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0 [ applause ] that s all for us tonight. i want to thank my studio audience and my guests. a very lively evening. tomorrow night my exclusive interview with israeli prime minister ned netanyahu. [ bleep ]. crisis at the capital. a woman with a child inside her car leads police on a high-speed chase from the white house to capitol hill. a collision. shots are fired forcing a lockdown on capitol hill. they are stalling for time so that they can jam this up against the debt ceiling. day four. the government still shutdown. is there an end in sight? speaker boehner pulled in two directions and making a fascinating pledge. fema has begun to recall currently for a load of employees necessary to serve functions of the agency that protect life and property as they prepare for potential landfall. here comes tropical storm karen brewing in the gulf and ready to strike land. fema workers furloughed. it s a state of emergency what has been declared. what you need to know for the weekend. storm is getting strong in the southeast. have that for you in a little bit. good morning, everyone. welcome to early start. i m john berman. i m zoraida sambolin. welcome our viewers from the united states and around the world. we begin with the chaos in the nation s capital. a woman ramming her call in the white house barricade. now investigators are trying to determine what drove a connecticut with him to use her car as a weapon. joe johns picks up the story. reporter: a heart stomping scene unfolding outside the u.s. capitol. cameras watch as a reported reportedly 44 years old speed away in a luxury car. careening through the streets with police in hot pursuit. on capitol hill. shelter in place. reporter: officers, politicians, staffers and by-standers sent running. hunking behind whatever they could find. secret service says the incident began at 2:14 after a verbal exchange with one of their uniformed officers. the woman ramming her black infinity sedan into a security barrier a block from the white house. after police asked her to get out of the car she drove away leading them to a high-speed chase down pennsylvania avenue all the way to the east side of the capitol. secret service on her tail. this unauthorized vehicle approached a checkpoint. our officers acted appropriately. the vehicle then fled and in fleeing, struck one of our officers as it departed the initial scene. reporter: the suspect drove around garfield avenue. careening around one of the most secure areas. police opened fire and no weapons found inside the car. when i heard the gunfire, five or six rounds, my wife and i dropped to the ground. i was walking to the capitol building and 30 seconds later as i hit this point, three or four cop cars sped past me and 30 seconds after that, i heard a series of loud pops and a gun going off. reporter: inside the vehicle a 1-year-old girl believed to be the woman s daughter. an officer pulled her from the car and took her to the hospital. one of the two officers injured was hurt after hitting this barricade during the high speed pursuit. [ bleep ]. this does not appear to be in any way an accident. this was a lengthy pursuit. there were multiple vehicles that were rammed. there were officers that were struck. and two security perimeter that were attempted to be breached so it does not appear in any way this is an accident. reporter: officials say both officers are in good condition and recovering as the city still reeling from the deadly navy yard shooting reliving moments of fear once again. our thanks to joe johns. he mentioned the navy yard shooting. that is key to remember here. everyone so incredibly tense with these images and chaos going on. there was a mass shooting a few weeks ago and i think explains why everyone was on edge. you don t know if there is a bomb in the car and so many up answered questions when it s that questions. some of those answers are being answered when it is dealing with the woman behind the wheel in that chase. law enforcement authorities say she is 34-year-old mary kerry of stanford, connecticut and apparently had a history of mental illness. her boyfriend contacted police last weekend say she was acting delusional. she claims president obama had put stanford on lockdown and he was fearing for her daughter s safety. they say mary kerry suffered from post partum depression. it sounded like postpartum psychosis. just terrible. very serious. 5:00 minutes past the hour. now to the do nothing government. day four of the shutdown and no immediate end in sight. you see the classwork the clock in the corner. that is how long this has been going on. boehner says he won t allow a default when the debt ceiling votes hits in less than two weeks. we are going to get more from cnn s brianna keilar. reporter: with the government partially shut down and the united states careening towards defaulting on its debts in mid october, house speaker john boehner made a key admission about the debt ceiling. a republican who spoke to cnn after a private meeting with house gop members said boehner informed them he will not allow a default to happen even if it means relying on votes from democrats. i m all wired up here. reporter: in a city that lives for an open mike moment to pull back the curtain. we are willing to compromise and willing to negotiate. reporter: mitch mcconnoll and rand paul delivered. i don t think they we won t negotiate. i think it s awful for them to say that over and over again. i do too. reporter: at a campaign style event in maryland. hello, everybody. reporter: president obama pulled a bit of an ace out of his sleeve sounding the alarm for a key voting block seniors. in a government shutdown, social security checks still go out on time. in an economic shutdown, if we don t raise the debt ceiling, they don t go out on time. reporter: he, again, pressured house speaker john boehner to fund the government and drop obama care concessions. call a vote. put it on the floor. and let every individual member of congress make up their own minds. they can show the american people, are you for a shutdown or not? reporter: a shooting on capitol hill brought into the chaos in washington. the two fellow officers injured are working without pay because of the shutdown. brianna keilar, cnn, washington. the shutdown not just hurting in the united states but abroad. overnight, president obama canceled a trip to asia next week because of the ongoing shutdown. he shortened the trip from four countries to two and now john kerry will lead the delegations and going instead of the president. this was a crucial trip the president wanted to bowelster u.s./asian policy and he was supposed to meet with vladimir putin to discuss the crisis in syria. that will not happen. another casualty of the shutdown. fema put a temporary malt to the temporary layoffs as it gears up for tropical storm karen. it s expected to strike the gulf coast this weekend. the agency furloughed about 86% of its staff. but now many are being called back because they need to help protect life and protect property. right. karen is heading toward the southeast where they are now getting ready for this. tropical storm karen, the 11th named storm of the atlantic hurricane season and could be the first tropical system to hit the united states this year. karen is gaining strength out in the gulf of mexico right now packing 65-mile-per-hour winds. forecasters say it could come ashore this weekend, possibly as a hurricane anywhere from louisiana to the florida panhandle. guys, pay attention to where this thing is headed. let s get a look now, an early look at the weather from chad myers. good morning. another problem with karen is where it s going to make landfall has been very wet all summer long. a 60-mile-per-hour storm will knock down trees left and right. there will be major power problems across the southeast for the weekend. severe storms across parts of the midwest. a snow event for the upper midwest into wyoming, nebraska and south dakota. it s still going on there. there will be feet of snow in the higher elevations of wumg up into south dakota, the black hills and all of those areas will see a lot of snow. 89 mems and 86 atlanta and 87 new orleans. a couple of airport delays. new york city will have low clouds and a couple of showers and minneapolis, a thunderstorm or two. denver, there is that rain, light snow in the mountains and also some wind. back to you guys. thank you, chad. a new arrival at the san diego zoo now has a name. meet zina. a two-toed baby sloth. visitors to the new named the cuddly creature and official say zina is don t laugh. she is being trained to be an animal ambassador for the zoo. now the sloth is typically asleep 15 to 18 hours and spends the rest of the day searching for food. kind of like berman does. that s right. that is me searching for food all day and napping. do you have two toes? i have many toes. the toe-toed sloth is my favorite kind of sloth, by the way. really? are there four-toed sloth? please tell us, if you know. there could be a ten-toed sloth. congratulations to zina who won over the name that means precious. coming up, new developments in that bizarre biker/suv brawl here in new york city. police say a major suspect could now be in custody. police hae