hello, and welcome to "al jazeera america." i'm jonathan betz live from new york city. national transportation safety board is on the scene of an accident that killed two bay area transit workers. they had to have had help to get to where they were last night. >> more expected in the case of two escaped killers that walked out of a florida prison using forged papers. an apology from the obama administration tonight for problems with the new health care website. at least three people are dead in egypt after gunmen

opened fire on a wedding at a coptic christian church at a cairo suburb. right now national transportation safety board inspectors are on the scene of a weekend california train accident that killed two workers in a san francisco suburb. this comes on day two of a transit workers strike leaving questions about whether it had anything to do with the death. the union suspended picketting today out of respect for the victims' families. ntsb officials just wrapped up a news conference. let's go to lisa bernard for the latest. what did they have to say tonight? >> reporter: the ntsb is here looking at the tracks, looking at the train, gathering facts. the lead investigator tells us, quote, these accidents happen in an instant, but they take months

to investigate. he asked b.a.r.t. for documentation, sketches and photos, and he said they're looking at a camera that faces inside the cab. this particular train did not have any cameras facing outside, but he says whoever would have been standing in that cab would have been captured on the tape. however, there were others on the train who may not have been inside that cab, and they would not be captured. he's also saying that they need to investigate the experience, the training of the workers on the track as well as the driver of the train and the equipment. >> my priority is to continue to finish off the organization to do an investigation to include the parties. we'll do that tonight. we'll go through the progress. we'll find out what information we have, and we'll develop a plan of work for what to do the next 24 hours and we'll come back and do another progress meeting and look at the data and information and see if there's more we need to gather, more questions to ask, more data to

obtain, provide information to b.a.r.t. and everybody else involved, what documentation we need, all those types of things that would be done day to day. >> reporter: the investigator says he will consider that b.a.r.t.'s unions are on strike. he says that he's here to investigate an accident that killed two people. he tried to almost down-play the strike, meaning he's here to collect evidence on these train tracks, but he's mindful, of course, that there was a strike. he also made it clear that this train was on what he calls a non-revenue run, meaning it was not carrying paying customers. jonathan. >> meanwhile, these commuters in san francisco facing monday morning commute without that train service. that strike remains. is there any movement at all on the negotiations? >> reporter: no movement. as of right this moment, people here have to prepare for a rough commute tomorrow morning. the unions are holding a

candlelight vigil tonight to honor the two workers who were killed here. there are no further talks scheduled at this time to end the strike. the strike goes on. >> lisa bernard live in san francisco. thank you. a tip led police to two killers who walked from a florida prison weeks ago. officers say that tip came from an acquaintance. inside a room in a panama city motel, police found joseph jenkins and charles walker. this cell phone video shows s.w.a.t. teams bursting into that motel room. both men are back behind bars following this morning's court appearance and are held without bond. al jazeera's robert ray is at that motel in panama city where the fugitives were caught. robert. >> reporter: jonathan, exactly. the fugitives caught right behind me in this hotel, the coconut grove motor inn in panama city. now police are looking for accomplices to the situation of forged doupts and the escape

from prison, and it's been a long few days for authorities as they search for these men. for five days florida authorities were on a manhunt investigating and searching for convicted killers joseph jenkins and charles walker. on sunday we learned that a tip led police to the fugitives. >> bay county sheriff's office deputies, panama city police department officers, the united states marshalls and fdle agents late saturday received key information through an associate of one of the inmates helping up pinpoint their location. >> reporter: both men were able to walk out of prison thanked to forged documents sent to the clerk of the court. once out they walked into a jail in orlando to do what's required by law, to register as felons, have mug shots taken and be fingerprinted. no red flags went up until the mother of one of the murder victims said she heard about walker's release in a letter from the corrections department. even the judge, whose name was

forged on the papers, was impressed. >> i've never seen anything like this. you have to give them an a for being imagine active. >> reporter: family members of the fugitives pleaded to the cameras. >> we love you. we believe in you. just surrender yourself to someone who you trust who will bring you back in safely. >> reporter: with reports out that the two killers were on the loose, the two men huddled together in orlando, hatched a plan, and made their way here to the coconut grove motel in panama city beach, florida. authorities zeroed in on them here in room 227. >> they surrounded the room with about 20 task force members, and using a p.a. system from one of the cars instructed them that they knew where they were and they wanted them to come out. >> neither were armed and the apprehension was without a fight. they were then arrested and taken to the bay county jail and questioned without bond. on sunday morning a judge charged both men with one count

of escape and ordered them to sit in a county jail until october 25th before they would be transferred back to the prison that they originally escaped from. >> while the manhunt is over, there is still a lot we do not know. i can tell you that there will be more arrests. obviously, we will backtracking to those that helped to carry out this fraud. >> reporter: this remains an active investigation. the incident embarrassed florida prison officials who were eager to find suspected accomplices and put them behind bars as well. >> so robert, about the other arrests authorities say could be coming, do we have any idea how close they're getting to making that happen? >> reporter: officially, no. we don't have any idea. we are told, as you heard in the story, that they feel like they're for sure there will be other arrests of people involved and working with these two convicted murderers. i would say likely in the next 24 to 48 hours. now, another thing that they are

also looking into is the fact that it's possible that both of these guys paid $8,000 each for these forged documents to someone or some persons that helped them create this heist. another thing i wanted to tell you is that earlier in the day, we went into the motel here, and we talked to the general manager. we were asking questions about what he saw over the weekend. he told us this. that on friday a 38-year-old ma male came to the hotel, asked for a room with two double beds and told him that he needed that size because he had some other people coming in later in the day. turns out that that man got the room for the two convicted killers that sent the night two nights -- one night rather in room 227. the police s.w.a.t. team showed up saturday, apprehended these guys. the checkout date for the hotel room, it was supposed to be today. so it appears that the police got them just in time, and possibly have an accomplice that will go along with possible

future arrests in the coming days, jonathan. active search keeps going here in florida, especially here at panama city. >> interesting developments there. thank you, robert ray, from panama city, florida tonight. several high level navy officers have been charged in a kickback and corruption scheme. they let glenn defense asia overbill the navy for its work on ships. in exchange, the company provided the officers with luxury travel deals, concert tickets and even prostitutes. a navy commander, captain and c ncis agent were charged in the case and the drtor's ceo and another worker. the $200 million contracts of the company have been canceled. health and mum services is apologizing for problem withes affordable care act website. the government acknowledged the site has frustrated a lot of americans. the blog said, quote, the initial consumer experience with headlight healthcare.gov has not

lived up to. president obama plans to address it tomorrow in the rose garden. they say about 476,000 people have applied for health care through those exchanges. the relationship between the u.s. and pakistan is beginning to warm back up. both sides are trying to get past controversies that have strained relations in the past. juan carlos melina has the latest. >> reporter: working to mend a fractured bond. secretary of state john kerry meeting in washington with pakistani prime minister sharif. >> we're anxious to have a series of high-level, important discusses over the course of the next few days. >> leaders of both countries want to improve relations after years of frictions. pakistan opposes military activity inside the borders including both drone strikes and boots on the ground operations like the one that killed osama bin laden. the u.s. remains concerned about

ties between pakistan's intelligence service and militant groups operating in afghanistan. the u.s. is beginning to release aid funds that have been frozen for years. >> on its oun, a democracy that is working hard to get its economy moving and deal with insurgency and also important to the regional stable. so we're very happy to have you here, mr. prime minister. we look forward to the conversations. >> prime minister sharif is set to meet with members of congress this week, and president obama on wednesday. juan carlos melina, al jazeera. at least three people have died in egypt after gunmen opened fire on a wedding party outside a coptic christian surf in a cairo suburb. parishioners surrounded in the area had attackers fire indiscriminately as people left the church. no one has claimed responsibility. the coptic church is the target of numerous attacks in the country following the ousting of

president morsi in july. >> translator: what happened is an insult to egypt. we're trdestroying our own country. what will people outside of egypt think. we are an internationally known church. the virgin mary has appeared here. >> translator: here in the church we have a meeting downstairs and we heard a loud sound like something was collapsing. within seconds one our friends arrived and said hurry up. there's gunfire in front of the church. when i arrived, i found a woman seated in a chair with many bullet wounds and blood comes out from everywhere. it was a difficult sight. many fell around here among them a child shot in the leg. >> dominick is with us from the capital of egypt to tell us about this attack. >> reporter: what we know, jonathan, is that the -- when it was coming to a close at the

virgin mary church back in ca o cairo. it was minimal and then they went up to the church and as the congregation was emerging, three people were killed, two of them a man and an 8-year-old girl died at the scene. a third person, a woman, died on the way to hospital. they also know that 18 people were wounded and all were taken to the emergency room and one person is in critical condition. as you heard to the person we were speaking to. this area has been one where these security situation has been well, shall we say, not patchy, but it was unguarded since june. that's in the course since the accident before morsi there's when 14 attacks on christian

churches across egypt, and that has fueled tension between the coptic community and the muslim community, which is the majority here. the local bishop, coptic bishop of this diocese includes the church of the virgin mary has condemned the violence, and has appealed for tensions not to be inflamed by this. but it is also worth making the point that perhaps 100 people were still outside the church as curfew was falling a few hours ago. this is clearly something that's causing great grief and shock to the local community. >> dominick haynes in cairo tonight. a suicide bombing in syria leaves 40 people dead, most of them civilians in hama. police say the bomber packed 1.5 tons of explosives into the truck. it left a massive crater in the ground and scorched almost everything around it. the syrian state tv blamed terrorists for the attack.

that's how they describe the rebel forces. the syrian observatory for human rights said the attack was targeting an army checkpoint. a suicide bomber killed 55 people at a baghdad cafe today. more than 45 others were hurt. police say the explosion was one of six suicide bombing attacks in one day all in the anbar province. there will be a state funeral for the hundreds of african migrants killed trying to reach the shore. families so moved they wanted to give strangers a dignified burial. a >> reporter: as they often do on sundays, they visit their family maz lee yum at the local cemetery. this time their flowers are for the dead they never met but with buried next to their closest friends. moved by recent events, they offered burial plots to a woman and her 4-year-old child, two of the hundreds of migrants that

died in the tragic shickwreck on october 3rd off the coast of sicily. >> translator: they would have been forgotten if they were buried elsewhere. no one would have left a flower or remembered this. this way when i say a prayer for my grandfather, i will say one for them, too. >> reporter: the mother and child are among those who were given a state funeral by italy's prime minister. they are part of the few that were given a dig nyed burial. most of the almost 400 migrants are buried around the city despite promptses of a state funeral, they were given a private and somber ceremony. all that is left behind to mark are numbers on a wall. on monday italy's government will hold a ceremony to commemorate the victims of the tragedy at the port, an event with government dignitaries but no coffins. >> translator: this shows the

difference between our local population, who rolled up their sleeves to help, and a government which makes grand statements with little concrete contribution when faced with tragedy. >> reporter: in the meantime tens of migrants arrival every day in likes of becoming another forgotten number in the island's cemeteries. firefighters are struggling against dozens of fires burning near sydney, australia. one man is dead and hundreds of homes have been destroyed. high temperatures and winds have made the danger worse. crews have made some progress, but still, 61 other fires are burning. 15 of those wildfires are out of control at this time. now that that state of emergency has been declared, australia

really facing some destructive wildfire activity and bush fires as well. we are seeing this potentially called the most destructive wildfire season on record after a very dry condition over the wintertime and then hot spring. this is what we've been left with, is just primed and ready for wildfires to spark up at here at new south wales. we're seeing around the town of lithgow a stretch and front of 190 miles on that wildfire front. so it is crucial decision haf making made there in australia as it stays gusty and warm. if we go to where we have talked about the typhoons for the last two or three months. it's still a typhoon with a track continues to head towards japan. it has weakened slightly and will weaken more. still excessive rain and breezy conditioned around kyoto until

thursday. otherwise tropical depressions have developed. number 27 is no longer a warning. it's expected to fall apart over the water. however, tropical depression number 28, we're watching this because it's moving towards the islands and the marshall islands, 2 to 4 inches of rainfall on a very low island. there are big concerns here because seas are also building overnight up to about 10 feet. coming up, i'll give you more details on what to expect here in the united states. we're talking about first snow of the season in some spots, jonathan. >> thanks, rebecca. also coming up on "al jazeera america," a secret burial for a nazi war criminal who considered himself a victim. and a new use for drones. how they're helping now report the news. >> share your story on tv and online.

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eric is defending his actions in the second world war. the experience for me was the same as for everyone else. it was a terrible thing for us to have to do this, to do such a thing. this video statement from the convicted nazi war criminal was released by his lawyer a week after his death. >> for the rest of us, me included, it was something terrible. >> reporter: there was nothing respectful about his funeral in rome. after this ceremony, his body was seized by italian authorities. now it's been revealed he'll be buried in a secret location in italy, but it won't be in rome because city officials have banned him from being laid to rest there. in 1944 he was serving as an officer in adolf hitler's brutal ss. he was responsible for helping

oversee one of the worst atroscities in italy during the second world war, the killing of 335 people near rome, and most were civilians. after the war he fled to argentina before being extradited back to italy 20 years ago. in the video statement he said he would have been shot if he did not follow the orders of his commands officer. >> translator: naturally, it was not possible to refuse. this was a order an hitler, and he had with to obey. whoever was not prepared to do that had better be ready to go with the other victims, because he would be shot. why were germany has refused to take his body fearing his grave could become a pilgrimage site for nazi sympathyizers. his relatives want him cremated.

the nsa hacked the e-mail of former mexican president calderon. it targeted other leaders in the mexican government. there's a new report out by the brennan center for justice which reveals information about the kind of data being collected. under certain circumstances the nsa can keep phone and e-mail records it collected for up to six years, and depends on what's collected, it could be shared with the fbi or cia. it breaks down the terrorism database and other u.s. agencies. drones are often used in war because they reach places nothing else can get to, but as john hinton reports, they're looking at drones for the same reason. >> reporter: for the newst media frontier, the sky is the limit. matt waits as he was waiting a demonstration of an unmanned

aircraft to make a map when he had an epihfany. >> i watched this. there's every tornado, hurricane, flood, wildfire, biblical disaster of -- use your imagination. >> reporter: drones have long served as the eyes and arms of the u.s. military and intelligence's, but waite believes the kablts of troans like this could be just as useful to news organizations. >> he walks in my office and says, i want to create a drone journalism lab. my first thought was, what is that? >> reporter: with a $50,000 grant from the knight foundation, the university of nebraska launched the world's first uav lab for young journalists. >> we are quite literally creating this new tool for journals because there is no -- there are no guidelines, there are no suggestions on how you

should use this, what you can use it for. we're just making everything up, and i want to keep doing that. >> the fixture on this test model right look a little wobbly, but with refinement it will look like that. eventually it could mean almost no place is out of reach. they're still a work in progress, but a drone is already in use in australia to cover cricket. could airborne paparazzi and unmanned car chase coverage be next? the technology is so far ahead of the law it left many questions unanswered. >> someone said if that flies over my house, i'm getting my shotgun out and i'm shooting it down. as silly as it sounds, it's not clear whether or not they can do that. when we think about it, we're kind of writing the rule book. >> for now commercial drones are illegal in the u.s., but aviation authorities are crafting new laws that could

have drones like this filling the skies by 2013. al jazeera, lincoln, nebraska. time for sports with the headlines. >> tom brady was all smiles because the gronk was back. he was 6'6" doing major damage against the new york jets. gronkowski has recovered from multiple back and arm injuries, but today gronk was strutting his stuff. despite his efforts, the patriots got stunned in overtime losing to the jets 30-27. the jets improved to 4-3 in just a game back with new england in the afc east. now, i love me a good streak and who doesn't. the kansas city chiefs have won

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welcome back to "al jazeera america." i'm jonathan betz. here are the top stories this half hour. the ntsb says it will consider including a worker strike as part of the investigation into what caused a deadly accident there. two b.a.r.t. transit workers were killed when they were struck by an out of service commuter train yesterday outside of san francisco. florida police are trying to figure out who helped two convicted killers escape, and they're promising more arrests. police found joseph jenkins and

charles walker inside a room in a panama city hotel. a judge has denied bond for the fugitives. >> at least three have died in egypt following an attack on a wedding at a coptic church in cairo. they gathered on the scene to pray only hours after gunmen on motorcycles opened fire. it's time for the regular sunday evening look at the week ahead. the government's back in business, but it's just a temporary fix. washington negotiators are getting ready to meet for budget talks, and lobbyists are preparing to defend their interests against any cuts that might be coming. the gop is dealing with infighting and identity crisis. both made painfully public during the budget standoff. the department of health and human services issued an apology for glitches in the website for healthcare.gov. it stopped a lot of people from signing up for health care under the affordable care act also newtown a obamacare. joins me is brian fur mee and

bernard whitman. thank you for being here. we appreciate it. >> thank you for having us. >> let's talk about the republican party. it seems like they're in trouble. a lot of people say that. first off, i want to get your thoughts on that. is it fair? are the republicans really in that much trouble? >> i wouldn't say that at all. i think the short answer is any party out of power usually has more than one leader, so in this case you have the speaker, the minority leader in the senate and the rnc chair. the party in power, the white house, has one message and we have three messengers. that makes it more challenging. within the three different areas with the parties, you have an opportunity for any group that's a minority to speak up and have more power, too, and another voice. >> you don't see the pea party as a threat to the establishment? >> no. think about it. in 2010 we wouldn't have taken over the house without the tea party. they care about spending and taxes they pay and the country. they have a different way of doing things somewhat, and they have the right to do that. the question is how everyone has to work together, whether it's the president, the tea party

with the republicans or democrats. reach across the aisle and work together. >> do you worry we could see another showdown next year with the budget debate again? >> i give a huge amount of credit for dramatically oversimplifying the problems that the republican party did. the shutdown cratered the republican brand according to gallup, the republican party has a favorability rating of 28%, which is the lowest level for any political party ever recorded in the history of gallup polling, number one. number two, the democrats are now ahead of the republicans by six points in the congressional ballot, so you have lost ground electorally across the country. number three, the republicans managed to do the one thing the president couldn't do, which is spike support for obamacare for 7 points. the one thing they were against they drove up favorability towards. i think the republican brand is in tremendous difficulty and speaker boehner has to get control of the conference to avoid another problem like this

come the beginning of the year. >> one of the facts you're leaving out is more than two-thirds of americans want to get rid of every congressional member, too. >> mickey edwards from oklahoma has interesting thoughts about the future of the republican party and kind of what they're facing right now. let's listen if we can. >> if the republican party keeps listening to people like ted cruz and mike lee, it will go the way of the wigs. you can't survive that way. there are a lot of people that agree with the republican party that spending ought to be less and would like the affordable care act revised and to forth. she don't want to see the government shut down. they don't want to see the united states default on its

obligations we already incurred. it just went way too far. it was over the edge, and i think that the strategy that was pursued, you know, could doom the republican party unless the people like john boehner and mitch mcconnell are able to get control of it. >> they say those -- >> john, my point is this. the tea party does not have an idea logical rift with the mainstream republican party. they feel like they will come in and hold the government hostage until the government bends to their will. that is not how democracy works. the american people did not send a representative to congress doed that. that's why three-quarters of the american people said, do not pursue this strategy. it cratered the brand. >> if you look at the history of -- the recent history -- >> today oprah winfrey won't

participate in endorsing obamacare. >> this is a tactic to shut down the government to get rid of obamacare is a good idea? >> anytime you shut down the government is not a good thing. the government has a purpose. you have to dismantle something that has been signed into law and how to undo something like that when it's the president's number one factor right now in what he's accomplished as far as his presidency. he won't roll over and change it. the senate won't let it change right now. so you pick up a fight that won't work. pick apart at the problems in obamacare and work on them and get them fixed opposed to shutting down the government without it all thrown out. >> what do you say to the tea partyists who wants to shut down the government and threaten to do it next year to dlam -- bahama kaish? >> the only way to get rid of obamacare is if you elect a majority house and senate and take over the presidency.

if you continue to shut down the government and play hostage-taking politics, you won't get the support of the american people to do the very thing you want to do. it's a fool's errand. >> i don't want you ganging up on him. >> there's no ganging up. it's okay. it's sunday night. >> it's a question a lot of people don't understand. i can see how people can say obamacare is a bad idea. i get it. i can see how people say we need to do something to get rid of it. to put the country on the edge of default and shut down the government, how is that successful for the republican party? >> we got here because the president refused to negotiate. let's not forget it. harry reid could have passed other legislation and didn't do. he wouldn't negotiate it either. when you talk about it, you can blame one group. this is not a group that chromes the house and senate. this is a group that has to be reached out to figure how the ho bring them to the fold. america has to work on both sides of the aisle.

that's how it works. they have to have a conversation in washington. >> they're vocal and well-organized and well-funded and represent a lot of americans. bernard, the fact that president obama tomorrow is talking about problems with the obamacare website and an apology was issued today for that, does this not give the critics some credibility here? >> that's what is amazing. the republican party had an opportunity to highlight and make changes to obamacare, and instead they shot themselves in the foot by going on a crazy tactic with the government. i think the president is open to that. the program is actually weakened in the public's eyes because people haven't signed on. they could have had an opportunity make a difference. here's the thing. 19 million people have tried to access the site. 500,000 are in the process of enrolling. i give credit to the administration for putting together a program that is extremely popular, but i give huge criticism to the administration for not being prepared, although from a

technic technological standpoint, this happens, bus it's embarrassing. >> whether when you say it's popular, is it because they're forced to do it or pay fines or they don't have health care right now and this is the only outlet they've got? >> why did they work before and allow people to go across state lines? why sit in new york, new jersey? why can't you go across state lines. >> this is coming up in the elections next year. thank you both. >> thank you. the u.s. efforts to fight drugs, and meanwhile puerto rico is a major path for drugs. they can go to the u.s. mained land without customs am. we have the details.

this is a routine thing. it's a path for south american drugs headed to the united states. according to the police, this is an average find. 15 pounds of pure cocaine. >> translator: the person realized we were here, so they came and left the backpack in the bathroom and went walking out like any other person. >> reporter: the drug runner lost this cargo. here it's worth $140,000. in miami or new york it could sell for half a million. >> translator: we must congratulate the dog. he's very efficient and did a good job. >> reporter: the u.s. federal government reports an increase in drub interceptions over the past few years, but local authorities say that's a fraction of what makes it into the island. lieutenant carlos figueroa fights the drug trade on the streets of san juan. a murder victim was just found here with drugs in his pocket. witnesses saw a motor scooter

after hearing the gunshot. now the police are checking for suspects. >> translator: if you enter into this world, you can you will die . >> reporter: in puerto rico it's six times the murder rate for the u.s. as a whole. lieutenant figueroa says most victims are young men who want to get rich quick. >> translator: they prefer the easy life and easy money. their life will be short because they will die. everybody thinks it will turn out different for them, but that's never true. there will always be somebody waiting behind you. >> reporter: puerto rican police are constantly fighting the

battle with more and more drugs coming onto the island, prices are dropping and there's more business to fight for. casey kaufmann, al jazeera, san juan, puerto rico. she's called the blonde angel. a young girl found last week in a roma camp in greece. authorities worry the mystery surrounding her may be part of a larger problem. we have more. >> reporter: greek authorities are now investigating whether this blonde 4-year-old is the victim of a child trafficking network. >> it shows that it can be the combined effort of these people to buy and sell children, and they have a good commodity like this one because they were using her in the streets to beg because she was cute. >> reporter: according to police the little girl speaks just a few words in the roma dialect and greek. they think she's from

scandinavia or bulgaria. >> she was living in very bad conditions, and she was neglected. no evidence of any abuse. she was dirty. >> reporter: she was discovered during a police drug raid. a dna check of the couple claiming to be her parents show she's not the biological child. people in the roma community deny the allegations of kidnapping and trafficking and fear the case could spark further discrimination against them. >> translator: she was given to us, and we raised her. she had problems with her eyes. we took her to the doctor. we took her everywhere. we didn't take her to sell her. >> reporter: a roma community spokesman says the girl had a good life with the people raising her. >> translator: she spent her days well. i can tell you better than her other siblings, the biological

ones. >> reporter: the 4-year-old girl is being looked after by the smile of the child charity. by sunday they had received more than 8,000 calls about her including some from the united states. greek police have asked interpol for help finding the child's real family. still ahead on "al jazeera america," the leaves are changing in the great smoky mountains, but the tourists and their dollars are already gone. it's already week seven in the nfl with some key match-ups on this sunday. ross will be back with sports. (vo) al jazeera america we understand that every news story begins and ends with people. >> the efforts are focused on rescuing stranded residents. (vo) we pursue that story beyond the headline, past the spokesperson, to the streets. >> thousands of riot police deployed across the capitol. (vo) we put all of our global resources behind every story. >> it is a scene of utter devastation. (vo) and follow it no matter

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the government may be up and running, but the impact of the shutdown is still being felt across the country. the gates at the great smoky mountains national park are open again, but for many of the businesses who depend on the park's visitors, it may be too late. jonathan martin has more. >> reporter: steve garrett and his league of llamas are just getting their footing again, taking fall foliage lovers through the smokies. during the government shutdown, they were stuck hanging under the shelter. business came to a complete standstill. >> pretty much immediately the phones stopped ringing and the e-mails stopped coming. my reservations stopped coming in. >> october is one of the busiest months of the year. yearly we get 9 million, and in october alone we get 1.1 million. they're coming in to see the fall colors. >> reporter: it straddles both north carolina and tennessee. it's the only free national park

in the u.s. and also the busiest. when it closed for 15 days, local businesses like old dad's general store really suffered. >> it's right at 40%, which is a big drop. we depend on the parking lot. with it not open and it really hurts. >> realizing mother nature wouldn't wait for the government to figure things out, the governors of tennessee and north carolina brokered a deal to get the park gates open, but the damage was already done. a study by western carolina university shows what local businesses already know. north carolina and tennessee lost more than $30 million in visitor spending, 12 million in lost wages and 3 million in local and state taxes. while some businesses wilted, others flourished. >> fortunately the people that were in the park had 48 hours to get out. then immediately we, as a city, wanted to help them -- those

folks coming out find a place to go camping and then places to stay. >> reporter: there may be better news for tennessee and north carolina. the states will get a partial refund on the money used to get the park back open. regardless of what happens in washington, d.c., mother nature is already putting on a show in the smokies. >> i think it's really good timing with the peak at 4,000 feet is really pretty. we have a couple more weeks, two or three weeks left of colors to go. >> reporter: for those banking on the fall, the crowds now are too little and too late. >> i'm the not sure we're going to be able to recoup it. i think it's something that's water under the bridge at this the point, unfortunately. >> reporter: jonathan martin, al jazeera, the great smoky mountains national park.

ron gronkowski is back on the field today, and nobody was happier than tom brady. brady has been throwing to some receivers and you're like, who? they should wear name tags that say, hello, my name is. he made his season debut today. he had multiple surgeries on his arm and neck. what brady wants brady gets. steven is there. the patriots are in total control up 21-10 at the break. in the second half the jets step it up on d. antonio allen picks off brady and he goes in for the score. that is brady ace first pick six since 2011. that ignited the jets, because later gino smith strutting his

stuff scam pers in. this game was headed into overtime. in o.t. nick spokes is lines it up. ball game. jets win 30-27 to improve to 4 identify 3 on the season. they're a game back of new england in the afc east. >> that's what i'm talking about. so obviously big victory, keeps us alive. we have a ton of work to do. we have to improve a great deal as a football team. we understand that. at the same time it's great to get a win, especially against new england. >> they did a great job with that pick six, and it really sparked us as a team. we came up in the second half with the mindset we'll come back, and double a started it off for us and we did a phenomenal job staying the course. every single guy pitched in. >> time to cowboy up. first place on the line today in the nfc east between the cowboys

and eagles. in the third philip tanner cashes in to give dallas a 10-0 like. nick makes the second start for the eagles in place for the injured michael vick. he gets hammered and has to leave the game with a head injury. tony romo threw for over 300 yards today and the people who loved tony were loving life. the cowboys win it 17-3. they are sitting pretty in first place. >> i think, you know, if you play long enough you understand how difficult it is to win on the road, especially in the division. you know, it's going to be a tough game. they always are. it's going to come down toe a series on two and we responded and it got in the critical points of the game. i was proud of the guys. we got into stuff we liked and executed well. getting that touchdown to go up two scores is real big.

>> in pittsburgh they're doing the shuffle. ben roethlisberger with the shuffle pass as the steelers took a 7-0 lead over the ravens. late in the game, baltimore found 69, but joe flacco earns some of his $121 million contract finding dallas clark in the end zone. that ties it up at 16-16. with three seconds left, sean throws the 42-yard gamer. pittsburgh wins it in dramatic fashion, 19-16, for their second straight victory. houston's cheatham is making his first nfl start. he was looking to pull off a majorup set against the chiefs. houston has a problem. he pops it up late in the game in the ball game. derek johnson recovers it, and how about the kansas city chiefs? they hold on for the victory to improve to 7-0 on the season, one of two undefeated teams. let's go kaepernicking. they're putting a hurt today on the team.

kaepernick scampers in for the 20-yard score. san francisco is up 10-0, and they continue to play smash mouth football. frank gore pounds it in, and let's go kaepernicking again. there you go. gore takes it in again as the 49ers flexing their muscles today go on to hammer the titans 31-17. a scary moment in green bay today. you might want to close your eyes, because packers tight end michael finley gets leveled by cleveland gibson. he was down for several minutes and was carted off the field. the team is calling it a neck injury, but the good news is he had feeling in all extremities. as for gibson, he was called for unnecessary roughness, leading with his helmet as the packers beat the browns 31-13. all right. it is homecoming night for pay tan manning back in indianapolis for the first time to face his former team. peyton is saying all the right

things. i don't care what he says. he wants payback because he spent 13 years with the coach. nobody likes getting dumped. imagine if your boyfriend or girlfriend dumped you for someone hotter. that happened to manning replaced by the young gun andrew luck. talk to you, peyton. >> it's hard to predict how i'll feel emotionally. football is certainly an emotional game. you know, to predict, you know, how you're going to feel, i don't know. >> i don't think there's any problem for anybody keeping focus. it's a football game, you know. we're not ignorant. we know who is coming to town. we know it's a great football team and a great challenge for us and a great opportunity for us. i don't think there will be any problem keeping focused this week. >> a team it may sound strange is an unfamiliar opponent. a lot of guys i've never played against and certainly a new scheme. how i'll feel walking into the stadium, i can't tell you that right now. i probably know after the game

i'll probably may not tell you that after the game either. >> peyton already getting it done. he threw a touchdown pass. broncos up 7-0 early in the corner. >> i have to talk about kaepernicking and romosexual. are you a romosexual? you don't like to say? >> no. >> are those your terms or theirs? >> i made it up. >> it's a good one. we'll have more with rebecca next with weather. >> every morning from 6 to 10am al jazeera america brings you more us and global news than any other american news channel. find out what happened and what to expect. >> start every morning, every day, 6am to 10 eastern with al jazeera america.

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tonight northern michigan will get the first measurable snowfall of the year. we already have snow reported around duluth mixing with rain at times, but the snow is really up in canada around ontario. you see that core of cold air in northern midwest impacting minneapolis. minneapolis only has rainfall, but still, a cool 38 degrees. we won't get all that cold air until the middle to end of the week in the northeast. so temperatures staying cool. you see the snow here just rotating around with a little

bnz clipper zips pass up to the north-northeast, but not over to boston and not to new york or that far each. tonight you can still see the meteor shower. you can see it before sunrise. it will be chilly, but you can see the debris from haley's comet early in the morning. the peak was early this morning. we still have a chance. here you can see that zoomed-in view of snowfall coming in, and the low tipsarevicemperatures, the coldest so far this season. oma omaha is 30 in the morning. we won't get all the cold air until we get a few more shots at the end of the week into the next. as we look at snowfall, it will dance around the canadian border for the most part, and we'll get a little bit of snow in the mountains of northeast mexico early tomorrow morning.