first, the blame should not be placed on the national park service or the individual park, but clearly on the shoulders of congress that caused the shutdown in the first place. the last thing the national park service wants to see is our precious parks closed to the american public. he went on to share that since the closure the park has already had to cancel seven events with an expected participation of 1,925 participants, and there's several additional events in the next two weeks with over 10,000 expected participants. having an effect on our local economy, on jobs, and on tourism. so, purchase, i ask for unanimous consent at this time to enter mr. o'neill's entire statement into the record. >> without objection, so ordered. >> thank you. director jarvis, thank you for your service. do you agree with mr. o'neill's statement that the park service professionals would like to do their job and open the parks to the public? >> there's nothing on this planet that we would prefer to do than to get back to work and reopen all 401 national parks. >> ms. simon, i talked about some of the imp

the u.s. park police has been accepted from furlough. the u.s. park police are in new york, san francisco, and washington, d.c. they have responsibilities for the george washington memorial parkway, for traffic, for the regular commuting here everyday. >> i'm told in the district of columbia extraordinary measures are available to make certain of that, again that our monuments, the streets, with that horrible incident that took place. they were on the job protecting the people, but your job is to protect the monuments. somebody, we talked -- who did you talk to in the white house? >> i actually do not know who was on the phone. i do not. >> did they relate to you that you should continue to inflict pain and? >> they did not. >> and can you provide to the committee that information of who you spoke to and win on this matter? >> we are retaining all of our records as requested by the committee chairman, and once we get out of the shutdown we will be providing this. >> we will subpoena them or give them one way or another. >> the gentleman's time has

the major park service maintain law enforcement -- provided by the u.s. park release and rangers for emergency and disaster assistance. we maintained our fire fighting programming with board -- projects that were funded with nonlapsing appropriations of also continued. there has been lot of attention on the national mall. there are among the many places that the national park service cares for the honor for those that have fought and died for our nation. we are proud of the special relationship we share with america's veteran. we know there here -- we will be here to protect these memorial now and in for future generations. on a normal day, there are over 300 national mall and memorial park employees on duty. the rangers provide the eyes and ears of the u.s. park release. they enhance the visitor experience by sharing the history of the war, keeping the grounds and the restrooms clean, maintaining the landscape. and overseeing special effects. awe bull -- all but a dozen have been furloughed. even though the police commissioned officers have been excepted

to the local park economies. lickr pays a that you put together with photos of the shutdown at different parts. according to the national park service -- on the 715,000 park visitors turned away, who makes that decision? guest: under the federal shut down, congress has basically shut down the federal government. what that has caused is all the national arts must close their doors. imagine, the national park service is responsible for the protection of our national parks and public safety. furlough that to 85% of their workers, they don't have the staff to keep the parks open and maintain them and provide the kind of public safety and assurances that people visiting the parks can count on. all of the 401 national parks are required to close. host: the national park service joined us on the phone last week and talked about the decision to allow veterans access to the world war ii moral after they were not allowed to see the memorial. let's play that and have you respond. >> it is open to veterans that are arriving o

the national parks, as mr. defazio said, are part of our government, people love them, they depend on them, the economies depend on them. but -- and to avoid reality of the shutdown or the responsibility for that is to neglect the jobs that we have as members of congress and thus far this majority has neglected it consistently. nd with that i yield back. >> the gentleman from washington. >> i want to recognize the chairman of the national park subcommittee on natural resources, the gentleman from utah, mr. bishop. >> the gentleman is recognized. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. jarvis and our witnesses. i don't know whether it was on purpose or whether it just happens to appear that way, but it seems to be our policy towards our public lands has been vindictive and petty and politicized. i wonder why the cooperation of the 1990's does not exist. but what is very clear is that there is a better way. what we have seen are that the states are willing to step up and help people when washington fails. not just when co

handle the double parking. so the key area we can do a better job is on the complaint. we have details and they handle containments outside of those areas you such as the do you only u downtown. so if there are containments they come through by citizens or by 311 or dispatch or a call. typically though when we get out there they're typically begun. so it's sort of a difficult challenge >> yeah. it definitely calls for focus. i i know for example, there are times when mta do so sweeps on your tires they're not angered to the curb and i know on the street it drives people cease you can't tell it's an combine and an enormous amount of people are getting tickets or your pursuing two inches onto the sidewalk and all of a sudden there's like a sweep of tickets but then you have all this double parking and it's harder to catch people for sure but it's not impossible. sometimes, it smeem there's a focus on the eyes tickets as opposed to to the harder issue tickets that are having a more impact on the traffic. that's par

and the green referred to the parks, and the bay trail connecting them. and the concept besides the blue green way is to channel the economic change from industrial to mixed use areas, in order to insure the creation and preservation of recreation space in the water and on the land. and the process was not new to san francisco. and it had happened, a long the northern water front when the park was created. our boating and swimming clubs had been originally created in the middle of industrial spaces. and in the late 19th century, the railroad tracks on tressles crossed over the piers of the clubs at black point cove and later the train tracks were moved to the shore line or the shore line was moved to the tracks and any way, the tracks are still there, and a memory of the past. black point cove was the original name of the new park, which the clubs had inspired and helped to build. and i happened to be a member of the dophin club. >> when sea wag was formed, a similar situation existed along the southern water front. and the old train yard, were now changi

indians passed through the park. jack bean tells about one of his encounters with a band of blackfeet so that was common. by the time the park was settled the indians were rare. they named the park the one band of indians that live there pretty regularly, the shoshone's moved out of the reservation but there is that great adventure in 1877 when the dash passed through the park and that led to what i think was one of the most traumatic and best hold stories in the park. that is mx how one. emmett cowan came to montana as the little girl in the 1860s. her father was a gold rush are and she said she kept hearing stories about the park from the time she was a girl and wanted to visit. her father took her to mammoth hot springs in the early 1870 and there she heard about going to see the geysers. when she married she extracted a promise from her husband that he would take her to the geysers. in 1877 he did but that is the summer that nez per se left their reservation in eastern idaho trying to make their way to them buffal

humbling experience for us at the parks alliance. let's have another round of applause for carina and lynn and all of the volunteers who have made such an incredible contribution to this effort. (applause) >> and now i think phil, ready to go ahead and do the ribbon cutting. >> thank you, matt. all right, we're getting there. so, a couple things. i want to give a big shout out, ron davis is here, the founder of the lafayette park or san francisco mime troop, right, ron? give a big shout out for ron. [cheering and applauding] >> that's for you. >> i have the honor of being arrested in this park in 1965. [laughter] cheer cheers >> under different management, i can say, had we performed for this guy we would not have been arrested. >> i'd be in it. >> he'd be in it, right. he's almost as good as we were. 1965, it was a very different commission and they took away our permit. we had done three shows. they didn't like the play. it was an aclu issue, it was called free speech. so, we've declared that the little park over there where i was a

the government. and our national park. the month of october is a very wonderful month, a beautiful month to be the grand canyon and we started off with 90 plus percent occupancy at the end of september for reservations on the books ready to come. the least in one hotel. we are in the low 40% and dropping. we have lost over $400,000 in one place alone. the impact to our community has been in the millions of dollars within a very short matter of time. and all of this because elected members of congress and the president cannot come to grips with passing and getting a budget going. in the meantime, in the front lines we feel kind of like we are the ball bouncing back and forth and the ones that are paying the bill. and suddenly our source of business and income for our little community is closed as of october 1 and we immediately began to ask questions with regards to how we can do it come out with the darker crack open and in 1995, the same thing happen within a reasonably short period of time, there was an agreement between

the park's mission even though the closest park is have fishway, and you and wildlife service in an endangered species that happens only to grow on oil shale -- only their -- and allows the county to have a mitigation plan if they have it by march -- this plan only blooms in june and july. you can't tell what it is until it actually blooms but they have to have in march there mitigation plan for what they don't know exist. there are no birds at that altitude but they simply said at that altitude they are supposed to have birds therefore that becomes a habitat. grazing has been stopped. timber mining has been stopped. iin the world war monument is open again, these activities have been going on and will continue to go on in the west. department of interior is still vindictive. pleased that we will be talking about the eisenhower memorial later on. that has memorial broken probably every rule we have to get it established. it is so over budget. it shows once again the dysfunction that we have in certain areas of our government. down,he berlin wall came everyone realized the idea of cen

important to see what the optimal parking issue. we had an event there or an accident there therefore we have to have so many pc these. i get frustrated when we are here from the police department oh, we had to deal with pride or pink saturday and so they've poodle in issues all over so the issues have to be address. i hope that mta will do that but beyond the optimal staffing aside it's also as i mentioned earlier it's about prioritization. at least there's a preparation that the pc os will go out for things like not curbing your wheels but you have double packers who aremanual traffic flow and nothing happens. so i think sort of a bit of frustration >> you're not going to get an agreement from me supervisor wiener. i want to think that my pc os are addressing the more important problems. and it certainly that cameron is suggesting in our comploiment strategies as well >> supervisor breed do you have a question. >> yeah. i wanted to know on the slide number 20 the number of citations that have long been issued are those only issued

in terms of some of our heavy usage dog parks. the number of dogs it can use, [inaudible] is reduced. those dogs are not going to disappear. they and their owners or walkers will simply go to a city park and we will see additional usage and tension. the [inaudible] 2 years ago have not done this analysis but in its current proposal reported to analyze the impacts on city parks if this plan goes into affect. unfortunately, that analysis appears to be inadequate. it basically indicates neighboring parks, parks that are close by, it will be impacted. we know people from all over san francisco, marin, san mateo county, utilize these properties even if they don't use live close by. so i think there will be impact well beyond the immediate adjacent parks. so, i look forward to the hearing today and to the consideration of this resolution. colleagues are there any opening comments you would like to make? >> thank you supervisor would get another of a lot of folks to speed on the sulky my comments brief. but i mainly wanted to cosponsor this

>> the parking operation, the competitive parking, well, of course, it has been the market place, is now, the surface lots are now being replaced with the development projects. and so to the extent that those surface lots go away and there is not additional parking being provided in those projects then our parking should increase in value. >> so, but specifically do we know right now, just in terms of whether the space is or under this or these lots, in the immediate vicinity more demand because of the developments going on? or status quo, in terms of the amount of parking available? you know, the market is a supply and demand and the price is a function of that and so just trying to understand. >> i would say that it is looking opportunityistic for the port in demands for its parking. >> you mean more demand? >> yes, more demand. what is sort of tempers that is our developments that are planned for these lots, 322-1 is a project that you are going to hear about shortly. and so, but there may be a replacement in the parking told, and i believe that brad is going to jonathan is going

the house floor debate on funding for the reopening of the national parks. the measure passed by a vote of the debate is 50 minutes. >> i call up a joint resolution hj residence 70. a joint resolution making continuing appropriations for the park operations for the smithsonian -- the united states holocaust memorialmuseum and for other purposes. >> resolution saturday cap -- 70. continuing revolution -- resolutions, the system -- smithsonian, united states --locaust memorial use em for fiscal year 2014 and other fourpurposes. >> the joint resolution is considered red. we'll be debatable for 30 minutes divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority video.-- member of the committee of appropriations. mr. simpson and the gentleman from virginia will each control mr. moran will each control 15 minutes. >> i ask unanimous consent to include extraneous material on hj residence 70 and that i may tack on material. >> without objection. i yield myself as much time as i may consume. here we are again. we were here yesterday with republicans trying to open the

put their food down and eat in the park. all these things clearly show that the purpose of public land is being -- which is supposedly for memorializing what has happened in history, and providing recreation opportunities, is being placed in a secondary position, showing there is power and control by certain groups. they claim there are first amendment exceptions. i guess if you are going to protest the world bank or immigration issues, from the same people that allowed the occupy movement to stay on federal land without any fees, but not for cancer research or weddings, or the german-american friendship day which was canceled in the german-american friendship garden. heavens knows what you think would happen if somebody wanted to exercise a second amendment right on public land. in all fairness, for those of you who find this appalling, my question simply has to be, so what? we are living with this every day. this activity is nothing new. we have been doing this for months. when you have a person in an rea that decides to st

the dg nra claims there required to manage the park the same as all recreation or national parks. if in their hands are tied. hasn't the gg nra try to change the rules that fit the needs of a national recreation area located in an urban area. during recent shutdown professional dog walkers noticed increased use of the parks they frequent by additional owners and dog walkers. mclaren had overflowing garbage cans. i also want to correct the number of dogs in the city. 120,000 dogs was quoted by carl friedman. over a dozen years ago. the spca now estimates there are 178,000. thank you. >> thank you very much. next >> good afternoon, supervised. my name is greg leadbetter and i am [inaudible] i'm actually sitting here on behalf of chico. i'm urging you and thanking you very much supervisor wiener, for bringing this to everyone's attention. being a pet owner that lives in the suburbs i look forward to being able to go out to crissy field and having some together time with my dog off the leash to where we can mind at our own pace and his own pace. where he can interact with the other ani

the city parks are already quite limited and off leash areas are particularly scarce. the san francisco spca we frequently hear from our community popular off leash areas such as the auto park mission dolores park and mclaren park are already very crowded. as guardians dog walkers and their pets are [inaudible] gg nra and forced to relocate to see dog parks, the problems associated with this type of overcrowding that >> that's why that information is needed. as the other speakers have indicated, one of the core functions of the national recreation area is in fact recreation. obviously, it has to be balanced with preservation of resources and most importantly, taking into account the human environment. the human environment is the bind defined under national environmental policy act as to be interpreted comprehensive to include the natural and physical environment and the relationship of people with that environments. that's not what happened here. we complained to the park service that there original plan basically said emma "the quality of urban areas is not, not a sig

in the region of the experiences of the people in the park. with a trapping expedition shopping him some of the natural wonders in the park because they see things. said this is what he said about the geysers a. >> after surveying said natural wonder he conducted be to our spring. the first thing that attracts attention is a whole 15 inches in diameter id which water was boiling slow the about 4 inches below the surface. then they began violently and though water convince rising yen shooting upwards and talent rose to a column of 60 feet from then it fell into the ground into a circle of 30 feet in diameter perfectly cold when it hits the ground. that is one of the theory early descriptions of the geysers. 1839 it is remarkable that he does not have the word geyser in does not know how to lew describing it but he is said great writer and knows how. nobody knows exactly where russel was but apparently one that is now default to but like old faithful every three hours. watching the geysers cover watching the falls then going where the hotels were

the nearest city to rocky mountain national park. 's businesses that are depending on tourism. >> that is the draw for people without the park the park wouldn't be here. >> a month ago flood devastated the area. when i heard of the possibility of the park opening up it was hard to believe. it was too good to be true. >> to re-open the park taxpayers will pay $40,000 a day. some say it's more about symbol symbolism than the economy. that is why new york state taxpayers will pay $61 million a day to re-open the statue of liberty. the governors of other states will have to decide what they will do. will they use taxpayer dollars to re-open their parks? >>> colorado has a greed to pay $360,000 to re-open rocky mountain national park through to october 20th. >>> meanwhile in washington extra security around lincoln memorial. the site is usually unmanned but park police had to call in a small army to guard it. that is because angry protestors pushed past barricades angry it was closed due to the government shutdown. >>> crisis averted. food

this means that the city would make it easier for us to find parking nearby. i've done my own informal surveys around the greater civic area and found a lot of problems with people parking in blue zones or in accessible loading zones and not getting tickets and not displaying the placard. but mta's already [inaudible] add more blue zones. that's something we can do. we don't need state approval, authority or money for this. the next slide to increase enforcement of placard abuse, and here again this doesn't require any state law change, but because we talked to the head of security for mta and they gave us the stats on how long and difficult it is to enforce, they're adding three more pco's to the placard detail. we also want the dmv to find a way to code in to the placard number the photo id of the placard holder. right now most people either have a california id, a california driver's license or for seniors and disabled we also have this photo id card that allows for a discount on transit so there's multiple ids that are government ids that can be used and co

the view shed of the park or the implementations of the park's mission, even though the closest park is 30 miles away from the pipeline, when you have the fish and wildlife finding that there is an endangered species that happens only to be on oil schaal. own there. and allows the county to have a mitigation plan if they have it by march which unfortunately this plant only blooms in june and july and you can't tell what plant is until it actually blooms, but they have to have in march their mitigation plan for what they don't know exists. establishing a sage grass level at a certain amount tude, even though there are no birds at that altitude but they said at that altitude they're supposed to have birds therefore that becomes a safe habitat. when the world war ii monument is opened again, all of you who live in the east can be happy, but i want you to know that these kind of activities have been going on in the west and they will continue to go on in the west. by department of interior, which is still vindictive, petty, politicized and wants to show control rather than power. i'm ple

this park and spend some money. we have the mayor of he is keys park. we just wanted to ask you a quick question of how important this has to be for the people especially the business here in your town today. >> this is incredibly important us to because a month ago this area was under two to four feet of water. the businesses were closed down. they got their businesses closed up, water reseated, and it turned out that the main street was in great shape, the river walk, but then we got a sucker-punch when the federal government shut down the national park. the national park gets 3 million visitors a year, and most of them come through estes park. so it's vital to our businesses. this is one of their critical times for the town that's when the local businesses generally make their money. it's a beautiful time because of the elk and the color, the fall colors in the mountains, as you can see, are spectacular. >> that's a good way to describe it, a sucker punk, the one, two punch. some people faced closure of their businesses. >>

looks like in relation to the number of parking permits to the number of parking spaces. >> the approach we took is to recommend the city increase the number of blue placard spaces to be consistent with the amendments likely to be made to the aga that would call for 4 percent of metered parking spaces to be made blue placard zones. we /tkw-pbt look at the number of cars in the city or the number of blue placards. it just was easier to have us conform to federal law for percent and then to go with additional changes such as better monitoring of the users that a monitoring by dmv of those who issue the placards, maybe some improvement or tightening of the criteria. that can help control or improve the turnover of parking because as it is in general there are more cars registered in san francisco than there are curb side spaces, period. irrespective of blue placards, there would be no way we could establish any ratio, because as you do that, as the population shifts and as more people age and more aged develop a disability you wind up with larger and larger numbers of blue placards. the ide

we saw the private parks that were closed down with the government shutdown like the parking lot of mountt matter. >> the national parks go back a long time, back to teddy rose vent. >> i wasn't -- teddy roosevelt. >> i wasn't around them. the u.s. forest service, the budget has been axed but they haven't closed any parks because they have over 1,000 parks that are run by private operators. rick will have a heart attack the capitalists are coming but they don't own the land. they charge lower fees to get in. listen, they a lot of capital expenditures here. use the money to fix up the park, not clean out the bathrooms. >> farming out the duties of the park. >> i was around when teddy roosevelt was around. >> what do you think of mike's idea? >> these are national parks. i don't understand how you can show concern about talk about the national parks and then you want to turn it over to the profit-making enterprises that will make it so expensive that too many americans won't go there. >> why do you think that? isn't government solution more expensive than private solution most of the time?

576,000 annually and it has a capacity for 151 self-park spaces and maybe 225. and with the valet parking. this is another invitation of where this site is located is directly in front of pier 9. and it is between broad way and valeo and front streets. and this site will consider the site to be ideal. and given all of the sea wall lots. and that are on the section of the water front. and the site, is currently, flat, and it is paved as indicated in the previous presentation and it is available for surface backing. and this site is approximately 500 feet from the shore line, and on the current estimate we are expecting that given conservation to the sea level rise, it is now going to be 2050, it will be inundated with flooding but with 2010, a small portion might and in addition, to address the city level rise issue will be addressed. and during the site and building the design phase of the project if it does move forward. >> the current zoning, and the height, and it does allow for the proposed development or the proposed development of the affordable housing. to test the fe

the inner loop of the beltway is shut down in college park, maryland. 's check in with megan mcgrath with an update. >> reporter: eun, we have the accident reconstruction team here on the scene doing their work. but at the moment still all lanes of the inner loop are closed. you can see the detour there off in the distance. police are going to -- you can weave around through the park and ride lot and get back on just after the accident site. apparently some serious injuries. that's why crash reconstruction was brought in had

well beyond the park and employees. businesses like this one have notified workers their hours will be cut, and depending on how long the shutdown lasts they may have to close. >> this whole thing is ridiculous. it affects so many people. >> i feel bad for everybody working here. coming down i thought they can't do that. they can't do that. >> reporter: pat and anthony longo stay at the inn has been cut short. thursday the inn will close and all its visitors asked to leave. >> oh, boy. here is my shut down folder back at park headquarters the superintendent is also being furloughed. >> the park belongs to the people. and not to be able to open them and enable them to serve their purpose. that's a sad situation for the country. >> reporter: the parks 114 year history it has only closed four times. two of them now for government shutdowns. tonya mosley, al jazeera, washington. >> the bureau of the interier said it will lose $450 in entry fees each day while all the parks are closed. >>> people trying to sign up for health

indians past through the park. jack tells about his encounter with the band of blackfeet, so that was common. by the time the park was settled, the indians -- a name for the part the one band of indians. cheap band of the shoshone smoothed out her true reservation. but there is that great adventure in 1877 when a nice purse passed through the part and not lead to what i think is one of the most dramatic, this told stories of the park. that is a mcallen. and that talent came to montana as the little girl in the 1850s. her father was a gold rusher and she says she kept hearing stories about the park from the time she was of little girl and wanted to visit. her father took her to mammoth hot springs in the early 1870s and their shared about going to see the guys answers. so when she married, she extracted a promise from her husband. in 1877 he did. but that is summer and its peers left the reservation in eastern washington and idaho, trying to make their way to the buffalo country in montana. their plan was to go live

at 450 acres the park is crossed by rails. on one of the running trails police found the body. >> the main trails get a lot of use. it's here on the western edge a gruesome discovery. >> the officers found the body of a deceased man. >> robert e lee park begins at the tree line but this is not a popular part of the park. the body was found 150 yards off falls road. >> it is along the trail but this time 1:00 in the morning is not going to be too much foot traffic out there. >> the man is identified as

one last thing about vicksburg the park. f course they're interpretation and they no longer subscribe to the dumbing school of thought. they are much more conscientious just because our culture is in general but also because the scope of their park was expanded some years ago so that they could now interpret the entire campaign for vicksburg. i know they have plans to do additional work in interpreting reconstruction period and vicksburg and in fact a couple of the regiment that fought at milliken's bend later spent most of the rest of the work before garrison in vicksburg. what happens to vicksburg after the occupation and into reconstruction is very much their story as well. that is still a good summary. there is still more to it but that gets to the heart of it i think. seeing mentioned there were african-american that fought at milliken's bend on the confederate side as well or not? >> no, sir. >> the broader question is what role did african-american troops play in the civil war fighting on the confederate side and what

the supervisor pitched a plan to close the city parks between midnight and 5:00 a.m. and the two dozen or so campers out here say that plan would essentially criminalize being poor. they raised awareness about the new plan and the supervisor wiener said it would give cops another tool to fight quality of life crimes like vandalism. >> there's nothing more frustrating than to see vandalism in the parks. >> reporter: one of those camping out here in opposition of the plan is compton prado from the lbgt democratic club here in san francisco. if you can tell us more about why you guys are out here camping in park that's essentially you're breaking the law now right? >> yes we are. what we're doing tonight is standing in solidarity can homeless -- with homeless san franciscans who don't have a choice sometimes but to sleep in the park. there's a plan coming up today that would further criminalize poverty and homelessness in san francisco. we're saying enough is enough and we need to be caring for the most vulnerable residents not criminalizing them. >> reporter: the supervi

all units of the national park system have got it are guided by the same nps national park policies [inaudible] national historic site, at such a good [inaudible] amended 1970 best we must remove nps from managing the gg nra. either revert back to the city or [inaudible] federal agency that can manage the national recreation area. thank you. >> thank you. next he can >> speaker >> my name is [inaudible] on the publisher they will the greater separate cisco area monthly dog lovers newspaper. i want to thank the supervisors for hearing this issue and to scout winner for bringing it up. we really appreciate your support. i know it's extremely frustrating for the gg nra to have introduced their 2nd round of this opposed restriction without having acknowledged any of the comments that many people made huge efforts to get to them. their new proposal, 2700 pages long is pretty daunting. it's really great that you brought it up. i think that the fact that the city and the state owns most of these properties and have wasted or granted the national park service the ability to monitor them and t

the national park service does not shut you out. >> i know. >> a bumper. yes. ridiculous. yes. azy to close down the road. nuts, all you do is drive to the top and look at the view. >> i will get that soapbox from him later. >> yes. we need to keep it open. >> well, that is the whole issue. you can enjoy the scenery for free. >> all right. >>> let's talk sports, okay. >> yes. indeed. and tiger woods is making a habit -- you can not win a major but he can bring it on the president's cup. we will tell what you he did. >>> and plenty of oh, in big "d" can anyone stop manning and the broncos? ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, spectacular accident today houston.... franchitti went airbourne io the fence when his car clipped a fellow >>> four time indy champion dario franchitt seurbgs resting in a hospital. he went airborne when his car clipped a fellow driver. the car coming around a turn. debris injured spectators at the track of the head of actress ashley judd suffered two broken vertebrae that do not require surgery, fractured ankle and he is alert and okay. >>> things were not safer in kansas

i love the national parks. i was very concerned about the disrepair at rainier and several of the others, and also concerned about the accessibility for handicapped people. at some point in time i'd actually like to visit the parks and assess the needs for improvement. how would i go about contacting you for something like that? guest: please, go to our website, it's contact information. or you can certainly call in washington, d.c., at our headquarters. what i would recommend is that you contact your member of congress. we really appreciate your membership and support with the national park conservation association. contact your member of congress, encourage your friends to do the same. let them know that national parks deserve to be funded. 90% of americans in a recent poll said they believe it's a federal, primary federal responsibility to fund the national parks. to make sure that our monuments, our national resources and cultural resources are taken care of. we expect those as americans because these are ou

let's look at the wages for workers at the museums and park services. average they make $30,920 a year. the shutdown means more than 400 national parks, monuments and sites are closed. visitors staying at mount are near national work have one more day to get out, but as tanya shows us, no one can get in. >> reporter: there is trouble in paradis paradise. the mountain has been hit by an early snow storm. and park visitors are being turned away. ann and her family planned their two-week vacation months ago. flying in from forth meyers, florida. >> our own government is holding us hostage because they can't figure out how to deal with the situation. >> the please are now furloughed. >> we aren't going to have adequate staffing on to be able to provide the type of access, the type of services or certainly to respond to emergencies that people do get into here. >> reporter: only essential staff and law enforcement are staying on. no one knows if they will get paid for their work. mount raneir is beautiful. the impact spans well beyond the park and its please

turn onto the park and ride and again back onto the inner loop in college park. have to deal with the delay on the inner loop forming, trying to get around the accident scene and investigation. this is the big delay on the inner loop eastbound 45 exiting onto the 95 interchange. let's go back over to the map. no problems to report here on 95, springfield parkway, just move to the shoulder. a disabled vehicle inbound at route 23. this is closer to the beltway northbound on i-95. >>> secretary of state john kerry is defending the weekend capture of an al qaeda member on the fbi's most wanted terrorist list. >>> this weekend's raid took place in libya. the government there says the united states kidnapped al libby. >>> u.s. officials say long time al qaeda member abut libby is being questioned. saturday morning u.s. commandoss surrounded his car, and carried him away from outside his home in libya. his brother called the capture an act of piracy. officials want an explanation for what they are calling a kidnapping but the u.s. insists he must be prosecuted for his ro

impact right now on the park? the government shutdown yesterday, we're closed to park visitors so we're in the process of shutting down operations. we furloughed 660 employees yesterday out of a little over 800 employees. we're getting the campgrounds closed, getting people off the trails, coning off parking areas and basically, you know, locking up the park as you said. jenna: if someone is at a camp site, are rangers going by and knocking on the tent and saying you've got to leave the park? >> well, what happened was, it's still a very busy time. the fall is a beautiful time here in yosemite so people with campground reservations, for example, were told that they could stay last night and through tonight but they have to be out by tomorrow. we're not allowing any new visitors and anyone with a campground reservation, for example, for tonight is being told they're sorry, we will issue them a refund so basically, no visitors are coming into the park and then the ones that are here, we've started asking them tomorro

the workaround is the park and ride. now with more on traffic, we're going to go over to danella. >>> thanks, megan. well, elsewhere in our area, still pretty quiet. easy commute for you. checking for accidents on the dulles toll road, no accidents there. as you continue heading to the beltway in both directions no issues passing dulles international airport. continuing looking for construction, not seeing any. it's a smooth ride as you make your way to tysons corner the traveling the beltway between the dulles toll road, heading to the interchange, easy ride in both directions. we'll talk about your travel speed. 12 minutes from the dulles toll road to the interchange. eun? >>> danella, thank you. 5:01. time for a look at your forecast. storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein here with more. >>> you step outside, you'll think it's august. we have humidity in the air, temperatures in the low 70s. storm team 4 radar showing some showers, some moderate downpours now. these areas of yellow and orange coming up hard north of r

the national park service, those agents chose not to block the veterans entry into the park. e ac l.j. threatening the white house with a lawsuit for violations of the first amendment. the republican national committee offering to pay to keep the memorial opened. tonight the president has relented that he will allow veterans to access the site during the government shut down. so on the number two of the government shut down the president has blanks the fate with the veterans and then with congress. the president today reaching out to congressional leaders offering a meeting. but he was very quick to clarify that there will be no new -- no negotiation. you're looking now at minority leader nancy pelosi responding to of reporter questions and a few comments. less to see if she has something interesting to say very quickly. >> go to conference. all of that, i understand that they passed a bill. the republicans have insisted for six months. now they come up with their suggestion. lou: we are going to turn now to fox news chief white house correspondent ed henry hill has a report o

park. that costs the department -- the parks department more than $1 million a year and that happens almost exclusively in the middle of the night. >> what this would do is really give the police and rangers extra agency to be in the parks to be targeting the people that are in the parks at night who you know we've spent a night here. aren't vandals. aren't folks causing trouble. just people with no other place to sleep. >> reporter: and again those protestors telling me that although the overnight protest is over, their or all protest is not over. they're planning on being back here on the steps of city hall at 12:30 today and again going into that board of supervisors meeting. they're hoping to sway some of those supervisor who is may be sitting on the fence on this issue. now ktvu will have continuing coverage on this and we'll bring you the very latest developments of that board meeting and let you know what happens there. and we'll let you know again what happens at that 12:30 rally as well. for now we are live here in san francisco, christian captain, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> we are g

are you traveling through the park or staying in the park. i said we have rooms at the old faithful inn. she said go back on your bus and go back to your hotel. >> some people were from other countries. how did they feel? >> i don't know if they were frightened. they were amazed and disappointed. i had people from canada and australia in my group that had paid large sums of money to come here and tour national parks. to them it was very discouraging, you know. a chance of a lifetime to visit these national parks. and they were very upset about it, as well as others on the bus also. >> you know, i can only imagine if you had some tourists from north korea they might say we're gets out of here. you said they were almost some of the gestapo tactics. what did they do? >> well, to be threatened with arrest to me for visiting the national park. now i've been in the national parks many times. had a good relationship with the national park service the rangers, the concession people. there was a complete about-face and took me by surprise. but to be th

in the park. t apparently some people manage to make it past the barricades and the united states park ranger. this couple was having a thick neck that even if the park is open would not be permitted. that's just taking it. but they want the only ones i found >>: had asked you guys, how did you get in here. >>: we hiked from the mountain for it >>: the in the that this is a national monument that is closed because of the federal shutdown. the now it's a federal violation to the corporate >>: yes it is a federal offense to step foot what a national monument is close. and if you get a ticket you have to appear in front of a federal judge. this couple is trying to tell me that they'd work not to bury it and that i was mistaken. >>: what we know that but that's what we aunt and corporate cattell, until i told them i was with channel 4. >>: not as a group called as you did not gain access through the front but here they are inside the park. i asked them where they're from about moscow. >>: into the park

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