>> 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 point by the secretary of state

and his russian counterpoint. on sunday john kerry travels to israel for talks with israel's prime minister. and monday, much anticipated report from the u.n. inspectors is expected to be released to the secretary general ban ki-moon who was caught on camera saying he believes there will be overwhelming theaf evidence thaa used chemical weapons. for more information check out aljazeera.com. it tries to understand what caused this disaster. >> we have endured and begun to come back from the devastation of sandy.

we will not let these fires destroy those efforts. >> also night: swept away. fast-moving floodwaters forced thousands in colorado to flee, with more troubling rushing in. >> i don't know, last night was scary. >> and cashing in on college athletes. on the field, and on the screen. why one former player says: it's the ncaa that should pay. >> good evening and thanks for joining us. i'm joie chen. a rough weekend lies ahead for communities in new jersey and in

colorado. adding new pressurize to some very fresh scars along a just rebuild jersey boardwalk, they're just picking up the pieces after an enormous fire rirpd there there and colorado, another problem rurks in. it's hard to describe colorado's rainfall as anything other than biblical proportions over 15 inches have fallen this week. the rain has slowed at least for the moment allowing the national guard to deliver emergency supplies . lyons colorado, many bridges are wiped out, roads closed to keep more motorists out of trouble. >> we are not out of the woods yet, we are in criminal condition and that's something people need to keep in mind. >> the president has approved

federal disaster aid for three counties including boulder, the home of university of colorado, that's where we find fletch err rich richmond, fletch err we are going to see some pictures that you took with your phone. can you describe it for us? this is boulder creek, doesn't look much like a creek. >> yes, this is normally just kind of a little hang out spot for everyone and everyone is really -- this is where we hang out and it's really more of a creek. and it's about two blocks from where i live right now. and you can see it's more of a river, more than anything. it's pretty crazy. it's taken out the entire walkway that normally would be there. >> now, i understand that there were evacuations of not of your particular apartment but around campus you saw this as well? >> yes, i saw a lot of videos of dorms that got flooded. a lot of the dorms on campus

have basement level space. so they were just totally flooded by this, this whole thing. and then a large portion of the west part of boulder was evicted as well. >> how quickly did the waters come up? >> it was pretty sudden on wednesday night. it had been kind of raining all weeks and just wednesday, i don't think anyone was really expecting it and just suddenly out of nowhere tunnels were filled and suddenly there was this whole thing going on. and then throughout all of thursday, i think all of last night i think was the peak of everything and it was pretty sudden. >> did you guys get a lot of warning from the university? what did they tell you to do? >> the university is pretty good. i keep up with everything pretty much on twitter and i think most everyone does at this point. it was pretty quick to cancel school on both thursday and friday, and then i think they evacuated a lot of dorms pretty quickly as well.

>> and told the rest of you folks to stay inside i guess? >> sorry, what was that? >> the rest of you folks were staying inside trying not to get in the way of the floodwater? >> right getting to higher ground yes. >> but they didn't tell you that you needed to leave? >> right, right, not really. >> okay. so i noticed in the road behind you, it looks to be dry now, passible now but pretty much mudded over. >> right. so yeah, a lot of -- there was a lot of road closures and a lot of just debris that got picked up, a lot of people were saying don't go into the water because there's so much crazy just debris and who knows what in the water and yeah, a lot of roads that got totally totally flooded. >> all right flesher we're glad you're okay and we appreciate you giving us the information you gave us out in boulder, thanks so much. >> yes thank you. >> the floods out west and on

the eastern seaboard, a double struck community. the community just recovering from hurricane sandy, recovering from a massive fire. most of the businesses along seaside heights, in ashes, in ruins. the area that rebuilt after the storm, many of the businesses opened over the summer tourist season but now suffer a massive cleanup. the blaze which started at a frozen custard stand, the fire bass enormous, 400 firefighters were required to put this out. >> as part of the process the folks on the ground are working side by side with the fire investigation team to ensure that evidence is preserved. to that point i know there are a lot of questions about how this fire started. we don't know yet. and it would be irresponsible for any of us to speculate. we need to let the fire investigation team do their job. the investigation will likely take

days, at which point the scene can then be turned over to the property owners. we have endured the devastation of sandy. we will not let these fires destroy those efforts. the state of new jersey will stand with the local governments and the business owners to restart the rebuilding as soon as possible. >> just a short time ago we checked in with seaside heights town councilman tony vas, we met him in an adam may report. on the rebuilding of hurricane sandy. he told me had been out assessing the new damage. >> for now the fire is contained obviously and right now we are looking at the damages, the business community, and the community itself is the governing body, we're going to assist whatever way we can to assist the businesses that had the losses. >> looking at it from here it's a little hard to determine how

bad the damage is. even he the businesses rebuilt were they totaled, how bad would you say it was? >> i'm going to estimate that a majority of the businesses were totaled. >> do you have any idea what the value might be? >> i would say millions of dollars. i would be guessing but millions. >> so when you were speaking to adam may before you were saying that this was the businesses that had rebuilt about half those businesses had rebuilt. can you give us an idea how many of those businesses that had been rebuilt are now lost? mr. . >> a total rebuild, the major were rebuilt prior to the end of the summer. i would say 85% of the businesses were in -- operating. >> and how about the boardwalk itself, that had been rebuilt, about a mile of it? >> the boardwalk was completed from the full extent from herring avenue going south to porter avenue it was rebuilt,

all new boardwalk. >> and now? >> and now because of the devastation of the fire yesterday, from seaside park to lincoln avenue and seaside heights, the boardwalk is destroyed. >> completely gone? >> completely gone. >> now, i know, sir, that you have been something of a cheerleader, really, moving forward and trying to get that community together and bringing everything back there. what do you think the prognosis is now, are folks going to really want to rebuild, are those businesses going to want to come back or are people going osay two times that's enough? >> i believe the community has high spirit. in talking to the businessmen that were not affected and the businessmen that were affected, there is a feeling of, we're going to come back. we're going odo all we can to re-- to do all we can to rebuild, make it better. we're going to look for funding

if we don't have the ample funding as individual business is we're going to go to the governor and state of new jersey to see if there can be assistance. >> do you believe the community of seaside heights will be back? >> absolutely 100%. >> town councilman tony vas, thanks for giving us an update there. >> thank you. >> when we return to this program we'll take a look at a different sort of firefight and

>> just to be able to defend the title for once will be awesome, and i've done so well here the past few times i've played, getting to the semis or finals. it's been really, really exciting. i'm happy that i've been able to consistently do well here. >> australian cricket captain michael clarke led his team to victory against england, scoring his first tonne. england were bowled out for 227 in pursuit of australia score of 315/7. >> and now take a look at this young man who has more than a few expectations to live up to. this is argen tendulkar son of sachi, in his father the highest run scorer.

>> this summer will go down as one of the hottest deadliest and most costly wildfire as soon as in history and isn't even over yet. one of the most costly is the yosemite rim fire, still burning outside yosemite park. what made a real difference was a new weapon in a fight against the flames.

and insider's look now from techknow's marina davidson. >> on first thought, it's a new look at technology, an alien bug. >> the wing span on this aircraft is approximately 55 feet long, bigger than your average general aviation plane. >> one camera here, one camera here, one stacked on top of the other. >> and this one. the nts flaw which has multiple cameras. >> what are the specs on the cameras are they intended for different purposes? >> a daytime camera, night time camera, the infrared camera. >> this is the aircraft that's launching? >> this is the aircraft that's launching, the preflight order where it's going to take off. >> where is it going ogo? >> we are tasked to go to the

fire and where the fire is burning. >> how far will it -- long with it ill state up? >> we have a full fuel load that will stay up over 20 hours. >> the mt 1 is headed up to yosemite, over 45 minutes there will be a handoff to march air force base. the accessibility of this fire is what makes it extremely complicated and why it has grown to the size it has. with the inaccessibility around the fire it makes getting from one point to the other very difficult. right now we're able to watch realtime information. i can see where the fire is, what the fire is doing, potential problems coming up. maybe catching it in certain areas that you wouldn't see with the naked eye. >> and that potentially lifesaving information is being put to use here. >> a really big operation here. >> at the california rim fire's incident command center near yosemite national park. >> this is air national guard mobile information center that

we've rolled out here in order to help facilitate coordination and command and control of remotely piloted aircraft here in support of the rim fire incident. so this is where all the magic happens. >> all right. >> one of the biggest advantages the mq 1 brought for us was the ability to geo-locate the fire line. infrared imagery has been around for a while but the ability to put geographic coordinates to something and immediately transfer those to a map, invaluable. >> what we are looking at is the motion feed, from the mq 1 predator. you can see how the smoke is masking the fire, so it's hard to determine where the fire actually is. here he has actually blended in that infrared on top of the day tv so we can see where the fire line actually is. >> captain how do you feel how it went? >> i think it was a huge success. >> what has access to this technology brought to the firefighting effort?

>> life safety. the ability to keep an eye open the men and women fighting, in regards to the firefighting safety i think we're scratching the surface in terms of potential. >> get the full report on our program techknow, here on al jazeera america. and after a break here on america tonight, college athletes and the continuing debate over pay for play. does the ncaa own their likenesses, too? [[voiceover]] every day, events sweep across our country. and with them, a storm of views. how can you fully understand the impact unless you've heard angles you hadn't considered? antonio mora brings you smart conversation that challenges the status quo with

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the gridiron. because this weekend, two of college football's biggest teams, alabama and texas a&m play in one of the country's most anticipated games. will feature quarterback jerry

manzel, a debate over whether college athletes should be paid. a story about manzel and a game changer for college football. >> game day in college station, texas. home of the texas a&m aggies. a school rich with tradition like the corps of cad et cetera marching to the stadium. there's a surge in enthusiasm for this football program, thanks in large part to this man, the quarterback, johnny manzel, also known as johnny football. >> four man alabama rush, johnny, no they didn't, no, my gracious, how about that! >> last year manzel led texas a&m to victory over the best team in the country, alabama. >> what a pass, oh wow. >> johnny manzel.

>> and he won college football's most press teeshz award, the heisman, the first time a freshman ever won it. >> when someone wins the heisman it can equal cash, tens of millions of dollars from anything from publicity to alumni given. >> according the an estimate heisman has been $30 million for free publicity for texas a&m. and that doesn't count jerseys, adorned with manzel's number 2. >> they do a booster of $20,000 to sit with manzel for a dinner. >> but manzel has brought more than money to the football program. he has also brought controversy. manzel was accused of receiving a five figure fee for signing

autographs during the off season. the ncaa suspended the athlete for half a game, suggesting manzel should have known the groof theautographs would have been s. whether the ncaa should change the rules and allow college football players to be paid. that question landed manzel on the cover of sports illustrated. a mile somewhat from kyle field in phoenix arizona, a quarterback is trying to change the playing field, his name is sam keller and he's taking on the ncaa. sam keller is now the offensive coordinate orat suaro high school.

a long way from his playing days at a big college quarterback first at arizona state and then at nebraska. >> they pound it in your head you're a student first and then an athlete. you have school you have practice you have weights that are scheduled for you, everything is scheduled out for you and it almost feels like you're a robot and they just hammer it into you, you become a soldier you eat, sleep and breathe fooblg football and your teachers and your coaches and your meetings. >> it wasn't until his playing days were over that he thought about the money making machine going on all around him. >> it's very much driven on money and as a college football player you don't see that. you're what drives the money but your job is to not buy into all that. your job is why your responsibility to your teammates your coaches and your institution. >> sam keller now works at a

restaurant and bar in scotsdale, arizona, he thought football players should be able to capitalize if they can on their celebrity. >> the flip side of this argument, look these college athletes are getting scholarships, room and board, that's enough. >> no, it's not enough, not enough at all. if you look at who's benefiting more, everybody else is benefiting more. the ncaa is benefiting more. the schools are benefiting more. people don't come to these games or tune in or buy these jerseys because of the institution. they want johnny manzel, they want texas a&m number 2, that's what drives it. >> and what drove keller to sue this ncaa is this game, football, ea sports. leonard aragon is keller's attorney.

on the left sam keller in his playing days at arizona state. on his right, the avatar for arizona state 's, the next year. a few years later, keller played for nebraska state, the avatar and his picture are nearly identical. >> right-handed? >> right-handed, they had everybody pretty much nailed down to a tee. if you had a generic quarterback with no semblance of that roster on that college team it would be a lot less appealing. >> cellar's lawsuit said the ncaa made money off him and other college athletes by illegally louing them to use his likeness in the football game. the

ncaa's licensing arm, uses athletes real names in the development process then remove them before the game is released. >> they realize that something bad is going on and they don't want this to be out in the public, it would be wrong, they have been doing it and still do it, and this is exactly the type of thing that could submarine the game if it got into the media. >> if it got into the media? >> absolutely, yep. >> when you got this e-mail what did you think? >> honestly, i knew that they knew, everyone knows that they use the likenesses in the game. >> do you believe that the ncaa is exploiting these student athletes? >> i do. i do think they're exploiting them. you can't make the money off of the back of student athletes and not share it with them and don't pretend they are not professionals when you are treating them, everyone is make money except the student

athletes. >> ncaa refused to talk with us, we are confident that our legal position regarding the use of trademarks and video games but given the current business climate and the cost of litigation we determined participating in this game is not in the best interest of the ncaa. >> i think the ncaa is going oneed to figure out a way to settle the lawsuit and get it out of the courts because wheel their lawyers may like a long length 80 court battle the fact of the matter is the more it's in the public eye the more it gets discussed, the more they lose the argument in the court of public opinion. more than anything else. >> sam keller says he is not bitter because he didn't make the pros and he is not looking for a payday. >> whatever happens i just think it's fair. i'm not asking to make anything

out of it. it's not about me, it's about everybody, it's about college football as a whole. >> we bought this photograph for $100 online. do you think he should get a portion of these proceeds? >> i absolutely do. because you know there isn't anything more personal than a signature. when you are actually taking your hand and writing your signature that nobody else has and you're putting it on a piece of paper, a picture of yourself and somebody is taking it and selling it and making lots of moing. that's -- money, that's bogus to me. >> keller says he's moved on with his life no matter what direction the lawsuit takes . back in college station, johnny manzel led texas a&m to 65-28 crushing of sam houston state a drimg of the california game, we

asked manzel if he thinks college athletes should get paid? >> that's a decision way over my head, my stuff going on right now is be focused for the next week, it's way above me. >> make no mistake about it, college football certainly is big business. forbes is reporting tickets to alabama-texas a&m game is the most expensive ever, the average prices 763 on the secondary market. that's it for us here on america tonight. if you would like to see anything more log on to al jazeera/america tonight. you'll get sneak peeks to our programs. have a great weekend.