welcome to al jazeera america. here are tonights top stories. a power cold front is spinning off tornados in the middle of the country. one larger twister hit parts of wayne county nebraska. there are reports of several damaged homes an people trapped inside. nebraska emergency management office says supply company has reported a hazardous gas leak. cities in on the across the gulf of mexico preparing for the rival of tropical storm "karen" states of emergency have been declareed in several states. "karen" is expected to drop # 3 to 6- inches of rain though not expected to turn in to a hurricane.

>> the house is expected to hold several votes that will bring back government services. they are not to extend government funding and end a shut down. >> li the company says more lays are possible if the shut down is prolonged. similar furlough warnings have come from technology. those are the headlines from this hour. i'll be back here at 11:00 eastern far full hour of news. consider this is coming up next. you can always get the latest news at al jazeera.com. >> washington, d.c.

still reeling from a mentally dissturbed woman who ran a car through barricades before she was shot oh by police. did it cause police to over react and shoot her or were they slim doing their job. also what does the government shut down say about the state of congress. were asking some within who jumped ship. we will talk to brad miller of north carolina. >> the dangers of concussions in sports, not just football. we will go in to the scary numbers and why parents should be concerned. welcome to "consider this" we begin with the question after nearly violent incident in a forced the 9/11 world from a shut down from the entire city during the boston man hunt to the shooting of a connecticut woman at the capitol. lock down and massive displace of force are tactics that are

getting more scrutiny. as officers surrounded a 34-year-old, she drove away leading them on a high speed chase. for the second time in two weeks the nation's capitol went on lock down. a ha mentally ill than shot peoe and killed himself in late september. both secret service and capitol police officers what i have seen so far acted hao acte, the security prim terse work. >> reporter: she was shot dead by police officers and her 1-year-old child in the car taken with herp was taken in to protective questions.. questions raised whether shooting her were only action. whether it was treated as an national security threat or an old fashioned prusuit.

>> giving a staopbg standing ovr working without pay. >> i know i express our gratitude. >> reporter: this police presence comes six months after they were hailed as heros after they captured one of the boston bombers. the city of boston one of the country's largest was shut down. mass transportation for over one million people was suspended as law enforcement, s.w.a.t. teams and fbi officers from several states were deployed in a more than 12-hour to long than hunt. in the end he was found out side an area by a homeowner. >> joining me now to discuss how law enforcement officers react in this post-9/11 world. he's in our studio in atlanta and the a police detective in long island who now operates deleting intelligence and

prot*ebprotection agency. we will start with the incident yesterday at the capitol. the police chief defended law enforcement officers who says their reaction was appropriate. today there's a lot of reaction whether this was an over reaction. >> i think it's something we need to embrace it' becoming a border play response. an effort by our federal agency s local agencies, fire, medical and haz-mat teams and bomb squads and the reference to the determination of the incident today dish really don't think they had much choice because what they had here was an individual where they could not identify it. she was operating a vehicle that in theory and practice rep represented a delivery system. there could have been a bomb inside. she demonstrateed the

willingness to be in the outer perimeter of the white house and the capitol. a point in time came where they realize this activity had to be terminated and i belief they felt this it was most effective way to do it. >> do you agree? >> i really don't. i've been there on felony stops and i know both sides of the issue. we had two situations where the shooting occur tp-pd first one itself was over at the capitol. the car had pulled around and was going back in front of the lafayette park and we had four, maybe five shots in a fleeing car. that danger was past me it was tkraoeufg awadriving way from m. fy were to going to shoot at that car. what was happening on the other side? i might have hit an innocent bystander.

i can't live with that. i would have never have fired that the stage. cars can be used for delivering bombs. here's an idea witness from yesterday who came out with that exact statement. >> i think maybe it could have ban suicide bomber coming in. it's the capitol in situations. >> that didn't turn out to be a suicide bomber. if you look at policies across the country, most states, probably the policy would be and most of the jurisdictions, the policy would be not to shoot at a carneying. car that is fleeing.they are fio dangerous for bystanders. >> for pr pursuits. they are giving a director to the police to not engage in pursuits. there's a dynamic unique to

this. pit dealt with the seat of our government. i think that threshold for these types oh of threatening activities are different. the means of that for which we protect our president and the collateral damage is something that exists that is going to continue our present living. i think everybody has to realize this is the capitol. this is the white house and it's going to be a differen threasho. >> does that make this different? is any threat in new york city and d.c.just different now? are we always going to have to be on high alert. >> i think you have to be in high alert. i mentioneded in the end, we had five officers surrounding that karbs four in uniform, one appeared to be in tphraeupb tph.

it was driven bay female. normally here in the united states we do not see people who are females who are willing to create and blow up bomb and put themselves in it. i understand what we're saying is and i accept that and i'm telling you, i know where they are but the car was already leaving. >> there was shooting that left capitol police officers dead in 1998. we saw the navy hard the shooting a couple weeks ago and the tragedy of the pentagon on 9/11. did a spector of all these things sort of hang over washington and really, doesn't it require some extra law enforcement response? >> i think it does. i'm prolaw enforcement.

at this case, there were no shots from that car to begin with i'm not trying to justify what this lady did. all i'm saying if i were the police officer i believe i will show more restraint especially firing at a car way from you and somebody else is going to get hurt. >> this young lady was using a deadly instrument. there were dangerous instruments in which a part can be one. i understand. there t broader discussion is the level of reaction. let's talk about what happens. yesterday, we had capitol building and all the officers and we had thousands of people that were in lock down while

this happened. then we go back to boston after the boston bombing -p the man hunt begins a couple days later. obviously these guys were very, very dangerous. they killed a campus police officer. the real question that they war threat and they needed to be hubt *hunted down and found for everybody's safety. we saw a country paralyzed far day. curfew, no transportation. do we have to go that far? >> there's a reason for doing that. what they wanted to do was make the city to make the city difficult to navigate without being detected. second nor important reason which is why we are seeing such extreme, we are trying to limit the potential of collateral damage. there are decisions i made in this regard. what was the down side of locking the city down?

did somebody not see a movie they wanted to see? >> there's economic impact. a lot of people had work. there may have been health issues. i don't know. >> i do think, though t antonio that i think health issues was something that would be an exception to the lock down. you could utilize law enforcement to escort them in and out. the thing that i find troubling is that we're almost slipping in to this mode where we're monday morning quarterback -- >> we don't want to do that. you have to measure the response. it's to the problem and the op operations.

>> the training an we will have to teach ou our officers how to respond to these situations so they are not getting quarterback calls on a monday afternoon. >> let's talk about how things will change for law enforcement. we have seen a lot of high impact incidents. a man shot a co-this worker. he was aiming at police and police ended up shooting and nobody questions that they had to defend themselves but nine bystanderers ended up getting the hurt then we had a different one that happened in times square. just very recently where a man was acting erratically and

wouldn't cam down and police ended up shooting him and hitting a couple of bystanders. would that happen in the past before 9/11? >> i think that the first incident most definitely would have, yes because you had an active shooter. this individual is approach bid the police brandish what we live. >> no question there. what about times square incident where the guy wasn't armed and serious i will haveing serious issues. i really believe that generationly, we probably would have tackled him. what did happen was he was tasered and the only people carrying the tasers today are supervisors. police are not -- i am a little unsettled about the use of force in that times square incident.

i think there was another way. >> the officers probably would have jumped the guy. >> that was pretty much it. we are from a different cut of fabric. >> how do you balance the realities this this post 9/11 world with keeping people safe when you have these incidents? it comes done to training. i agree request lou what would have happened with the guy in times square. we would have jumped all over him and disregard everything else. we have to go back to training. we've got to explain to these officers what happened when you have other people in the immediate area.

>> it's driven by hollywood. they have this misconception that every time we draw our weapons we aim them and fire them. that's cane divine intervention. that's one hit for every 15 rounds fired. they are taught restraint. they have the best training they have ever had. the simple dynamics. what we saw on 34th street was 16 shots fired and 9 people struck. it's what we call collateral damage. if hollywood would stop producing movies that every time someone discharges their weapon they hit their target. the culture will change they will realize that we make mistakes. we have to make a decision

concerning the greater good. >> that requires a lot of courage and i know that was shun by police in washington yesterday. >> lou, we really appreciate you joining us tonight. >> coming up, the ongoing government shut down has crystallized the grid lock is the worst it's ever been it' the reason why representative brad miller left congress. what you think, he will bring them to you. please join the conservation on twitter on aj consider this.

there are many bills to reopen parts of the government to make sure federal workers get their back pay. none are expected to oh get through senate. house democrats hope to get a majority to sign on to a dischargeed position, a procedural motion to force a bill that will fully fund the

government to the floor nap is not ebs expected to go very far either. neither are talks to john boehner and president obama. >> i was at the white house the other night and listened to the president some 20 times told me why he wasn't going to negotiate. so, i'm happy to negotiate with the speaker boehner but we can't do it with a gun held to the head of the american people. >> for more on washington's current pace of grid lock, i am joined by washington, d.c. by brad miller, a north carolina democrat and now a senior fellow for economic policy at the center for american progress. i thank you for joining us night. if you just left congress last year and part of the redistricting by republican legislature and i gather because you saw that grid lock was getting worse every single year that you serve. is the system broken?

we made it in the past. i hope we make it through as well. >> we are seeing -- as you're saying. you see this total impasse. both sides are responsible far. you think this is the worst case of washington grid lock you have seen since you started following politics? >> totally, in my lifetime, this is the worst that it's been it'' gotten worse in the last 20 years but this is obviously the worst that the it has been. >> the fight now is not really an appropriations bill it's

about the additional stuff that republicans are demanding in addition to the appropriations bill. how the democrats are forced to use fema and even head start. at some point, are they going to have to say yes to this company -p? >> you would hope that somebody at some point is going to decide we have to say yes but it should be to funding the whole government and not just piece whatever really produces allowed

to the public will fund and if nothing else. who do you think will blink first? the republicans or the democrat? es. >> i don't know. i think there are plenty of republicans who hurt this but the debate is being driven on the republican side by an unyielding, very extreme faction and then the rest of the republican party. until then, i don't see how we get out of this. >> congressman on twitter says, the world's most powerful nation's government shuts down due partisan politics. this congress has too much power. congresss that power to tax,

spend and to borrow. it's really hard to decide a system in which power is always used lively or even used not really stupidly which appears to be what republicans in congress are thousand doing. now doing. the $550 million-dollars and congress says and we can't borrow to cover the difference. good in to* the president to figuringing that out.

today -- i quote w >> speaker boehner responded to that with this. >> this isn't just some damn game. the american people don't want their government shut down and neither do i. all we're asking for is to sit down and have a discussion and bring fairness and bring fairness to the american people under obama care. >> let's look at a hot mic discussion between senate minority leader mitch mckopbl and senator ran paul. democrats aren't the only ones talking about game playing.

>> it's the politics here. can the obama administration go on so far as the republicans are being blamed. >> i think that quote in the wall street journal is incredibly stupid and of course it reputed it and to some extent they've got no one to blame but themselves but that administration has too much talk to the american people by some administration official.

it's about 20% less. the spending bill and the

administration is in the senate. you mentioned that. >> it also hurting the economy, hurting the recovery and hurting the unemployment tan ability of americans to buy in to descent jobs. >> wasn't it necessary to bring the deficit down. the economy is doing relatively well. i hurt t it hurt the recovery in a significant way and has the economic analysis that forceed

that analysis. . when you breakdown those numbers by party and splitting down the middle with republicans. the only positive poll, a poll shows that only nine points separate republicans from president obama and the democrats on who should get the blame.

our republicans. that is a reflection of how the divide is and how the republicans say it's democrat's fault. they want to roll the government shut down talks in to the whole issue and put more pressure on the white house. >> i don't know how they get in to that.

if they get in to that, i think our policies would not. the same for a generation. every time it is controlled by the par thety. we will see the demands that are completely unrelated to the budget. >> there was some that it didn't get to the point. there has been other demands associated with funding bills in the past. the question is how far did they take it this time.

it's what the president has to do. we fought that fight back with us.. it's with present. he wanted to impale and not spend money. of course you can't do that. you have to spend it. >> the tax law that congress has passed is $560 million-dollar short from covering that spending. >> we are see what happened in the last ten days or so. >> thank you very much. i appreciate you being with us tonight. >> straight ahead, the united states has surpassed russia to become the biggest energy produce near the world. are we getting any closer to becoming energy independent? that's coming up next.

what will this all be for the price of gas and heating oil and for our relationship with middle east tern oil-producing countries. joining us now is bob who has 30 years in the producing industry.

>> con tpwregsa t we have heavit on the imports. we produced 31quadrillion, btus. what does that mean? >> it's a remarkable change antonio for the last four or five years. the whole supply chain that we have been dealing with in the last 40 years. we had to import something over 60% of the oil.

were already producing 80% of the gas that we consume. can you get to the day where we are not totally inpendant. >> i'm not sure we will get to the point where we are completely independent. we import crude but also import finished proofinished products. it's more of a balanced of products coming in and out of the states that is going to cause us to not be able to completely and what it does do, though, it makes us less on

other countries for our country's support. stphaou we have less demand. a lot are price differentials around the country and in areas where production is really growing like north dakota. there's a lot of supply constraints or pipeline constraints to get that oil to familiar refineries in the east coast or the gulf coast. than causes pricing differentials. there's been times in the last year or so that north louisiana was as much as $20 than it was in the oklahoma or in west texas

intermediate. that's been offset a lot by natural gas and the consumptions going up. there's a balancing an there's a lot more flexibility now. when you have less demand -- you think that you will be seeing pricing going down. >> let's bring down what the u.s. mines them importing foreign oil. what does it mean for countrys that used to be extremely important to us. as we become more independent.

where they become less rev hrapbrevhrapbtrehavless revalenn india and china and all these areas where a lot of russian oil is going. you have a lot more relations between different countries. we don't have that ham ter over us. that increases our own influence and it shuts down and narrows the trade in balance between us and other countries which also helps to improve our own economy

in relations for the rest of the world. >> a lot say -- we have tremendous reserves with natural tkpas in particular but there's a lot of politics going on here. >> would that cause for energy independent? >> i'm not sure. >> i'm not sure -- the bill shale areas are in texas, in the northeast. the obama administration has certainly slowed down especially

since the people in the horizon tragedy. but in terms of the overall production that we have in the u.s. i'm not sure they will lose as much as the people think it would be. >> this is one of the reasons we are getting so much natural gas and oil and injection in the earth. that will allow us bring up fossil fuels that we didn't get before. how bad is this for the environment. there is a lot of concern. i think the public has become a lot more aware of this technique over the years, the last couple of years certainly.

>> this is not the perfect process either. about 90% that are drilled in the u.s. today will not be productive without hydraulic fracking. it's here today. >> it generally comes from poor handling. a lot that you hear about the lining of tpa faucets on fire ad thoer things. most are related. >> there are certainly instances of contamination and i think most comes from careless handling on the surface. >> we have a social media question for you. u.s. surpassing russia as the world's largest oil and gas producer. does this underline green

energy? that doesn't mean we shouldn't develop other technologies. the most important thing we can do here is concern. the longer you make your supply last. >> also plain old contra version saves a lot of oil. >> we really appreciate you being with us tonight. >> happy to be with you, thank you. >> scarlett joe hansen gets epl

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scarlett admited that she only got an 1080 on her s.a.. the she felt like a big dummy. turns out scarlett should feel great when compared with the current test takers. out of 166 million student whose took the sat this year only 43% net benchmark considered to be ready for college course work.

only 15.6 met or exceeded the benchmark. these up 8% from last year. hispanic students also saw a rise up 7.7%. 23.5 of them made the mark. why should we worry? the the u.s. economy depends on educated people. we've now dropped to 15. some experts argue college entrance tests are part of the problem. so back to scarlett johansson. today she would have tested higher than 6 out of 10 kids.

>> coming up, football players think they know the risks of concussions when they take the field. they are in a lot more danger than they realize. a shocking doc documentary right after the break. .

the danger of concussions has become a major issue. it shows concussions can lead to chronic -- a disease that slowly wears away at the brain's function. it led to a series oh of suicides. the head games which airs sunday here on al jazeera america links a link between sports and concussions. >> there was sample of 27,000 athletes and they had concussions. football players don't speak up when they have these symptoms. i dug around and found six other studies.

if you diagnose every concussion you have the risk of.ing sidelineed on the side of the game. >> he's also the co director for the center of study -- i can't say that. at the school of medicine, thanks for joining us tonight. it's onlyle in the past decade. we are also hearing about other players who are having serious brain issues. how pad is the problem and why are we only learning about it now? >> i think the problem is about as bad as you would want belief. right now it's 54 former nfl players. we found that 52 of them when they passed way an the same

relationship with college football players and college who stopped after high school. your thought foe oh kus on other sports. we're talking about woman playing soccer. a hockey -- are any of these lesion, professional and junior dealing with the problem? >> everyone is taking steps. it wasn't until 2009 that we stopped returning athletes to the same game when they knew they had a concussion. it really cloud down progress. when the name started changing, every other sport started changing.

some sports reacted well. it ended over all and a policy over the sports leg city and le. >> we heard you say it. 50%. than needs to be stopped and foot wall all together and one thing that you bring up is there's a misconception that it's the big hits that cause the concussions. they can happen with smaller hits and it's part o of the isss that people have the smaller concussion and seeing the stars and part of the sport. >> children just assume -- i'm talking to a college player. you just assume when you hit in the head and see stars. obvious you're tkpwing to see ge stars.

kids don't speak up. they would have had real problems. >> it's some scary thought. there's an explanation on what happens in a concussion. >> in a concussion, your brain changes shape very quickly. all these nerv nerve fibers. it allows information to travel from one side of your injure. that cause injury in a unique way. i make a cylinder and i pull apart and it gets thinner and thinner. the same material in that dynamic stretch is how fast i stretched it and it broke. not all have suffered that fate. >> it's idea that only 20% of

people who spoke eventually die of lung cancer but we focus on the extraordinary problem. how concerned about you about your health? i'm concerned about the studies yourself i'm very concerned. i sort of feel ten years a go before the concussion and the studies in my brain say i'm certainly not normal but the hopefully i started playing football later so that help me and hopefully maybe have some products. that's why i'm so motivated to find the way it diagnoses with

people that you don't have and treat them. >> a kr-rbl par a crucial part . you -- one of the most heartbreaking parts of the your documentary is the call oh you made to a vently deceased boxer only 40 years old it was heart breaking to see that conversation in the movie. it's essential. absolutely. we get in to 170 families who donateed the brains of their loved ones so we can learn to understand it. it was neglected n medical science.

>> there were two espn reporters and outlineed the nf thr* campaign who cover up the effects of these head injuries. i know -- the nfl has settled the a class-action lawsuit and is going to go to the mayers. they have given your institute a million dollars. they are taking things more seriously. are they doing enough? >> well, i'm happy to see the progress that is made with the newer leadership in the nfl. is it enough? >> i don't know if it makes up for all those lost years. i have one of our brain donors working for us. >> it's hard to make up far sort of thing but i'm glad the family now had some funding and i'm glad we are taking some steps in the right direction. >> we have a question for social

media for you. >> chris, on twitter they want to know are concussion more prevalent now or just more recognized? >> i think just a little bit of both. we are seeing the army, navy, air force team double their concussions just because the players start learning to speak up. also we have to recognize, bigger stronger, faster and kids are playing contact sports younger and year around. i think we're getting kicked in the head more ever than we ever had. >> i think that little kids bash their heads with football helmets on. >> their heads are -- their

necks are overwhelming and trauma sustained that will last longer before it clears. >> i'm not telling anybody. >> you make a decision for your kid. >> knock yourself out. >> those are true tal brutal im. they are playing at higher speeds. you are showing woman soccer with woman smashing their the head together and someone who played all these different sports. would you let your kids play contact sports knowing what you know now? >> i follow the video. there's no way my kid was playing a sport where they are getting hit in the head a lot before the age of 14. it doesn't make sense from a sign tiff tick perspective it shouldn't be happening.

hopefully later when i feel comfortable. there's a lot of risks that we shouldn't. exposing the kids to that is allowing us to do that. >> i know you say parents who allow their kids to play football are playing russian roulette. u you have seen resistance from some people at the nfhl about te science. >> it has a lot to do with the cost of future care. if you get hit in the head too much it's a risk. we have to fuel that. >> parents have to be careful with the their kid. get them out of that game. i know that's the recommendation. we appreciate you being here. head games airs on sunday at 9:00 p.m. easter tern on al jazeera america.

good evening, everyone. welcome to al jazeera america. while the days get longer for federal workers, tempers are getting shorter. >> this isn't some damn game. the american people don't want their government shut down and neither do i. >> there's no winning when families don't have certain whether they will be paid or not. >> both sides are far apart. while they thought american workers and small businesses are struggling