invited. members have voted to reinstate death benefits to the families of american soldiers. the move now move ofs to the senate tan government shut down defended those payments. ap private foundation jumped in to cover the costs until the benefits are reinstateed. >> the state department said

it's cutting hundreds of million dollars of aid towards the country moves towards democracy. the u.s. has been spending $$1.5 millions of aid. president obama says he's got the federal reserve and today janet yellen was officially nominated to help the feds at the white house. that's the news at this hor. i'll see you back here at 11:00 eastern t 8:00 pacific time. the government shut down. anxiety ego an growing and a far number of say i still support my

congressman. >> they are doing what's contusionly allowed and doing it because of their convictions. i respect that. >> also tonight, sick of it. a major samonella out break. why the cdc warns, we're not safe. and the summer leads to a fall facing more violence. capturing images in baltimore. a journalists tries to understand why. >> that's someone's dna and somebody just approved or washed away. so,.

>> thank you for being with us. the public keep says it will happen and it will be reasonably believe. law makers at the helm will start caring for the jobs but maybe not. the two sides are just as yesterday. >> it appears the principle at stake. if in fact, one action of one chamber of one branch of government is able to say we will shut down the government and shut down the economy unless we get our way on something we want then our democracy doesn't work. that should be pretty strait forward. >> what a train wreck. how can we tax people for not buying a product from a web-site that doesn't work? >> it sounds very much like yesterday.

it looks like either side doesn't want to budge and here's reason high. it doesn't mean they will vote against the vic law makers responsible for the tragedy. it's a tough republican and it just won't vote on government funding measure. america tonight is -- law makers is to blame how they bring him to power and what the shut down has brought in his whole district. thank you season means stunning views. normally, 1,000 tourists pulling up from blue ridge parkway every day. grabbing a bite to eat at the old tiny inn but the federal shut down has disrupted all of that. >> what does it look like right now if the government were open? >> there would be a line out the

door. the hotel wob full. gift shop would be full and the cam ground would be full and we wouldn't be able to find a parking is space in the parking lot. >> now the parking space is blocked by armed park rangers. even though they have run the inn for 35 year, they don't own the land or the buildings. the national park service does. and all national parks are closed until further notice. o'connell had to layoff 90 seasonal employees. >> she worked as a chef and she scrubbed her fair share of pots and pans. >> a lot of us had no homes after this. and no jobs set up. they need to realize how many people they're putting out.

last week, mark meadows took to the senate floor. >> this shut down shoul shouldne anything to do if w the inn. >> but republicans who came to washington with tea party backing in january is actually a key designer of the shut down. last august, he wrote a letter to house speaker john boehner. it states the quote: >> that's -- and these guys have no interest in government. they have no interest in being legislators.

>> reporter: steve is a former republican congressman from ohio. he served 18 years in office. the self described conservative says a group of two dozen or so tea party republicans have hijacked the u.s. house of representative sendives putting all the republicans at risk. >> these tea party libertarian people came out saying -- >> and mark meadows is a flame thrower all right. this is what he said during a 2013 campaign stop. >> this is when we will send mr. obama home. >> when you have a guy like him who gets oh out there in front of tv home and says the president needs to go back to kenya or whatever. does that damage the republican party? >> it's not presented.

>> he blames the growing internal gop division on redistricting. a political tool used by whichever party is in power to gain congressional seats. well, in 2000, we have a big influx of republicans. then in 2010 what you saw was that they began packing both parties. these districts have biger concentrations with their own arty members. that's because the district

included the city of asheville some times called the san francisco because of artcy free welling that a democratic poll eubs but the district in 2011. when republicans took control of general assembly, the g oh op ceased the opportunity to split it between two congressional disstreubts. making it the most republican district in the state. >> the congressional districts were redrawn. what will happen in this neighborhood? >> well, you had a neighborhood that's represented by one congressman, split on this street then you have it represented by two different ones. >> charles cart ser a democrat and was a north carolina state senator from 1998 to 2002. he says the new congressional cl lines have one purpose, dilute

the democratic vote. >> you have these people represented by one person in congress. so, that's representative mark meadows. >> you have a different can congressman here. >> that's patrick. and who represents that person? >> that's mark meadows. >> would you call this -- it's not necessarily. yes, sir. he had a ring side seat to democratics shenanigans but said it's never been this extreme. >> when you look at what happened in this neighborhood, and then what's happened in washington. is there a correlation what's happened in washington and this congressional district? you have people that cannot come together with the community and represent one represent them to represent them. you have it all die sraoeude di. small minorities of people can

take over a congressional district and run it for their purposes. >> this was congressman will show us for six preterms. >> if the districts were not drawn up the way they were. you think mark me dose would be able to win? >> not that district that he was running in before. but in the back in the mountains outside asheville, mark me dosmark meadows has plef support. >> they are doing what's constitutionally allowed and they are doing it because of their cotheir convictions. i respect that. >> i'm shocked to hear you say that because the effect that it's having on your 90 epl phoeu kwra90employees. do you think there's a compromise. >> i think the president should let the national partials open. i believe the president should say it's a private business

using no government funding, no government employees sitting on the side of an open parkway and let me open. that's whey think. >> you have no worries about your money. >> o'connell continues canceling both visitors and vendors. >> well, i will tell you this, i don't need anymore trout right now. >> reporter: he's believed congressman meadows is not to blame. it's president. >> you have 2,000 trouts set aside for us for the month of october. >> and send the stinking fish to the white house. i don't want to pay for that. that might be a good thing to do. no, not really. just a thought. >> we hav we have breaking developments. a federal judge granted an

injunction. now the battle against the feds became red meat for conservative media after we spoke to the owner on monday. he ended up doing an interview with glen beck and sarah palin started tweeting about this battle. he picked up national support on the tea party for the way he appeared to fight for the inn. when it comes to meadows involvement in the shut down what we heard on the streets from people that were connected and on democrats there, they really feel they could use the word disgusted and since this redistricting in north carolina they feel like they don't have a voice in washington anymore. >> so did he talk you about it? >> no, we left repeated messages request mas messages with with k mmeadows. that friend said that mark would have won without this redistricting. one thing interesting about the

redistricting in north carolina was in 2012 when the over all vote tally was done in that state the democrats ended up getting more votes than the republicans talking about the congressional candidates here. once you look at that one, which district the democrats only won four seats. the republicans won nine. >> i want to bring in our political contributor on that point. is that happened elsewhere as well? >> these what happened to the whole coulwhole country. democrats got nor votes than republicans if you add together all districts. the republicans take control of the house of representatives because the way the districts were designed. >> it's not just republicans. they were able to eliminate one republican seat and one became a

stronger republican seat but it ended up picking up one more democrat. >> they have redistricting, the politicians, that's what they get in north carolina and not only and what happens with the community. >> the community gets divided and doesn't have its own vice anymore. >> you have one party district so a lot in urban areas -- a lot for democrats will get 80% of the vote than 70% of the vote. they could face other districts and -- >> keep this in mind. the country has gone through a cyclele of greater political segregation even without

redistricting. there's a number of battlegrounds and it has ably dropped it sharply since 1960. in 1950 there were 26 battlegrounds. last year in 2012 there were only 7 presidential elections. they become much more uniman mousmore unanimousthan their vi. the latest count in this case in the political report were fewer than 100 out of the congressional districts in the country. they are really competitive. which means the whole election next year will take place in less than 1/4 than the country. >> a polling says that 28% t it says -- >> they are waiting for any

political party since they started polling many decades ago. >> republicans. >> they are 28%, democrats are great and 41 and 42 i think. the republicans have reached a new low. that is lower than they were when they impeached bill clinton in 1998 and that was a an unpopular move. they lost seats in the house elections next year and newt gingrich, the speaker of the house, resigned. >> the popularity of these individuals. they came back in terms of individual popularity rates. we can look at individuals in both of them. my congressman is okay. it's all the restoff is the problem. >> people made out like congress is a whole and we have the most approval rating. then you start to ask what about your individual congressman, it doesn't matter where you are. most of the times those congressmen or congresswoman

have a high reading. >> unless the voters are angry because think ea they're hurtiny and just furious. you cannot leave things the way they in washington. i will vote against the status quo. every now and then the vote is so fed up that they put those personal views aside and just vote for change. >> let's go back today. speaker boehner moving forward. >> a couple key activists should hold the debt ceiling hostage anymore. he doesn't think they should demand that they defund obama care it's too dangerous. that could blow the whole republican party away.

he's backed away from that. >> there's a lo lot of division with that republican party. that's a very interesting analogy for us. he's good friend requests speaker boehner. they both from ohio. he just talked to a speaker a couple days ago. the former congressman told me that speaker boehner compared trying to keep this republican caucus together by trying to keep jumping frogs in a wheel barrel and he's having a difficult time with it. >> they're jumping out because they're beginning to panic over those poll ratings and what's starting to happen to the economy. people are hurting. they're doing it deliberately and that's what's making them pay a price. >> and they are really seeing it. they're seeing the answer. they are seeing the comments from individuals and the people are across the country and

they -- >> people are getting angry and the republicans are back.

it's spreading fast. we have the latest report from california. >> todd schaffer relyed upon the

land and the fruits for his living. >> it's that good. that good. >> but one day the california soil turned against him leaving him fighting for his life. >> i wake up in the morning every morning and i -- that's the worst and a good start to a day. then the headache set off -- i stumble, i fall, i pass out. >> who wants that? >> no way. i don't trust myself. >> . >> todd had new nausea, extreme fatigue, blinding headaches. he collapsed and rushed to the hospital. the diagnosis:valley fever. >> valley fever? >> you didn't know what valley fever. >> no. i had no idea.

>> boy, was i wrong stp. >> it's an enfection caused by the spores of the fungus. it lives in the soil. parts of arizona and other southwestern states. it's common among farmers exposed to flying dust. researchers in fresno see many case of valley fever every year. >> what i mean is it gets outside the lungs to other parts of the body. the most serious is it can involve around of the brain so a mehenmeningitis is related to t. it will be fatal. it wilwe have people in our hosl

for this disease. >> reporter: the fever is spreading fast. >> over the last four years, there's been a profound increase in disease according to the cdc. >> number of scores that are out there. the environment is increased. obviously the populations in california and arizona continue to grow. so more people could be at risk. and more people can get sick. >> there's lit the money being incentive for big drug companies to spend millions on a vaccine. treatment options are limited. >> we have anti-functionlele antibiotics and 60% to 70% effective. you still have a ways to go.

>> in this area, it's practically tim possible to be exposinged to the fungus. you only have to believe in a few to be infected. >> most people get over it with mild symptoms but 40% wind up in the hospital. avenol, california is one of the towns the worst hit by valley fever. the mcgee family was particularly unlucky. three of their four children have valley fever. including 10-year-old ariana. >> my teacher, mr. johnson now has valley fever. about three of my friends have it. >> 17-year-old said the illness effects her future. >> it got me angry. i have friends. they are going off to san francisco or san diego or lsu and i feel like i just got

trapped here in the one place i did not want to be. >> i hate to see them knocked down by valley fever because i realize they have potential and they have been doing everything that they can to realize their potential and then this comes -- this comes along and it's like taking two steps forward and a bunch of steps the backwards. doctors gave up hope it' too much log in and it's the central nervous system that doesn't look good. >> he's still fighting and these days his priorities are clear and simple.

>> i want to keep my family healthy and safe. i hope to find a clear for this stuff. a lot of people suffering. >> suffering from a killer that lurks in the soil. >> we'll be back.

the u.s. announces a temporary shift in in aid to egypt. washington suspended delivers of major military systems and $260 million-dollars in aid to prop up egypt. pakistan's former military rule musharraf. he's granted bail. he has been held under house arrest in the last six months after returning from a self proposed exile to run for office. outrage against the u.n. has led now to a lawsuit.

they claim the cholera was introduceed during a peace string system. tonight we look outside the belt way to understand what happened to our health. other government health car support that could be life threatening. >> reporter: thinking you're immune from the government shut down. with monday's out break of salmonella you might not be. close to 300 people got sick because of bad chicken. it may prove cdc director that we are "less safe."

>> we know they're here to protect americans, their health and safety. when there's a threat we try to find and top the threat and we're always working to prevent the threat from happening again. what we don't know is what we don't know. and so when we close down 2/3 of the of the people we have to worry about what we're missing. >> an sal n salmonella out brean happen at any time. fewer staff members are working to catch food-born illness. and the seasonal flu monitoringing is shut down just as the flu season gets started. michelle was diagnosed with stage four fibr oh osarcoma. a stage four cancer.

>> i started radiation thereafter. after radiation i had two different repb rege regims of chemotherapy. >> then the shut down dashed those hopes. >> set up the trial and. excited then at the same time told that it was going to be put on hold because of the government shut down was just a big blow. >> congresswoman was one of those who voted to renew funding for the nih a week ago. >> if you are a family going to the nih for care. it's pause you are in a critical situation. democrats rejected the vote insisting the government reopen. when you're given a criminal diagnosis, each month counts. >> that report.

>> also with us is san any barren is the cancer information center. i would like to begin with you and ask what it is your organization does and why it is so critical to reopen it. >> well, we are the national cancer institute's cancer information service. an we are a government program that is funded to provide answers to cancer patients' questions. we get over 500 inquiries daily from cancer patients and this families who are looking for information. they are newly diagnosed or diagnosed with a recurrence and trying to make an informed decision and are used to calling

8800-4-cancer and now they're calling an getting a closed message. >> when people reach out of that point. i'm sure people must have a hard time trying to provide reassurance but they know that there must be some very emotional people out there that are not getting any answers right now. >> my staff is home and devastated. they have worked really hard to become trained information specialists and they are compassionate. they want to be at the call center. they want to be responding to all of those questions. since the shut down has begun we estimate that we have not heard from 3500 patients or their family members calling looking far lynn call trial trying to find out what the side effects will be.

it's devastating for us. >> it's really kwropbt a simple matter of somebody sitting in a corner somewhere with the telephone. people needed to reach out. >> in addition to the tragedy wear hearing from story at nih we have hundreds oh of people who have a big outbreak and people whop are not being properly supervised.

>> we know we have a big flu out break. they will the challenge we have here is we will not make false choices. it's not this single patient. these are hundreds of patients. we need to take care of all the the people that we have. >> i'm sure they are so sensitive to the cancer patients they could be helping. there are the other parts of the government that is also needed. what's the best thing the to do. >> i don't know what the best

thing to do is put what i do know is that a cancer diagnosis knows no party. it doesn't know if you're a republican or democratic or independent. a cancer diagnosis comes out of nowhere and the person that is diagnosed and the family members and friends are desperately searchinging for information. we are the voice of the national cancer institute. we are the voice to help translate to these patients as they're seeking information about their diagnosis. >> not just personal individual care but research has to go on as well. when the government shuts down we think it's just scientists in laboratories. >> it's the next most important cure. there is some cure sittinging in that lab, sitting in the shelf tonight that we might have been able to find the solve those

patients' problems. >> it's not being done and that's the real tragedy. >> let's talk about some of the other areas in public health. we mentioned the salmonella out break and also moving in to flu season. we have sections out there to next year's flu. those systems are not functioning at school board. we have people that can giving you shots, that's true. a lot are dependent and local resources to make that happen and all the back up for the federal government. >> we have seen in the past i understand that the vaccine starts and there's an identification of change.

>> that's correct. >> we have dangerous viruses on the planet. >> simply for your patients, the patients that reach out normally your hot line. those are folks who would be inspected of other kinds that they might not be aware of. >> absolutely. it's october. normal times we would have woman calling looking for places to be screened. >> people who didn't have insurance and those woman. i don't know who they're calling because they are not able to get through to us and find out where they can get screened for breast cancer. there's so many impacts across the whole continue. it's so sad. >> if people are listening to

you. are can they turn? >> it turns to oh the government and tell them to please resolve this so they can call us again and they can call 1-800-4 cancer. >> it does seem incredibly frustrating for everybody involved. >> it makes no sense what we're doing. people's lives are at stake. every life is valuable. we open the government tomorrow and we have our adequate health system. thank you for being with us as well. >> on a side note here, the cdc has been able to confirm a brain. -eating ameba which has been detected in a louisiana in another louisiana per rish. a child visiting the area died

after getting contaminated water up his nose. officials say it will add to the watt tore kale knee pwa and says the water will be safe to drink. >> looking ahead to tomorrow. the transgender community facing a greater risk of police brutality. >> a com combination is police k for things that look funny. that's what policinging is. trance skwrepbder people are nothing that look out of place. so, you are in a certain area after night or waiting to go somewhere or half the case you are doing. they are going to look in your bag, search you and lock u you up for prostitution.

we report on harassment and profiling on the lgbt community. >> -pl coin coming up, bloody baltimore.ing chronicleed in black and white.

baltimore's long held the nickname charm city. city is suffering a less than positive image. with the gun count with 177 baltimore is.ing on track to

have one of the highest in the nation. he focusing his lens an the violence and its after math in the series for a baltimore city paper. >> i just want to give people the mercy they don't get to see. >> i'm trying to bring to the pictures this thing is real. >> what did you hear? >> gunshots. >> how many gunshots did you hear? >> a lot. >> and the trenches of a war. >> >> they wanted nobody up.

where does he live? >> . >> i want to do an on school photo journalism in baltimore. i want to get the victim's family side and i want to get the gang side. >> had the viewer get confronted one on one with a victim of a crime. >> i really wanted to get pack in to the reason i got in to photography was the to expose people to things they normally wouldn't be exposed to. >> we have a triple shooting. the police are following the vehicle. >> i have a scanner and as soon as they put it up i hear about it. >> there was -- there's shooting

and homicide as opposed to last summer. one is to figure out why. it's one of those puzzleers that no one seems to get a handle on. >> it is my home but it is effected to something that needs to be irradicateed. >> he has a clinic in east palt more and appalled down the violence and he lost a daughter and a nephew to gun -p violence in baltimore. approximately 12 years a go my daughter lisa was shot and killed in a drug deal gone bad that nearly destroyed me. she was my only daughter. use teus can't take a life away.

who is it that can give you your child back. and my only daughter i will tpe very see again until i see her thiherin heaven. >> i wanted to see what they thought. >> everything we been through. this past year i had actually lost a couple of my home boys. violence effects a city every day. >> the city shut down a number

oh of rec centers for financial reasons. >> there's nothing to do but gang bang. that's what brought them here. i grew up and we used to fight and shake hands. we don't use guns. this is out of of order with these guns. >> she's the cousin of someone gunned down in july. >> getting gunned down in broad daylight doesn't sit well with me. >> the city paper had an interest which a lot of the places don't. they come out and the they cross street and the flapping and it may be a quick on site and the victims and the families there have forgotten by the media. let's see the vic tell. let's talk to these people about the after math and the effects of of gun violence. >> we need to stop the violence.

>> i want folks to be angry. i want them to demand our elected officials to help us stop the senseless killings on the streets of baltimore. >> i think one of the worst things i've seen are the little kids on bicycles with big wheels that think it's funny or mess around the top or mess around with people that are there. >> and there's a body 20 feet from them and there's no emotion. than, to me, that's the hardest part of the project to see how that generation will grow up desensitizeed to violence. >> when someone is gunned down. bloody shoes, bloody hat and clothes. then at the very end, the emts and fire department come in and

then they hose down and clean the area with bleach and that's someone's dna that's being washed way. >> the moment it touches their lives then they will understand, there's a part of baltimore i'm missing. if we know this harbor which is a beautiful place to visit but that's for the visitors. what about the rest of us that live in palt more and subject acts of violence each and every day. we want to be safe, too. >> it just comes out of nowhere. we were sitting at my house waiting and all of a sudden the call comes through. >> i would like people to reflect on mortality and the fact that anything can happen to anybody.

what goes through my head is an hour ago there was someone there who woke up in the morning, had breakfast, hung out and they're gone in a second and had nothing. >> this spike in gun violence continues, i'll go all year. i don't want to continue it. i want to enit tomorrow but that doesn't seem like it's going to happen. >> more than 40,000 people followed to get crime alerts as they happened. officials decided trying not to treat criminal on criminal crime and that caused a public out cry. the spokes person said quote:

pain is spinning its wheels.

finally in spain it has many people in their country changing the way they get around changing in four wheels to just two. no wupbl comes in to admire these machines muchless buy one. >> we lose almost 40,000 employment and we lost more than 400 different dealers.

>> spain's financial crisis has dealt a hammer blow to car sal sales. this bike shop was set up a year ago by two who saw an opportunity. cycling is seen as cool and value for money. in spain, new bikes are now out selling new cars. the reason is i the bicycle is a saving. they don't need much maintenance. apart from that it's healthy and also the best way of getting around city.

>> maybe four years a go it was three years ago, i said i can see another cyclele list aroun around -- it's very clear that people are taeuging their bikes even with the city. >> cycleists here are realistic here. despite the sales still many prefer pe troe for pedals. it's not a cycling culture yet but it still has a way to go before it captures with the netherlands or the u.k. but there's a couplele cities trailing like seville or barcelona. for the most part, the infrastructure here is poor,

bikes are few and the car and bus are still king of the road. >> that's it for america tonight. log on to al jazeera where you can meet our taep. tell us what you like to see in our current affairs program. join the conversation with us on twitter or on our facebook page. we will have more on "america tonight" tomorrow. .

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