without them, this student, victoria thomas, will need to find a baby-sitter for her daughter, faith. >> i have to take out loans to help pay for it and it puts me more in debt. >> reporter: nearly 400 parks and museums, including yosemite, are closed. tourists making plans a while back are disappointed. >> we were disappointed, we came from maine and had this planned for over a year. >> reporter: also shut out, the flu center just as the flu season begins, on the other hand, social security benefits, food stamps and veteran's benefits, along with food stamps, will continue. air traffic controllers will stay on the job. agencies like the post office that have their own funding will stay open. and the president gets paid, much to the annoyance of this mother. >> congress needs to grow up, i mean, to be honest with

. >> reporter: head start helps thousands of children, without that, victoria thomas will have to find a baby-sitter for her 4-year-old daughter faith. >> have to take out student loans to help pay for that and put me more in debt. >> reporter: nearly 400 national parks and museums including yosemite in california are closed. tourists like glenn porter who made plans to visit long ago are shut out. >> we were disappointed. we came from bangor, maine, and we had this trip process planned for upwards of a year. >> reporter: also shut out, the transitional seasonal flu program. on the other hand, federal checks, food stamps, unemployment benefits, and some veterans benefits will still continue. air traffic controllers will stay on the job. agencies like the postal service and the federal reserve that have their own funding are open. and the president keeps getting paid, as do members of congress, much to the annoyance of elizabeth witel. her family's sole bred winner since her husband was laid off last month. >> congress needs to grow up. i mean, to be honest with you, if they had to live

without them, this florida a&m student victoria thomas will have to find a baby-sitter for her daughter, faith. >> that puts me more in debt. >> there is also not a bill to reinstate women and children on nutritional assistance. >> for now, federal programs that affects millions of americans are shut down, including nutrition benefits called wic for roughly nine million pregnant women and new mothers, like atlanta's jackson and her daughter savannah. >> if i didn't have wic, i would basically have to drop out of school and go to work to be able to supply formula and food for my child. >> house republicans are also not going to be funding programs to feed children after school. >> did y'all eat today? >> no. >> 6-year-old janika got fed when she got home. but the same could not be said for every other child at the oak haven branch for girls and boys. >> because the government shut down, our food was not delivered. >> so yes, world war ii vets should be able to see the memorial, and children should be able to attend head start, and poor women and children should get nutritional assistance

what do we tell victoria thomas, 26, who has a 4-year-old daughter who cannot find childcare now because there have been nine head start programs that have been closed? i can't afford childcare with my limited resources, she said, as a single mom who is studying for a master's degree in business, and she worries her daughter will fall behind. she's learning so much, she says. the program is preparing her for kindergarten next year. mr. speaker, the word is squander, and it's time for us to reopen the government. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the chair recognizes the gentleman from ohio, mr. win strup, for five minutes. -- mr. wenstrup for five minutes. mr. wenstrup: thank you, mr. speaker. we have heard much debate over the last week, arguments and accusations being made from both sides. i have heard references to being terrorists, to jihad, and to having bombs strapped to our chests. mr. speaker, i spent one year in 2005-2006, perhaps thed bloodiest time of the war, as an army combat surgeon in iraq. in this chamber i see no terrorists, no jihad, nor any bom

. >> thomas, i don't think -- to victoria's point, i don't think elizabeth warren would mounting thellenge as hillary clinton. the dna of the progressive base is not the same as the liberal base. you can ask folks like howard dean and dennis kucinich, real progressives have to fight to be taken seriously. >> where does president obama's support go. can you imagine if president bill clinton becomes the first man? >> we are all waiting with bated breath, are you kidding me? >> for a guy to have that job the first time out, if it's an old president, i think that ego would be okay. >> it would be christmas for journalists. >> okay, guys, thanks so much. great to have you all on. you can find out more from our panel. join our agenda on our website, msnbc.com/thomas-roberts. that's a mouthful. >>> all right, so the old dominion -- it really is, especially on a monday. the warning that president bill clinton had for voters with just days left in virginia's race for governor. >>> and you could call it the shaq pack. the basketball great makes that political endorsement of chris christie. we

victoria azarenko [[voiceover]] every day, events >> welcome back to al jazeera america. i'm thomas drayton. the headlines, the focus has shifted to end the impasse. >>> talks came after senate democrats rejected a republican bill to end the government shutdown and extend the nation's debt limit. the senate will resume talks tomorrow. >>> despite the government shutdown some national parks including the statue of liberty, mount rushmore and yellowstone national park are reopening. a bill to reimburse the states is under consideration. >>> a powerful cyclone packing heavy rains and destructive winds struck india's eastern coastline. at least three people are dead. according to the typhoon center the storm is packing winds of 115 miles per hour. >>> drones are being used in a variety of ways from reconnaissance and combat to research. the number of uses of doans grows. a big focus of drone research these days is autonomy, enabling the drone to operate on its own. researchers are making strides in two areas, path planning and task organization. path planning, determining the shortest r