tea party force texas senator ted cruz defended the strategy on melt meet the press. >> the only people who aren't listening to this argument is the career politicians in washington. >> reporter: but tonight all is quiet. one day left before the government's lights go out. nbc news. the capitol. >> reporter: tour boats loaded with visitors to the statute of liberty and ellis island today. but come tuesday, lady liberty and national parks coast-to-coast will close if the government shuts down. >> the fact that the statute of

tea party force texas senator ted cruz defended the strategy on melt meet the press. >> the only people who aren't listening to this argument is the career politicians in washington. >> reporter: but tonight all is quiet. one day left before the government's lights go out. nbc news. the capitol. >> reporter: tour boats loaded with visitors to the statute of liberty and ellis island today. but come tuesday, lady liberty and national parks coast-to-coast will close if the government shuts down. >> the fact that the statute of liberty could be held hostage, is appalling to me. >> reporter: the smithsonian will also close, long with yosemite, mountain rushmore. the leisure destinations that are the bread and butter to surrounding businesses. >> if that happened, it would shut us down. we come out here doing ligake tests. >> reporter: the last time the government shut down was in the mid-'90s for three weeks. >> we have employees that have families to take care of, bills to pay. we are very concerned about the -- about the effect on them for any sort of shutdown. >> reporter: the impact to n

forced to buy the tea party. moderate republicans and their wrath at the texas tea party leader ted cruz. hope he gets- i the message. >> in kansas city, president obama use the internal gop fights to his advantage. >> one republican senator calls shutting down the government over the affordable care act "the dumbest idea i have ever heard." i agree with him. government is not funded, they could lose their paychecks october 1. >> it is a worry. >> 10 days left. no deal yet. laste obama care fight that long, the government could default on its debt. wbal-tv 11 news. usuallyare -- there are metered parking spots across baltimore. but look beyond that. >> they are being transformed into beaches, and health clinics, and urban farms. we will tell you how and why when we come back. clicks ok, here is an interesting take -- >> ok, here is an interesting take on a parking space in baltimore. they transformed the meter into the beach for the day. i love that. taking place all over. international parking day. designers, artists converting parking spots into temporary public parks. is to spur a disc

tea party. the real question is is mitch mcconnell going to be punished in kentucky and is john cornyn going to be punished in texas. will rush limbaugh rally the forces to have primary challenges to any of these guys who are daring to defy ted cruz? there are no leaders. the leaders in the republican leaders in the senate much like republican leaders in the house are just followers. they can take a stand on this but that's not where the center of power is. it did take courage for mcconnell in this primary position to hold his ground on this one. usually he does whatever the likes of rand paul are telling him to do. >> it's true. >> mcconnell tweeted out, my feelings about what's going on, it's pointless and a bit insane. i was really surprised at the flood of tweets back surprising ted cruz's effort, with the hash tag, stand with cruz. i looked up just where the support is coming from. i was really surprised at the support that he does have within a certain wing of the party. if you look at it, nearly the entire tea party wing of the party, 90% -- >> they loved this. >> 61% of nontea party republicans support the proposal that includes defundsiing ob