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deeper into yosemite national park. it now covers 280 square miles, and 64 of which are inside the park. health officials in texas are working to contain a measle outbreak. it is contained to a dallas church where 21 people have gotten sick so far. celebrating the march on washington mall. where dr. martin luther king called for equal rights for all. thank you so much, i'm morgan radford.

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heat stroke is a leading cause of death among athletes, and it is a particular concern for high school football players and their parents at this time of year. one high school in georgia set up new rules after a devastating loss for their team. >> reporter: it's at the edge of locust grove high school football field just out of atlanta, where glen jones has the best view. his son was forrest jones, number 71 on the football team. drive. >> he was a hard worker. he just went after it. >> reporter: forrest never played in a game, but his teammates insist he is always on the field. >> every time i came out on this field, i can feel forth rerest here. >> he was a great person. oh, my god. he was special.

>> head up, good. >> reporter: two summers ago after practice on a humid overcast summer day, the 235 pound high school sophomore fell room. >> they walks down through here, and between the tree and the light pole here is where they say he collapsed the first time. >> we helped him up and started walking back to the school, and he fell once again. and i thought he was just tired like the rest of us. >> reporter: did you think this has got to be heat related. >> yes, ma'am. that was the first thought in my mind. they said he poured water over his head. took a drink and poured it over his head, and then there. >> reporter: his had just come

camp. >> his urine was real dark, like brownish colored, and where everybody else was comfortable in the house, he would be sweating, and that went on for like a week. so there were signs, but we didn't know what they were. we just thought he had a fever or something. >> reporter: forrest spent eight days in the hospital, his kidneys slowly failing. >> he woke up for a second, and he said daddy i'm falling. i knew from then on that he wasn't going to make it. i miss everything about him. everything. >> i just didn't want to lose him. we fight we have adversity out here, but at the end of the day

we're still best friends and brothers, and i just hate to lose people like that. >> re d, hit! >> reporter: after his dead they implemented new rules. only 11 states have instituted official guidelines to prevent heat stroke, the third leading cause of sudden death among athletes. this has been the worst five years in heat-related deaths since 1975. >> your body starts to almost cook internally. so unless you implement cooling methods, your internal organs will start to fail. if you treat them immediately you can stop that from happening, but if you don't that's when the complications and deaths occur. >> reporter: she

studies at an institution named after an nfl player who died in 1991. >> i'm going to get this head piece on you. >> reporter: the heat chamber is at 99 degrees with a humidity level at just 20%. >> your temperature is about 99.6. so danger zone is once you hit 104. >> reporter: dr. stern monsters% - monsters my temperatures while i exercise for 20 minutes. as soon as i started to run, i could feel the heat. ten minutes on the treadmill wasn't pleasant. >> three, two, one. >> reporter: but the time i finished my temperature was 101. >> you raised fahrenheit.

>> imagine if i was doing drills or things like that with a football team. >> right. >> reporter: dr. stern says athletes should get plenty of water and rest breaks. the survival rate is good if an athlete can be immersed in cold water or ice immediately after a collapse. that is more important than getting in an ambulance. back at the high school a pair of angel wings now sits next to the field where forrest had hoped to play. in a way he is still with them on the field, in the huddle, and in the hearts of the people who loved him. >> i buried my mother and my father, nothing like . . . [ sighs ] son. >> real heart break there. the cdc tells us that two out of three kids show up to practice at least significantly dehydrated.

student athletes also account for close to 50% of all heat-related injuries. dr. sterns rejoins us from the university of connecticut. doctor when we hear the father's story, realizing that he missed so many signs in his son, can you give us a run down on what we should be look for as parents? what are the warning signs? >> definitely. we use two criteria. the first is a body temperature over 104 degrees. but the first thing what people see is the central nervous system dysfunction. someone is confused disoriented, irritable. if they start to collapse, that's when we really start to recognize heat stroke and start to be concerned. so if any of those symptoms show up that's when the red flags start going off. >> how do you measure that? is it's -- essential

for teams field? >> definitely. we need a body temperature and the cns dysfunction systems. we need a rectal thermometer because that's the only accurate device we can use, and once we have that body temperature and see it is over 104, we go straight to our treatment. >> so when you talk about cns, you are talk about confusion? >> yeah, basically the athlete will look kind of out of it. they may collapse. any of those symptoms are really -- are very serious. >> all right. and we have seen some of the tips then about taking preventative measures at the bottom of our screen. other suggestions that you have? you know, getting the fluids in? planning ahead? >> yep. definitely.

planning your workouts so they are either really early in the morning or later in the afternoon. making sure athletes have water before, during and aver exercise. decreasing the intensity, and make sure that athletes are climateized to the heat, and this process takes about ten to 14 days, but having the body climateized to the heat means you can cope with the heat. >> when you say climatize, you mean practice in those it? >> yep. yes. exactly. it's a progressive -- yes, progressive steps that allow your body to actually adapt and make changes to better cope with heat. >> all right. dr. rebecca sterns thanks very much for being with us and giving us that incite. >> thank you for having me. coming up here, they are pick up where the u.s. forces left off. afghanistan most elite special

forces unit, an exclusive look

and now a snapshot of stories making headlines on "america tonight." no thanks to the lunch money.

schools are turning down federal funds for healthy lunches. kids just didn't like the food. $11 billion in food aide was able, but the cafeteria said it wasn't enough to make up for those dumped lunches. a fresh start for sandy hook elementary students. newtown will vote soon on demolishing and rebuilding at the site of the december massacre. following up on that enormous wildfire in california. crews have it 20% contained but the wildfire has consumed an area larger than chicago. it is still quite close to the reservoir which supplies waters to people in the san francisco bay area. al jazeera is the first team

to gain contact with the afghan special forces. next year all foreign combat troops are scheduled to leave afghanistan. al jazeera jane ferguson follows one commander, defending his own country for the first time. >> reporter: the major carries with him enormous responsibility every day. at just 29, he is constantly on call to raid suspected taliban hideouts, and end deadly attacks in his country's capitol. he is the commander of several hundred of afghanistan's most elite special forces. known as the crisis response units. for. >> i don't see myself being a guy who goes to work at 8:00 and comes back at 4:00 p.m. i'm motivated by this -- this -- this team of people that they just want to fight not only for their

other. >> reporter: the job has taken him around the world for military colleges. [ applause ] >> reporter: last year he graduated from ranger school in the u.s., but refuses to be typecast as a western afghan. >> i have also been an afghan, and will be an afghan always. >> reporter: being afghan is key to his role. his men still need foreign mentors to assist them. but the fight is increasingly afghan on afghan. al jazeera got exclusive access with the special forces and were invited to witness the fight. [ gunfire ] >> reporter: and this is what the fight against the teleban looks like today.

the special forces stormed this house in the province hunting quickly for taliban members. within seconds they arrest a man. they are looking for a bomb maker. just tell me what is going on he pleads. these people have been taken by complete surprise. but the come -- compound is huge and every staircase and room after room must be searched. they find a bag of fertilizer for both farming and making exclosives. the house is full of women and children. there are few men around. so they go to a mosque nearby. several men are found sleeping there. one could be who they are look for. the afghans move cautiously making him lift his shirt to check for a suicide vest. his phone has the sill card removed, a tactic often used by

the teleban to avoid being tracked. this raid is an in urban area, so the soldiers drove to the house in darkness. often they have to take a helicopter into dangerous taliban territory and walk for kilometers to avoid detection. all of the lights seen here are infrared. that house with the lights on is the target house for these soldiers. they have hiked through the night and they believe a senior taliban commander is in there. men are interrogated. the house searched and intelligence gathered. the major is happy with the result. >> basically we have detained everybody around the compound that we were looking for, and we're doing the screening trying to find out who is our right guy. we have a pretty good idea who we're looking for.

>> reporter: and you'll stay here until you know in >> pretty much. >> reporter: head back to the capitol with the suspect, their work is done for the night. the suspected taliban members will be handed over to the judges. their fate is now in the hands of the state. but that is a huge challenge for these men. many of the taliban members they capture are later released. allegation of taliban fighters bribing their way out of jail are common. at other times a political favor sets them free. the major sometimes meets them again on other raids. >> it's frustrated because you arrest a guy two months ago, with a lot of convicting evidence on -- on him, and then two months later you see him again in another compound. then it's -- it's frustrating. you know, what are you doing here? we arrested you two months ago

with mines and bombs. >> reporter: he says he is so determined to stop them, he would rather see them dead then let them have the opportunity to buy their freedom. >> next time i'll kill you. you know, jthat's what keeps the men and myself motivated. as long as we just keep going, then that's fine. if i keep them away for two months, i'll go every two months after them. >> reporter: going after them could be more difficult in the future. for these men the withdrawal of foreign forces is complicated. how to hand the capability over to the afghans is still unresolved. the country's exspy chief who has worked closely with the cia in the past says they will need that help. >> when it comes to high morale fighting, motivation, those elements are there.

what are the missing elements that cripples their ability to replace u.s., is intelligence, surveillance, and recognizance capabilities. so the americans have not yet started [ inaudible ] to afghan special forces. >> reporter: every mission still involves foreign mentors. even the gunners on this helicopter are american. raids are monitored from drones with cameras, and only the mentors can call in u.s. air support. just to get into a target house like this, these afghan forces rely on surveillance and reconnaissance from the u.s. military. they can do the best job possible on the ground, but without the intelligence of where to go, they won't be as effective as they are now. the major says that is something with.

>> i don't believe we can mention entirely self-sufficient due to the situation in afghanistan because it has to be a brood comprehensive support to all of the other organizations in the country. for example, the air support, the intelligence support, the judicial services, so a strike unit cannot really operate on its own, no matter how good and capable it is. [ gunfire ] >> reporter: a bigger problem, unless pakistan takes part in serious negotiations, afghan forces won't be able to win. pakistan is often accused of sheltering the taliban and their allies. >> can the afghan army defeat pakistan? no. but we can defeat the taliban and we do it every day.

what happens the next day, another group from another country comes into afghanistan. >> reporter: those coming in sometimes threaten these men's familiar list. the lead pilot on one mission did not wish to be identified but had to move his family abroad after death threats were brought against his children. >> i brought them to the airport and moved them to the other location. i changed their location three or four times, and then i found a place for them to stay. >> reporter: this can be a controversial job for muslims but the major believes the real. >> that's not really islam the way they fight. it's extremism. it's radicalism. it's the way they are being motivated to fight is -- is nowhere that i have studied islam. the suicide bombing, the attacks

in the city to kill innocent people, that's not acceptable in any religion i would say. >> reporter: he is determined to keep fighting regardless of the risks he faces in the field, and the challenges his men face as they fight this war increasingly by themselves. they are the country's most elite fighters, and they know if they can't do the job, no one can. >> an exclusive report from al jazeera's jane ferguson. when we return, history written on scraps. >> and it's so friendetic about it that he has written on paper towels and toilet paper. what happens when social media uncovers unheard, fascinating news stories? >> they share it. >> social media isn't an afterthought. america.

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♪ it is an emotional week here in washington as the city marks the 50th anniversary of dr. martin luther king jr's i have a dream speech. which was delivered on the steps of the lincoln memorial. but there was another message from dr. king that historians agree set in motion a revolutionary movement, one which lead to the march on washington. tonight the story of the letter from a birmingham jail. >> when you were coming to birmingham in 1963, you were coming to ku klux klan country. birmingham had nor unsolved bombings of negro homes and churches than any other city in the nation. the ku klux klan and racial segregationalists were not about

to let some negro preacher from atlanta or some group of demonstrators either in birmingham or outside the state to come and change their way of life. this is our place. this is our power. how dare you come in and want to take -- share our power from us. >> it was some very dark days in birmingham, alabama. >> in birmingham then the police fear. >> they had intimidated the working black people, and dr. king knew that. the movement was stagnated. it was dead. >> i'm going to say to you, wait a minute birmingham, somebody birmingham. >> dr. martin luther king was invited to come to birmingham to help with the situation. >> as difficult as it is, we

must meet hate with love. >> we would also meet at 16th street baptist church. that was the meeting place for dr. king. ♪ i'm on my way >> it was always firey meetings with a lot of good singing, a lot of good friends. ♪ i'm on my way ♪ i'm on my way ♪ to freedom at last >> dr. king was arrested on good friday april 12th, 1963. he was jailed for parading without a permit. so dr. king is in jail, and i don't know how many, but a substantial number of people, young people particularly in jail -- when i say young people, i'm talking about kids 14 to 18. there may have been some younger, but 14 to 18, and being in jail overnight is one thing, but being in jail more than one

or two nights became a major issue. i think the first time i visited him may have been that saturday. as i approached the jail, i had the burden of being identified as quote, dr. king's new york lawyer. so the parents, as i went in to see dr. king, they were shouting at me. attorney jones get our kids out of jail. and the reason they were upset was that we didn't have the money, sufficient money to bail at that time. at the end of the day, they would say, well, dr. king he lead this demonstration, got these kids in jail, and then his organization didn't even have the resources to bail them out. i went in to tell dr. king, we have a major issue on our hands, martin -- doctor, i said. well, much to my surprise, he virtually dismissed me.

he said have you seen this? i said what is this? and he holds up a newspaper, and in that newspaper there's a full page ad signed by eight prominent white clergymen from birmingham. he was angry. he was hurt. but he was motivated like i had never seen him motivated. he had an old newspaper and all of the blank spaces where there's not text or ads, he has written, and he's so frenetic about it that he has written on paper towels and toilet paper. and he said take these out and get these typed. take them to dr. walker to get them typed. let me say parenthetically here. wyatt walker must have been 30 something at the time. very charismatic and handsome man.

>> i am wyatt t walker, the former chief of staff to martin luther king, and author and historian. dr. king said if we can break birmingham we can break the south, and that's what happened. >> martin gives me these scraps of paper. i put them in my shirt, and took them out to wyatt walker. >> we were in a room in the motel, they brought these pieces of paper to me. i was the only one in birmingham who would read dr. king's chicken scratch writing as we described it. so it was my task to translate it, and my personal secretary, maggie king had the responsibility of typing it as i translated it.

>> she is alleged to have said he may be a great speaker, but he can't write. difficult. >> we worked late into the night and early morning, and she was exhausted, and i remember picking her up, moving her to a chair, and i continued write -- typing the last part of it. it took the better part of two evenings. the lawyers came by the motel done. >> i didn't pay any attention to the letter. okay? didn't even think about it. it was not in my mind until i suddenly learned they think the quakers were going to publish the letter in one of their newsletters, and that the letter, using today's viral. >> i think it was the most important document of

the 20th century. very much like the gettiesberg address, and it became the great [ inaudible ] of our movement. >> my dear fellow clergymen while confined here in the birmingham city jail, i came across your recent statement calling our present activities unwise and untimely. >> you deploy the demonstrations that take place in birmingham, but your statements i am sorry to say failed to express a similar concern about the demonstrations. >> it is unfortunate that demonstrations are take place in birmingham, but it is even more unfortunate that the city's white power structure left the alternative. >> when you suddenly find your tongue twisted and your speech

stammering as you seek to explain to your six year old daughter why she cannot go to the public amusement park that has just been advertised on television, and you see tears welling up in to her little eyes when she is told that fun town is closed to colored people. >> when you take a cross-country drive and find it necessary to sleep night after night in the uncomfortable coners of your automobile because no motel will accept you, when you were humiliated day in and day out by nagging signs reading white men and colored, when your first name becomes nigger and your middle name becomes boy, and your last name becomes john, when you are forever fighting a degenerating sense of nobodiness, then you will understand why it is difficult to wait. ♪ there's nothing you can do, to turn me around ♪

♪ to turn my around >> all of that came from his heart. he wanted white america to see what they were doing. he wanted white america to see how hurtful it was. >> the letter was a national call to the conscious of america using the real life, real time reality of birmingham as its template. birmingham then became the spark that ignited the prairie fire of negro resistance which was transformed into negro revolution. >> dr. martin luther king's, jr. unmatched delivery and his timeless words as we well know made history. still to come, the man we just introduced you to, clarence

jones shares a little known fact mission. >> there's m

♪ exactly 50 years ago this evening, not far from here, washington's famed willard hotel, a young black preacher sat trying to write a speech. the words didn't come to him

that night, instead it wasn't until the next afternoon as he stood before hundreds of thousands of people on the great mall that the preacher found a way to tell america about his dream. today i met dr. clarence jones who is a lawyer, a counselor, sometimes a cure your, and i asked him how martin luther king king, jr. found those mighty words. >> i would like you to bring me back to august 27th, '50 years ago at the willard hotel. >> dr. king was in the hotel in a suite working on the speech with his wife. he had given considerable thought about the direction or -- not specifically the exact words, but the direction, the -- him?

>> well, i had taken some notes. the notes which i had taken were really notes which incorporated previous discussions we had had. i already had written down in long hand some suggested paragraphs, textual words that he might consider using. what i wrote was not some clarence jones creativity i wrote a summary -- i put it in a way that could be used in a speech. he says clarence. thank you very much. i'll take the notes, and i'm going upstairs and counsel with the lord to finish my speech in the room with my wife. so the next day i'm standing 50 feet behind him. and i'm listening, and my ear is

tracking what he's saying, and i'm saying to myself, i said oh, my god, i said oh, i guess -- i guess he decided to -- to use the suggested text. and i wasn't surprised -- because i was saying to myself, in the interest of time he felt comfortable, he wasn't using something new, and as was his custom he seamlessly add on to the paragraph i suggested, he seamlessly added on his own paragraph, and at some point when he is speaking from the text of that which i had written -- by the way that which i had written really constituted the first seven paragraphs of the speech thereafter it was his paragraphs. at that point when he's speaking his paragraphs had been seamlessly connected to the ones i wrote. [ inaudible ] jackson shouted to him, tell him about the dream martin.

tell them about the dream. and i saw him respond to her call by moving the prepared text he was writing to the left side of the lectern, grabbed the lectern, looked out to all of these people, and i said these people don't know it, but they are about ready to go to church. >> and they did. >> and they did. >> and then you heard the words. >> and then i heard him speak. >> i have a dream that one day this nation will rise up, live out the true meaning of its creed. we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal. [ cheers and applause ] >> i had seen the speech many times but on this occasion it's as if some force came down and took over the body of the martin king that i knew and heard.

he was speaking in a way that i had never ever heard him speak, and never heard him speak that way before, ever. >> but what was that first moment like? what were the first words you heard that you thought here it comes? >> it was the tone of his voice, and it was when he -- when he -- he was challenging the establishment of segregation, because he says, i have a dream that one day, right down in the red hills of georgia and in alabama, okay, the great, great grand sons of slaves and slave owners will sit down to the table together. i may not be there, but i have a occur. >> dr. clarence b jones as we look to tomorrow and the 50th anniversary of the speech that changed america. join us

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