>> good evening everyone, welcome to al jazeera. i'm john siegenthaler in new york. here are the top stories. removing the threat of military action. that is the president's new plan tonight for a u.n. resolution on syria. plus: >> i believe that the report will be an overwhelming, overwhelming report. that the chemical weapons was used. >> his statements were apparently off the record but the u.n. secretary general said he didn't know the cameras were still on. and thousands forced from their homes. in colorado, water topping dams, the search for 80 missing people.

and we begin with new signals from the white house about what to do with about chemical weapons in syria. secretary of state john kerry is staying a third night trying to come to agreement with russia over syria. but no longer, if syria does not comply. mike mccarra has more on the story. >> it will not be authorized by the united nations. from president obama on down has said it's only the credible use of force, has brought russia to put forth this proposal that has changed the course of events over the past week or so. john kerry yesterday at the outset of those talks with sergei lavrov says there should

be consequences if syria doesn't follow through. president obama his only public appearance in the white house with the emir of kuwait. here is what he said about the issue. >> i shared with the emir my hope the negotiations that are currently taking place between secretary of state kerry and minister lavrov in geneva bear fruit. but what i've said isfully agreement needs to be verifiable and enforceable. >> what the president pleasant by that is there could be sanctions but as far as a u.n. resolution is concerned these negotiations with sergei lavrov will not produce the threat of force to take to the united nations. russia simply will not go along with it. the united states can still act

unilaterally. they are at a pivotal point john. >> thank you. a much anticipated report from the u.n. inspectors will be released on monday morning. today u.n. secretary general ban ki-moon was caught on tape, that he believed that the result would be that syria would be found to have used chemical weapons. >> it was a gaff, a very rare insight into what a leading diplomat in the upper etch lons of the diplomatic world is -- esh lons o echelons,. >> he was attending a women's forum of the united nations when he made these remarks. particularly that bashar al-assad and the syrian regime had carried out many crimes

against humanity. let's take a look and you can judge for yourself. >> what happened is he has committed many crimes against humanity. our team will come out soon with the report. but i believe that the report will be an overwhelming, overwhelming report. that the chemical weapons was used. even though i cannot publicly say at this time before i received this report. >> how does this happen? >> i mean it turns out that what he was doing was addressing questions from people in the audience. >> supposed to be off the record? >> supposed to be off the record, sign on the door says do not disturb, private meeting. and what's happened in the u.n. since they built the place out in the last three or four years is they put a camera pretty much in every room. and i think someone at the

united nations was supposed to cut the feed and they didn't. the problem is it went all around the building inclusion the press center where we all sit and they heard the remarks ants they're all out there. >> this inspection report is going to be released on monday? >> this is breaking news only in the last hour and a half that we found this out. the u.n. we have been speaking to them has the report been completed as we have been told it has been, will it be released to ban ki-moon over the weekend, and late tonight we got the word from the secretariat, that the u.n. report will be released at the u.n. on monday at 11:00 a.m. eastern time. >> back to his remarks that were sort of off the record but on tv will this have any impact on the inspector's report or what the united nations is considering regarding a resolution? >> i don't think there's going to be dmi any impact, quite a

diplomatic incident, i think it takes the impact away from the report, now we know what's going to be in it because the secretary general's vocalized part of it. that stops hopefully, whether or not president obama's latest move is going to affect things and still on the table at the u.n. is a draft resolution put together by the french. they've been discussing it with their friends the british and americans and also there was a meeting of all five of the permanent members as well. in that resolution there is still under chapter 7 of the charter which there could be still an attack on syria. let's assume president obama gets that removed, and also a clause that talks about referring whoever the guilty to carrying out the chemical attack to the international criminal court. even if president obama has his way it would be very much a red flag to the russians. so it's a new move by president obama it's probably done to grease the wheels in geneva

while kerry is with sergei lavrov. >> john thank you very much. >> absolutely. >> to discuss obama administration's shifting position is jim walsh, a security analyst with mit securities study program. welcome jim. >> good to see you john. >> i want to go back to the study that we led with at the top of the hour which is about the white house and their shifting position. what's your reaction? >> i've been surprised at several points during the next two weeks. i'm not surprised about this. we were not going to get a u.n. security resolution that did either of the following. that either prohibited the use of force or mandated the use of force. right? so the russians have been pushing you know as their opening bargaining position yeah we'll get an opening position but u.s. has to promise that military action is off the table. that's not happening. then on the other side this u.n.

resolution isn't going to contain anything that authorizes the use of military force. but the u.s. is free to do whatever it wants after the fact. >> it was very, very serious about whether or not if syria did not comply there would be action. and that seemed to be related to the u.n. resolution. is this not a flip-flop? >> you know i'm not willing to go there on that. you know i have lots of criticisms about the way this was handled and we don't have time for me to talk about all of them. but i think this is about the politics of negotiation and getting a security council resolution. if president obama gets a security council resolution that says syria give up your chemical weapons then he is in a stronger position than he was two weeks ago when there wasn't any security county resolution and he's going ohave to act on his

own. >> even if it doesn't have any teet? >> he couldn't act two weeks ago and the u.n. said give these up, the international community has spoken and i'm going to do something, there was no international statement about that two weeks ago. moderately better position than what he was. in reality again, the russians weren't going to vote for something. they have a veto, they weren't going to vote for something that allowed the use of force and the americans weren't going to get something you know that allowed them to use force. so you know, if it goes forward i think this is better than the alternative. the devil's in the details. can they have an agreement that goes quickly to remove those chemical weapons, that's where the center of gravity is. >> do you have any opinion they released there at a white house briefing earlier tonight on friday night when not as many people are watching.

>> (laughing) john why do you ask me that? i'm shocked that people would release unpleasant news on friday of a weekend. i'm sure that's never happened before. >> that's right, jim walsh, it's great to see you. thanks for joining us. >> thank you john. >> it's going to be a long wet night for search crews and rescue crews in flood ravaged parts of colorado. at least four people have lost their lives. rescue missions are still under way along colorado's front range. 2300 people remain stranded in lyons and forecasters say it's not over. there's more heavy rain expected throughout the weekend. ashar karashi has more from boulder. >> a short break in the weather gave residents an opportunity to

survey the damage from rains and heavy flooding. for some it was a relief, for others it was difficult to absorb. jeremy barnes house sits on the edge of the creek. >> the water was coming up to the doors and we couldn't get out the driveway. you can see there, that's the car. request. >> residents like jair mri described a wall of -- jeremy described a wall of water. until earlier this week this was a passible road but with unrelenting water, this creek has turned into rapids and debris. an estimated 4.5 billion gallons of water has rushed through layer. >> we have a term called head pressure and that is the longer the water moves, the more pressure it builds up and there's as you can see with a lot of the damage that's here with the undermining of the highway here as well, it makes

it more than dangerous. >> first responders are racing to get those still trapped by the floodwaters to safer ground. some have been stranded for days. >> so grateful, just so grateful for all of them. i'm rather happy to be out of there. >> rescuers helped her out of her home, and for getting animals that can't fend for themselves. as national guardsmen work around floodwaters, others like jeremy barns can just watch in disbelief. >> it's all gone. >> forecasters are predicting several more days before the rain completely dissipates. thousands have already left the area with several towns having already been cut off from power and cell service making it more difficult to try to contact the dozens of people still unaccounted for and as the rainfall begins to pick up once

again some residents will have to decide where to stick around or being evacuate. >> that's asher karachi. east side of the front range, thunderstorms are normal this time of the year and the difference this time was a high influx of tropical moisture. you can see on these maps, this areas actually sit on a high elevation, lyons and boulder are 5,000 feet high next to mountains that are 14,000 feet. what happened intense thunderstorms stalled over the region, rain was falling at the rate of two to three inches, and lyons and boulder got the runoff from the mountains. the streams made the flooding worse. rebecca stevens has the detail.

rebecca. >> john we are still getting showers and thunderstorms with subtropical moisture coming up with them. we are going to continue to see this for the next day and a half at least. but something's changing and that is how much moisture is actually coming up from the south. we have plenty of flood warnings impacting parts of colorado but we're starting to see the flash flood watches shift into parts of idaho and staying also in new mexico. when we look at the water vapor loop from the last 48 hours you can clearly see the highest moisture content that bright green color coming up from the southwest where we've had tropical storms moving from the last several weeks. so this thread of moisture coming up from the south being drawn in by an area of low pressure just sitting and rotating over the southwest has made conditions extremely moist the last few days but also the mountains having the winds lift up over them has squeezed out

any additional moisture that there was in those storms. so that's why we had an exceptional amount of rain coming down but now we're also starting to see things get cut off somewhat in that subtropical moisture stream. that means that even though we have some scattered storms and showers in the next day and a half they're not going to be as widely scattered and they won't have as much moisture in them. the wind shift will begin to change to westerly and we'll see that target point of colorado getting the rainfall shift a little farther to the east. so the drying is slowly happening, and good news is, is that it will continue to slowly dry out through the first part of the week. >> all right rebecca thanks very much. investigators are still trying to find out what caused the new jersey shore boardwalk fire that scorched dozens of

businesses. >> people who live and work here looked out across the devastation and said, not again. michelle jackson was lucky. her restaurant survived the flames. >> it's been a long road since sandy, and we've been down a lot. our percentages are definitely down and we were just starting to see things pick up and start looking promising and i started feeling better about how things were going and not so you know that feeling of doom. and now this happens, so all that feeling that we've had before kind of just came back. >> the new jersey shore was just getting back on its feet after hurricane sandy when a fire ripped through the boardwalk that ripped through seaside park and seaside heights. dozens of businesses burned. >> what hurts me the most is all this has to be rebuilt and

people that want to come back and make something of this place. and right now they don't know what to think. after everything that's happened and now this. i'm wondering if it's really actually making sense. >> firefighters put up a desperate effort to stop the flames from spreading. >> our strategy was do what we could protect as many exposures as we possibly could and work on a containment plan and that's what it was. our first containment failed because of the volume of the fire, the second containment plan worked. >> the second plan was a fire break. a trench to stop the fire in its tracks. you can see the effectiveness of their strategy. these businesses are entirely burned. but over here, these are completely intact. >> the businesses that burned --

>> i'm lucky to be here but the rest of the boardwalk is gone now so that's not very lucky. >> after sandy the mantra's been, jersey strong. >> remember when it was up here,. >> the green things go here. >> once again the community will have to find the strength to rebuild. kelmeny dukart, seaside heights, new jersey. >> wildfire clover fire in shasta county has burned 12 and a half square miles. one person has been found dead. road closures that prevented some people from going home have not been lifted but other evacuations remain in place. full containment is expected on sunday. still to come on al jazeera, heavily damaged on a earthquake. concerns about the fukushima

power plant in japan and the radiation that is leaking. now a group of squatters who are calling this home are facing evacuation, more on their fight to stay ahead.

>> in afghanistan, the taliban is claiming responsibility for the attacking the u.s. consulate at herat. all personnel were safe, ten of the victims were private security personnel police and interpreters, nine of the dead were attackers. >> an explosion took place at

the gate of the u.s. consulate then a number of surnts entered the consulate gate. we don't know how many of them there were. >> no areas in afghanistan are completely secure from taliban attacks. the group is in control of large sections of the country. the u.s. military is planning to pull out its forces by the end of next year. radioactive water has been leaking from fukushima nuclear plant, some of the waters has reached the pacific ocean and reergts arregulators are struggo keep more from leaking. the current system will not work. joanna blundell. >> japan's opposition party questions the man charged with ensuring safety at the damaged fukushima nuclear plant. the answer is swift and

unwelcome. he says the situation is not under control. just less than a week ago japan's prime minister assured the worlds that the leaks at fukushima were under control and that helped the international olympic committee to award tokyo the 2020 summer olympic games. >> the prime minister made a statement that this is under control based on our preventive measures. the government will continue to ensure that all necessary steps are being taken. >> for months radioactive water has been leaking from storage tanks around the plant. some of it has reached the pacific ocean and there are continued toafortsz try to keep the made -- erchts t efforts too keep the main body of water, international are experts says tetco's current solution is untenable. >> there is a main challenge for

disposition of that water. in my view it's unsustainable to indefinitely for a decade long multidecade long process to basically continue to hold that water in tanks. >> so tepco and the japanese government must do something to relieve the pressure on these storage tanks. international knowledge association says they should allow the pressure to be released. joanna blundell, al jazeera,. protests against july coup, about a dozen others were injured when fights broke out between protesters and residents. >> ross shimabuku is here with sports and history making day on

the golf course. >> friday the 13th? i don't think so, lucky day by jim furyk, he tied a pga record by shooting a 59. 11 birdies and an eagle to become the sixth player to ever shoot that magical 59. furyk is sitting pretty at 11 under par and tied with the leader, brant snedeker. zoom zoom. 13 drivers instead of 12, jeff gordon added as a 13th driver to maintain the integrity of the sport. nascar caught two teams cheating in the race to the checkered flag and jeff gordon was on the cut line. hawaii 5-0 against toronto, his 50th homer of the season. the 50 jacks ties orioles

record. baltimore is now two and a half games back in the al wild card race so things are heating up john. >> we'll talk to you later ross. it was something that set the economy into deep recession. lehman brothers financial company is operating under a different set of rules. we'll take a closer look ahead.

>> welcome back to al jazeera, i'm john siegenthaler. here are the headlines. it's going to be another long night for rescue workers in colorado. crews are trying to air lift residents trapped by severe flooding. 172 people are still unaccounted for. the death toll now stands at four. more rain showers are forecasted for tomorrow, not as long or intense as last week. water leaking from fukushima nuclear reactor, some reaching the pacific ocean, crews are

struggling to keep the contamination away from groundwater. the administration's current solution won't likely work. the u.n. the about to consider a resolution that does not include military action. talks are set to resume in tomorrow and a report from the u.n. chemical weapons inspectors will be released among morning. the u.n. secretary o secretary l believes there will be overwhelming evidence of chemical weapons. jim gelvan, welcome. >> thank you. >> what do you make of this move by the white house tonight? >> i think everybody is getting the pulse of everybody else, see what's possible. what we're seeing is a deal that's been made between the united states and russia the two principals now.

the russians are not going oallow a u.n. security council resolution that allows the use of force or are agrees with a use of force. are compromise within the security council yet hold that possibility that they will use force unilaterally. >> do you think they can have a resolution passed? >> there probably will be a resolution, but how much teeth it will have we'll have to say. what's really important as far as the obama administration is concerned is number one the chemical weapons themselves and two, being able to work with the russians to bring around an international conference in geneva. that's why there's this new spirit of cooperation between the issue. >> does that make assad take the

u.s. more seriously? >> i don't know if he would take it much less seriously, whether the united states would use force. there's two aspects of it. number one there is a potential that the united states will use force and there's a potential actually for assad to look at that and say i've got to cooperate here. the other thing is it's a face saving move on the part of the obama administration. they said they would use force if a red line was crossed and it was crossed. there has to be something for them as well. >> talk about the complexity, what would happen if the u.n. passes a resolution and they begin to go in and take these chemical weapons outen or get rid of them in syria? >> the point is no two exerts are saying the same thing. it's entirely feasible to get these weapons out, others say it's virtually possible to do

that. the u.s. says it has 30 days to get these weapons, make an account of these weapons, which john kerry says is too long. but then they have up to ten years to put them under international control. if we are looking at winners and losers let's look at the scorecard. if president obama wants to punish bashar al-assad for using chemical weapons we're users. if we want to make sure that they are not used again it is possible we are a winner. >> is it possible he wanted to punish him? >> in the beginning it sounded like he wanted to punish him but that was obfuscation. he didn't really mean it. the momentum with the civil war with the government, the u.s. policy is to try to get both sides to sit down. the united states isn't going to sit down if it's winning, you degrade the government and that's exactly what the strikes

were for, in other words the strikes were to set up negotiations. now there's something very interesting about that. that means that the strikes were going olead to a prolongation of the civil war, that means humanitarian concerns as far as that is concerned are off the table. >> is this working? >> no, it's not liable to work either but the best the united states has. the united states does not want a total victory for the assad eight jeem but not atotal victory for the opposition as well. there are too many bad elements that the united states does not like, does not trust. it is possible that the united states could broker a soft landing, to assure there is some sort of continuity with the worst elements of both sides, bashar al-assad and his inner circle eliminated from the final transition and the jihadis

eliminated from the final transition. >> when i said it was working, i guess i meant will the u.s. be able to ensure all those things you just said? >> we don't know that yet, we don't know what the long term goal of the united states is, we would tend to look the other way, if we're able to broker some kind of settlement in geneva. >> jim galvan thank you for coming. >> thank you for having me. the leader of the moro national liberation frond has agreed for a cease fire. now the president of the philippines is going osign the agreement. 22 people have died, 24,000 forced to flee their homes since the standoff began. more than 600,000 people are

living in the streets in this country. in northern california homeless people have set up a camp as a former landfill. some have lived there for years but they soon may be facing evacuation, pamela tom has his story. >> he calls himself scrappy, salvaging and keeping what he sells. scrappy has built an intricate shelter together with an intricate metal door. this place is the albany bulb, once a landfill the bulb overlooks the san francisco bay. it's also the permanent home of some 60 people. >> 36 people out of the 62 have no income whatsoever. there are 39 men and 23 women. >> for decades the homeless have found their way to the bulb to avoid the streets and to find community. but now the city of albany that owns it wants the homeless out. the council voted to enforce an

ordinance prohibiting overnight camping, a first step in evicting people living at the bulb for good. proponents of the law argue the area is for public use and the homeless make it dangerous for everybody else. katherine cody says it's a good place for her. >> i was stabbed 16 years ago, 17 years ago, i know what it's like to be out on the streets and not to be safe. >> despite the statistics america's homeless remains visible with life as hard as the pavement. >> do they sometimes smell a little bit, maybe they do but they still they love they live they're human. >> this suspect the first time the city of albany has evicted the campers. back in 1999 the city told everyone living here to pack up and leave. but one by one the homeless returned and by 2006 the bulb

was once again occupied. the homeless said the city of albany did not provide enough transitionary housing or homeless services. evacuations could begin as early as october. pamela tom, albany, cl californ. >> the department of justice is suing the state of florida, al jazeera natasha guinane reports. >> it was the start of a new life for 15-year-old abdul. the native egyptian had only been here for eight months when he was in a car accident that

left him with a traumatic brain injury. >> we have not are healed yet. >> for the last two years he has been living at this nursing home in tampa. it cares for medically fragile and complex children. provided excellent acute care and his son improved dramatically. then the physical, occupational and speech therapy stopped. >> i felt very bad. i was in a state of loss, really. i didn't know what to do. i was looking for submission anywhere. >> the department of justice or doj is stepping in to assist families like the gassers, it's suing the state of florida for violating the americans with disabilities act. there are 186 children housed in nursing home, 3,000 are

considered at risk of being sent to one. it is because of the reduction of community based care. >> these people do not have voices. that's why they're an egg target. >> matt deits represents the gassers and nine other families. he says it costs more to house children in nursing homes than in group homes. the state paid almost $95,000 on average to care for kids in a community based setting. the average cost for care in a nursing home was more than $112,000. the state says it's unfair to compare the two types of care due to the varying conditions of children. >> for the past 15 years more and more people, seniors, have been leaving nursing homes and more and more nursing homes have been opening up.

what better person to put in the nursing home than ochild who is not going to complain about being there. >> the state refused our request for an interview but in a statement says, washington is not interested in helping families improve but instead is determined to file disruptive lawsuits. thanks to gamal's lawsuit he believes he was able to get the state's attention. he moved abdul out of the nursing home and into a group home. >> if he had been given the proper service in time, he would have been today in much better shape. >> that's the concern of families. while their children wait to get out of nursing homes their conditions may deteriorate. natasha guinane, al jazeera

tampa. >> the united said it will honor the tickets it accidentally sold online. there is a sand shortage in florida. coming up the efforts underway to beef up the beaches slammed by the storms. in sports we'll go inside the ring with floyd maywith the jr. many ross will have a report in a moment.

>> california is now just a step away from letting undocumented immigrants apply for driver's licenses. the state legislature approved the measure last night. and under the law the

undocumented are immigrants have a special mark on the license. in the past year nine other states have passed similar laws. it's now been five years sin the world was rocked by a financial crisis. t diane estabrook reports,. >> five years ago, lehman brothers deback seemed unthinkable. >> if you would ask me to bet all my money whether lehman would go bankrupt never would i have believed this. >> lehman brothers filed for bankrupts in 2008. a $700 billion bailout, and too big banks survived and thrived.

former u.s. finance secretary hank paulson took on the question last week. >> the answer is yes. as long as there are financial markets in humans who periodically experience bouts of conscience, there have been crises. >> just last year j.p. morgan chase lost $20 billion on bad trades. that kind of problem is evidence the u.s. banking system still needs fixing. >> we played a mistakes in 2009 by bailing out these financial institutions. so i think we have somewhat of a bloated sector, a lot of speculation i think in securities and derivatives trading, not enough traditional lending. >> fallout is affecting main street perhaps even more. it's harder for small businesses

and consumers to get loans and bair thinks it's an uncertainty about banks. no one from the firm was ever prosecuted. diane estabrook al jazeera. >> ross is back with sports. this boxing match is getting a lot of buzz. >> $75 on pay purview, we found. floyd mayweather will be fighting camello al easy, just made weight at 152 pounds. that's a concern because the kid usually fights at a heavier weight. mayweather fights at 150.

you have to have your run comfortable pose. a lover not a fighter of the super-fight. >> meet the champion, floyd mayweather junior at 36 he is widely considered to be the greatest boxer of his era. winning world titles in five different weight classes. to say mayweather has dominated boxing would be an understatement. flashy outspoken and not one to shy away from the cameras, mayweather is not one to shy away from the fight. >> going down as a legend, going down as an icon. that motivates floyd mayweather. >> then saul alvarez, known for his power and strength. he is the currently wbc-wba

junior welter weight. >> i'm not coming to make a good fight, i'm coming to win. >> besides camello, is oscar de la hoya, who has his own history with mayweather who lost a fight to him in 2007. he is mentoring the underdog. >> they believe he's going to win, and that's the difference with every other fight mayweather has been involved with. when he fought ortiz, when he fought garcia yah, a lot of his opponents, he doesn't believe that he will win. >> do you believe he's going to win? >> i know he's going to win. >> the youngest of eight

children, boxing was in his blood from the start. it was canello who went on to become mexico's pride and joy. >> it's like senior, in his prime, he was such a devastating puncher, serious when it came to his training his craft, that's the type of person he is. >> i always said i didn't fight at my potential, but i think for some reason floyd is going to bring it out of me and they'll see that on saturday night. >> but others see canello as too yuck and inexperienced to take on one of the greatest fighters of all time. >> although i may be young i have a lot of experience, i was looking for this fight, i'm ready. >> i've been in there with guys

that punch our guys, that i'm boxing with and i'm one individual that can make adjustments. it's about making adjustments. i've been there before. so i know what it takes, a fight of this magnitude, me first and listen to my father. >> in golf, how low can you go? 59 is the low number on the pga tour, only five players have ever carded that magic number. now you can make it 6. jim furyk was getting his good on, tied with brant snedeker at 11 under par. on the best number of the day, number 16 the golf ball bounces off the ridge and looky here, wait for it, wait for it, wait

for it, get in your hole. drops in for an eagle. as for tiger he thought he shot a 1 under 70. but he was assessed a penalty, where tiger moved some twigs which caused the ball to move. he didn't want to talk to the reporters, that happened at the masters but now it's happening again. $41.5 million a record purse. the 25-year-old kid will get about $12 million. boxing is not dead. >> all right ross let's go to the beach. the sunshine state is suffering from a sand shortage, eroding tourism. andy gallagher reports from miami. >> they attract millions of visitors each year, generate billions of dollars in revenue.

the beaches south florida were facing a crisis. sand washed away by storms and erosion is usually dredged and replaced by sand from off shore. but in miami they're about to run out of sand altogether. >> we have ocean and sand. if we don't have sand we don't have anything. >> this is very enjoyable. we come down here all the time. >> i'm sorry, i'm grateful for what's here, it's great, it's nice. seems like there's still plenty. >> it might seem that way but brian film who has been working on beach restoration for 30 years, says this situation is critical. >> we are in the middle of hurricane season, peak of hurricane season, we are lucky but if we had a major storm we would have to come one a source

of sand very quickly. >> a solution is to bring sand from places like the bahamas or even use ground up glass to replace sand on beaches like this. brut there are the environmental community that says this is ignoring a bigger crisis. >> all of these are going to be nonfunctional and the same is true of broward county. >> rising ocean levels pose a much greater threat. he predicts much of florida will be underwater by century's end and much sooner, he thinks the search for sand is fruitless. >> at what point do we quit pouring money into a lost cause and spend money in helping people buy out and relocate? >> but for now, authorities are looking for sand and confident that t a solution will be found.

most people want to enjoy the sand when they can. andy gallagher, al jazeera, florida. >> wide open spaces and forest full of towering trees, the trees in the city of mi missouls aging. >> it's a tall order taking the vital statistics of a tree but that's exactly what teams of arborists and volunteers are doing all summer long in missoula, montana. >> we had great people had wonderful foresight when they were developing missoula. they wanted shaded park ways and sidewalks and things like that . we do take this for granted until we start losing them.

>> those urban planning pioneers made one major mistake. they planted almost entirely just one species, norway maples. 80 years later they are becoming senior citizens all at the same time. >> unfortunately our forest is aging. >> aging and ailing. by some estimates 95% of the stately sentinels of this leafy city are in bad shape. >> dead wood. very poor. >> may need to be cut down. the old fashioned tape measure is a good tool but high technical arborists, use this technique to map every tree on every street. >> we'll know what specious it is, what condition, we'll be able to recommend a management plan from everything from recommending a different tree, to pruning to diversification of

species. >> while you can't put value on the forest. >> we also know that people are more likely to walk or bike on tree lienld streets than they would on nontree lined streets so that leads to direct health benefits. >> when the accept sus ends up in mid september, the total count is expected to come in 30 to 50,000 trees. >> very well-known proverb, the best time to plant a tree is 20 years before today. >> paul beban missoula, mont. >> stay with us, the weather is next rebecca stevenson.

>> mexico has a tropical storm on either side. manuel and ingrid in the bay of campeche. we could see upwards of 25

inches of rainfall throughout the weekend. gusty winds and they're going to be concerned about mudslides . this sound like what colorado went through with extremely heavy rainfall. as we go to the national center of environmental prediction this is the computer model we'll look for the next 24 to 36 hours, the bull'bull's eye is folksed in nw mexico. we're still going to get rain showers and thunderstorms scattered throughout the weekend but the rainfall will not be nearly as heavy and showers and thunderstorms not as common as they were in the last week. also our story is about cooler temperatures. cold front is bringing chilly temperatures in the northeast. 30s and 40s in some spots, that will translate into high temperatures as well, but the frost is going to be in michigan and also wisconsin.

>> you're watching al jazeera. i'm john siegenthaler. here are the headlines. residents in heavily flooded areas of colorado are bracing for more rains. scattered showers are in the forecast but not as bad as the rest of the week. rescue workers are helping those trapped by the floods and there may be as many as 172 people still unaccounted for in the flood ravaged region. at least four are confirmed dead. the white house is change direction a bit, said it would be open to a resolution that did not include military action. the wording has been a sticking t