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hello, welcome to "mesh tonight" the weekend edition. were hearing from a troubled young woman. her behavior interrupted all schedules in the city on thursday as she led officers in a high the speed chase here in pennsylvania avenue. all the while with her 1-year-old daughter in the back seat. cameraman was on the scene. he was working on a different story when he focused in to capture the chaos. he tells us his story. / was shooting a story on the shut down and happened to be shooting a protestor walking up towards me. there's the the protestor right now you see. behind her you see what looked like a motorcade but it's a police chase. >> there's a lot all the time.

you noticed e immediately? they were in the background of the shot. it was pretty loud but instantly it came right to us there. >> you went to macro. i went to 2x, zoomed in and saw what you saw here. they were screaming at her, "get out of the car" and just like the movies she rammed back and forth. there's five gunshots that's what i counted. >> did you realize what was going on? >> at first i thought it was a traffic stop gone bad and somebody had something in their car they didn't want the police to see. obviously it was more than that. i was rolling and somehow wasn't too scared to stop red lighting. >> talk about that. you heard a lot of yelling. you heard the pops. >> i'm looking through my view finder at the police and the whole scene it's a natural thing

to keep rolling. i was recording what was going on. she drove off and i heard the pop, pop, pop. i didn't get the police in the video shooting. i was trying to follow the car. the pops made my hairs on the back of my neck stand on end. there you are and we see your camera it's a heavy thing for people who have not experienced a professional tv camera. you were actually not standing up at the time this all started snipe was on my knees getting an art sy shop. the we did lose a little of the shot. >> you got plenty of shot. was there a sense in your mind that this might be a terrorist attack or something more serious going on? >> not really. i don't know why. perhaps because i lived in

d.c.my whole life. i wondered later why i didn't seem to be scared. afterwards i thought maybe it was a terrorist. it seemed like -- it didn't seem like a good terrorist plot it seemed like a traffic stop to me at that time. >> the officers were telling the people to get back. >> after it happened, they escorted her and had everybody run up to the front of the capitol to get away from it. because it went up the constitutional avenue and had us to run the south side and cleared us off three or four blocks away from everything. >> you were close. >> i was a hundred yards away from the start of the it. >> exactly. as the car sped off you didn't see the end of it. >> no. i get her. she drove off to the left and made a u-turn and came back past the scene that i shot. she went to the circle and did a loop around that circle it was almost comic because the police

cars followed her around and they could have blocked up. she went up constitution avenue to the right. was there any indication, did you see any evidence of gunfire from the car? >> no. i'm almost certain the gunfire came from the police. >> and only after she started moving. >> only after she started ramming the cars. >> did you hear anything from her? >> no. >> so, you don't know -- >> i think her windows were up. from what i could see on my video, it looks like her windows were up in her car. you were a willing witness to this as anybody could be particularly with your lens up. what do you think? >> we're in a world with strange people in it. it scares me. i have three young children and this thing happens and their dad was right there. fortunately i got it on camera and the police were pointing

away from me and not where i was. it's a shame. >> a very young child. you didn't think to run away? i think the people might be motivated to take off the other way. >> i was already rolling on the shot so maybe that helped the fact that i'm already rolling on it may befy heard the gunshots my first instricts might have been to run. >> today you did your job. >> that's what i was supposed to do. for some reason i wasn't scared. next time hopefully there won't be one maybe i'll be terrified. >> no pep talk, no game time strategy can prepare an athlete for the unexpected head injuries for competitive contact sports. >> as amateurs and professionals a like are at risk. as the head games reveal, the injury is difficult to shake

off. >> a football player was found dead in his off campus apartment. owen come mass who graduated from parkland high school was found yesterday. >> there's nothing leading up to his suicide as far as i can see. he was an incredible student at an incredible university and the constantly surrounded by friends. he played defense and an aggressive player and voted captain of our team. owen was the person on our team that everyone looked up to and it hit everyone in our community hard and still does today. >> when i hear about these things, my job is to find a way to get their brain. so i told them on the phone, i said, you're not going to find anything because he never had any documented

concussions. >> i said that's fine. i'd love to not find it. it seems like everyone we get we find it. >> we were similar in this aspect. if we did have a head ringer we would not go for the trainer. we would get up and shake it off and get back out there and play. last year, 1600 kids crossed all sports had 14 recorded incidents of concussions. >> t that's a very under diagnosed condition. >> if you only have one out of every 100 kids get diagnosed with concussions.

you're missing them and your kids are at a terrible risk. we start educating the athletes it's going to sky rocket. >> this is owen thomas' brain. this is a part oh of the frontal lobe. these very dark areas of discolor ration in his brain and when you look at these thought under the microscope there's tremendous ringing around these areas of nerve cells containing this protein. this is very dramatic disease. what we know from other brains is that if he had lived longer, the disease gradually would have spread out in to the neighboring cortex. once the fire has started it just goes on its own without any additional cells. >> so when the results came through i can't say it was a relief but it was like, oh my gosh, that is the reason right there. that he would commit suicide. the fact that they found it in the frontal lobe of his brain

that controls his impulse control. i think it was a very significant factor. >> i don't think that we know whether the changes that were in his brain which were quite -- they were definitely abnormal no question. but whether they explained the ultimate behavior that happened. it's an open question. >> the owen thomas finding was not significant as it related to the cause of death. he could have died in a car accident and be significant and it would have been exactly the same. it was important to recognize, holy call, cte can actually begin before somebody reaches the national football league. >> that's the more important point here is 21-year-olds shouldn't have this from playing a game. >> the director of head games steve james joins us now from

chicago. i appreciate you being with us steve, can you tell us how you came this particular story? >> i followed it as a sports fan and disturbed fan. an opportunity came along to adopt his book head games in to a film and once i read the book i said i really should do this film. because it's such an important social or public health issue in this country and around the world. >> what reaction do you hear from the nfl and nhl, are they willing to work with you on this? >> the nfl not so much. they allowed us to interview hunt badge skwrer who ier but uo interview anyone at the league level. the nhl gave us access to a lot of their key people and knew they were going to be critical of them. i hit the was quite great on

their behalf to participate so fully. >> i wonder about other sports that maybe i think america thinks of football and thinks of hockey and thinks of concussion. we put those things together but part of what i thought was interesting had to do with woman and soccer. maybe it's not something that people automatly think of. there's other sports that can lead to these injuries. >> absolutely. there are very few sports where you not suffer a concussion. soccer in particular as you mentioned i think the -- we don't think of that sport that the way. when, in fact, girls in particular, suffer concussion at an extremely high rate in soccer it's in part because they don't have the phu phaous cue musculan their necks that boys do. they're discoverering just

hitting the ball it's contributing to concussions. then the contact that happens in soccer when people hit the ground. sit a sport that's seeing a lot of problems with concussions. >> there's some that are skeptical that there's a clear connection. what do you see moving to forward that's that kind of doubt. >> one of the things that we made a real effort to do in the film is to articulate that. there's so much we don't know. u i think that there's no question that there's a real issue here. i think we all feel much better in ten years say looking back on this time when maybe we know a lot more and saying that perhaps we overreacted than underreacted because thus far many of the leagues, particularly professional leagues and like

the ncaa have shown a history of not reacting and down playing the potential dangers. >> a little bit of caution, too, because it begins at the very youngest age at little league moving forward from young athletes moving forward this can be a risk. >> there's been some movement in a positive way in the last couple of years that youth leagues had starteded to adapt and when like football the amount of tackling that kids do at a kwroupblg ag a young age o. there's a long way to go in this issue as people getting awareness, parents getting awareness, to make these sports as safe as possible. steve james, thanks very much for being with us. >> glad to be here. >> you can see all the film head games sunday night at 9:00 eastern here on al jazeera america. after the break, passing on

a message. vital conversations about life and death. how families are learning to start them. 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. consider this. unconventional wisdom.

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[[voiceover]] connected, inspired, bold. >>about a thousand protestors have occupied ... we know that most americans don't die at home. how that could change might begin with a very tough talk with how we want to die. >> my name is joe and i'm 47 years-year-old. i was diagnosed with g hr*e blastoma stage 4, the most dangerous brain cancer there is. the medium is 14 months from diagnosis. standard protocol is for you to be on chemo for life.

with five days on and 18 days off. i did the five days on it, it was pretty horrible and for sure and it took me 13 of those 18 days before i could get off the couch and be able to do what i love. it's more about quality life than it is quantity. i offered to not continue the chemo protocol at all. it was too much time of feeling horrible. and for a very slim gain. joe spoke with his family, wife laurie, son, alex, erin and zeek and his brother david making it clear for them how he wanted to be cared for and how he wanted to die. >>fy got pneumonia, i would go to the hospital it it's a treatable condition but if it's related i definitely want to stay home. you can go that route where i know the end is coming, i don't want to be away from here.

i can see and feel the people saying why is he not g doing everything he can. i think i'm doing what's best for everybody involved. i know for me, it was my way to go. >> the death that joe envisions is rare. despite surveys showing most americans would prefer to die at home, more than two-thirds die in a hospital or a nursing home. in stay in an intensive care unit like this one at the hospital. >> her daughter is here. her husband does not understand that she's doing very badly.

>> today, she and her team are treating a 60-year-old woman with multiple organ failure. >> this is a patient who just came in last night and is very ill very quickly. we don't know which way it's going the to go but think it's important that it's clear to the family that the patient is almost as sick as she can be. do you have any questions right now? we don't know. >> the nurse has worked in the icu here for 28 years. >> some family members are ready to let go. so they'll say to the staff,

they want everything done. other members will say, she wouldn't have wanted that done. if your mom were listening to us, what would she be telling us to do? what was important to her in her life? i think if decisions were made by patients prior to their admissions and expressed to their family then a lot of the suffering that goes on right now would be avoided. >> that's the goal of the conversation project. >> we want people to go to the kitchen table with the people that they love and have a conversation about what it is that they want. my interest in this subject grew out at the end oh of my mother's life. i was faced with a cascading number of decisions for her

health care. i'm not always certain what she would have wanted. i often wished that i could have said, "mom, is this what you want me to do? is this what you want to happen to you?" the project web-site has tools to help families think about and talk about what kind of death they want. >> when you ask people how they want to die, 70% of them say they want to die at home for example. home is not a geographic place put it's an idea. people want to die peacefully, they are not dieing in the way they would choose. >> he and his wife decided to have a conversation with their

daughters started with with 22-year-old kate lynn. >> i don't think anybody knew who was going to make the question tk* decisions. some people thought grand -p pa needed nor care where other family members thought he should be allowed to be at home an be comfortable. so it was very confusing. >> if something happened to me today i would not to be kept alive with medicine if i didn't have a chance to recover or if i didn't know you. if there's something going on with me and you're not sure how things would turn out f is mom actually going to get better or is she going to live but never talk to us again. for me the important thing is it's not what is the best medical thing that's out there and everything that can possibly be done it's digty for me.

it's comfort. >> it gave an outline which was really helpful and important because all i could do is look back at my father in law or someone that i had lost and say what would have done in that circumstance? >> we change the way we give birth in america. woman had their feet in sturips. they were knocked out. they said wait let's have this experience the way it should be. this is not just a medical experience f it's life experience. i think if we changed the way we

gave birth in america, we can change the way we die in america. there's health care providers that are eager to respect wishes but it's been really hard to feel comfortable doing that. so what they need is for the culture around us to change. dr. laura agreed. she says when patients wishes aren't clear, doctors often feel forced to give more treatment than necessary. we absolutely need a culture done. it's rare that we have a family that comes in and has had conversations about the kind of care that they would choose for their loved one will choose for the end of their life. it's rare. when they have had those conservations they are not burdened with built.

if you out communicate this out that's not going to go way. it can go away if you're clear with each other. >> that is the conversation project. special correspondent soledad o'brian meets a fearless woman. a nightly group to create safety amidst squaller.

welcome back to haiti. where night fall in the vast makeshift camps have become the prime time for violence and fearful epidemic for hundreds of woman refugees. sp*ebspecial correspondent repos

soledad o'brian report, one woman is trying to protect everyone in her care. >> reporter: she is determined to protect these woman. >> reporter: she is an eupbs stir ration for the group called the fearless woman it's an an expression, in hands lighten the load in this tent city outside of port-au-price. these woman are using their hands to to* knock if on doors to end the wave of playing of sexual abuse and violence in their communities.

>> reporter: what are you asking them? >> reporter: it's so dark. so you'll walk through here and knock on every door and ask the same question to every single home. >> reporter: so, it's 1 s-b 11:t

night. there's no light whatsoever which mean thaeuts coul mean ves because woman are unprotected in this camp. a survey conducted after the quake found that residents like tent cities like this one were 20 times as likely were to report sexual assault as other haitian woman. woman.

>> reporter: there is danger here too. for delma and her fearless woman. >> reporter: last year you had flashlights. and you had solar panels and this year what's happened the to those things?

>> reporter: what do you do. when some within says, yes, i'm a vi victim." what do you do?

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looking back on a story that's hard to believe. 28 years later, after an intense bat with the a small radical group, the city of pennsylvania bombed one of its own neighborhoods. 11 people died including five children. we have a story of a new film that's putting a spotlight on the tragedy. >> homes sit semity an sit empt.

>> there has ban huge explosion. we don't know what it means. >> police dropped a bomb on to the roof of the house occupied by members. the fire jumped from roof to roof engulfing the entire neighborhood in flames destroying 61 homes. the floody encounter that left plenty dead including children. using archivele footage, the director wants to put a spotlight on the disaster in his new documentary let the fire burn. >> it's unthinkable. how could that happen? so, i thought this film can provoke this question very clearly and can really put nit stark relief and in essence i think the film offers an answer as well which is the first step to that type of violence is when you look upon your fellow human

and we don't see a hao u man hu. we see a category. it's not just like i can make that change. one officer was killed and nine members went to jail for his death. then came the false imprisonment of their members blaring with loud speakers. >> they blared these bull horns the at all hours of the day and night. >> reporter: law enforcement evacuated homes. jerrald renfro was told to take the essentials unaware he'd come

home to ruins. >> we could only see bricks and rubble just burned to a chri cr. our house and all the housings were like that. we were in shock. we couldn't believe that our houses had burned down to the ground. >> before the long time tpraoudd reached the deadly complex. police had water gas, water cannon and after being denied entry to serve arrest warrants for members. lynn washington was at the start of his career when he covered the bombing. >> it was like being in the middle of a war. at one point i started hearing things. i said this is crazy. it's a clear, blue sky. it didn't occur to me that was bullets falling out of the sky. i huddled down behind a car. >> washington said the philadelphia bombing rehaines

one of the toughest stories he had to cover as a journalist. >> an urban war, 10,000 bullets, watching a bomb drop, watching a fire destroy the lives of 250 people and take the lives of 11 others. how do you top that? >> the minute strer of communication and only adult survivor was in the basement. >> we started hollering that we were coming out. that we were bringing the kid cans out. the kids was hollering. we want to come out. >> reporter: after escaping the fire along with 13-year-old michael ward. she spent several years in prison. sense her release in 1992, ramona africa continues to to advocate for the removal of members in the prison.

she remains unapologetic about it. >> we lost lives. we lost lives that can never be replaced. our family being imprisoned unjustly. we're fighting a righteous fight here and that you should be helping us. you should be the fighting along with us. so, that it doesn't happen with you. >> the homes have been rebuilt but the work was so shoty and ended with repairs the city offered buy outs. some resident took the officers. others like the renfros stayed put. >> we don't think city has a

right to make a decision to move us out of our community to solve a problem that they created on may 13th, 1985. i am a citizen and i should be treated like a citizen. so, i don't see the fairness in forcing us out because of someone else's misstaeubs. mistakes. >> we look forward to another generation and that's not going the to happen now. we are just reeling with it. it's just tragic. there's no real explanation and we had too much time in a short

life. >> ramona was asked for the passing. >> it was shocking. it was sa saddened. it was unbeliev was unbelievabl. >> he says he knows one thing for certain. those adults didn't have to die. those children who were purely innocent. they didn't have to lose their lives. to this day, i can't get over because justice still has not been served. >> hernan wallace was held in solitary confinement longer than any other prisoner in the country. a judge freed him and ordered a new trial. but wallace will never get his day in court. he lost his battle on cancer on friday. the background of his story for america tonight adam may.

>> reporter: hernan wallace emerged from 41 years in sol tearry confinement. lisa interviewed him from his cell for her film her man's house. >> . >> herman wallace came to the prison on a 50-year prison sentence for robbery. he was dubbed the farm by everyone who knew it. white guards were called freemen and the population was overwhelming black. when wallace arrived, it had a reputation for with being less than bucolic. inmates slept with catalogs

tapeed to their chests to protect them from routine stabbings. the tension came 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. he was sent tensed for the crime. she found a reporting from ngola's old deputy warning discussing brown. he was the main witness in the guard's murder. >> those words implyed 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 officials tried to silence him. >> when i made my statement, i made it in honest. i made it out of my heart. they can say whatever they want to say. that's the way it went. >> it wasn't alabi or the witnesses that made herman wallace a free man on monday it was a technicality. there were no woman on the 1972 grand jury slighting wallace's constitutional rights according to a federal judge. that story from neck tonight. coming up next, making a come back will make the movers and shakers behind an ar an artful, gourmet renaissance.

finally on our program, we look south to border. not so long ago a trip to tuina tphepbt too much tequilla.

as america tonight reports, tijuana today is a different destination. >> reporter: you're looking at one of the hottest south of the border it's a small passage way in downtown tijuana, mexico. the creative energy is flowing here as sculpters show off the twisted metal and painters convert abandoned souvenir shops in to art gallery. even the man dressed like a corp has an electric vibe. >> until recently, this scene in this place would have been unimaginable. wrapped up in a brutal drug war, many residents fled t thei juana.

now, it's experiencing a rebirth. >> what was the atmosphere like? >> it's a place where a lot of hoodlums would hang out. a lot of the shops were closed. >> how would you characterize the transformation of tijuana. >> we didn't this think of transforming tijuana. we took advantage of lower rent. it seems like one of those cities that every chance it reinvents itself. >> reporter: this latest reinvention is an likel unlikel. >> tijuana used to support people from coming from other places especially tourism. at one point the violence that

erupted in the city all went away. >> reporter: roberto mendosa is one of the most famous groups in mexico. he's a long life resident of tijuana. >> it's happening at the moment but with local people. and it's really interesting that you don't see a lot of tourists but you see a lot of locals from the clubs, bars to the restaurants. you see all this new faces and new je generations and people jt really enjoying the city. that's like the biggest difference between now and before. >> it doesn't look like some of the tourism that's gone away. now that there's more community. yeah, i don't know how to say it but exactly it is there.

>> the danger hit pretty close to your home. >> oh, yeah. there were hard times at one point because even though we were especially in a very quiet part of town in the city. just two blocks from here, they have the people that had been kidnapped. we didn't know about it until police raid the place. it's a point where you think oh of really leaving the city put you just hang in there. >> reporter: if there's any place that simple pollizes tijuana's transformation is this art center that sits on top of an old smuggling tunnel connected to the united states. hidden down a small street, the

area is now a young place for artist. >> it is now a parking lot. that's where the tunnel came out from this building. >> where those cars are. >> yes. it's eerie how many people might have died or what the strug thes were and the people that went through there, the coyotes. it's very sad that's why we want to turn it in to something that's positive. >> she's the head of music at the center. >> it's an incredible metaphor. in every place there's good and bad. the pad has magnifyed itself. on this night the music is

afro-cuban. i was completely amazed. the level that people were edge kaeuteducated about art. the youth really stood up it's coming back. the kids and the youth have taken over. they have taken over with art and culture. that's the way it should be. it's not the border that it used to be. so different than the americans coming getting drunk. no. that's the same old tijuana it's totally different. >> i'm a merchant. i've been here for maybe 30 years. not everyone is convinced that

tijuana is back. he own this is shop on the main street. american tourists were his best customers and without them he still struggles. in the new art scene he sees a ray of hope. >> we welcome those people to come. maybe that way the american tourism or the others see and can come again. every day it's like a war zone. >> reporter: he's one of mexico most acclaimed chefs and also playing a big part in the tijuana's renaissance. we met him at his new restaurant. >> we decided to open this restaurant when tijuana was going through harsh times.

i probably heard and saw shootings three or four times a week. >> reporter: they own several high-end restaurants in tijuana. gangsters tried to kidnap his brother. back then, anyone with money was a target. so the family made a tough decision. we left tijuana. my whole family. we have been in this business for 46 years. he told us i have never seen anything like this. people started to ask, are you going to close the restaurants. i wanted to come back and do something about it.

i feel very lucky at this time. i feel very excited. >> how does the future look? >> very, very bright. i love this city. >> that was laurie reporting. that's it for america night. please tell us if you would like to comment on any of the stories you see here tonight. log on to al jazeera/america night. you can can follow the conversation with us on twitter or on our facebook page. have a good weekend.

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