34yearold from stanford, connecticut led police on high speed chase before shot and killed. Dramatic high speed chase from the white house to the u. S. Capitol. Ended with Law Enforcement officials shot and killed a if he mail suspec suspect. 34yearold from connecticut with a history of mental illness. Chase began at 2 18 tm at the south east corner of the white house compound. Rammed into a barricade. Took off. Driver takes off right up pennsylvania avenue taking secret service and Capitol Police officers on a wild chas chase. For mile and a half around dc iconic monument. 2 40 p. M. The driver stopped at the Botanical Garden surrounded by bliss guns drawn. Patrol car tries to block her. But she puts it in reverse and speeds away. The first shots are fired. I heard the 51 shots and car tore out of the area back towards the direction. She finally stopped near the Senate Office building at 2 45 block from the supreme court. Lawmakers at the capitol heard another round of gun fir and cap
The standoff between republicans and democrats continues. Republicans are pushing for a race of the debt ceiling but obama demands no strings. The latest on the fiscal deadlock later in the show. It is friday, october 11, five 00 p. M. In washington, d. C. And you are watcin watcing rt. Julian assange has been waiting for safe passage. In the interview he shared his thoughts on a number of issues talking specifically about the nsa scandal and the relationship with wikileaks has had with Edward Snowden. Here at the embassy, he affirmed that exceptionalism that barack obama, president of the United States is defending is nearly merely an excuse to be above the law. Something used by nations to subordinate others. He alluded to the necessary necessity of developing technology to order defend patient against the mass Espionage Program that violates human rights and certain rights under international law. Whenever a president talks about exceptionalism what hes trying to say is the rules of
The last war and its fronts on the war on drugs coming on and only two days away now from the start of the sochi winter olympic for our brand of the world to come. Keith and i present the countrys top revealed the preparations from sochi later in the shell the tearing at five pm here in washington dc. Im liz wall and youre watching rt america. Hacking and the hackers for the first time a western government has launched an attack on hand to guess at least now we know of a party for the documents in me tonight former nsa contractor edwards died in an empty night nbc. The Mission Intelligence agency called the Government Communications headquarters. Launched the attack on members of the Hacker Group Anonymous the type of attack map it is being used in this case is the denial of Service Attack or d alas as its known that the same method. Hackers use it themselves. Heres our works the hacker uses that and network love and Zombie Computers to take down websites by overwhelming traffic to the
Welcome to Al Jazerra America i am stephanie sy. A cloud of uncertainty was lifted on thursday after the 16day political standoff finally came to an end. A sense of normally returned to washington and the nation. As hundreds of thousands of furloughed federal employees went back to work. The day was billed as a political win for president obama and the democrats. But some question if they can capitalize on the victory. Mike viqueira has the details from the white house. Reporter well, in the aftermath of the overwhelming victory that the president scored political victory any congress on wednesday night the president wanted to build momentum towards his agenda for the rest of the year. He started off by declaring that there were no winners in the debate and the impasse and the crisis that had preceded everything that happened before the vote and certainly if you look through the eyes of those who suffered the 20 billion in economic loss, the 800,000 government workers furloughed at one
The unusual reason people are hunting for buried treasure. Good morning. Welcome to alJazeera America. Im stephanie sy. A serious case of commuter chaos, Bay Area Rapid transit workers walked off the job, striking for the second time this year. The train shutdown is inconveniencing hundreds of thousands of San Francisco area commuters. Intense talks between management and employees broke down after the two sides couldnt reach an agreement. We are live in San Francisco with more. Good morning, lisa. Does San Francisco have a backup plan for all these commuters, or are people scrambling for rides this morning . Good morning, stephanie. Well, the backup plan starts here at the bay bridge. Most of the 400,000 people who use bart every day to commute to work are expecting to use this bridge. Car pooling is encouraged, and there are casual carpools where people jump into cars together and cross this bridge, but certainly this is the most likely place those commuters will end up. There are al