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Good to have you along with us, day 17 of the federal government shutdown.

And we have gone through pay periods for a lot of different categories of employees.

There's active duty pay.

There's federal workers.

There's congressional staff.

And some of them have different pay periods.

But I think at this point, everybody has missed at least one paycheck if they are working, but still not getting paid.

The Transportation Safety Administration is feeling the pain at least one paycheck if they are working but still not getting paid the transportation safety administration is feeling the pain at least in oakland where they are reporting

that they are on rice and beans a bc news correspondent alec stone joins us kind of dramatic but

if you're living paycheck to paycheck i suppose there's no money to buy grocery.

Yeah, and you know, Lou, not making a ton. I think when we looked it up, the typical TSA officer

makes around 24 bucks an hour. And living in California, that's tough to live off of. And then you

take away the paycheck and they're hurting. Yeah, we've talked as well about the number of FAA and TSA officers who have already started, but as time goes on historically in a government shutdown, that people are going to begin calling in sick more and more because they can't pay for food or pay their bills or have childcare, pay for gasoline, because they're being told they've got to work, but they're not getting paid. They've missed most of one paycheck, and in a couple of days, a whole second paycheck will not go into their direct deposit or however they get it. And they just, you know, they don't make a lot of money to begin with. So their union says this is hard even when they are getting paid to make ends meet here in California, but you add in not getting a paycheck?

Families, a lot of our TSOs live paycheck to paycheck.

They have child care issues.

They got to show up at 3 o'clock in the morning to fly out the traveling public.

So now in their signature blue uniforms at the Oakland airport, TSA officers are

lining up after their shifts to get food from a food bank to bring home. And it is mostly beans,

rice, eggs, fresh produce. And this is them lining up this week.

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