jonathan betts. just captured two convicted killers. they'd been released from prison by mistake using fake documents. found in a motel in panama city beach florida. hours after walker's mother pleaded with him to turn himself in. two dead were a bart employee and contractor inspecting the tracks. it was believed that the train was not being run by regular operators as the transit strike continues. j.p. morgan chase could pay

a record fine over its mortgage practices, the tentative deal was reached friday, calling for the bank to pay $9 billion to the federal government and $4 billion to struggling homeowners. the bank still faces a criminal investigation by the government. 9 lebanese hostages and two turkish pilots are now free. the release comes after a complex negotiation between turkey lebanon and syria. those are the headlines. america tonight is up next on al jazeera america.

>> good evening, and thanks for being with us. i'm joie chen and you're watching america tonight's weekend edition. over the next few nights anonymous was rallying. as lori jane gliha reports, hactivists. a video uploaded to youtube shows a former steubenville, victim. >> he raped her harder than.

>> a picture of the passed out 16-year-old being carried by two players from the town's legendary football team showed up on instagram. the assault continued, some deserve to be peed on. >> never seen so much l oferltl. two players were arrested a week later but she began blogging about the case, afraid that the popularity of the big red football team would prevent the attackers from being brought to justice. her blog came to the attention of anonymous. five months later when prosecutors appeared to be dragging their feet the group hacked into roll red roll the football team's home page and posted this. >> the girl was sexually

molested raved and dragged from party to party. >> publicly identify everyone responsible. >> can you hide no longer. you have attracted the attention of the hive. engaged. >> their stupidity astounds me. they posted it themselves, we put this out here. we have the reputation of hackers but nobody had to hack that. >> derrick was the person behind the mask on this video posted to the roll red roll website. he admits making the video but said someone else hacked the website. >> the tweets and the posts the kids made, it enraged me that someone could treat someone like that. >> i thought you heard that. >> a week later lawstutter rereleased the youtube video that he said was sent to him from someone at steubenvil.

>> it made the splash needed to get more people involved in the investigation. >> she wasn't moving. >> the video racked up more than a million views and sparked national outrage. anonymous protesters converged on the streets of steubenville. >> shaim oshame on you! >> we got 2,000 people on the streets peacefully. speaking online it was very powerful. >> in march two men were found guilty of rape, and sentenced to one and two years in juvenile detention respectively. lawstutter credits anonymous for what he sees as justice served. >> there was a sense of excitement but also a sense of empowerment. this is what the people are supposed to be like in america. >> it was a classic hactivist action, a diverse group with

computer skills converging like a flash mob around perceived injustice. >> people become involved in anonymous because they are seeking empowerment in the world, empowerment they haven't been able to get through conventional structures. anonymous has become a popular movement she says because it's open to everyone and it's based totally on merit. >> some just take down websites. you act and that's how you gain social capital. you don't have a resume. there's just a list of things you did. >> their knowledge of computers and the internet have allowed a technically savvy generation who might not otherwise have become involved in social issues to find their voice. >> i think the most powerful thing about anonymous is the transformation it does to the people who are in it. once they are part of global

action, global political action, that sticks with people. >> during the arab spring online activists helicopter egyptians evade government censorship. >> the one thing you fairly universally say is they are anti, they could express themselves in ways that they couldn't anywhere else and that expression was nearly sacred in that culture. >> but when hactivists attacked the websites of mastercard, visa and paypal, they were sent on a

collision course with the u.s. government. >> what appeared to be a fedex truck, it was the cia, they told me to get the f down so i did and they put me in handcuffs. >> report from lori jane gliha. fracking has moved to town. it is a technique that mixes water and chemicals to fracture underground. i traveled ogreen county pennsylvania where residents are worried about their community's fracking future. >> scottish highland cattle graze on a mixture of broad leafy greens. in green county in the very southwestern corner of pennsylvania. brown says it is a great time to be selling organic beef.

>> there's much more demand than i can supply. >> so you might wonder why she's putting her farm on the market. >> how much is it for? >> 449. that is a 3800 square foot house that is also a b and b, a pond, wood barn, so -- and it's a beautiful place. >> but brown is selling because she worries it won't stay a beautiful place. her farm is sandwiched between a proposed coal operation and natural gas drilling. green county's lush hills conceal a wealth of energy riches below. a confluence of appalachian coal and natural gas rern calle resee called the marcellus shelf.

the homes bought by a coal company now stand vacant to make way for a long wall coal mine, dug hundreds of miles down in panels a quarter mile wide and more than a mile long. half a mile away, tucked at the end of a dirt road, on the far side of a corrugated steel tunnel is the childs family home directly above the proposed coal mine. they call it hummingbird hollow. photographer terry child still lives here with his mom? among the very few holdouts in the area, waiting as development moves ever closer. >> that used to be holbrook, a little tiny town, had 20 or 30 friends that lived there when i went to school. there was a couple of stoshes, there was a -- stores, there was a post office.

now there's nothing. >> now it's a ghost town. >> pretty much. i love the outdoors, i love the land, to know that it's being destroyed, it's going to be destroyed. >> green county's energy boom has already changed the landscape. here's a long wall mine outside waynesburg the county seat. natural gas drilling operations dot the hill tops. pipelines cut across the rolling train. and -- terrain. and the trucks hauling fresh water, waste water and heavy equipment. everywhere, signs of change. even as green county's population is declining, employment is up. as companies continue to buy up land, to make way for more mining. green county commissioner chuck morris. >> they're upset because it's their home, the home they built and the memories and stuff are there. at the same time they're compensated well enough to -- to

find a good place to live relatively nearby. >> i have seen so many neighbors go through the agony of this. because they really didn't want to leave. but they can't really stay, and fight. i mean if they don't have the means they don't have the lawyers on retainer that you know these big companies have. so they sell. >> this is a map of the underground mine. >> green county officials say they don't know how many homes are vacant or have been torn down in recent years. but the web citydata.com says there are almost 500 fewer owner occupied homes or condos in 2010 compared to just a decade earlier. during that time green county homeowners have seen their property values increase, on average up 50%, a profit that's hard to resist. but most surface owners as they are known, do not own the

mineral rights beneath their properties. for those who do gas rights can be worth $3,000 an acre or more plus royalties. terry childs tries to capture the changes going on all around him. he took the pictures over several months, showing a natural gas well going in around his home. >> they literally level off the top of the hill and the first of the rigs come in start drilling. >> it is a process going on all around green county. fracking sites from the county from 2006 until this year. there's plenty of home town pride in green county. and no shortage of cheer leaders for what's known in the mining industry as the marcellus shale play. outnumbered opponents 2 to 1.

>> it's been awe some odds to everyone here. >> the stimulus to the economy has been phenomenal. >> still half of those surveyed say they expect the drilling will damage the environment. >> i think some people are making a lot of money off of it but in the long run it's going to hurt more of the environment than what it's worth to the community. >> a few years ago there was a man made lake in ryerson state park just up the road from sandra's farm. it had to be drained when coal mining made the ground below it unstable. in an agreement reached with the state, console energy promised to spend $36 million to restore the lake in exchange for the right to drill for natural gas below the park. sandra tests her own waterer month. she's worried about fracking up the hill.

>> the goal is to return the land better than away when we got it. but the extraction stuff is just take it an run. i don't know how long you can keep doing that. >> commissioner chuck morris says the extraction stuff is a matter of supply and demand. >> we have an asset. we have coal and same for marcelluk dam. it provides good income so people can live in good homes and nice things, and while doing that provide a needed resource to other parts of the country. that doesn't seem like a bad thing to me. >> it's very short sighted. if people don't think that that isn't going to turn around and bite them in the as, they are sorely mistaken. >> working towards u.s. independence and perhaps paying the price down the road. during our visit to green county we also heard another phrase that i hadn't encountered

before. sacrifice zone. the think is green county is so rich in this energy wealth both nat gas and oil only a handful of residents would stick around, the rest would move off and let their valuable fuel power the nation's needs. we continue the fracking series after the break, inself is fracking to blame for town wells running dry?

>> hi, i'm phil torrez. coming up this week on techknow: >> it's going to get bumpy over here it looks like. >> we drop like a rock, and then you experience zero g's. >> this is a modified dc8 with about 28 different instruments on the outside. >> it's one wild ride. we're flying at 300 feet over the gulf of mexico. come aboard nasa's laboratory in the sky. >> soon after fracking trucks started hauling their weight into barnhart texas, the wells started to go dry. that's why turning on the tap could no longeing be taken from grant for granted. sheila macvicar reports. >> this part of west texas for

nearly 30 years. >> these days businesses almost too good. and not in a good way. >> we're busy as we want to be. we could stay running all day and all night if we wanted to. >> water wells all over the county are drying up. >> i've seen them, some of the real shallow water, like 40 to 80 feet, i've seen it go. but never any that are as deep as some of these. they're 60000 feet and they're going -- 600 feet and they're going dry. some of it has to do with the drought not all of it. >> dead well once was used to water cattle. >> all the shallow water in this country pretty much all gone thanks to all the drilling going on. >> the fracking boom has entered west texas, a huge swath of land

called the permian basin. the permian is one of the largest oil and gas producing areas ever discovered in the u.s. with 82,000 active wells. but most of its riches are only accessed by fracking. >> ron green is a scientists at the southwest institute. >> they would have a vertical hole and maybe use 100,000 gallons. in fracking they are drilling down putting in a horizontal well and they inject a lot of water to hydraulically frack the rock. you are talking 3 to 600,000 gallons per well that's frakd. >> long pen stressed for water, in the midst of a historic drought, fracking would push some towns over the edge. once a sleepy intersection off

the highway with a population of 92, barnhart, texas is now teeming with trucks all to service the oil fields. now 300 trucks most of them 18 wheelers run through barnhart every day. beverly and her husband settled in barnhart 35 years ago. >> everything you see my husband built. >> wow. >> i want to show you our well or what used to be our well. you can tell we haven't been in here lately. and all of this money is down the tube. >> you don't think it will ever come back. >> i don't think it will ever come back. >> after her own well went dry, beverly borrowed $1500 from the bank, bought a meter and paid to get looked to city water.

>> i turned the water on and that's when i went, oh my god, the town's out of water. >> the town well had run dry. for three days last june residents had to truck in water for drinking and basic needs. >> our friends on the ranch right out here, their wells are all gone. our friends out here, on the ranch, their wells are now gone. >> in texas, groundwater is governed by the rule of capture. if you own the land, you own everything beneath it. residents say that even as their own domestic wells go dry some of their neighbors are cashing in and selling fresh water. vendors are drilling from deeper wells, all for fracking. >> what do you say to your neighbors who are selling water? >> you can't say nothing. it's legal. >> it's legal.

>> beverly and allen say without water they may be forced to sell out. >> it's very heartbreaking. you've done the best you knew how and it wasn't enough. >> goomer mowerno came to barnhart for work, he fills his truck up with 500 gallons of water and runs to the wells. >> we do what we can. barnhart, they run out of water quickly. we got to be chasing up and down. >> we're here in the western edge of barnhart. we came up here to talk to some people who were selling fresh water, fresh water for fracking but the subject of selling water here for fracking is so sensitive that no one will agree to speak with us. there's another catch. water used in fracking is so contaminated with minerals, that it can't be used again for any

purpose without expensive cleanup. a contaminated water storage facility was built right in town. beverly took us to see it. >> what's going to happen when all of these trucks are coming in? >> we're going ohave lights and a small city. it's going to be constant truck 24/7 all day all night moving in moving out moving in moving out, and waiting. they're going to be all up this road all over there all waiting to dump. >> we are a town that greed destroyed. greed owned a part of the oil companies coming in here but worse than that it was the people that lived here that embraced that greed. >> john denny is a local rancher and vice president of the barnhart water board. >> our infrastructure has been overtaxed overburdened. we can't meet the demand that the influx of oil field people have put on all of this.

water, housing. electrical to a lesser degree. >> so the whole infrastructure -- >> everything, every aspect of it. >> you have a situation where you have got that saltwater facility? >> it's an injection facility. the tanks that are there are to hold it until such point it's pumped down to whatever depth it's going to. >> but that means trucks. >> lots and lots of trucks. they are projecting anything from 200 to 400 daily. >> a today? >> yes. >> what about the people who live there? >> they're a nonentity. oil companies don't care. we have fought each of these saltwater injection wells, have gone to austin, and to no satisfaction. we're not going to -- oil companies have a lot deeper pockets than residents of barnhart do. >> oil companies have

successfully fought off attempts to make them obtain permits before they drill. >> fracking is the reason that texas and the rest of the region is doing so well. >> balk in austin i sat down with debra hastings at the oil and gas association. >> the oil and gas industry paid over $12 billion just in one year, in 2012 alone. >> there was a bill also. this last legislative session i think it was number 873 that would have widened the requirement for permits for drilling for water use. why was that law not a good idea? >> the process that we have right now is working. and so we believe that it wasn't broken. >> brut why, if other large users including municipalities and big agriculture have to get permits before they begin that process why should oil and gas be exempt? >> the timing is the most important part of that permitting process. we want to ensure that when we have a rig available that we can

use it. >> fracking companies don't need to use fresh water. they can frack with brackish water or recycled water. but since that water has to be treated it costs more. the oil and gas industry maintains it is using only 1% of the water in texas and is not placing an undue burden on the state given the benefits. not too long ago, john nanny ran hundreds of of head of cattle on his leased ranch. then the water ran out and he's down to a couple did you. >> texas oil and gas association says throughout the state the industry uses only 1% of water. >> this is probably true but there's 254 counties in this state and my question to the oil industry is: what is that percentage in the 25 counties it's impacted mostly by that? no one will answer that for me. >> do you think they know? >> oh i'm satisfied they do.

those people aren't dumb. they want to average that out, if you want to say one foot is on the ground and the other is in a fire, you feel pretty good don't you? when the oil company is going to dry up, this country without water is going to be absolutely worthless. >> that report from america tonight's sheila macvicar. coming up one step at a time, an amputee's victory, we meet a child learning to walk anew. anew desenting views and always explore issues relevant to you. that's all i have an real money.

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>> left behind in the rubble of the 2010 earthquake in haiti are surviving victims living with daily grim reminders of the day they lost nearly everything in their lives. adjusting to life without limbs. soledad o'brien finds out what

works with amputees slowly taking their tips to a new life. >> at seven years old he seems no different than haitian boys his age. moments later our cameraman seems to capture his undivided attention. moise lives with his parents in a pooing suburb. they lost everything in january of 2010. this is life they've managed to rebuild in three years. moise's father works as a driver during the day. he teaches his boys religious songs and hopes that jesus will answer their prayers. but his mother worries. this is why. >> he was injured in the earthquake. what happened? >> translator: the foot was badly damaged. the house collapsed on him and

his brother. >> moise was still alived. the next day they reached a hospital. one doctor said there was no need to amputate but a second opinion from an american doctor delivered the terrible news. >> the white american looked at it and said if we don't cut the foot off, the child will die. they cut his foot off on the 18th of january. >> it must have been terrible to see your son lose his leg. >> there are some words that don't need translation. >> translator: it was horrible. i looked at him for a moment. just a moment. it was so painful. i didn't want the foot cut off. >> she feared the physical pain her son was facing, and the lifetime of hardship. in haiti when you are missing a limb you're stigmatized,

considered an outcast, called a kokobe, or curriculum in creole. adults can't find a job. >> how come if i walk around the street i don't see people on crutches, i don't see people who are missing a leg or an arm. >> they prefer to hide it. >> why? >> they feel rejected by society. >> ashamed. >> exactly. >> joseph is the director for healing hands for haiti, providing prosthetics to haitians who need it. dr. rudolph sits on the board. >> only the strong survive, if you have any kind of handicap you are done. they throw you away. >> the earthquake destroyed healing hands facilities. that's when ngo, handicap

international, came in with a program that helped them and helped haitians solve a haitian problem. >> when we arrived in haiti after the earthquake, there were no professional rehabilitation services so there was an urgent need to bring in specialists from overseas. >> the partnership built this new center in port o prince. maurice has an appointment to be fitted for a new prosthetic. >> we give him the best possible in 2010. and every day he grow. >> which is good except your prosthetic is not growing.

>> is not growing. every time we change, it's three months or six months -- >> he needs a new prosthetic. >> because the stump is growing all the time. >> moise is growing quickly. when they try the new prosthetic, it needs a few adjustments. it takes time. when they come back, a second test is a better fit. moise walks up and down, up and down as therapists check his balance. he seems to like what he sees. but for his mother every visit here, every fitting is another reminder that an already hard life in haiti will be even harder for her son. pascal oversees the prosthetic workshop. >> what is the prognosis? how will the little boy we see today, how will his owners life be when he's 30 or 40 or 50?

>> he miss a part of the leg. he continue to evolve like a normal boy. >> one big challenge facing host cunts of countries like haiti is the eventually departure of the fgos that help them. one hope is that healing hands for haiti is receive sufficient. setting them up with funding for five years. mostly from the u.s. and canada. >> at the same time we started a training program to ensure that at some point there would be a transfer so haitians would be capable of providing the work themselves. >> this is the workshop where the prosthetics are made, each one by scratch. next door, technicians sew the velcro straps that hold the prosthetic to the patient. there are ten technicians that make about 30 prosthetics every

month. the facility also hosts the training center. >> we have time to go to school. and. >> so it's a good gig, good job? >> yes. >> few places in port-o-prince are accessible for the handicapped. the tragic earthquake could have a silver lining. >> a lot of people in the beginning before the earthquake they used to reject people with handicap. and after the earthquake i don't know why it open up their eyes and they are starting to see them in another way and to accept them. >> this is moise's new reality. every few months he'll travel to and from the city's downtown to get a new prosthetic leg. for him it's like the answer to his prayers. the ones he sings about with his father. especially in a place like haiti where the next steps are anything but certain.

>> that report from our special.exobspecialcorresponden. beth macnaran is with us, her organization is one of the strongest supporters for healing hand of haiti. can you explain the relationship? >> sure. right after the earthquake, healing hands for haiti center was destroyed. handicap international were already there in haiti and able to respond in 48 hours. so we set up tents around some of the destroyed hospitals and clinics and some of the staff came to us. they had the skills but they didn't have the materials or place to provide care. >> and now we heard in soledad's report, it is not only the immediate needs of patients but training for their future as well. >> that's right. we need to create a cadre of

trained rehabilitation professionals. this is a long term horizon. there talk to me a little bit about what that horizon is. a kid like moike will need new prosthetics. >> that's correct, and adults will need them every three to five years. people in haiti who suffered amputations because of the earthquake or other reasons will need lifelong access to care. >> how many people in haiti do you think are affected? >> well, disability statistics tell us there's probably about 900,000 people in haiti with some kind of a disability. due to the earthquake we think there were about 2 to 4,000 amputees just after the event. >> and is it clear to you that you've reached everyone who could be helped? is it possible, we heard about the stigma in the communities, is it possible that the people just don't know that this help is available, that you're there

to help? >> there may be people who still haven't accessed care. but i think when you have such a cataclysmic event like the earthquake with so many injured people it does tend to take away some of the stigma because you have a larging population who have disabilities directly related to the earthquake. >> i see so many people who have seen soledad's reports and say i didn't realize, that was still going on not only with the amputees but in housing and other areas. how can people be helpful? >> your viewers can stay engaged and understand haiti is a very poor country, it was poor before the earthquake, it suffered a catastrophic event, they need to stay engaged and stay aware that these are long term issues that need long term solutions and they can donate time and money to helping people in haiti.

>> the program is funded soledad mentioned for five years. beyond that what happens? will it be self sustaining in some way? >> that is goal. that these programs are self sustaining and they provide the needed services to the population, the ultimate goal sustainable services. >> how many people are involved in the training program and developed as you mentioned, when you were looking at the video you knew some people working there as technicians. how many people are involved in organizations like this? >> it is a complex partnership with a number of other organizations so at any given time i think we are training between 50 and 100 rehabilitation professionals. these people will be integrated into centers why they can -- where they can provide care. >> people who are specifically creating prosthetics or dwhroond you are offering -- beyond that you are offering additional

assistance? >> the rehabilitation care, the physical therapy that people need. >> so a young man like moise, he needs to learn to be a young man with a prosthetic to see what else he can do right? >> that's right. he's going oneed all kinds of support to be able to attend school, to play with other children and to live the life of a normal haitian boy. >> i was really concerned about the stigma that remains over this. i wonder if there is some ways you can help communities understand. >> i think that's a really important part of the work that handicap international does, so they see the abilities of people rather than the disabilities. >> an opportunity for someone like moise. thank you so much. >> that's right. thank you very much. >> coming up, satisfying a full stomach for an eight-hour school day. >> i'm natasha guinane.

90% of these students rely on a free or reduced lunch. coming up. a day in the life of families who are struggling to put food on the table.

what happens when social media uncovers unheard, fascinating news stories? it drives discussion across america. >> share your story on tv and online. >> call it an invisible ep tellic. hunger in america. according to a recent flu gallup poll, 27% of americans haven't enough money to buy food for their families, al jazeera's natasha guinane spent a day with

a family struggling to put food on the table. >> jerome middleton is nine years old, five feet tall and 110 pounds. >> he's a big boy. i want to say when you don't have enough food you can't eat, that would kill me as a mother. >> are you ready? >> yes. >> terrell leaves for school. without sitting down to eat breakfast he purchas purchase me cereal. thanks to a state program, the state serves a free lunch to students, another guaranteed solid meal to fill their bellies. >> food and security basically runs our school.

kids will come in off the bus and you can tell already what kind of a morning it is. some of them are so hungry, the commercials, snickers, you're not yourself, that's the way our kids are, some haven't eaten since the previous day. >> she's been raising her son alone since terrell was about five months old. she cawble cobbles together a l, reliance on food stamps. she and ter el countables and. >> he's an a asthmatic child he takes steroids. he's got to eat. >> we asked him how he would feel if he couldn't eat two

meals a day at school. >> i think things would be horrible because i don't eat all day. >> if the students are hungry, there's po way for students to feed their mind. >> where is your next meal coming from rather than how do i spell this word? it is devastating. >> it's hard to do math. even though that's my best subject. >> terrell's mother says she tries to shield her son from their financial struggles. >> i don't want him to grow up or feel he's growing up with less than what everybody else has. i try to do my best to give him everything that he needs. >> life hasn't been easy for single mother and her son. in 2011 as they were driving home from bible study two people with a consider 4k 47s spread bo

their car. it was ocase of mistaken identity. but those who were responsible, were never arrested. >> i say why me? then, why not? what are you going odo to change it? >> devose hadn't been working and she vowed to make something of herself and be a real provider for her son. >> i probably would have been a task of how people see us. when i say us i mean younger black women who rather stay home and get government assistance than go out and work. you know i kind of set myself apart. >> in may she graduated with an associate's degree and became a paralegal. she's coming online courses and

aiming to be an attorney. school is out. terrell grabs a snack and will study in the school's after care program until his mother picks him up. like many of his classmates he's now eaten two meals and a snack at school. to help students more, food pantry gives rotating students bags of food to eat home. foods he eats at school. >> corn dogs, tea teriyaki chinh rice. sin monday crunch cereal. >> we have to look at it. how much food does it really take to keep a child from being hungry? how much food would it take, how much money does it take?

>> it is now after 7:00 in the evening and terrell fidgets with hunger as his mother makes dinner. she strives to go through these circumstances. >> i don't want him to depend on the government to do anything for him. >> but for now thanks to food stamps and free meals at school, the odds of terrell going to bed hungry are slimmer. >> that was natasha guinane reporting. according to the website, nokidhungry.org, more than 1600 families in the united states, one out of every five kids, and 9 out of 10 public school teachers say eating a healthy breakfast is a key to academic achievement. still to come here tonight, embedded photographers in times of war. their iconic images from the

front line. stories in black and white, next. this is the 900-page document we call obamacare. my staff has read the entire thing. can congress say the same?

>> finally this hour am a look at war photography. a new story, what is their ultimate purpose? we visited the corcoran gallery to find out. >> the exiptio exhibition descre role of photography in communicating about what happens during war time. it's a story of 185 years of history from the mexican american war to the present day. and how important, how critically important the still photograph has been in encapsulating and crystallizing moments that otherwise might not be seen by people who never experience war at firsthand. >> my name is louie palou i'm a

photojournalist, i spent up to five years in kandahar afghanistan covering the war there. photos are like a double edged sword right? on the one hand you can engage with this critical crucial top irk and not traumatized with the photographs of war. the two key things that i realize are the true of combat, the smell, the sound, the gun fire, explosions. i'm trying to give an entry point to people to learn. if all i'm going odo is traumatize people it kind of knee gates al -- negativates al.

>> something that has origination that cannot be contained in the image. joe rosentha always's image is a fascinating image. it became a very important image for the u.s. military to shore up american support for the war effort which was flagging at the time. and what's often not told is the story of the men who raise that flag and who through absolutely no intention of their own became symbols of american true ux. several of them the ones that -- triumph. the ones who firefight came back to the united states forced to be marched around the united states as symbols. >> what bothers me about that photograph is i don't know who any of the marines are raising the flag. i just thought who are niece guys? are they just some anonymous

g.i.s? i want to know their name. who they are, when they might have been killed, who did they go back to? >> the photograph we chose to be our signature image in washington is a portrait of a marine sergeant by louie palou. it is a simple image, if the viewer looks closely they'll notice that what they're seeing is the experience of war. in a single expression. the portrait shows a soldier who's just returned from patrol. and this marine is exhausted, has sweat and dirt caked on his face. and his eyes look vaguely haunted. and in this single glance louie has summed up what the experience of war is, more generally speaking for generations of young soldiers who go into combat. >> i really felt like i wanted to engage personally and psychologically with the people i was photographing.

i'd been toying with portraits. i want photographs that look out at you and you confronted looking at them. >> there are many photographs of war that had been forgotten because they are too visually pleasing. on the other hand, images that resonate that last over time that stay in our minds are perfectly composed, that have elements of what we regard as beauty. our eyes are drawn in. even though it might share something horrifying, if it shares it in a distinctive and unusual and sometimes even beautiful way, i can have a greater hold on our -- it can have a better hold on our imagination. no single image will change the reality that war happens. on the other hand what we have also found is the presence of images that show events otherwise unknown otherwise unrecorded and undepicted can chang how wars unfold.

you never know when but at some point an amazing symbolic image will be made. we often assume that photography has lost its unique power in the age of video. but what we have found again and again over the last century is that photography retains that special power. >> the exhibit will continue its tour at the brooklyn museum in new york starting november 8th. and that is it for us here on america tonight. please remember if you would like to comment on any of the stories you've seen here, log on to our website, aljazeera.com/america tonight. tell us what you'd like to see at our nightly current affairs program. and please join the conversation with us on twitter or our facebook page. have a good night. >>

. >> welcome to al jazeera america. i'm jonathan betz, here are the top stories. two convicted murderers who escaped from a florida prison are back in police custody. charles walker and joseph jenkins were found in a motel in panama city. >> two men have been killed by a bay area train 25 miles north of san francisco. one was a bard employee, and the other a contractor. they were inspecting the tracks. the train was not run by a regular operator because of the ongoing transit strike.