Beaten after getting a confrontation with bikers and ran over one of them. Stephanie gosk is at the scene with more this morning. Reporter good morning, erica. We have been talking to people in this neighborhood and they tell us these motorcycle crews are here all of the time, creating a menace. They jump the curbs, go through red lights, but thats nothing compared to what they saw on this Street Corner last sunday. It is possibly the most dramatic moment in a video that has now been viewed by millions. A biker takes off his helmet, rushes alex linds suv and smashes the driver side window with linds wife and 1yearold daughter also in the car. That motorcyclist has been charged on multiple counts, including gang assault and criminal mischief. And late saturday night, another biker, robert sims, was arraigned in criminal court. The nypd itself is coming under scrutiny. Senior Law Enforcement officials tell nbc news that one offduty undercover cop was on the scene when lind was beaten in front of his family. Police sources say the officer did not want to blow his cover, so he did nothing to help. But internal affairs will investigate why it took until wednesday for him to come forward. And as many as five offduty officers may have taken part in the unauthorized bike rally last sunday, as well. Serg sergio consuerga was there when the suv came to a stop and said one of the bikers went for his wife. With his two hands, real hard, wuling her out. Reporter the crowd stopped the bikers from hurting the mother and her baby, but lind was still under attack. The man was knocked down, he was on the floor. He was getting beat up with the reporter smacking his head with the helmet . Yes, many times. Reporter he jumped in between lind and the bikers. I felt like they wanted to kill this family. Reporter saturday, Police Released the photo of a third suspect who they are looking to question about the incident, and continue to pore over video taken byebye standers, even if some may turn out to be cops themselves. That motorcyclist is in the hospital. He may be paralyzed for life. His family and lawyers say when he gets better, hes going to consider a lawsuit. They say he was just going in there to help when he was run over by linds suv. Stephanie gosk this morning. Down in washington, that Government Shutdown has now dragged into its sixth day, and congress and president obama seem no closer to a solution. Kristen welker has the latest. Good morning. Reporter lester, good morning to you. There were a few bright spots this weekend. Defense secretary chuck hagel said hell be calling back to work more than 300,000 civilian defense employees furloughed, start back up again tomorrow. The house unanimously approved a bill to restore back pay to all furloughed workers. But the Government Shutdown continues. Painful for americans and politically paralys for lawmakers. With the Government Shutdown set to enter its second week, there is no end in sight to the fingerpointing. Speaker boehner has made a decision that hes going to hold out to see if he can get additional concessions from us. If the president has an ax to grind with the opposing party, why he would want to put the American People in the middle of that and force the pain on them. Reporter now, the dysfunction is taking a political toll. A recent poll shows 44 of americans blame the republicans, and 35 blame the president and democrats. Parks, our reserve members. Reporter and there are cracks in the gop strategy with the tea Party Faction insisting any bill delay the president S Health Care law. The democrats want government by crisis. They want shutdowns. This is harry reids shutdown, because he thinks it benefits democrats politically. Reporter but a growing number of republican moderates are calling for their party to open up the government with no strings attached, arguing the Health Care Law is a nonstarter with democrats. There are a lot of things we want to do in government. But there is one thing you must do and that is fund the government. Reporter on saturday, the first member of the tea party defected, representative dennis ross, telling bloomberg news, we need to move on. Political analysts warn the effect on republicans could last well beyond this impasse. I think its something that can hurt them in primaries, can make it tougher for them to have a singular message against democrats come fall 2014. Of. Reporter but there are also perils for president obama, who insists he wont negotiate right now. I think even some democrats think the line he wont negotiate is one he wont stay with much longer. Reporter according to recent polls, president obama has seen some of his lowest Approval Ratings in two years. Its possible we wont see any progress until the next big fiscal deadline. That is october 17th when the nation reaches its debt limit and runs out of money to pay its bills. Lester. All right, kristen, thank you. Savannah guthrie is filling in for David Gregory as moderator of meet the press. Good morning. Good to see you down there. Good morning to you. We keep saying, savannah, the two sides dont really have anything, an agreement right now, but i keep thinking, surely they have an exit strategy in the back of their mind and just waiting to pull the trigger. Am i being naive . Youre not being naive. I think youre being optimistic. And would that be the case . But i have to tell you, being on the phone with people in both parties this weekend, it is clear to me, there is no resolution on the horizon. There is no deal being talked about in the back rooms. This seems to be something where were in it for the long haul. The government remaining closed. And now, lester, we have this other looming deadline that kristen just mentioned, october 17th, the debt ceiling has to be raised. Otherwise, the u. S. Could go into default, something that most economists who look at it say would be calamitous for the economy. So the stakes are actually getting higher. And at the moment, there is no solution in sight. And the other headscratcher here, what happened to majority rules . Were talking maybe 30 to 40 republican headliners holding this up. Speaker boehner has the votes, if he wants to go forward, doesnt he . Oh, he does. I mean, if he would right now put a clean budget resolution on the floor of the house, there would be enough moderate republicans and then democrats, they would probably get to the 218 votes they need. But the fact of the matter is, boehner is not going to do that right now and have to do the same thing two weeks later on the debt ceiling. So the republican strategy right now seems to be, merge those two issues together and then if boehner and the republicans so oh take a tough vote, they can do it at the same time. But they want some kind of concession from the white house. And this is where president obama is getting on riskier territory. His position has been, im not going to negotiate on the debt ceiling, and im not going to negotiate on reopening the government. And how long can that last . Its really a case of who blinks first. All right. Tell us whats coming up this morning on meet the press, savannah. Treasury secretary jack lew will talk about the consequences to the economy from the shutdown and also a potential default. And then well talk to senator rand paul, somebody who early on said he doesnt want the Government Shutdown, but, of course, what is the most vocal opponents of the president S Health Care plan. And well also talk about those two terror operations in africa over the night, talk about that with mike looider. Well see you in a bit. Thanks, much. Thanks, lester. A zoo employee in oklahoma is lucky to be alive today after a tiger attacked her when she stuck her arm in its cage. Kerry sanders is at the zoo with an update this morning. Kerry, good morning. Reporter well, good morning, erica. That zoo keeper here indeed is lucky to be alive. The tiger that attacked her wasp in a cage like this one here. That tiger has now been removed and is in quarantine. This is what they believe happened here. The zoo owner says the zookeeper reached through the fencing here like this and when the tiger came in, she tried to pull her arm back, the jacket or maybe a glove got caught and that is when the tiger attacked. The gw Exotic Animal park has more than 100 tigers across its 46 acres. A private zoo with so many tigers and lions, not all have names. This is a snapshot of tiger number 7, the 14yearold, 450pound male tiger that attacked the big cat supervisor, a woman in her 20s. She was attacked, says the zoo owner, when she reached into the cage with her left arm. I feel bad that this has happened. And right now my only concern is that the doctors saved her arm and shell be able to keep her arm. Reporter why did the tiger attack . One theory here is could be the smell of goose down from the jacket she was wearing. Despite the tiger now tasting human flesh, zoo owner says he will aggressively defend any suggestions the tiger now needs to be put down. You want to use the word attacked, mauled, the tiger was in his cage. And she stuck her arm in the cage. So it was an accident. But if the tiger was just being a tiger. Reporter since 1990, the Humane Society has documented more than 300 big cat incidents in the united states. Often the cause, just as is now believed to be the case in oklahoma, human error. Experts say those who work around big cats often drop their guard. People have a bad misconception. They tend to associate these animals as some type of domestic pet, some type of companion. Theyre not companions. These are wild animals. Reporter in 2006, the Animal Rights group, peta, accused the zoo here of mistreating the animals. But the federal government and the state investigated and found no mistreatment. In fact, the zoo here says that they accept animals, rescue animals, being mistreated elsewhere. Erica . All right, Kerry Sanders for us this morning, thanks. We want to get caught up with some other headlines overnight from craig melvin. Lester, good morning. Erica, good morning to you, as well. Fierce winds are feeding a brush fire in southern california. Flames broke out in the area of camp pendelton. That forced hundreds of people to evacuate a housing area and base hospital. Fire Officials Say about 1,000 acres have burned so far. There are no reports of injuries. Power outages and impassable roads are plaguing south dakota this morning. 20 to 30 inches of snow smothered areas in and around rapid city. Meanwhile, in the city of lead, about threeandahalf feet of snow fell there, more than 25,000 customers lost power in the black hills area. Officials were even recruiting snowmobiles to rescue stranded drivers in their cars overnight. And the olympic torch is in russia this morning, lit in athens seven days ago. And today a jet carrying the flame landed in moscow. The torch now heads to moscows red square where the russian president will launch a recordbreaking relay. It will travel through more than 80 russian regions before arriving in sochi february 7th. And prince harry charmed crowds in australia this weekend. He celebrated the Australian Navy fleet in sydney. He met with the families of Fallen Soldiers in perth. The trip marked the princes First Official visit to australia, but its not the only reason hes making headlines this morning. A london newspaper reports that prince harry is now set to marry his girlfriend. The paper says she has finally overcome her fears about marrying into the royal family. I have those fears too. Thats why i said, you know what, im just going to stay with my people. Pack your bags, book your tickets, we may be going back to london. Hey, hey, another royal wedding. Im still trying to process. I cant bring a calculator on an airplane, but you can bring a lit torch. Well, in russia, its okay. Different situation. You can smoke on those planes too, so now were really in trouble. All right. Stephanie abrams is back with a look at the rest of the national forecast. Hey, guys. Good morning to you again at home. And we have this big front that is crossing the entire united states. A slight risk for some Severe Weather in ohio is also picking up karen and will eventually make it along the east coast. Now lets have a look at whats happening outside your door. Good morning. 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Heres a snippet of what the president said. Ive got to say, if i were the owner of the team, and i knew that there was a name of my team, even if it had a storied history that was offending a sizeable group of people, i would think id think about changing it. But, you know, i dont want to detract from the wonderful redskins fans that are here. They love their team and rightly so. So we put the question to you. We went to today. Com, survey question right there on the home page. If a sports team name offends a group of people, should it be changed and an overwhelming number of folks who responded said no. 75 said no, 25 said yes. The conversation continued on twitter. Becky saying, absolutely not. This idea of offending people has gotten out of hand. Lighten up, people. And christie also chimed in, saying its more than a group of people. Its a nation of people. The conversation will undoubtedly continue on social media, as well, lester and erica. And continuing else where, too, because the teams attorney responded to the president , including a recent poll from the Associated Press showing nine out of ten native americans dont think the name should be changed. Definitely not the last we have heard of that conversation. Still to come this morning, miley cyrus taking center stage once again, this time on saturday night live. And well take a look at how it all went in our entertainment wrapup. But first, these messages. Nothing says, im happy to see you too, like a milkbone biscuit. Say it with milkbone. Still to come on today, a question that comes up from time to time. Are police any closer to solving the disappearance of Madeleine Mccann. This morning, new hope for her parents. Pl [ female announcer ] your first breath, your first grasp, your first smile. We were there. Your first roll, your first friend, we were there too. 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Her family says they are heart broken by the loss and what they are calling a lack of communication with city officials. Both suspects were also killed in the crash and the chiwengo family is now calling for an outside entity to complete an investigation into that incident. Baltimore county police are investigating a shooting in parkville. Officers were called to darlington drive shortly before 7 30 last night for reports of a shooting. Police say they found a man suffering from a single gunshot wound. He was contain to an area hospital with nonlifethreatening injuries. So far no word on a suspect or motive. Good morning. Welcome back. We are looking ahead to another very warm day. A front basically up to our north. This was a warm front. Its now stationary producing showers in pennsylvania and new york. The cold front will be coming through tomorrow bringing temperatures down for the rest of the sevenday. But for today, starting off with a bit of fog and partly cloudy skies. Highs in the upper 80s. Winds tickling up out of the south later