sandy cl this is al jazeera america live from new york city. i'm jonathan betz with the top stories. >> winter is threatening the syrian refugees - especially the million children living in camps. >> healthcare.gov - a 5-week overhaul was supposed to be fixed today. >> u.s. a calling for the release of an 85-year-old veterans held in north korea. >> the syrian civil war continues to bring hardships to

victims behind the country's borders. more than 2.2 million have fled, scattered among its neighbours. united nations says half are children. many are not able to go to school. some are working to support their families. a danger approaches - a harsh winter. zeina khodr reports from a camp near lebanon. >> we are at a tenth settlement near lebanon. they dot the landscape along the border with syria. people live in miserable conditions. they may be safe, not it facing the violence of syria, but they have the cold. people barely have anything. the ground is mutt, and these plastic sheetings do not provide shelter when the rain starts. look around - just a few weeks

ago there was rain and the whole area was flooded. people are worried and are calling on the international community to help them. the international community can only do so much. they have to deal with their economic problems. this is how people live - sometimes four to five families in one tent. people are talking about their children suffering from respiratory problems, pneumonia, and social workers are warning of the possibility of such diseases spreading. so miserable conditions in the next few days and week. temperatures are going to drop. it will be below zero and people here have nothing to protect them from this new threat. grim conditions there. from lebanon to northern iraq our special coverage of the syrian refugee crisis continues with a report from imran khan. it's early morning. the women in the camp prepare food. they have been cooking outdoors

since the summer. that will end soon because winter is come, and with it plunging temperatures and heavy rain. um yasir wonders what she'll do when it's too cold to cook outside n >> translation: i make an effort every friday to cook a small treat. with the rain we will not be able to do this much long rer. this small treat will we taken away from us. >> preparations to get the camp ready are under way. drainage systems are being put in place to make sure the camp doesn't flood. yousef mahmoud from the u.n. refugee agencies says things are on track, but there's a long way to go. >> there'll be challenges, but we'll support the international community with the unhcr are ready to support them for the winter. >> there's a huge difference between a camp being ready for winter and the reality of living

there. despite the hard winter conditions around the corner, children find a way to smile and have fun. >> these children are taking advantage of mild weather before the severe winter comes. it almost doesn't matter how well prepared the camp is for winter. the one thing that the children and every resident that the camp wants is one thing that the aid agencies can't give them. that's a safe package back to syria. >> there are pressing things to worry about. >> translation: 10 days ago it rained. the tent was flooded. my children couldn't walk anywhere. winter is coming. >> with the u.n. agencies facing a funding crisis this camp is typical of any. technically it's ready, but it's

scant comfort for those living through it. what happens next is up to god. >> meanwhile in jordan, south of syria, a glimmer of good news. better shelters are arriving. we have this report from the zaatari camp by nisreen el-shamayleh. >> the people here suffer sandstorm and snow storms - their only shelter a plastic tent. a freezing winter is coming. for ziadal al faouri and his family the trailers couldn't arrive soon enough. >> translation: in the winter the tents collapse said. if it was connected to electricity, when it rains, it caught fire. i can't scribe hour suffering. >> the people that have been here longest are the first to get a trailer. there's frustration when they are given out.

there are strict rules to prevent people getting a trailer from taking advantage of their fortune. refugees that left the camp in host communities would sell trailers for hundreds of dollars to those in tents. refugees have to sign contracts promising not to trade camp property. >> this man has been in camp for a year. the aid workers says those getting replacements now have been living in tents for a year and a half. >> each trailer costs $2,500. there are thousands waiting for a trailer. around 3,000 families live in tents like these. the u.n. refugee agency says the hope is to replace tents with trailers by january, before the weather is unbearably cold. >> refugees are getting thermal blankets before the winter sets

in and temperatures fall below zero. winter clothing and shoes are given to vulnerable children under the age of five. there's not enough money to provide everything they need. conditions in the camp are different. >> they are all prepared to the crisis to last longer. it took many of the donors not by surprise, but them saying, "well, let me go and look if i have more money available." >> these refugees have no idea when they can return to their country. if the funding is not delivered they could suffer for more summers and winters. >> that camp is home to 100,000 refugees. a spokesperson told us about struggles they are facing as winter approaches. >> i was in iraq last week. we brought in soil to create

platforms, we put down plastic sheeting, plywood and the tents. we are giving people carpets to create a layer in their tents. these are effectively on top of the earth, so it's a scant development to help people get through the winter. the way the crisis is developing, we will expect to see the 2.2 million refugees joined by more, and for the crisis to endure. it is necessary for countries to think of developed situations for the children and families. >> we are having to tackle many things at once. we are providing tents, sheeting to go over the tents. to keep the tents drier. here in jordan, we provide people with cara -- caravans,

but some don't want to camps to get permanency. we are giving people electric or kerro seen stoves for heating and cooking. again, the children, of course, they are growing all the time. their foot ware, most arrived in sandals is really shoddy and when i was in the camps in iraq, it was pouring rain. children are running around bare food or sandals. we are having to distribute foot ware, clothing. these are human being. the children are growing. it's a challenge to keep up with all the needs with millions of people who have been displaced in the region. >> inside syria we have a date for when syria's chemical weapons will be out of the country. 1300 tonnes will be destroyed at sea with technology never used

aboard an american militariship. >> the leaders of the afghanistan and pakistan met in kab kabul. the for example security. pakistan's prime minister in afghan's president hamid karzai discussed security measures to be taken in dealing with the taliban. >> u.s. calls on north korea to release merrill newman. the north koreans released a video in which the 85-year-old supposedly is apology. >> this video released by north korean authorities claims to show merrill newman reading an alleged apology. >> on this trip i want understand that in u.s. and western countries there is misleading information and propaganda about pprk. >> the video and 4-page statement cannot be independently verified. it cared on the north korean newsagency accusing merrill

newman of: >> it alleges he was involved in the killings of service personnel and civilians. >> attacking communication systems and killing three enjoyment people. >> merrill newman served in the korean war. he visited as a tourist when detained in october 2012. newman's son said he wanted to return. all the other tourists in his dad's group were allowed to fly home. >> they had checked out of the hotel, gone to the airport. boarded the plane and were five minutes were taking off when a korean official came on board. he hasn't been seen since.

>> lee newman wants her husband home safely and hopes he's getting his heart medication. we hope he has been resolved quickly, and he has returned and been at the holidays. >> it's not clear if that has happened. >> we are tracking a developing story out of alaska. as many as four people have been killed in a plane crash, including an infant. it went down in the sworn part of the state. 10 people were on board a flight. there's no word of injuries or the cause. federal investigators are on the way. >> police found a burnt-out wreckage in a game park. >> deadly violence for the first time in thailand's antigovernment protest. one person has been killed, others hurt after gunshots were fired during confrontations on

rival groups. it's unclear who fired the shots. >> there was grave concern that the area where these incidents have taken place in bangkok would become a flash point. the pro-government, red shirt protesters have been gathering in a stadium in that part of the capital city in big numbers. outside antigovernment protesters gathered at a university, pomular with students from the south of the country, which is a strong hold of the opposition democrat party, which is, in turn, behind or backing the aipt government movement. during the day, some protesters attacked people they suspected of being red shirts outside the university, with one person being injured. in the evening there were shots fired at the university, with some people injured as well. >> this all taking place as the

antigovernment protesters prepare for what they are saying will be the day they will topple the government on sunday. now, to do that they say they'll storm several government facilities. in response. prime minister has asked for the military's help. they have been reluctant to take sides and show its hands. some soldiers in response are going to those facilities, including government house to protect them, but at the moment the soldiers are unarmed. >> wayne hay in bangkok. >> the u.s. government is condemn k ukraine ians for attacking protesters. >> the move against the protesters was brutal and swift in a pre-dawn raid by riot police in independence square.

trudgeons were used to disperse the crowd, some who were sleeping and beaten and dragged along the ground. tear gas was fired against demonstrators who were mounting an overnight vigil. ambulance crews and par medics help to treat individuals. the praise was ordered after president viktor yanukovych returned from kiev after a summit in the e.u. he refused to sign a trade pact after coming under pressure from russia. demonstrators demanded the r res -- resignation of the president. >> the brutal crackdown by the riot police far from dampened down the process. it increased the momentum. the opposition parties are united and will set up what they call a national resistance headquarters, and have called for a general strike across the

ukraine. >> the protesters cleared from independence square found sank tu air yair at the site of st michael's cathedral. a monnestry demolished and rebuilt when ukraine gained independence 22 years ago. >> we were holding back the police for about four minutes before they overpowered us. we were defenseless against weapons and shields. i was hit on the head, and put my arms up. it didn't help. >> i was beaten and kicked. it was the most brutal thing i have experienced. >> translation: tomorrow will be a hot and hard day for all of ukraine if the police break protests and blood is spilt on the streets, ukraine will be plunged into civil war. >> the jer is -- the anger is

swelling. >> vice president joe biden heads to tokyo on monday. high on the agenda growing tensions in asia. relations has been growing over who controls a group of islands in the east china sea. china demands any pilots identify themselves before flying through the new defense zone. stephanie scawen updates us from tokyo. >> the skies over senkakku islands or diaoyu island is busy. chinese fighter jets are surveying american and japanese aircraft that are taking routine patrols over the island. the danger is there could be some kind of confrontation or accident if the number of planes flying over the region

continues. japan and america are not backing down. japan is going to set up a permanent base in okanawa for spy planes. they have one already, and they'll send in a second aircraft in the new year. you could argue the chinese are being provocative, the japanese and the americans are not going to back down. . well, it's a quiet weather day across much of the country. beautiful out there. chilly, but temperatures on the rebound. we have a few effects, snow showers across the up of michigan. very quiet. high pressure is building across the central planes into the midwest and the south-east. and across much of the north-east. a beautiful day. look at temperatures across the

country, they are on the rebound. new york city at 39. if you are in miami, nothing but sunshine. 51 in atlanta, below normal, but temperatures are rebounding. heading into the overnight hours, the snow will make its way from michigan, from an area of low pressure into portions of the north-eastern. we are looking at an intercross upstate new york. once you make your way into new england we could see snow. three to six inches across i-95. across the south-east relatively quiet. high pressure in control. when you have high pressure in control you bring in the easterly wind. popping up to the east of jacksonville. we rip currents if you are travelling or by the water. use precaution. a little snow as soon as the up of michigan.

otherwise it's a quiet day. here is a look at michigan. it was a beautiful day for the football game. back to you. >> beautiful, indeed. we are tracking an update into our al jazeera news room. we told you about the american veteran merrill newman held in north korea. reports from the state department are north korea allowed swedish embassy officials to visit merrill newman. al jazeera is following the story and will bring you more as soon as we have it. >> still ahead on al jazeera america - many in ireland call for the united nations to solve the controversy over the nation's abortion laws. the white house is accused of blocking photographer's access. and a disturbing trend in puerto rico, why more and more people are leaving the country.

cash ooffs harbour >> 50,000 puerto ricans are leaving their homeland every year, the most in years. puerto rico has the highest unemployment rate in the u.s.

casey kauffman shows us one business there is booming. >> unemployment here is twice the national average. but this man has never worked so much. his moving company can barely keep up with the requests. >> translation: most goes abroad. orlando, miami, texas, new york. we have local jobs, but it is care. >> mr and mrs lopez lived in the u.s. and came back to puerto rico for retirement. all of their children and relatives are in florida. >> translation: i want to talk to them and share everything with them and spend my old age with them. >> when their youngest daughter told them they'd stay in the u.s. after completing medical studies, they realised they'd be alone, apart from their daughter

ariana. >> translation: you start with $100,000 to be a cardiologist assistant after graduating. here you get around $60,000. >> the destination is orlando, florida. he helps people move off the island every day of the week. >> translation: for us it is good, we are working. at least i don't have to leave. >> puerto ricans are a people in transit. their american passports allow them to move easily. immigration hit record levels. around 600,000 puerto ricans left the island in the past 10 years, 50% of the population, and the largest drop compared to anywhere else. 40% of college graduates left to look for employment. the job market is tough for blue collar workers too.

>> translation: saturdays are not enough. you have to work a lot of overtime to get by. i have a colleague working saturdays and sundays as a dj. there are no farming jobs. the factories are closing too. >> the government says immigration costs the local economy $3 billion a year. this man has not lost a penny. he's off to a next job, taking a shipment to miami. >> today's the deadline for when the white house promised to have the health care website fixed. the white house says it's been met. healthcare.gov launched from october 1st. problems plagued it. the site was unable to handle the number of people buying insurance plans. november 30th was the deadline to fix the problems. the goal was for the site to handle 50,000 users at one.

small business owners cannot enrol employees. their enrol. web site will launch in a year. with the change it moves the deadline for small businesses to offer insurance to jan 2015. >> all righty, it's the game ross has been waiting all weekend for. >> for the first time these two teams are in the top five, surveys says the winner of the game won the d.c. s national championship game in each of the last four years. 87,000 faces are rocking the house in auburn. how precious is that. the winner will punch a ticket into the scc game and an inside track into the nation at championship game. auburn 7-0 in the first. >> auburn barack obama not the

only rivalry game. ohio held off michigan. the buckeyes with a winning street. florida put the stop on their rival. north carolina, the dukies, they are a football powerhouse ranked at number 24. they beat the tar hills 27-25 and will play florida state in the a.c.c. drama state. the korn house got worked by their opposition bo pelini said, "if they want to fire me, fire me." shawn eichorst is defending him for now. bo pelini has had issues when a taped conversation of him ribbing the nebraska fans became public. more highlights, including a nasty brawl between michian and

ohio state. >> still ahead on al jazeera america - wanting to adopt a child. the challenges facing gay american couples. and sandwiched between black friday and cyber monday is small business saturday. how a neighbour hood is helping this day.

welcome back to al jazeera america. here is a look at the top stories. the u.s. is calling for the release of the 85-year-old merrill newman, a veteran held by north korea. the state department is reporting north korea allowed swedish officials to visit newman. >> the syrian war has created a humanitarian crisis. the winter is threatening 2.2 million people. half are children. >> black friday is over. now it is small business saturday. thousands of family-owned businesses across the country are hoping for big crowds today. stop in and shop. mum and pops promising to offer

a different deal - no crowds, pushing or shoving. one on one good old-fashioned customer care. kilmeny duchardt is live in downtown new york. this is a relatively new concept, small business saturday. how did it start? >> it's a good question. it was started by, believe it or not, american express in 2010. it was really to encourage people to shop locally, not just during the holiday season. we talk about holl di retail sales. this is to bring free tifg as well to smaller businesses. i'm in tribeca at revolution eyes. and i'm with jeremy lee who operated the eye-glass store. what is your biggest challenge as a small business?

>> competition with the corporations running a lot of things that you can have monopolise over. it's hard to be a small business owner and compete against the pricing. i think it's - in a small business you get what you pay for. you may pay more, the owners care about businesses more than a corporate entity does. >> the individual attention. you decided to enrol in small business saturday this year. why did you and how has it been working out today. >> free advertising, so it can't hurt. obviously they are trying to help us promote our own business, so i'm in favour of that. it's a good thing for americans to feel - to support local small shops. that's the heart and soul of american, entrepreneurship. >> what has been the response so far. has anybody come in. i would have expected a little more. i think tribeck is a little

different because it's not a shopping destination. people have heard about it. i enrolled in it. i think it's a cool thing. >> would you do it next year? >> of course, no reason not to. >> last year it generated $5.5 billion in revenue, this day did last year in 2012. back to you. >> kilmeny duchardt in new york. thank you. small business owners everywhere hope for a lot of customers. some new york city shops are in need. s jennifer glass takes us to a neighbourhood struggling to survive after hurricane sandy. >> this pet store was closed for 11 months after sandy. the manager is happy to be serving customers again. >> thank you so much. he's beautiful. >> like paco, and owner taylor. >> i try to go to local

restaurants and stores, more than anything. that may be my preference. i usually find there's better service and quality. and more satisfied with local businesses. >> storm damage means many areas are closed. the owners hope to get the restaurant open by new year's eve. >> it's been unbelievably difficult. you'd think with something of this magnitude happening, small businesses - and we are all small business - that things will be expedited quicker. >> if the businesses could have opened, there may not have been many customers. most of the residents were forced to leave. they started coming back only recently. small business openers here farmed an alliance. they say there's strength in numbers. do you think if you were a macy's or a bloomingdales or

century 21... >> if you are a big corporation with the money backing you it's a bump in the road. you know. yes, it's been difficult. >> down the street on the holiday weekend it's mostly tourists in this italian restaurant. that's not usually the case. >> the most people is like 75% of the people local, and 25% of tourists. so to most people we have neighbours and most are people. >> he says the best way to re-establish the restaurant is to rebuild the community. >> capturing presidential moments. it's gotten tougher at the white house. news organizations are protesting rules limiting photographers access. >> sometimes it may seem like the white house press corp is

spending too much energy covering the minutia. the freedom of the press to cover official event is not happening. the new policy is clear, for significant events, no independent observe will be allowed. >> instead initial white house photos like these will be released. the white house says the pictures are adding to the administrations transparency as they are taken at private event. >> we have tried to provide using new technology and the president's personal photographer additional insight into what is happening at the white house. that's why your television network, n.b.c. will ask if have a photo we can release. >> some in the press corp argue many events are official business, and with the administration's release of carefully vetted photos to be distributed widely by social

media, shoes their newsworthiness. >> in a letter signed the white house is accused of replacing independent journalist with individual press releases. >> for example this photo. >> this gives you and your viewers a sense of what happened at the lunch, we released a photo. >> it's a photo that's been -- >> the washington editor of the mcclatchy that operates 30 newspapers, announced its publications will not run the photos unless there is a true national security reason for not having allowed n independent photographer to taken. >> the white house is not allowing basic journalistic access, to take pictures. we don't feel we should run those issued. we have seen a lot of measures we have never seen before, to this degree. to crackdown on the flow of information.

>> back at the white house the photo op is over. contemporary reporters and historians will have plenty of documentation with which to shape mals and the record of the white house christmas tree story of 2013. the same cannot be said for other moments during the presiden presidency. >> egypt's government is voting on a new constitution. is a 15-member community will vote on articles. it was suspended when mohamed morsi was thrown out. the committee must put the recommendation tos a public vote. heated protests continue despite an order against them. >> an australian teenager has been culled -- killed by a shark attack in new south wales. the shark bit him on the legs. beaches have been closed in the area for 24 hours. it's australia's second deadly shark attack.

a 35-year-old surfer was killed which a shark last week. >> there's scrutiny over abortion laws in ireland. the nation is in violation of un and european law, says human rights activists and may be guilty of torture when it comes to treating women. >> amanda was 21 weeks pregnant when she and her partner james were told. her baby daughter would survive no more than minutes outside the body and die of heart failure. faced with a choice of watching their baby die in front of their eyes, or termination, they want the act of kindness. they were told they didn't have the choice. >> the thought that she might, you know, that i might carry her to full term, deliver her and watch her die in front of me, watch her have a heart attack, and the only thing - when you're expecting a baby and you are

so - you would die for the baby, you are so protective. the only thing i thought that that i could do for her was make sure she never suffered. >> it's a year since ireland had soul-searching over the death of savita halappanavar. she bled to death because she couldn't get an abortion. >> this takes things a step further, wanting united nations to clarify whether ireland is in respect of human rights laws in respect to babies that won't live after birth. >> we think there's a prohibition of article 3. if you look at the pattern of the manner in which people are treated, once there's a diagnosis of fatal foetal abnormality degrading is the only word that comes to mind. >> the strong catholic lobby insists women should not have the choice, but have better

support during birth. >> if they give their baby home, they'll be given medical support and other ways to innocently their time with their baby, from women that i spoke to and families i talk to, it can be comforting and enjoyable experience. >> james and amanda heard this many times. >> it's extremely upsetting. what that would be would work for some people who choose that. if we have the best care, we wouldn't have made a different decision. we would have terminated. >> it's believed it wouldn't need a change in law for women going through a huge personal trauma. they insist the lawmakers would rather ignore the issue than do anything about it. >> the number of those killed from a helicopter crash in

scotland has risen to eight. scottish officials say all three in the chopper died. five others were killed. the helicopter crashed into a crowded bar in glasgow. two dozen were hurt. the cause is unclear. >> more and more gay couples are trying to become parents. the number of adoptions is growing. opposition is high. a bill to help gaye people adopt is making its way through conagrees. we are introduced to families, hoping the act becomes law. >> when don and andrew decided they wanted to become parents through adoption. they were willing to take any child that needed a home. >> we were open. we gave a broad range. we were open to ethnic groups, mixed race. we never considered the notion of starting a family, we expected we would be - i don't like the term.

>> she was very pretty. >> they have two little girls, isabella and valerie. >> for kids it's easier. the comments from the kids is - i hear parents say, "so and so came home and said isabella has two dads. what a ripper, i only have one, what a rip off." there are 33 states with couples face barriers in fostering or adopting children. there has been an increase in gay adoption. experts say due in part to growing societal acceptance and changing laws. >> the percentage of same-sex parents with adopted children increased from 10% to 2000 to 19% in 2009. >> there's a lot of kids that need homes. this is an opportunity for us to have more people that feel comfortable with becoming foster parents and hopefully adopting, if that is the case.

>> after more than two years of waiting, hope and disappointment. indianapolis couple found a teen mum who selected them to adopt their unborn daughter. >> you deal with the mother, and whether the father sign away his rights. where are they located. how much contact do they want. >> with an open adoption the child will have an a relationship with the mother. >> the agency told us a lot of mums choose male same-sex couples because they don't want competition with another mum, and they'll always be the only mum. expecting to bring their baby home in march. they know quiet nights are numbered, looking forward to laughter and love that a family brings. >> there's much more ahead on al jazeera america, including autoop sis into the 21st it

century. new software - no scalpel needed. >> the kansas city chiefs were rocked by tragedy when a young starred committed a murder-suicide. a year later, a city is still mourning.

it marks the first maimer change in post mortem procedures in 400 years, digital technology allowing doctors to conduct an autopsy using a mouse instead of a scalpel. the breakthrough is expected to lead to better police investigations as well. >> it's the stuff of science fiction. exploring the human body after

death without a scalpel touching the skip. the facility in sheffield is home to the digital autoop city center, where the pathologist can conduct post mortems. the exam keeps the body intact and keeps things that are difficult to find in a trad illegalsal autopsy. >> to have a scan. knowing what the tracts look like before you touch the body. know where the blood and the air is before you do the awed op si is a huge help. >> this is a typical ct scanner when the body is brought in, it's placed here. the machine scans it, within seconds 25,000 images are taken. those images are transferred to a computer and transformed to a 3d pictures. there are various tools to dissect with. with a scalpel we can remove the layers.

whilst doing so we are looking for abnormalities, differences, forms of injury, foreign object whilst doing so. >> if i wanted to focus on the kidneys, how do i do that. >> we have a special areas of interest function. looking at the surface, any science of injury, or we can have a closer look and now see the inside of the kidney. >> the results of the autopsy can be ready the same day in most case, ideal in criminal investigations. for those that have lost a loveded one it's an alternative to a regular autopsy. we are cutting open a body. it can be traumatic for families. >> the virtual caption will not replace the technology.

for now, it's an alternative. >> ross is here with sport. a lot of college football. it's not just auburn and alabama, there's arizona state. if you are talking about the fan base and stadium capacityies, it's michigan and ohio. 110,000 rocking michigan stadium. the two teams don't care for one another and got into it. check it out. fancy editing. punches were thrown. boys being boys basically. three players were ejected, including ohio's mark as hall. ejected and mum will not be happy. >> buck eyes number three, riding a 23 game - do i hear 24 winning streak.

ohio state eventually take a 42-35 lead. with 32 seconds left. big blue rallies back. michigan down by one. head coach brady rolling the dice, going for two and win. not happening. ohio holds on for the 43-41 thriller improving to 12 and 0 on the season. >> heisman trophy jamesin winston hooks um with kelvin benjamin, who is like, "get off me, son." 45 yards to the house, and the route was on. despite all the offfield issues with the sexual assault case, jamesin winston puts up huge numbers. scoring three touchdowns on the day. all to kelvin benjamin. davonte freman busts loose as florida state making gator bait. 37 to 7.

>> in the nfl tomorrow, definitely triggering painful mem requires for the kansas city chiefs. it's been a year since the lip backer belcher shot and killed his girlfriend and took his own life leaving their 3 month old daughter an orphan. we are joined from boston. dan, looking back at the big picture, what is done in terms of preventing domestic violence in the nfl. >> i think the nfl does a good job addressing the issue, paying attention to leadership, character. they have empowered the player development people in many respects led by troy vincent to address the issue of how their players act and comport themselves in rghtsships. >> the chiefs will be having a motel of silence before the game against the broncos. how has this impacted the kansas

city community? i think if you look at this, it's the kansas city community, because of the spotlight on sport and particularly on the nfl, it's impacted a conversation worldwide around domestic violence and around how we deal with young boys, and whether we do a good job as a society in teaching young boys kindness and compassion to women. >> two families deal with the pain and suffering of what happened. in your professional experience, what is the healing process like when it's tide to a high-profile league like the nfl? >> i think, again, we are talking about the nfl. we are having a conversation a year later, and that spotlight never goes away. it will be remiss of you or i to talk about how the families are healing. it's a question of how do you remember your child as best you can, and maybe engage in a

conversation or allow the conversation so that other people don't end up in the other circumstance. >> in general, have you seen more crisis management teams put into place at the college or the high school level? >> i think that this question of leadership, a question of teenage dating violence, a question of domestic violence. we at the center run curriculum. we teach it at the high school levels and other levels. it's hard to look at worldwide and not see we have a rape culture and we need to address that in all aspects of life. what lessons have we learnt from the tragedy. >> the lesson that we learn is that, you know, every single day women are at risk. every single day there's violence pervading our culture throughout the world. the lesson learnt is we continue to need more education at a

younger age for kids to understand what proper behaviour is, how kindness, compassion and respect for women can be included in a definition of mann hood. and how young boys have a different definition so the outcomes don't happen as often. >> it's one of those things, one year later, we don't want to call it an anniversary because of two killed and an orphan daughter. >> millions heading home. well be back with the weather.

. well, they said all afternoon a quiet weather day across much of the country. the next system on the move, making its way into the pacific north-west, packing chilly air. it will produce an abundance of snow. a lot of moisture streaming off the pacific, creating cloudy conditions across the pacific north-west. clouds making their way pushing

to the east and across portions of montana. light rain falling outside of seattle. but the know will begin to fall as we track into tonight, into the next couple of of days. we'll push across idaho and definitely across portions of western montana. the winds are gusting around three miles per hour. light winds right now. if you are down in casper they are kicking up a bit. 18 miles per hour. winds gusting up to 40 miles per hour along the coast in washington as it makes its way onshore. there's an aerial flood watch. if you travel along ifive, want to use precaution, but i want to direct your attention to portions of montana. we are talking about 6-12 inches of snow in the highest elevations, 5,000 feet. in addition to that 6 inches of rain outside of seattle.

for anyone travelling there, going to be wet today into tomorrow and monday. as the cold air pushes in, temperatures dropping a bit. we are talking about a day-time high of 43 on monday. on the east coast we are looking dry and quiet. it was beautiful. a few showers around the jacksonville area. >> snow on the way. if you are travelling tomorrow, an area of low pressure making its way off the great likes. an inch of snow. in addition we could see heavy snow across north and eastern maine. anywhere from 3-6 inches of snow. across the south-east, high pressure in control. with the easterly winds around the area of high pressure, watch out for the strong rip current. a beautiful day tomorrow. headlines are coming up next.

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