>> a messy morning commute expected in san francisco after intense labor negotiation go off the rails. workers for the bay areas main commuter train go on strike, leaving hundreds of thousands scrambling for a way to get to work. now that the government showdown is over, president and congress are turning their attention to the budget in the hopes of avoiding another crisis in a few months. there is word the president may have a new ace up his sleeve. >> a $3 billion piece of pork buried in the bill to end the government shutdown. some of calling the pet project disgraceful. >> one man's dream of gold mobilizes an entire country.

the unusual reason people are hunting for buried treasure. >> good morning. welcome to aljazeera america. i'm stephanie sy. a serious case of commuter chaos, bay area rapid transit workers walked off the job, striking for the second time this year. the train shutdown is inconveniencing hundreds of thousands of san francisco area commuters. intense talks between management and employees broke down after the two sides couldn't reach an agreement. we are live in san francisco with more. good morning, lisa. does san francisco have a backup plan for all these commuters, or are people scrambling for rides this morning? >> good morning, stephanie. well, the backup plan starts here at the bay bridge.

most of the 400,000 people who use bart every day to commute to work are expecting to use this bridge. car pooling is encouraged, and there are casual carpools where people jump into cars together and cross this bridge, but certainly this is the most likely place those commuters will end up. there are also buses. bart has 200 buses that they will be running from oakland to san francisco. there's another bus system here called a.c. transit. a.c. transit will be running. the governor stepped in and called for a cooling down period, because those workers had also threatened to go on strike. there is also a ferry system here. the ferries i'm sure will be packed again this morning as in the summer when there was a four day bart strike and traffic was terrible then. it was summertime, meaning slower commutes.

the whole bay area is bracing for this. it's not only those 400,000 regular riders, but the others on the road, of course, will be affected, as well. the summer commutes were up to two hours longer than usual here. >> i can see even at 4:00 in the morning, there's cars starting to go through the toll there. what is causing the deadlock between the unions and management? >> it's basically wages and benefits and work rules. bart had offered to 3% pay raise per year for the next four years to these workers who earn up to $70,000 a year, and they were pretty close. after 30 hours of negotiation, they were pretty close to coming to terms on the economics. the work rules are still outstanding, but when talks broke down late yesterday, both sides publicly lashed out at each other. >> what happened is the unions

decided to if they wanted to take the money that was on the table, but not the work rules on the table and they forced us to a situation where we needed to put an offer on the table that was black and white that included the rights that we had set forward. >> let me be clear. this is not a union strike. this is a management strike brought on by absolute arrogance and the thoughts that they could take workers' rights away. >> a little bit more about those work rules holding up the negotiation. there are situations where workers could work for four days, call in sick for a fifth day and on that sixth day, they would get overtime. bart management wants the power to change some of these rules, also to increase technology on this 40-year-old system. they're at odds and there are no further negotiations scheduled.

>> lease does a bernard in san francisco, thank you. some more facts. bay area rapid transit, locally known at bart is the fifth largest transit system in the country, shuttling 200,000 people each day. it has 104 miles of track that wind through the bay area and 669 train cars. the most expensive one way ticket on the train is less than $5. >> president obama taps a former pentagon official to be the next head of home land security. jay johnson is a national security and counter terrorism expert, best known for setting the legal framework for drone strikes. he played a key role in ending the ban on gays in the military. if confirmed by the senate, he will succeed janet napolitano. >> republicans and democrats saying they are immediately getting to work on a new budget

to avoid another standoff in a few months. hundreds of thousands of furloughed federal employees are returning to work. fresh off the shutdown victory, president obama firmly set his agenda moving forward. >> we're passing a budget, immigration reform, farm bill. those are three specific things that would make a huge difference in our economy right now, and we can get them done by the end of the year. i will look for willing partners wherever i can to get important work done. >> joining us from washington is libby casey. good morning to you. the allows and is not budget chairs met thursday, discussing a longer term budget deal. let's listen to what republican paul ryan and democratic patty murray had to say. >> we are going back to regular order. this is the budget process. the house passes a budget, the senate passes a budget, you come together to reconcile the differences.

that's the way we're supposed to do things, the way the budget law is supposed to work. >> chairman ryan knows i'm not going to vote for his budget, i know he's not going to vote for mine. we're going to find the common ground that we both can vote on and that's our goal. >> are folks in washington confident these two can get on the same page? >> as you heard from senator murray, they start in very different places. congressman ryan voted against the deal to reopen the government and extend the debt limit where patty murray and the rest of the democrats voted for it. we look back to the 2011 super committee is really the model for this. the most recent attempt to get something done, that group was charged with trying to come up with some solutions on spending and deficits. it failed. it couldn't get anywhere. it got so bad that one committee member told reporters i pray to god i never got put on a super committee again. the real question is what's the

incentive to get something done. if this group doesn't come to solutions, the sky doesn't drop, nothing major happens, we just stay at the spending levels that are already in place. democrats don't like those levels, so they have more of an incentive to come to the table. even if congressman ryan can come to agreement or ideas, it's a question of whether he can get the rest of his republican caucus on board with him. their work has to wrap up by mid december. everyone's sort of scratching their heads to say can they do a better job of negotiating than congress has been able to do in the last couple of weeks. >> the president focused mainly on the economy during his presser thursday. here's some of what he said. >> now that the government has reopened, acknowledge threat to our economy is removed, all of us need to stop focusing on the lobbyist and bloggers and talking heads on radio and the professional activists who profit from conflict and focus on what the majority of

americans sent us here to do, and that's grow this economy. >> does it seem like the president is going to be willing to negotiate on major budget issues gag forward and is obamacare on the table no. >> the president is willing to talk about entitlement reform. everything from means testing to medicare, trying to slow the growth of entitlement programs like social security and medicate. departments have real con interference that. they're very wary about giving up too much and they enter this process feeling strong. the federal health care law is on the tail in one sense, the president open to improvements and conversations, but we're not going to see any dramatic changes. he ultimately holds veto power and there's no way he's going to sign any bill that makes major changes to the law that's just

getting rolled out now. >> finally here, there's been a bit of confusion coming out of the short term budget law just passed by congress. it seems a section of the bill gives the president the authority to increase future debt limits on his own. any clarification there? >> sure. it does give him the power, but only through february 7. usually, there is a push to raise the debt ceiling when the u.s. treasure arery hits a certain dollar amount. instead, they put a time frame on it now, february 7. depending how much money comes in or out. this is being called the mcconnell rule. this gives congress the chance to vote on approving the debt limit, but really, it's just a chance for republicans to weigh their disapproval, show disapproval for that, but the president does have that power. after february 7, everything goes back to normal. unless they make a permanent

rule change, the president wouldn't have that power. as we just saw, stephanie, the way things are now, one small group of members of the congress can really hold hostage the debt ceiling. going back to normal may not sound preferable. >> we maybe in this situation yet again with the debt ceiling. libby, thank you so much. >> the debt deal didn't just reopen the government. it authorized $3 billion for a controversial dam project on the ohio river. critics condemn it at pure pork. it puts one of the heroes of the budget deal directly in the cross hairs. jonathan martin has the story. >> the u.s. army corps of engineers is in the middle of one of its biggest projects along one of america's busiest commercial waterways. it's replacing locks and dams on the ohio river that were built nearly 90 years ago. >> it's actually falling apart, literally falling apart. >> if it does fall apart,

shippers will have to find some other way to move the 90 million tons of goods that passes through the stretch of the ohio every year. the project is under scrutiny because the senate bill that ended the government shutdown allows congress to spend a total of nearly $3 billion on the dam project. >> it is expected to cost just under $800 million, but now it's years behind and 10 was millions over budget. the early corps of engineers said there are several reasons why. >> the lead engineer says funding is the greatest challenge. half the money comes from the government, the rest from the inland water way trust fund, which collects a fuel tax from commercial toeing companies. >> if the economy's bad, there's not going to be a lot of money in the trust fund, impacting our construction. >> some conservatives blame mitch mcconnell for slipping the provision in the bill to reopen the government. his home state, kentucky would

benefit along with tennessee and illinois. a political action group, the senate conservatives fund called it a kentucky kick back. his aids say it wasn't his request. john mccain tells the daily beast: >> republicans senator lamar alexander of tennessee says he and democratic senator dianne feinstein asked for the extra money. he said they're concerned if there's not enough money to keep the project going, the government will lose $160 million having to cancel contracts. congress would still to have vote again to actually allocate the money. jonathan martin, aljazeera, olmst ex-ad, illinois. >> senator mcconnell tried to

get funding for the project you. toured the site in 2009. >> temperatures are dropping in the midwest and southern plains and they're in for a hard freeze. good morning, nicole. >> definitely a colder day today after the front has moved through and what it means at the risk of a hard freeze is that temperatures are low enough, long enough that really it's the end to the growing season. that's what we're going to see if not today into the days tomorrow. here's what we have. all the way, this is well to the south, places farther north, we've had that in some cases, kansas into north parts of texas watching for that today. temperatures with the hard freeze watches, it's a little hard to see the temperature delynnation, either freeze or hard freeze, but kansas is having a hard freeze, dodge city expected to go into the 20's overnight. thanks to cloud cover, we've been hanging in the 30's. you're definitely feeling the temperature difference going

from 60 yesterday to maybe barely being in the 40's today. here's some of those temperatures. you can see denver at 31. we just started getting a light snow being reported, so especially heading north on interstate 25, even light snow that's not sticking to the ground, when you see it for the first time is going to cause you a slow go on the road, because everyone else is watching out for it, as well. this little bit of cloud cover has insulated temperatures, and kept things on the mild side. we're not going too warm today, a lot of 40's and 50's. i'll look at rest of the country coming up in just a bit. >> the exploding syrian war refugee crisis. what life is like inside the camps now and why one country taking people in is begging for help. >> the final interview of a nazi war criminal reveals his role in the deaths of thousands of people. >> changing the boundaries for

bullying. >> another recall by toyota. before you hit the roads this morning, hear how it could affect everybody on the highway.

>> the war in syria is taking a major toll on neighboring lebanon. as andrew simmons reports, lebanon's population swelled 20% in the last year because of the huge in flux of refugees. >> more than a thousand people a day in lines to oh register as refugees. in some towns, syrians out number the lebanese. when the war began, these people were welcomed, but not anymore. sit down and give them all your lies, a lebanese taxi driver tells this woman who said she suffered outright hostility. >> when we come here, they insult us. isn't it enough that someone told me we deserve worse than chemical weapons? >> nearer the syrian border,

another cue, a sign of how desperate the conflict has become. it's the end of the holidays when families should be together in an atmosphere different to this. no dignity here, and a desperate situation. >> a passport, an i.d. can mean a bag of fresh beef, but a growing number of people no longer qualify for food handouts. this mother is one of them. >> i've been standing here for hours trying to get a piece of meat. touch my child, she has a fever. >> then a lebanese man trying to drive through the cue vents his anger at the road block. there is still some sympathy for as herrens, though, this donated meat will feed around 4,000 families, but it isn't enough. >> we dry our best. we told these people that wait until the end of the day. if we had meat left, we'll give

them. >> most of these people return to buildings without running water at rents they can't afford. this woman and her sister, whose husbands are both missing say they'd sooner be back home in the fighting. she breaks down before explaining. her sister takes over. >> her and her daughter are sick. i forced her to get up today. if she's sick, we all have a problem. we're the only ones who can take care of the children. >> but at least they have a roof over their heads, unlike hundreds of thousands in these makeshift settlements. they're helplessly inadequate. the dryness will soon be replaced by rain and snow as winter desends on the valley. it's a place that once had promise for those escaping war, but is becoming a living hell. every day, the numbers increase, along with the resentment of the lebanese living alongside. what prospects do they have? no one here has any hope.

>> andrew simmons joins us now live outside the re refugee headquarters in lebanon. the living conditions there look retched. >> they are horrendous and will get worse with the john set of winter. it's a routine, and lots of patience from the refugees here awaiting their turn for registration. with me now is the representative fat kelly. you've seen the president of lebanon today who wants answers to questions. the main question is why isn't there more money coming into lebanon to help the country in great need. >> it's a concern we share. right now, we're only 40% funded and yet refugees continue to come into this very small country. without additional resources, we will not be able to meet the needs of winter or the essential

needs of the refugees plus help the hosting committees manage what is becoming an insurmountable burden for them. >> you've had a lot of experiences with these humanitarian crises, watching this and why isn't there enough world attention paid. doesn't it sometimes make you despair of the fact that some people just simply aren't interested in syria anymore? >> i think the problem here is we didn't have a lot of international media here in the first couple years. now more attention is being played in here, because the crisis is so overwhelming and the needs so great. we are seeing people come forward and funding coming in. we need much quicker funding immediately. >> as you say, now in the third year, what does your heart tell you about what you're seeing here? >> my heart tells me this is really, there is so much hopelessness that it's overwhelming at times, but at

the same time, we can do a lot and we are doing a lot with the funding we've received. >> thank you very much indeed for joining us on aljazeera america. back to you, stephanie. >> reporting from lebanon, bearing a huge brunt of the refugee crisis there, thank you. >> thanks but no thanks, saudi arabia refusing to take its rotating seat on the security council. saudi arabia, chad and nigeria were elected to serve a two year term on the council as rotating members. >> wall street putting aside worries about washington. we have the latest headlines. good morning. >> good morning. a lot of these investors, it's all about the earnings this morning. stock futures higher at this hour. we may see a positive start to the trading day in just a few hours. stocks recovered yesterday, the dow ending down by justify two

points, mostly because of i.b.m.'s disappointing earnings report. the a and p500 rising another 11 points to end on a new high. the nasdaq hit a 13 year high. europe, stocks are rallying. china is reporting strong economic growth. asian stocks ended mostly higher, the nikkei down because theian is so strong. the u.s. department of labor will finally release its september employment report on tuesday. there are no concerns the shutdown may have lasting impact on the labor market. speaking on real money, former white house top economist austin goldby said there are fierce of a domino affect. >> if there are fierce because people were uncertain, i fear that that could not drive us into recession, but certainly knock us for a negative loop on

jobs for a couple of months. >> google shares are soaring in premarket trading, posting strong gains that blew past expectations. wall street's been disappointed by the tech sector this week with in tell, i.p.m. and ebay missing their marks. google is doing better as attracting those precious advertising dollars. google is racing past its competition in that department. >> if anything happens to that business, well, that's goggle's, most of its revenues and earnings, so that can be problematic. what it's showing in terms of the trends is that actually google is out pacing its rivals and varying companies like yahoo and microsoft that compete with it in the on line advertising business. >> google shares are at an all time high in premarket action. >> a major recall from toyota, the company is recalling more

than 800,000 vehicles because their air bags or power steering could stop working. the recall affects the camry, the avalon and venza model. they know of two minor injuries, but no accidents. toyota dealers will rare the problem for free. >> a surge in home prices appears to be slowing down. home values are not rising as fast as they were, and actually fell in a few markets like in california, where housing risks slipping into that unaffordable category. more homes of coming on to the market, leading to less competition among buyers. a bubble is warned in the real estate market. >> there's all this talk about affordable. what's considered an affordable home? >> normally people who want to eat, you might want to buy an expensive purse.

lenders cap how much you can buy at 30%. if you can't buy that, that home is unaffordable to you. >> what about renters. >> the national renter rates are now just under $1,300 a month. >> wow. still expensive. you can't buy that expensive bag and pay rent. >> a cyber bullying explosion, kids tormenting kids on line. what every parent should know to keep their child safe. >> his funeral was broken up by rioters. now an admission from ground the grave about his role in a terrible world war ii massacre. >> digging for buried treasure, the dream that has the indian government searching palace ruins for a $40 billion stash of gold. >> boston looks strong as they put the tigers on the drink.

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where it leads, all the way to you. al jazeera america. take a new look at news. >> welcome back to aljazeera america. i'm stephanie sy. investors who own u.s. debt stand to lose a lot if the american government ever defaults on its loans. investors including some of the most powerful countries in the world. america's financial roller coaster has countries like china worried. >> of the $16.7 trillion in outstanding u.s. debt, over a quarter, 4.8 truly $1 is owned by trust funds like social security. the rest, $11.9 trillion is owned by investors, individuals, corporations, as well as state local and foreign governments. the treasury selles the debt to

the public to pay the bills. by 2011, the lion's share of that public debt, 46% was held by foreign investors. >> u.s. treasuries are really the gold standard of debt securities, because they're backed by the full faith and credit of the united states. the u.s. for better or worse is the most stable country in the international financial system. it is at the core of the global markets. >> japan and mainland china top the list of foreign owners with china holding $1.3 trillion worth. >> they've got to put the money someplace. there's not enough gold or pounds orure rose. basically the only place they can put it is in u.s. treasuries. >> foreign governments have appealed to congress to overcome its differences and avoid a potentially catastrophic u.s. debt default. over the weekend.

china's main government news agency published a blueprint for a deamericannized world that would replace the u.s. dollar to shield the international community from the spill over of the intense filinging political turmoil in the united states. >> i don't think there's going to be a replacement for the dollar no matter what the politicians in washington do at least in the short term largely because there's no other instrument that can fill the void. >> until there is, foreign government will keep buying u.s. debt even if squabbling politicians turn a deaf ear. >> several delayed key indicators including the job all right are expected to be released next week. mark lieberman is a senior economist. the u.s. department of labor

said the september jobs report will come out tuesday. what are we expecting in that? >> it's hard to judge exactly what we are going to get because the numbers have been delayed, of course. we're probably going to see another modest increase in jobs, probably in the 150,000 range on the payroll. the household side measuring unemployment, we expect to see the same 7.3% unemployment rate. >> at least a continuing upward trend. will the shutdown impact the october jobs report? >> absolutely. the census bureau conducts a survey normally the second week of the mint. the government was shut down the second week of the month. they're going to have to delay that survey, and the concern is since one of the determinants of unemployment is you actually look for work, it's a three prong test, out of work, available for work and looking for work, there's a concern

people surveyed may not remember whether they actually looked during that second week. >> one of those factors may not be accurate. >> exactly. it's why we might want to start looking at a different measure that also comes out in the employment situation report. we refer to it as e pop, employment population ratio. it doesn't have those qualifications around the denominator. >> how vital are those reports when it comes to determining the health of the u.s. economy no. >> they're incredibly vital. if you recall, the federal reserve has said that it will begin, consider tapering, pug back on its monetary stimulus program if the unemployment rate drops to 6.5%. we may not know. >> at least for this month. >> well, for more likely -- >> september. >> september will be pretty good if the october number will be shaky. >> that could be good news for

investors who want loose money to continue. let's get to the standard and poor's quote that the shut down cost $20 billion. >> there were activities that might have been done during those two weeks. there's economic activity that will never be done again, the worker who didn't go to work on october 8, and didn't buy lunch, well, he's not buying lunch twice next week. >> so there will be some backlog, but you won't get it all back. the deal that was struck, it only keeps the government operating until january. it's right before that holiday season and i've got to wonder, does that uncertainty mean consumers and,s may hold back on purchasing and spending during the holiday season. >> it certainly means that, because it's not only the government workers who were furloughed and in their case, of course, they're receiving back pay, so there's no loss there,

but it's the government contractors and employees of those contractors who may not be as anxious to run up debts on credit cards and holiday shopping. >> by the way, not all of them will get back pay. >> absolutely. >> mark lieberman of economic analytic research, thanks for your insight this morning. >> thanks for having me. >> a nazi war criminal left behind a video confessing his role in a 1944 massacre of italian civilians. riots disrupted the funeral on tuesday. on thursday, his lawyer released a video in which his client describes the killing of 335 civilians outside of rome. he said his commanding officer told him to help murder those civilians or be killed himself. >> schultz before starting the retaliation told everybody that those were hitler's orders, and we had to execute them.

who refused to do that would better line up with the victims, and would be executed, too. >> his death sparked an emotional reaction in italy. unrepentant in life, he never apologized for his role in the massacre and denied that jews were gassed in nazi death camps. >> two victims have been pulled from the mall in kenya. they are most likely those of two missing shooters. norwegian officials identified one of the attackers believed to be the man in the black shirt here as a nor weaken citizen. this video gives insight. shoppers can be seen moments before the gunmen attacks. the gunmen enter calmly and shoot several people at close range. two seen on the roof of a parking lot opened fire off

camera. people tried to run and crawl to safety. >> massive wildfires are rasks parts of southern australia. 100 fires have been burning since thursday. one person has been killed and hundreds more evacuated. we spoke to residents of one area where dozens of houses have burned to the ground. >> this area, the blue mountains, just west of sydney has had fires in the past but not for 10 years or more. the undergreat has had a chance to grow back. the last few months here have been exceptionally dry. that meant when these fires took hold thursday, there was a lot of fuel to keep them going. you can see the undergrowth around. houses here have been destroyed. in this one street, about 15 houses went. i'm afraid to say, adam, your house was one of them. i'm obviously very, very sorry for what you lost. you just couldn't do too much

about it. >> i would have gotten back here 1:00 or 2:00. the fire was at the front. without having water pressure issues, i got one of their water pumps and hoses on the back, put it in the pool, but the fire had already taken hold and we couldn't do anything about it. >> how does it feel to see your place like this? >> i feel terrible. it's been our family home for a long time and it's sad to have it gone. >> i'm very, very sorry for what you lost. you can hear the helicopters above. the fires aren't out yet and water is being dumped on them. there are other fires further north of sydney and south. this crisis of big fires aren't over yet. >> andrew thomas reporting from australia. >> unseasonably hot temperatures and winds are helping fan those flames. let's bring in meteorologist nicole mitchell. >> what you need to remember is the seasons are opposite in australia.

we're going into spring there, temperatures getting warmer and warmer temperatures add to the issue. as we take the broad look, you can see it's really the western part that's more populated and a number of fires going on not only there, but really around the can'tment here. as we continue off, we already saw some of the very devastating images, but as we look at the forecast, almost not a cloud in the sky, so rain is not going to be relieved, winds really spread the fires, so a little help that's in cooler air has moved in, but definitely a problem situation here. also, a problem brewing as we head to the western pacific. this typhoon is now what we would call a category four hurricane, and into the middle of next week headed toward japan. at least there's cooler water as we get northward. it probably won't be as intense a storm. we just had another make landfall and cause problems, so another we'll continue to monitor. the big story across the country is the cool air that has settled in in the middle section in two

fronts passing through the region. we are going to see temperatures, a core from north dakota all the way to north texas approximate, places that might not get out of the 40's today. some places in 30's and 20's. we can see some areas of snow and a little rain across the northern tier. a lot of dry skies today. that's going to be nice. with the last couple of fronts, they have eaten away. see the black dividing line here? this is the cusp of where we consider some of of the biggest drought areas. the brighter the colors, the more the drought. this week, you see that black line shrink back, colors lighten into the midwest. this only goes until tuesday, and on tuesday and wednesday, we're still getting the rain in texas. all of this rain we've had with the last two fronts have helped the soil conditions.

there has been a good side, even though we deal with the cold air. denver has been getting our first snow of the season. you know how that slows things down on the roads. give yourself extra time. where we will see extra rain today, still one of those frontal boundaries extending across the south. combined with that instability, this looks like it will be one of our raining sectors. >> we've heard about disturbing examples of on line bullying. students posted picture of girls with numerical rating. nine middle school students have been targeted. in that case, infra gram comments attacked girls. one girl was mocked because her father died of cancer. these later cyber bullying have surfaced after two girls 12 and 14 face aggravated stalking charges in florida after their

alleged cyber bullying of another teen girl on facebook resulted in her committing suicide. joining us to talk about how parents and kids can combat incidents like these is anti bullying advocate. it's about kids saying really nasty things on line. what can parents do about it? >> parents need to open a dialogue right off the bat when their kids get on social media or any technology. there needs to be a discussion. they need to feel comfortable talking to parents. parents need to avoid underreacting or overreacting. at the end of the day, the kids know they understand technology better than their parents. if you patronize theme, they will shut you out. >> an outright reaction is banning them. >> they're just going to find another way to get on line. another reaction is storming into the school demanding to

speak to the principal. >> that's embarrassing for the kids. >> it is. and makes them inclined not to say anything again and go underground. >> it's such a fine balance. i'm tempted to say you should know the pass words and log ins for the social media accounts. is that going too far? >> one of the best ways to start is by friending your kids on social media. a lot of parents say i don't understand it, i don't want to be on line -- >> the problem is there are so many outlets. >> you to have friend your kids on line. when you see something questionable, either you see they are bullying or being bullying, talk to them, say this is why i think this is problematic, what do you think. help them discover what is problematic so when they see that an their own, they are able to handle it by themselves, building independence and making them comfortable on line. >> it was a long time ago, but i kind of remember that age and feeling vulnerable and insecure.

i know you've spoken to thousands of kids around the country. what do you tell them about how to be strong in the face of bullying? >> the thing they have to remember is first of all, it often doesn't have anything to do with you, that this person that is bullying or attacking is trying to choose the path of least resistance. when i was growing up, i was picked on that -- >> really, you? >> yeah, because i wouldn't fight back. teaching kids to speak to someone, whether the parents, friends, teachers, someone who knows them well helping them to reconnect with why their valuable helps them remember that this isn't something they should internalize. it becomes toxic when you deal with it alone, because on line, you can reread it and relive it. >> facebook has made a policy change allowing kids to basically make their postings public. they weren't able to do that before now. do you think that makes things worse? >> it can bring up a problem,

because they're going to be marketed. the information that they're sharing is going to be used to sell them things and kids don't have the cognitive ability to understand what's being pushed on them and something comfortable or good. students don't always realize the ramifications of their actions. that's where friending your child or monitoring what they're doing or talking to them is important. they're going to be approached by strangers on line approximate. i tell kids never give your friendship away cheap. it used to be someone had to come to your house, meet you to become your friend. now they click a button. i tell them value that friendship, and decide that your information is valuable and people have to earn the rights to be friends with you. don't give it away for fun or to have a high friend count. >> you heard me talk about that infra gram case where kids were posting really terrible things, basically like an on line burn book, you hear about them. there's always been mean girls

out there. >> it's the same stuff that we went through, it's just the new medium for it. it's interesting to see this wave of schools reaching to law enforcement for help, thinking that they have a stronger hand, but in many cases they don't. in many cases it has to reach a level of direct threat. that's where the allows fall short and we need to see things change. it's also important to remember that social media, they're not on your side. they're on the side of themselves. even though they're aware of the need to protect young people, they are working for their bottom line. they want users, they want information. you can't blankety trust social media. you do have to learn to protect yourself. you provide the content. if you're not comfortable with how facebook or snapshot is using your information, stop using them. you have that power. >> the whole community needs to get involved in stopping this. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> the boston red sox are one

game away from a trip back to the world series. john henry smith is here with sports. good morning. >> good morning to you. with the tigers and red sox american league championship series tied at two going into game five, let's do baseball math here. a winner of game five has gone on to win 67% of the time. the pressure was on. an chose and lester pitching. mike napoli hit darn near to the moon, a 460 food home run. 1-0 in the second. the wall rejects the home run bid, but out there far enough to plate john. >> i gomes from third. the bearded boy's broke off a 4-1 lead. singles to center.

infante races home. miguel cabrera was up with men on the corners, and he is going to hit into the r.b.i. double play. that was the last time the tigers would seriously threaten thanks largely to the solid performances of the sox keeping the tigers off the bases. red sox win 4-3. game six is saturday with boston in boston with the sox one win away from the world series. >> by the time saturday rolls around, we'll have a chance to put tonight behind us, which this team has done such a great job at, not letting the previous day carry over into the next and we've got two very good pitchers that are going against us here, max and verlander, so once we get to saturday, we'll focus in on the task at hand at that point. >> making reference to if it goes to game seven, it will be

justin very landers for the tigers. the cardinals can clinch at home by beating the dodgers in the national league championship series. the dodgers have 2011 cy young winner kershaw on the mound facing michael walka. the nfc west was the only division in which every team had won at least as many games as they lost. 5-1 seattle had a chance to change that with a win over arizona, while the cardinals have been looking for a quarterback seemingly forever. cardinals can't hit what they can't catch. seahawks up on top 7-01st quarter. this was zack miller's night, saw hawks led 17-10 at half. third quarter, wilson hits davis on third and goal from the one. three t.d. passes, no picks for

wilson. seattle wins 34-22 to go to 6-1. >> it was a great game. we battled. you've got to give credit to arizona. they played hard and gave us a great game. we just kept battling, making huge, huge plays. guys made good catches, got the ball to a lot of different catches tonight. that's what we want to do, spread the ball around. it was a spectacular night. our defense keeps showing up. >> on campus, miami on the ropes down 10 in the second half to north carolina. three-yard scoring run. in striking distance, crawford strikes again with another three-yard t.d. run to get the lead. the hail mary, miami survivors

27-23. >> case koenen will start sunday for the houston texans. hall of famer nolan ryan is stepping down as the c.e.o. of the texas rangers, consulting the move the final chapter in his career. the chicago white sox agreed to a six year $60 million deal with jose abray. >> the hunt is on for two inmates who escaped from prison. how they were able to walk out the front door. >> the dreams of gold that led the indian government to dig through the ruins of a palace for buried treasure. on inside story, we bring together unexpected voices closest to the story, invite hard-hitting debate and desenting views and always explore issues relevant to you.

that's all i have an real money. victoria azarenko on august 20th,

>> two convicted killers were able to walk out of a florida prison. they had forced documents.

the guards at franklin institution were fooled. they opened the gates for them to leave. it included a judge's forged signature. a florida judge said clerks in the corrections department should have spotted several red flags. florida prison officials are scrambling to make sure no other felons have been mistakenly set free and searching for the two wrongly released convicts. >> a treasure hunt beneath an ancient palace in india. archaeologists are digging for gold after a dream of a hidden stash tucked away. he said there could be $40 billion up for grabs, but the prophet only wants it spent on the country's economic recovery. the dig is being closely watched. >> it's behind the temple structure here where the digging is taking place.

it will be several days before they can find anything if there's anything there to find. speaking tolyls here, they truly believe that there is. hundreds gathered from around the area. their hope is that they get to share in the wealth for development in the area. the archeological communities are under fire. >> here's what we're following this morning. transit workers on strike unsan francisco, walking off the job stranding 200,000 people who ride the system every day. democrats and republicans are getting to work on the budget now that the government shutdown is over. a provision in the debt deal may give the president the power to raise the debt ceiling without

congressional approval. this afternoon, president obama will nominate jay johnson as the next homeland security secretary. >> russell wilson and the seahawks blew high thursday night in the desert. highlights next hour in sports. >> cold air has taken over the planes this morning. some places are seeing their first snow of the season. i'll have your national forecast. >> the hacker group anonymous involved after rape charges are dropped against a high school football player. what the alleged victims are saying about their case going viral. thanks for watching aljazeera america. we're back with you in two and a half minutes with del walters.

(vo) tonight: faultlines chases the flames as they spread throughout the west. >> there's a thick, acrid smoke smell in the air and we're following a strike team now to the top of the mountains where the fire line begins. (vo) it's a war being fought by air and on land costing millions of dollars every year. >> you will make an individual decision to build a home there, but what's the cost to the rest of us? (vo) what's going wrong with the war on wildfires and what are the true costs of putting them out? >> nightmare commute, san francisco transit workers walking off the job, leaving hundreds of thousands scrambling to find a way to work. >> president obama calling on washington to change the way it

does business, but the budget deal reveals it could be business as usual in the nation's capitol. >> hundreds of thunderstorms, thousands forced to flee at more than 100 wildfires rage across australia. >> getting food and water has always been a struggle for my family and i. >> water, that precious commodity is bringing hope to millions in kenya and changing lives. >> good morning. welcome to aljazeera america. i'm del walters. bay area rapid transit workers walking off the job at midnight, striking for the second time this year, the bart train shutdown is making life miserable for hundreds of thousands of commuters in the san francisco bay area. talks between management and

employee unions breaking down around midnight after the two sides couldn't reef an agreement. lisa bernard joins us live. what specifically were unions and management at odds about? >> it was pay, benefits and work rules. after about 30 hours of negotiations, both sides walked away from the bargaining table without an agreement. bart had offered a 3% pay raise per year for the next four years to these workers who make up to $70,000 a year, but they were still unable to reach an agreement, although close on the economics, the work rules were still a hold up. when the talks broke down, both sides publicly attacked each other. >> does san francisco have a back up plan for the commuters? >> they are scrambling.

where we are here is where we expect most of the 400,000 people who ride bart to work each day to end up, so car pooling is encouraged. they're going to keep the car pool lanes open all day. bart is running 200 shuttle buses from oakland into san francisco, and we also have an a.c. transit bus system. governor brown stepped in and called for a cooling off period to keep those buses running, because workers there were threatening to strike, as well. there's also a ferry system, which will be carrying many commuters today. they've increased their service, so the roads are expected to be jammed today working from home is highly encouraged. the last strike in july cost the region about $73 million. >> lisa, thank you very much. >> well, the bay area rapid transit system locally known at bart is the fifth largest

transit system in the country, estimating it shuttles 200,000 people every day. it has 400 miles of track that wind through the way area and 669 trains. the most expensive one way ticket on the train is less than $5. >> the wheels are turning once again in washington now that the 16 day government shutdown has ended. republicans and democrats are saying they are getting to work on a budget right away. hundreds of thousands of furloughed federal workers are going back to their jobs. fresh off the shutdown victory, president obama firmly setting his agenda to move forward. >> passing a budget, immigration reform, farm bill. those are three specific things that would make a huge difference in our economy right now, and we can get them done by the end of the year. i will look for willing partners wherever i can to get important

work done. >> libby casey joins us live from washington. the next step is for the house and senate budget chairs to meet on thursday to discuss a longer term budget deal. i want you to listen to what republican paul ryan and patti murray had to say and then we'll talk on the backside. well it seems that we don't have those bytes. are people in washington confident that these two sides can somehow manage to reach an agreement? >> paul ryan, former vice presidential candidate for the republicans hold a lot of sway in the republican caucus. he was quiet throughout the stand off but in the final days did emerge as someone who is having a lot of back room confidences. then you've got senator patti murray, department of washington late. she last served on the super committee, the group that got together back in 2011 that tried

to hammer out and well take a whack at solving some of the deficit spending issues, entitlement programs. they didn't get anywhere. it was a complete bust, no conclusions. one member told reporters afterwards i pray to god i never got put on another super committee. that's the last time we saw a body like this come together, some from the republican side of the aisle, some from the democratic side and a mix of senators and house of representatives. it's a big question if they can do better, get anything done. we're hearing from patty murray and paul ryan an admission that they're coming from very different places, starting at polar opposite ends of what they'd like to see happen in terms of cuts and taxation. they have a couple of months now, until mid december to try to come to some sort of agreement. the big concern is that nothing happens if they don't come to an agreement, so there's not as much of an incentive to come to

materials. if they don't come up with new grand bargains or grand visions, spending stays where they are. if they don't get to the table and get to work in a way that really is productive, nothing terrible happens to the u.s. economy, or to the debt's deficit issues. >> i guess the question that you have to ask is when these committees set up, one side puts their people on one side, the other side puts their people on the other side, equal numbers, it winds up a tie and nothing gets done. a friend of mine says if nothing changes, nothing changes, so what needs to change no. >> i think that's what they're going to talk about, and is this an opportunity for each side to give a little and take a little. there are some places where president obama has said he would be willing to look at entitlement reform, tightening up the income requirements for medicare or looking at ways to

minimize or cut down on the number of people who qualify for entitlement programs. some democrats say they are not going to bargain there. if the president is willing to, perhaps others will, as well. the sequestration cuts that kicked in when the super committee couldn't come to an agreement, it was the fail safe, if you can't agree, these cuts will kick in. will all sides say we'd like the cuts for targeted. that maybe a place they can find agreement. republicans maybe willing to talk about how the cuts actually come down, so we'll see. >> libby, thank you very much. >> as you heard, president obama calling on washington to change the way it does business, but a closer look at the deal that lawmakers passed in the budget impasse and raised the debt ceiling seems to be raising more questions that that it answers. the measure authorized nearly

$3 billion for a controversial damage project on the ohio river, critics condemn that go as pork, giving the impression that it is business as usual. janet martin has our story. >> the u.s. army corps of engineers is in the middle of one of its biggest projects along one of america's busiest commercial waterways, replacing locking and dams on the ohio river that were built nearly 90 years ago. >> it's actually falling apart, literally falling apart. >> if it does fall apart, shippers will have to find some other way to move the 90 million tons of goods that normally pass through this stretch of the ohio every year. the project is under new scrutiny because the senate bill that ended the government shutdown allows congress to spend a total of $3 billion on the dam project. >> the project was approved by congress in 1988, expected to cost just under $800 million. now it's years behind and tens of millions over budget.

there are several reasons why. >> the lead engineer says funding is the greatest challenge, half from the government, the rest from the fund which collects tax from toeing companies. >> if business is bad, that will impact our construction. >> mitch mcconnell is blamed for slipping the provision in the bill to reopen the government. his home state kentucky would benefit along with tennessee and illinois. a political action group, the senate conservatives fund called it a kentucky kickback, but mcconnell's aids say it wasn't his request. senator john mccain says mcconnell isn't to blame but is critical, saying: >> republican senator lamar

alexander of tennessee says he and democratic senator dianne feinstein asked for the extra money, saying they are concerned if there's not enough money to keep the project going, the government will lose $160 million having to cancel existing contracts. while the vote raises the spending limit for the project, congress would have to vote to allocate the money. >> earlier this year, the nat passed a bill that would authorize a variety of water projects around the country, including that project. >> passing the budget deal before the december 13 deadline is next for washington. i'm going to play two sound bytes. i want you to respond on the back end to what they're saying. the question that everybody is

asking this morning is can congress get it done, so listen to these two members of congress. >> we're going back to regular order. this is the budget process, the house passes a budget, the senate passes a budget, you come together to reconcile the differences. that's the way we're supposed to do things, the way the budget law is supposed to work. >> chairman ryan knows i'm not going to vote for his budget, i know he's not going to vote for mine. we're going to find the common ground between our two budgets that we both can vote on and that's our goal. >> so mr. bivens, can congress get it done and what do you hope to see in a budget plan? >> it's going to be a challenge to get it done. the ryan sound byte, he's correct, the regular order is the house passes a budgets, the is that the passes a budget, if they're different, they iron out the differences. it should be noted that the house refused to send people to the conference committee, which was a big part of why we had the

fiscal showdown we had. the two budgets are really far apart. it's really hard for me to see that in the next month and a half that there's going to be something that passes through the regular budget order. my guess is we're going to be on a continues resolution that is a no current change from spending levels probably for the rest of the fiscal year. the question is whether that triggers another showdown or they pass it to let it continue but fundamental changes to a budget is really hard to see. >> a lot of people say one reason for the grid lock in washington are special interests. i want you to hear what the president had to see yesterday. >> now that the government has reopened acknowledge threat to our economy is removed, all of us need to stop focusing on the lobbyists and bloggers and talking heads on radio and professional activists who profit from conflict and focus on what the majority of the americans sent us here to do, and that's grow this economy. >> what are the chances that

people in washington would do just that? >> pretty small. i don't know about that particular casting of blame. the real problem is that the debate in washington, d.c. is so divorced from what is happening in the rest of the country. the rest of the country is focused on the crisis of joblessness. we have a very high unemployment rate, 5 million workers who aren't looking for work, who's job opportunities are so scarce but would come back if we had a stronger economy. the debate should be about salving that problem. the best way to solve that problem would be to undo the massive amount of spending cuts we've implemented. that's nowhere on the radar. democrats and republicans before this latest showdown were arguing about the sequester, $90 million that would result in about a million extra jobs, but we probably need about 8 million jobs to get the labor market

back to health. this little narrow range is far away from what the economy and most working americans need to see happen. >> we hear so much talk in washington about the deficit. can you put it in for us. the number one issue is jobs, some members of congress say the number one issue is cutting the deficit. >> that's a real distraction. the number one problem now is jobs. that's what we should be focused on. when the economy has this many unemployed workers, did he ever sits are not a problem, they are a help. they inject purchasing power into the economy, keeping it from falling further. what we've seen from 2009-2012, the deficit has fallen faster than in any other three year period in history.

we have made rapid change in the deficit. we have this very weak economy. at the same time, we have the deficit falling extraordinarily fast. it's bizarre to say the size of the deficit is the real problem and joblessness is not. i think that's inverted and one reason recovery is so sluggish is precisely because we've instituted such deep spending cuts. >> that is josh bivens, the research and policy director from the policy institute. >> the next head of homeland security has been tapped by president obama, the president expected to nominate jay johnson later today. johnson is a former pentagon official known for setting the legal framework for those drone strikes. he played a key role in lifting the ban on gays and lesbians serving in the military. if confirmed, he will succeed

janet napolitano. >> wildfires in australia rage out of control. so far, one person has been killed. the wildfires are burning in the southeastern state of new south wales. fire crews are battling 100 separate blazes produced by an unusually warm and dry spring. andrew thomas talked to some residents where dozen was houses burned to the ground. >> probably a minute after the fire got on to the deck. >> virtually every physical possession adam had, he's lost. his home was destroyed in minutes in some of the worst bush fires the state of new south wales has seen in the last 10 years. >> they're the big fire hose, it did nothing, absolutely nothing. you'd carve off a piece of burning area and move on to another one. a couple of minutes later, it

was burning again. it was a waste of water. >> just west of sydney, more than 15 homes were destroyed. it's unclear what started more than 100 fires, whether discarded cigarettes or arson. they spread fast. it was very hot, very windy and there were lots of dry trees and shrubs to burn. there's been little more than a sprinkling since june. helicopters are taking water from golf courses to dump them on flames. hundred of homes have been saved. australia's prime minister was stoic in the face of the destruction that in australia is all too familiar. >> we've got a very, very long

experience and i guess it's in ground in our culture. we're not called a land droughts and sun burned rains for nothing. >> the smell of the fires was pungent in sydney and skies darkened as ashes fell on its beaches. adam and his neighbors are coming to grills with what they've lost. >> this has been our family home for 40 years. it's dreadful, really, really bad, but, you know, just build another one and carry on. that's the way to go. >> it's been much cooler on friday than thursday and the wind has dropped almost entirely, helping firefighting efforts. >> >> let's get the latest on the conditions crews are facing in australia. we turn to nicole mitchell.

>> good morning. yes, definitely dry conditions don't help. as mentioned, this is spring in australia, so think of the weather we would get in the states in april, obviously being in the southern hemisphere that difference. you can see how dry it is. rain is not going to be one of the relief areas. a couple of clouds in the eastern portion of the country, but that can always be a concern. if you get lightning and dry areas, that can actually add to more of the fires. all the areas that you see in red, a lot of those the east he were side of the country is the most populated, but all of these different areas indicate fires that they're having to deal with right now. this typhoon is what we would consider wind intensity wise with winds up to 140 miles an hour a category four. it is slowly making its way to japan. it's got cooler temperatures in the water in between, and that

helps diminish usually the intensity of the storms, but still something they'll have to keep an eye on. across our country, a lot of dry skies. most of the rain in the northeast has cleared out, but the midsection of the country, some of the first snows of the season. with that same front bringing all of that, much colder temperatures. today, we're going to look for only highs. these are not the lows. forty's as we head all the way southward, even into north texas seeing that after some 20's and 30's starting off the day this morning. we have more areas starting to freeze. that means that end to the growing season. first snows, places like denver, we've seen light snow, dodge city this morning seeing some of that. the cloud cover at least acts like ing blanket, helping to insulate things. temperatures could have dropped more. the other good thing is from last week to this week, it has

helped with drought areas, some of that big rain we've seen recently. >> investigators reveal new evidence in the kenyan mall attack as video surfaces showing the chaos that took place inside. >> call it vigilant tee justice, the hacker group anonymous getting involved in a missouri rape case. what impact will it have on the case and justice. >> oil workers in brazil bringing that country's business to a a halt as they go on strike. the demands they are making just to get back to the job. >> the latest big retailer announcing it's starting the holiday shopping season early.

>> two bodies have been recovered from kenya's west gate shopping mall. they are highly likely to be those of the attackers. officials in norway identified a possible gunman from the mall siege, the man, a norwegian

citizen is on this footage released by kenyan authorities. that reveals new details about the attack. we report on newt emimagine little and how the u.s. could be vulnerable to similar violence. >> chilling new images from inside the west gate mall, one moment shoppers, some with children are browsing, the next, sheer chaos. security guards tripping over people, everyone crawling on the ground for cover. other pictures show two shooters casually walking into the mall. the haul little are suddenly empty, shopping carts abandoned while more shooters look for targets, guns drown. one man down and shot again at close range. >> it's the a nightmare that people should be doing something they enjoy doing, going to a premier mall, and suddenly having their lives at risk. >> robert mckie teaches security

management at john j. college. he said the u.s. is full of soft targets. >> in some ways, malls are greater risk for the public than city centers are, because in malls, there are very tight accesses, and so people are in a confined area. someone is able to shoot people without them being able to run. it's also interesting that the mall that was chosen, west gate, was the premium mall. it said something about the type of people that the terrorists wanted to influence, wanted to send a message to. >> he thinks the u.s. is not completely safe from this type of attack, titler security in this country means there would be fewer casualties. >> the mall of america is an example of a mall that thinks a

lot about risks. they have plans for active shooting in place and practiced. >> kenyan authorities are now watching this video to piece together clues about the gunmen. al shabab has claimed responsibility, but investigators still don't know how many attackers were involved. aljazeera. >> even as that video was being reds, the u.s. embassy in uganda warning that it is on alert for possible terror attack, saying it could resemble the west gate mall massacre. >> a manhunt is on this morning for two florida convicted killers who were able to just walk out of prison using forged documents. the guards at the franklin questional institution thought the paperwork looked legitimate, put one killer on the bus, opened the gates for the other to walk out. the fake court documents included a phony motion from a prosecutor and a judge's forged signature. florida prison officials are cram bling to make sure other

felons have in the been seasonal set free and searching for those two wrongly released. >> several black water security guards are facing charges for a deadly shooting in iraq. four men accused of shooting 14 unarmed civilians in 2007, the justice democratic filed new manslaughter charges against those guards. their attorney is saying they acted in self defense. black water handled security for the military during the war in iraq. >> stocks at an all time high today. we have the latest business headlines. >> stocks have reached a record high. buying could continue when the market opens in an hour. the dow reversed a triple digit loss, ending down by just two

points. the s&p keeps rolling, rising to end at a new high. the nasdaq finished at a 13 year high. europe stocks rallying, investors feel good. china is reporting strong economic growth. asian stocks ended mostly higher. theian is so strong. but shanghai and hong kong both closing with gains. the u.s. labor department will release a september employment report on tuesday, but not everyone is cheering the budget deal in d.c. speaking in real money, former top white house economist austin goldbesaid it is tough for companies to plan ahead. >> we don't know that that automatically translates into lower retail sales. historically, it is definitely correlated and if it has that four to five month persistence,

it could repeat. >> wall street's been disappointed by the tech sector this week. google is doing better attracting those advertising dollars. one analyst says google still has room to grow. >> google's in a position where it has to take the geyser of money spinning off its traditional business, the one that put it there in the first place and invest it in things that are going to yield money in the future. it can't really know, given the nature of these bets, which are going to work. >> google shares at an all time high in premarket action. >> add j.c. penney to the list of stores that will be open on

thanksgiving, opening at eight partly cloudy to kick off the holiday shopping season. the struggling retailer hopes to keep pace with macy's, which will also open on the holiday. j.c. penney is hiring twice as many workers as last year. >> they start advertising for christmas now in july. >> syria's neighbors are swamped with refugees. why they are putting restrictions on now to keep more from coming in. >> edward snowden indicating what he has done with those secret files he took. >> american league championship series game five highlights coming up in sports. al jazeera america - a new voice in american journalism - >> introduces america tonight. >> in egypt, police fired teargas at supporters of the ...

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>> welcome back to aljazeera marrying. i'm del walters. the war in syria taking a heavy toll on lebanon. 800,000 refugees have crossed the border and their presence is making a big dent in lebanon's economy. we are joined live from beirut. a 20% increase in the population from last year, all of those syrian refugees. what can the government do to help its own citizens? >> well, really, the lebanese government is in a very difficult position. even before the massive influx of syrian refugees to lebanon, the lebanese economy was fragile. many lebanese migrate to foreign countries to survive. the government officials show there are approximately 1.3 million syrians in this country and this is a tiny

nation. the syrians are not just looking for safety, a place to live, to escape the conflict, they are looking for jobs. we are at a commercial district, and you just walk into any shop here and at least one of the employees is a syrian. this is really sawing a lot of social tensions, the world bank warning that 170,000 more lebanese will lose their jobs next year simply because there is fierce competition in the labor market. >> we are hearing reports that there is growing resentment in the country, is there a concern, a chance the situation there could get out of hand? >> we heard the lebanese president call on the international community to share the burden. just a week ago, lebanon sounded the alarm bell, saying we are not clothessing the borders, but are going to screen the refugees. those who do not fit the

criteria will not be allowed to cross into the country. the conflict in syria, we've seen security incidents in lebanon related to that. the lebanon have taken sides and are now involved in the war, some parties fighting alongside the regime, other parties helping and sympathizing with the opposition. it has long been a divisive issue in the country. there have been a lot of tit for tat kidnappings. you walk in the streets and ask lebanese and they are worried about the future of their country. >> thank you very much. >> the on line hacker group anonymous is getting involved in a rape case in missouri. two teenage girls say they were threatened after telling police they were sexually assaulted by

high school football players a the a party. alan fisher reports. >> greetings world, we are operation maryville. two young girls have been raped. >> the involvement of anonymous has changed the face of a rape case in america's midwest. >> i hope people see through all of the small town stuff, that they really see the story for what it is, instead of everyone's opinions. >> she says she has been repeatedly threatened since she went to the authorities alleging she was ripped by a high school football star from a politically connected family. she went to a party with a 13-year-old friend. there she said both were raped. 217-year-old high school students were originally charged with sex offenses, but prosecutors say the charges were dropped when neither victim would cooperate with the investigation. since the case was highlighted by local media and taken up by

anonymous, the town hall has been swamped with calls from people angry with what's happened. >> it's devastating for our community to receive this many silent posts as we have. >> the other aggravated victim that night says the increased support is very welcome. >> we didn't have this kind of support whenever everything happened, but now that we do have a lot of support and do have people listening, it's like a miracle. it feels really good that it's finally getting spoken about. we've waited for this day for a voluntary electric time. >> the case has drown comparisons with steubenville, ohio where two football stars were eventually convicted of raping a female who was drunk. charges were delayed. in maryville, they say there is no cover up. >> if you look at the past history of these young men, they

have previously been prosecuted by our current prosecuting attorney for other crimes. >> the special prosecutor will examine all aspects of the case. the 217-year-old males say they are innocent. while social media brought the case to a wider audience. victims are now willing to give evidence. >> anonymous is vowing to launch a twitter storm against local authorities there. >> edward snowden said he did not bring back any documents that he took from the national security agency to russia according to a interview given to new york times. he told the paper he left all the classified documents in hong kong with reporters, taking none to russia, saying: >> he said they spoke with snowden during the past week using encrypted communications. >> on act chill taking over much

of the u.s. we turn to nicole mitchell for the forecast. >> good morning. maybe time for a botch of hot apple cider. we are going to see colder temperatures this morning and well to the south, all these place use that, the blues and purples are places we have freeze watches or hard freeze watch. the difference being that if you get the hard freeze, that means pretty much the vegetation and the growing season is over. you've been below freezing for a long enough period of time, it's going to kill everything off. if you don't see that today, look for it tomorrow. north of this, we've had hard freezes. you don't need to keep putting up the warnings. getting through the highs today, we're going to see a lot of 40's out here for our high temperatures. this was after places in the 60's yesterday. you are going to feel that temperature drop that went 10 or 20 degrees. cool enough air that somewhere like denver is definitely

getting areas of snow. here's how the rest evident country compares to that, still mild across the south. up the east coast, temperatures in the 60's, so comfortable weather out there, but it is the chill in the midsection of the country. because of that, it has been enough for that light snow around denver seeing that this morning, colorado springs, garden city, kansas. that makes it slow on the roads. the first snow of the season, everyone drivers slowly before they get that winter driving confidence back up. heading through the areas, a lot of the rounds of the midwest have gotten rain. the accident was getting tons earlier in the week. this is a week ago on the drought monitor. this black line delineates our areas of biggest drought. the brighter the color, the more severe the drought conditions. watch that for last week versus this week. those colors recede, the black lines recede. even though it's been miserable with the rain and cold, it's

been beneficial going into the winter, getting the levels out there. the southern area could get a little more moisture today. >> hundred was thousands of furloughed federal workers are back on the job after more than two weeks without work and no pay. aljazeera has followed one family that suffered through the entire shutdown. >> paul was digging through a backlog of work in his home office after the president signed the legislation ending the government shutdown. >> thank the lord. you know, it's over, and i can get back to work and get back to my normal routine. >> you can go ahead and finish it. >> the 16 day shutdown couldn't have come at a worse time. they bought a new home just a few months ago and had little in savings. for the last couple weeks, the family has spent money on basics

like food an glean. their 8-year-old son felt the sting when he lost his soccer ball. >> i said you have to use your savings for that. we had to dip into his savings to buy a soccer ball. >> he is in the middle of a year long audit of the veteran's administration and has to reschedule work disrupted by the shutdown. >> we had one trip that we're planning that we have to reschedule and make sure that it's going to work for everybody that needs to be there. that may add time to it. >> while government workers will get back pay, there could be another furlough early next year if budget talks collapse. that's something they are trying not to think about. aljazeera, naperville, illinois. >> while those furloughed workers go back to work, congress facing the task of passing a long term budget. joining us now to discuss this process is jason, the president of the bipartisan policy center.

he joins us from washington, d.c. even though your agency doesn't take sides, when you see the stories where families are hurting, what do you say to both sides about getting the job done? >> good morning, del. diane's story captures one example of the harm that's been visited on the american people over the last several weeks. this was unfortunately one of the latest examples of one of these self inflicted economic wounds. when the penalty says there are no winners and the speaker says this isn't a game, it means two things. first, it acknowledges the harm that our federal government has caused to our citizens. it's been folks who work for the federal government, it's been veterans, elderly, decent people trying to take a vacation in the national parks. it's also harmed our economy, the combination of the shut down and threatened default we

believe has probably taken $20 billion of economic growth away. the debt default, the risk of that default has also undermind the confidence the world has in the stability of the american economy, which is really one of the critical aspects of our role in the world. >> i was going to say we have been reporting those stories, those numbers now for 16 straight days and now here we go again. december 13 is the deadline, the day republicans and democrats are supposed to have a 10 year budget plan in writing. do you have any hope for bipartisan consensus to know a budget? >> there are some, i think legitimate reasons for hope. i put them in two categories. first broadly, one of the great strengths of our democracy has been the ability to evolve to these moments of dysfunction. i think that the dramatic example of recent harm at least creates the possibility that that cycle is beginning. we'll talk a little more about that. secondly, i think they've set up

reasonable expectations for the next two months, both leaders have appointed good people to the conference. senator murray, congressman ryan are clearly appropriate leaders of this discussion. i think they have taken both near term spending cuts and the big prolong term changes, entitlement cuts, tax reform off the table and focusing on a set of more reasonable, more possible compromises with the goal of addressing the harms of the sequester, which while it achieves cuts, does so in such a bizarre and across the board way that they're not really in the interest -- >> what should they be focusing on, deficit reduction or jobs or both? >> of course the answer is both. there are ideas that have i think enjoyed a significant majority of support in the congress. there are some tax loopholes

that most people believe are unfair and not efficient. there are things like change c.p.i., which i know sounds rather wonky, but a way of determining economic growth which creates both revenue and savings. if incorporated, these idea incorporate and allow is to reduce the harms of the sequester. >> thanks for being with us this morning. >> we are learning right now that not all exnfl players are going to be able to get the payoff from the concussion settlement. only the players with the most severe brain injuries would get a piece of the payout. that is a far cry from the original statement by lawyers who said that all of the retirees would be eligible for

their share of the money. >> the boston red sox are now just one game away from a trip back to the world series. john henry smith joins us now with that. getting kind of tight. >> they are not popping the champagne corks yet, but i bet they have it on ice. in tied up game seven series, since 1985, the winner of game five has gone on to win the series 67% of the time. the pressure was on. sanchez and lester pitching. sanchez struck out 12 red sox in game one. thursday, austin jackson, a 460-foot home run for mike napoli. >> jonny gomes it plated from third.

a 4-0 lead. infante scores. tigers close the gap 4-2. seventh inning, miguel cabrera up with men on want corners, cab cab hits into the r.b.i. double play. that was the last time the tigers would seriously threaten, thanks largely to the solid relieve perform have performances keeping the tigers off the bases over the final 2 1/3 innings. red sox win 4-3. game six is saturday in boston with the sox one win away from the world series. >> by the time saturday rolls around, we'll have a chance to put tonight behind us, which this team has done such a great job at, not letting the previous day carry over into the next. we've got two very good pitchers going against us here, max and verlander, so once we ghetto saturday, we'll focus in on the task at that point.

>> while the red sox can clinch saturday, the cardinals can clinch tonight at home by beating the dodgers. the cards have a three games to two advantage, but the dodgers have clayton kershaw on the mound. >> going into thursday night football, the nfc west was the only nfl division in which every team won as many games as they had lost. seattle had a chance to change that with a win over arizona, while the cardinals have been looking for a quarterback forever, cardinals have one in russell wilson. he finds rice. 7-0, 1st quarter. this was zack miller's night, third quarter, wilson hits kellen davis. three t.d. passes, no picks for wilson. seattle wins 34-22 to go to 6-1.

on campus, miami was on the ropes down 10 in the second half to north carolina. 23-20. later with just over 36 left on the clock. in striking distance. crawford strikes again with another three-yard t.d. run to get the lead. the hail mary almost gets caught by one of renner's guys. miami survives 27-23. >> chaos reigns in the university. the players have been boycotting practice to protest williams firing, poor treatment from the university and to demand

ragsdale's remover. >> los angeles filing suit over $240 million runway at its international airport. why the city said the project is busted just six years after it was completed. >> a life altering discovery, what two aquifers in kenya could mean for millions struggling to find water. on inside story, we bring together unexpected voices closest to the story, invite hard-hitting debate and desenting views and always explore issues relevant to you.

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>> we want to show you these live images coming out of san francisco where bart workers for the bay area rapid transit system is on strike for the second time this year. 200,000 commuters are trying to find an alternate way to get to work. as you can see, things will not go smoothly as traffic is backed up for miles in the bay area, all because of a transit strike, an agreement that could not be reached by those two sides.

>> the city of l.a. is suing a contractor for botching a building job at los angeles international airport. the new runway was built for $250 million, but is showing cracking and deteriorating in accelerated fashion. it is said they performed the job sloppily and the city must now rebuild the pavement. runways typically last 22 years. they have been sued before for a subway tunnel who's walls are too thin. >> pope francis is wanted to visit the middle east. an invitation was extended to the pope. an invitation is accepted from israel. the pope presenting a gift during their meeting, a pen. he hopes to use the pen to sign

a treaty with israel. >> two action we percent were discovered in northern kenya where water and food are scarce. the underground lakes could provide drinking water for more than 70 years. >> children and grandchildren on their daily search for water in northern kenya's dry and harsh area. they have to go farther and dig deeper to get the water. when they find the water, it does not matter how dirty it is, they have to make due. water borne diseases are common. the discovery of a large volume of water is 30 kilometers from her home. >> getting food and water is a struggle. if what you're saying is true, then our life will change.

i hope it's just not another false promise. >> two action we percent have been discovered. they may be large enough to supply the country with water for 70 years. >> people always knew that there was water underground. this area is called land of water. it's where different waters meet, a lifeline to thousands. >> drought related deaths are common in this region. at the time of his brother's death, he was severely malnourished, such deaths the government wants to stop. the water will be crucial for irrigation with a good supply producing enough food to sustain it's 1 million people. >> our first priority now is to insure that the people, the community benefits from the water. thereafter, we can see how the rest of the country can also

enjoy these resources. >> it will take a while before the water finally reaches each person in the area. this family upon hearing the discovery moved closer to the aquifer which has been sealed for now. after a couple of days, they moved on, maybe into sudan itself, a two day journey. they hope by the time they come back, they won't have to move again. aljazeera. >> that will do it for now. we leave you with these images of san francisco where a strike by bart workers has crippled the commute for nearly 200,000 people. it's not even 6:00 yet.

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>> announcer: this is al jaze a jazeera. >> welcome to the news hour, live from al jazeera news center in doha. lebanon's president says he needs more money to deal with the growing numbers of syrian refugees. >> reporter: i'm andrew simmons reporting live from a grim refugee camp here in the valley. there are so many