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>> this is al jazeera america i'm jonathan betz in new york. here are today's top stories. protesters march in washington, d.c. amid more revelations about the u.s. spy program. the health and human services secretary defends what's working about the new government health care website. and al jazeera america takes a closer look at a global crisis. how to handle the f flux of refugees risking everything for a better life.
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protesters demanded answers today in the nation's capitol. more tension over the scope of the u.s. government's secret surveillance programs. both liberal and conservative protesters gathered to protest what they say is unlawful government spying on americans. signs saying t stop mass spying and thank you, edward snowden. jean meserve was there. >> marched through the streets of washington to the reflecting pool at the base of the u.s. congress. their message, nsa mass spying should stop. >> i'm here because of our liberal principles in this country that are being severely curtailed. and not just privacy but that is the issue today. >> we're here at this rally to restore our constitutional rights, our first amendment, our
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fourth amendment and we're here to restore balance to the way that our lives have been turned up and get our privacy back, get our safe space back in our private life. >> the protest ers protesters da message, calling for full disclosure of what the nsa is doing an end to those programs and an end to accountability of what those are doing. the man who was responsible for the current state of knowledge of nsa programs, edward snowden, that statement says in part we declare that mass surveillance has no place in this country. it is time for reform, elections are coming and we are watching you. >> and earlier we sat down with kurt opsal, an organizer of stop watching us rally. >> hundreds of groups came together and put together a great rally. i think we were able to impress
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upon the congress that there is a lot of people who are calling for the end of mass surveillance, we want accountability and want transparency in what the nsa is doing. >> do you care? no matter how many stories printed up, it seems not to fire up americans. >> well i think a lot of people do care. we had 5,000 sign the petition, polls are saying that more and more americans are upset by the spying done by their government. >> what would you like to see long term here with this? >> well, an end to mass surveillance. the sort of notion that if you look at a huge sea of data from nent security, nsa program where it's looking deep into the lives of people who have nothing to do
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with terrorism, nothing to do with any sort of legitimate national security interest, combing through their lives and trying to find something, that is something we would like to have stopped. thank you, we appreciate it. there is no allegations of spying of its allies. >> ier man magazine der spie dprvetionel sites a secret u.s. intelligence document which says angela merkel's phone was put on a list of nsa targets in 2002, before she became chancellor. her phone was still on that list just weeks before president obama visited berlin this summer. a high tech antenna was used, it is not clear whether the u.s. was monitoring entire conversation he or just call logs. operating a second surveillance
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station in frankfurt. that report is on the heels of a report. >> information gathered by 17 different u.s. intelligence agencies is collected retained and analyzed. this is national counterterrorism center where even americans not suspected of terrorism come under scrutiny. that is something jasmine tibe and edward of levy want stopped. they want to stop domestic spying. >> for me this is obviously very personal. working for the arab american institute our community in particular is constantly the one, the community that's targeted by a lot of these you know post 911 counterterrorism
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efforts. >> they are literally gathering up all the information and combing through it and that goes against the fundamentals of our constitutional rights. >> quoorgt according the a new report the fbi is able to keep intelligence the longest. >> 20 to 30 years basically on the theory that it might be useful in the future. that information will only be gotten rid of if it's no going o be of no use to the fbi or 16 other agencies in the u.s. intelligencing system. >> they can search a person's phone use for five years, even though they've not been expected of a crime. the key score tracks 40 billion
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messages on the internet. a massive new data center is under construction. when it opens next year it will hold more than 300,000 square meters of americans personal information. that kind of monitoring is a violation of u.s. security. to continual its dragnet surveillance of -- to continue its dragnet surveillance of internet communications. and it's changed the way some americans now go about daily lives. >> you don't feel as free to say what you think and even the most mundane phone dfertio conversath your spouse about what your child is doing, you're just wondering if someone is listening to you. >> and it appears they are, just in case what they hear now is
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needed later. kimberly hillcut. al jazeera, washington. >> the u.s. accuses jamshid muhtorow. >> silver lining in the healthcare.gov debacle. written a blog post praising one aspect of the site, the data hub. government calls it a model of efficiency guide the other problems. , despite the other problems. promised to have the site up and running by the end of november. undocumented workers don't have to worry about deportation if they try to sign up for health care on the government site. u.s. department of immigration
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and naturalization, says this site will not be used to enforce immigration laws. some occupants do have to provide status on the others who live with them. >> game 3 for the world series, held in st. louis tonight, no foul weather but we've got a near miss to the north and we've got some weather crossing to the south of the area. not going oget rainfall, it will stay draw -- to get rainfall, it will stay dry. down to 64 in st. louis. that is the current temperature right now. it is going to be falling from there. wind gusts have been ranging anywhere from 10 to 15 in most areas but stronger gusts from the west to the east. st. louis getting gusts up to 25 miles an hour so it does not feel like 64.
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feels a lot chillier than that outside. so by the time we get out into mid game your temperatures will be dropping from the low to mid 50s. you want to bundle up because by the end of the game you will be awfully close to 40°. the problem with the cold air moving in is, it's very dense and that makes it a little harder for those balls to get hit. we are going to be tracking this game and see how they do with the chilly temperatures on the way, jonathan. >> thanks rebecca. kind of interesting how the rain with it affect the game, windy and cold. >> game 3, is tonight in st. louis and that means it's going to get cold in this one. because the expected temperature for first pitch how about 32° is your low for that one. that's 6° lower than the world series record setback in 1997 which was a temperature of 38° and that's where we bring in
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jessica teaf taff for thi taff . i hope you have your scatter and your hat. how much of a factor is it for players? >> that's exactly why i was listening to rebecca so carefully for her weather forecast. i have a nice thick coat for today's game too, it feels like 10° colder than it is because the sun has gone down. it will affect the grip of the ball when you are catching in the glove and also when you do swing the bat the bigger cut you can take, you can feel it in your hands, the colder it is the tougher it is to do all those things but these guys have been doing it for along time and you're going to see a lot of hand warmers in the dugout and all things like that so they can keep warm. of course the adrenalin will keep them nice and toast 80 forr
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this one. >> the game is in st. louis where the national league rules apply. no designated hitter. what does that mean for david ortiz and the rest of the red sox? >> even though designated hitter he's going to be in the lineup, they have moved him to number 1, david napoli has been moved out. david ortiz has homered in both world series games, he is 4 of 6. good news they can still bring mike napoli in to pinch hit in late innings. still have his bat. lineup changes except for designated are injury, allen craig's big bat for the cardinals is still out, dealing with a foot injury. also daniel nava is playing in
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place of johnny gomes, 0 and 7 in this series. darren. >> first pitch is 8:07. game 3, who is going to have the advantage going into game 4. >> nearly freezing temperatures, going to be a cold one for poor jessica. thanks darren. nfl has agreed to meet with tribal leaders of the onida nation. urging the washington redskins to change their name. onida's chief says the name is offensive to native americans. talks are scheduled for next week. another state is about to consider credit allowing same sex marriage. we'll have details when we come back. and there are more refugees at any time since 1994. as part of our special coverage we'll look at who these people are, why they are leaving and
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where they're going.
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>> all this weekend, al jazeera america is looking into desperate people around the world willing to risk their lives for a better life. what do we know about this crisis? well, war remains the number 1 cause. u.n. says more than half of the refugees comes from just one area, africa, sudan, syria. seeking a better life abroad can be filled with difficulties, frequently the routes taken are dangerous, they often are on cramped conditions on small boats or trucks. and along the way refugees may face extortion or abuse.
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shipwrecks in the mediterranean have killed hundreds of mieg migrants. but jeremy stewart reports. >> this is what's happening in the night on the mediterranean. italians rescued many refugees, many of them children. there are already many syrians in lampedusa, like mahmoud. he spent his nights in a detention center and his days in a cafe waiting to be moved to the italian mainland. typically as winter approaches here on lampedusa we see less migrants arriving from africa to the south but this year the weather last on the hole remained clear and there's no sign that things are slowing down. meanwhile in rome being er
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eritraens, forces so many of them to risk their lives by fleeing to europe. and back on lampedusa, the day ended the way it began. 95 men many from mali and senegal were picked up about 100 miles to the south. in brussels europe's leaders wish this problem would go away but europe for all its problems is still a place where migrants hope they'll find peace and prosperity. barnaby phillips, al jazeera, lampedusa. >> contentious issue there, since 2007 boats carrying a total of 45,000 people have arrived on its shores. immigration was a key campaign issue during recent regulations, the government's stop the boats
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policy means asylum seekers will be redirected to the indonesia island. australia and indonesia are united on this issue. ig where wrote a report on how children seeking are asylum are treated. alice thank you for being with us. talk about the findings. heartbreaking subject. what are you findin finding aboe children in indonesia? >> what we're seeing in indonesia is a huge increase in the last five years in the number of people seeking asylum there and that includes a large number of unaccompanied migrant kids, kids traveling without their parents or other
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guardians, totally alone and we've seen more of them in indonesia than ever before. what our research has found is that indonesia's law is to automatically lock up people, up to ten years without any form of judicial review and that's something we really think violates international law. you see these kids in detention centers really in awful conditions condition and exposed to high levels of violence. >> you talked about unaccompanied miles an hour, the statement you just made, the unaccompanied children up to 2,000 arriving in 2012, who are these children's, what happens to their parents and what happens to them once they arrive in that country? >> well, so all over the world, we see refugee kids traveling
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unaccompanied and it's often a choice that the family has made to send out these kids as a last-ditch hope for these kids to have some sort of future. the boys you see in indonesia are mostly afghans, and it's cost them up to $10,000 to pay smugglers to take them to indonesia and run through the boats to australia, the boys will try to get on a boat to australia. those boat journeys are incredibly dangerous. the boy i interviewed was 15 at the time he arrived in indonesia. he tried to get on a boat to indonesia, spent thousands of dollars on the ship and he was at sea for three nights and he described that he kept climbing higher and higher and higher on the remnants of the ship as it sunk further and further into the water. but when the ship was found they
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brought arif back to the indonesian shores, they detained him again he was beaten in detention, he was finally on the streets, didn't have any food, any education no one to take care of him so he said to me i'm going otry that trip again, i'm going to try get to australia, so you see for unaccompanied kids like this, they have no future where they're from in afghanistan, they have no future in indonesia and they'll keep trying this trip to australia. >> even though australia now is make it pretty clear they're not welcome and are starting these new processing centers? >> yeah, see, there's not much proof that that's actually deterring refugees from continuing to make this trip. because the fract is in the rest of -- fact is in the rest of the southeast asia there aren't very great options, not many safe
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places to go so you see people trying to make these types of trips. australia can put in place these sorts of programs but to be honest they have never seen to have a particularly strong deterrent effect. >> why do you think so many of these people try to go to indonesia if it's so hostile to them? >> because they have nowhere else to go. it's -- a lot of these people are trying to pay smugglers to get to a safe country. fruns the afntion -- for instance the afghans that we see are persecuted in pakistan and persecuted when they find refuge in pakistan so of course they are going oleave pakistan and try to move on as well. it's a question of being so few craises where you can truly find a safe refuge and that's why i think it's important to look to australia and say why are you closing these doors to these
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sorts of people? when boat migrants try to move to australia, australia has approximately 90, 9-0 percent of these have legitimate mat asylum reasons. >> thank you,. attacked happened just outside of damascus, while worshipers attended services. this latest violence happened close to bashar al-assad's seat of government. according to the united nations over 100,000 have been killed in syria's war so far. the violence, have produced people in basic need of life. bernard smith has more on the
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growing crisis. >> syria's civil war is creating a nation of refugees, this is last of what the government said was a government bombardment of a damascus stronghold on friday. now syrians are are are in ar ta trickle. the security council statement at the beginning of october urging increased humanitarian access hasn't made much difference. >> i had expressed my deep disappointment to the council that the situation on the ground has not changed fundamentally as a result of the statement. we are doing everything that we can to look at ways in which
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operationalization of the statement with would help us. but he need the political support of the council members, but also, other members of the united nations to really make a difference. >> the security council resolution on syria's chemical weapons faces consequences for noncompliance. but valerie amos says the syrians and rebel groups have largely ignored it because it is nonbinding. daily indiscriminate attacks at schools hospitals power plants and medical personnel. amos says no one is taking seriously their obligation under international humanitarian law. bernard smith al jazeera. >> we'll have more on this global crises on shows throughout the weekend on al
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jazeera. up ahead why one aid agency is operating here in new york city. without a traition, a family's anguish for a missing family member and theirs desperation to bring him home. >> welcome back to al jazeera
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america. here's another look at your top stories tonight. >> we will defend this bill of rights. >> protestors in washington protesting spying, unlawful monitoring of americans by the u.s. government. reform laws that support the nsa's secretive online data gathering. at least 100 people were killed in syria when a car bomb exploded near a mosque while worshipers attended services. according to the united nations more than 100,000 people have been killed in syria's war so far. the five people accused of
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plotting the 9/11 attacks tried to argue against their trial. rosalyn jordan reports. >> one of the issues at the pretrial hearing at guantanamo was a matter of torture. the defense wants to be able to bring into the cushion the u.n.'s convention against torture which would allow their clients, the five men accused of planning the 9/11 attacks, the torture they suffered in u.s. custody from 2003 and 2006. one part of the strategy was for one of the defense lawyers to bring in an outlook outside counsel who specializes in international war crimes including the matter of torture however cheryl boardman was not allowed to bring in toby catman.
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here is what mr. cadman had to say to reporters. >> if you don't deal with this now, this is a defining moment, i think everyone believes the u.s. is a beacon of diplomacy and this is setting the u.s. back into almost the dark ages. >> trying to get more etched about the cia's rendition program entered as evidence in this trial they have also taken the step of writing directly to u.s. president barack obama, asking him to declassify the rendition program because without that information there are people in the united states who will know more about how their clients were treated than they will be able to say in open court. they say in a defense case that involves the death penalty that's inexcusable. what does the prosecution think of this? >> the public is going to know
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what the prosecution knows. i mean our case in chief is going to be to the public. there won't be any so-called secret evidence. >> the next pretrial hearing in the 9/11 case won't be heard until december. during that time you're going osee more efforts to try to bring -- to see more efforts to try to bring up more information about torture and how it will affect the outcome. there will be no more pretrial on this case until 2015. >> hawaii is the next state to consider same sex marriage. hawaii could begin performing marriages and issuing licenses. hawaii was the place where same sex marriage became the issue. new york city areas this
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time last year was bracing for superstorm sandy. rockaway beach, most of those clinics still have in the reopened. so international aid organization is now stepping in to fill gap. benedict moran reports. >> so in this room what else do we need? >> dr. amber featherstone is stocking up. it's a routine procedure for doctors of the world, an operation that works in major areas of the world. but this is the part of new york called the rockaways. >> the doctors haven't been able to rurp for one reason or another. their files were washed away and can't provide the services they were before. >> though much of the city has come back this area 20 miles
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from the financial hundred is struggling. >> this is home to about 130,000 people. during the storm much of the area was flooded. electricity and public transportation was cut off forcing many businesses like health care providers to shut down and some of the repairs are still ongoing. 57-year-old howard cohen walked 26 blocked to the clinic. he and his mother live in the rockaways. >> for those who are seniors or about to be one there is a rise especially of depression in this area and fear tremendous fear, if i have a heart attack where the (bleep) sorry do i go? >> forced the shutdown of health care facilities now there's one full service hospital for the area's 15 neighborhoods. doctors of the world hopes to be
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asecond choice offering residents free primary and darker care. and other needed services. >> at the end of the day, everybody is human, i think we're the same people with the same basic sets of needs and whether you're not receiving health care because you're caught in a war zone or whether it's just because you're in an underserved community in the quote unquote industrialized world, i don't think things will change. >> people here see their hopes wash away. >> sad news out of hollywood, actress marcia wallace has died. her familiar voice was heard on the simpsons as ms. crapapple. she was also on the popular series murphy brown. marsha wall as was 70 years old.
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sandy hook is being torn down. they expect to take at least a month to finish the work. they are committed to building a new school on the same site. an estimated 8,000 children are reported missing each year. many abduction statistics show at the hand of family members but john terrett shows, sometimes missing. >> ingrid's daughter went missing in 2004. >> it felt like a hole in your stomach. tiamba was just 13 when she disappeared from home in irvington new jersey. >> the feeling of despair, i
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felt the feeling of being hopeless for a second and yet bounce back saying i'm not going to give up. >> ingrid desperately wanted to care for her own child. she searched the neighborhood every night putting up posters. it turned out, tiamba had run away from home. she is crossed state lines. tiamba's disappears made the papers but as days went by, she lost way to despair. >> i had experienced what parents who had lost a child had gone through, to go day to day you dig deep to just get through every day. >> ingrid says over time she began to wonder what her daughter looked like and began seeing her face wherever she
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went. >> you think that's her or him and then you realize that's not them. >> 11 months after tiamba went missing ingrid was reunited with her, with the help of the new york police and brought her home. now every time a young child goes missing ingrid knows firsthand the feelings the family are going through. john terrett, al jazeera, new york. >> saudi authorities are are promising action to anyone involved in the drivers pipelines protest. >> good time to ask for rights not just for women. the way we're going about this is a calm peaceful way.
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we're not having any types of gatherings or protests in that sort of way. >> there's no law barring saudi women from driving but the don't refuses to issue them licenses and powerful cleri clerics enfoe that band. violence that have plagued the country for decades have kept oil companies out. jamal ah sai reports. >> this is what it looked like in mogadishu. now a significant but still fragile calm has been restored. and that's allowed three petrol stations to reopen. >> the improved security situation encouraged us to reopen the station. it made a lot of drivers happy because they can now buy good
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quality petrol and at a reasonable price. >> functioning petrol pumps now mean that drivers don't run the risk of damaging their vehicles with corrupted petrol which has often been the only fuel on sale. >> this fuel is better and cleaner, before it would have been ruined because it wasn't being stored properly. hopefully these petrol stations will get rid of all the problems. >> from selling petrol on the corners, the government has the problem of at least appeasing them as it goes to the evident of opening more petrol pumps. >> soon we will issue a law banning the sale of fuel except at lined petrol pumps. >> the sale of fuel has lost
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many smoli iss their lieu of. >> there's a place you can go if you are feeling really, really angry. up ahead, how this room is taking customer stoosks satisfo a whole new level. >> the remains of the fire are still everywhere here. >> the powers that be at home and around the world... >> not only do they not get compensation but you don't even have to explain why? >> well thats exactly what i said. >> we question authority. >> so you said we could get access... >> that's enough! >> ... and those affected. >> investigative journalism at it's toughest.
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>> giraffes may not be around much longer. conservationists are worried about the long necked animal in africa. it's afeared that they will be
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extinct in a couple of decades. >> the world's tallest animal. they may not be as threatened as rhinos and elephants but these majestic creatures are also endangered. from 140,000 giraffes in africa in the '90s only about 80,000 remained by 2012. >> the trend across the african continent is very worried. the numbers have actually declined by 30% across the continent. being two of the subspecies are now listed as endangered. >> mainly including the most rare subspecies are found in kenya. this is the rothschild giraffe, a subspecies originally from the west of the country. but because their existence was so threatened they had to be put
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in protection about two decades ago. to increase their numbers this roth child giraffe has to be kept in protected area where they can breed. the most vulnerable giraffes where they are isolated from one another. >> because of human settlements because of agriculture, because of clearing of the natural areas, we have ended up in a situation where we now have fragments of habitats across the country. and these fragments is where you'll find the giraffes in, this is where you'll find other wildlife and we know from our own research that most extinctions in this wild have occurred in habitat fragments. >> the endangered rothschild giraffe may be saved,
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sensitizing those who live close to wildlife to try the to coexist with the animal. >> our main mission is to help create awareness and through learning associations, through other organizations. >> it is a hard sell when you consider fast are growing population and competing for the space available in a rapidly expanding country. but conservationists say losing africa's wildlife is just not an optoption. >> all right first pitch just about an hour away in st. louis. >> yes, things are going to be pretty good for game 3 between the cardinals and red sox but after a grand slam in the american league com championship
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seniors, the world series shifting to st. louis now it's all national league rules and that means no designated hitter but sox manager john farrell is opting to keep big poppy in, two of 6 with two home runs, 5 rbis and then runs scored. after collecting just 69 wins, and finishing the season in last year in their division it was clear the remen red sox needed a change. but the most impactful change came at the managerial level. >> boston traded for toronto
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bluejays skip are john farrell who has proven to be the antivalentine. >> valentine was pretty much about him. the players never warmed up to him. i'm not saying they quit on him but they didn't try too hard. they lost 93 games, it was a miserable place to be. they had no chance to fire him this season. >> just they can attribute their impressive turn around to farrell's leadership, his laid back demeanor and attention to detail has been key, as well as the team first attitude. >> when we first assembled in fort miers, it was sure we had a tight knit group, we started to
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experience some things and answer some challenges that we felt we had a good team. >> but farrell's are influence reaches beyond the clubhouse, a tangible influence on the game, after all 51-year-old are manager was a pitching coach for four seasons. plus farrell is one of just two professionals in the season and drawing upon that experience is priceless. >> he knows these guys so well. he knows the bullpen, the starting rotation, if there's any area of the game he excels at, this is it. >> they have a chance to go from worst to first to world series champions. >> for game 3, jessica it's cold iin st. louis. what's the mood for today's
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game? >> the fans just pouring in. they know how persistal game 3 is. this game -- how pirvetda pivot3 is. it's been phenomenal to watch, everybody just piling in. the first pitch just about an hour away or 38 minutes from the eight budweiser clydesdales will make their trek around the warning track, darren. >> how important is game 3? >> game 3 is huge. as i mentioned the last throafn2 champs have won the world series. following tonight there will be two more games here in throws and yost.louis.
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and you talked about david ortiz, meaning that a designated hitter is out. david tiz replacing ben napoli. he will be at -- david ortiz replacing ben napoli. i had a chance to talk to big poppy yesterday. >> try work hard and try odo my best. and not try to go too crazy and put pressure on myself, you try to have fun. i know get to play october is not an easy thing to do, especially for ateam coming from the am east and we just try to do our best. >> this cardinals team knows you well from 2004. you bead them in 2004 -- you beat them in 2004. you have a special feeling for
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them? >> even in 2004, we swept them by -- their team was good, there was a reason they were in the world series. you can't down anybody who gets to the world series, they had a great team, very competitive and we got to play better than we did last game. >> the cardinals is 5 and 1 at busch stadium however the red sox have not lost a road game in the world series since 1986. >> that is a long time jessica thank you for reporting live in st. louis. game time at 8:07, highlights request. >> there is a place in dallas you can get out your anger your aggression and your stress by simply destroying a room of stuff and there are no consequences. mark schneider takes us to the anger room.
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>> the guy busting up this room fixtion computers for a living. but for tonight his life is taking a 180 from the stress of your job. >> you kind of not let your stresses show. they think you're kind of complicate, so you have to be reserved an do your job. >> donna pleasmed created this opportunities for a mess. she decided as a teen sheet ptd feint a way to redirect people answer anger. she created the anger room. >> a lot of people i know went to jail for doing something ridiculous like punching holes in the wall. i figured i could create a place where they could get all their anger about and go about their day. >> she gets computers and tvs
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donated and stages an asia for them. oliver spends five minutes inside getting his full $25 in stress relief but he feels great. >> great, i had more stress than i thought. >> he wanted to know if this type of stress relief was helping, who helps people with stress and told me that for most of us this sort much thing is doing great. >> especially for people who have a tendency to be die pressed it can be a really good release for them. >> but melanie says,. >> who are addicted to that enraged feeling, those people it's just going to make it wore for them. >> we're not setup as a therapeutic or therapy center. we're mostly entertainment but
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if people choose to use it as therapy, i mean why not. >> donna alexander said she would like to go national which franchising the airner room. she says there's enough interest, she knows there's enough anger. >> rebecca is back with the weather. real money with ali velshi monday - 7 eastern on al jazeera america
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on inside story, we bring
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>> a chill in the air for a good day to build some pumpkins for halloween this week or maybe you're watching the world series. temperatures across the u.s. have cooled off quite a bit. right now temperatures in the mid 60s, san francisco not even hitting 60 barely, for denver 65 for memphis, a lot of people woke up in the south with a chill in the air, temperatures below freezing and we're going to have that for much of the northern midwest tomorrow, as cold air pours out of canada. high pressure system in canada is pushing that cold air down into the united states so we're
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all experiencing the cold weather, in fact st. louis dropping in the low to mid 30s during the night. during the game, you'll get near 40 but sunrise that's when those temperatures really bottom out. with wind gusts going up to 14 miles an hour for d.c., 17 for toronto, it feels a lot colder a little further south of the craiks and tgreat lakes and the. pittsburgh and toronto it feels like 38, because temperatures are cool, strong gusty winds because of high pressure in canada and lower pressure further south of it. the air is rushing in and it's feeling like 37 for cleveland. now when we look at our radar and clouds we did have some rain, cold rain that is, some spots reporting little bit of hail or ice pellets. we're going osee that develop again little height snow in parts of maine in the early morning hours before the storm system moves out to the east.
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it may be heading towards europe but we have another storm system that's developing moving from alaska into the day and places like the alaska range, wind gusts 60 to 70 miles an hour, could have stronger gusts when this wind channels, otherwise, wind 35 to 50 miles per hour. that's even going to impact anchorage too. powerful winds coming down into montana bringing in colder air, surface low pressure going to drop into montana, 4 to 7 inches of snow in the valleys, and more than that for the mountains. it's hard to see the drifting snow from sunday into monday. in the meantime here in the
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lowlands we'll stay cool. >> this is al jazeera america, live from new york. i'm jonathan betz and here are the top stories. protesters gathered in washington, against spying of americans. nsa's secretive online data gathering. for the first time the justice department will release evidence from a warrantless praim against an accused are terrorist, jamshid muntor

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