This is a live picture at a very busy intersection with police activity, Authorities Say gunshots were fired on capitol hill leading to a lock down. Now we have just heard that fox news is reporting that lock down is no longer in place according to Capitol Police. It has been lifted. There are reports that one officer was injured after the gunshots were reported, at the u. S. Capitol according to Capitol Police and there is another Senate Leader saying there are reports of injuries plural but at this point we have only gotten word from Capitol Police of one officer who has been injured, a warning was sounded inside the capitol, the house went into recess, lawmakers left the chamber floor, they were told to shelter in place in their offices. People inside the building could not get out, people outside could not get in. The house by the way had just finished approving legislation aimed at partly lifting the government shut down by paying National Guard and reserve members. People standin
Good morning and welcome to Aljazeera America on this monday. A group of european lawmakers arrived in washington today and want answers concerning the n. S. A. Spying program. A number of reports almost all based on information leaked by former n. S. A. Contractor Edward Snowden suggest the u. S. Has been spying on many countries and their leaders, including important u. S. Allies. The white house denies the report that president obama knew the n. S. A. Was eavesdropping on german leader angela merkel. We have the latest. A nine member delegation will meet with senior government officials over allegations of widespread spying against leaders. New allegations surfaced that president obama approved spying on german chancellor angela merkel. According to the wall street journal, the president was unaware the n. S. A. Was spying on World Leaders and ordered the agency to stop some of the monitoring programs after learning of them. The president assured the chancellor that the United State
Reed. [ theme ] welcome to al Jazeera America. Ever since the federal Health Care Website went on line this month its been plagued by problems. Now theres a new glitch. The data hub is down halting online enrolment. That hub, going down sunday, verifies applicants yoists and incomes. Its key. The problem was caused by a connectivity issue at a center operated by ver eyeson. They quote in a statement well, the latest gaff is yet another head ache for Health Health and Human Services secretary Kathleen Sebelius, who is set to appear before a committee to testify. The glitches are blamed for low enrol. Sam say Kathleen Sebelius should step down if she cant fix the problems with healthcare. Gov. The president has been poorly served with the implementation of his own signatory regulation. If someone doesnt leave, and there isnt a restructuring, not just a 60 day, someone come in and fix it, hes mixing the point of management 101 dash that is that these people are to serve him well. And they
The staff here at and where the lake areas have been holding a special debate on the nsa surveillance stand up Opposition Leader to ipc has called for the mind at the center of the nations average snowdon to be given the Nobel Peace Prize. Part of ibm apple was much less outspoken stressing the importance of the wisdom of relationship that she may see that it was being put to the test and said that the allegations against the nsa still have to be cleared up under new coach new alliances are as important as the one between the us and germany. Berlin at first played down the allegations of widespread intelligence gathering by us agencies. But thats changed since the nsa was accused of tapping the chancellor cell phone. The extent of the surveillance is still unclear. And speaking at the start of the bonus cut debate. Amcor said the us still has some explaining to me. I hate it. And the transatlantic relationship is being put to protest at the moment. As of the negotiations on a Free Trad
For everyone. I am tori campbell. We are following where a student was shot near a school. We will have that in just a moment. We begin with a massive warehouse fire that is burning all morning long in the south bay. They are getting the upper hand against the massive fire in san jose. It jumped to five alarms after being reported this morning. We will hear from our reporter. We will hear the latest on the fire with janine de la vega. The smoke is still rising from the warehouse. Fire is caked and they are dumping water on the here. It is still burning inside. Reporter that was a sound earlier this horning. It gone at 5 40 in a 120,000foot commercial warehouse that contained multiple businesses. They believe the fire started in a tile and roof company and it started spreading and quickly grew to five alarms. Plumbing, sheet rom and hay company. They had to attack the flames from outside. They used aerial ladders to douse all the flames. It was surreal and frightening site for those nea