welcome to aljazeera, i'm morgan and here are the headlines. authorities have still found no motive for the shooting at the washington navy yard. but all indications are that aaron alexis acted alone. 12 killed in the shooting and eight more injured. three shot but they are in stable condition. the u.n. has found evidence of chemical weapons in syria. americans who rely on food stamps to get by could soon see

the benefits cut. house of representatives is considering a bill to slash food stamp subsidies by $4 billion a year. right now, one in seven americans use food stamps, and the cost of the program has doubled in the last five years. if. >> the costa concordia is upright. you're looking at the ship right now. it took 19 hours, and it capsized after a granite rock tore a 50-meter tear. i'm morgan, thank you for joining us and see you at 2:00 a.m. >> america rocked by another

mass shooting. this time in washington d.c.'s navy yard. details are still pouring in. the death toll has surged into double digital with several others injured. consider this: how could someone with a troubled background like the suspected shooter, aaron alexis gain access to a military inis itation. the double edged sorted of breaking news getting out information quickly but often misinforming the public. five years have paced since lehman brothers collapsed. we will have an inside look at the frantic attempts to control the chaos and the risk we face of another wall street meltdown. three years after the death of j.b. salinger, a new documentary reveals shocking new information about the reclusive author of catcher in the rye. welcome to consider this.

. >> thank you both for joining us. let's get to what we know about this guy. aaron alexis, former soldier, big guy identified as the

shooter. they are still investigating, though, and need to help in finding out. >> there was some word that there could possibly be a second shooter. j j., an installation like this, how could they not figure this out more quickly? >> reporter: well, i think what they were looking at is whether or not there was another shooter or other shooters or people involved that might have been helping this one shooter. the navy issued an order to account, which is a way for ally of the navy active duty, civilians and family members to go online and give the navy an accounting of where they are so that they could roule out whethr

or not these people might have been hurt or not. but i believe it's also an opportunity for them to figure out whether or not this person or persons that they were looking for were indeed perhaps aligned with the shooter or not. it's a big base. it's a big population of people that move through there so what they needed to do was to figure out where people were and what their movements were. so there is a lot of room for people to get lost in that system. >> now, aliexis was working for a group of hewlett-packard. they confirmed he was an employee. tim, the question is: what kind of access would he have been allowed to that naval yard? >> well, antonio, he might have had complete access, especially to this building. my understanding from talking to some people that have been involved in the it community at that base that the subcontracting work that he was involved in through the contract with hp would have involved upgrades and things to the navy

marine military internet which is their, you know, the military's intra communication system. as a subcontracto, he would have had an id which would have allowed him access to the basis. if that's the case, he would have had access onto the base and into this building to support the contract throughout that building. his clearance may have limited him not getting to all of the spaces within that building but he certainly could have had access into the building and into the people that he eventually killed there.

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few expectations to live up to. this is argen tendulkar son of sachi, in his father the highest run scorer. >> social media played an important role in breaking the news of the navy yard shootings. as al al jazeera's courtney ke keeley reports. >> local 36 soon confirmed an active shooter on the grounds of the navy yard with multiple victims. as emergency vehicles raced to the scene police cordoned off the area and helicopters flew overhead. scant details kept recl

re recirculating. some networks had to retract reports identifying the suspected shooter at the navy yard. apparently an i.d. had been found that looked like the suspected gunman. the ongoing scene enseized the nation with the horrific realization that another shooting was taking place. president obama addressed the nation before the tragedy could be confirmed. let the public know they were looking for at least two suspects put out an 800 nurm for people to call without any information. 34-year-old aaron alexis shot and killed on the scene.

alexis had an ar 14 assault rifle on his person. same type of gun used in the sandy hook and the aurora shootings. as social media blew up with news of the navy yard shootings, the nrb website had gone completely silent, as it has done in other situation situations. >> j.j. green rejoins us from d.c. and ryan broderick who has been covering the story for buzz feed. i thank you for being with us. we just heard courtney say how nbc and cbs had to retract their identification of the shooter because of an i.d. found by the shooter. all this information is getting out there so quickly nbc and cbs apparently also had sources so it's not as if they gave this

information out willy-nilly but oftentimes that does happen. the access to social media we can get this information out so quickly it can get out before people have a deep breath. go ahead. >> a lot of these news events follow a slash setup. you'll see twitter and it will snowball and then local media will join in or in the case of boston bombing or sandy hook, you see twitter data show you what's going to happen and become the major news story before anyone can tell. >> that's not phil terd. >> it's not filtered, it's raw. >> and j.j. there's a danger beyond just getting out the information to the public investigators have their own sources. they do all their legwork too. but they also pay attention to the information coming in from social media. does that misinformation have

an impact on the people going down the wrong information? >> it could but it's not often that this happens because i can tell you at least here in wrash and on the federal -- in washington and on the federal level they're very judicious about what they know and giving out facts. these law enforcement intelligence officials like many of us in journalism have this adage, when in doubt, leave it out. but it can play a role if there's a misappropriated use of social media and if it's not overseen very well or managed very well it can certainly lead to problems. >> for example today later on in the day, ed henry from fox a very respected reporter tweeted out? he said heard shots outside white house gate, that got

retweeted, hundreds of times, you create this chain reaction of information out there. what responsibility do you think news organizations have to not tweet things until it happens or to fix things after the fact? >> our job is to curate what is honest or what we do or do not know. you can go into twitter, you can use geolocations about where the tweets are from. you can treat it like meteorological information like weather. you can tell it's shots and not fire crackers. >> buzz feed focuses on viral media and what's getting out there. you have all sorts of filters to try to figure out what the truth is? >> our readers use social, most

young people and the general population use social now. to ignore it is almost as irresponsible as to use it poorly. when you are competing on twitter accounts that use pirated police scanner reports, breaking down very definitively what you can confirm, can't confirm and try to guide people through the mess. because there is so much out there and it's all competing in the same attention economy. >> and with all that out there j.j. we also should say that there is a benefit to it. there's a lot of good information that's coming out and it's certainly calling attention othings very quickly. and sometimes that is really helpful. >> well, yeah, there is that benefit. and you always want to have more information than less. but what we try to focus on is to tell people what we know. and leave the rest of it for a time until we can confirm it. because one of the -- one of the

real problems with putting a lot of information out there is, you have to verify this information. you have to vet it before you put it out there. there is a lot out there and considering the inordinate amount we're bombarded with these days, it is a lot harder to do that. the whole thing from my perspective is to make sure that whatever it is you put out there make sure you get it right first and then try to be first. but if you can't be first there's no embarrassment. you want to make sure what you're putting out there is accurate. >> all right, j.j, roderick, wish we had more time. that press conference took a lot of time. it's an important topic. thank you for being with us.

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>> in american literature, like salinger, the greatest no ever. >> at the height of that success he disappeared. >> no one says don't talk about this, don't think that, you

don't have to do it with a kid. kids pick up what the elephants are in the room that the family's not talking about. >> he sort of became the howard hughes of his day. >> joining us from los angeles is shane solerno, the director of the are salinger biography. thank you for joining us tonight. salinger wrote a couple of can a classics. but he lived as a recognize us a recluse in new hampshire. >> that played a role in the public's interest in salinger but the work stands strongest of why he wassing relevant. in 2010 the book still sold 500,000 copies. so the work stands tallest but very close to the work is the

myth and the mystique that surrounds j. d. salinger. >> one big revelation is that there may be more work to come, new manyo manuscripts will be released. >> there has never been an author the size of j.d. salinger who worked for 45 years storing that work in a vault to be released after his death. hi religion prevented him from seeking fame and feeding the ego, so he is doing it after -- after death posthumously. >> world war ii destroyed the man but made him a very great artist.

religion killed his art. world war ii, he was involved in freeing a concentration camp. the posttraumatic stress that was involved there destroyed him. did it become worse because of his separation from society? >> there is no question that j. d. salinger suffered from posttraumatic stress syndrome. without world war ii we would have never heard the word, j.d. salinger. it was the transformative event of his life. he went into the wawr as a rich kid -- war as a rich kid who grew up on park avenue. and he came out of the war with a voice and it was captivated with so much

pain. >> salinger was captivated by younger women. he had a romance in his 50s with a much younger why. >> among them was this one letter that eclipped all the rest. it began, dear ms. may maynard. i bet you are sitting in your college dormitory surrounded by letters. by the time i got to the bottom that i saw the signature j.d. salinger. >> he pursued other teenage girls. it is the quiet acceptance apparently live and well in our culture that genius justifies cruelty of those who are the artist and his art.

how do you think he got away without repercussions? >> there is no evidence that j.d. salinger was sexual with anyone underage. but he did have a pattern from the 1940s to well into his -- to the 1970s of dating young women or girls, in some form, that were teenagers. and you see it in his work. he was particularly fascinating with girls on the cusp of womanhood and all of it stems from a relationship that he had to oona o'neil,. >> very interesting, we appreciate you being on the show. the show may be over but the

good morning, i'm morgan radford. these are some of the stories we are following at this hour. a former reservist kills 12 at the washington navy yard before being killed in a gun battle with police. authorities are trying to determine his motive for murder. >> the shooter in the worst attack on a military installation since fort hood has a checkered past - including two former shootings. we'll hear from people who knew the shooter. >> rescuers get to hundreds of people in colorado, surrounded