♪ welcome to al jazeera. these are the stories that we are following. a disaster declared in colorado as the national guard warning residents to get out before it is too late. we cannot have hollow words in the conduct of international affairs. >> john kerry says the threat of force remains if syria does not comply with the chemical weapons agreement. and health officials are warning of a frightening discovery in the water in a louisiana town.

in colorado the rain is falling again. the flood zone has extended and now has grown to the size of the state of kentucky. as many as six people are confirmed dead. rescue workers are issuing a stern warning to those in the flood zone, get out now, or face the possibility of being trapped for weeks with no water and no electricity. 1200 people have been rescued so far, and hundreds of people still have yet to be seen or heard from. jim cooley joins us now live from boulder career, and jim, what is the rain doing to hamper rescue efforts there? >> well, take a look at this rain coming down here. it's been coming down heavily, we had a little break earlier. the rescue earths of course, have been totally ambered by all this.

they had a heat of helicopters going up into the hills. those towns are inaccessible, now because the ceiling and the rain they have dropped the ceiling so dropped so the helicopters can't get off the ground. this is the boulder creek right he behind me, and normally it is a similar creek, take a look at that, that is a raging river over the past 86 hours we have heard incredible stories. here is lar more county sheriff justin smith. >> those flight ofsky tell you, if it can be done, they will do it. as mentioned that sean nook came in, these heros bring air ships in to places you can't imagine. stories of them -- they can put a wheel down and put part of a skid down somewhere, they are getting people under nose. >> they are talks about the efforts that have

been on going for the past three days. some of the numbers that we have about 225 people still missing and unaccounted for. to the north another 300 something people missing. at this point, to some 500 plus, and again, with weather like this, who knows where those numbers will go, up, maybe down as we go throughout the next four hours here. >> and jim, because of those numbers they sound so astounding and striking but it does not mean that they are feared dead, correct? >> yes, that's correct. that's a very good point, a lot of people live up no those hills in those towns that have become unaccessible, so what happens is they have no electricity, no way to power their cell phones they can simply not be reached by family members. two family members report them missing or perhaps they have been rescued but at this time, there's no real cross reference for officials here to

check on everybody who has been rescued so they may be safe, and simply not checked in yet with officials. it is an on going situation and those numbers will change up and down perhaps. how long it will fake to clean up from this storm? >> oh, you know, i think it may be a little early to talk about this, but the sheriff here in boulder county was saying it's no t a matter of roads just being washed out, he is talking about in sort parts of the county, and it gets to be quite rural here to the west, some areas there the entire infrastructure has been eliminated. roads, gone, simply washes away. homes taken away, it is going to be a long time. >> jim joining us live from boulder creek colorado, thank you very much.

thousands on the rim are also seeking shelter, they are hides from approaching hurricane ingrid, there are threats of heavy rain, dangerous flash flooding and mudslides. they are likely to mar several plans on sir vances at the country's independent day celebrations. both are set for today and tomorrow. a closer look at the situation in mexico and colorado. >> thank you, dale. what is going on right now, heavier rain going to spread across the region as we track in this afternoon, we have flash flood warnings in effect. extending all the way down into portions of new mexico. certainly across the albuquerque area, where we will have to continue to deal with behinding downpours. flash flooding a major concern, as a matter of fact, as we just stated more moisture pushing in out of the south into new mexico, into colorado along, i 25, so i want folks to use precaution

there. going to be a very trying 24 to 48 hours theming as we make our way to the gulf of mexico, we have hurricane ingrid. i will get to that later in the show. >> secretary state john kerry taking his pitch. he hopes complete destruction of the stock pile, and secretary kerry reiterated president obama's commitment to diplomacy, saying military action is not off the table. >> diplomacy has always been the preferred past of the president of the quite. and i think as any peace loving nations preferred choice. >> but make no mistake, we have taken no options off the table. >> is egregious use of

chemical weapons against innocent, men, women, children, their own citizens all murdered in the dead of night, is unacceptable, and we have said this should never happen again. >> expressing renews doubt about the deal, senator john mccain says it is a sign of weakness and that the u.s. should act with force. >> the president two years ago said bashar al asaad needs to go, i would give them the support they need to change the momentum on the battlefield to lead the negotiated departure of bashar asaad. that has always been the goal. at least certainly stated by the president of the united states. now there is no comment about that, now he is able to have killed 1400 people. and he is killed over 100,000. whereas the united states response to that. >> more on the political

fall out on capitol hill and the comments this morning. >> where dims generally welcoming the break through between the russia and the u.s. on syrian weapons. however, for the republican side of the aisle, criticism, particularly from senator john mccain of arizona. he criticized the agreement for giving the rush influence more influence, he said than they have since 1970. yesterday, senators mccain and lindsay graham issues a statement in which they strongly criticized the agreement reached yesterday, calling it an active provock tiff weakness that would encouraging iran to develop weapons. well, just a new minutes ago, the u.s. secretary of state was speaking in

israel after meetings with prime minister he spoke out very strongly saying that the threat of foris still very much on the table, that there is an understanding on the part of the u.s., that it was the threat of military action that got diplomacy to this point in time, and that the u.s. is not going to let it up now. >> and joining us now to discuss secretary kerry's trip to israel, is max bloomen that will. he is a contributor to all al jazeera american.com. what did you make of secretary state's comments this morning. >> i think it's interesting but secretary kerry was meeting with benjamin, he was speaking with benjamin the prime minister of israel. he was in israel. and he is not speaking about the negotiations

this 20 year they are raid which no one here where i'm situated right now is even taking seriously or considering anything less than a joke. it was all about syria, so syria has provided with an enormous amount of cover, to continue expanding the settlement enterprise. if you look over my right hand shoulder you will see, i am in downtown ramala, that is the settlement, which has a vineyard, which is appropriated from palestinians so that continues. meanwhile, secretary kerry who has said who is lobbying congress, telling them to authorize force, because this was a munich moment, comparing bashar al-asaad to adolf hitler,s that just struck a deal with his counter part in russia, lavrov, to essentially -- you could even say appease asaad other chemical weapons. i was recently in the refugee camp, one week ago. it is the 4th largest population.

second langer nest the world, home to 120,000 syrian refugees, living in absolutely misery, the worst scenes i have ever seen in my life. they are sleeping in tents in the open dessert, and this deal will do nothing to ease their plight. but max, the international community it appears had no stomach for getting involved in another entanglement in the u.s. what do you say to those people who are listening right now saying what did you expect secretary kerry and the quite to do? >> and barack obama really had no stomach to do this, if he had he would have done so a year and a half ago when there was a possibility for actually doing something in syria. it wasn't politically possible, he was heading for one of the worst political defeats in congress, and so he succeeded despite himself, thanks largely to the russians. and so asaad will give us his chemical weapons and

continue be able to bomb people, at bakeries, and massacre people in their homes at dawn with long fives. and so what needs to happen after this is more diplomacy, extended diplomacy, a conference the geneva about the refugees about them being able to return to syria, and about easing the plight of the disposessed whose lives have been destroyed by the asaad regime. >> you write in your -- >> this is only a first step. >> you write in your ad for aljazeera.com america that israeli leaders feel they benefited from the war in syria, in fact, your words are in syria israel finds a blessed war, what do you mean by that? >> again, it's fascinating that when beam want to know what is happening in israel, they want to know what is happening with regards to syria, not palestine. martin indeck was capitol hill the prez conference

with kerry. that esa the u.s.' lead negotiator on the peace process, and he has become a completely diminished figure, now we are just talking about syria, the first perspective is the same as the perspective on the iran iraq war. two of its enemies were grinding each other down in a war of attrition, and many called it a blessed war, so while the world reeled in horror, many saw their ideal situation playing out. and that's happening again in syria. the israeli military intelligence apparatus does not want bashar al-asaad removed. they would like to see him weakened. they would like to see hezbollah pinned down, and they would like to see this war play out no matter how many casualties it stakes. because the weaker the states are, the more time israel is able to buy itself to continue its settle project that is playing out right here in ramala. >> thank you very much for being with us, max, the new york times best

selling awe though and contributor to al jazeera america.com. still ahead, after five years what have americans learned from the bail out? the big debt crisis.

>> what on the world is happening on wall street. >> went from 190, to 166 in the bring of an eye. >> u.s. housing market imploded hercked were foreclosed. president obama signed off on a $700 billion bail out for banks and companies, and vowed to overhaul financial regularslations. we did not choose how this crisis began, but we get to choose how it is left. >> washington and the wall street bankers are in the pockets of each other. >> edward used to be an investment banker and has first hand experience. >> it is not just wall street, it is our elected leaders and then even the judge whose allow this kind of thing to remain so deeply embedded in the culture. >> lehman brothers and

bay sterns are gone. swallowed up by barclays and jpmorgan chase. for most of the banks it is like the crisis never happened. jpmorgan made $6.1 billion up 32% from the previous year, wells fargo reported a profit of $5.2 billion. and also posting huge gains with city group, which received tens of billions of dollars in taxpayer bail out money, it made 4.18 billion. the economy is undoubtedly improving millions are still struggling. >> there are other people relying on consumer debt, credit cards and other debt to pay basic living experiences, and relying consumer food stamps and medicaid and other benefits and this include worker whose are working full time in many cases. >> the question now, can september 2008 happen again.

>> banks are reducing the amount of cash that they are holding in order to protection against another crash, that is a recipe for disaster. >> the big apple will always be one of the big zest most important cities in the world. 22008 economic melt down expose as system fueled by corporate greed, and the federal government is still unwilling or unable to rain it in. >> . >> we are keeping a close watch on those rains in colorado and two storms that are brewing in mexico. thank thank you very much, dale. we have two stormed, two named storms right now in the gulf of mexico. we have ingrid, and then in the eastern pacific we have maneul.

what we are concerned with is the rainfall. actually we already have reports of fatalities due to all that heavy rain. i want to show you portions from yesterday. heavy rain made travel impanel, and also really a mess out there on the roadways. these cattle trying to get across the street. but it is really difficult. it only takes two feet of rain to pick a vehicle up and move it. we will have to continue to deal with downpours today, tomorrow, even into southern portions of texas. yes they need rain in southern texas, but right now we are going to see rapid rainfall, when hurricane ingrid does make rainfall, it will weaken slightly but rain is the major concern, all the way down into corpus christi we can see anywhere from one to

sixisms of rainfall. so really want to use precaution if you are there. meanwhile, down intonn particularly we could see anywhere from an additional one to two-inch oz f of rain here today. if your are in your home, going to be a very trying 24 to 36 hours. the seven is going to come out and it will hopefully begin to dry out just a bill, dale, back to you. >> southern louisiana is on alert, after federal officials announced a brain eating amoeba that was found in the water supply. residents in the town of saint bernard parish that are concerned about the health scare. hey, shane, let's concentrate right here, is this good for you? >> jeff foal hahn has been sprucing up the yard for weeks. >> after all, he is expecting the whole family. >> sunday, we are having a big party here for my

dad. looking at 50 people being here. >> may may have to pull the bluing. >> we have nieces and nephews and three grandkids. i don't know if i want them swimming. >> thursday the centers for disease control, announced the water supply tested positive for a deadly appeal way. they increased testing after a four-year-old boy died while playing on a slip and slide. >> it was an increase in the amount of chlorine that is administered in the system, as well as a decrease in the ammonia, which allowed more of a disinfectant. >> the amean yeah, commonly called the brain eating amean yeah, is usually found in warm bodies of water. doctors say it can't be con tracked just by drinking water. >> the uranism has to get through the nose and to

the brain. once it gets to the brain, it causes a lot of inthat nation. usually within the first five days will result in fever, headaches, stiff neck. >> federal health officials stress that these are very rare, there have only been about 120 cases in the u.s. the big concern is that almost every one resulted in death. parish leaders say it could take weeks to make sure the amoeba is -- until then they are urging people to avoided getting it in their nose. >> i would not allow unsupervised use of sprinklers and hoses or slip and slides. for jeff and terry, it is just another set back. >> we get hit with the blows, we had catorino, now we have the amoeba. how many blows. >> i don't about swimming, i don't know if we should drain the pool, fill it back up after they say the wattser okay, but then, is the water okay? >> if i have any doubt of

this pool not being safe, no, no one will go it. >> for now they will avoided the water until they have assurance that the amoeba is out. >> there is a big show down coming up this afternoon, mark morgan joins us live from new jersey, tell us about it? >> that's right, it is brother verses brother,ly have the story right here coming up.

as soon as payton manning picked the denver broncos to be his new team, he and his brother eli knew this game was coming up. joins us now with the latest, this is certainly the biggest game of the day, what is it like out there? >> well, dale i tell you what a lot of people have been looking forward to this game, the hype machine has been in overdrive. in one quarter with the two super bowl rings in the other corner his brother payton manning broncos quarterback with one schuler bop ring, something has to give today, let's get it on.

this will be the third time, it could be the last time, you capture it and hold on to it, have a moment from the 2006 game, and the 2010 game, and -- that's one moment and the rest of the time -- you are going out trying to do your job and help your team win. >> it is neat seeing your brother before the games, or on the sideline, and those are the momentsly remember for a long time. hopefully when i think back on these games we played against opposing teams i can think back and remember at least one win. >> now, this is the third time the brothers have met, and payton's colts won the first two games so we will see kind of what happened today. as far as the other family side of this game is concerns, the parents archie and olive yo are expected to be at the game, and they will obviously be cheering for whichever team has the ball. brother cooper is a

different story, he is reportedly not going to attend the game today. in the past he has admitted it is very tough to watch both of his brothers play against each other. >> what are some of the other match ups on the week in the nfl? well, several of the game -- two early starts. one takes place up in green bay, where the red skins travel to face the packers. so someone is going to walk away 0-2, not a place you want to start as far as the nfl season is concerned. robert griffin the third, lost toe the eagles you saw that game, and also the packers win out west, lost in san francisco, to that's one big game there, the cowboys 1-0, facing andy reed in his first season there with the kansas city chiefs. that game is in k cost city, so both of those teams 1-0, remember tony romo got knocked around a bit, he says his ribs are fine, we will see how he performed is tonight that

show down, three years ago, the sea hawks won the division the last two years the 9ers won the n fullbackc west, and last year, obviously, san francisco advances to the super bowl before losing to the ravens. so again, that is a huge rivalry, those two don't like each other either, so niners and sea hawks another one to watch later on this evening. >> so mark, pick it quickly who is going to win today between then maaing brothers? >> you know what, i think the broncos have a more high powered offense, i don't think the giants defense is where it needs to be. so i think the broncos will probably walk away with a slight win today, or wrath ear narrow win, it think lit be a very good game, and i look for both quarterback quarterbao perform very well. once they get on the field, this brother brother thing goes out the window, i think right now the broncos have a few more offensive weapons and the giants defense not where it needs to be. i will take the broncos by 3. >> joining us life, thank you very much. that's it for this

edition of al jazeera. 101 east is next. afghanistan's future grows increasingly uncertain, as years of foreign aid and intervention come to an end. in the jostling for money and power, competing forces are fighting for the wealth buried deep in the hindu kush mountains. that wealth is precious rubies, which fetch a handsome sum, especially when smuggled across the border. i'm steve chow. on this edition of 101 east, we look at the lives of afghan ruby miners who are risking it all chasing crystal dreams.