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>> as the bart strike rolls into a fourth straight nstb investigators are looking into a double fatality involving two thrithrittransit workers that wk by a train over the weekend. same sex couples tying the knot at midnight. new jersey becoming the 14th state to recognize same sex marriage. >> and gunmen opened fire at a church killing three people including a young girl.
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>> welcome to al jazeera america i'm stephanie sy. the commuters in the san francisco area are bracing them themselves for a long commute. federal storie investigators are combing through the scene of a train accident that killed two transit workers over the weekend. lisa bernard has this report. the train involved in the accident rolls out of here. and ntsb investigators are trying to figure out what caused it to plow into two workers checking the track saturday cig bolt of them. cig -- killing both of them. and bart says this was an experienced operator at the controls. the ntsb will look at the employees voferld involved ande
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investigators will scrutinize the equipment. >> we do a thorough inspection every operation of the train itself. inside and out. the wheels and brakes and the third rail and all of those things. >> the investigators spent four hours on sunday on the tracks between two suburban train stops. they were looking at a dip in the tracks when the train hit them. they will look at it video face from a camera facing into the cab the train. they will ask bart for photos and sketches they have the radio communication between the train and the transit system which captured audio at the moment of impact. train c-554 canceled let my know when you are ready to proceed ahead after your break.
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bartbart emergency, bart emerge. >> go ahead. >> we just struck some individuals at 16.2 on the c-1 track. central be advised it may be bart employees. >> nts bhvment will consider whether the strike with bart's two strongest unction had a bearing on the accident the unions had a candle light vigil to honor the employees that were killed here. bart's hearingest union continue to picket signs in one hand and memorial candles in the other. the department of melt and hue magn services is apologizing fog for the problems with health care dot gov.
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>> it's frustrated many americans. their calling in outside help to y the problems. >> the obama administration says 475,000 people have aed my for healthcare through the exchanges. >> jack lu is speaking out about the deal that put an end to the government shutdown and raise the goin debt ceiling. >> it was a close call. >> there was a faction that took control of the direction of this tediedebate. i would look at what republican lieders have said to themselves. i think the message that we have to send going forward this was a tunnel ee turnina -- turning poy
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night. and it won't happen again. it can't happen again. >> it was a turning point for the country that won't be allowed to happen again. >> same sex marriage is legal in new jersey. the supreme court rejected a request. the state's newly elected senator has been officiating same sex marriages since 1 12:stloi 1. 12:01. >> i wouldn't officiate marriages gay and les lesbian americans were second class citizens and they didn't have equal rights and equality under the law. now we do. this is a day of rejoicing. >> it's the law for now. it could be thrown out. in january the high court will
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here appeals against same sex marriage in new jersey. >> in egypt police and students clashed over the weekend. ththey were protesting the poli. fights broke out when the students marched off campus. >> also in egypt three people have died as gunman have opened fire on a weddin wedding party. the attack in happened in a suburb of cairo. >> the attackers arrived on motor bikes and opened fire without warning. their targets were a christian congregation at the church of the virgin mary. the people were attending a weddings and were just leaving when the gun man arrived. >> became running hysterically.
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i found a woman sitting on a chair. she had bhumen bullet woundings. many people were around here including a child that was shot in his neck and shoulder. >> although the tar ge target wa christian church this was an attack on the entire country. >> what happened is an insult to egypt and it's not directed at the cricks chris yeanls. yanks. chris -- chrisians. we are desjuan du fuc destroyinn country. we are an nationally known church. >> they make up 1 10% of the population. in resent months dozens of churches have been attacked across the country. fueling tensions between the christians and the muslim population the church of the
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virgin mary had been left unguarded for several months. the head of security says officers will increase their pat patrols outside of churches following this attack. >> no one has yet claimed responsibility for that attack. >> a suicide bombing if si syria has killed more than 40 people mostly civil yadges. yadges -- civil yarnlingcivilians. they blame terrorists for the attack. a pro opposition group says the attack targeted an army checkpoint. >> a suicide bomber killed 55 people in a baghad cafe. 45 others were hurt t police say the explosion was one of six suicide bombings in one day. >> the u.s. and pakistan are trying to warm up to evil other.
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both site arboth sides are tryit over controversies. >> working to mend a fractured bond. secretary of state john kerry meeting in washington with pakistani prime minister that wanawaz sharif. the u.s. remains concerned about ties about pakistan's intel gedgesintelligence service. the u.s. is beginning to release aid funds that have been froze ebenfor years. on it's own a democracy that is working hard to get it's economy moving and deal with insurge iny
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and we are happy to have you here mr. prime minister and look forward to the conversationings. prime minister sharif is to meet with congress this week. >> as the one year anniversary of hurricane aid sandy approachs some victims tha say their flood insurance checks are int are not cutting. >> the adjusters who relied on duty computers instead of ex-ebb expertise to cover costs. >> some snow yesterday as we got into northern minnesota over toward lake spheu superior.
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and snow coming down from north of the canadian bored re bordero get cold air, coldest of the season so fare. coming into parts of the northern mid west. if you didn't see the meteor shower, you could still potentially see it early this morning getting away from city lights right before sunrise look towards the southern sky. there won't be as great of numbers of meet -- meteors coming down. ten see you noirml normally havw of 28° and a frost advisory stretching across the area for you. >> the colder temperatures in minnesota into the upper 20s here the cold air blast will stay around the great lakes until we get later on this week
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we get a second and third cold air blast. it's going to work it's way toward the northeast where we are not feeling that kind of cold yet. >> but give it a week and we'll get there. snowy wilsnow will be uparound d lake superior. one to two-inches. >> even deluth you will get an inch or so or lows. we look at the overnight snow in the moun mountains. the passes in nort northeast new mexico look out for the icy spots. we'll have a cool as far south as texas. >> two fugitives are back behind bars after an elaborate escape involving forgedded documents. why police belief they had help. >> and mexico condemning the u.s. over the nsa spin spying
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fugitives are back i in prison t how they managed to get out is unclear. the police tracked down the killers in a florida hotel after they walked out of prison weeks ago with forged documents. who helped them escape is in front of investigators. >> for five days the florida authorities were on a manhunt looking for joseph general jenkd charles walker. on sunday we learned that a tip led the police to the feu fugit. the officers late saturday received key information through an associate of one of the inmates helping to pin point
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their location. both men walked out of the prison thanks to forged documents. they went to orlando and registered as fel felons. no red flags went up until one of the mother's of the victims heard of his release. >> even the judge whose name was forged on the paper was impresidented. impresidented -- impressed. i have never seen anything like this. you have to give them an "a" fr being imaginative. >> family of the fugitives pleaded to the cameras. we love you. we believe in you. we want you to deliver yourself to someone you trust that will bring you back to safety. >> with the reports out that the two men were on the loose the two men huddled together in or lan orlando and hatched a plan d
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made it here to the coconut grove inn. >> they surrounded the room about 20 task force members and using a pa system they instructed them and told them they knew where they were and wanted themed to com them -- tho come out. on sunday morning the judge charged both mean men with one t of escape and they will be transferred back to the prison theyes scapethey escaped from. >> the manhunt is over and we will be backtracking to those that helped carry out this fraud. >> this remains an active investigation. the incident has embarrassed florida officals who are eager to find the accomplices. >> the florida officals are
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investigating whether other prisoners were released using fake documents. >> the u.s. government is condemning spying after finding out their leaders may have been hacked by the nsa. the u.s. got into the e-mail of felipe calenda california calde. last month brazilian president canceled a visit to qus washingn after learn the nsa had looked into her communication. >> kenyan sold urge soldiers lea store. men are seen taking items from behind cownlts counters and filg plastic bags with merchandise:others are seen walk yowalking out of the stores with merchandise.
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>> it's been one month since the mall attack in nairobi. we have that story. >> for james the west gate shopping mall is not so much a memorial as it is a grave. he was supposed to join his ain'awnltdauntand his two childo celebrate their birt birthday oe day of the gunman attack. the fo photos are a reminder of what happened here. he brought his son and daughter to westgate for a treat. since then james has heard nothing and he is full of unanswered questions. >> they didn't protect them now they are hiding from us. which is very wrong because we need to know. we need to know the bodies are there. we need to do a ceremony and we
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go to bury people. but they are not doing that. >> one month from westgate we still know very little of what happened when the shooting began. police and the civilians and the military did their best to rescue people which seemed to be a well intentioned attempt to contain the crisis. new sig silent video shows four relaxed gunman hunting down and shooting anybody they could find. this doesn't look like a well corcoordinated operation, more a random attempt to create as money blood shed and fear as possible. >> the video raises more questions than it answers. if there were only four men involved in the attack as the video suggests. why was the government telling us there could have been is a 15 involved. how was it a small group of men were able to fight off the
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kenyan security services here for four days. this is a former intel eevens ae officer. they believe the government should have seen the westgate attack coming. >> it was a possible attack and we didn't seem to have been preparing for it. and they don't seem to have an answers. >> the government launched an kind e ini -- an inquiry. they've no answers for what happened inside of the building. >> a spokesman for kenya's defense forces say officals will address allegationings that all- allegationings that soldiers looted the mall. >> journalists are using droanls to help them get the store. >> two dozen people setting
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>> for years now we have seen drones used in war because they are able to reach places that nothing and no one else can get to. justicjournalists are using dror the exact same reason. >> for the newest media frontier the sky is the limit. matt was watching a demonstration of an unmanned aircraft photographing the landscape to make a map when he had an epiphany. it blew my mind. i watched this and there was every tornado and hurricane and flood and wildfire and olympic l disaster use your imagination. drones have long served as the eyes and arms of the u.s.
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military inte intelligence agen. but he believes the drones could be as useful to the news organizorganizations. he walks into my office and says i want to create a drone journalism lab. and i thought, what is that. >> the university of nebraska launched the world's first uav lab for young journalists. >> we are quite literally creating this tool for journalists to use. there are no guidelines and no suggestions on how you should use this and we are just making everything up. and i want to keep doing that. the picture on the test modeled may look a little wobbly. but with refinement it could look like this. that means no place is out of
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reach. >> it's still a work in progress but a drone is in use to cover cricket. could paparazzi and unmanned car chases next? it's so far ahead of the law there are many unanswered questions. >> if that thing flies over my house i will get my shotgun out and shoot it down. it's not clear if they can do that. when you think about it we are writing the rule book. >> commercial drones are illegal in the u.s. but aviation authorities are crafting laws that could have them filling the skies by 2013. >> well that school has caught the attention of the government who has told them to stop flying drones. they must go through the same operation as police and border patrol agents. >> a pastor and several others
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lit themselves on fire. they walked around on fire for 3 i32 seconds. they were wearing special body suits. it raised money for the cleveland foot food bank. >> well if you have ever hacked your way through a pumpkin you know it's not easy. one illinois man turned giant pumpkins into halloween magic. we watched as he worked his magic on a 1400-pound pumpkin. i'm name is steve da loslkey anm a pumpkin ca carver. i have been carving for 14 years:and i enjoy it. >> it looks like a big scary face.
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>> i don't draw on the pumpkin. i will wing it. the time i do carve with these pulcouplepumpkins i will do thrr hours. >> i start with the eyes and the nose and the mouth is the last thing i will carve. now i will make his top lip into the bottom lip by taking the potato peeler and i will scrape until it goes around. >> do you supply the pumpkin? >> i bring them in. >> how do you bring them in here. we have a big machine that comes in and they scoop it off my truck. >> i tell the kids they can touch it. >> you make it colorful and cool. my inspiration with carving pull pumpkins i like the way the children react. they never get to see something this big before. the place where we get these big
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pumpkins in wisconsin in eau claire area. i have nine growers that grow them for me. i like the pink and cream color because the walls could be as big as 13-inches thick. >> i think it's unbelievable that there is a pum pumpkin that big. >> it's going to look like a ball. >> the carvings i do will rot. they only last two weeks. but to me it's an art. >> steve started carving pull pumpkins as a hobby. he has done it as far away as poll land. poll -- poland. >> is it foral jazeera news. you can log on to our website aljazeera.com for the latest headlines. thanks for watching.
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justice. >> over 50 years ago in the early days of the vet no, ma'am war, american forces began using a potent new herbicide known as "agent orange." it was designed to clear forests divid i have provided the vet kong with food. the deadly effects of that poison can be seen in the sickness and disabilities that have affected millions of people and the feeling of shame they have induced in some american vets.
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