>> welcome to al jazeera america. i am john sigenthaler. here are the head lines. there is no end in sight. the president obama met with house and senator leaders tonight after the meeting, houses speaker john boehner accused the president of not being willing to negotiate. senate majority leader said the house had six months to change obamacare. this is not the time to try to do that. stalemate not helping stock prices. the dow fell nearly 150 points earlier in the day. nasdaq and s & p were down. a blown tire is being basicallied for a deadly crash. the accident shut down i-40 about 20 miles northeast of knoxville. one of the tires on the church

bus blew out and the bus crossed the median, slammed into a truck and an suv and turned over. eight people were killed, 14 injured. tom cleanings is being remembered tonight, publishers said the 66-year-old died in a baltimore hospital. he is best known for his spy thrillers, hunts for red october and patriot games later turned into movies. no cause of death was given. >> that's the news at this hour. i am john seeing enlthaler. america tonight is up next. you can get the latest on aljazeera.com.

the fearless woman who are trying to create a sense of safety. the. >> and the fine the journey 'way from the farm. after more than 40 years in solitary. he leads angola prison for his final day.

the government shut down would actually cause a negotiation to end it. oh so day two of the shut down ends as it began. a house vote that could end the stand off will succeed if speaker boehner would let the vote be taken. president obama called the speaker a few hours for that non-negotiation conversation and here's the reaction. >> the president reiterated one more time tonight that he would not negotiate. we have the government. democrats like to tkrol white house and the senate. we sent four different proposals to our democrat colleagues in the senate and they rejected all of them. we asked to get a conference. i tried to sit down to resolve our differences. they are not negotiate. with a nice conversation but, at

some point, we've got to allow the process that our founders gave us to work out. we have the house side to sit down and work for our senate colleagues. it's time for them to appoint. all we're asking for here is a discussion and fairness for the american people under obama care. i would hope the president and my democrat colleague in the senate would listen to the american people and sit down and have a serious discussion about the differences. >> i can only assume they want to shut down government. that's not what our constitution had in mind. if you don't like something you threaten to shut down government. >> so things not going very much from anywhere. earlier mr. obama said congress

needs to deal with the bigger issue of raising the debt ceiling too. and with cnbc, mr. obama vented his increasing frustration. >> during the course of my presidency, i have bent over backwards to work with the republican party and purposely kept my when h rhetoric down. sometimes people think i'm too calm. am i exsas per rated? >> absolutely. we are debating keeping the government open for two months. then they go under the exact same thing in the middle of christmas shopping season which i don't think many businesses would be interested in. we saw what happened in 2011 and we will have to go through it again six months from now and

six months after that. one thing is i know the american people are tireed the of and i have tie saoupl the mass majority of businesses are tireed the of is this constant governing from crisis to crisis. do we need to break that? absolutely. >> and right in the middle of this crisis are oh ordinary americans who are living the reality of a shut down. maybe you see the results in your community. a missing field trip or less traffic if you happen to live along a lot of government workers. they have trael hard choices. how long can we go without at paycheck. the throng planned vacations railed from washington, d.c. to washington state. people are feeling the pinch. there is trouble in paradise. down below is the park's main entrance. there's a cool reception of a different kind. park visitors are being turned

way. >> we thought we'd be hiking for days and days at the national park. >> they plan there had two week vacation can months ago, flying in from fort myers, florida a trip now ruined. >> the government is holding us hostage because they not figure out a way to deal with a situation. >> from national parks to national museums. doors shut, tourists disappointed. >> was this part of your plan? >> no, it wasn't. we can't get in to any -- this would be the next here. >> reporter: the planes won't be flying any time soon. >> it night happen but once we got the work on t everything is taken care of. and it didn't happen that way.

>> between the san diego air and army national guard, nearly 550 people are furlough. these many woman may not see a paycheck either. >> with a dog and baby on the way, they have the out grown their two bedroom condo. they plan to close on a four bedroom home but there's a problem. the close might not happen if they can't get an important document from the government because of the sur the shut dow. >> we could lose the house and which means my wife will probably kill me and we would have to scramable to do something about the space problem. >> did ya'll eat today? >> no. >> 6-year-old got fed when she got home but the same can't be said for every other child. >> and some people depend on their kids to eat. when is they last meal or they

first meal. >> because the government shut down today our food meals are not delivered. >> reporter: the family said tphrally funded free meals delivered by the charity building future were suspended until further notice. >> the races from all around the country their hurting. we wanted to look at the impact shut down it's having on every day lives. joining us here is tommy sheridan from the -- let me start with you. there's a lot of kids involved in head start. how many children are served? >> across the country we're looking at under a million children that are served. although they were prior to the sequester conflict we just experienceed six months ago. we are looking at an additional 57,000 children cut it's cutting away about 19,000 children in 11 states across the country. >> what does that mean?

what do families do? >> that's the ultimate question. some families are able to find other resource and able to have family and friends. others we're hearing about in connecticut had to skip work and are not able to work because they cannot afford the child care cost. >> you're serving lower income families so that means if they're not working, that's another on the economy. exactly. were not talking act folks who are unemployed. the families are engaged in the economy and a strong part of it. these kids don't have a safe alternative. it's what head start provides and it's something that we make sure that they have a place to stay. when you hear about these

things. these are the kinds that are ringing in people across the country even if they don't know what happens inside the belt way. is the impact reaching the folks up on the hill. do they get it? are they trying to do something about this? >> it hasn't reached them so much. they're hearing more from act thety sr*euss who don't want them to feed any ground on funding obama care. we are talking about the house conservatives. there's a massive ground roots effort during the august recess last months putting pressure on the house offices. republicans report giving calls urging them thought to have obama care and stop the government funding if that's what it took to stop the president's signature health care initiative. >> a program like yours -- they do try reach the folks on the the capitol hill. >> that whole rally was planned to focus on the sequester and it happened that it's on the same time as the government shut down

as well. you were actually trying to bring greater awareness this week. that's right. this month, tobgt 1s october 1st started this month and declared by if the ronald reagan. the they are deeply caught up in to a handful issue that are putting a lot of children, a lot of families across the country. >> so tonight we heard about the meeting over the white house. we heard the response just a moment ago. where are things going now? do you have the stepbs on any movement at all. >> i think the partisan lines ls are hardening compared to earlier in the week. a moderate republican and try u to inst -- as many as 25 republs will street bring down a rule on a bill that john boehner wanted to move it looks like the republicans were going to crumble earlier this week. the republicans are beginning to

circle the wagon. pwaeurpboehner sound confident . as the republicans and the democrat settle in to their old partisan that we see in fight after fight previous years. it seems that they will sake tuck sesz and their instinct is to fight an with harry reed giving an opportunity today by making a gap while asked about n thei h funding. they are in too deep to quit at this point. >> talk about the leadership that can make a difference here. in the past where we have seen the situations, the thraerd, someone like mitch mcconle can make a big difference in bringing the conference together. that's not happening. >> after the white house today, the mcconle didn't show up to to mic. all the other leaders did. mcconle wasn't there.

of course he's facing a primary challenge in kentucky. from someone who is not from the key party republicans. they want an excuse and an excuse would be if he were to not fight as hard as -- so he's pretty much kept out of the line and out of the spotlight and will criticize crews on his behalf but hasn't taken a public role. now t he said, is that they don't want to trip up speaker boehner but i think that this is the -- he has an interest in not becoming a target and that's a shame forgeting a deal and he played an instrumental role on the bush tax cut. >> are there things that the tea party has one confessions. has there been any movement for fire? >> well, they won a concession after the bat when senate democrats agreed to oh go with the funding level which included

the se quest and the automatic cuts. so the democrat say that was your confession. you should be happy with it. con saoeurpls were happy like that from the get go because that number was hire than what the budget control act of 2011 called for. this budget -- this ledge thraeugs brokthis legislationbr. >> when you talk to people -- the social service committee, these are folks who are counting on government services. this is not just your agency. paoeut.this is across the board. this is just being held hostage particularly from someone taking care of kids. >> i think that you talk to any program, any parents, we are speaking to some that are at the rally today. they just don't get it it doesn't make sense that someone that is sendtial is a good word to use as taking care of our children and giving thaepl proper education and helping

them get ready for kindergarten. it is aepb sendtial american value. it's unconsciousable to think what's happening in the politics that play here. >> we will see where it goes next. >> thank you for being here with us. thank you. >> after the break. the roll out obama care. one side crashing and we will check in with a california call center on the second day of sign up for obama care. . . sweep across our country. and with them, a storm of views. how can you fully understand the impact unless you've heard angles you hadn't considered? antonio mora brings you smart conversation that challenges the status quo with unexpected opinions and a fresh outlook. including yours.

>> even as the shut down goes on, the roll on obamacare moving forward. the federal web-site health care.gov crashed with the visitors and had 4.7 unique visitors the first 24 hours. things were not better on the phone earth. you call for help in picking out insurance. the wait is in the neighborhood of 20 minutes at midday eastern. on day one in california, there were 515,000 visits to the web-site on a web-site called

california covered. they handleed 19,000 calls with questions about obamacare. they did see it in california. that agency was truly indated. we are join by covert, california in sacramento. thank you for being with us. tell us what this thing has been like. >> reporter: well, opening day was really tremendous. exceptional response from the public exceeding our expectations. it turned out that there were over 640,000 visits to our web-site, 19,000 people calling in our services centers. it was really a strong day. we don't have everything yet for the second day but only looking at it, it's right on that same par. >> so are these people with questions or are they actually sign ups at this point? >> reporter: well, it's a combination of both. were getting people who oh are

enrolled. the web-page is definitely up. people are able to shop and compare as well and enrolled. put clearly as what we have would hope would be the case, a majority of people are calling in trying to get some questions in. this is health insurance we're talking about and unlike -- what would be the case an employer happening open enrollment. folks are not going to go up in the very first day and take a look at a couple plans an signed is up for that one just like if it were an open enrollment far company. people are looking at what is offered. they will have the information and discuss it with their family and make sure that this is what's going to be right for them in the next year. >> didn't you do it right or are you ready? did you have the right things in place? the right number of navigators and everything else? >> we were ready. the proof is that we were able to hand that many calls and get that many people on to our web-site as well. so, yes, we were ready.

the system was ready to enroll and it did entroll folks. but in isn't about day one it's not about day two. we have another two and a half months to go before people are able to enroll in time to have coverage starting january 1st 2014. so what we are hoping people can do is go online and figure out what is best for them. call up to the service center and ask questions. >> what are the biggest questions? >> reporter: a lot are asking about eligibility eublt. that's probably the first and foremost. what do i qualify for? will i get premium? or do i qualify for low cast medical. what about the number of folks in my family. how much money can i make and still qualify? can i qualify if i make a lot of money? those are all questions that are being put forth and rightfully

so. >> have you had any surprise? es any questions or focus that you didn't expect people would have? >> reporter:ty would say there's ban focus that we didn't expect but there are questions that come and they will catch some folks off guard. that's why we have a knowledge base here in southern california so when those tough questions do come up that one of the service center representatives are not able to answer there is a knowledge base to go to and e immediately get an answer for the customer. >> they are also persuing this, is there something that you have done differently that you think maybe it's going to make a difference in making it easier in the early going days? so,. >> reporter: well, i don't want put out that california has all the answers. we're going to have our bumps and hurdles along and are going to have to make adjustments and modifications to give us the best experience but we know that

going forward. there are some basic things that we give california consumers a better advantage. one is deal what is called standard benefits or uniformed benefits meaning what kaiser offers, what blue shield and the other health company offered. they all have to be the same. now the customers can have true apples, to apples, comparison about what it is that the they're buying. there's no more that will this plan be the other it' all the same. now the customer needs to figure out is this a hospital that i want in that plan and how much is it going to cost me. >> i think that's the question that we all have about our insurance coverage. after the break, a long and final trip long. after four decades in solitary. why he's going to take his last

step as a free man.

the international team are destroying and syria's chemical weapon has done its work. job one, rid syria of its ability to make chemical weapon's weapons next month. >> who is responsible for the death of michael jackson. a california court has ruled that not his concert promoter. aeg down ter down terd thatd cos michael jackson who hired his tone lawyer. another prison, one of the most notorious in the nation. we hear a man jailed for one

crime held in solitary and longer than any other prisoner in the country and now due to take his last breath as a free man. >> known as one of the angle attorney and helps more than four decades in solitary confinement. the background of his his tory from "america tonight's" adad may. >> about 24 hours ago, he left from 24 hours in solitary consignment. she interviewed him from his cell. >> reporter: herman wallace came to the prison on a 50-year

sentence for robbery. slave plantation turned penitentiary. it was dubed the farm by anyone who knew it. white guards were called freemen and the population was over womeningly black. but wallace arrived and it had a reputation. immates had catalogs taped to their chest to protect them from routine snappings. in 1972, the tension came to a head, prisoners fire bombed a guard tower. the next day, 23-year-old brent miller a guard born and raised in angola was fatally stabbed in the chest with a lawn mower blade inside a prison dorm. herman wallace was accused of the crime and sent to solitary where he spent most of four decades. . in 2008, laura sullivan reported the story from npr. she found a recording from his

old deputy warning discussing brown. he was the main witness in the guard's murder. >> reporter: those words inclined the witness was not telling the truth and wallace may have been innocent. another prisoner, claimed wallace had nothing to do with the crime and prison initials tried to silence him. >> i made it. i made it out of my heart. they can say whatever they want to say. that's the way it went. >> reporter: it wasn't that allaby or the witnesses that made herman wallace a free man, monday. it was the technicality. there were no woman on the 1972 grand jury violating wallace's constitutional rights according to a federal judge. that report from adam may. robert king who oh is one of the

angola's three was freed after 29 years for his constriction were overturned in 2001. he joins us from austin, texas tonight. also from new york, george tin tkal who is wallace's lawyer and laura sullivan who covered the story for years. i want to begin with you because they you were with mr. wallace when the news broke. can you tell us what his reaction was? what he said? >> yes. >> once we go through -- and it was myself and when we broke the news, he was an innocent man. he had been with him.

>> did he understand what you were saying? >> at some point you recognize some things tkpoeup believe we manage -- that he had his own attorney. most of the time, he was to some

degree. his eyes and that he understood some of the things about it. i guess that's an indication that he understood what we were saying.

that was not an herbish involved that indicated that he was actually innocent. i think all the people say -- >> a lot of issues over a lot of years. is there any t i don't know, bittersweet element knowing that it is a technicality that is his freedom in the very end. it didn't go to heart of the case. well, it's bittersweet that it took this long for mr. wallace to get what three state judges years ago said that his trial was not fair but for one reason or the other the state court of louisiana always

over turned his prediction. it was no technicality. the jury -- was all white and all male. that doesn't strike today and it wasn't fair when he was indicted and tried in the early 1970s. there were other major problems as well. the government relied on witnesses. and others very serious claims over verdict. >> we work on this story for a long time. you can understand the environment that these gentleman were convicted in and the environment of angola even today -- >> there is no prison in america like angola prison in louisiana. and even back in 1973, it was considered the bloodiest prison in america it was dangerous. rape was ram peud. 100 people were stabbed every

year. people were escaping every day. even to this day now, most of the correctional off vers corree white, most of the inmates are black. there was an up swelling of violence that was taking place by a lot of the african-american inmates twho had said they had enough of this. it's called the farm far reason. they're working on a coffee plantation. it's the size of manhattan this prison. it is enormous. even when i was there five years go, i pulled up and there's a hundred african inmates bent over in the cotton field. one white officer on a horse. you can close your eyes and imagine yourself in a totally different place. so, in 1972, most of the inmates also served as mouse boys for the correctional officers. they would paint their houses,

make their food, do their lawns. this was at very different kault time in american history but also in this the prison which was isolated for rest of the world. inmates were rising up against this. this murder took place. and mr. kin tkal, your client were active in organizeing under the black panther movement. that's hard to understand. we talk about different times, different motivations. but, to the end do you feel that was really an emphasis on why that happens again? >> it certainly was the major factor. the fact that these men had the courage to have a black panther chapter in a prison in 1972 where the entire correctional staff was white at a time where a lot of people in this country misunderstood what do black panthers were, they mark themselves a as being dane

dangerous inmates. when that inmate was very tragically killed, there's an effort to link them to that crime. the investigation was badly handled and the only evidence that they developed was from witnesses who we know now lied and pur perjury themselves. there was bloody finger print that was recovered it' not mr. wallace's finger-print. it's not a finger-print of anyone who is charged for this crime. >> i just want to get a the last word from robert king as you look at this story. if you were able to talk, if you were able to really express what he's feeling now, you have an idea what he this must feel if he understands the he's out and free? >> i think i would -- the thing

that would -- we tried to have a enough larger movement. we were trying to ra ra ra can . we have done a greater movement. i think he would be satisfied that regardless of what happens, so many people have gotten and have taken an idea about this

case. it has something in that i feel -- -- >> maybe another generation will now take the opportunity to learn more about this story. we will appreciate you being with us. thanks so much. we go to haiti now with with where night fall in the make shift camp there has become prime time. it's for hundreds of woman for many of them. especially for the watch dog group known as fearless woman. the special correspondent soledad o'brian, more woman are riding away in a mission to protect everyone in her care. >> reporter: she is the determined to protect these woman.

>> she's the inspiration far group called the fearless woman. >> there's an expression, many hands lighten the load outside of port-au-price. these woman are using their hand tpos knock on doors to bring an end to the playing of sexual abuse and violence in their community.

>> it's so dark. you knock on every door and you ask the same question for every single home. >> so, it's 11 at night in this camp that has more than 200 of these small shacks. as you can see besides our light there's no light whatsoever which means it can be dangerous andand especially dangerous bece woman are unprotected in this camp. >> a survey found that resident of tent cities like this one were 20 times as likely to have sexual assault as other haitian

woman. >> there is danger here, too. >> for del ma and her fearless woman. >> .

>> reporter: last year you had a flashlight and you had solar panel and this year, what has happened to those things?

>> reporter: the real tragedy is the fearless woman could use those whistles and flashlights that over time had broken or had somehow been stolen. the woman feel alone with the huge problem of rape and sexual assault in the camp. if you think about how much money has been given and just how helpful a flashlight could be for someone who is walking around a completely dark camp tryinging to reach out to people, many of whom who have something to report or something that they are hopefully get support for. >> these are the ones that only happen inside the camp.

>> it's in the tent cities. you really have folks who are most gullable and even those statistic spread across an entire country. they are across the board in the tent city because of the structure are in a way or lack of. the people are especially vulnerable. i think you have that combineed with the fact that there's very little prosecution and many of the woman who are sexually assaulted will say they're often talked out of reporting the rape. not to mention that it's farely expensive if you want to feel up or get medical treatment or get a police officer to write a report that actually says that you were attacked. all those things along the path of reporting rape work against the victim and the victim feels more victimized at the end of the process. >> are they really looking for

prosecution. they recognize that's really not going to be an opportunity for them. they are just going to try to take care of these woman. >> the prosecution is so unlikely. even though in 2005 the laws change and put more key things to the law so rape and sexual assault is much more of a crime than it was back then in the past. in fact, they would sometimes marry the rapist off or pay your way out of the problem. i think that the now the law is more -- but the bigger problem is that they just don't think that it actually matters. >> yeah. our special correspondent soledad o'brian bringing us that we have not paid attention to. we really appreciate it. we'll be back with more of "america night." after this.

most of the attention is for links breast cancer and they will focus on discoveries in this area. earlier i spoke about his new film. >> so, i have to ask dr. king what's the story of the clock. if you believe that there may be a genetic thro*eupbg some breast cancer, virtually no one else believes this. >> that's correct.

she has the one jean that has breast cancer and in los angeles and in michigan et cetera. woman who carry the impact and will overcome. >> bern staoepbs film highlights the film of annie parker a canadian woman whose family is ra*ravageed by cancer. the tpeupl has genetic links of breast scanner and two very big stories about it. >> to have an elected double

mastectomy when it was discovered that he did carry the gene it opens the way for more companies to create support for breast cancer. >> it's a phult the things. it' one part -- and a political part and i want people to know more about the suffering that so many people have to endure and people with the breast cancer.

they have the gene. it's the most regulated. it's a very serious illness. i want people to know about that. it's not just the political assets. i do want people to examine our cam alty. it's finally and i want to examine what happens to all of us and how that is together with people. >> i think what unifys these together t that you will see in the film, it's research here. it's a story about the suffering with leukemia. >> it's also facing a lot of skepticism. >> that's right.

they felt that cancer was genetically. there's no support that it was the right and that was wrong and she was wrong. and she should be able -- she spent 13 years to life for the woman that they have and she survived. it's how safe in my mind think -- >> the movie decoding annie parker is at special screenings to help raise money. now they have early next year. >> ahead here, building the future. find out what our world will start to look like. ç]

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praised from which its environmental achievement and created high rise the green spaces e can kw*euf lent to the hotel occupy. >> as well as -- it reminds you of a and the host had its fair share of short listed nominations in an effort category symbolizing the growing importance of asia to the world architect. the complex in which the festival is being staged is within of the city's architect call right ons. >> the festival movement two years go and there are no plans to go back. the event has grown in size and importance as the world's architect and the focus and designed on this region. >> our activity follows money

which follows growth and what has happened in asia and a development of the new building for economists an generated horrific amount of activities for the suspension. >> that is it for us on "america night." remember if you would like to comment on any of the stories you have seen night. log on to al jazeera.com. we will have more of "america tonight" tomorrow.

welcome to al jazeera america. here are the headlines. 8,000 federal work eerers will t go back to work. president obama met with house and senate leaders and house speaker john boehner said the president is not willing to negotiate. democrats say this is not the time to change obamacare. the obama administration said it's working hard all part of the affordable care act. some people complained that they haven't been able to log on to the sight in the last couple of days. coverage doesn't tpaeubgt until january 1st and open enrollment will continue until march