jazeera.com. >> law makers in the house were united on capitol hill. the u.s. and senate were shut down in day four. >> tropical storm means some federal employees are headed back the to work. as they prepare for the land

fall. >> the white house announced that the president cancelled his plans to travel to asia next week. he ca cancelled to deal with the the situation in washington. we have more of a shut down from the white house. the president was tryinging to accomplish two things when he made the trip top rockville, maryland outside of washington, d.c. first it's war and the ripple effects on the economy if the shut down continues much longer. it's effects of small business loans. the construction company and construction of beneficial of those and we also want the ripple effect and the companies depend on several salaries. the second thing the president wanted to do is put pressure on john boehner to isolate him to

allow a vote on the house floor that will allow that bill to front the government for another five weeks on the floor with no strings attached. >> what should be u that simple. there's one fashion of one party of one branch of government that so far has refused to allow that no vote unless they get some massive partisan concessions in exchange for doing what they're supposed to be doing anyway. >> john boehner has not given in to that presure. >> things like keeping the parks open, the museums open. >> we must fix and restore the

american people safe in our economy and their tphr*us government. especially before we reach a limit deadline in a week or so. >> it's time for president and the senate democrats to put partisanship aside and sit down at a table so we can work out our differences. >> and we also have the question of the debt ceiling. others talk now, this shut down will bleed in to that and also the hill that john boehner is going to defy republicans on that one and the core base of republicans and allow a clean vote. a lot of moving parts here but no physical movement. >> as we mentioned, president obama was scheduled to travel next week to indonesia to the philippines. night he canceled the trip because of what's going on in washington. craig joins us now from hong kong to talk more about this

cancelled trip. the president was headed to the summit. what was on the agenda? >> well, i think it's a big disappointment for president not to be there and particularly for business partners that we're going to attend and ride off the coat tails of that's showing up in the nation and the trade relations. a very important for america in indonesia. it is a remarkably growing emerging economy. 4.9% in 2009 when the rest oh of the world was seeing their investments and big growth going downhill. so, it is an important country and of course china, the leader oh of china is in the nation just days ago speaking with the leadership and speaking in to parliament an reaforming the importance of their relationship

and they had $66 billion-dollars with bilateral trade relations with the two. that is increasing so this is important engagement for america to place a strong foothold in a market that it already had significant trade and wanted to increase dramatically. how would the chinese view the fact that the president won't be there? >> well this clears the way for the chinese leadership. she continues on his way from malaysia and another stop that the president was heading -- it would have been president obama's if he had made that trip it would have been the first time since 1966 that the u.s. leadership had visited malaysia. it's way for china and it's very important at the moment for china because there are going on between china and the philippines, japan, over the islands within the south china

sea. and the philippines an japan are strategic partners for the u.s. in this region. the interference what you would say and the president's visit is no longer there paveing the way far very clear trip for tkhaoeupb submichina tosubmit ig through large next week. >> craig is in hong kong for us tonight. thanks very much for the update. >> now, speaking of the shut down, i spoke to steve earlier this evening. he's a former republican congressman who served for 18 years. here's what he had to say about the democrats about the president the blaming speaker boehner for the shut down. >> the fact of the matter is, these 35 men and woman that are sort of causing the problem. you may have remembered opening the day, 12 of them voted. that's not unheard of. these folks will not be governmenteneded.

he, however, there's a report out to night, he knows the default is a horrible thing. he knows that he's not going to let that happen and he'll figure out how to make that happen. to go back to the president for a minute. when president obama was senator obama he voted against raising the debt limit. you cannot do this holyer than thou thing and say they will not negotiate this. >> how's he going to find way out? >> this is dependent about president stepping up. there's a lid out. and mike's reporting is right on the money. this is going to go in to the debt limit. i think you will be in the position where both things are going to be solved and have to be solved at the same time. there's a thing that the president won't cost him anything and give john ban boehr the cover. the keystone pipeline, every pod in town knows the president will

oh day keystone pipeline. the president throughout the cpi the way he calculate teupbs decks on social security. if he gave a package or some combination of those. the government this reopen and won't be defaulting. >> the government shut down and there's another economic deadline that is looming and the nation will get the debt ceiling in exactly two weeks unless congress raises the ceiling. government won't be able to pay its bill. jacob has written in usa today and says every american could be effected. he writes:lieu adds the u.s. met all its financial obligation an add this is sa nation who keeps

its word. so, some are saying the shut down is effecting operations. may 4th is said to cut jobs. boeing said it should delay delivery and the dream liner jet and the faa officials sign off on the plane that is furlough. and the united technology warns that as many as 5 thoeurbg 5,00s will stay home if no agreement is reached by november. that company makes helicopters and engines for the military. the shut down the shutting down for many woman trying to buy food for their kids. >> people are already.ing turned way. >> julissa perez is a single work mother with two children. she count on food vouchers from wic. i rely on milk a lot because it's very expensive. when she walked in to the wic

center they couldn't give her any vouchers. >> it's hard being a single parent and not having enough to get by so you depend on those. it's a shame that i can't do anything and until all this is resolved. >> with two children to feed perez hopes that's soon. >> reporter: here in new jersey 172,000 moms an children rely on w kr*eu. wic. >> . the coordinator michael welsh says single moms shouldn't have to worry. >> were monitoring every day. -- we are hon torging ever are. that's good news for soon to be mom who gets $80 a month for groceries. >> that will leave somebody in the government somewhere is taken to people who rely. >> reporter: the u.s. department

of agriculture said the wic program has $125 million-dollar fund. thanks to the shut down, several have been furlough. a new tropical storm system called "karen" is in the gulf of mexico night. that means some st*efl several k rers now back oersare now back . >> the furlough will protect life and property as they prepare for potential land fall for tropical storm "karen." >> our meteorologist is standing by with the latest oh on how this storm is developing. >> the hurricane hunters are flying. the hurricane center and will work throughout the shut down and they did activate these

hurricane hunters. they send back a lot of information. they help us update the forecast. that's what it looks like. here's the satellite picture showing the center has a khr*usr of thunderstorms around it. it's a little slightly better organized now. it's not expected to intensify much it may not make it to a hurricane put still it's 65 miles per hour. that's very strong tropical storm and it's moving north, northwest now at 10 miles per hour. these are all plots at the center of the storm and what we can see here is pretty good agreement that lit eventually town the northeast moving over louisiana then heading for alabama and pensacola, florida. than must be the area that could see the brunt of the storm it could be anywhere between and that's why you see this track from louisiana to florida. timing is 7:00 saturday evening

and that's when it will be passing by louisiana in this whole area here and by 7:00 sunday quickly moving over land but u the wind speeds 70 miles per hour just below a hurricane. you can see some flooding with this as well. you will watch this and other storms the with the severe thunderstorms warnings all in the same area. that's coming up. this the national forecast later. >> the sound of gunfire and the high speed chase sent people in d.c.scrambling for cover. a woman tried to drive through security barriers near the white house. the 34-year-old led officers on a chase until they shot and killed her. now we have more from washington. >> it started when a woman rammed a black sedan outside the white house.

two officers are injured but said to be in good condition.

it forced police to shut down the capitol building and the senate and the house office building. law makers were told to stay put. >> i had dropped down to my knees and then everybody started dish didn't -- where do we go. >> reporter: representative juan vargas ran toward him and stopped him. authorities have not said whether the driver was armed and looking in to her motive. businesses have returned to normal on capitol hill and the white house with a heightened sense of awareness after the day's dramatic chase. al jazeera, capitol hill.

we will talk about what we saw in that. we saw and will roll up in to oh the barri re and she was surround by police and she pulled away and she started firing shots. is that normal protocol? >> one must understand that the police are authorized to have physical force. if and only when they had to stop the threat of deadly force to themselves or someone else. >> 2007 the supreme court ruled in a landmark case. i believe harris versus scott. a pescott a pursuit out of georgia ruled that a vehicle is deadly force. >> she was all the way from the white house up to capitol hill. you have to understand that

d.c.is a high security area. i did gate chance to seem of the -- i did get a chance to see some of the video it looked like they had her stopped and had their guns drawn. they did not fire shots at that time. so at the time they did fire those shots, it was the last resort. no police officer wants to ever shoot in to a movinging vehicle. especially when there's a child. we don't know what the police could see. you have to imagine that it they probably looked in side. had to use deadly physical force to stop that vehicle. this time in the day at 2:00 in the afternoon, the district of columbia, there's tourist, protestors and a vehicle weighs between 3,000 and 4,000 pounds. a wreckless driving vehicle is a deadly weapon.

>> washington had just experienceed the shooting. it's on high alert far number of reasons. >> the worst combination of things. >> it' a tragedy what happened today but it's also a lesson to be learned and should make the public comfortable that the security me sthaurs are in place around our federal buildings are effective in keeping vehicles out. god forbid somebody try to drive a car bomb in to one of these places that's why those barriers are there. they didn't know what was going on with this woman. >> i'm sure there will be a thorough investigation.

thank you for being with us tonight. >> well, tragedy off the coast of italy. coming up on al jazeera, america, dozens are dead a of a ship carrying hundreds of migrants catches fire. twitter gets one step closer to making an initial public offers. up ahead, it's details on what the company said says it's worth and when the shares cob u couldp for sale.

>> the boat was traveling from libya when it caught fire and capsized. the death toll is more than 100 and appears to be rising. >> reporter: a grim scene on an

ahraopbd. an island. a boat sank. >> translator: the ship started taking on water, the fuel started leaking. the crew and passengers were in a blanket and that caused a fire on board. the fire started and they panicked. >> rescuers arrived a the scene in the morning. more than a hundred people were pulled from the waters and taken to shore. at least 500 people were aboard including pregnant woman and children. >> >> translator: criminals make money off the backs of men,

woman and children. >> thousands arrive in lit every year. hundreds have been killed during the journey. >> you have to see it's tragedy that lies behind it which is for many, there are human rights abuse in their own country. this is a tremendous tragedy. >> continuing unrest and both migrants will still make journey despite the risks involved. the house of representatives joins the u.s. senate in passing legislation today that provides special pleases for iraqis who risk their lives to protect american troops. the special -- many were facing targeted killings and death threat. the program expired earlier this week putting an estimated 2,000

applications in limbo. the pieces that allowed more than 12,000 iraqis to enter the u.s. in california, governor jerry brown signed legislations that allowed undocumented immigrants to get a drivers license. if they phase test, they will be given high sense and a mark on the front of their license to distinguish them. the california will issue the cars january 2015. they expect 1.4 million people to apply. well, you can soon own a piece of twitter it will be the biggest ipo since facebook

debuted last week. still one silicon valley on the entrepreneur says it's a large piece of the puzzle. >> it cracked open over the last few years and were seeing consumers making purchase decisions and influenceing on the network and maybe some more powerful mechanisms where they two way communication has a brand has with a consumer these days. >> the weekly job numbers shows little jobs in the labor market.

an nba super star is going overseas but it's not to flay internationally. >> it aos 's a growing trend. kobe bryant has left the country to undergo medical treatment. kobe traveled to germany for a plasma treatment on his right knee. they expect him back early next week. >> in baseball, carlos beltron. he had his 15th career season home run tide him with babe ruth with 8th of all-time. the quarterback josh freeman after trading failed to deliver a taker. he will have to pay the remainder of the $$6.2 million

salary but he is free to sign with another team. that's a look at your ports headlines. . approaching day four of the government shut down. >> john boehner won't let the bill get a yes or no vote. >> the president's refusalle to work in a bipartisan way has led to us this shut down. and from the south officials seem willing to do is blame one another. plus,. >> today, we start a new journey together. >> up next, the state senator who took on the texas legislature over abortion sets her sights on the governor's mansion in the loan star state.

up next is the golden age of hollywood going golden but elsewhere. why l.a.'s mayor has declared a state of emergency for the entertainment industry there. next.

welcome back. we are aproeping da approachingf the government shut down. we cancelled all of president obama's trip to shay next week.

hurricane and tropical storm watches are now posted for southeast louisiana to florida. the tropical "karen" moves through the gulf. the storm is still 400-miles out and the winds are 65 miles per hour it prompted the federal government to recall the government shut down. a woman from connecticut has been identified of the black car that led police on a dramatic chase through the tphaeus' natis capitol it ended with the police firing gunshots outside of the capitol. >> reporter: it was is this the black sedan steen speeding away from the house that police tried to stop. >> an authorized vehicle attempted to gain access at an outer perimeter checkpoint of the white house. beyond that, there are multiple other checkpoints that the woman would have to go through. >> reporter: no shots were fired oh the white house but the car

struck a secret service officer as it drove off driving at high speeds to the mid afternoon city traffic and police following closely behind. >> witnesses say they were terrified when they saw the suspect's vehicle come down the street and stop about 100 meeters were nose police lights are flashing. it's there the police ordered the the woman driving the black sedan to stop. she didn't stop and instead she rammed in to the pa security barricade and it was then that the police opened fire. politicians working in the u.s. capitol were told to stay the n indoors. tourists an bystanderers caught out side found themself running. one was injured as he tried to block the suspect's car with his own. they surrounded it and she smashed in to one of the cruisers and took off around the south side of the capitol and this' where i heard the gunshots. >> i thought someone was attacking the capitol.

>> reporter: the female driver of the black sedan was killed by police. she was reportedly unarmed. a small child riding in the car and has not been harmed. >> the child approximately a year old and in good condition and in proeffective custody. >> what is not clear why the child had to experience such a frightening oh ordeal. indent is still under investigation. al jazeera, washington. we have government stand off about the to enter the fourth day. there's little talk and very little action. democrats are both having the blame on house speaker john boehner. he the pointing the fingers at the president. >> reporter: the only thing preventing people from going back to work and basic reser starting back up -- the only thing that's preventing that is all from happening today in the next five minutes.

is that speaker john boehner won't let the bill get a yes nor vote. >> the president's refuse toll work in a with bipartisan way has led to us this shut down. >> why is it that the united states othe presidentof the unir have hard time. only thing are the demands of the 30 to 60 members of the tea party caucus. >> if somebody wants to blame me. fine, i'll take the blame. put the blame. i'm president i'm anybody but shouldn't we remember what our duties are here? >> the national guard is having to stand guard because of the government shut down.

president obama signed a bill to keep members of the armed forces paid. the measure did not include the national guard and its employees but a new house bill was in the house today. intended to end the furlough for thousands of national guard employees across the country. still the white house and the democratic senate said it continue approve any funding through these measures. >> more than 18,000 employ,000 l employees have been sent home. alice reports from a cancer clinic at the university of washington. >> reporter:

>the importantlaboratory work se for now. one trial has been put on hold. they can't schedule an on site visit. >> a lot of our patients are for cancer patient haves been through all the conventional therapy and there are only real -- that's what we can offer them. no public university in the country gets more research money than this one. it's hard to predict when that money will be in a variety of different timetableless start coming. >> it's very difficult. >> it will be down this week then, that was nice little drama in our lives. but longer than that it does start to have an impact. >> there tremendous frustration

over the political fight that could break progress in the lab and clinic to a halt. republicans in texas held on to the governor's seat for the past 19 years. today she says she's hoping to change that. >> reporter: at the convention center where she received her high school diploma, wendy davis is graduating from state senator to governor of texas.

>> i am proud to announce my candidacy to.in to.ing to beingh governor of this great state. it shows davis trailing her opponent, texas -- it's 50% undecided. the media consultant who worked on mitt romney's campaign. it will go to a candidate and it has -bt been looked at very closely. >> the only way davis can win over her are red state. it's

early and on the t*b texas democratic party. >> she graduated from harvard to be a successful lawyer and then state senator. >> by the time was 19 i was on my way to a divorce living in a tiny trailer with my daughter amber. i was barely making ends meet and some times they didn't it wasn't uncommon for know come home and find my. power turned off and there's a lot of people

in our state today who can tell similar stories. >> reporter: davis' supporters know it will be a hard climb to the governor's mansion. >> we believe we have the best people of texas. she's very texas. we think she can do more for the people of texas. >> they believe their candidate will energize a new generation of texas voters and better on health care highways and education. meanwhile form republican lieutenant governor said for davis to win, lightning will have to strike. al jazeera, fort worth, texas. > >> it has been 20 years since the military intervention in somalia. the downing of two helicopters left 18 american soldiers and hundreds of somalis dead. >> peter looks at the impact of

the battle known as "blackhawk down." >> reporter: many that it's a bi-word for american military disaster. they lost their lives after two helicopters were shot down and known as the battle. it was such a disaster that it triggered the withdraw of american troops for somalia and also shapeing the policies across the region for more than a decade. the u.s. payed a heavy price. it's about the thousands somalis died in the battle and according to the analysts the it was also responsible for wider international collapse of engagement and support for the emerging somali government. those would argue that somali, even today, is still struggling from the lack of international support in around 20 years since that ka as th catastrophe. scientist found a tiny

scientists to give up red meat. >> coming up on al jazeera america, the push to make sure that future generations are able to read. tomorrow night, fault lines investigates wage practices in the restaurant industry. >> the employers have the upper hand out here. they can steal from you and face very little if any consequences. >> basically this industry is saying, "we don't have to pay these workers at all. they should work for us but we don't have to pay them. >> two thirds of low-wage workers experience wage theft every week. >> you're telling me that these people are allowed to treat people like this and you can't do anything?

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allergy to red meat. lit cause an allergic reaction that's the type of sugar found in red meat. people can develop hives if they consume meat or pork. ryan is with us from columbia, missouri. how did you hear that and what was your reaction to the story? >> reporter: thanks for having me. i have to give credit where credit is due. my father told me about this. he's a practicing veterinarian in st. louis and heard about this from a colleague. i probably had a rea*bs like a lot of people do. it was very difficult to wrap my mind that a tick bite can cause someone to to be allergic to

meat. the more i learned about it the more bizarre it came every day. how big a problem tkhould be? >could thiswill be? >> the people that they don't have it. dr. thomas knows at the university of virginia conducted a study where he on served over a thousand cases. people may not know that they have it. people who get bit tpwhe by thik doesn't experience a reaction. what is the reaction. >> it varies. i spoke to three people around the country. one person i spoke to here in missouri. she just gets hives and feels bad in general because man i spoke to in maryland his first reaction sent him to o to

hospital. his blood pressure dropped when he was in the hospital. this is not just where we're joking way to quit red meat. this could be serious health problems. >> right. severe food allergy for anyone can be a danger. it's not just steak or ham ham m burgers. a woman cannot take medicine. she has a reaction to that as well. >> you're bitten by the tick and four or five hours after that you join develop symptoms. the four to five hours is after you ingest. i have to figure out the time frame by the time you get bit by the tick and develop the allergy. >> i assume you get a lot of reaction to this online. a lot of people were

joking. a lot of vi vegasn said it's god news. a lot of people are freaked out and the idea of not.ing able to eat meat anymore or having aher skwreu oallergy is unsettling fe including myself. can you tell me which area of the country has the highest population of these tick? es. they originated in the middle around texas and oklahoma. they have been spreading along with the deer population around the country. it's their post of choice. and they have the case of the ar her skwreu have beeallergy as f. >> do they embed themselves or bite you? >> they are blood sucking iinsects.

so they bite and the stay there until they are removed. is there any allergic reaction? >> at this time, no. >> you can find ryan's article on al jazeera.com about this fascinating discovery about these ticks. thanks very much. >> thank you. >> in mexico, just like here in the united states, watching too much the tv means a lot less reading. a new program that's encouraging mexican children to open a book. >> every day before she heads off to school, 6-year-old is down here. she flips between her favorite cartoons and occasional tele-novela or soap oh opera.

i like to read but my parents haven't taught me. >> she admits reading isn't her priority. >> we are not acustomed to reading books. not just in this neighborhood. this country doesn't have a custom of reading. >> translator: then came the rise of powerful political media monopolies and the nightly soap opera. now mexicans get their news from tv. only 5% from newspapers. reading books is less common. >> translator: in the past half century the number oh of libraries has gone down. we're talking about a problem of literacy and education. >> reporter: mexico's president

hasn't provide much leadership on the issue. during the campaign he was asked to name the three most influential books he read. he couldn't name one. that's despite mexico's rich literary tradition. authors like puentes have the rule over. >> they take pride that the country the produce some of the whole's most famous writeers. few teer mexicans are taking tie to enjoy that tradition. >> reporter: but some people are dedicated to reversing this trend. she started a children' reading program in her home five years go. now with the help from the government, she started a reading program for hundreds of children in her working class neighborhood. >> translator: children stop me in the streets saying, "marie,

can you lend mae book, we're me. we're board." >> reporter: al jazeera, mexico, city. >> mike is here with sports and the national league division abit's already under way. . there was one favorite heading in to this year' major league baseball post season. it had to be the pirates. he just spoke with the first winning season in 21 years but a feel good story as it is. it's third world series tight until the last 7 years.

there was it gave up 7 home runs. that home run by bell tron hides him 23-r8th most career home runs. take a look at game one of the national division service between the dodgers and the braves. they go in to atlanta and put a thumping on the brave's. 6-1 with another solid performance as the dodgers get them off to a very good start in this five game series. for now to the nfl with the top stories this season has been the record-setting pace set by payton manning.

manning might be the last person impressed. >> he doesn't seem that impressed and no interceptions but it's been remarkable what he's done. it's going to be fun to watch to see if he can keep up this pace. they are on record pace. almost 45 points a game with almost 500-yards a game and it's just found watch. russell against the colts led by andrew luck. whos that edge? >> well, he has to* come out of nowhere compared with andrew luck who is the number one over all draft pick. they will do it different ways. he likes siting their the pocket and thrown five touchdown passes and had a pretty good seasonal so far. he has it not as good on the throwing end. that ranks to the bottom but he's got it down on his legs an down with the running game. he's been a great quarterback

with what seattle does. that's an even quarterback match up. two different style bus an even quarterback match up. now with the five unbeaten in the nfl, who you see losing this weekend? >> i think pay try krot think tt it down the bangles have better. they have a chance to be 4-0. they not there but a good team. a lot of people picked them to go to the playoffs and win their division. >> now after that gut-wrenching loss to the seahawks, how do the t*e xans bounce back? >> that was a tough loss. fans are burning his jerseys and he deleted his twitter account. for good reason. he's thrown three picks that were returned for touchdowns. their defense has only given up four touchdowns in the last

three games. he has not played very well. they have a tough task ahead of them to get this turned around and back on the right track. >> the eagle haves a chance to force a tie in the nfc east if they get a giants and the cowboys lose to the broncos. what has happened to that division? >> we remembered when it used to be the best divisions in football and those teams went to the super bowl and win the super bowl race anyway and u now they are sitting there 4-12 and the cowboys leading the division. everyone has a kh-pbs to get back. the eagle haves a favorable record and a schedule coming up, their next five games. three of those team haves not won game yet. i think the opponents have three and 17. they have a favorable schedule coming up.

the bills scored three touchdowns on the ground for this game. two of them coming from fred jackson. he, too, left the game. we came on the lead a cleveland come back. it's late in the game before the brown's defense sealed the win and he didn't have to throw it. >> a big game. >> stay with us. dave warren has the weather right after this. .

the government shuts down and al jazeera america covers all of it. from washinton politics, to the real impact on you... >> there's harworking people that want to do their part.. but the government isn't doing theirs... >> coverage continues on al jazeera america. that's all i have an real money. victoria azarenko on august 20th,

as we talk about tropics earlier. now wear talking about midwest. the big storm developing there. tornados the, co con firmed toro and blizzard and winter storm warning in effect tomorrow for western nebraska. you tee storm see the the storms developing now. the temperatures show that 73 in home haomaha and this is where e storm is developing over next 24 hours. that snow will start to pick up the wind in nebraska but the warm air and the storms go to chicago, 84 tomorrow and 82 degrees on saturday. and that front moves through and cheers out. now the tropics -- heavy rain across the south east by saturday night and sunday. some of that rain with karen could can effect new york on monday. heavy rain temperature of 77-degrees. stay tuned. we have a look at the headlines. .