>> welcome to al jazeera america. i'm john siegenthaler in new york. here are the top stories. secretary of state john kerry is reaching a major push, and uncertainty in congress, iran's deputy foreign minister is describing the meeting in geneva as productive. talks will continue tomorrow. the dow set another record today. [ bell ] >> for the second time this week the symptom index closed higher than before, 15,761. blue chips gained for a second straight week.

economists expected businesses to severely shut down hiring, because of the shutdown. however, 240,000 jobs in october beat estimates. the philippines, typhoon haiyan has wrecked the are island of leyta. roads impassible, roads washed out. reuters is reporting at least 100 are dead in the city of taklaban, heading towards vietnam. i'll see you back here at 11:00 eastern, 8:00 pacific time. >> on america tonight: where poverty lives. >> i go to work every day i'm in time every day. >> even in suburbia. >> i can't afford to move to a

better environment for my children. i feel like the failure, like i let them down. >> we gig our series, the other america. also a monster moving at over 200 miles per hour. the supermonster. in asia. the nation's biggest retailer face he its biggest and angriest protest yet. >> good evening and thanks for spending part of it with us. i'm joie chen. we begin with a look at the haves and the have nots of our nation. with a gu good bit of informati,

wealth and poverty in our country may be growing. first the numbers: more than 200,000 jobs were added to the economy last month and economists have predicted the number would be closer to 120,000. only the sign the shutdown wasn't as hard on our economy as they thought it would be. retail industries and overall the economy grew by 2.8% in the third quarter. but that's where the good news ends. last month the unemployment rate inched up ever so slightly and more americans are giving up even looking for work. seeking for acts of opportunity, the president said to look globally. >> in today's global economy business he are going to take root and grow wherever there's the fastest and most reliable transportation and cometion networks. they -- communications networks. china is investing in a whole

lot of infrastructure, brazil, is investing in a whole lot of infrastructure, what are we doing? goods made in america, lest make sure we've got best ports and roads and bridges and schools. let's make sure our young people are getting a great education. let's give everybody a chance to get ahead. not just a few at the top but everybody. >> and more now on the challenge of getting ahead. a sobering statistic here. more than half of all americans will spend a year in poverty or near poverty at some point in their lifetime and most of them work, and worked hard. tonight we begin a new series, the other america. as we look into the lives of americans trying to play by the rules but still having trouble making ends meet. tonight we introduce you to stacy calvin, a georgia mom heading out on a very, very long journey in search of a better life. [ alarm clock ]

>> get up baby, now please. that's it you did it. come on! come on baby! get up child. >> i introduce myself as maud. i call myself master of disguises. >> did you hear me? all right have a good day. >> i say that because most days i'm in tears by the time i get to work. because i'm frustrated. but then i think about it. somebody is worse than me. you know, so i end up smiling because if i don't i'll cry. >> are you up? jaylen, jaden. >> i have three kids. quiet is something i definitely don't get. devon is my oldest, he's 12, middle school, seventh grade. my are jaylen is my little mama.

my youngest is jaden he's six, the baby. i make their lunches the night before, pack them in the morning. breakfasts are done at night and then just warmed up in the morning. >> last minute check make sure your book bags are packed, hair is combed, faces washed. we're normally out the door at 6:30, 6:35 if all goes well, prayer is essential, transportation, reliable transportation, because i don't have a car. because in order for me to go to their school i have to catch a cab from my job to their school which is $40. for me to go to award ceremonies or pick up a sick child is not in my budgets. all right, here, bye. jayla behave. be good little boy. >> other than that i still get the kids out on their bus on

time. it's then whether i will make my bus. i take two trains and then another bus. i like to get out here a few minutes early because i normally catch their bus as they're passing by. my daughter passing up waving and here comes our bus now. i catch the 121 at 6:50 in front of my apartment. if by chance i miss that bus i run about a block and a half up the street to try to catch the express bus so i still make my 7:09 train. when i make that i get to kensington train station about 7:08. next we go to the train westbound to five points. and then i get to five points if 7:25. the next train comes at 7:28. about two minutes to get downstairs and get to that train. if that's on time.

and then i'm normally to brookhaven about 7:45. bus leaves at 8:12. rain or shine i'm like the mailman, i still deliver. so this is my same routine even in the cold. the rain, every day. on a bad day when it's raining i leave out on time. i leave a little before tile but i still make it to work late unless i take a cab again it gets expensive. i don't know how long it takes, hour and a half to two hours. if i would drive to work it would take me ten or 15 minutes. started off, our routine this morning about 6:45. finally heration 30. here 8:30. i looked for something closer to my job. but if i go to fly for something, i feel like i'm

prejudged before i get there. three times the rent, the fact that i've been on my job for eight years, not enough credit for me. you know even when i moved in here, my food stamps were considered part of my income. so that gave me the three times the rent. it's okay for me to have it here. but if i want better quality life, and to move somewhere else, that's not acceptable. so i feel just kind of stuck in this world. after taxes are ducked deducteg home for the month a little less than 1200. i do a mass blackout in my house, so there's nothing on until about 5:00. i don't turn on my air. normally we'll use the fan but only if it's superhot. laundromat, we'll wash my clothes even though i have a washer and drier.

my water bill is $50, my motor transit for the month is $95. my goodness. i end up with $20 left for month. this is telling me when i need to be renewed by. perfect example if one thing goes wrong in my chain of command as my foot stamps did today, how do i feed my children? i received a letter in the mail saying i needed to reapply. so as of this morning i checked to see if they were on and they weren't. which means i might have to put off a bill or pay on a portion of it. to make sure i get something in here until i can get that situation resolved. >> two times 12 and then three and what? just write it out how you see your example. that way you know you don't have it wrong. >> i feel defeated, i go to work

every day, i've been on time every day, been on the same job for eight years, never had any problems but i can't afford to move to a better environment for my children. kind of makes me feel like a failure like i let them down. the track you find out on you play make a few more before you're done. >> whether i'm sick, whether i'm tired, i'm out the door and off to work. do i that because i have to take care of my children. i don't want anybody else taking care of my kids. >> just trust in yourself, you'll climb every hill. trust in yourself and guess what you will. the end. today you made it through another day. they're in their beds they're resting. my kids are my world. everything i do is for them. it makes it fine. it gives me what i need to do to get up in the morning and do it

again. >> that's stacy calvin. outside atlanta in the other america. her plight, the limitations on her hopes of future are painfully familiar to workers all over the country. over the last few months they have been stepping up demands for higher minimum wages. the platest salvo thursday night as police arrested more than 50 protestors outside a los angeles walmart. it was the largest protest yet. higher wages from that large big box retailer, most walmart workers earn less than $25,000. one of the arrested workers is richard reynoso, and ronald springs from the afl-cio. richard, you were trying to get yourself arrested? >> i was more than happy to get arrested for cause. the labor movement is you know it's really important to not

just as economy, but to everybody who's actually affected by it. >> is it just the wage that bothers you? you're make i understand $9.80 an hour. >> yes. >> and is it just the wage itself that's an issue for you? it's also about health care right? >> yes, most definitely. it's the health care and the retaliation that we suffer from management on a daily basis. >> this is a very tough time. dr. sprigs when you see a young man like richard, 20 years old, $9.80 an hour, not enough to move out on his own, back home with his mom, what does that tell you what's happening with our economy? >> the economy isn't working for america anymore. when you look at how unequal the income distribution is in america, you understand that. >> what's happening? i mean you said since 1980, 81, it's like a different time in your mind. >> it is, because up to that

point most of our policies were around full employment. and in the 1980s we made a shift to a world we woished about inflation. one of the things we did to try dampen wage inflation is we didn't do anything about the minimum wage. we just let it wither. so up until 1981, if you earned the minimum wage you started work at the poverty level. now, if you are working, you have to work your way up to the poverty level. and so that's the challenge -- >> you're behind the line here. >> you're behind the poverty line. you think it's ge good if you gt to be poor. you're below poverty. that's the change we've made the relationship between the productivity of our workers and when they make and between people working and poverty. so today a much bigger share of poorhouse holds have someone in there who works. before the problem was, how do i

get to you work. now the problem is how do i get you paid? >> and richard, in your case richard you're living in that situation. you're at home. you've got a $9.80 an hour job. you're living with your mom. is she able to work? >> yes, my mom actually works as a caregiver for my aunt. but i am one of the sole bred winners in our household. >> how much -- what do you do without? >> i actually do without a lot. you know, i hardly go shopping at the grocery store. last time i actually really shopped at a grocery store and actually fulfilled a full shopping list is, i would have to say, like two years ago. you know, it's -- i've also done without, not having to -- not having money to spend, you know, on things for like my little

sister, you know, with her birthday coming up and whatnot. it's really tough having to see which bills i would have to go ahead and sacrifice and wait on in order -- >> richard i understand that you've been out on injury actually. but that you're planning actually on going back to work in the 97 few days. if it's so bad at walmart where go back to work there? >> well because it's not that, i shouldn't have to worry about having to go back to work. it's the fact that, you know, either if i work at walmart or if i work at a different retail store, the behavior of the management is likely to be the same because walmart's the one leading the whole retail industry at the moment. >> right, indeed it is, tony grossi it is th, it isthe largee world. >> the largest employer in the

'80s was general motors. their workers had health care. their workers had so much health care they were covering much of the state of michigan. so the difference is we have taken the low wage route, the challenge is, can the country function that way? and the answer is no. it really can't. if the leading employer in the nation has workers who have to get food, and this month congress has decided to even cut the food support. so rather than say pay the workers our current policy prescription is starve the workers. >> richard is saying hard to even afford groceries. thank you very much. what we are concerned now is are we facing the new normal of work. we appreciate you being with us. richard reynoso and dr. william sprigs of the afl-cio.

who did typhoon haiyan leave behind?

>> the philippines now it's already mortgage and first

suppression are getting a glimpse of at the aftermath of hurricane haiyan. at least 100 people have been killed but the number is expected to climb. typhoon haiyan pounded the central philippines just before dawn. as terrifying winds knocked over power lines. >> oh my gosh! >> flash floods inundated downs and villages. >> it will still get worse. i just wants it to stop! >> hundreds of thousands were left without power. >> the wind here is whistling. it's so strong and the heavy downpour, i don't know how to describe it but i wish can i describe it. >> more than 750,000 people had to evacuate including many who are already living in tents. after last month's 7.2 magnitude earthquake. before landfall this storm stretched almost 1200 miles, as

great as the distance between florida and canada. some 12 million people were in the path of the monster with gusts clocked over 200 miles an hour. storm is now making its way over the south china sea to vietnam. forecasters say it has weakened. we'll keep watch. one of the less talked about but critical elements of the affordable care act. one segment of obamacare fowses ofocuses on super users. the idea was to incentivize the health care system to streamline the treatment of these paishts in a way that would send -- patients in a way that would save the taxpayers money. >> it's called an accountable care organization or aco. and it's the hottest three-letter word in obamacare.

an aco is a network of doctors hospital he and providers that aims to reduce cost and improve care all while turning a profit. alicia arrives at the university of michigan health center as more than 30 pioneer acos around the country. >> i'm checking in to see dr. hudson. >> here's how it works. if the aco can deliver a higher quality of care to patients for less the status quo they split the savings with medicare. if they don't they lose money. >> we got that report from correspondent chris bury. we want to follow up on alicia's are condition. from doing this and dropped out of the program. we wondered about that and wanted to find out if this was true so we contacted the un program and found out if not a lot here, just 3/10 of a

percent. still university of michigan remains supportivity of aco and is using a successful pilot program to form a new aco. coming up, chefs, scientists, mixologists, creating cuisine. it is the platest trend of the table. but what do these culinary creations actually taste like?

>> and timely from us flit, a night cap perhaps? your favorite cocktail with a side of liquid nitrogen or

skinless olives floating in a dish? these concoctions are being cooked up, the techknow team takes on sampling. >> julia chield child, here shen her are pbs show, french chef. >> if you want the onions and the beef to all blend themselves with the stew. >> that was then. but this is now. ♪ ♪ [ approximate music rock nusk ] >> dave arnold is a chef. ken kirshe kirshenbaum is a chey

professor at nyu and together they make things happen. >> how is the class action between a chemist and a chef, how does that happen? >> the misconception is that we always want to create something bizarre, strange and kind of scary. we literally lated kent' lab. once we bring it into the kitchen it's now a piece of cooking equipment. >> i'm a biologist, i've spent a lot of time in the lab but this is got to be one of the coolest labs i've ever been in. >> we have all the cookbooks we need, chemistry books, liquor, food, and then a battery of things that look like scientific equipment. >> we're about to go in and watch dave arnold mix up a couple of drinks. but he won't be using

conventional cooking utensils. lets say it might be good to have a fire extinguisher nearby. >> red hot poker, function he a plot like the one in the fireplace. you put it in and heats and ignites drink. it's about 1650° fahrenheit and it's super-high heat really changes the composition of some of the flavor molecules in the liquor. especially sugars. are. >> wow, that is really good. it's got some citrus and that real anise flavor. >> unusual ways unlikely ingredients. this drink is made by pulverizing lettuce with liquid nitrogen. >> look how pulverized it is. you could never get that by

muddling. >> that is literally is powdered lettuce. you can't tell whether it's lettuce at all. >> whether you are cooking over a camp fire or using liquid night troanitroarenitrogen. >> pouterred let us? can you see that on techknow. 7:30 eastern. log on to our website, aljazeera.com/america tonight. and please join the conversation with us on twitter or on our facebook page. good night. we'll have more of america tonight, tomorrow.

>> she's known as baby veronica, and she was at the center of a high-profile custody battle. her adoptive parents are white; her father is native american and has been fighting for her alongside his tribe. the case was tried in the united states supreme court. at the heart of the case is the indian child welfare act, or icwa, which mandates that every effort be made to keep native children with their relatives or tribe. congress passed icwa in 1978 in response to an alarmingly high number of native children being removed from their homes and placed with non-native families - the tie to their cultures and communities severed in the process.