Many federal workers in the St. Louis Region are dipping into their savings and cutting spending as they cope with uncertainty from the partial government shutdown.

That includes air traffic controllers at St. Louis Lambert International Airport.

“We’re toughing it out,” said Allison Schwaegel who heads the local chapter of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association.

State Rep. Dottie Bailey joins St. Louis Public Radio’s Jason Rosenbaum to talk about her first few days as a member of the Missouri House.

The Eureka Republican represents parts of St. Louis and Franklin counties, including municipalities such as Wildwood, Pacific and Eureka.

Hundreds of people gathered Saturday morning for the third annual St. Louis Women’s March, as a winter storm crept toward the city.

Some, like 23-year-old Mckenzie Eston, attended the march for the first time.

“If you want your voice to be heard, then you actually have to speak,” said Eston, who lives in Cape Girardeau.

The top people who handled security for the Metro Transit agency are out of a job.

Bi-State Development President Taulby Roach confirmed the departures on Friday but provided no other details, including the names of the two officials.

St. Louis agencies and community organizations that work with the region’s homeless population are calling on city and county residents to volunteer time and donate supplies.

The groups are stretching resources to keep people warm and fed as weekend forecasts warn of more sleet, snow and freezing temperatures.

Snow, ice, streets and St. Louis – it all tends to make for a tricky wintry mix, as was evident last weekend when a major snowstorm hit the region. With the potential for additional winter weather now imminent, Friday’s St. Louis on the Air included a focus on why some St. Louisans drive poorly in such conditions – and how residents can better prepare for and deal with future weather events.

Joining the discussion were Kent Flake, commissioner of streets for the City of St. Louis, and Mike Right, vice president of public affairs for AAA of Missouri.

A winter weather advisory goes into effect at midnight Friday and will last until Saturday evening, but the St. Louis Women’s March is still set to take place 10 a.m. Saturday in downtown St. Louis.

On Friday’s St. Louis on the Air, host Don Marsh previewed the march with two of this year’s local organizers and marchers: Lauren Kohn Davis and Heather Fleming.

“Absolutely the march is still on,” Kohn Davis said. “I think one of the important things to remember is that it's just a little cold, it's just a few flakes. One of our other organizers said it best when she said, ‘If the unhoused population in our community can deal with this daily, we can deal with it for a few hours – we’re women, come on.’ Lace up your boots. Let's get out there.”

If weather cooperates, people all over the Western Hemisphere on Sunday will be able to see a “super blood moon” eclipse.

The total lunar eclipse begins at about 8:30 p.m. in the St. Louis area. Totality — when the Earth completely blocks the sun from the moon — will occur after 10:40 p.m., as the moon turns a dull shade of red.

The moon also will appear large, because it will be at a point in its elliptical orbit that’s close to the Earth. Total lunar eclipses happen almost every year, but this exact type of lunar eclipse happens every 18 years, said Brad Jolliff, a professor who studies lunar geochemistry at Washington University.