coming up on r t breaking news from the nation's capital shots were fired near the u.s. capitol hill the suspect is dead and one officer is reported injured the latest on this breaking news ahead the federal government shutdown continues the longer it goes the more dire the consequences get with important departments and services closed for business more coming up and in the u.s. more teens are taking a fatal risk with synthetic marijuana who are the distributors of this stuff and where is the money go we'll answer that and more in a special r.t.e. investigation. it's thursday october third five pm in washington d.c.

i'm megan lopez and you are watching r t let's get straight to our breaking news this afternoon just around three pm shots were fired outside of the capitol building police say a woman in a black sedan got in a confrontation with police officers after trying to ram her chorus through the barricade outside of the white house when that was unsuccessful she fled the scene in her car and got into a police chase this is the video that you're seeing of that police chase what you can't see inside of that car is that there is a child in there and that the driver is a female she is now reported dead just unbelievable footage coming out of this really chaotic scene playing out here in washington d.c. capitol hill was temporarily put on lockdown but has since returned to business correspondent liz wall now with the latest liz what is the scene i like outside of capitol hill right now. while the sienna was quite

chaotic but we are told that the scene has been secured now we know that the d.c. police can. bittle hill police f.b.i. secret service all of them are investigating what exactly happened here we're about as close as we can get to where shots were fired we're told several shots were fired i spoke to a couple witnesses that said they heard one shot after another it's possible we don't really know who fired those shots we're hearing now that most of those shots if not all of them were actually fired by authorities trying to trying to stop the suspect you played that video earlier before and that's where it all began at the white house about a mile away from here is when it began apparently the suspect tried to ram through a barricade and out is when a high speed chase started came all the way here around near the capitol and that's where it ended and that's where we're told more shots rang out we saw in that video was it was a black a black car that was the target of this chase we do not know much about that

suspect but we do know that she is a female we're not sure there's conflicting reports on the status. we're not what we're going to hear there's actually a press conference of going to be underway pretty soon where we should be learning more details we're told that there was actually that there was a child inside of that vehicle but that child is ok we're told we're not sure how many people have been hurt how many people injured we know that at least one person has been injured and that person is a police officer so we are told though that this is an isolated incident it's not terrorism related and at the moment the scene has been secured nagen and something important to mention is that those barricades have been up since oklahoma city bombing so obviously there was no danger of the woman actually getting into the white house but from what you're hearing it was was there any trouble any kind of situation with senators members of congress anybody being in danger.

but we don't know all we know is that the. several shots that were fired that's what witnesses are telling me spoke to one witness that said he heard seven shots ring out as i said before we're not sure though where those shots came from it's presumed now at this point that a lot of them actually came from authorities. where we can presume because that's the capitol was under lockdown and they have deemed this the capitol secure now so . we can presume now that the scene is safe we're told that it's not active anymore so you can see that still there's a lot of authorities here investigating here at the scene but at this point we're told it's an isolated incident and that it's not terrorism or terrorism related as as we know d.c. is a very very much on edge as specially after just a couple of weeks ago there was this deadly shooting over a navy yard not too far away from here that resulted in the deaths of twelve people so that is still fresh in the minds of many people here in d.c.

of course it's a tense time in that building over there with the government shutdown underway with the house and senate unable to agree on a deal on a budget deal so a very tense time with this government shutdown underway it's unclear though what the motive is we don't know much about the suspect except that she is female but there was a child inside of that car we don't know what a motive. hopefully we'll be learning more more and more details as there as they're released to us and obviously this is a very popular place to be in the district of columbia a lot of people come here to visit for tourism reasons so obviously there was a lot of witnesses we do have the testimony of one witness to go ahead and listen to right now. police converging on the what was going through your mind when. i was thinking about the navy yard because i work near there. and it was like. to me. so obviously lose this is very scary as you mentioned it comes

just a couple. q. ding so what else can we expect to hear from this press conference that's coming up in just about a half an hour work here. i think at this press conference well we're expected to hear board details and as i mentioned there's a lot of things that are up in the air we know that shots were fired hopefully we'll learn more as to who fired those shots how many people have been injured the status of the suspect and any of those injured the status of that police officer that is reported to have been wounded during this ordeal so we should be learning more maggette as more details come out so still unfolding as we speak right now is a very lucky situation a very lucky day when you can report that there are no there are no victims injured at this point or and i should say dead there is that one police officer who was at the hospital right now are to correspondent liz wahl bringing us up breaking news from capitol hill thank you so much. well in the middle of all of that both the

congress the house and the senate are still in session it's day three of a partial government shutdown and if you were just turning your television on for the first day since tuesday well you haven't missed anything we are still in the same exact place as we were before the shutdown republicans are still trying to define the obamacare with a one year delay on the individual mandate democrats aren't letting that happen and while they are bickering back and forth their constituents not them are paying the price but if you think that so this all boils down to some natural in national parks and monuments being closed think again right now in the gulf of mexico tropical storm karen is brewing off the coast of cuba and should make land this weekend meteorologists say that this storm has a near one hundred percent chance of becoming a hurricane the agency that usually predicts and responds to emergencies like this

fema is closed down due to the shutdown the agency started recalling some employees but good luck to everyone living along the gulf coast the white house has yet to decide how. much help you're going to get also i'm sure you've been hearing about the horrific tennessee bus crash that left eight people dead and injured fourteen others is an accident that the national transportation safety board normally would have gone to investigate but this time they are not the government shutdown has furloughed all highway investigators so there is no one to do the job and in idaho search and rescue workers have been forced to scale back their efforts to find a missing woman in the moon at national monument sixty nine year old jordin elliott basically was last seen on september twenty first however many park employees were forced to take a furlough as a result of the shutdown at least ten rangers are working despite the four low to

try to help find this woman though they don't know if they're going to be paid now the toll this shutdown is taking on the public is growing with each passing day but still we are no closer to a spending deal artie's sam sachs brings us the latest from the district of dysfunction the government shutdown is now in day three congress is not any closer to striking a deal to end of course a meeting at the white house last night between president obama and congressional leaders failed to yield any sort of deal and this morning senate majority leader harry reid took to the floor and said this about republicans on the other side of the capitol republican should come to their senses realize more than wondered why and why and. the longer this republican government shutdown percent of the harder will be on our economy. i hope they can figure out what it is that they want before the damage the economic recovery is even more irreversible and they've already

created meanwhile republicans are digging in and continuing their strategy of funding just pieces of the government pieces like the veterans administration the park service and the national institutes of health a strategy that democrats in the senate and president obama have already said that they will not go along with and we're creeping closer to another crisis the debt limit deadline in two weeks and it's looking increasingly likely that any deal to end the shutdown also include a deal to raise the debt limit but they are two republicans are asking for major concessions dollar for dollar spending cuts repeal of environmental regulations and cuts to entitlements the republican position is perhaps the best capsulized in this quote from congressman marlin stutzman who told reporters on wednesday quote it's about dignity we've been ignored on this issue altogether we're not going to be disrespected and so that's where we're at today where we have to get something out of this and i don't know what that even is but today president obama again

reiterated he will not negotiate over the debt limit generally nobody's ever thought to actually threaten not to pay our bills it would be the height of irresponsibility. and that's why i've said this before i'm going to repeat it there will be no negotiations over this at the treasury department announced this week that it is exhausting the last of its extreme measures to avoid a default and that if congress doesn't raise the limit in the next two weeks the u.s. could be facing a catastrophic self-inflicted economic wound that could force the country back into a recession now each morning here in the senate proceedings begin with a prayer from senate chaplain barry black and here was his rather pointed message to members of congress this morning have mercy upon us oh god. and save us from the madness deliver us from the hypocrisy

of attempting to sound reasonable while being unreasonable. remove the burgers of voce who. damage. obese government shutdown unfortunately at this point it may take a prayer to get the government reopened and the development raised in time from capitol hill in washington d.c. same socks party this week a brazilian federal judge dismissed a multi-billion dollar lawsuit against oil giant chevron ending a two year legal battle over a spill it happened back in two thousand and eleven the spill occurred at the frayed offshore oil field off the coast of rio de janeiro at least three thousand six hundred barrels of crude oil leaked into the ocean this case is the largest ever environmental lawsuit in brazilian history prosecutors are asking for eighteen billion u.s. dollars in damages from chevron they also filed charges against the company's

drilling contractor trans ocean ltd and seventeen of its employees however judge rafael pirro dismissed those charges after accepting a deal with chevron that requires the company to pay one hundred thirty five million dollars in companies and torrie activities where israel has become a sort of epicenter for offshore drilling in south america in two thousand and seven there was a major discovery of large oil reserves off the country's coast analysts say that that is the biggest discovery in the last twenty years so you can understand why this case is important and why it could set the precedent for future disputes between the country and oil companies i was joined earlier by david he is a law professor and the director of the brazil american institute for law and environment at pace law school and i first asked him if he could give us some more details on this settlement and how it came about. we'll sure there was

a chevron. and several of its partners had an oil spill off of the coast of rio de janeiro it's in what's called the pre-sell deposits in this bill by u.s. standards comparatively small i think about three thousand barrels. but it caused it it was a real wakeup call for the brazilian the brazilian government terms of the potential danger from the spill and a lawsuit was filed by the by an arm of the brazilian government called the public prosecutor or and pointedly that it be them and minister you approved to go seeking forty billion or so in damages from the spill and so the idea is well you know this this would be brazilian vase not that much different from u.s. law in terms of what it was seeking it was seeking clean up costs and property damage and also possible costs going into the future and so that's what that's what

brought about this this lawsuit the lawsuit was filed essentially to recruit both present and possible future damages and i want to be clear about that forty billion ria says about eighteen billion dollars so why did they agree to settle for one hundred thirty five million u.s. dollars in the end. well it's an interesting question the the short answer would be is that it was in everybody's interests first of all these these oil deposits off the coast of rio are in very very deep water they're below two thousand meters of water two thousand meters of ocean floor and then and then some two thousand meters of salt getting to those to that oil is extremely difficult and nonetheless we're talking about oil reserves that are absolutely immense and incredibly important to the to brazil so while they want to be very careful with any potential

drilling in the area they also don't want to completely discourage it so the settlement i think reflects a certain pragmatism on the part of everybody involved there and when one needs to to pay the costs of the exploration and potential damages on the other hand the brazilian government is very wary of deterring future exploration and development in those fields however was the brazilian government that did come up with an initial estimate of the eighteen billion dollars which final way is more than the u.s. got after the deepwater horizon oil spill what's caused significantly more damage and this oil spill now thing washed up on shore i think a say about sixty seven miles offshore no one was injured or killed out there exploded except. yes you're right so the brazilian government came up with that number just like any good litigant would in a potential lawsuit you you you look at the potential damages and you get the

largest number of possible because that's the number you start with when you're starting a negotiation in i mean realistically any lawsuit is also a negotiation so you want to start with the most advantageous negotiating position you're quite right the number pales in comparison if we look at the damages that are actually realized from this spill versus the deepwater horizon spill that that's both a commentary on the brazilian government's negotiating position as well as the fact that the deepwater horizon damages. probably were not calculated in a way that realistically reflected the damage and also chevron was forced to close down for about a six month period which is hugely costly to that company was that taken into account here at all do you know i don't know for certain but i would certainly assume that it was chevron went out of its way to to look like and you know that's that's a cynical way of saying it but also to be what it would it be to itself as a good corporate citizens to assume is there was the impotent there was

a another small leak chevron shut down immediately because the optics of it were horrible i don't think there was the second week was it was in any danger of causing any significant damage is it all as well but chevron was looking to contain any possible p.r. damage as well as any possible oil spill and so it shut down and you know that's that's a very that's a very expensive proposition and brazil is hugely important in the production of oil ninety percent of brazil's oil production actually happens offshore so as anything change sensis oil spill. would anything change i think well. i don't know for certain again i don't know. the technology for exploring in the area is is all new so yeah i guess the short answer is yes things are constantly changing the technology is in development this is a kind of exploration that's never been done anywhere else so the every week or

every month of delay brings about more knowledge about how to do this safely thanks petrobras the brazilian national oil company has been very slow in developing the this area because then what they have they have chosen to be very careful thank you so much for enlightening us and bringing us the latest on this case and helping us understand it david pseudo law professor and director of the president american institute for law and environment at pace law school my pleasure thank you all right for the past two weeks we have been featuring a three part investigative series that looks into the dangers of synthetic marijuana it's a designer drug created in laboratories the chemical is meant to mimic the t h c effects in marijuana but that is far from reality now in part one of our investigation we met three families who have been directly affected by this drug and part two we took

a closer look at why it is so hard to regulate and some of the actions local governments are taking to get synthetic drugs off of store shelves this week marilyn joins the list of states that have the law banning this product from the store shelves however despite extensive efforts by the government and police to get rid of these drugs the problems persist today we bring you part three which tries to answer the questions of where these drugs are coming from who is behind them and where are the profits are going take a look. the stuff was labeled popery it's the moment local governments and law enforcement officials in maryland have been waiting for i defy anybody to take a package of this it's labeled popery and show me how this resembles popery as of october first the sale and possession of synthetic marijuana is illegal in the state it's a designer drug where nail polish remover mixed with chemicals is sprayed on dried herbs sold and then smoked to get

a high similar to that of marijuana only this drug is nothing like real marijuana and can lead to serious health effects last year the federal government took steps of its own to ban these drugs with the synthetic drug abuse prevention act but the site state and federal efforts to try to regulate these drugs if simple google search pulls up dozens of websites of companies saying that they are willing to ship these drugs in mass quantities right to your door so who exactly is behind this so-called cooperate i decided to find the owners of one of the more popular brands mr nice guy and the worst part is also the way that they have a package down the sleigh pop rocks and they have i give it a on the front of the website looks normal enough the contact page feels official but when you look up that address turns out it's a u.p.s. store lots of internet companies run their businesses using p. o.

box as though so let's keep digging mr nice guy allegedly buys its products from cracked home labs with yet another official looking website only it's fake you see that phone number at the top it leads to a philadelphia office for personal injury attorney who claim they have never heard of crap tone labs in reality mr nice guy is two guys dylan harrison and john she really their secret operation came crashing down on may twenty first of last year. when the warehouse they produce these drugs in exploded. they were charged with unlawful distribution of controlled substance analogues each of them will serve a reduced prison sentence of just over a year with mr nice guy out of business why are its products still on the market because there's no regulation that brands may not be made by the same person across

the entire united states type synthetic marijuana bags into the internet and a whole slew of manufacturers pop up saying they will sell the bag with popular brands like scooby snacks on the front i quickly came in contact with a man named hank who lives in guangdong china not only did his company offer to ship me the bags but they also promised to get them past u.s. customs he even sent me a picture of some options so now that you know how to get the bags how do you fill them what we found is that many of these chemicals are coming from overseas particularly china which makes our job even more challenging challenging because china doesn't have the same standards for drug production as the us challenging because u.s. relations with the country are already shaky and challenging because these chemicals are so difficult to test for one wrong accusation could fray those international ties many of those chemicals are falsely labeled for medical research

or for cleaning products once the chemicals make it to our shores it's up to dealers to mix them with the leaves the owners of mr nice guy were using cement mixer is to mix together the chemicals and the leaves so when is that happening is from packets to package you may get a cut one concentration that's much higher of drugs then in another package karen dog nursed son max died in a car crash after smoking synthetic canal benoit's karen tracked down. and the dealer of max's drug who explained how he made them his son determined about how much. material and he's sprayed it randomly on plant material and tupperware containers with crude methods like that it should come as no surprise that there's also variability within each package these packets sell anywhere from thirty dollars to about one hundred bucks a pop in what is being described as

a seven billion dollar worldwide industry so where are the profits going what we found which is very scary is that drugs coming from china or coming to the united states ends up in shops owned by middle easterners the middle eastern shop owners here in the united states are shipping their money back into little middle eastern countries into places that should give americans pause so when you're abusing drugs in this country you're financing either directly or indirectly you could potentially be financing terror operations across the globe groups that want to kill us. that's a really scary thought and it's real adding yet another wrinkle in the fight against these synthetic substances so there you have it with a few simple internet searches i just shows you how easy it is to still get your hands on these drugs ready made and more alarmingly how easy it is to get the different components needed to create these drugs on your own it's just the next great frontier in the never ending war on drugs only this one has no simple

solutions in washington meghan lopez r.t. . and while we're on the topic of illegal drugs the f.b.i. says it has arrested a san francisco man who allegedly ran an underground web site for selling drugs documents and services twenty nine year old ross william overage who reportedly used the name dread pirate roberts to run the silk road website was charged in new york district court this week overtures also accused of his involvement in two assassination plots and one k. . trying to get an undercover agent to kill a former silk road employee who he feared might become a government witness in the other case he tried to have a user of the silk road murdered for attempting to extort him now as for the silk road website itself the f.b.i. has shut it down for good and just to give you an idea of how big of a deal this is f.b.i. special agent christopher tarbell described the silk road website to the guardian

as quote the most sophisticated and extensive criminal market place on the internet today since two thousand and eleven the website generated about one point two billion dollars or nine point five million in bitcoins points are the world's most popular form of virtual currency they were the only way to buy and sell merchandise on the silk road website the big point foundation says that the closure of silk road will not affect the long term value of the currency it does affect silk road users who had already transferred bitcoins into their accounts the fed seized about three point six million dollars worth as a currency during their raid but the closure of the website will likely only slow the illegal drug trade that happens online that's because authorities say it's only a matter of time before a similar website pops up and some already exist. well there's an old wives' tale that says when bird poop lands on you it's good luck but what

happens when a drone falls on you is that good luck to well one businessman in new york city is probably feeling very lucky that a small unmanned helicopter narrowly missed hitting him when it fell a couple of hundred feet from the sky the almost victim recovered the u.a.e. visa memory card which she promptly sent to a local news station it shows the path of the helicopter before its crash landing that is the video also shows who operated the three pound helicopter and that it was flying about thirty stories above business businesses and busy rush hour streets reporting high quality images as it went. but just because this one drone is now defunct that does not mean that the people of new york city are safe from these unmanned tom copters interred david karp brooklyn resident and the founder of the website tumbler which he just sold to yahoo for a cool billion dollars so what is he doing with his riches is he perhaps nursing

a cocaine addiction or frequenting the escort services or something like that nope karp told time magazine that he does have an addiction to these helicopter drones he flies them all over but he's already crashed five of them so he is essentially buying them in bulk from china so my advice to you if you are walking through the streets of new york city it might be best to accessorize with a hard hat and possibly a mask so that you're not recognized but that's going to do it for now for more of the stories we covered go to youtube dot com slash r.t.m. america and they can lopez. i think.

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