But not expected to turn into a are hurricane. A vote to restore federal funding is not on the table, shutdown enters day five. This isnt some damn game. The American People dont want their government shut down, and neither do i. Some of the federal workers sent home during the shutdown, knowledge process tested on the capitol steps. You can pg get further informs and aljazeera. Com. There are many bills to reopen parts of the government to make sure federal workers get their back pay. None are expected to oh get through senate. House democrats hope to get a majority to sign on to a dischargeed position, a procedural motion to force a bill that will fully fund the government to the floor nap is not ebs expected to go very far either. Neither are talks to john boehner and president obama. I was at the white house the other night and listened to the president some 20 times told me why he wasnt going to negotiate. So, im happy to negotiate with the Speaker Boehner but we cant do it with a gun held to the head of the American People. For more on washingtons current pace of grid lock, i am joined by washington, d. C. By brad miller, a North Carolina democrat and now a senior fellow for Economic Policy at the center for american progress. I thank you for joining us night. If you just Left Congress last year and part of the redistricting by Republican Legislature and i gather because you saw that grid lock was getting worse every single year that you serve. Is the system broken . We made it in the past. Well. We are seeing as youre saying. You see this total impasse. Both sides are responsible far. You think this is the worst case of washington grid lock you have politics . Totally, in my lifetime, this is the worst that its been it gotten worse in the last 20 years but this is obviously the worst that the it has been. The fight now is not really an appropriations bill its about the additional stuff that republicans are demanding in addition to the appropriations bill. How the democrats are forced to use fema and even head start. At some point, are they going to have to say yes to this company p . You would hope that somebody at some point is going to decide we have to say yes but it should be to funding the whole government and not just piece whatever really produces allowed to the public will fund and if nothing else. Who do you think will blink first . The republicans or the democrat . Es. I dont know. I think there are plenty of republicans who hurt this but the debate is being driven on the republican side by an unyielding, very extreme faction and then the rest of the republican party. Until then, i dont see how we get out of this. Congressman on twitter says, the worlds most powerful nations government shuts down due partisan politics. This congress has too much power. Congresss that power to tax, spend and to borrow. Its really hard to decide a system in which power is always used lively or even used not really stupidly which appears to be what republicans in congress are thousand doing. Now doing. The 550 milliondollars and Congress Says and we cant borrow to cover the difference. Good in to the president to figuringing that out. Today i quote w Speaker Boehner responded to that with this. This isnt just some damn game. The American People dont want their government shut down and neither do i. All were asking for is to sit down and have a discussion and bring fairness and bring fairness to the American People under obama care. Lets look at a hot mic discussion between Senate Minority leader mitch mckopbl and senator ran paul. Democrats arent the only ones talking about game playing. Its the politics here. Can the Obama Administration go on so far as the republicans are being blamed. I think that quote in the wall street journal is incredibly stupid and of course it reputed it and to some extent theyve got no one to blame but themselves but that administration has too much talk to the American People by some administration official. Its about 20 less. The spending bill and the administration is in the senate. You mentioned that. It also hurting the economy, hurting the recovery and hurting the unemployment tan ability of jobs. Wasnt it necessary to bring the deficit down. The economy is doing relatively well. I hurt t it hurt the recovery in a significant way and has the Economic Analysis that forceed that analysis. When you breakdown those numbers by party and splitting down the middle with republicans. The only positive poll, a poll shows that only nine points separate republicans from president obama and the democrats on who should get the blame. Our republicans. That is a reflection of how the divide is and how the republicans say its democrats fault. They want to roll the government shut down talks in to the whole issue and put more pressure on the white house. I dont know how they get in to that. If they get in to that, i think our policies would not. The same for a generation. Every time it is controlled by the par thety. We will see the demands that are completely unrelated to the budget. There was some that it didnt get to the point. There has been other demands associated with funding bills in the past. The question is how far did they take it this time. Its what the president has to do. We fought that fight back with us. Its with present. He wanted to impale and not spend money. Of course you cant do that. You have to spend it. The tax law that congress has passed is 560 milliondollar short from covering that spending. We are see what happened in the last ten days or so. Thank you very much. Tonight. Straight ahead, the United States has surpassed russia to become the Biggest Energy produce near the world. Are we getting any closer to becoming Energy Independent . Obama Administration Officials said they need to enrol 2. 7 u. S. Redents between the ages of 18 and 35 in Exchange Plans to balance risks and hold down costs. Will they enrol come 1 october should they pay the face. Joining me now is jen mishory, Deputy Director of young invincibles, shes in washington d. C. And yevgeniy feyman, a Research Assistant at the manhattan institute. Thank you for being with us. I want to start with you yevgeniy feyman. The young people are crucial to the success of obamacare. Absolutely. Theyll balance out the risk pool, theyll keep premiums that need the insurance, and the administration is reaching out to them. Jen, the young invincibles are in the 1834 group. What will this all be for the price of gas and heating oil and for our relationship with middle east tern oilproducing countries. Joining us now is bob who has 30 years in the producing industry. Con tpwregsa t we have heavit on the imports. We produced btus. What does that mean . Its a remarkable change antonio for the last four or five years. The whole supply chain that we have been dealing with in the last 40 years. We had to import something over 60 of the oil. Were already producing 80 of the gas that we consume. Can you get to the day where we are not totally inpendant. Im not sure we will get to the point where we are completely independent. We import crude but also import finished proofinished products. Its more of a balanced of products coming in and out of the states that is going to cause us to not be able to completely and what it does do, though, it makes us less on other countries for our countrys support. Stphaou we have less demand. A lot are price differentials around the country and in areas where production is really growing like north dakota. Theres a lot of supply constraints or pipeline constraints to get that oil to familiar refineries in the east coast or the gulf coast. Than causes pricing differentials. Theres been times in the last year or so that north louisiana was as much as 20 than it was in the oklahoma or in west texas intermediate. Thats been offset a lot by natural gas and the consumptions going up. Theres a balancing an theres a lot more flexibility now. When you have less demand you think that you will be seeing pricing going down. Lets bring down what the u. S. Mines them importing foreign oil. What does it mean for countrys that used to be extremely important to us. As we become more independent. Where they become less rev hrapbrevhrapbt rehaveless revalent. The demand growing n india and china and all these areas where a lot of russian oil is going. You have a lot more relations between different countries. We dont have that ham ter over us. That increases our own influence and it shuts down and narrows the trade in balance between us and other countries which also helps to improve our own economy world. A lot say we have tremendous reserves with natural tkpas in particular but theres a lot of politics going on here. Would that cause for Energy Independent . Im not sure. Im not sure the bill shale areas are in texas, in the northeast. The Obama Administration has certainly slowed down especially since the people in the horizon tragedy. But in terms of the overall production that we have in the u. S. Im not sure they will lose as much as the people think it would be. This is one of the reasons we are getting so much natural gas and oil and injection in the earth. That will allow us bring up before. How bad is this for the environment. There is a lot of concern. I think the public has become a lot more aware of this technique over the years, the last couple of years certainly. This is not the perfect process either. About 90 that are drilled in the u. S. Today will not be productive without hydraulic fracking. Its here today. It generally comes from poor handling. A lot that you hear about the lining of tpau faucets on fire and thoer things. Most are related. There are certainly instances of contamination and i think most comes from careless handling on the surface. We have a social media question for you. U. S. Surpassing russia as the Worlds Largest oil and gas producer. Does this underline green energy . That doesnt mean we shouldnt develop other technologies. The most important thing we can do here is concern. The longer you make your supply last. Also plain old contra version saves a lot of oil. We really appreciate you being with us tonight. You. Scarlett joe hansen gets epl scarlett admited that she only got an 1080 on her s. A. The she felt like a big dummy. Turns out scarlett should feel great when compared with the current test takers. Out of 166 million student whose took the sat this year only 43 net benchmark considered to be ready for College Course work. Only 15. 6 met or exceeded the benchmark. These up 8 from last year. Hispanic students also saw a rise up 7. 7 . 23. 5 of them made the mark. Why should we worry . The the u. S. Economy depends on educated people. Weve now dropped to 15. Some experts argue College Entrance tests are part of the problem. So back to scarlett johansson. Today she would have tested higher than 6 out of 10 kids. Coming up, Football Players think they know the risks of field. They are in a lot more danger than they realize. A on inside story, we bring together unexpected voices closest to the story, invite hardhitting debate and desenting views and always explore issues relevant to you. Hi, my name is jonathan betz, and im from dallas, texas, and the danger of concussions has become a major issue. It shows concussions can lead to chronic a disease that slowly function. It led to a series oh of suicides. The head games which airs sunday here on Al Jazeera America links a link between sports and concussions. There was sample of 27,000 athletes and they had concussions. Football players dont speak up when they have these symptoms. I dug around and found six other studies. If you diagnose every concussion you have so many people on the accord lines, you barely can field the game. A former College Football team at harvard, enaccept lop ep think. K suicides of junior sao cxght dave durson ann draif waters. Just how bad is the problem and where are we only learning about it now . You know, i say that the problem is about as bad as you would want to believe. Right now, weve looked at the brains of 54 nfl players, we found that 52 of them were suffering from cte when they passed away. Already were developing the degenerative brain disease. All those hits to the head are clearly leading to a serious problem. So much attention has been paid to football. We of course know about boxing and notices issues quite a bit before. Were talking about soccer, you know, women playing soccer, hockey, their own issues. Are any of these lesion both professional and junior dealing with the problem right now . Everyone is taking steps. It wasnt until 2009 that we stopped returning athletes to the same game when we knew they had a concussion. The nfl fought us for many, many years on this issue and i slowed down progress. But by 2010 they changed their attitude and when they started changing every other sport started changing. I look at the work of Brendan Shanahan of the nhl. There are Good Progress being made in some sports but others are asleep at the wheel. One thing that you bring up is it is the misconception that the big hits are the ones that cause concussion. Yet it can happen with the smaller hits. Is it just the sport . You just assume when you get hit in the head and you see stars, well, of course you see stars, it will go away and youll be fine. But athletes dont understand concussion needs. They are opening up the door to serious issues. Youth sports are sustainable, as they are today because people dont speak up. We would have real problems if they did speak up. Rm what happens in a concussion. In a concussion your brain changes shape very quickly. The very sensitive part of the brain is the white matter, nlg a concussion. These axons get quickly stretched and that causes injury in a very unique way. If i kind of make a slende cylid pull it pawrt, it gets thinner and thinner. Its how fast i stretched it and it broke. Now obviously not all Football Players have suffered that fate. Why not . Well, its a little bit like smoking and lung cancer. Its the idea that only about 20 of people who smoke actually die of lung cancer. Yet we consider that to be an extraordinary problem. Quite good percentage of the players have the pathology for disease but hasnt progressed so far, so where they either got hit in the head more or they have genetic differences that made them susceptible. How concerned are you about your own Long Term Health . Well, im a guinea pig in a lot of our studies at bu. Im very concerned. I dont feel like the guy i was ten years before the concussions. Im certainly not normal, i started playing football older, and hopefully,. A crucial part of what your group does is research. To put it blurntly, you bluntly you need brains. A heartbreaking call you made watch that conversation in the movie. But again, its essentially. Absolutely. We are indebted to 170 families, to learn to understand this disease because it watt completely neglected by science. We called it punch drung and so we tell these families you know when they have a loved one die and give us the brain what we see and we usually see cte. This is a boxer who started when he was 10. He killed his son before killing himself in front of his family. League of denial they outline the nfls two date campaign to arguably cover up the effects of these head injuries. I know the nfl has settled the e class action lawsuit. They are taking things more seriously. Are they doing enough . Well, you know im happy to see the progress that has been made with the new leadership in the nfl. Is it enough . I dont know if it makes up for all those lost years, i have the widow of one of our brain dmoors working for us. We have a beings question from social media. Hermella. Are concussion he just more talked about or better recognized . They are certainly more recognized. Just because the players started leverage about that they should speak up when this sort of thing happens. But also we should recognize bigger smaller faster. Kids are playing Contact Sports more year round. We are hitting our heads more than in the history of man. Football, hockey, soccer. I think its absolutely insane that little kids are bashing heads, their heads are not myelinated. Trauma they sustain often seems to last longer before it clears. Im not telling anybody if they should play football or not. I make decisions for my kid, you make decisions for your kid. As long as they are within thing law, knock yourself out. You are showing womens soccer with women smashing each other with headers. Would you scpt be exposing these kids, kind of laziness thats allowing us to do that. I know you said that parents are allowing their kids, youve seen resistance even with something,. I think that has a lot to do with the cost of future care for these athletes. The science is indisputable if you get hit in the head too much, that you have to deal with that. Thats recommendation. Thank you chris, really appreciate you being with us. Head games debuts here on al jazeera. The conversation continues. Have a great weekend. This isnt some damn game. The American People dont want their government shut down and neither do i. Feeling the pressure. House Speaker John Boehner is calling for negotiations as the government shut down drags into the fifth day. President obama says he is standing ground. And under repair, glitches to the new health care website. And Tropical Storm karen bears down on the gulf coast