tom at theng for time. we're meeting constantly with senate staff attracting the bills that became the law. we kept going. i remember senator pressler from south dakota, bringing sandwiches for the staff during the shutdown. right throughing -- kept working right through. i cannot say it had a great personal effect on me. >> what about working from the fcc perspective? did that put a crimp in your ability to move forward? >> the fundamental impact we were getting from the commission do how quickly could you this rulemaking. i would have to say out of all of the things you did, the one thing that's probably the most miraculous is you met over the deadlines. it was really quite an accomplishment. there were a lot of other information that congress needed at that point. >> does the morale of agency staff take a hit in the 1995 when they came back from a long of a one short shut down? did you sense there was a discouragement? people want to be appreciated in their job. to be tell you're not essential, not a gre

. >> some of you not starting another day.ot still talking about theng government shutdown.ve the latest talk about the weather with gwen who is in for tuckeror glearns a cooler morning today. a dryer day as well. we started out day yesterday but things went downhill in the afternoon with the storms that we had but today we're back to reality as far asreal fall is concerned. once again a very brief little bit of the heat. things have changed. here is a look at our radaradar composite for you.ite we have a lot of clouds outclou there for you. but the clouds will be out of the way before too long pause woaf a ridge of high pressure that's building in.n. it's going to be large and in charge to bring you plenty of sunshine. your current temper

we'll be dealing with a few more clouds.mo the bulls being ever theng energy with our next -- bulk of the energy is going to stay to the north. but some of the clouds will dip down to the mid-atlantic so a partly to mostly sunny day.da warm, humid, temperatures in in the mid 80s with generally sunny conditions.su we should be dry for yourour friday. enjoy. >> we're going to need theeed rain that we're going to getng in a couple of days. >> i mentioned yesterday m almost aen three-inch deficit. >> time to check in with julie. she has the first look at the morning traffic.ng >> unfortunately weir' starting off with a serious crash that has closed off a portion of eastbound 50 coming out of south riding into shant tilly just after 28. eastbound lanes of route 500 remain closed at this time. traffic eastbound will be diverted over on to 28 as a work around and traffic northbound on 28 cannot head h east on 50. you can access the ramp to go 50 and head back out to south riding ongoing riding then t pay close attention to thehe detour that is posted. westbound of 66 no problems to report th

theng line awaited smithsonian museumpening. gridlock as thousands of furloughed workers came back to the job. >> i'm pretty happy. >> a sigh of relief after two long, agonizing weeks. >> sitting at home day after day, worrying, worrying, frightened, frightened, anxious, anxious baby >> at the white house, the chief of staff rolled out the welcome mat for returning staff, while the vice president surprised the epa with a hearty breakfast. >> with cannot continue to do this to our people every >> rebuilding morale and reducing backlogs. a little bit of patience with them will probably go a long way. >> some federal agents are warning it could be a while before they are fully functional. government experts say could take weeks for everything to get back up to speed. >> thousands of federal workers went back to work, and getting paid is good news for employees and the service industry. about 315,000 maryland residents get a paycheck from and another quarter million work for federal contractors. if you look at social security, it fu

when things started going wrong rather than getting out of the way and letting the technicians of the thengm up saying, this is got to work. has to work now. fix it now. >> the administration did not want to miss is on deadline. there is a rule of thumb. have generals five worse, not politicians. politicians are no better at settingp websites and should have put the tech people in charge. lou: thank you. the disaster is the obamacare rollout validates the critics of the president's massive health care plan and their warnings about the mismanagement of what is an operational disaster and, perhaps, a political catastrophe in the making, total train wreck comes to mind. fox news senior white house correspondent has our report. >> with the government back up and running and the threat of default at least temporarily postponed president obama was happy to get back to issues like naming a new secretary of homeland security. the obamacare rollout problem that had been obscured by the fiscal crisis now got more attention. >> nobody is more insistent that the work be done and the experience be impro

i am optimistic we can continue to make important strides in theng forward because both pakistani people and the american people have suffered terribly from terrorism in the past. >> one day after the pakistani leader met with president obama, the "washington post" reveals how the u.s. and pakistan communicated about, and in some cases coordinated, dozens of drone strikes in pakistan from late 2007 to late 2011. to talk more about this growing debate, we're joined by ben emmerson, the united nations special repertory human rights and counterterrorism. he will be addressing the u.n. general simply today. welcome to democracy now! talk about your findings. >> the first point to make is this is not a final report. findings is perhaps putting it too high. this is a process of dialogue which will involve a number of reports, but the general simply in the human rights council. what i am presenting to the general simply this morning as an interim report. in terms of the key issues, what we sought to do was take an overview of the use of deployment of armed drones both by the u.s. and the united

understand also that if we do not give the people of the 11 million of them that are now theng in the shadows chance, the opportunity to do the same thing that our forbearers were able to do, have a path to citizenship, we are going to have 11 million people living in the shadows and being exploited and abused because they do not have the protections of our constitution and our laws. principal christian nation, we should not let that happen. if there is someone here was never broken a law, please raise your hand. i cannot. people broke the law when they came to our country. they're going to pay a very heavy price on the path to citizenship. we should give them that path. maybe not all of them would choose that path. they should have the opportunity to live and raise a family and have a job and enjoy the benefits of the greatest nation on earth. that is really what this legislation is all about. thank you. it's >> thank you. iwanted to say first that have enjoyed working with these people more than anything else i have done in the senate. i want to repeat for you something i have said.

most would walk away, no matter how much we like the house, the last theng i want is to find out after i bought it that i don't actually own it. the same thing is true if i'm buying treasury bills from the u.s. government and here i am sitting here what if there's a spring court case deciding that these aren't valid, these aren't valid legal instruments oblig e obligating the u.s. government to pay me. i'm going to be stressed. which means i may not purchase them. if i do purchase them, i'm going to ask for a big premium. there are no magic bullets here. there's one simple way of doing it and that is congress going ahead and voting. the fact that right now there are votes, i believe, to go ahead and take this drama off the table should at least be tested. speaker boehner keeps on saying he doesn't have the votes for it. what i've said is, put it on the floor, see what happens. at minimum, let every member of congress be on record. let them vote to keep the government open or not. and they can determine where they stand and defend the vote to their constituencies and let them vote on wh

would submit a mental to rank theng him claimant to 15 different abilities, including behavioral and emotional. unlimited, good, fair, poor, or none. once again, finding two c's should be next to impossible, and yet it was one of just five different forms. these five forms came from mr. conn's office, already filled out. office he routinely signs. only the names and social security numbers were changed, and the judge would decide on them before awarding benefits to clients.s it then goes back to why they did what they did. conn and the doctors and judges benefited, including financially. conn was paid over four point $5 million by the social security administration in attorneys fees. this included cases from judge daugherty. to $600his doctors up per claimant, helping them get considerable fees, sometimes spending less than 10 or 15 minutes with them. for the four years of records that the committee obtained, mr. dr.huffnagle -- dr. dr.nagle over $1 million, herr and dr. adkins. the agency looked the other way. the big numbers effectively let gherty do whatever he wanted, and that of

we had some great information about theng groundbreaking work covering the united states supreme court and what it means to cover an institution like the court in this digital age. today we are going to move on how to focus. i do want to share one personal antidotes about what this has meant to me. the summer on june 26 as it happened to me, my five-year-old daughter was scheduled to have her tonsils out. june 26 also happen to be the , thehat windsor and perry same-sex marriage cases happen to come down from the court. my daughter was wheeled back from surgery at 959, one minute before the court handed down. i was put in this terrible sophie's choice tight position of caring for my daughter and refreshing the scotus blogs. i am sure the nurses have no understanding of what i was doing. it shows the extent that we lie blogs to get our information. i'm grateful for the work you are doing. today and so honored for anky to have with us our country's most prestigious and keen observers of the united states court. we felt we cannot let them leave without taking their print about the roberts

impacting any land areas, we are in or remain in a very quiet pattern for the next several days along with theng the winds coming out of the west for the time being and the south and the warmer air to tap into all the south and west. get ready for a warm up. low to mid-80s, mid-80s tomorrow with a little moremo humidity. it may feel like 90 degrees by tomorrow afternoon. a few warmto days.ys the pattern will start to switch off for the rest the weekend, rweainy by early neck week with cooler -- early next week cooler temperatures. ort no accidents to report right now for folks trying to work their way into the district byway of kenilworth avenue, and the vw parkway, and southbound 270, down to 31 miles per hour at a hyattstown, still well below speed leaving irbuena irb slow traffic for those along 66 coming from business 234 to the beltway, again with an incident of 123 cleared, about a 47-minute commute out of manassas. quick peek at the cameras, wewe will pop them up for you. lanes are open 395 across the 1 street bridge, no accidents to report here, volume on the gw parkway from 123 head tow

if you are traveling on theng on south side of town, leavingleavi saint barnabas road to the wilson bridgely we have a it backed up.cked traffic is flowing freely for fe those traveling off the inner loop. no problems to report on thee beltway tramping between annandale and maryfield.eld. eastbound 70, and there's as a crash, follow police directiondi to get by.t there's a check of on it fox 5 on time traffic.c. >>> julie, coming up next, co whether it's with paint brushes or voices the art for all d.c. festival provides a canvas for everyone. >>> holly is live with more, now. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, and specifically we're talking about the get somethinggogo livi music for free in one of the most charming neighborhoods that d.c. has to offer.offer. it's porch fest at adam's morgan. we will tell you how not to miss it. stay with us.  >>> one d.c. neighborhood is turns its front stoops to the front row seats for sometime local music. >> the artists range soul to folk to country. co holly morris is there this morning. >> reporter: instead of househe music,

down theng to shut government, republicans, because we want to put individuals on the same footing aswhat president obama gave a pastor business? mr. speaker, i'm from texas. and i recognize that we like freedom and opportunity and less taxes and more opportunities. by golly we employ a lot of people. i think the whole country sees this. but the whole country sees is the reasonableness that the republican party comes to the floor and we're going to keep the battle going to say we think everybody, at least individual, ought to be treated the same as business. we think the president of the united states made a mistake and we are politely today trying to , mr. president, can we please fix that mistake? can we please give to the individuals of this country, men and women who pay their taxes and work hard, can we give them equal representation with what you gave to people who run businesses? a business guy. but i'm also an individual. that is why the republican party is doing what we're doing, mr. speaker. we're not asking for anything that is unreasonable. as a matter of fact we are -- if

me theng that interested most was he did not mention the fact that the industry does control the amount of gasoline that it exports out of the country. oft is relative to the price gasoline. they're doing the same thing with natural gas. they're building a liquid vacation plant in the gulf, and they have plans to build 16 more of them. is a glut here in united states. as soon as they liquefy it and exported out of the country, the price will go up. when he says they don't control the price of gasoline, that's not completely true. when you export the excess production, that keeps prices high. on thisrnard madoff program, his sons subject of a story in the "new york times." tom is up next from clinton, maryland. caller: good morning. the american people to remember what the republican party put us through, and that they almost cost us default. never known a terrorist organization to be so intrusive into american life as the republican party has been in the past. they put us in a position where our good faith and credit are being questioned to the rest of the world. we have laws in this co

you are hard pressed to find the members of theng administration accountable. republicans have a right to be angry, all americans do. guest: that is all we need, more anger. maybe they can shut on the government. host: naomi from florida. walsh. mr. good morning. i am only speaking to you. conservativeh woman of color. before the host cut me off -- let me make a couple points. when i watch you set up their against the other government and is saying to what he -- they have talking points. they are trying to destroy us. up, let them stand know that this is awful, this socialized medical plan. it is going to tell us. i have got my first enrollment from my company that i retired from working 30 years. i never had to pay anything except enroll and stay with my company. i only had to pay a small copay. policye asking me for a premium payment now. they want to kick us so we will go live on the system. all of our privacy's are getting out there, people milling about our privacy -- host: seeing republicans react last week -- could: i admire, i wish i shake mr. cruz's ha

they were sitting on theng -- w have them.journal" is reporting low level officials aren't going to be available to talk about this. brit hume went on the record and said where is the accountability from the obama administration? >> normally when something goes terribly wrong inside a department, the buck stops where? it stops at the top according to the old tradition. presumably, there would be consequences. but as i say, that's an old custom. you see it in a place like japan, but you don't see it here. you don't see it in this country. >> so this is the president's signature program here. what kind of damage control are we going to be seeing? >> well, luckily, democrats have the media. i do think it's worse now, but it wasn't -- you know, there wasn't a lot of responsibility taking during the clinton administration. there was the greatest murder of american civilians by the u.s. government at waco. and remember, janet reno went around giving speeches to get standing ovations by announce, i'm taking full responsibility. what

theng, truly stand with federal workers and with the american people by presenting a clean, continuing resolution. democrats that is the in the senate wanting a house to take up a bill that does not have any attachments. a couple of tweakets from luke russert. he says that congressman from florida holds a 96 rating from the american can circuit of union. he says we should move on to the debt limit. he said congressman ross's of a is the exact opposite moderate. he says the shutdown is a lost cause for the gop. linda in hope, arkansas, on the republican line. caller: yes, i was watching when the texas has their hour on the floor, and i was listening to what they had to say. it's not about the republicans holding out. it is more or less about the fact that if you give a fair shake to everyone with the affordable care act. that is what is important. do not just say, ok, this person can be exempt. let everyone have their fair shake. let the congress have a fair shake. they should have to abide by the same stipulations the american people have to abide by. and not only that, i have an issue

legislation that has been improved all the way and confirmed by people in the national election antics are theng-- expecting democratic senate and president to go along with it. this never happened before. we were willing to put the entire government of the country at risk on this plan and it was based on ted cruz convincing andle and implying threatening people with primaries if they did not vote to shut the government down. he would take care of it. and readfor 23 hours dr. seuss and got himself probably a very good mailing list. he told us to keep fighting and that was it. you ask him what his plan or strategy is, he does not have one either. groups are definitely raising -- it canse against do your own thing clinically but do not hold the government hostage. it is almost unimaginable that we would not address the debt ceiling issue but it was almost unimaginable we let the government shutdown when every leader in the party said it was the wrong thing to do. i just hope we can -- that some sanity will prevail by the 17th. there you pulling for [inaudible] rex i rooted for the red sox because