Good morning. Welcome to aljazeera america. Im stephanie sy. Today is day four of the Government Shutdown, but a wild chase and shooting through the streets of washington led to a different kind of shutdown, with police putting the capitol itself on lockdown. Erika is here with more details about the chase from the white house to the peoples house that brought washington to a stand still. Good morning, erika. Good morning. Officers say the woman at the center of the chaos has a history of mental illness. This is 34yearold miriam carey. She grew up in new york city, but grew up in connecticut. She suffered from serious post partum depression after girl birth last year, which was around the time she was also fired from her job. While police are convinced she did not ram the gates of the white house by accident, they still dont know her motive. Investigators worked late into the night at the home of the woman who police say caused chaos at the capitol thursday afternoon. The 34yearold was
Not worse, and yet on the day when the dow tumbled 167 points, the s p plunged. Nasdaq came in at 1. 16 . The only bright spots were the stocks that go up when were about to go into a recession. Now, i dont even think thats a possibility. No. No, no retail sales are too strong, Consumer Confidence too high. Home sales are not bad, car sales are amazingly strong, employment is growing, albeit slowly, but not so slowly that wield think about a recession. Nevertheless, this is a stock thats now marching to the tune of a selloff, not just in the highfliers, but in the industrials, too and those have held up relatively well during last weeks onslaught and wonder if a miracle of miracles, its taking up every stock up, every stock that i associate with a recession. Buy, buy, buy, buy, buy its a headscratcher, people. How is it possible . First, you must never forget that as big as the stock market is, the bond markets even bigger. Right now at this very moment bonds are are being bid up furio
Change is already changing lives. Right where we all live. Youll also learn what we can do to pro tent our planet. You start thinking about the families who have now lost their loved ones. He said im alive but everythings gone. Ourselves. We dont have team to argue. Its happening before our very eyes. It was a moment that changed my life. Our year of extremes. Did Climate Change just hit home . In the u. S. , theres still more rough weather to report tonight. You know, this is the driest they have seen since 119 years. The state says at least 30 highway bridges are completely destroyed. From here down across the cape winds are gusting 35 to 40 miles per hour. It feels like an allout assault. For the last year and a half, it seems Mother Nature has thrown everything at us. Look at the cold air that is surgesi surging into the upper midwest. Surging heat, drought, and fire. Floods gushing through the u. S. , europe and asia, and superstorms devastating entire regions. What on earth is go
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A problem for germany and europe security libya is an international battleground. With no security where there is an Armed Conflict is a problem for germany and europe. Also coming up aspirin to get creative progress in efforts to contain malaria a story on this world malaria day doctors are still faced with hundreds and thousands of infections each year and correspond has a report of how one country in africa is coping. And welcome thank you for joining us we start with russian president Vladimir Putin and north Korean Leader kim jong uns meeting in a variety of us talk of just wrapped up this summit the two first met prior. Ok and then the advisors in the eastern russian city of the they discussed a variety of issues including security on the Korean Peninsula kim is believed to be seeking support for ending International Sanctions imposed over north Koreas Nuclear program just two months ago a summit with the us president govern from groups over that issue lets take a look first at w