earth, and with an atmosphere to earth, but not quite. so we still have to find those planets that are just right. >> derrick, we're going to have shots fired. sparks middle school. 275. >> chaos at a nevada middle school as a student opens fire killing a teacher and shooting two children before taking his own life. now police are trying to determine if bullying was a motive. the trains are rolling again in the bay area after six months of talks and two rail shutdowns. bart workers have agreed to ideal to head back to work. >> nobody is matter than me about the fact that the website isn't working as well as it should. >> president obama vow to his iron out the kinks that have plagued the federal health care website saying there are no excuse for his the glitches. secretary of state john kerr

will have his hands full in london setting up talks trying to end the war in syria. dealing with criticism that the nsa has been identifying spao*eug ospying on france.♪ ♪ welcome to al jazerra america i am stephanie sy. we are following breaking news out of san francisco. where the bay area rapid transit agency and union workers have reached a tentative labor agreement ending the ongoing bart strike there. bart said it will be a i believe to restart limited train service tuesday morning after four days without any service. officials say they hope to have the system fully operational by the afternoon commute. details were not released. the union needs to improve the tentative agreement. the town of sparks nevada is waiting for answers after a kay kai on the i can shooting at a middle school left one teacher dead and two students injured.

police say a 13-year-old student brought a gun to school and opened fire before turning the weapon on himself. melissa chan has more on the investigation. >> reporter: the incidents took place at 7:16 a.m. local time, about 15 minutes before school was about to start. as mentioned the shooter shot and killed a teacher. a very popular math teacher by the name of michael lansbury. he is being called a hero because he was apparently in the process of asking the shoot tore put down his gun when he himself was shot and killed. now, we know from police that the weapon in question was a semiautomatic. the entire incidents lasted all of three minutes. this is what the police had to say. >> as you can imagine, the best description is chaos. so to say whether or not he was targeting specific people or just going on a, you know, indiscriminate shooting spree. >> reporter: police have also said that school will remain closed for the rest of the week. they did not indicate whether

school would open up next monday. it could be pending the investigation. and just to put a little bit of context in all of this, this is the 16th school shooting in the united states so far this year. >> that was melissa chan reporting from sparks, nevada. police are expected to hold another press conference in the morning. president obama has promised a solution to the technical problems playing the website healthcare.gov. it was sold to the public as an easy to use online health insurance marketplace. and while more than 20 million americans have visited the site, relatively few have been able to sign up. mike viqueira has more. >> reporter: well, at this point there is no denying there are serious problems, serious flaws with the online website where people go who do not have insurance to sign up to get insurance under the affordable care act. on monday, the president took to the rose garden, he promised that those problems are going to get fixed. with criticism from all sides, the president played pitch man

in chief of the new health care law. so here is the bottom line. the product, the health insurance, is good. the prices are good. it is a good deal. people don't just want it, they are showing up to buy it. >> reporter: but if mr. obama knows how many people have actually succeeded in signing up, he isn't saying. after first blaming website problems on larger than expected volume, the president now admits there are bigger problems. >> there is no sugar coating it. the website has been too slow, people have been getting stuck during the application process. and i think it's fair to say that nobody is more frustrated by that than i am. >> reporter: mr. obama suggests applying for the exchange the old-fashioned way. >> the phone number for these call centers, is 1(800)318-2596. >> reporter: please say the name of the state that you are

calling about. >> reporter: maryland. we called the number moments after the president spoke but there were problems there too. the president was just on television he said call this 800 number if you are having problems with the website. so i am calling. >> oh, yes, sir, well, due to the high call volume. >> reporter: so, in other words, i need to fill out that application online before i speak with you on the phone? yes, sir. >> reporter: after their shutdown and debt ceiling strategy failed, republicans are now turning their fire on the website's rocky roll out. >> they have had three or four years here to get this ready, god only knows how much money they have spent, and it's a failure. >> send air force one out to silicon valley and load it up with some smart people and bring them back to washington and fix this problem, it's ridiculous. >> reporter: the administration has brought in outside experts, what they call a tech surge of the best and brightest. the deadline to sign up is march

of next year. or face a fine. if the problems persist the president spokesman hinted the deadline could be rolled back. >> the slaw clear if you do not have access to affordable health insurance then you will not be being asked to pay a penalty because you haven't purchased affordable health insurance. sweawe are folk you go u.s.s on making sure that people have access to affordable health insurance. >> reporter: problems have reached such a state that the respected magazine consumer reports has warned its subscribers to stay away at least if a month if possible off healthcaredo thdot.gov. on thursday they'll hear from the architects of that website. >> thank you mike have care fora many americans say they are still interested. and those that manage to get on the site they it hasn't been a bad experience. 22% of [inaudible] sured

americans say that they've visited the health exchange website. another 42% of uninsured americans intends to do so. when the center asked people who did get on the site about their experience, 56% say they found health care.gov easy to use, but another 40% said it was hard to use. secretary of state john kerry heads to london for the so-called friends of syria meeting. it's the latest in a rounds of talks aimed at resolving the syrian conflict. kerry will be joined by counterparts fry just a minute, france, i had los angeles, jordan, qutar, saudi a rap arab. and the uea and. u.k. pears talks remain tough sale. the u.s. has been pushing for a geneva two conference but not everyone is on board. once again the u.s. is apologizing for spying on other countries. a new report says the nsa has been spying on millions of french citizens. according to the french newspaper, the nsa intercepted

more than 70 million communications in a 30-day period last year. it involved recorded full conversations and collecting text messages. the report says the agency not only targeted suspected terrorists but also french business people and politicians. al jazerra's juan carlos molina has the story. >> reporter: secretary of state john kerr a received in france today to discuss the progress in the middle east. but immediately found himself addressing something else entirely. a new report that the u.s. has been spying on its a allies. >> protecting the security of our citizens in today's world is a very complicated, very challenging task and it is an every day, 24/7, 365 task, unfortunately. >> reporter: the report from a major french newspaper siting nsa leaker edward snowden as it's a source. the french foreign minister calling in the u.s. ambassador for a meet to go express his

disflesh. >> you are we knew about this since june ask we already took action, it seems we need to take further. it's unacceptable and we have to make sure it won't happen again. >> reporter: meanwhile in washington president obama called the french president to try to smooth things over. secretary kerry acknowledging the latest spying scandal just days after a separate report claims the nsa hacked the e-mail of former mexican president felipe calderon during his time in offers we will have ongoing bilateral consultations including with our french partners that address this question of any reports by the united states government gathering information from some of the agencies. and those consultations are going to continue. >> reporter: one expert on intelligence surveillance and national security, says using terrorism as an excuse to amass data from all over the world is wearing thin with america's allies. >> there was talk about terrorism when they were trying to sale these powers but the nsa's brief is really foreign

intelligence, broadly, which can mean i know, foreign affairs, foreign economic developments. there is an enormous amount of stuff that falls within the rubric of foreign intelligence. and only a relatively tiny fraction of that is real terror threats. >> reporter: juan carlos molina, al jazerra. >> france joins a growing list of upset allies, germany, mexico and brazil expressing anger over the nsa surveillance program. australia is dealing with its worst wild fires in 40 years. bush fires are burn ago cross more than 200 miles of new south wales, and have already destroyed hundreds of homes. now there is fears the fires could merge and form one mega fire. andrew thomas t flames. >> reporter: andrew smith is on the night shift for the third night in a row. >> it's been very busy. >> reporter: normally, smith works as a chef, almost a thousand kilometers from the

town. >> we are going to split up in to two. okay? >> reporter: but tonight he's one of hundreds of volunteer firefighters who have flown in from all over australia to help protect the blue mountains near sydney. >> that's what we are going to do. any questions? >> reporter: the hills above here are alight. tonight's task is to stop the bush fires traveling down to it the town. they'll be fighting fire by lighting more fire. but first an edge of town house needs protecting. >> basically putting in about a five, six-meter line of wet dirt. so that if any embers do fall down on it it will not catch alight. >> reporter: once the grounds around the house is wet. beyond it is lit. >> that will do the hill and mee big wild bush fire coming down it. this area is burned out, the wildfire can't reach that house, and can't reach the town. it's risky work. >> as you can see the berms

coming off the trees it's going up. and the winds is going to start bringing it back. see these big ones here. >> reporter: yep. >> if that drops back down in here and ignites behind us. >> reporter: there are hundreds of operations like this going on across new out wales, much of the work being done when it's schoolest and the wind lightest at night. >> basically if we didn't do this tonight it would come straight down the hill through straight in to li town. >> reporter: you are protect a whole down? >> yes. >> reporter: they are concernedded that push fires could meet calling what some are calling a mega fire that would threaten not just towns like this, but either the western suburbs of sydney. this is what's being done to stop it. andrew thomas, al jazerra. >> last month was the warmest september on record in australia. high testimony irrelevants combined with lower than normal rain fault in new south wales

made conditions prime for these bush fires. ♪ ♪ >> meteorologist: we are looking at some cooler temperatures coming in from parts of canada. that's going to drop those temperatures below freezing this morning for a lot of you. let's go over here towards the radar in the sat side summary you can see up here wisconsin, minnesota, north dakota where you see the blues that is snow falling and what will happen is we are going to get some accumulation especially across iowa and also in to illinois. anywhere between two and some locations to six-inches of snow. and that's going to be over the next 48 hours. so we will keep you updated on that. but for the northwest, things continue to be quite beautiful up here. this has been going for white kuyt a while where you havquitet seen a lot of rain. look at the states looking at very dry and clear conditions. you have to go all the back towards the dakotas before you see any rain at all. now, for se seattle, fairly cool day on tuesday with a high of

about 53 degrees and clouds in your forecast. but as we go through to the weekend things looking quite nice, maybe getting up to about 59 overnight lows down to 46. and down towards the southwest, really mitch of the same. a lot of clear air in place. you see a little bit of green coming up, that's actually radar anomaly, that's really not any rain falling in that location. and, again, no rain in much of the western part of the united states. where phoenix is going to be seeing temperatures in the high 80s and ninetiess there, you can see a low of about 64. texas, though, a little bit different story especially down here towards the coast. dallas not looking too bad. but it will be across corpus christy, up towards houston where you see them are remnants of rain that will be light and ends on the ground tuesday afternoon we think. up here towards the northeast some rain there, but for dallas, not looking too bad with temperatures of about 76. a suicide bomb in russia caught on camera. how the attack is raising concerns about the upcoming olympics. a battle over abortion rights

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republic of dag stan in the north caucuses. investigators who found her documents at the scene say she was suffering from a did he degenerative bone disease and on tranquilizers and pain kill, he her husband, who is 22, was convert today i say islam by het year and now goes by the name of abdul-jabbar. they met while studying at university in moscow, he's believed to be in dag stan. investigators allege he's an expert in explores and i have has joined the group which has been fight to go establish an islamic emirates in the north caucuses for the last 10 years. they also say he's been immateriaimplicated in other b attacks. the leader of the movement, recorded a video in june this year calling on his followers to use maximum force to insure the winter olympics in sochi did not take place. >> this was most probably

something like a test shot ahead of the sochi olympics. it's quite clear that the international tear offist groups or groups affiliated with them are acting on orders to create an atmosphere of fear and panic before the start of the olympics. >> reporter: three days of morning about been declared for the victims of the suicide attack. the city is more than 600-kilometers from the north caucuses. so far there has been no claim of responsibility. eight people remain in hospital in a critical condition. president putin has staked his reputation on the winter olympics going ahead without disruption. the russian special services are keeping updated on all developments. he's already order aid boost of secure any in the northern caucuses with the olympics now only just over three months away. david al jazerra, moscow. >> dog stan is also where the boston bomber was reportedly

radicalizes. a battle over abortion rights is being fought in a texas federal court. planned parent hood hood and other courts are trying to stop the strict abortion laws from taking effect next week. hidy joe castro is following the case. >> reporter: state turns are defending a new law requiring abortion doctors to set new guidelines for the dispensing of pregnancy-ending drugs. >> they are doing it to put abortion providers out of business and that is exactly what will happen as a result the law. >> reporter: abortion rights attorneys contends the restrictions violate a woman's constitutional right to an abortion. >> no other medical specialty is forced to apply with this requirement in texas and as a result. numerous doctors will not be able to get the privileges and they will be forced to stop providing abortions. >> reporter: meanwhile. the state of texas says the new restricts improve women's health and protect preborn life. republicans in the state legislature pushed through the new law in july.

that was after thousands of protesters on both sides rallied at the texas capital as the measure was debated. the tension culminated in state senator wendy davis' their own hour filibuster to block the restrips that his failed. >> it protects little unborn baby as five months after the baby has been developing for five months, that's a long time. >> reporter: the law's authors says they wish to end abortions in texas result. >> without the inning junction 36 of the licensed abortion clinch i objects will stop performing a borings next week. 22,000 texas whim will loose access to abortions each year as a result. >> that puts low income well, women in smaller communities, puts their health at risk because it means they may not be able too access the services that they need. >> reporter: at least three clinics have closed since the texas law's passage. without the court's invention many more are expected to follow.

hidy joe castro, al jazerra, austin. >> monday's hearing got underway with testimony from three witnesses who said the law will hurt women undergoing abortions. attorneys for the state of texas argued the law seeks to protect fetal life. and the safety of women terminating pregnancies. the monthly jobs report comes out later today, it's 18 days late because of the government shutdown. employment numbers are usually reported on the first friday of the month, which was october 4th. economists are predicting an addition of 180,000 jobs for the month of september and expect the unemployment rate to hold steady at 7.3%. there are reports that jp morgan has tentatively agreed to pay the largest settlement ever between a bank and the u.s. government. the multi billion dollars deal would put an end to federal investigations in to the bank's sale of bad mortgages, here is more. >> reporter: at $13 billion the tentative deal reportedly being discussed between jp morgan and

the department of justice to settle civil claims over mortgage practices would be a record. amounting to more than half of the bank's total profits last year. >> they have actually reserved more than that, so that's some indication that they are at least anticipating the possibility of paying more. >> reporter: the deal being discussed reportedly will not settle a criminal probe in to the bank albuquerque's mortgage practices. >> while they are quite willing to pay billions of dollars of share hoerl money to maksharehoe allegations go away. i think they are afraid of a criminal investigation and what that might reveal and for the prospects that some of their executive might go held criminally liable. >> reporter: in addition to it's a mortgage practices, the bank reportedly faces a raft of other probes, including alleged rigging of the key interest rate used to price trillions of dollars worth the global financial products, but for all of its legal headaches, not one senior manager at jp morgan has been publicly targeted by authorities. parishioners a, al jazerra, new

york. >> the probe in to jp morgan is part i've wider federal investigation of big bank misconduct. that k-btsed to th contributed g market crash. the road to recover any colorado proving to be a long one, how immigrants were hit especially hard by disastrous 234r5ding. flooding. one town in norway used to spending its winters in the dark is sh shedding a little light on the situation thanks to science. what happens when social media uncovers unheard, fascinating news stories? it drives discussion across america. >> share your story on tv and online.

researchers have created the first robotic fish. the fish was built to mimic the movements of a real fish, researchers in singapore say the robot can do many things from protecting leaks in pipelines to formerring stealth emil terry missions. it can be a equipped with senatorses cameras and and g.m. s. ray tiny town of are in norway has spent all of its time in the winter in the dark.

this year they are doing something different. >> we take the mirror and deflect the one down to us. >> large mountains block the town sub in the town, so they have set up three massive mirrors to reflect sunlight. the miles an hour on his follow the bath of the sun to beat the mountain shadows all day and prevent it from getting dark. it's been more than a month since a widespread flood killed nine people and destroyed thousands of homes in colorado. the rebuilding process has been tough for many. but as tamara banks found out a small community of immigrants has found going homers sphreurls speciallespeciallydifficult. >> reporter: she and her family were strands on the roof of their trailer home for hours during the historic floods that swept colorado in september. they saw neighbors trailers float by and then their home was ripped off its foundation. so they are living here now, seven people, sharing one room in a friend's home.

struggling as a family to rebuild both their lives and legal identity. and they are not alone. >> right now what we are seeing is that immigrant families are having to rely on friends and family and move in to homes where they are allowed a room or they share a living room so that their children can sleep. >> reporter: dr. pricscilla falcon works with the immigrant community in colorado. she assists some 300 immigrants, who have lost documents they can't afford to replace. >> replacement of birth certificates, replacement of green cards, the work permits. >> reporter: the one place immigrants could possibly get help to replace their documents is the federal government. federal agencies like fema saying getting immigrants back on their feet is a priority not deportation but immigrants don't trust them so nonprofits and faith-based organizations are stepping up. >> the church is being involved in things like trying to get them access to credit so they

are able to reestablish their homes and working through community partners that we know here. work to go get them automobiles. >> reporter: christ presbyterian church is providing counseling to immigrant families including hers. >> what we are trying do is pray with them, and say we are going to walk beside i all the way as long as it takes to get your lives back in order. and we'll walk beside you even beyond this. tamara banks, al jazerra, colorado. >> colorado's his toxic flood being affected 24 counties across the state and caused over $2 billion in damage. that will do it for this edition of al jazerra news, i am steffi sy. remember news at the top of every hour, we'll continue to following the understand of the bart strike in san francisco that is that story develops and you can always lag hog onto our website aljazerra.com for all the latest head lines, thanks for watching.