With the Department of Homeland Security shutdown now at 40 days, TSA checkpoints are strained and workers face another missed paycheck.

On Capitol Hill, we've started to see some action, but known to yield so far.

Congressional correspondent Lisa Desjardins here to help us understand.

Lisa, there seems to be something going on, offers, counteroffers.

Where do things stand now? Right. Well, remember, as I say, things can change quickly, but right now,

it is a bit of a mess. The key idea is still there to fund most of DHS except for ICE enforcement.

That's the part of the agency that Democrats want to reform. But there are some sticking points.

Let's look at those. First of all, Democrats are leery of funding, customs and border protection and

other sub-agencies that help ICE without any reforms. And the latest GOP offer does not include

significant reforms. Now, Democrats want some things that Republicans flatly reject, like requiring

tougher warrants and no masks. Now, the top- things that Republicans flatly reject, like requiring tougher warrants

and no masks.

Now the top level officials working on this here are the big names, President Trump's,

Leader Thune and Leader Schumer.

But those leaders, each party, John, have rejected each other's offers.

Now, it's easy to look at that, but I want to tell people that there is something else to look at, beneath the surface to figure out what's happening here.

For example, meetings like one I saw on the Senate floor today between a few senators, including Katie Britt, you can see them there on the top corner, and four key Democrats.

Individual senators are trying to work out a deal.

So don't pay attention to the back and forth necessarily of the leaders. That's usually

part of the process. I spoke to two of the senators in that floor meeting, and they confirmed,

yes, there are many conversations going. There is reason to hope because there are a lot of senators

who want to figure this out. Of course, we've seen headlines, pictures about the long TSA lines at airports. How else are people feeling this? Let's start right away with the DHS workers, everything from TSA to FEMA to the Coast Guard. First of all, most of those workers, again, miss another paycheck at the end of this week. This is their third shutdown of the fiscal year. And I did the math,

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