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authorities say i shot john farrell 10 times in a spwurbt sf charlotte. gas prizes have averaged $3 a gallon for more than 1,000 days -fplz triple afte.triple-a saysn $3 is part of the pass. very afternoon i's miami beach mansion has sold. he was shot and killed there in '97. those are your headlines, america tonight is next. >> on america tonight, questions tonight. with a history of mental illness and lots of red flag how did the navy yard shooters slip through the cracks. and still picking up the pieces in haiti.

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tonight investigators had gun to peace together disturbing details of the last months and even last minutes of aaron alexis' life as he began his monday morning rampage at the washington navy yard. by the time it ended 12 workers at that sprawling campus laid dead. with the abundance of red flags in his behavior why didn't anyone see the warning signs? why didn't anyone stop him? coincidentally a deep look of security on navy bases is due to be released. we have been following this story. lori jane, what has been happening with the security reviews under way? >> reporter: joie, the secretary of the navy said there will be a new review of the naval installments. the yearlong audit is about to be released showing significant flaws in the way the navy handles security procedures. just essential staff going in and out of navy yard today with security checks for all.

as the investigation steps up, a soon to be released report from the office of the inspector general for the department of defense finds significant problems. the navy commercial access control system it said was ineffective in controlling access of contractors to military installations. 52 convicted felons had routine unauthorized access to navy properties putting military personnel and civilians at risk. >> we can can confirm that mr. alexis had legitimate access to the navy yard as a result of his work as a contractor. and he utilized a valid pass to gain entry to the navy yard. >> for a man with a troubled pass both in his personal life and during his time in the navy, aaron alexis passed at least two background checks in the last year. according to the subcontractor who hired him to do i.t. work at the complex. only a traffic ticket popped up

in his history, they say. but his run ins with the law tell a different story. he's accused of gun-related incidents including shooting the tires of a car in 2004. and police in rhode island said they called them with concerns about hearing voices in his room. there is a need for significant changes in the way information is shared to prevent deadly incidents like the one at the navy yard. >> i think a major flaw is to not pass along information about somebody who really seems to be a security risk, and it doesn't comply with the standards that originally gave him his security clearance or secret clearance. >> reporter: workers on the property told america tonight there are no metal detecters at the entrance of the building that would stop someone with weapons. vehicle serges and bag severals are sporadic. >> no place can be 1,000% secured. we've learned to live with that

in a post 9/11 world. unfortunately, we wait until a tragic incident before we figure out what the flips in the system are. >> reporter: military officials say they're reviewing physical security procedures at installations across the country to make sure that proper proceed protocols are being followed. >> we'll continue to look at that. i'm convinced that we'll look into all those types of details and lessons learned that may come out of this. >> the question now, joie what changes will be implemented not only when it comes to security procedure at the navy yard but the procedures that grants someone access to information. alexis was able to keep his status during his time at a contractor. they say someone at his level only needs to be reinvestigated every ten years.

>> a checkered military career, run ins with the law, possible mental illness, how was someone like alexis granted security clearance in the first place. we're joined by tom connolly, who is with us from iowa tonight. tomorrow, i want to begin with you. it is really difficult for us as civilians to understand how this happens. how does someone like that get any kind of clearance? >> well, he shouldn't have had clearance. there were several failures. it looks like over a period of time people should have caught, they didn't catch quite frankly nationally agency track which everybody has to have, is a baseline should have caught his arrests, through the criminal information system. as this unfolds my guess is we're going to see just a whole cascading series of failures both

pre- and post time that he was issued his security clearance. >> you know, tom, a lot of people have asked the question how the questio sequester and budget cuts might have been involved. do you see that as a factor. >> it goes way back before the sequester. we used to have plenty of navy police on our bases. our forces got cut over and over and over again. replaced by low-bid contract guards. not only did we have the perimeter that we needed. we don't have the on site response that we needed. you add that to the political collect climate like major hasan where people are afraid to report things it makes a perfect storm for this incident to occ occur. >> the criminal behavior that we talked about repeatedly about

this incidents and major hasan as well, it seems to us as civilians, as people who are experts, when we look at this kind of behavior. he says he's hearing voices, he's involved with gun incidents, shouldn't that be enough to take someone off the streets or keep him from getting into this ? >> all of these mass shootings that we've seen over recent years really confronts our society with if you have a troubled individual who by their behavior has indicated they're on a path to violence but they've broken no law, and they don't have--they're not displaying behaviors that would allow us to involume commit them, how do you handle that. in the 32 years i've worked on this issue, and secret service confronted this in 1981 in their own ways of dealing with menta mentally ill individuals, john hinckley in particular, and completely revamped the way that

they looked into this, of course, they have a very small number of people to protect. >> yes, but in the military particularly there, is so much record keeping, there are so many opportunities to look at behavior in individuals in the military and in the reserves, why wouldn't something like this be spotted? >> because it's important to understand-- >> and would it an higher standard any way. >> you have to know what behavior you're looking for. the vast majority of people who are mentally ill, troubled in one way or another are not violent. they're not dangerous. how do you pick out those individuals out of this vast array of individuals, that might be a threat to you in the place you're trying to protect? >> and tom, the other element of this is what do you think of as secret? what is a person who deserves top clearance, right? within the military structure? >> well, there is about 4 million people with security clearances.

what he had was an l-clearance, the civilian equivalent to secret. as opposed to top-secret which would be a q-clearance. he had to go through a background investigation and then a ten-year reevaluation. the troubling part for me is that his security clearance was apparently just reissued in july with this landscape background to consider, and nobody caught it. so as i said, there are some failures. >> doesn't that mean--doesn't that mean that there might be other people out there who might be dangerous as well? >> well, it does. and what's frightening is this guy worked at the naval c systems command. one-third of the nuclear triad of our country is the submarines. the sub surface as well as surface ships, all the plans, the strategy and the weapons

systems are there. so this guy-- >> it's very critical. >> it could have worked in a nuclear area. >> it's very critical. >> it is frightening. >> and thank you very much. >> it's chief of naval operations. >> yes, thank you for your insight as well. "america tonight" will turn after this break but first we want to leave you with the faces and names of those who lost their lives at the navy yard ship.

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>> when haiti was struck by the devastating earthquake three and a half years ago the world rallied. the united states and other countries pledged billions of dollars in aid for the 4.5 million displaced victims, it was a chance to build a new haiti, and to build back better. but so far that has not happened. soledad o'brien takes a look at what went wrong. >> tucked at the bottom of goat mountain on the outskirts of port-au-prince is a hot and dusty camp site. the pa still houses and trees

are deceptive. from a distance it looks very solid. but when you get up close. it's plywood . >> yes, it's some kind of plywood but they painted over it, and it looks better than it really is. >> jimmy rafael and his family were among the first to come to karai three months after the earthquake. aid agencies encouraged thousands to abandon their tent cities for safer, better and eventually permanent housing. this is what they ended up with. >> so this is your mother's house? >> tell me a little bit about it. >> okay, yes, this is mom's house. when you come in you see it very small. you look up and you see the roof is metal. the sun is hot. the house is boiling hot.

you come here and you see your bedroom where she sleeps. when it rains the water comes rushing down from the mountains flooding. it's not good. >> it's not good for the 40,000 haitians who have been living here for three years and not good for the estimated 100,000 squatters who found refuge in the neighboring hills. all lured by the promise of a new haiti. that would spring from the 9 billions tons of republic. when the earthquake hit jimmy was working as a bell boy at one of haiti's most exclusive hotels. the monday the montana. more than 200 people were killed there. he barely escaped. jimmy eventually ended up here in carai. when you first got here, what was it like? >> it was like a desert.

there was nothing, no water, no food. >> this was tents, right? no houses, tents. >> there were no houses. there were tiny tents and one felt very isolated. >> carai was chosen as the site for this modern camp in spatter because slated to be the location of a new industrial park. a place where sorely needed manufacturing jobs could be created. three and a half years later that project remains nothing more than a dream. the 40,000 people who live in the camps and the tens of thousands more living in the shanties dotting the surrounding hills find themselves in a desert like landscape with no jobs and a two-hour compute in traffi in--commute to get to the city. >> there was no foundation to the camp settlement itself. so the people who move there had

they had no means of earning a living. >> richard poole, of the american refugee committee was the carp's first manager. he arrived on site in april o of 2010. >> carai was seen as an alternative and exciting prospect of building a new haiti. but it didn't work out with that that. >> alexander main is with research. >> when you hear of the millions of dollars thrown around haiti. that's not true. it's not much more than a billion dollars that's effectively been spent. so yes, i think in people's minds there has been more money that has gone to haiti than actually has. >> reporter: in his report called "breaking open the black box" main found of the money

allocated for haiti by the u.s. agency for international development or usaid only .7% has gone directly to haitian businesses or organizations. the rest has gone to ngos and u.s. contractors. >> if we're partnering with ngos and with contractors that we have brought in that are responding to our requests for service providers, then they had better be held to this same accountability standards that we would hold anyone to in the united states. >> reporter: congresswoman yvette clark, a democrat from new york has some of the largest haitian communities in the u.s. within her brooklyn district. she's planning a congressional hearing. >> we're going to have to go where it leads. we have to find out, you know, who was responsible, and hold them account able. if this is indicative of our missions overseas, it's setting

a very poor resident . >> reporter: about 30 kilometers from corail is a settlement that is supposed to be part of the here. it's one of several settlements. brightly colored houses in neatly laid out roads. so far the 156 roads are uninhabited. there are plans to move people in in the fall. this town is the tip of the iceberg for what has gone wrong in haiti and a microcosm of what happened to the money. launched in april of 2010 by usaid the idea behind the new settlements program was to build 15,000 permanent houses. that would benefit between 75,000 and 90,000 displaced refugees. the total price tag, $59 million. by 2012 the cost had spiraled to $95 million. usaid had to drop the number of

houses to be built by more than 80%. instead of 15,000 houses they would only build 2600. how did this happen? a report from the government accountability office blamed inaccurate cost estimates and requests from the government. they wanted bigger rooms, electricity, flush toilets. then there was the high overhead costs. >> there is no real control of costs built into this system. and so the money would go to the contractors, they will, you kn know, skim some of that money away, and then often they will then during around and find subcontractors who sometimes you can have several levels of contracting before you have implementation. of course, this becomes enormously costly. >> reporter: usaid declined

repeated requests for an interview. outsiden website the agency claims progress in haiti. 65,000 households healthed with temporary shelters or repairs. and 10,000 plots of lands in an effort to get victims back in their homes. but that's a drop in the bucket for haiti's homeless. today aid agencies say approximately 300,000 people in port-au-prince still live in deplorable conditions and camps. families crammed into tiny shelters made out of tarps and scraps of wood. this one called camp 54 sits in the middle class suburb. there are 5,000 people living on the streets here. the camp is run by a teacher. >> good morning. >> all: good morning. >> with help from his mother, mackenzie managed to build a

school here with 700 children. >> in english. >> mackenzie's school survived the earthquake but not the aftermath. >> you were forced to leave in order to turn the schoolyard into a parking lot. >> an un agencies presented the property from mackenzie's landlord and his school became a parking lot. so now mackenzie teaches dozens of children in a tiny makeshift classroom. what makes it more painful is it's virtually across the street from his old school. >> how does it field to look at your school? >> oh, yes, teach i'm each timt it, i try to avoid coming by here. it hurts. it hurts. it hurts deeply. >> i know what you're saying even though i don't speak your language. it feels terrible. >> it makes a pain in my heart.

>> hurtful. >> yes. >> mackenzie said he needs just $9,000 u.s. to build a new school for his kids. just $9,000 of the billions pledged to non-governmental organizations. the international aid has brought small pockets of development. the clinton-bush haiti fund brought $2 million to build in five star hotel, the oasis. the funds say the project created 200 jobs. but according to the u.n. haiti's unemployment has nearly doubled since the earthquake. it now stands at a staggering 90%. jimmy tried unsufficientl unsucr two years to get a job at a hotel. today he says he makes $6 a day on a good day driving a motorcycle taxi in port-au-prince.

he's given up on the home he was promised in corail. >> can i go inside the house. >> and he's trying to rebuild his family home destroyed in the earthquake. >> what kind of work are you doing on it? >> i'm working on the windows and installing cinderblocks to install a second floor. >> for jimmy there is no sign of a new haiti emerging. like so many haitianss he's building back on his own. >> that's staggering 90% figure comes from an u.n. adviser who in 2012 was saying that that number was that high. most people put unemployment today at 70% pre-quake at 46%. but the calculation i'll caution you is very complicated because of course you're looking at

formal unemployment versus informal unemployment. jimmy our bicycle messenger would tell you that he is u unemployed. he doesn't have a job. he would like the job back that he had at hotel montana. >> so many disappointments. is there any silver lining in this? linings. it was interesting to have alexander main point out, a lot of money has not been spent. that's kind of good news because there is an opportunity to do it right. his big issue is that in accountability, and one tha of the most disturbing things to get usid to sit down for an interview and commit. where did that money go that went to ngos, an accounting of that money would be helpful. they have not done it for us?

they have not done it for congress. and congress is looking at an october date to get that accounting. since there is more money to spent, that is good news that it hasn't been spent and it could be done the right way. >> i'm sure you'll keep an eye on it. soledad o'brien. thank you very much. why some critics say the school is setting the kids up for failure.

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>> now we continue our discussion about obamacare even though people can start signing up for health insurance under obamacare in two weeks polls show americans remain very confused about the law. one new poll find more than three-quarters of uninsured americans, the group obamacare

is supposed o to help the most o not even understand the law and how it effects them. another poll shows 46% of americans aren't even sure if obamacare is the law of the land. here to help us make sense in all this. it is incredibly confusing. we've gone through a few points and we want to help people go point by point because these are the most frequently asked questions. first off, why is there so much misunderstanding about it? >> i think it comes to two factors. one, we've been fighting the political debate over the affordable care act in the supreme court and congress. we haven't been talking about what is in it. we've just been talking about whether we should repeal it or not. the second factor is it's a complex law. it depends on where you live, how much you earn and the people in your family. those aren't questions that you answer in a 30-seconds sound bite. >> what is required of you as an individual.

if you might be subject to this. >> this is pretty simple. what is required starting on january 1st of next year nearly all americans are required to have a health insurance policy. that's the big thing that people need to know about with this law coming into effect. >> how do you sign up for this. >> if you have insurance now through your employer, medicaid, medicare. you sign up like you did the last year going through the open enrollment process. the people who will see a big change are those who don't have insurance. they'll go to the website called exchanges. they'll be able to compare insurance plans and compare options and subsidies from the government in some cases. >> that's the most complicated and difficult part of it. walk me through the dem lines. >> as you mentioned, october 1st two weeks ais when people can start doing their shopping process when the exchanges open and people can see how much insurance costs, and think if it fits in their

budget. january 1st is another crucial date. that's when you're required to have health insurance. you don't have to sign up on october 1st. you probably want to start signing up by christmastime. >> so what happens if you are from louisiana or some state that is not a part of the exchange. >> that's a question i get a lot. the federal government will come in and run the marketplace. they're actually--the white house is running it at this point most of the state marketplaces. they're running 33 marketplaces across the country in places like louisiana and texas and florida. so everyone will have access to an ex exchange. it might be run by the state or the federal government. >> let's thin think about some r elements about this. how well publicized is this? is the federal government doing a very good job explaining? are the individual states doing a very good job explaining? if there is a confusion if this applies to you or not.

>> the poll numbers show that we're two weeks away from open enrollment, and most people don't know if this law is standing or what it means to them. i have seen real ramp up of advertising from states where they're putting out television ads. washington state has released new television ads early today. what you'll see is not necessarily an october october 1st business burs big burst of advertisement. you'll see them ramping up the advertising and get people enrolled before the january 1st deadline. >> so it seems that this is partly complicated because it involves going online. maybe there are some folks, i think a lot of about not to discriminate, but suggesting older folks my age and old who are have enough trouble figuring out what we should do online to begin with. this seems like a complicated process that i might need help with. i might need help to understand.

>> there will be assistance. that's an excellent point to bring up. and the white house has been cognizant of this. if you put someone who has never interacted with insurance and sit them in front of the computer and say, shop for health insurance, that's not going to work. they're putting millions of dollars in people to help, who knows a lot and explain the options. they're working with libraries and pharmacies so people have somewhere in their neighborhood where they can walk in and talk to someone face to face which a lot of people when they're making a big financial decision they don't want to do it in their living room in their house. they want someone who knows about this walk them through the process. >> i think any of us with this insurance we always have those questions in our minds. obamacare requires that everybody has health insurance. but at the end of the day will there be people who don't have insurance? >> significant in the of them. 31 million people without insurance after the healthcare law is fully in affect.

from a government forecast. some are left out because some states are not expanding medicaid and won't have an option under obamacare. others are undocumented workers. and a third group that is quite large are people who are eligible for programs but don't enroll. they might not know about it. they nay find it complex. they might not want to spend the money on it. they will be eligible but they're not signing up. >> will there be a penalty? will the government come to your house and say show me your insurance card. >> they will not going to do that. it is a $95 tax penalty subtractinged from your tax return. it scales up in the next few years. in a 2015, $395, and increasings along with inflation. they can recoupe this fee there are stringent requirements. the only thing they can do is take it off your tax return.

>> that is one thing to worry less about. thanks so much for trying to help us clear this up i think it is still quite confusing. >> yes, thank you. >> tomorrow night our correspondent will continue to look at obamacare this time in colorado where both republicans and democrats have embraced the plan. many point to colorado as a model of how other states should be implementing the law. >> accessing healthcare has been a luxury in our society. if you can afford it, you can get it. if you can't afford it, you don't. >> more on obamacare from colorado in part two from our report tomorrow night. after the break here tonight, a very difficult homecoming in colorado. as rescue crews continue to look for stranded victims, local victories return to what they call home. we'll be live in colorado after

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