SAN FRANCISCO - Tourists in San Francisco wondered if national parks would remain open through the week, hours before the federal government formally shut down at midnight on Wednesday, nearly seven years after Senate Democrats rejected a Republican-backed bill to keep funding the government.

On Tuesday, some passengers on the ferry to Alcatraz said they made travel adjustments due to the potential shutdown.

"That's why we switched. We were going to go tomorrow, but we switched to today in case it closed," Daniel Welty, a tourist from Kansas said.

"It's like, come on guys, this affects more than you. It affects a lot of people. I'm really disappointed our government can't work together. I think that's what most of us wish," said Julia Welty, a tourist from Kansas.

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