report from our chief medical editor dr. nancy

by that i mean social security, medicare, medicaid, obacare as well as defen? well, it certainly givess enough time, if people are negotiating in good faith. if they're, if they're nt actually serious about taking some of the tough votes, that have to be made, and really can only be made during dided government tn, year wouldn't be enough tme. but three months plus is yes, it is plenty of time. we know. we know what needs to be done. there is some members who have been meeting in small groups. they're trying to iron this out with republicans and demrats heading hands on this, much as tip o'neill did, president ronald reagan did back in the early '80s. they performed a very difficult task of slowing the growt rate ofocial curity so that it could last another three decades. we need to be worthy of their legacy during these next three or four months. adam: senato wicker, i appreciate you joining us from the great state of mississippi. although i s you there in the capitol. ese are ents unfolding as we're talking. >> i need more details. adam: soo i but i think we'

social security none in fact rove is just plain wrong medicare medicaid and social security all have fraud prevention programs in place to check prevent and recover money from any cases of fraud department of health and human services recently released a fact sheet about the medicare fraud program that details the variety of laws in place that punish medicare fraud which criminalizes the government being overcharged or knowingly defrauded by medicare recipients doctors or third parties for example between two thousand and two thousand and two florida governor rick scott's columbia h.c.a. private health care company pled guilty to fourteen felonies and paid a six hundred million dollars fine in the largest medicare fraud settlement in u.s. history and the h.h.s. office of the inspector general also has a program to reduce and respond to social security disability from the cooperative disability investigation program investigates disobey. claims under as so ses title to entitle sixteen programs that state disability examiners believe are suspicious despite what karl rove may t

they want to cut social security, medicare, medicaid.hat is the holy grail to them and they will, you know, not let facts get in the way of, you know, efforts to try to make those cuts. so what are the options that we have on that? >> well, i think the key word is options. in other words, instead of focusing on having an argument about what they want to cut and how we want to cut less of it, we should really be talking about the part of the big picture that they're very conspicuously ignoring and have been doing so for a long time and that's this little matter of the economy. >> how about that? jobs. >> go along with that. >> remember that? it's still out there. the unemployment rate is still highly elevated. growth is still slow and half a percent slower now because of the shutdown and what i would like to hear is a couple of politicians stand up and say, okay, we have a commission to talk about the budget. this budget conference. great. we should do that. i'm glad they're talking to each other. we need the same thing on the unemploymen

medicare. do not cut medicaid.ey are saying is, in fact, the most important issue facing the american people is not the deficit, which is important, but not the most important. the most important issue is the need to create millions of jobs so we deal with this frightfully high unemployment that we're seeing. the most important issue also is raising the minimum wage so we don't have millions of working people not surviving. really falling you said under. because they're making $7.50, $8, $9 an hour. and if we deal with the deficit, the way to deal with it, as you have just indicated, take a hard look at defense spending, we are now spending almost as much as the entire world combined. begin asking the one out of four we have now one out of four major corporations not paying a nickle in federal income taxes. i think we have to take a hard look at that, as well. so there are ways to do the deficit that is fair. we have got to create jobs and we have got to protect social security medicare and medicaid. that is what,

air traffic control, food inspections, border security, the postal service and checks for medicare, medicaid and social security will all continue. but some services will be stopped. for example, national parks and museums will close. even barricades around some of the monuments this morning. visa and passport applications will come to an end and so will some veteran services, but i have heard that some passport processes will be continued for a while. so at least call before you go to check on visas or passports. >>> we are all getting affected by the shutdown. in maryland you're also going to be affected by some new laws. they take effect today, october 1. if you're using your cell phone while you're driving and police see you doing it, you'll get a ticket. they used to have to pull you over to something else and then ticket you but now it's a primary offense. officially the death penalty is repealed in maryland as of today. also restrictive gun laws. >>> this is breast cancer awareness month. you probably noticed a building bathed in pink. that was because of breast cancer awareness. the

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medicare, medicaid, social security. ryan was writing about that today.o take your health care away from millions of americans. i mean, they relentlessly protect tax breaks from corporations and dish out decision and the wealthiest americans are the ones that benefit. house republicans have also voted to raise student loan interest rates. there's no end to it with these folks. so what makes you think that we're not going to default, because they said so? on a morning show? john boehner's republican house hasn't done a thing to help the middle class in this country. all they do is obstruct, sabotage, any kind of progress that the president of the united states has made. these guys have done nothing to help 42 months of private-sector job growth. now, our next guest on this program is discovery channel host, mike roe. and i am a fan. what this guy talks about is what we touch on on this program. you might know him from his show, "dirty jobs," or from "the deadliest catch." roe is a supporter of some very honorable things, like creating good middle class job

so that puts medicare, medicaid and the social security, because of the rising numbers is going to be thrown into that even though it's not a problem in terms of our debt. and the president in previous negotiation with boehner and in his own budget at the beginning of the year has put into his proposals cuts that would actually cut benefits in those programs. so he has supported what's called the chain c.p.i. which basically changes the inflation or adjustment for inflation for social security benefits to lower that adjustment so that over time, as inflation rises, social security benefits will not keep pace with it. so people will in fact lose this real value of their benefits over time, and the perverse part of that perform is the older and more vulnerable you are, the more your benefits will be cut or will lose ground to rising inflation. medicare, the president has indifferent guises, means testing medicare meaning make people who have more retirement income pay more for their medicare. that sounds foulke we ask millionaires to pay more, they won't miss it. but to get resources fr

the head of medicare and medicaid did not give specific reasons or numbers. those facts and figures are expected to come in another hearing when kathleen sebelius testifies later this morning. a hearing could get heated since some republicans have been calling for sebelius to be fired. >> these past 29 days have been nothing short of a disaster. >> reporter: as republicans attack the problem-plagued website as representative of larger troubles -- >> the problem with obamacare isn't just the website, it's the whole law. >> reporter: democrats fiercely defending the law and the site. >> everybody needs to chill out because it is going to work. >> reporter: according to prepared testimony, secretary see -- se bealous has said, quote. see bealous is expected to blame the contractors. the lead contractors on the site said they only had two weeks in september to do end to end testing on the system. something they say should have taken months. >> by the end of november the experience on the site will be smooth for the vast majority of users. >> reporter: the obama a

guest: entitlements are -- guest: medicare, medicaid, and social security. guest: thank you. the most popular programs -- guest: they may be popular, but they are bankrupting us. the fact of the matter is -- guest: the fact of the matter is, we need to talk about the money and the services as money is coming for. that is why we are spending this money. let's be honest. china, they are the ones who are paying for our spending to a large degree. to the extent of people understand globalism and how it works, we are a global society. we tried putting up trade barriers. prices at walmart will go up, and people do not want that either. guest: we have the same debate every single year. and as soon as republicans say we need to get a handle on entitlements spending, democrats respond with demagoguery. that is why we are at an impasse. guest: where did that come from? a republican president. guest: i'm just saying. you can even talk about reform without being demagogue by democrats. those stairs are the best tactic for getting democrats elected. guest: do you -- republicans are not ab

that means that at some point social security recipients won't get a check, medicare, medicaid providers aren't going pedestrian paid, military personnel may not get their money on time and investors will wonder if the treasury is going to make payments to them so it means falling stock prices, rise interesting rate, ultimately businesses are going to start pulling back, cutting payrolls, unemployment will be rise, we will be in a recession and in a couple week is a deep recession. >> jeff: does this get factored into the market right now or do we wait a few more days or weeks? >> that's a good question. you know, i think it's going to build and intensify in the coming week. you know, stock investors have seen this movie before. each time the povie is played it ended the same way that lawmakers have come together at the 11th hour and signed a piece of legislation. but if we get towards the end of the we can and there is no progress i'm confident that stock prices are going to start falling pretty significantly. in fact, it may take that to light a fire under lawmakers to get them to come

would encompass not just changes in the health care law but cuts in entitlement programs like medicare, medicaid, possibly cuts in taxes. a larger deal than we've seen both sides reach before in a pass. >> seems like a lot of work to be done. >>> well, top "cbs moneywatch" defense contractors getting a lifeline during the government shutdown and gas prices continue to slide. gigi stone is at the new york stock exchange with that and more. good morning, gigi. >> good morning, anne-marie. the weekend announcement that ended the furlough for most dod employees put some other people back to work. it's led to united technology to bring back workers. it's in a division which builds black hawk helicopters. lockheed martin, however, is continuing with today's layoff of 3,000 employees until it can confirm hagel's announcement with the pentagon. >>> asian markets were lower amid rising concerns about the u.s. debt ceiling. tokyo's nikkei fell more than 1%. hong kong's hang seng lost half a percent. a strong ending to the week on wall street wasn't enough to undo the damage to the dow as investors worry a

it will become like medicare, medicaid, social security.t will become rooted. >> it will become accepted. 1525. >> governor rick perry will not run for reelection. >> we want every child the matter where they start to receive a world-class education. davis,member her, wendy she filibustered against sweeping abortion restrictions. she is running for governor of texas and she has a great personal story. >> she does, she was a teenage mother whose marriage broke up, living in a trailer home then later went on to harvard law school and received her degree and is now age 50 and had an accomplished career and what we have seen happen with her is something similar to what we saw with elizabeth warren in massachusetts. she vaulted from obscurity to the national stage by being seen as a passionate and articulate defender of liberal values. i would not say that is typically the best way to get elected statewide in texas i being up passionate defender of liberal values but it is why there is interest in her. she has become a national figure, not simpl

far from accurate. 95% of americans who have health insurance will be in a continuous plan, medicare, medicaid, employer base, v.a. 5%, a portion of those 5%, about 12 million people, a fraction shun of those 12 million, will have a plan that doesn't meet the criteria and has not been grandfathered in. they are indeed receiving notices. many of those individuals, half of them, will be eligible for financial help getting a new plan. and they have many more choices in the marketplace. so we will not have a banquet -- >> sounded like a hardship -- >> gentleman's time is expired. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and thank you madame secretary for being here and thank you for all that you and your staff at hhs has done and implementing the affordable care act to ensure that it will provide many benefits and to ensure security to those who have insurance as well as lower costs. of course the biggest complaint has been about the application and enrollment website. but we have heard over and over from you that those are being addressed. you would recall and i know my colleagues will recall, we've been conc

it will become like medicare, medicaid, social security. >> he will become excepted but you have to note -- it will become excepted but you have to note, if you look at the states where even republican governor states where they have accepted the medicaid expansion, though states are providing pretty decent options for people. if you look at the states where they have not accepted the medicaid expansion, it is much more expensive and some of the states are big states like texas. >> speaking of texas, rick ary will not run for reelection. we will talk about one of the people who is. >> we want every child the matter where they start in texas to receive a world-class education. davis,mber her, wendy filibustered against sweeping abortion restrictions, she is running for governor of texas and she has a great personal story. >> she does. whoses a teenage mother marriage broke up, living in a trailer home then later went on to harvard law school and received her degree and now she is age 50 and had an accomplished career and what we have seen happen with her is something similar to what we sa

they believe that it's not medicare, medicaid and social security, but then obama care, which is going evolve into universal health care, which, by the way, most americans do want. so to answer your question, they are going to go out and spew any kind of lie they possibly can. you know, guys like sean hannity, who we'll talk more about in a moment. stick around. rapid response panel coming up. >>> i'm mandy drury with your cnbc market wrap. the dow closing up by 61 points. the s&p gaining 7 and the nasdaq climbing by 14. consumer sentiment fell in october to its lowest level in ten months, driven down by the government shutdown. orders of durable goods rose 3.7% in september, thanks to a surge in demand for commercial aircraft. and shares of amazon hitting an all-time high after the online retailer reported sales over three quarters percent. have a great weekend. la's known definitely for its traffic, congestion, for the smog. but there are a lot of people that do ride the bus. and now that the buses are running on natural gas, they don't throw out as much pollution into the air. so i

social security check and medicare medicaid benefits will still go out as will the u.s. mail. but all natural park museum monument will close. this middle school student from colorado said out loud what so many americans are thinking. >> i think it's very disappointing to me because it's kind of sending a message that the government cares more about their party and bipartisanship than they to us the american people. >> this battle went down to the wire and another one quickly looming around the corner. in just 2 and a half week the nation reach the credit limit and even less agreement amping republicans and democrat over how to fix that one. this is capitol hill. >> closure of alcatraz one visible example of the government shut down in the bay area. federal buildings will remain open but with far fewer employees. lillian is in the newsroom with that part of the story for us. lillian. >> there are nearly 170,000 federal employees in the bay area. many of them are deemed non-essential which means they won't be working tomorrow. many employee left san francisco federal be not kno

social security check and medicare medicaid benefits will still go out as will the u.s. mail.t all natural park museum monument will close. this middle school student from colorado said out loud what so many americans are thinking. >> i think it's very disappointing to me because it's kind of sending a message that the government cares more about their party and bipartisanship than they to us the american people. >> this battle went down to the wire and another one quickly looming around the corner. in just 2 and a half week the nation reach the credit limit and even less agreement amping republicans and democrat over how to fix that one. this is capitol hill. >> closure of alcatraz one visible example of the government shut down in the bay area. federal buildings will remain open but with far fewer employees. lillian is in the newsroom with that part of the story for us. lillian. >> there are nearly 170,000 federal employees in the bay area. many of them are deemed non-essential which means they won't be working tomorrow. many employee left san francisco federal be not knowin

the head of medicare and medicaid taking questions on technical problems with the new website. a hearing on stand your ground laws. coming up on the next "washington journal," diana degette is here to discuss the implementation of health care act. then don hoven is our guest to look up the "farmville" -- farm bill. our focus on magazines, looking at the first mole hunt in the fbi. live every morning at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. former house speaker tom foley must his bid for reelection in 1994 after he agreed to keep them assault weapons ban even though gun control was unpopular in his district. he was honored at a memorial service at statuary hall by president obama among bill clinton, and his friend and rival, bob michael. he died on october 18. he was 84. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] ladies and gentlemen, please stand for the presentation of the colors, the singing of the national anthem, and the retiring of the colors. >> forward march. >> present. ♪ oh, say, can you see by the dawn's ear

that acronym stands for centers for medicare & medicaid services. the chief of that department, marilyn tavenner, will testify under oath, that is her on the screen. c-ms got plenty of blame a week ago when the contractors who put together the failed website testified. this is part of what was said. >> cms has the ultimate decision for a live or no-go decision. not cgi. we were not in a position. we're there to support our client. it is not our position to tell our client whether they should go live or not go live. >> all of the risks that we saw and all the concerns we had regarding testing were all shared with cms? >> that is decision made by cms. that is a cms call. that is contract not a contract towel call. >> we informed cms more testing was necessary. >> sir we're never been the systems integrate tore and we are not the systems integrator. >> who is charge for the systems integrator? >> cms is in charge end to end. bill: kevin brady, republican on the house ways and means committee. you will be in the hearing room. >> good morning bill. bill:

. >> good evening, the administrator of centers for medicaid and medicare services marilyn t tabiner stonewalled. refused to answer questions, and told lawmakers, they will have to wait until mid november for the answers, she would not direct leannly answer whether ss told to with hole the number of enrollees, she becamed had the of medicaid and medicare services in 2011, following donald's ber wick's resignation. he resigned amid heavy republican opposition to his recess appointment and controversy surrounding a statement he made 3 years before. mr. ar berwick speaking in londn in 2000 2000 said quote -- exct healthcare is by definition redistributional. today, m.s. tabner offered a feabile apology for the web site failures, and said, we have a system that is working, it is just not working at the success rate high want. fox news chief congressional correspondent mike emmanuelle on capitol hill with our report. >> reporter: 4 weeks after the role out of the obamacare web site healthcare.gov, the administrator for cms said they should have done better. >> i want to apologize to you t

we need to address the big drivers of our debt, medicare, medicaid, social security. rut but to do that both sides have to talk to more than tv cameras. >> after voting on saturday's bill the house is expected to recess until monday night. >>> president obama was on the town for lunch this afternoon stopping for a bite with vice president biden at tailor gourmet, one of the many businesses offering up free and discounted grub for furloughed workers. the president did thank the restaurant for giving workers a little help between paychecks and every little bit does help because another day lost to the shutdown means another day's lost wages for those furloughed employees. we're keeping a running tally on those lost wages. this is day four, so if you factor in a middle pay scale employee who makes about 25 bucks an hour, they're now out about $800. however, the white house does say it is now going to back a house bill that would give back pay to furloughed workers when the government reopens. the house is expected to vote on that bill and pass it tomorrow. >>> their job,

entitlements are -- guest: medicare medicaid -- medicare, medicaid, and social security.ou.: thank the most popular programs -- guest: they may be popular, but they are bankrupting us. the fact of the matter is -- guest: the fact of the matter is, we need to talk about the the services as money is coming for. that is why we are spending this money. let's be honest. china, they are the ones who are paying for our spending to a large degree. the extent of people understand globalism and how it works, we are a global society. we tried putting up trade barriers. go up,at walmart will and people do not want that either. guest: we have the same debate every single year. and as soon as republicans say we need to get a handle on entitlements spending, democrats demagoguery. that is why we are at an impasse. guest: where did that come from? a republican president. i'm just saying. you can even talk about reform without being demagogue by democrats. those stairs are the best tactic for getting democrats elected. guest: do you -- republicans are not about to cut medicare or social s

marilyn tavenner, the administrator of the centers for medicare and medicaid services apologized for all of the problems with the site. she placed the blame on tardy contractors. that did not satisfy members of the house committee who were frustrated when tavenner would not answer some of the key questions. nancy cordes socapitol hill for us tonight. nancy. >> reporter: scott, the main thing members wanted to know was how many americans have managed to navigate this system and actually sign up for insurance. they asked her dozens of times, but she wouldn't answer. >> i want to apologize to you that the web site has not worked as well as it should. >> reporter: marilyn tavenner insisted today the obamacare web site's poor performance had nothing to do with her unwillingness to share enrollment figures. >> we will not have that until mid-november. we have people who are shopping now. we expect the initial number to be small. >> reporter: how small? tavenner wouldn't say. originally the administration had aimed to enroll half a million people in october alone. committee chairman dave ca

that includes social security, medicare, medicaid, and interest on the debt. the parts subject to the shutdown is only 18%. but those agencies get slammed. for example, the treasury department loses 89% of its workers. the department of defense loses 50%. we sent mark strassmann to america's top national health agency. >> reporter: the centers for disease control headquarters in atlanta felt deserted. two-thirds of the center's 13,000 employees worldwide have been furloughed. director dr. thomas freeden. worried? >> i am worried. i usually don't lose sleep despite the many threat wes face but i'm losing sleep because i don't know that we'll be able to find and stop things that might kill people. >> reporter: the shutdown means the c.d.c. will not be able to produce the weekly national map that tracks flu outbreaks state by state. flu season began last month. >> we will be less able to determine when it's come, what kind of flu has come or to respond to outbreaks. >> reporter: more people are likely to get sick just because there's been no warning to let them k

and at the top of it sits the centers for medicare and medicaid which is never run this kind of show before. so they're in a rush. there are a lot of them. and it's incredibly complex. but there's more problems. which is that at the end, they hadn't tested it in the way that you're supposed to test these kinds of things. not only did the top, the c.m.s., the centers for medicare and medicaid not test but the contractors didn't do the testing they should have done either. when they did test it, it collapsed under very little pressure. when it rolled out, there was a lot more pressure than they'd get, and it collapsed spectacularly. and i should say, finally, this is the president's signature domestic policy achievement and apparently he didn't know about it and the head of the department of health and human services didn't know about it. gwen: and yet it fell to him to walk into the rose garden and start hawking 800 numbers like a guy selling sham-wows in the middle of the night. >> damage control. he was trying to say two things, one, i'm furious and this is going to get fixed but th

what you have right now is essentially medicare and medicaid, which is the quarterback, if you will, and the players are all these individual contractors. you have one contractor that was built that was hired to build the identity management system. you've got another contractor that was hired to actually program the code to run the website. literally the opening page. you have another set of contractors who are writing other code to try and make all those things talk to each other. i think what's unusual about this roll-out, and having talked to contractors who are building these systems, both at the state level as well as in washington is that there really was not one contractor that was responsible for making sure that things worked from end to end. that was cms's job. i think we can all -- >> cms is the company that was handling -- >> cms is the centers for medicare and medicaid. that's the federal government. they were the ones that were supposed to be responsible for testing to make sure that everything ran smoothly. >> did they do the tsting? now revel aings are coming out tha

lawmakers cannot address the debt ceiling by october 17th it could jeopardize social security, medicare, medicaid. as well as our flow of credit around the world. president obama will make a statement at 1:00 chicago time. safety and inspection employees are being asked to return to work. another 200 engineers and safety staff who approved a new plane designs, the republican candidate for governor introduced his choice for lieutenant governor today. an attorney, a city council member and served as chairman of the chapter. the last canada to select his running mate. to import and votes on the expressway could be in jeopardy. >> the project is expected to relieve congestion and bring huge economic and transportation benefits to the south suburbs. there will vote on the plan tomorrow. a final vote is expected next week. judges might soon pay more for their health insurance. judges have been paying less than $1 a month for their health care coverage. once the judges to pay their full share. part- time crossing guards and board of elections commissioners would also be affected. the plan could save the

but air traffic control, food inspections, border security, the post office and checks for medicare, medicaid and social security will continue. we know you have questions. like when it will begin. >> it will begin at the end of the fiscal year which is tonight at midnight. but there will be traffic in the morning because most federal workers will report for work tomorrow for about four hours to tie up loose ends before they are furloughed. we've answered your questions about the shutdown on our website at wusa9.com. log on any time to find out what you and your family need to know. >> in the town, nearly everybody has an opinion about congress. so today at dupont circle we set up the wusa 9 soap box, letting anybody vent about the government shutdown. >> shutting down the government in order to deny people health care is absurd and insulting. >> pretty disappointed in my elected officials, in both houses really. >> i don't believe they are going to shut down the government. i sometimes think it is them just having a fit -- a temper tantrum. >> what i'm thinking -- thinking about political fa