>> are good evening everyone, welcome to al jazeera america. i'm jeeghts jeeghts in new york. >> it's do i eat or do i pay, i really want it. >> i said i can't get past that now. >> the highs and lows of the president's new health care law. surprise rejection. one of the most important u.s. allies in the middle east snubs the united nations by rejecting a seat on the security council. hundreds of thousands of people in san francisco are stranded,

forced to find a differently mode of transportation after the second transit strike this year. we begin tonight with the story that was at the heart of the government gridlock that finally eased this week. the affordable care act, and the rocky rollout of a crucial part of it. since the health care websites launched on october 1st many americans have been unable to sign up through the health insurance exchange offered by the federal government. and as of this week, there's word that the health care exchange technical infrastructure. >> even though there's been challenges enrolling through the website, people are enrolling across the country. >> off the past few -- over the past few hours, the white house has been tweeting enrollment

numbers. in kentucky over 10,000 have enrolled in health care coverage. in washington state, nearly 9500 have enrolled and in two weeks more than 100,000 californians have started health care plirgses through the -- applications through the obamacare marketplace. the federally run websites is apparently much lower. one early estimates say it's about 36,000. later on this week, the house republicans are starting a hearing on the matter. there are vocal critics of the affordable care program but many say it's a life saver. for many obamacare is a bad word. robert ray. >> after 20 years of working for financially advisory firms,ess li decide he it was time to open her own business but now she'll need her own health insurance.

>> my clients who are also self employed i've told them to wait until november or december because i knew there would be glitches. >> she's talking about healthcare.gov, the website that's supposed to allow consumers the opportunity to sign up with coverage but that's been riddled with software glitches. >> they were clearly not ready for aan october 1st rollout. in a year or two this will probably be a distant memory. >> for welch she finds relying on the federally designed website frustrating. >> i'mfully registered. my application has been sent in. i'm now able to see a button that says, view your eligibility results. i can't get past that button right now. >> do you have any assistance in navigating through this process? >> in reality, no. people have their personal

advisors, i'm working with my clients and friends and family but there's no assistance from the state at all. there's supposed to be a roll called navigator. i think the state of georgia has approved six people. that's not meaningful. >> so forress li welch she's on her -- for d f cecessily welch. >> for supportive of a follow of the obama administration. >> and that decision is hardest felt here. gradey hospital, one of the few places in atlanta that the uninsured and the poor come for medical care. >> under the affordable care act we stand to lose $45 million a year. >> administrators say operating gradey is a break even situation. this means clinical services

like mental health will be eliminated if state lawmakers fail to stofl budget shortfall. hospitals care for the boor but in order to benefit from them states need to be fully on board with the affordable care act. without signing on prominent health care specialists spell out some potential negative outcomes. >> and so there would be a huge loss of care within the community and what we would end up with is increased prison population and increased homelessness. so there's not an upside to the decisions we'd amake. >> welch is determined as a consumer to wait it out. >> it can be a significant cost savings and if it's something else they would be waiting for, a discounted movie ticket or something else they would be willing to go through the hassles. i've seen people waiting in line for a new iphone. >> americans have no. december 15 to sign up for coverage that will take effect on january 1 where most americans will be

required to be insured. robert ray, al jazeera, alabama. >> we head to sacramento, california where melissa chan found some impressive results. >> paul went online to buy insurance. it took sim time and effort. he shopped around and looked at plans and what each had to offer and then -- >> and it says i've completed my application. >> paul will have insurance starting the first of next year and it will cost him $1 a month. with a few clicks his life has changed. >> without it i wouldn't be able to do it. the policy they're offering me is worth $500 a month and i would call it a disaster policy in case i broke a leg and had a heart attack, it would cover my

major expenses and i wouldn't lose my house. >> the time to set up its websites and assistance, some have waited years even decades in order to get health care coverage. the state's goal is to sign up about a million californians by the end of the first year. dana howard over add covered california says high web tract is proof of consumer interest and why support of the exchange. >> when you go on coveredca.com and you put in your shop and compare and you see what you get back, you realize this is going to be good. >> getting that kind of message out to millions, some of them skeptical of change and others simply very confused may be the biggest challenge. the country's health system already difficult to navigate is, after all requiring with the threat of a penalty, that americans buy insurance. but for some who followed health

policy closely out of necessity the changes are a relief. paul considers himself a typical middle class american not someone poor but a beneficiary of obamacare. >> i didn't have medical insurance and i had it in years past but the premiums just went up and up and up and finally i had to make a decision it's either do i eat or do i pay for the medical insurance so i haven't had it for some years. so i really wanted it to be covered in case of an emergency. >> and his message to those uncertain about covered california is simple: go check it out and then decide for yourself. here's at least one believer. mel ition sa chan al jazeera, sacramento, california. >> let's bring in heather hurlbut, a senior advisor for the national security network. heather welcome. >> john, good to be with you.

>> what was the problem with the way the president rolled this health care plan out? >> there seemed to be two problems, one under his control, the other not. one under his control the technology of it wasn't as ready for prime time as maybe it should have been. but at the same time, you know, the health care rollout wasn't the number one story and it wasn't even the number two story for last couple of weeks. so to the extent the administration had a clear message about what the rollout was, how to do it, how to deal with the tech problems there was just no way they could get it out to people while all the craziness around shutdown and the debt ceiling was going on. >> we made it our top tommy story for just that -- top story for just that reason. isn't it necessary for the president to reveal what the problems are and how to fix it? >> i'm figuring next week is sort of a go-over, the rare

moment where you actually get to put your foot in the water twice. you're going to come out and sort of start over again. if i'm the white house i'm going to be putting together a lot of packages like the one you just played, showing happy customers who have successfully signed up. i'm going to be saying these are the problems. this is how to deal with them. this is how to either apply using paper or wait. and this is the fix we've done. and also i think other challenge that they're going to face is both being as clear as possible about what you need to do, to take advantage of it, and to showcase where there's going to be some accountability for what went wrong, at this moment where people's confidence in government at large is as low as it's ever been, i think. this is the challenge they face is to say well, we screwed up, this is how we're fixing it and this is how, on net, it's still going to be a win for millions and millions of people. >> you were a former speech writer for president comploint.

clinton. presidents don't usually say we messed up? >> this is a little bit comparable to where we saw on syria last month, you have a president trying to lead in a more kind of ruminative style. that is very clear now there is the campaigning obama and the governing obama and this is how governing obama wants to work and i imagine that folks in the white house communication he shop who have been pulling double duty triple duty over the last week are saying, how do we relaunch this? the other piece that frankly none of us often the policy side really understood sufficiently well is that the political environment we have now you have to win the alleviate fight to create the policy and you have to have the fight over and over and ownership. you had the fight the effort to

defund it and fight the efforts in the blo blogosphere. your calms people like me, have to have the same darn fight maybe three times. >> we understand that but the american people were getting this message despite the big story, they were getting the message that this is not working, that the system is not working through all the other noise that they were hearing and they have continued to get that for several days now. and the white house i don't think has necessarily helped itself because it hasn't told us what the numbers are and clearly they know what the numbers are. so i mean if they wait another week, obviously it's the end of the week but if they wait much longer to come out and say doesn't that present them with not only an image problem but a serious problem when it comes to this whole health care program? >> well, i think those of us who have worked on the communications side of things, have the advantage that we're

seeing every day, the kind of negative impacts that you're talking about. whereas if you work on the policy side, and this is true of obamacare but it's also true, this is true across party across ideology. we have this policy and we know it works and people are going to do it and they'll find out it works and they're not going to have this problem and there is the belief if you just put good ideas out there the magic will happen and communicators whether on your side of the line or mine, that's an increasing mistake, an increasingly costly mistake, where good policy has the good communications baked in from the beginning but i do think there needs to be communication done here. >> heather thanks for joining us. >> good to be here. >> san francisco commuters are ending the week on a sour note. bay area rapt transit is on

strike, for the second time in a year. 200,000 travelers had to find another way to get to work. lisa bernard on this strike of the fifth largest transportation system. lisa. >> hi john. commuters got creative here in the bay area. it wasn't as bad as they may have feared. they road the ferries, road the buses. transportation leaders said many compost off-peak hours to travel which was a good idea. but certainly the roads and especially the bridges here in the bay area had many more cars than usual today. we saw 1500 more cars on the bay bridge than a week ago this morning. 2,000 more of them used the carm carpool lanes on the bay bridge. commuters are getting frustrated that the strike has gone on and

the two sides cannot reach a compromise. >> frustrating. i think the time it took them to even get this far was ridiculous. and we're just stuck. >> just makes it -- everybody has responsibilities and outside of work they have their own lives, and to have two and a half hours to get in and two and a half hours to get home it puts a lot of stress on individuals. >> and bay area leaders called this a true regional transportation emergency. that could cost this reerch up to -- region up to $73 million a day, john. >> you can correct me if i'm wrong, that the city has offered some 12% raise over four years, is that right? what else do they want? >> that's right. they said 3% every year for the next four years. but really, the sticking points now are what they're calling work rules.

and the union doesn't want to give management the power to change certain rules, such as: overtime and scheduling and the issue about having an arbitrator. so they really are deadlocked. and both sides now are speaking publicly to try to get the public to see their side of the issue. because the commuters are truly frustrated, and now of course, it's the court of public opinion. >> so how long could this go on? >> indefinitely. i have to say that there are no more negotiations scheduled. nothing is on the calendar. and many people worry that today, a lot of people stayed home, it's a friday, maybe they took a long weekend. but that monday could be terrible, and then a whole week of this. i spoke to one expert who says, he believes this will either be resolved very quickly like next week, or it could go on for weeks and weeks, because the two sides are so far apart. >> yeah, it looks like traffic is moving pretty well.

>> benefit package in the country but unfortunately we are saddled with one of the worst sets of work rules in the country which create a terrific amount of inefficiency. >> we're very sorry, we understand that this strike, what it does to the bay area riders and we understand that it is a hardship. our union represents a lot -- thousands of folks, a lot of them are riders and we know that this process is difficult and hard. and we apologize. >> and so, both sides have apologized. but that's about all that they have agreed on, john. >> i was going to say that the traffic seems to be moving on a golden gate bridge hinder you pretty well, so maybe a lot of people did stay home. so at any time, is there any time for these two sides to get back together or not? >> right now, nothing is on the calendar. and as you know, the federal mediator walked out yesterday and said there's nothing further

he can do. and as you know there was a strike this past july for four and a half days. then there was this cooling-off period and essentially, nothing has been agreed upon since early summer. so they are still struggling with this and now with no more talks scheduled, it truly could go on indefinitely. >> all right, lisa bernard in san francisco for us tonight, least ah thanks ver -- lisa thay much. >> well, google is now on paper the third largest company in the united states behind apple and exxon. google's stock price jumped beyond $1,000 today which put the company's value at almost $340 billion. the company had stronger than expected earnings. google is now worth more than some countries including denmark and malaysia. it's the second excessive record

breaking day -- second consecutive record breaking day for the if average. ahead on al jazeera america how parking tickets prevented one man from fulfilling his dream of buying a home. plus the united nations is not happy with the u.s. a scathing report on how many civilians have died in american drone strikes.

>> while the united states is getting closer to winter, further south australia is heading into the first part of spring. and as spring has gotten going australia has been discussing the fact that their fire season is going to be more dry, and even more hot, and these fires could get out of control very easily. they call it bush fire season in

australia, and last night there was a count of 98 wildfires in place, that count has gone down to 94, for sydney new south wales. it is around the expanse of the continent, it is a hot dry season and we are potentially going to see these fires get even stronger and will monitor storms as that happens. meanwhile united states you're getting cooler with cold air from canada. i'll monitor that, john. >> thank you rebecca. tampa bay republican bill young was 82. his chief of staff said he died after a two week hospital stay. just two weeks ago young announced his intention to retire. young was was former chairman of the house appropriations committee. florida governor rick scott will call a special election to if i

recall that seat. former president george h.w. bush has praised tom foley as a dedicated public servant. he was 84 years old and died yesterday. represented part of eastern washington for four decades. became the first speaker since the civil war to be defeated in an election. president clinton appointed foley to be ambassador to japan. hundreds of civilians have been killed by u.s. drones since 2004. the numbers are much higher than the obama administration has said. john terrett has joined us with this report. john what has the u.n. said about this? >> this report goes to the very heart of the u.s. foreign policy and the president's sworn oath to protect americans wherever they are in the world particularly in the home land and the effect that foreign policy often has on people as

they live their life overseas. the u.n.ment ben ennis, has produced a report which is in its interim stage going to be presented to the united nations on the 25th of october and al jazeera has seen this report and in it he makes it very clear that the result of civilian death is really much higher than united states has ever led open. united states hasn't really talked about figures but nonetheless it's considerably higher according to the united nations than anybody previously thought. we have a graphic that will explain what we mean or what ben emerson means. he says that 450 civilians have died as a result of pilot -- pilotless aircraft. 400 people within the pakistan

border an emerson said in his conclusion that200 people have died on top of the 400 people that the pakista pakistanis aret talking about. the united nations is calling on the united states to live up to its promise. >> why are we dealing with this? >> we aren't, the relationship between the u.s. and pakistan is dell cat. the two governments and two countries are very, very different animals and we saw this with the killing of osama bin laden. the united states had been looking for him for so many years and he turns up to be living two miles from their equivalent of west point. it has to be treated with respect for that reason alone and ultimately only history can tell.

>> what are we hearing from the obama administration? >> we didn't hear about them, the president didn't say anything about drones for the longest time and then he made some comments. in 2011 john brennan who then was the special advisor on court terrorism to the white house talked about there being no collateral damage, military speak for civilian casualties, because of the precision and the capability of the developed weapons, in other words, the drones. president obama, referring to his speech of this year, he is defending the use of the drones and its campaign against al qaeda and its affiliates. >> they are dialing it back but we'll see in the future. >> the report will be in front of the ung general assembly on october the 25th. >> rejecting a seat on the u.n. security council.

saudi arabia was elected to serve to a two-year term yesterday along with chad, nigeria chile and lithuania but hours later the saudi government turned it down. instead sowd rai saudi arabia be international community. the saudis regional foe seem to be improving. they see this as a slap in the face against the united states. hey, i'm ross shimabuku. finally, rod grenkowski has been cleared by his physicians to play. patriots owner robert accurate said last week it was up to the player to decide if he plays. i love the good streak but

unfortunately roddy white his streak will come to an end against tampa bay. the falcons receiver has played in 133 consecutive games, which is the second most active playing streak. but a hamstring injury will keep him sidelines. strapping up in 245 straight games. in baseball, ever hear of jose abreiu? i don't blame you. the chicago white sox signed him to $60 million contract, abreiu is a slugging first baseman who turns 26, but everybody ask looking for yasiel puig. >> new jersey supreme court rules on whether gay couples can

get married. we'll have that story ahead.

>> welcome back to al jazeera america. i'm john siegenthaler. here are some of the top stories we're following. the launch of the affordable care act is off to a shaky start, technical issues are preventing many americans from enrolling. tonight white house is tweeting out individual state enrollment numbers but the number is still reportedly very low. it's a rough commute home this evening for hundreds of thousands of transit riders in the san francisco bay area. the rail system's union went on strike just before midnight. it's the second bart strike for the system in four months. 780,000 are syrian refugees in lebanon could be fating a faa tough winter. european union is promising 1.3 million in aid. the centers for disease

control and prevention, the two-week delay made the annual battle against flu more difficult. >> it was a mistake to shut the government. once that mistake was made we did everything we could to protect the public's health legally and that's what we did and i think we kept things going as best we could. we are tracking flu not as intensively because of the shutdown but we will have information out in the coming days and the bottom line is our current flu shot seems to be a great match with the current circulating flu so get a flu shot. >> there were other signs of recovery from the government shutdown. >> three, two, one. >> crowds cheered as the national zoo reopened in washington today. zoo officials said they needed an extra day to prepare after being closed or the 16 days. the skeleton staff had kept the animals fed during shutdown.

the shutdown would have a last being effect on science and nature. mary woolly is the head of the largest national health and research foundation. what are some of the most critical programs affected? >> there's certainly more than one. when science signs is shut down and we put it on ice it will have ramifications that will last for a long time. think about ice and you think about antarctica, right? science in antarctica has lost almost a whole season of opportunity because this is the time when research on biology on earth sciences on astronomy, on species, including one species of penguin, could not go forward. we don't know how much could not go forward thip.

science is not something you can ask nature to go back and do it over again, it's 24/seven, we've missed out and on quite a lot. government was shut down? alzheimer's wasn't shut down, cancer wasn't shut down, diabetes wasn't shut down. and a lot of the research that is going to give us answers, that trouble every family in this country, everybody around the world has setback in ways that we won't feel the full effects of for some time to come. >> i talked to one of the nobel prize winners last week who suggested this shutdown has had an extremely serious impact on research. what would you say to those who are considering some sorts of career in science but are concerned about whether the government's really going to back it up? >> well, they have every reason to be concerned. and we talked tom of those young scientists on a daily basis.

the signals they're getting from this country in the sequestration that preceded that, indicate that science isn't a career you can count on. it may not be something you can make your contribution to society in as you thought you might. we're really squandering our seed corn, our young minds, the people that will receive nobel prize in the future. >> we have heard if the cdc and the trials, what do you think was the biggest problem for science? >> i think it was this disspiritting message that science isn't prioritized anymore. we have a history in this country of 60-plus years of making science a bipartisan issue, an issue that americans subscribe to and an issue that

supportive science has led to things that we now take for granted. ranging from gps and lasers and the internet to blood pressure medications and childhood vaccinations and all those things before they were the product, before they were the solution, before they were whole new industries, biotech and high tech, we're science, we're publicly supported science whose discovered then were taken by industry and translated to products and cures and preventions. we've just thrown sand in the gears in a big way. and i emphasize not just from the shutdown. but from years now of deprioritizing something that we used to consider a top american value. there's truly time to get back to that. >> i was going to say how do you convince the american people not to take this for granted? >> well, they have to be reminded, unfortunately, on a pretty regular basis, that this is something that we could be

throwing away. we know from public opinion polls that we commission relly, john -- regularly, john, that the american public hasn't lost its passion for science for wanting science to succeed and the sooner the better. but what they have discovered in the recent years is that we can no longer count on our elected officials to make science a priority. >> all right, mary woolley, great to see you thanks for joining us tonight. monday is the big day for the same sex marriages in new jersey. the state's highest court refused to delay a decision. governor chris christie said the ultimate decision should come from the voters not courts. new jersey will become the 14th state to allow same sex

marriages. two convicted murderers who were let out of prison by mistakes, most recent photographs of joseph jenkins and robert walker. >> robert ray joins us from carabel florida where the two were released. what's the latest? >> i tell what you, there's a $5,000 reward out for these guys and no one knows how they did it but seemingly they did escape prison. i'm standing on the gulf mexico, on the panhandle of florida. two miles from me is the franklin center, we can't be there so we are here. these two gentlemen both age 34, as you say joveest jenkins and charles walker at separate times they used forged documents saying that their life sentenced

for murder mind you both of them in prison for murder that both of their sentences were reduced to 15 years. that the state of florida did that for them. interestingly enough they went to the checkout facility at the correction facility and were both on their merry way at separate times mind you in repeat weeks. here is the interesting thing, one of them had his family come and pick him up and the other was dropped off at a bus depot, by a corrections agency official. so earlier today the sheriff came out and he tried to explain a little bit of this. here is what he said. >> there's an ongoing investigation at the florida department of law enforcement is in charge of in terms of looking at what happened, why did this occur in the first place? what were the system's failures and hopefully to prevent them from occurring in the future. >> now, you notice perhaps that the sheriff was giving this press conference from orlando,

300 miles from where i'm standing. these two gentlemen were sentenced in orange county, where they committed the crimes of murder. because of that the men went 300 miles and went to the process of getting released. they went to the county courthouse and had their picture taken, fingerprints taken, and again, they were on their way. so now the state has a man hunt around florida, they put up billboards with the pictures of the gentlemen. they've asked people to be on the lookout and we just actually the media and everyone else just found out about this in the past 24 hour or so. but interestingly enough, the one gentleman left prison here at september 30th, the other on october 8th so they've been out for a while, john. >> all right robert ray we appreciate it, thanks very much. you probably only think about credit scores when it's time to

buy a car or a house. but as stacy tisdale reports one man was surprised to find that he couldn't buy aa house because of unpaid parking tickets. >> about two years ago omar alchar would park his car here when he would play basketball with his friends. the traffic cops would be brutal, when it comes to park tickets. >> at 7:00, my meter would expire and at 701 he would be there. it was always the same guy. >> after he contested the alleged violation and lost omar had had enough. >> i thought worst case scenario i would have trouble registering my car in d.c. which i wasn't planning on doing any time soon from that moment. and i was wrong.

>> omar was wrong because registering his car was the least of his problems. last winter he went to a loan officer to apply for amortgage. he believed his credit score was strong, in the 700s. >> my credit score dropped over 100 points, it was like 105 points because of the park tickets. >> unpaid parking tickets are considered debts from the local government agency where you receive it. the local agency reports it to the credit bureaus. >> usually three months before it appears and sent to collections. at that point it's the presence of that unpaid collection that really has a negative impact. >> and that impact can be big. >> one single late payment on your credit record can hurt your credit score by as much as 50 or even 100 points. i know that comes as a shock to a lot of people because they think it's just a one-time event. i'm going to get dinged so severely and the truth is that

yes. that's why even small bills like library bills or parking tickets really do need to be handled prompt reply and on time. >> due to this experience i definitely pay more attention oeverything that has to do with my credit. the neighborhood that i started looking at, the price went up a significant amount for three months. and i think it made it a lot tougher for me to find a house. i think that's the reason i don't have a house right now. >> still paying the price for not paying his parking tickets. stacy tisdale al jazeera, washington, d.c. >> and let's go to washington, d.c. joie chen, are we going to talk about bison? >> we are indeed. we're going to ditch the concrete jungle. have you ever seen a wild bison up close? well, in truth you don't want to get too close to them. they are not just enormous but

powerful and relatively speaking, fast. in our report from chris bury, we'll see the annual roundup in south dakota and exactly why the bison nearly became extinct. the native population nearly led to the sacrifice of the great beast. we're also going ohear about what is bringing the bison back, you will see there are quite a number of them, home on the range. and also about obamacare's technical difficulties. coming up on america tonight. >> have a great weekend. up next on al jazeera america. shellfish in the northwest. farmers are keeping them from being destroyed for good. and ross shimabuku will be here with sports right after this.

>> it's going to get bumpy over here it looks like. >> we drop like a rock, and then you experience zero g's. >> this is a modified dc8 with about 28 different instruments on the outside. >> it's one wild ride. we're flying at 300 feet over the gulf of mexico. come aboard nasa's laboratory in the sky.

(vo) tonight: faultlines chases the flames as they spread throughout the west. >> there's a thick, acrid smoke smell in the air and we're following a strike team now to the top of the mountains where the fire line begins. (vo) it's a war being fought by air and on land costing millions of dollars every year. >> you will make an individual decision to build a home there, but what's the cost to the rest of us? (vo) what's going wrong with the war on wildfires and what are the true costs of putting them out?

>> oysters have been dying by the billions off the west coast. and scientists suspect a polluted pacific ocean is to blame. as alan shoffler reports, harvesters are going to a dramatic means. wilipa bay. >> we're going to the sands which is dry at low tide. >> washington's wilipa bay, one of the nation's richest shellfish areas in the world.

in the last decade this already difficult and dirty job has gotten harder. oyster larvae started dying before they could set or attach to something solid to start building shells. >> in 2005, nothing, which wasn't alarming, there were years we would go without a set. 2006, nothing, 2007, nothing. >> we had gone through 15 years of excellent sets and we were probably getting pretty complacent. >> biologist bruce kaufman manages the state's oyster sets. he also admits it could be a mix of factors man made and natural. high salinity, water acid fiction, chemical pollution. >> in wilipa bay, i don't know if we have a handle on what's causing the mor -- mortalities.

>> shellfish farming is a major economic engine in rural pacific county providing jobs and revenue. wilipa bay oysters are harvested in the millions, shucks, sold raw or smoked. more farmers have turned oexpensive and labor intensive seeding to start their crops. >> this has become a critical part of the process, this is a setting room where microscopic larvae are attaching themselves to tiny pieces of shell. in this room alone there are more than 2 million oysters. sheldon is hopeful as he looks ahead. there have been better natural sets in the last two years. he says staying flexible is the key to keep the bay and the business healthy. >> we're going to turn to science to help make this work.

we're going to hope that global conditions can stabilize. >> from these mud flats to seafood markets around the world. allen shoffler, al jazeera america, wilipa bay, washington. >> ross is back with sports, do or die for dodgers right? >> you can use all the cliches, backs against the wall, hanging on with a thread. the boys in blue not feeling blue. he has best pitcher in all of baseball, the cardinals are hoping to show everybody that they can close out a series. because survey says whenever the cardinals have taken a 3-1 series lead, they choke. they're 0 and 7. they took a 3-1 series lead against the dodgers and they did back in 1996. the boston red sox will be

looking to close out against the tigers. max sherzer sparkled in game 6 but can he do it again? >> i haven't played in a game yet where it hasn't been pooh must-win situation for us. to me, it's the same every single time we take the field. you go out there and pitch a game. 60 feet six inches and you've got to throw strikes. just it doesn't matter what the situation or what the game means i'm always going to approach the game the same way. >> it was important to us as we were finished out the final game of the regular seen to secure home advantage. i can't say that we sat around and said this is what it will mean in game six or game seven. how do we find out a way to win another game if that means something such as securing home advantage so be it.

that same attitude will be present tomorrow. >> now in sports and in life in general can you tell a lot about a person's character when they face adversity. our darren haynes is the courageous young man who continues to pursue the game. >> i was watching the game. it was just another play. >> i could tell hear the sound. >> i didn't know it was him first. >> he lifted up his leg and it was like hanging there. >> on october 19th, 2012 in the small town of warren, montana, it was the final season of the football league. when tony suffered a broken leg. >> when they did the surgery and took some muscle i know then they were headed down the path that it wasn't good. >> they had my mom and dad break the news that he would have to

have a limp leg or never use the leg again or have an amputation. he chose the amputation. >> after six surgeries, he realized life will not be the same. >> having to accept that right there it's just hard. the doctor came in right away and was explaining to me everything i was going to be able to and wasn't going to be able to. i don't think i'll be ever able to play football again, but there's other options. i thought to myself you know watch me. >> after the doctors gave the okay to go home, koni gave himself the okay to get back to work. >> looking back to how many days i had until our first team camp and that was the plan all along to be back then. >> just two months after his

amputation, koni was on the mat wrestling, and with a prosthetic leg, he was running. but there were trying times. >> he was just crying. i can't do this anymore. coach was telling him you got to prove these guys wrong. >> determined koni was trying harder than ever to achieve that goal he set from his hospital bed. he recorded two touchdowns. >> it's like i'm back, i'm not going anywhere this time. >> it was very emotional to see seven months of such hard work. and to learn how to walk again. to learn how to run. to learn how to laterally move to learn how it is to play the game. >> koni doyle had a dream not

meant to be broken. his determination to rise again helped bring his lifelong dream into reality, play football at montana state university. >> my heart just sank when i read that e-mail, i seriously called my mom, she woke up my dad, it gave me the butterflies. >> just seeing his face, what he wants to is continuing, and what he's worked for is paying off. >> darren hayes, al jazeera. >> a courageous young man his parents should be very proud. >> thank you very much. we'll be right back with weather after this that's all i have an real money. victoria azarenko

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al jazeera america... >>introduces... "america tonight". >>a fresh take on the stories that connect to you. >>grounded. >>real. >>unconventional. >>an escape from the expected. >> a strirng of major wildfires continues to burn across australia, at least one man is dead, 80 homes are destroyed. blazes in the state of new south wales. firefighters are continuing to contain nearly 100 separate fires. the flames were brought on by unusually warm and dry spring. hundreds of residents are still

evacuated. rebecca stevenson has the weather after this. >> we are looking at the wildfires in australia, when we saw reports before their bush fire began that they were going to have an intense dry season that could bring raging fires across the area, it sounded very similar to what we had put out for united states. our wildfire season in the western half did fire up quite a bit this last year. and we have had a number of very large fires but now that fire season is coming to an end. we're heading into a cool season, in fact a cold blast more like winter air coming down from canada. as we look at our snowfall today, chi cheyenne, wyoming, io parts of kansas and nebraska, it's getting that cold out there as we have a storm system in the central portion of the states. mostly rain as it pushes east but you can see our snow cover

here for the u.s., we've got mostly that snow cover up into colorado and wyoming where our highest snow is in. we are administrator seeing some ski resorts report some early openings. this cold air is bringing a hard freeze into cans, parts of north texas, this is cold air going well south from canada down to texas. this time of year we're not even really to the end of october yet and on average we start to get our first snows around nebraska and north platt as we get into later first part of november. this is an early storm system again cold rain from missouri work its way towards st. louis. we're going ocontinue to see that rainfall tracking across parts of southern canada and that cold air is going to take your temperatures into the low 30s for parts of the north.

>> welcome back to aljazeera america, i'm john in new york. and here are the top stories. many americans are having trouble enrolling with the government's healthcare exchanges and exchanging data with the website. house republicans are investigating the problems with the healthcare program. travel was a problem with oakland in the bay area. rapid transit trains left 200,000 riders stranded for their daily commutes. union employees walked off the job at mid. this is the second time this year that the nation's fifth largest rail system has shut down.