you see... >> i am stephanie sy. you have watching al jazeera america. these are some of the stories we are following. the death toll rise ins mexico after two separate storms pummel the company. the danger is not over yet. yet another storm is approaching. a big vote on capitol hill that could cut down the federal government in ten days a masses shooting in chicago. a 3-year-old child was caught in the crossfire. the pope gives his first major interview and makes major news especially among the gay community. it literally pays to live in alaska in dividends. why residents are getting a 900

drear check deposited in their bank account. the death toll from mexico's back-to-back hurricanes has now gone up to 97 with dozens of people still missing. the resort area around acapulco is still suffering from flooding and landslides even though the latest storm has den downgraded and moved through. residents are bracing for more storms. david mercer has more from mexico city >> reporter: manuel left a path of destruction in southwestern mexico has moved up to the northwestern part of the country. we have heard there could be up 30 to $0.45 meters of rain dropped in that area. we have heard that there could be heavy strong winds. there have been evacuations. the state is on red alert and

schools are being cancelled. but so far up in this northwest region of mexico, we haven't seen the same sort of destruction as we did in the southern part of the country. on wednesday, i was in acapulco where around in that area where the majority of the people have been trapped. people who have been killed in landslides, it's been around there and some of these regions are incredibly remote and very mount nance and it was simply days and days of rain saturated soil that came down in landslides, in one landslide, more than 100 people were buried. now, although many survivors have been pulled out, there are dozens of dead and there are still many who are disappeared. these are the kind of situations. these are the kinds of scenes that the emergency services are trying to get to but the emergency services are having trouble getting there because of the infrastructure that's being cut off by the floods and landslide, a lot of access is

only by helicopter. now, the government is slightly limited in what its able to do with helicopters in terms of pulling people out. they are having difficulty reaching these people. there is more rain in the forecast when we were there on wednesday in acapulco, it started to rain before we left on a military flight. i can only imagine how worried this has people who are living already in very difficult, difficult conditions with their houses having been collapsed and living, basically, in the wild without much help whatsoever from the outside world. >> david mercer in mexico. meantime, in asia, what forecasters are calling the most powerful sternly so far this year, it's turning towards the south china sea. typhoon esage is heading for hong kong. the massive storm in 600 miles -- six to 80 miles wide packing 127-mile-per-hour winds. it's already caused flooding and

torrential rain in northern japan. craig leaseon joins me on the phone from hong kong in the path of the storm. craig, first of all, i understand they are calling this a super typhoon. can you give us an exact of exactly how big this is compared to the other typhoons we have already seen this summer >> that's right. this is a typhoon. it's categorized as such packing winds of 150 miles per hour. this has had wind speeds peeking at 160 miles per hour. they are gusting still, as you said, around 120, sometimes up to 150 miles per hour. that makes it the strongest storm on earth which beats the previous storm here in august, which cans packed wind speeds of about 160 miles per hour. that storm was heading also for hong kong ended up swinging to the south and missing hong kong but slamming through the philippines and into china and

159 people were killed. many thousands, many hundreds were missing and mistaken hundredses of thousands were displaced from that storm. this storm couldn't come at a worse time because today is the festival so mary people are traveling throughout asia to spend the weekend with their families. it continues on its track, stephanie, it is expected to hit hong kong directly on sunday. >> a direct hit. craig, what kind of operations are you seeing there in the region? >> well, taiwan was heard a travel alert. china, which, as i said, suffered from horrendous landslides and floodings due to about 13 tropical storms this year has issued a yellow alert. the state oceanic ministry body has issued the highest on the nation's response system. they are expecting more trouble to come from this. >> craig leeson, we will

continue to follow this story. craig, in hong kong, thank you. now, the death toll from the flooding in colorado has risen to 7 and could go up even more. the flood is proving to be a huge financial hit for colorado because so many of the victims are uninsured. as tamara banks reports, some are turning to fema to hurt. >> jessie and will collins were among the first people allowed back in >> i cried. i mean it was utter devastation. >> they found four feet of mud inside their residence. what's left? >> we owned our business outright. it took me 30 years, 30 years to get to here. >> just down the street, fema's swift water search and rescue

team was going through the neighborhood, trudging through high water to make sure everyone has been accounted for. these boots on the ground are part of the rescue process. but now, a week after the floods, fema's attention is turn to go money to help people get back on their feet. >> this is a street here there is not supposed to be a river running down this street. a lot of folks in these small communities don't have flood insurance. only about 6,000 people in bolder county have flood insurance. >> carol walker is with the rocky mountain insurance association >> you hate to exaggerate and talk about a 500-year flood but this is a historic unprecedented event in colorado. >> she says a lot people in colorado who were affected by these floods were not even in flood plains >> many people will say, well, it happened now. it's not going to happen again but any time they see those heart had a breaking images on t.v., people unable to recover from this financially, we hope that will encourage people to be

more prepared and buy flood insurance. >> female says so far, 10,200 people have signed up for help. the agency has $3.4 million for cash grants, unemployment assistance and temporary housing. >> we are a piece of the recovery package that people have. >> fema's rid ardo kuinisa says? >> we want to make sure you have a safe, security and has beenable place to live >> we were on top of the world before this. >> they are shhoping fema's jum start will health get lives back on time >> i hoped it would be like a fire. you know you know, a flood, i guess, is last thing that came to my mind. >> for jessie and wyl and thousands of others, the long financial recovery process is just beginning. tamara banks, eye recall,

colorado k [ music ] >> i am meet roth dave warren. flood gauges but this is in at the bottom nebraska. all of the rain that we have had in colorado is moving to the east slowly so we have flood warnings now in effect all the way through nebraska along the south flatt river. see this with the latest warning map, all of these flood warnings extending through nebraska. flooding will continue to impact the state. as from all of the rape that happened along the front rain, so that is now pushing east. showers and storms are also moving east. severe weather. these were strong thunderstorms developed thursdays evening pushing through iowa and then about to moved in to chicago. this is a large system. it is a front dividing warm air and cool air and that's a big change in temperatures. that will that will be feeling effects of chicago together and the needed on friday and saturday. rain amounts in the next 24

hours, friday and saturday, there is this front that moves through drying out where the storms are now. so the rain is gone but the temperatures are dropping. in chicago, from 87 to 77, down to 7072. and this is what to expect here over the next few days as this scho cooler air moves in from the northeast. high temperatures across the northeast on friday. we will be up to about 80. 82 in philadelphia, mid - to upper scents. warm weather but that doesn't last because after the showers move through on sunday, those temperatures drop down to 70 on monday and 72 on tuesday. get ready for some warm temperatures but a quick return to fall and it's pretty much here over the weekend starting at chicago and moving its way to the northeast. i'm meteorologist dave warren with your national forecast. >> we will be tracking the path of the storms in and the south china sea throughout this the day. the house is set to vote on a budget bill that would strip

funding from the affordable care act. the vote is going ahead even if the bill has no chance of passing the senate. mike viquera has the latest. >> democrats and republicans citing that's nothing knew. the problem is it's republicans fighting with conservatives, over this issue of whether to attach a defunding of the president's healthcare law to a bill that funds the government over the course of the necessary year. for conservatives, a call to arms. >> this is a moment for republicans to unite. >> texas fire brand ted cruz and a group of houses members are drawing a like in exchange for a vote in favor of cutting the government are running they want to cut off the healthcare law. >> this is bad stuff. we have to do everything we can to halt it, stop it. >> friday, the house votes on whether or not to do that. nothing it has not done dozens of times before. the president says he will veto and the republicans aren't

likely to give in to conservative demands >> we will not blink. >> republicans are crying foul producing a video slamming the president for negotiating with everyone but then. >> discussed this with president putin. this is not something that's knew. i have been discussing this with president putin for some time now. >> while the president is happy to negotiate with vladimir putin, he won't engage with congress on a plan that deals with the deficits that threaten our economy. >> the video, i thought, reprecenter an odd bit of putin envy on behalf of the speaker. >> if the gridlock goes on, the grid line could should down on october 1st. and them if congress doesn't vote to raise it, the country could face a financial crisis. senator cruz says he will mount

a filibuster >> we will put with every ounce that we have. >> the house of representatives will vote on that conservative bill that would defund the president's healthcare initiati initiative. no one expects that to go anywhere. you have seen senate democrats say they won't passes it. they won't even talk it up. the president said if they did, they would veto it. the house plans to cancell a planned vacation they were taking next week. they will be back in session to take up the bill yet again. back to you. >> the house has voted to cut nearly $4,000,000,000 a year from the food stamp program. >> that's a 5% cut. the bill passed without a single democratic vote. the provisions outlined cutting the $39,000,000,000 over 10 years for food stampedes. we are keeping our eyes on a shooting in chicago. about a dozen people were shot at a park, including a 3-year-old. it is time to act. that's something terri of

state's john kerry on syria's chemical weapons. >> the pope's warning to the catholic church: it risks collapsing like a house of cards, he said, over its stops on homo sexuality, abortion and contraception.

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>> a shooting in chicago in the park, diane estabrook is now on the scene and she joins me by phone. diane, what mortgage can you tell us? >> well, i can't tell you -- i can tell you stephanie that the police have cleared the scene.

everyo everyone has been taken to the hospital. you are correct. 12 people were shot including a 3-year-old child who is in critical condition. police tell us that child was shot in the cheek. there were 11 other adults. the conditions we do know: two are in critical condition, four in serious condition; 4 in good condition. those people were transported to the hospital. one victim was actually able to drive himself to the hospital. as you mentioned, the shooting happened at about 10:15 at a park on the city's south side. it happened at a basketball court. please tell us the gunman apparently walked through a gate and opened fire. they believe this was gang-related. this has been a very violent evening in chicago. five other people were shot at various times in various leases throughout the city tonight. one victim died after being transported to the hospital. it's been a very violent year

august all together in chicago. so far, there have been three 00 homicides in the city. >> diane, do women if the gunman is in custody at this point >> that we do not know at this point. >> we will continue to follow this story throughout the evening. diane, thank you. the company that did a background check on the washington navy yard shooter had also vetted nsa leaker he hedwi snow determine. usim is already under criminal investigation over if it mention led washington on just how thorough its background checks are. earlier this week, the company said it had not handled aaron arias. -- alexis he had a security clearance that allowed him to enter the navy yard where he shot 12 people to death on mopped. secretary of state, john

kerry says this is not the time for the united nations to argue over syria. kerry is pushing the u.n. to finalized the deal to eliminate syria's chemical winters' property. he says there is conclusive evidence that the assad government is behind the chemical weapons stack there. >> we need everyone's help in order to see that the execute council lives up to its founding values and passes a binding resolution that codifies the strongest possible mechanism to achieve the goal and to achieve it rapidly. we need to make the geneva agreement meaningful and to make it meaningful in order to eliminate syria, cw program and to do it with this parent see and with the accountability, the full act ability that is demanded here it is important that we accomplish the goal in new york and accomplish it as rapidly as possible. >> meanwhile, the u.n. says its

chemical weapons inspection team will be back in syria next week. and france is weighing in on the e debate. the french president fran saw olan is rallied to give more military help to rebels. olan suggested that arming the rebels con done in a controlled framework. france is one of bashar al-assad's fearest critics. pope trans ses will see what he calls a new balance. he called on the church to become a home for all, taking issue with the church's quote obviousception with abortion, gay marriage and could traception. due hart went to a church where they welcome gay parishers. >> a catholic church in new york, this church has had a

lesbian gave minister every year. >> we routinely say all are welcome and oftentimes we print it over a door. all are welcome. is it just something that's just a catch phrase that we put on the door, or is it something that we make real in how we receive people? father steven mimnon says it goes beyond the issues. it's much more fundamental for catholi catholics. >> the conversation not about same-sex section marriage. it's not about well, can i commit myself the same sex or not even if it's not done in the context of church? it's really i want to find a place where i am welcome to pray. >> the lgbt ministry at saint ministry of asissy that the church is acknowledging that gaze and lesbians are part of the community.

>> a person once accident me if i approved of home mo sexuality. i replied with: when god looks like at a georgia person, does he reject and condemn this person? we must always consider the person. francis added that the church has become, quote, obsessed with moral issues like gay marriage and contra session, hoping to broaden the church'smes. it's not necessary to talk about these issues all the time. the dogmatic and abnormal the ministry can't be obsessed with a multitude of doctorins to be imposed consistently, a stark contrast from ped sessors. since becoming pope, fran sizhas been seen as much more progressive >> when you have a leader like this, you can't help think but would you, there is something that's interesting and it may be more people will be interested in what catholics do and

believe. >> nothing in the interview signals a change in search policy but it's clearly a change in tone. 'til mistaken duke hearted. network. >> in stark could betrast from his predecessor who fought for a more dogmatic morally conservative church nearly every alaskan resident will be $900 richer. why it pays off in dividends every year to live there. millions who need assistance now. we appreciate you spending time with us tonight. up next is the golden age of hollywood going golden but elsewhere. why l.a.'s mayor has declared a state of emergency for the entertainment industry there. next.

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ones. >> every year, residents receive a check. it's usually met with joy. there was some disappointment when the amount of this year's dividend came up short. it will be for $900. >> that's less than half of the more than $2overhear o alan joins us playoff in anchorage. i can't imagine there is too much reason to complain about this. >> no, stephanie, in fact, this may not be. >> a lot of people have a reason to turn around and spend it. >> i need some coffee to survive the whole day with eight kids. >> donna could use a little help

with eight kids living here in their first house after four years of homelessness, time and money and basic necessities are in short supply. what is that yearly check from the state mean? >> a lot of help. i think all that is going to go towards my children and all of their needs. >> most of the kids are sleeping on the floor right now. they have clothes, but nowhere to put them. each has a list of wants and needs. >> i need a bed and curtains that match it, everything. >> a hello kitty alarm crock. >> i want to decorate my room. >> the dividend paid yearly to alaskans comes from a 4 syllable yon dollar investment fund starting from oil companies working in this state. the payout varies. this year, it's a bit higher than expected but on the low end, feeling the effects of the

recession in 2009, a bad year which is still part of the five-year rolling average of investment earnings that dictate the yearly total. next year, 09 won't be in the mix. >>ls roddel say this is a point they have earned >> it's because this is oil that belongs to all alaskas. you'll served to share in the we think of the stiffed. >> chris donnelly is typical in the way he spends the money. his family looks to a bit of winter fun. >> they have been getting failure did i have send since they were born and those have gone into their college fund. the wife and i were fierce so we allowed them to pay for our skiing every year. >> back at the household, there is a new plan for where some of the kids' pses will go. >> opening up for each and every

one of them. >> now, a lot of that money will go into the savings account, the college funds, et cetera. a lot more of it will go to toys and to travel and go right back into the economy, $576 million for the pay-off is october 3rd the. >> thank you, al jazeera. alan shaftler. live in acreage. >> ever feel like you could lay in your bed forever? nasa is looking for volunteers to spend 70 days at rest and pay you $18,000 for anyone participating. they will discuss conditions for sending astronots to mars. you know, need to be healthy. sinal me up. that will do it for this edition of al jazeera news. i am stephanie sy. ali velshi is next with real money.

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