>> on america tonight it will the driver who led a high speed chase through washington, d.c. what keeps doctors and police on alert?

>> have they simply been sitting across from the white house peacefully or have they tried to scale the fence? >> also, tonight, karen storms forward. a late entry in hurricane season but experts warn a sleeper storm shouldn't be ignored. >> everybody needs to pay attention and be vigilant because these things have a mind of their own. >> and how now does the cow? technology makes the most of what's left down on the farm . >> and good evening, thanks for joining us. this week in washington ends with a lot of loose ends. the budget battle continues with to end to the government shut

down in sight as do the questions about that driver who rammed barricades near the white house and capitol hill before dying in a final battle with police. the seat of politics and power may also be a magnet for the mentally ill. we beginning with america tonight correspondent lori jane gliha. >> it is not possible what the woman was thinking during her final moments alive, why the connecticut woman was in the nation's capitol, with a baby along for the ride. >> that's really unusual. i can't believe someone would bring a one-year-old with them. most mothers whether they are not feeling quite right themselves, they will protect themselves. >> she says the allure of the capitol draws a number of people

here, tourists and protesters, of course but a lot of people with mental health needs, people who may feel as if they have a strong connection to the power players in d.c. >> what is it about washington? when you look around here, it is the seat of power for america, a seat of power for the world. it's not a surprise that people may be fixated or grandiose, they're going to come here and help guide our politicians what to do. there is a patient in our system that was writing letters to the obamas. another person was driving around and said she should be killed instead of the lady that was killed yesterday. and when somebody is dilutional. these things that don't make any sense to us, they make sense to them. >> and is it unusual that sown would drive through several states to come here to fulfill whatever their dilutional ideas are? >> we see people coming here from all over the country all the time.

often it's by greyhound bus and they do come a long way for their dilutions which fortunately very unusual is they come here and do anything violent about it. >> it's rare but sometimes those dilutions turn violent. in 1998, a man named russell eugene weston junior charged into congress, thought they were can balances and blocking his way to a special ruby satellite that could save him. >> people could be victimized than be victims themselves, there is not a line in the sand that you say somebody's okay and then somebody is not okay. there's always a continual assessment do they have access to weapons? that's a big red flag. have they committed violence in the past? have they stabbed somebody or shot somebody before?

that's a big red flag. have they simply been sitting across from the white house peacefully or have they tried oscale the fence? >> on friday afternoon at lafayette park across from the white house we found one peaceful demonstrator who told us she had people inside her body and the government controls her mind and organ functions. >> how often do you think the secret service brings somebody from your facility ? >> twice a week. they bring us a lot of weeks. >> dr. richie trains metropolitan police. >> we teach them about nonviolent deescalation. how do you talk to somebody in a reflective way, we help them understand what is it like to be hearing voices? and seeing things? or have something in your body that is telling you to do this. so the police officer understands that piece of it.

some of this the police know already. they have been doing this for a long time but it will help them increase their ability to respond to this. >> should you be making note of them should you be contacting an authority? >> in general if somebody is peaceful isn't going to bother anybody we're going to let them be and that's how it should be. if they are following you harassing you or doing something to put themselves at risk such as wandering into traffic i would recommend calling the police, saying there's somebody that you feel might be mentally irl and worried that it's dangerous and have the police come and take a look. and joie, since the navy yard shooting a few weeks ago dr. richie is a little bit on edge. she says she is now more likely to admit somebody to the hospital at least for a few days to sort things out if there's a

possibility of violence. >> lori jane, her family reportedly says she did have some indications of mental illness and was being treated. i think people are most concerned with her young daughter just a year old or so. is there any indication what's going to happen with her? >> joie i talked to the child protective services in washington, d.c, their protocol is to connect the home state and they would determine what the appropriate location of the baby would be. >> that would be connecticut i guess. lori jane gliha, thank you very much. tom morris is an experienced reporter who as it happens has a tie to stamford connecticut. can you tell us about your connection to law enforcement there? >> i do. i'm an honorary member of the

robbery squad in stamford pd. >> they were familiar with this particular woman? >> they were. they had encountered her in december when her boyfriend had become concerned because she was babbling about barack obama had bugged her apartment and the baby was a very small infant at that time and the boy friend was concerned and called stamford pd. once they talked to her they realized she needed help and they realized they needed to get the child out of custody, while she got that help. because it was winter, and she didn't have the baby properly dressed for the elements, they went to child protective services and told them this woman isn't taking care of the child properly, please take care of her while we take her to the hospital. when there's first indication in the family that

something might be wrong, on post partum depression does that lead to criminal behavior? >> no. post partum depression is not a terribly uncommon phenomenon for people who have just had children. but that's really not what we're looking at here. we're really looking at the symptoms that would be more indicative of post partum psychosis, hearing voices, having hallucinations, having very dramatic delusions. and those would be treatby psychotropic medications. >> these are people who like in lori jane's report who occasionally appear in washington, d.c. is this city a magnet for some type of personalities or why? >> when i started working at st. elizabeth back in 1985, we saw archived articles talking about this phenomenon 50 years before that back in the

'20s around '30s. this is a well-known phenomenon that applies to a few other cities that have religious significance around the world. >> what other world? >> one is jerusalem, there is a psychiatric term called jerusalem, because of the religious symbolic importance. think of it this way joie, if you are as a individual having psychotic dilutions or psychotic symptoms where you can't really understand exactly what's going on and you know other people aren't experiencing this, you sit back and think to yourself what's going on here? now if your dilution is of a religious bent you might go to jerusalem or rome or mecca. however if you have a more temporal view of things, you know, you would come to washington, d.c, the seat of power in the world. so nobody comes to the white house or the capitol, just by happenstance. everybody comes with a purpose. most people come there because they want to see those places.

but the mentally ill come there because they want some kind of grievance or troubling experience addressed. >> that they think is going to be resolved -- >> exactly. when i started working at st. elizabeth we had a whole ward of mentally ill patients called the white house ward, it was exclusively for people who had been picked up at the white house. >> tom i see you nodding, there is an understanding this city is -- >> it is a mecca for people who are disturbed. the fact that she went to the white house first indicates her fixation with barack obama being in her mind her tormenter. that's why she drove to the white house and then led the police the chase up the hill. >> that's not an unusual phenomenon, for people who didn't act as bizarrely as she did in this case, they typically will go from place to place to place. we call it the hot potato

syndrome here. the secret service will say, you don't want to talk to the president, you want to talk to your congressman, or maybe you want to talk to the people at the supreme court. the people get passed around. we encourage the capital police and the supreme court police to deal can with it when it comes up. >> law enforcement have an understanding these are the marker places, likely places to go. would have an idea she's left the white house where is she likely to go? do they aim in that location? >> in this particular case it was very sudden. she tries to ram the barricade, the secret service person goes up on the hood of the car, they encounter her and draw down on her and there are shots. she is driving like a mad woman. her neighbors didn't really know her. they knew she had a child, they saw her a lot, aaron jackson

talked to her frequently, not in depth, they weren't best friends or anything. but the one thing they told the police in stamford that she drove like a crazy person. she had a bmw and an infiniti. zooming through with no regard for children, speed limits or anything. >> i have to ask you about this picture here, you know you work with training and law enforcement. a lot of people have said why didn't they shoot out her tires right away? would that be part of what you would train law enforcement to do? look you've got a woman who is behaving highly erratically. >> that's from people who watch too much television. it's hard to shoot out a out of control car. and if you did, the car could ride on the rims and become

uncontrollable. >> they return fire, have officers down, perhaps. that's in the movies like you said, it's just not real ink. they did what they had to do and she used that vehicle as a weapon. so the use of deadly force in this case as sad and tragic in this case had to be done. >> barry spoa spodak, tom morris, appreciate you being with us. we told you about herman wallace held longer in solitary confinement longer than any other prisoner, 40 years. he was known as anngola 3. the judge ordered a new trial, the 71-year-old will never have his day in court. he died of cancer. he was surrounded by family and friends. when we return here, we'll look to the gulf coast and a

storm brewing late in hurricane season. tropical storm karen promises [[voiceover]] 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." [[voiceover]] two-thirds of low-wage workers experience wage theft every week. >>you're telling that these people are allowed to treat people like this, and you can't do anything?

>> over this weekend and the governors of louisiana, mississippi and florida have declared states of emergency in advance to speed up the storm preparations. some low lying areas of louisiana, south of new orleans, like grand isle, have been

ordered to prepare for caution. dave, what are you seeing? >> we are seeing it's still a tropical storm but really does much. in fact wasn't nearly as intention as i.t -- intense as it was 24 hours ago. you can see this cltion but the -- circle of storms, still a storm though, winds 50 miles an hour, tw 50 miles south of new orleans. the location is stationary but will speed up to the northeast. timing wise overnight tomorrow night early sunday, this would be the location here, south of louisiana, of course it could be anywhere in this cone but looks to be tracking just south of louisiana and turning up towards alabama and florida. heavy rain over this period. by 1 o'clock sunday, that may be 60 miles an hour.

heavy rain over florida. by monday and tuesday could become a problem in the mid mid atlantic. rainfall amounts six inches from florida to alabama. but it is the storm position that is a big problem with the storm surge. as it passes by south of louisiana, storm surge could be a big problem there in the low lying areas of louisiana. now that's the tropical tomorrow. this midwest storm is providing severe weather in eastern nebraska and iowa but not far away we are seeing winter weather, blizzard warnings all within 200 miles of each other. numbers of storms that have come in, tornado warnings and reports through nebraska and iowa. it is moving through iowa, watches have been extended and these are current tornado warnings. so a lot to talk about, tropical

storm in the gulf and flooding in the mid atlantic and neeng neeng new england possibly joie. >> thank you dave. bobby jindal mobiled national guardsmen who had been furloughed during the shutdown. general russell monroe, you're not just an expert in all of this, you are a resident of the gulf state. do you have a sense that folks there are understanding and preparing for something that could be a very serious storm that already calls for evacuation? >> absolutely along the coast you talking about places like grand isle and the greater part

of plaqueamans parish, clearly know when you talk about a tropical storm or category 1 that the tidal surge alone will yoaf top roads in those areas. many of them have already started to evacuate. >> they are taking it seriously. but we were hearing in the wire service reports people were concerned whether there was going to be friday night football. are they looking ahead paying attention owhat's happening over the weekend? >> that's the issue that the governor and the mayor and the presidents have to fight with. but the consensus with even the weather men that everybody would be good to finish their football games but tomorrow some of those lower applying parishes would be advised to evacuate before the thrust of the storm hit landfall tomorrow evening. >> i know general you have always tried to be cautious and warn people to take evacuation warning very seriously, this is not hurricane strength yet, just

a tropical storm, are you concerned that people will accept that and say gee, it's a tropical storm, there will be just some rain. >> that is a danger joie that people start doing their own analysis. look, most of the scientists agree and the weather people that we can expect a four foot tidal surge. what that means is if you go out in your front yard and you put a four-foot stick put it on the ground that's where they're projecting along the shore line that's how high that water is going to get. if it will get to your home you need to evacuate and evacuate before landfall tomorrow. >> and do you think that that warning is really being heard and heeded? do you think that the gulf communities particularly after katrina, particularly looking back to that time, do they understand something that happens, well after labor day now and well after the time we think of gulf storms coming in.

>> i think the danger ask that people understand when you evacuate that's an economic event. that's going to cost you one to two months of your housing budget if you evacuate your home. and people reluctantly evacuate now, because they know it's going to cost a lot of money. and if they think they can -- as we say hunker down at home or shelter in place they will try to do that. but they need to stay informed. and speaking of that, red cross ready, joie, a little item like this, a noaa weather radio that you can get from the red cross that can also charge your phones. because this thing will turn the lights out. people along the coast, expect for your lights to be turned out in the next 24 hours. and it could be out for several days. >> well, i know you want everyone to pay attention to that, and we appreciate your encouraging them dr. russell honore, thanks for being with us

again. >> good evening. >> and coming up churning much more than milk. what one indiana farm is doing news stories?

it drives discussion across america. share your story on tv and online. [[voiceover]] 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." [[voiceover]] two-thirds of low-wage workers experience wage theft every week. >>you're telling that these people are allowed to treat people like this, and you can't do anything? >> finally tonight, the cows on indiana's natural do what they do anywhere. they eat and make the most with

their nutrition. farmers use it best on the field. but there's way to make use of the cow not from nose and tail but everything generated in between. here is tech know's kyle hill. >> what makes this indiana farm unique is not what you see, it's what you smell. these cows are full of it and it's not just milk. so you don't just have all these cows here for producing milk. it's actually really a great story. we take two products, milk and manure. and they come together as renewable natural gas on a tampger truck that is then able to deliver that milk all over the upper midwest. >> what you see behind me is fair oaks farms' $19 million investment in sustainability.

2 million gallons of natural gas fuel. to put that into perspective, it's enough to do 35-747s. >> this new future of green energy lies in this innovation. a highly efficient anaerobic digester, which converts the manure to compressed natural gas. >> we produce from the areas that go into the central digester. >> how do you deal with the manure they're producing every day? >> we vacuum all the manure out of the aisles, collect it and take it to the digester. >> we're taking something that potentially could be a contaminate contaminant to the environment and turn it into something carbon based and we feel good about that. >> how do you feel? >> it's obviously cleaner and i

have felt no difference as far as pulling loads or power or anything like that. >> could you show me? >> sure. >> in the face of climate change nearly every major industry is going to have to adapt and evolve. it's inspiring then to see sustainability on such a large scale, right here on the heart land of america. >> sustainability has been a partly of our farming operations. we just keep taking it to different levels. to survive in the 21st century you're going to need sustainability, creativity, technology, innovation to get us there. >> apparently you're going oneed cows too. techknow's full story will air here on sunday, on al jazeera america. anything you want to know, log on to aljazeera.com/america tonight.

join us on facebook and twitter. shame on you! shame on you! shame on you! >> this year, striking restaurant workers brought their low wages to the nation's attention. but what many americans don't know is that low wage workers are often being cheated out of what little they do make. >> i said are you kidding me? i said you're telling me that these people allowed to treat people like this and you can't do anything? >> they accuse me. they accuse me, the federal government, that i stole one million dollars from these low-wage workers. >> they call it wage theft, and