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With a system that is in most new cars which uses cameras and radars to hopefully prevent it from hitting something if an accident is likely to happen. but there is limitations. this feels horrible. you so just want it to stop. it gets really close. and it has quite a jolt, obviously, but we havent hit the child. whereas the tesla... that was quite something. this technology has already been built into cars right now as a safety function, and in the future could be used in autonomous vehicles to...

From hitting the luckily pretend child at the end of this track. beside me is a tesla which is already fitted with a system that is in most new cars which uses cameras and radar to hopefully prevent it from hitting something if an accident is likely to happen. but there is limitations. this feels horrible. you so just want it to stop. it gets really close. and it has quite a jolt, obviously, but we havent hit the child. whereas the tesla... that was quite something. this technology has already b...

Convincing purpose. what im filming here is a concept that hopes to be able to create uncrashable cars. i am getting in this vehicle which is embedded with lidar sensors, which should stop it from hitting the luckily pretend child at the end of this track. beside me is a tesla which is already been fitted with a system that is in most new cars which uses cameras and radar to hopefully prevent it from hitting something if an accident is likely to happen. but there is limitations. this feels horri...

Welcome back. im kendis gibson at msnbc headquarters in new york. its a sign of the troubling times. scores of people lined up at popup food banks, churches and donation centers across the country. this as the government shutdown crisis stretches into a fifth week. for many workers, furloughed or working without pay, the future is as uncertain as where their next meal is coming from. >> the shutdown has hit home for low income seniors in assisted living facilities like san jose man nor behind me...

We also have to talk about all the people caught up in the middle of this. right? the whole country. hundreds of thousands of people whose last paycheck was a month ago now worried their next one may be a long way off. >> this is probably, i believe, my third furlough that im going through while being at tsa. the other ones didnt last as long and i didnt have as much responsibility. i can manage just me and my wife, but now i have a son to provide for. >> i can only survive two to three weeks, m...

>> and how old are you? >> i dont know -- >> thats okay. >> reporter: the amount of people hurt, staggering. >> how many patients are there, do you think? >> one, two, three, four, five, six -- probably a dozen. >> reporter: all told, police say nearly a dozen taken to hospitals. three people killed including friends jim hamley and zack willholt. and in hopes of preventing another tragedy on the tracks. and hallie, the ntsb now says a full review could take one to two years and part of that revi...

Made things cheaper or more efficient. >> well, thats the thing. theyre talking about two ideas at the same time today. the argument that you could have this safety function of air traffic control housed in an entity that is not part of the government but is regulated by the government. they are the backers of this. congress points to europe and canada and places where this is working as a matter of safety. the longer temporary goal and what the president talked about today is on next gen and a ...

That anything thats a safety function will continue to be funded. and any employee that comes here to feed and take care of the animals will continue to do that. but if you want to see the pandas online, too bad. even the animal cams are going dark. >> when were shut down it takes away from things that families can do. >> reporter: locally owned businesses around the hill worry that lack of tourists will dry up their income as well. >> d.c. might be the next detroit, because when half the city i...

Liberty, this may be their last chance in who knows how long. >> welcome aboard. lady liberty. >> reporter: tourists are dealing with not only writing off a paycheck -- >> he works for the government. >> reporter: but writing off their vacation plans as well. >> theres not much i can do about it. so ill just -- if im furloughed, im furloughed. well just deal with that. >> reporter: this will take a toll on employees as well, like those who work at liberty island. >> my only source of income. >> ...