>> you are watching al jazeera american live from new york city. catastrophic damage. the race to save lives and restore power in the philippines in the way of typhoon hayan. thousands being evacuated in vietnam and china, the next countries in the typhoon's path. lives pictures from geneva. a nuclear talk with iran. >> the last three days have been devastating for the people in the philippines. typhoon haiyan on thursday r

roared through. >> rescue teams are working to save families on washed-out roads. hardest hit about 350 miles south of the capitol of manilla. it has no electricity or way to communicate communicate: this is one of the most powerful storms on record. the highest winds were up to 190 miles an hour. gusts reached 235 miles per hour. more now from al jazeera's craig leaseon in man ill a. >> this is the moment when the storm hit taclaban, a city of more than 200,000 people. monster winds whipped in with gusts from around 300 kill meters an hour. with it came floodwater. people used mattresses to stay above the rising waters. i can feel the electricity in

the water, guys. my legs are tingling. >> this is what rescuers are seeing. >> a tornado just passed us the tornado lasted for four hours. it was just crumbling, you know, at first, it, it was the ceiling that went off then the roofs just started to fly away in all directions, and then the water just started coming. >> the survivors are desperate. >> looting at a drugstore by the looks of it. >> we are opening as many stores as we can so that the people can have access to food. there is some looting going on. we deployed an army and b and b as much as we can: and trying to secure. power and water, which are the banks. >> with communications down and roads out, emergency organizations are struggling to

organize relief. the philippines military has three hercules aircraft to fly in soldiers and aid. other countries are promising help. >> we are bringing in food to medicines to water, filtration plants to water. we are bringing body bags, because a lot of people who are dead and we want to make sure we manage the conditions of the dead. >> people are starting to identify bodies. the full human cost will take some time to count. >> it will be substantially more. we are not prepared to say how much mortis point in time. >> it's hard to overstate the devastation here one united nations official compared it to the 2004 indian ocean tsunami. the government says there is a one-kilometer wide strip inland from the sea where everything has been destroyed. it had sent out weather warning

early and often but there is no preparing for this. craig leeson, al jazeera, manilla. >> unicef says up to 1.7 million children could be affected by this storm. earlier, the group's spokeswoman told us more than half of the victims are likely to be kids. >> this is a country that has already sceee three e merge he knew sees, fighting and the recent earthquake in october. there is another blow. what we are seeing is utter devastation in some parts. airports are closed. it's difficult to get in. you know how hard it is. children are the most affected in these sorts of situations. they are small, vulnerable. they cannot swim. they slip out of their parents' arms. >> incredible pictures there. john rose will head to the philippines. he is making an emergency trip there to help get clean water.

thank you for coming in. >> 'til me what you are hoping to do in the philippines. >> well, it's a pretty standard disaster relief initiative. we worked about nine disasters in the last four years. it's very targeted. it's getting people access to clean drinking water. you know, basic, basic needs. >> how big of an operation is this? how many people do you hope to help? >> right now with our initial strike, 20 he portable water filtration systems which will provide access to 20 people. >> that's a great start. what we do -- to 20,000 people. >> that's a great start. >> do you have any idea what the need is there? >> millions. millions. so any time we embark on something like that, you have to start somewhere. this is how we started in haiti and we have given over two million people access to cleanly water there since the earth wake. you just start. you have a few leads. you know what your target is and you know how to achieve that

initially. and then you build upon that. >> how do you think this is going to compare to other disasters you have worked? >> it's sort of math for me. you look at the geography you look at the sustained wins of 195-mile-an-hour, 235-mile-an-hour gusts. and then you look at basically five meter storm surge and you are looking at, i mean, as bad as any storm we have ever seen. >> that's what they are seeing. >> this is a city of 200,000 people that was leveled. >> is it didnoesn't have an infrastructure. our clean water program was needed prior to disaster. we are trying to mitigate people's suffering immediately and get people balanced out. this is a place that has immense needs to begin with. >> you are hoping to leave on monday. correct? >> anywhere from monday to we need based upon the new intel we

are getting. >> how difficult is it for your group to actually get to some of these areas? >> i will be able to answer that better once i am there, but i have great contacts over the years from working in these situations. military, other relief organizations, and -- >> try to go in on your own or with the military or local -- >> it depends. sometimes we go in with those types of partners. sometimes on our own. we have a couple of great leads. one military, 1 civilian down there. that's where you start. set up your staging area. let's explore thighs leads. let's get as close as people to the hands of the people who need them. >> how long do you expect to be there? >> if history is at all telling, we will probably be there for months. >> your website where people can done ate? >> waves for water.org. >> you will leave early next week? >> yeah. >> hoping to help 20 people get

clean water in the philippines. horrible story, john rose, thank you for your story. haiyan is headed for vietnam. 500,000 people there have been ordered to flee and china is on the edge as well. we want to go to rebecca stevenson with more on the storm's path because, rebecca, a lot of people in harm's way. >> there are. a l we have been tracking the storm as it moved off the philippines into the south china sea. it's continued to weaken over some cooler water. in fact, it has weakened to a category 2 hurricane with a 103 mile per hour winsds. it is continuing a path that will give rain and flooding to parts everett nam and china. as we look closer when haiyan made landfall, you could see the radar showing we have some more areas of rain moving into the same areas that were destroyed by this particular typhoon,

super typhoon. now, the storm as we are taking the track into the south china sea is going to be moving into vietnam. it's tracking closer to deny ang. it widenang. it will take a turn. as it gets closer to lands fall south of hanoi, we expect to see it drop down to a category 1, potentially, a little less than a category 1. it cock just a tropical storm as it does make landfall. after it does that it takes a hard turn up to the north. this is going to be happening through the day sunday. landfall close to noon our time. jonathan? >> we are watching it. >> 5.5 magnitude earthquake has hit japan. it was estimated employed 25 miles northeast of tokyo. the quake shook buildings in the capital city. officials say they are not worried about the possibility of a tsunami. we are learning about this. we will bring you more information as soon as it becomes available.

>> deal to curb iran's nuclear program could be in trouble. france is worried the proposal does not go far enough. leaders are working toward reduction. there have been several 11th hour high-level meetings to that end. phil itner is following the talks. what's the later you are hearing tonight? >> reporter: well, jonathan, the latest we are hearing is that those talks, unexpectedly, are still going on. we know that the so-called p 5 plus 1 is the permanent members of the security counsel plus germany are still in consultations and meetings with the iranian foreign minister. it is just past midnight here in general eva. and technically, that means we are now into the fourth day of talks. whether or not this will end up in some sort of 11th hour deal, we are waiting for a press conference. we have been waiting now for

four hours, these talks are still ongoing. there has been some skepticism, some optimism. until we see those folks behind those closed doors, we don't know where things stand. >> we have been watching live pictures of the hotel and of the press kong french. we are waiting along with you. does this mean anything, the fact that they are going well into the night, into the next morning? >> well, you know, there are a lot of folks who have been spending a lot of time reading the tee leaves. there has been ebbs and flows of optimism. right now, there are a lot of folks saying, well, this going so late, does it mean that they are just trying to get on to the one page and talk about the potential a potential further round or does it mean there is a deal? some information has been leaked here and there, but nothing definitive. so as the talks are going on, it

looks like the negotiations are at least showers, if they are negotiating, are they negotiating the actual agreement or how to proceed from here? it's until an official announcements, until that happen happens, it's a lot of guesses work at this point. >> update us, phil, if you can on the background. there was optimism going into this. they know it seemed to stall for a bit. what are the nmain sticking points? >> interestingly enough, the first time we have heard anything definitive about it is sticking points are was today when the french foreign minister came out and held an interview with a french radio network. he said the two main issues holding things back, first and foremost, a heavy water plant, a

place called iraq is contentious because it is still being built and there is concern that if it does actually become operation a.m. in this kind of interim period, if things fall apart, they could start producing some very dangerous material including pollute ommium. that has the french concerned and there is still the question of the supply, the stockpile of en researched uran yams and what to do with that that appears to be what is holding things up. whether or not the french, who seem to be spearheading the objection because of those two things, whether or not they will now ease their position, that could actually be what draws us to an 11th hour agreement. but it's up in the air here in geneva, jonathan. >> up in the air indeed. the waiting game continues. deal or no deal?

we will wait to see. phil it ner live in geneva. thank you. there is much more ahead on al jazeera on iran's nuclear program and the prosspektsdz of whether a deal can be reached. stick with us on that. now, to syria where the hope for a peace conference is far from certain. the main opposition group to president bashar al assad. >> the participation in the general eve as 2 negotiations whenever they finally, happen has been the trickiest issue for the coalition and it remains the big decision they have to take over the next couple of days. on one leveled, this negotiating body representing the syrian opposition can't not show up at an international meeting of this magnitude. on the other hand, if they show up and across the table from them are representatives of the assad regime, indeed, assa 2k6789, himself, they have lost

those who have sacrificed today much as they see it. >> an outbreak of polio in syria has paralyzed ten children. hundreds of thousands more at risk. some even fear the disease could spread to europe. the united nations plans to vaccinate 20 million children in syria and neighboring countries. >> we have now in one of the settlement, the vaccination is across the country. so it's the boldest point, the one that you see here. and it's public facilities or shelters and door to door. all of the children under 5, ires expectative of nationality are vac sibiated. >> that could be the largest ever consolidated immigration campaign. it began yesterday in lab non- same-sex marriage is almost a reality in hawaii. late last night, the house

representatives pass add bill and it's expected to win final approval. if it passed, it would make hawaii the 15th or 16th state to legalize gay marriage. that depends when the governor signs that state's marriage bill. >> federal prosecutors want bank of america to regurs the government more than $850 million. >> that's according to documents filed in court on friday. last month, a jury found the jury liable. the case focuses on what will country wide sold in 2007 and 2008. bank of america later acquired countrywide. chrysler is recalling 1.2 million ram trucks for problems with steering systems. chrysler said it knows of 7 crashes and two inches related today that problem. the recall involved certain ram trucks made from 2003 to 20012. customers can check chrysler's website. cust marts will receive a letter next month. repairs will begin in january.

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brighter outlook, he is still too worried about the uncertain economic climate to expand his building? >> i am on the edge. right, even though we are doing well, i am holding back from starting it because i am uncertain. >> for now, katz is grateful he stayed in miami. natasha ganame, al jazeera, miami. >> cool weather is going to be moving in for the u.s. this week. and we are tracking an arctic front. yes, that means very cold air coming out of calendar. temperatures along the canadian border in the upper 30s to low 40s. tomorrow, we get an arctic front. yes, it is the real thing. very cold, dry air, dropping out of canada, sunday will bring chilly conditions into the plains states. this will pick up a little bit more snow around the great

lakes, but we get another secondary blast and into tuesday, this cold air gets colder for all of us. the question is how much snow is going to fall with this and where is that snow going to fall? we are going to go into more detail coming up at the end of our show this hour. first, we are going to bring you more news and i will to gos it back to jonathan. now time for sports. >> everybody doing the tomahaw. the seminols lost to stanford on thursday night. they have a heisman trophy contender. jameous winston. famous jamus putting on a show against wake forest, threw two touchdowns. they would spake the deacons 59 to 3.

the drama continues. the suspended dolphins' lineman actually landed in la yesterday when incognito declined to say why he was there. jonathan marmum has been staying in lala land with his parents because of the alleged harassment from incognito. the latest: incognito feels shocked and betrayed because he thought he was martin's friend and viewed himself as a tough love older brother. >> another n.f.l. is in trouble, germ om simpson ahead in minneapolis for suspicion of dwi. he said he was at a bar but he didn't drink but he refused to take al -- a greg the lies ter. my thought but nothing good happens at 5:00 o'clock. >> generally not. you should be in bed. okay. thanks, ross. >> the navy chris ended its newest aircraft-carrier.

it's called uss general r. ford named after the three-eight president of the united states. ford's daughter did the traditional bottle breaking at that ceremony. >> god bless the ship and all who sail her. the shill will come /* cost more than $12,000,000,000 and is two billion over budget. the navy says it will be at least two years before the ship is finished. it's been one 00 days since iran's new president was elected. has talks on the nuclear program continue, we look at the impact of hasaan rhouhani. nicholas mad duera has decided today occupy an electronic store chain. you are looking at live pictures from geneva as we await a news conference regarding the diplomatic talks. will there be a deal? it's a big question tonight. we will be right back.

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welcome back to al jazeera america. here is a look at top stories tonight. $865 million. >> that's how much money federal prosecutors want now from bank of america. last month, a jury found the bank liable for selling bad mortgages to the government. case includes linder countrywide who sold to fannie mae and freddy mac. vietnam is bracing for the brute force of super tie fon haiyan. the storm slammed into the philippines on thursday. an estimated 1200 people have been killed. the death toll continues to cries. another 200,000 could be left homeless. hopes of reaching an agreement with iran are looking slim. france raised concerns about whether the proposed deal goes far enough. one diplomat participating in the meeting told the ap a new round of negotiations might be needed. for decades, ravin has been known for strict regime but now

there are changes. 100 days after being elected, hassan rhouhani is showing openness within his country's borders. sarai linny has more. >> in iran, there is a list, and honors the name ofs of those who is offense are from political. in the disputed 2009 election. shams is 1 of them. he was on that list for four years. and that meant with no official explanation. he was also banned from attending university. >> translator: i was in journalism. i was briefly arrested. last year, i took the exam for my master's during ahmadinejad's presidency. they called us started students and banned us from studying. verbally i was told i was not allowed to study. >> that is until now. he has just been allowed back to

university. and he thanks the new president for that. one of iran's most respected economic and political minds, said says rohani has gun the process of taking country back from radicals. he, himself, was jailed i had in 2009 and banned from teaching. i have been in jail for more or less one year but personally i have no complaint, inso happy after the four or eight years, everybody is lear at the moment for everybody those eight years belong to the previous government of ahmadinejad, which banned professors for not sharing ideology. journalists, human rights campaigners, union leaders,

activists and academics. it closeddoz of reformer newspapers and black lifted the largest organization of journalists. cinches his election, hundreds of prisoners have been release. many will remain in jail or understand house arrest including the leaders of the reformist green movement. >> in iran's complicated political system, what iranians like shanz conclude is that the domestic situation is changing but very unenrolled. since rohani's election, many have gained back freedom. when it comes to other domestic issues like gender e quality, internet sensorship, many rannians are hardpressed to see any improvement. the constitution is still the constitution. the law is still the law, and the president swore to uphold it, not to change it. tehran. >> in the past few minutes, there has been some developments in geneva over those talks with

iran's nuclear program. live pictures outside the enter continue injuries hotels until geneva where those talks have been taking place. we understand they are done for the night. the talks between iran and the 6th world powers have concluded. we don't know yet the outcome, but we are expecting to hear a press conference from some leaders there in the next couple of minutes to explain what exactly they talked about. and if they have agreed on anything. i want to bring in robert rearden who wrote "containing iran" strategies for addressing the iranian nuclear challenge. he joins us from boston. robert, thanks for being with us. i first want to get your thoughts on the fact that these talks have gone on so late into the night. there was debate over whether they would reach a deal, not reach a deal. what is the significance of this? >> well, clearly, there is some sort of disagreement among the p 5 plus 1 countries and from what i have been hearing, it seems that the french are the ones that have been the spoilers in the deal, that the united states

and the other members of the p 5 plus 1 were on board with the deal with the iranians and that the french opposed to a couple of things. one, that the deal didn't have anything about stopping construction of the heavy water reactor at iraq in iran, which could be used to produce plutonium and the french weren't happy with -- with the arrangements for the 20% uranium that had been produced. >> on that, sorry, i want to interrupt you because we are just learning the french foreign min sister is saying the talks have not yielded what they expected, there will be no deal struck tonight. they still have some questions that need to be addressed. it is what we had heard earlier today. it was kind of the expectation that this deal would fall apart. explain to us kind of what happened, especially since in the beginning, there was some

optimism that there might be a deal reached with iran. >> well, i am still optimistic at this point. from what i have heard, they are going to try to meet again in about 7 to 10 days and that the gap in positions among the p5 plus 1 in iran have narrowed a bit. so it's still certainly possible that they are going to get some sort of a deal out of this. overall, it's very difficult to just go by the reports that are coming out because everybody is keeping their cards pretty close, but from everything that has been said, it seems that the french were the big hold outs. certainly getting all of the foreign ministers in there and the russian foreign minister coming, the channel ease foreign minister coming, that all indicates to me that they must have been very close to a deal. >> and so close and yet kind of still so far. i know they will be meeting again as you mentioned, in a week or so, but does this not blow a setback to negotstations in does this not buy iran more

time and more stalling? >> well, it blows -- it's a setback to negotiations, although i am not sure how many people up until at that couple of days ago actually believed that we were going to get a deal this quickly. and if we do get a deal in the next, you kn next, you know, week or two, that would still be a considerable achievement. i mean this is the closest we have come in a decade to getting some sort of an agreement with the iranians and this is the longest that talks have gone on with the iranians in the americans sitting in a room. if we don't get a deal at all, i think that would be a -- that would be a tremendous blow and it would really -- it would really raise some questions about the inter workings, the negotiations within the p5 plus 1 that if a deal were on the table that the iranians would agree to and most of the p5 plus

1 countries were on board and there was a division among them, that would raise some serious questions. >> as we look at these live pictures outside of the hotel intercontinental in geneva, we are waiting for the world leaders to emerge and hold a news conference. do we -- i am curious to know your thoughts on whether a deal overall with iran, whether it's next week or next month, based on the temperature of iran and this new president, how likely do you think it is that we will actually see a deal reached? >> i think at this point, it is more likely than not. given everything that's been said, even what i heard about the french objections, these sound like disagreements that can be resolved with a little more negotiation. and that seems to have been what everybody was thinking over the course of the day. talks went very late in geneva. i mean there must be -- it must be considerable belief that a

deal is within reach even now and they just couldn't get their in this round of the talks. over all, though, you know, this would only be a confidence building measure. this is going to buy some team for more negotiations. this is something that is going to last six months, and even then, it doesn't roll back the iranian program. it freezes elements of the program. it provides very little in terms of sanctions relief. this is a very small deal in terms of the overall dispute and there would be a lot more negotiating that has to be done. i think that this is an important first step, but it's just a first step. >> robert, i would like for you to stand by if you can for us, please. there has been a lot of developments in jeng over. we want to go to phil it ner, briefly who has been following the talks. he is there in geneva. phil, what are you hearing

tonight? >> reporter: we are hearing from the state department that those meetings between the p5 members of the u.n. security council plus germany are meeting with iranian foreign minister has actually now concluded about 20 minutes ago. we are also hearing from the french foreign minister that no deal has been reached, that there are, quote, still some questions to be answered. so we are now expecting any moment for those leaders to come here to the press conference center in general over away from the hotel where they have been holding these talks, to address the press and let us know exactly where things stand if, indeed, no agreement has been reached, it is expected that there will be another round of talks. when that might happen, we are not sure, but it is interesting to note that this is concluded. it is over here in januageneva,

waiting for that information about what exact has been reached if, indeed, anything substantive but that press conference could be coming any time, any time soon. john that? >> we hear it does not sound too encouraging that they reached a deal. >> that's what the french foreign minister is 'til ing different news agencies. i think earlier, secretary carrier avoided reporters before the meeting. >> we can certainly expect representing the eu, katherine ashton will be speaking here. who else, i am not 100% sure. it's interesting to note that within the press conference room, there has been an awful lot of rearranging of furniture. several podiums have been taken away. who will talk with the foreign minister? it will be interesting to note and perhaps we will get a

clearer idea once we know the status of who will be talking with where things stand, but again, this is quickly moving. we have been waiting for quite some time for this to happen. and now, as oftentimes happens with these things, once it starts to cascade, it goes pretty quickly, but we hope to have a clearer idea of house things stand here any time now. >> as you mentioned, it's well past midnight in geneva. we will take a quick break. we will see you in a minute. we are following the story. as soon as that press conference happens there in jeng eva, since world leaders emerged, we will bring it to you life. >> 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

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await a news conference regarding the diplomatic talks about iran's nuclear program. we will bring that to you life as soon as it happens. we are hearing late tonight a deal was not reached with iran. negotiations will likely resume sometime in the future. we will move on now to other news for the moment. religious leaders in germany have been marking the 75th anniversary of the infamous night of broken glass when nazis rampaged destroying holmes, businesses and synagogues. harry smith has this story from berlin. >> they marched in silence across the country to remember a day which angela merkel described as one of the darkest moments in german history. through the streets, they carried a banaler which said, remember, commemorate. take part. the city's mayor said the act of rememberance was as important today as it had ever been. >> we especially at the tight where the witnesses dying out

and become less and less, we have to find new ways of commemorating and looking back upon it. to intervene if injustice is happening to anyone even in our democratic society today in order to make it clear to everybody we have an inner liberalism which means we accept peop as they are. i still think we have a lot to learn. >> it was 75 years ago that the nazis launched attacks upon german jews. it became known as the crystal knight, the night of broken glass. party members roamed streets and swashed jewish shops and beating up okccupants and setting fire o synagogues. 90 jews were killed. 7,000 businesses destroyed. but this was merely the beginning of the nazi's campaign to rid the country of the jewish population. germany leaders have warned the country to bewatch for anti-s anti-semiti anti-semitism. it is a timely reminder.

across europe, it is on the increase. harry smith, al jazeera. >> here with sports, lsu facing off against intlapz. >> can alabama pull it off? they dominated with an 8 and 0 night but they will have to man up. the crimson tide have been rolling by everybody and lighting up the scoreboard averaging 47 points in each. last four games. l lsu has spanning he would on offense. expect a shoot-out. bama are at home. remember the last time the tigers went to tuscaloosa two years ago, they beat them. they are hope dog it again. kickoff cannot come soon enough. this monster showdown gets underway. 8:00 p.m. eastern time. what do you say, coach? >> every one of these games we play with these guys has been

very, very physical. you know, it's a little bit like a heavy weight fight and you certainly can't, you know, fade in any round. >> we know it's going to be a blow for blow type game, and it's almost the team that gets the last few punches in is the team that will wins. s so, i always loved playing these type of games. everybody expects so much. now, i have a feeling that number 3 florida state will cheer for lsu because the seminoles have a chance to be the number one team in the current tree. or gone lost to stanford. if the they lose tonight, just saying. first things first, florida state had to take care of business against wake forest. winston put okay a show. heisman trophy con tender shoots it down the pike. that the hook-up gave florida state a 21-nothing lead. at that point, the rout was on. wake forest tried to make it a game but price gets picked off.

adios, alhoa, the happy place, dig this, florida state wrapped up six interceptions on the day. they would go on to spank the demon deacons 59 to 3 to improve 9 and 0 on the season. missouri quarterback james franklin dressed up but didn't play. no franklin, no problem. the 9th rankedtizingers had a special play on special teams, a punt and loving life. jose e catches the 4 yard score. tigers up 14 to 3. later in the second,natty mock for franklin in the red shirt freshman getting his groove on like you would not believe. rainbow connection. the dorio green beckham, tigers hammered the wildcats 48-17 to improve 9 and 1 on the season. number 7 auburn, clicking on all cylinders in the second game tied at 13. check out chris davis, off the punt, davis shakes and basics on

a mad dash, into the end zone, 85 yards to the house. tigers never looked back. just before the half, marshal on running the option. he is off to the races. marshal rushed for two touchdowns, passed ford another. tigers win big, 5523 is your final. >> we feel like we got one of the better special teams unit in the country. i think they showed that and helped us win the game. this ball team going forward. it doesn't get easier. what do you have to say about their focus in terms of each and every week dealing with success? >> i was worried employed this one. they have been playing great at home. they are an up and coming team. our gaze came out, took care of business. they played like a top it10 tea >> texas tech on upset alert against snyder's wildcats. this will game, john hubert kicked into high gear, racked up 157 yards on the ground, including 63 yard score, 1 of 5 rushing touchdowns today by

kansas state. they also had a passing touch do you know. it was one by jake waters, embarrassing texas tech in lubbock 49226. red raiders fall to 7 asked and 3 on the season. >> florida coach on the hot seat for a good reason. gators 4 and 4 coming into today's match-up against vanderbilt. their quarterback, tyler murphy tossed three interceptions on the day while surrender billed was living large. they would go on to wing 34-17, snapping a 22-losing streak. the last time they beat florida, ronald reagan was president. yours truly was a june aror in high school and the back street boys, actually boys, but happy times are here again. all right. time to put the sports cast, this baby on ice because the winter olympics 89 days away in sochi, that. the ice hockey team will look to capture their first gold metal since 1998. judy chu, a super star in the making. john henry smith has more.

>> the games, pushing harder. we are still training smart but we are full-time as a team, which is so exciting. we training in boston, massachusetts area and every day, we come to the rink because we know we can become better as a team, working on systems as well as our conditioning. >> julie chu knows a thing or two about preparing for 0 lum pick competition. she has been a forward on the u.s. woman's ice hockey team for the last three olympic games winning silver and bronze medals in the process with the next olympiad approaching, she draws upon her experience to keep her eyes on the prize. >> i think the biggest thing is to stay focused on the present moment, have a great time because it's such an incredible journal, especially for hockey because it's over pretty much a week and a half, two week period. we have to make sure that we stay folks used and to the to spend too much energy early on but have energy left in the tank for later on in the tournament. >> as the first asian american to play on an u.s. ice hockey

team as a harvard graduate and three-time olympic medalist, she has accomplished much but the idea of being seen as a role model is something that surprises her. >> it's a little bit surreal to be honest because when i started playing hockey, the dream of being an o lim meian wasn't there because it wasn't an olympic support until 1998. now, because i have been fortune enough to represent our country on the national team with amazing other players, it is a responsibility, a great honor. it hum bells me because i would never be here unless my mom and dad said i could play hockey. a girl at the time asking to play hockey was non-existent. >> while she may be less than comfortable with the label, pioneer julie chu is set to become a pioneer again by becoming the first asian american to win ice hockey olympic gold. al jazeera. >> she has a bubblely personality, great athlete and talent. she has that.

89 days until the winter olympics. >> i didn't realize it was so close we are still watching those talks in general eve at. we have live pictures there from that news conference. we will bring it to you live as soon as it happens. stay with us. you are watching al jazeera america.

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>> late tonight, we learn there has been no deal reached in the iran nuclear talks. french foreign ministers saying they failed to reach a deal. there were other issues that needed to be resolved. we are waiting for a news conference to here from world leaders about what happened. our phil itner is there. he has been following the talks all the night long in geneva. phil, what's happening right now? >> reporter: ? >> jonathan, there has been some activity here at the press center where we expect that press conference to start, well, any time now, we are getting word that the iranian delegation has left the hotel wihere the talks were conducted, presumably en route to come here. we have been told that inside the actual press room, that two flags have been put out on the

podium. the european union and the iranian flag, presumably that then means that the two speakers tonight will be the eu representative, katherine ashton and the iranian foreign minister, zaref. so, whether or not secretary of state kerry will be involved in this press conference, from the looks of it, it doesn't appear azle. and what exactly the substance of this press conference, well, it does not look like there is a deal, but will there be further talks? there is some indication that indeed there will be another round within about a week. they want to keep the momentum going, so we could see more progress from this certainly this process is not completely dead, it's believed. it's still alive as it were, but it's just not going to happen tonight. jonathan. >> i think it's interesting they put flags out and not the united

states flag. help us understand what's happening behind the scenes diplomatically. if secretary kerry does not speak, what does that mean? >> well, secretary of state kerry doesn't speak, it's that he's keeping his powder dry maybe. the fact that katherine ashton is speaking is no real surprise. she has hosted this conference more or less. she was indeed the one who invited secretary of state kerry to come at the last moment and, of course, the fact that the rannian foreign minister would be speaking as well is no big surprise. secretary of state kerry is still slated to travel to abu dhabi in the united arab emirates today. he had to cancel plans dodd to go to north africa but he has still got other things on his agenda including that trip to

abu dhabi, but will he speak on the plane? will he speak beforez leaves? these are things we will have to wait and see and obviously, he will have a perspective on this that might be separate from certainly the french foreign minter who has been out spoken about what was on the table now, we are hearing also from the german foreign minister who is still saying that indeed some process has been made. what that probation is, again, another issue for us to wait and hear from these dignitaries as they arrive for this press conference jonathan. >> still waiting, phil itner, thank you for that standby. we will check in with you later. we wanted today bring in our guest, robert rearden from the harvard kennedy school. i want to get your perspective on the overall talks here, the fact that we have iran and the united states even speaking. how significant is that, alone? >> it's significant certainly when you have ittition high

level and you have kerry showing up. kerry wasn't scheduled to be part of these talks and he left his scheduled trip around the middle east to actually show up for this. it's not -- it's not inwhich he hadbly unusual in the sense that we have had talks at this level in the past, and the alabama administration has been a lot more willing to engage iran in talks and has offered to do bilateral talks with the iranians, so it's read too much into that, but i think the fact that they metaphor so long tells you that things are moving in a positive direction. >> there has been a lot of talk about whether iran really even poses a threat to the united states and whether its nuclear program perhaps may be justified. at least iran certainly says its so. does iran really pose a threat to the united states, itself? >> well, iran right now doesn't

have nuclear weapons. it's a ways from getting nuclear weapons. it's declared facilities are under inspections. so, it doesn't have a -- it doesn't have a free path to get nuclear weapons unless it could somehow use secret facilities or something like that. so this isn't something that we are talking about happening in the very near future that the iran would be nuclear-armed. how much of a threat would it be to the united states if it had nuclear weapons? it wouldn't be so much a direct threat to the united states in the sense that iran could somehow target the united states with nuclear weapons. i think the concern would be more that iran might threaten u.s. interests in the region, that this might be destabilizing to the region, and how this might affect u.s. allies in the middle east much more than any

sort of threat to the united states. so i can't say that it's a major threat to the united states in the sense that, you know, the soviet union's nuclear arsenal was during the cold war. this is very different than that. but you could say that it's certainly a threat to u.s. interests. >> it's certainly a threat to israel, which has been clearly out spoken about this, very concerned about these talks and these negotiations. france, it seems, has joined their concerns. we are now finally, seeing people sitting behind the podium. so we are going to take a moment here, i believe they are about to start speaking, and listen in, of course, as we know, no deal tonight between iran and world leaders, but there is hope that there could be a deal reached sometime in the future let's listen in and see what they have to say. >> thank you very much, michael. we have come from a long meeting this evening