>> good evening everyone. welcome to al jazeera america. i'm john siegenthaler in new york. digging out. heavy snow brings the northeast to a grinding halt and it's not over. now even more bone chilling temperatures are on the way. fit for duty or not? why half the female marines in boot camp can't seem to pass the fitness test. rotting away, why so many homes are falling apart, victims all over again from the hurricane in new orleans. national geographic turns 125.

>> and we begin tonight in the northeast. snow, ice and now coastal flooding causing problems all over the region. in massachusetts, waves sent crashing into homes. storm ask blamed for the deaths of 13 people so far and if you think last night looked bad from the ground, take a look at this picture from outer space: once the storm moved out, cold moved in. richelle carey is out there. richelle, how is it out there? >> there's cold and then there's out here. i've been out here most of the take. it's dropped about four or 5°.

throughout the day, i do have an update real quick about some of the airports. the major airports, la guardia, kennedy and newark, most delays were about 30 to 45 minutes for a departure. the issue of course is people trying to get into the airport. that's where you want to check if you are headed to any of those airports. some of those delays are up to an hour and a half. it's actually much better than it was. this morning, kennedy was closed for two hours. we knew the snow storm -- i'm cold -- was coming. and boy d, did it hit us. here ask a wrapup. the first winter storm of 2014 delivered. almost two feet of snow in parts of massachusetts.up to 18 inches in new york and parts of new

york the wind chill made it seem like 14 below. and in maine the wind chill pushed temperatures down to 45 below. >> i'm layered up. i have four pairs of pants and four sweat shirts. >> many airports were closed overnight. many flights were delayed or cancelled because of the storm. residents were asked to stay home and stay warm. and shelters were filled with many who slope on the streets. >> normally we fill up three times a day for meals and our guests will leave archt. and. afterwards. but not today. >> i believe i said it was 13°, it is, jong i did not factor in

the wind which makes it well below zero. >> it's beautiful with the snow but no fun to be outside. that's why they've told everyone to stay inside. what about those who don't have a choice or an option about whether to go outside, what are they telling people? >> that's several thousand. on any given night, coorkd to ao the coalition of the homeless, there are around 60,000 that need a place to stay. to reiterate something, the mayor says if you meet someone who needs help, they will make sure they get it. because it's dangerously cold out here john. >> thank you, richelle. cold and frigid air is hitting chicago as well. asher kirashi tells us about the

cold winter ahead. >> in chicago the wind brought with it up to 18 inches of snow, forecasters predict lake effect snow could bring an additional 18 inches. but the arctic weather is what's causing more concern. minus 27° was recorded in 1985. but the bottom will drop out of the thermometer saturday night. the lows will be around the minus 10 to 20 range. the municipalities are bracing for the potentially bracin bracg arctic blast. between 40 and 55 below zero! those temperatures are designated by 9 noaa as extremey cold. schools in minnesota will be closed statewide, milwaukee

schools will be closed and the city is closing down no nonessentially nonessential services. >> here is kevin corriveau. >> we are seeing the midwest really dropping down, with the second blast we've seen in less than two weeks. across the northeast, we're also dealing with our own cold weather. now that the snow has passed we are seeing a considerable amount of snow, up to two feet in parts of massachusetts. the temperatures are coming down. last night at this time we were dealing with the temperatures being quite cold as well as some gusty winds. right now boston's at 7, new york at 13°. and with the wind chill this is what we are looking at.

we are looking at new york feeling more like minus 2° and boston minus 12°. temperatures are going to start to come back up actually believe it or not. highs on saturday look like this. new york at 25, boston at 28. by the time we get othursday new york will be back to 41. boston at 40. you know what that means. a lot of melting snow is going to be going on across this region. and for the rest of the area, minneapolis is at 20 and that is going to be warm for you. we are going to see our temperatures diving. i'll bring you more details when i see you next john. >> thank you very much. now development as far as jehi mcmath. let's go to melissa chan in san franciscan. tell us about yesterday averages

court meeting. >> there is a federal court meeting taking place right now and earlier today in the morning there was a county court hearing where there was actually quite a fair bit of development. we have a better sense of what is going to happen moving forward because the hospital has agreed to let the mcmath family to bring in an outside physician into the hospital to deal with the transfer of jehi mcmath to another facility suppose edly at this moment in new york. it's been wild because on the same day the county coroner's office issued a death certificate. the terminology is she is a course and yet you have this family fighting it in court trying to keep her alive on life support. john. >> what is the next step for the family? >> well the family is running against the clock. they have until tuesday, january 7th, 5:00 p.m. local time in

order to secure the physician and make this transfer happen. and if the ded line passes the hospital here, the children's hospital of oakland will have the right to take jehi mcmath off life sport john. >> we know other fancy have gone through difficult times like this but why has this become so controversial do you think? >> it's a personal tragedy for this family but we're talking about the death and the definitions and notions of death. i think it struck a chord with a lot of people following this story, is death when the heart stops beating or is it the medical and legal definition saying the brain is dead? that's been the controversy, that is one reason there has been so much attention over this case, john. >> melissa from san francisco, thank you. the legal battle over terry schaivo, a person in a

persistent vegetative state should be kept alive or letting her die. her husband favored letting her die dye but family members wanted her to live. bobby schindler joins us. thank you bobby. >> sure, good evening. >> can you tell me what sort of feelings come up when you hear this case becoming extremely controversy in the news? >> well, it's quite different from my sister terry's case. but at the same time we're standing with the family because they're trying to provide help for their daughter, and that is what we were trying to do with terry, we were being told no and they are being told no. we want them to know we will stand with them. there are organizations, a lot of people who are trying to find their beautiful young daughter. >> your organization has tried to find a hospital for jehi.

what have you been doing? >> we're working to get her transferred. it is extremely difficult working with this hospital. they have been making it jumping a lot of hurdles trying to get jehi to get transferred to see if she can improve. >> you have spoken to the family. how are they doing? >> as you can imagine they are emotionally drained. they want to hold out hope and help their daughter. this speaks to the bigger picture because everyone should be concerned concerned. our medical rights are being eroded every day, being put in the hands of doctors and medical boards. we should be concerned that we are no locker able to make our own decisions, being left in the hands of others that might have a financial interest in these

decisions. >> when a death certificate is issued, a legal death certificate, how can you challenge that? >> well, i mean that's for the lawyers to challenge those types of things. but as i said we're standing with the family. they see hope in their daughter. she is making movements, i spoke to her father, she is responsive. why is the mistake the hospital made, they put her in this condition in the first place. you would think they should even try to help this young girl, to see improvement. perhaps after a time a decision an assessment can be made then. there is an awful lot of things we don't know about the brain. why not give this girl a chance, there are facilities that want to help her to see what happens. >> after your foundation work how many cases do you see? >> they're not quite like this, they're similar in nature.

we deal with thee types of things all the time. it goes back to what i say. people don't realize even our own competito express decisions. we are not able to make our own express decisions when it comes to our medical well-being. it doesn't discriminate who this is going to affect. it can affect every single one much us what's happening in our health care system. >> based on what you believe, the decision should be left to the family when to let her go or take her off life support? >> yes, i mean the families and doctors together, should be able to make decisions and come to a decision on how they want to be treated and the care they should want.

doctors shouldn't unilaterally make decisions, when we deal with these cases it never seems to be erring on the side of life. a loot of times it happens quickly -- a lot of times it happens quickly without any thought to the family. >> bobby schindler, thank you for being here. >> thank you for having me. the request of gay rights advocates to the u.s. supreme court, this comes after the state asked the nation's highest court to suspend same sex marriage. it was back on december twirlt when the u.s. district court ruled the voter approved ban was unconstitutional. since then same sex couples have been married in utah. now, the question is, should

same sex couples be allowed to marry. now, to washington. it's happening tonight and thousands of jocks and billions of dollars in airline contract could be at stake. allen shaw schauffler is live fm union headquarters. >> we have been seeing people come in to vote for the past couple of hours. you remember about six weeks ago a contract vote was 2 to 1 to reject that offer. what i'm hearing today from people is that there's a lot more uncertainty, a lot more anticipation. very few people willing to make bold predictions on how this one's going to come out. many people saying thy they think it's going to be very much closer and again very few saying it's going to be one way or the other. it's interesting. we talked to a multigenerational worker, a worker whose father

had worked for boeing, among many, and he felt difficult to vote anything other than a hard union line even if it makes some very big changes. >> i feel like if boeing wants to leave, that they're probably better to just go. all of us are working people and we'll find another job, to be completely honest. i worked before i went to boeing and i'll work after i leave. >> and exactly how much work will stay in this area is a big question. 20 other states have made birds to help boeing -- bids to help boeing builder the 777x, the huge composite plastic wing that that will use and also work with future airplanes attached to those plastic deposits. the most-- composites. the most importantly thing people are taking issue with is the petroleum by boeing to

convert a traditional pension into a 401(k) plan. that would happen several years from now in this contract proposal which would last through 2024. a very long time. a lot of the boeing workers we've talked to say they don't believe the company is going to move this out of state. they have a stable workforce, a trained workforce and the company they believe is not going to take the chance to move this somewhere else. boeing is saying this is a take it or leave it offer. they have lots of interests in lots of other places, john. >> then if the union rejects it where might the circulate company build the plane? >> anywhere of 20 different states. it could be in south carolina where the sphaif 787 is build. many hoart states. if the state of washington and machinist union doesn't want it

there, we'd love a part of it. >> allen schauffler, thank you. next up. say cheese. how the dairy product is helping to pull ice off roads. and women marines in boot camp, how some are struggling to pass the fistness test.

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ray suarez hosts inside story weekdays at 5 eastern only on al jazeera america >> pullups are a relatively simple exercise but that does not mean they are easy. in fact, they could keep some women off the battle field. less than half the marines in one south carolina boot camp could do three pullups. that's minimum standard that was supposed to take effect this year. write promentded the middle eastern to delay the requirement. lee ann pollard, welcome, it's

good to have you often the program. >> thank you john, i appreciate it. >> are you surprised to hear this about women in the marines? >> i'm not surprised to hear it john at all. >> why not? >> well i can tell you for the longest sometime, female marines have been doing what we call a flexed arm hang. a completely different area of our body it is a training we are not familiar with. not to say that we can't become familiar with it but it's just not something that we've done training. >> so women are not familiar with. men are trained to do it, women are not? >> yes. let me clarify that. i'm sure some females are terribly familiar with it. i'm sure there are some females that can knock out 20 pullups just like a man. but the way we go about this training has really been lacking and it's kind of piecemeal in my opinion but it doesn't mean it can't be rectified for the

future. >> do we have to start back when kids are in school? >> we have to start back when kids are in school. i'm glad you brought that up. as a child growing up, i don't ever remember doing things that concentrated on my upper body strength. i took taiquan do, something that concentrated on my lower body strength. i need to improve to meet the standard of membership. >> so it's -- men. >> so it's difficult of women to do three pullups in a row. is there anything else in that tefs that's that tough? >> no, there is not. the physical fitness testing is a flexed arm test for women and pull up arm for men. i had been in the marine corps long enough where women were

running a mile and a half and men were running three miles. we had a separate standard for time. >> was it tough for you to do a pullup? >> i honestly have never been able to do a pullup. and many times during my career resolved my strength training to be able to do a pullup but i never could. >> you think that women who dot pass this test should be kept out of combat? >> i don't think that the question is specific -- i don't think you can answer that question, sir, i apologize but -- >> you know, that's okay, it is a tough question i assume because there are probably plenty of fit women who may not be able to do a pullup but the real question is whether or not they should serve in combat. >> i can tell you that the marine corps does do a combat fitness test, it's meant to simulate what you would have in

combat. lifting an ammo can above your head multiple times repetitive. that's a test of what you might be doing deployed in combat. not strict pullups. there is a middle ground here. i applaud the marine corps to push the data and come back with a revised test. >> you are really talking about a transition when it comes to female fitness. >> i do agree with that sir. >> a lot of things are going to have to change, not just focused on the marines. >> that's true, across the board. >> lee ann it's great to have you on the program, we should talk again because obviously it is going to be an issue in the future. >> it is sir, and i look forward to it. >> for one man in california his late night epiphany won him

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>> welcome back to al jazeera america. i'm john siegenthaler. here's the top stories. hours after the first of 2014, frigid cold. arctic cold snap is taking place in the west. kevin corriveau has more. kevin. >> doesn't look good indeed. that is the old system passing off the east coast. now we're going to be focusing here across the northern plains. a little bit closer in and you can see what we're dealing with right now. the snow is beginning to ice as well as some rain showers in

south dakota but the warnings are in full effect right now: blizzard warnings for all of north dakota, parts of south dakota as well. when we're talking about blizzard warnings, visibility that is less than half omile because of winds over -- a mile because of winds over 35 miles per hour. down in the south, winter storm watches, that is in effect from parts of detroit, part of missouri as well. if you are traveling is some of these areas, the major airports we're going to be watching this, your delays could be cancelled or could be delayed in that area. fargo is about 21°, we're looking at minneapolis at 20. overnight, we're going to be seeing these wind chills go down significantly, let's put this into motion and as you can see, especially fargo, minus 38, minus 41 and then we end up at minus 40 and minus 56 on sunday

morning. so very dangerous situations, you do not want to be left outside or you don't want to go outside and leave your pets outside. down towards the south quite cool, chicago is minus 8 for them now. i want to show you what minneapolis is expecting, this reflects all of the major airports for the riej. can you see snow -- region. temperature is dropping, stay like that monday, stay like that on tuesday. not until we get towards wednesday do things finally start to come up and this actually also affects parts of chicago as well. is if you are digging out of this winter storm you are probably betting a lot of ice, most people use salt to de-stick roadways are but there aring some alternatives that will help you with ice.

raylene johnson supports. >> chemical dedeicers, sand and salt, there's the same salt on your dinner table. it's the reason it is used, it works. the more the salt you add, the freezing goes down. but it is corrosive. in wisconsin where else, they're turning to cheese. >> wisconsin produces more than 2 billion pounds of cheese a year, it is a lot of cheese. one of the byproducts of that is brine. salt and water. >> from salty to sweet, places like waconda illinois has been turning to molasses. >> they are taking the molasses

juice and mixing it with salt. the combination of salt and molasses sticks to the road and helps melt the ice. >> not only can salt be costly, it is tough on the environment. it washes off of roadways into water systems. pick your poison. the alternative could be sticky molasses footprints or snow that smells like cheez. raylynn johnson. >> b.c. onieri looks atd why more power plants aren't below ground. >> are thunderstorms and tornadoes no matter the season, severe weather reeks havoc on power lines and patients. matt has dealt with his fair

share of power outages. >> i did have a couple of -- maybe two years ago we were dark for a day or two. >> every year hundreds of thousands are affected by power outages. according to a study by edison electrical snunts, 60% of america's power plants are above ground and 30% are below. begs the question, why aren't all underground. judy pownoy has heard this more than once. >> you have to way the costs and the benefits. >> the agency found it would cost $1 million per mile to bury power lines, the average homeowner would have to pay thousands of dollars more per year. >> occasionally we hear from a city regarding this issue. but when they realize that residential folks in their city are going to have the bear the

costs of it, they usually lose interest fairly quickly because people just can't afford it. >> powelnow says the frequency of power outages would decrease, it would cost three to four times to replace them. that's not all. >> overhead systems last much longer sow that all adds to the cost. >> when it comes to cost over saving in most cases saving wins at least until when the next storm moves in. bisi onile-ere. al jazeera. >> shelling out hundreds even thousands of dollars to sit in freezing cold temperatures even for a couple of hours, is a

tough one to warm up to. calling all shovelers. even more familiar sight in lambeau field, crews helped shovel away all the ice and snow in preparation of sunday's wild card game against 49ers. temperatures expected to be subzero by game time and not necessarily temps their west coast opponent is used to. >> it's going to be cold for everybody. i don't care what anybody says whether they lived there or not. i'm sure they're going to be cold just like us. but as a defender, a good thing we don't have to catch the ball, every play okay. pretty much going after it in tack lick. >> i think the only trick is you prepare yourself mentally. you tell yourself that it's going to be freezing but you can't run now. they pay you to go out there hot, cold, and you got to go out there do your job at a high

level. >> you forget tackling and catching balls. it hurts to breathe in temps like this. it is actually dangerous too. we're going to turn to dr. corey haber. your saints aring with one of the teams that is going to braving the brutal temps in philly. what is the most prisky behavior they are going to face? >> obviously, saints fans are having the worst. cold makes things contract, okay? make sure we cover our heads because literally the heat escapes from our heads and we need to wear hats. because you'll lose 70% of your heat through your head. it's unbelievable. through your scalp. so you need to be sure you wear sunscreen. just because it's cold outside, doesn't mean the sun won't get

you. you know when you've been skiing that can be a bad sunburn. you got to make sure the sun beaming off that snow, can get you. you got to stay hydrated. you are out there you are drinking alcohol, you shouldn't be doing that when it's very cold, it becomes a big problem when you become dehydrated. you start acting weird, loopy, and make bad decisions like wanting to fight the other team and that happens all the time. >> there's a wind advisory from 7 p.m. saturday to 7:00 p.m. sunday. hypothermia frostbite, how long does that take? what can you tell us? >> it doesn't take that long. below freezing a couple of hours can do it. you can get hypothermia but the frost bite and things called

chillblains. you heat your body really quickly after getting really cold, those blood vessels expand and it takes weeks for that to go away. let's think about putting a rubber band in a freezer, okay? rubber band is very appliable. when you put it in the freezer, it gets really stiff. think about the joint you have to deal with after there freezinfreezing if level. you can have problems with joint problems. you can also have az pla if the cold air is coming in so quickly -- asthma if the cold air is coming in so quick you get supercooled. your blood vessels to your heart get constricted and there's increased risk of cardiac

arrest. that's for the players on the field hopefully not the observers in the stands. >> does not sound good. >> i'm going to sit home. >> great idea jessica. thank you very much. well, the federal government is appealing a ruling against the national security agency's phone data gathering. are government lawyers now asking an appeals court to overturn that ruling. at the same time, the nsa has been given the go-ahead to continue the program while the courts settle the issue. israel cared out a -- carried out a missile test over the water today. nick shifd ri shifrin has more. >> missiles, short term missiles

fired by militant in gaza and long range by government. new missile defense system that it tested today. it's called the aereo 3. the way it works is that it flies high, it flies fast and it tries to intercept those missiles way up in the atmosphere. the idea is if you intercept those missiles in the are atmosphere, the agents can't get down to earth and actually harm any of its intended targets. the aero 3 is partially u.s. funded and benjamin netanyahu thanked the u.s. for funding aero3. >> they are bad people iran that

has a proxy that is fired against us. >> u.s. officials are now saying that hezbollah has used the cover of the syrian some t civil war to import into raburn. every corner of israel and also target israeli war planes. what hebsz ha hezbollah has beeg to do is help save syrian president bashar al-assad in his civil war. this is a major deterrence to go into israel, and israel has tried to target these missiles. it's actually shot missiles into iran. but no matter how good those israeli missile strikes have been in the past, hezbollah last been able to secretly import

these missiles into iran which can reach every portion of israel. nick shifrin, jerusalem. rebilities loyal to the former vice president of south sudan, rebels are making their way to the capital of yuba ah. brad and kim campbell, made it out of a u.n. refugee camp. brad mother spoke to al jazeera. >> they informed them the last plane had already left and they had missed it. that's why are they are stuck there. they found kenya airlines were still flying out of juba, they booked a flight on that plane. once they get to nier i can stop holding my breath and breathe

again. >> that's where they will gather supplies to send to the ten orphans in their care that they were forced to leave behind. al jazeera is demanding the release of three of our colleagues being held in egypt. mohamed f fahmy and peter grest. >> plus brad pitt might need to make it right again for the residents of new orleans lower 9th ward. >> three years after the nucular disaster, the hidden truth about

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driving themselves. jake, is it time to take this seriously? >> really john when you think about it, we are already in many ways driving self-driving cars if i can put it that way. everything from lane-keeping technology, to self-parking technology. these are the things that make cars safe today. so it really is the case that this study from ihs automotive is the first time anyone has tried to put a real set of dates and prices and numbers on the future of what could really be a fullyself-driving car. >> why if i like driving, why pay thousands of dollars to give up that freedom? >> i can certainly understand that position. but when you look at it the experience of life is going to be vastly improved when human beings don't have to drive themselves. it's going to allow us to do all the silly stuff, sleep, text, hang out in our cars. it is going to be like experts

i've talked about, be the end of traffic. there's no such thing as traffic when cars are networked together properly. a car driven better will use less fuel. there is a who study that cites 90% of accidents involve human error. it really has a tremendous number of advantages. >> we all know that cars sometimes break down. so what hurdles did the automotive industry have to clear to get these cars on the road? >> well, this report cites questions of cost and timing. but the real problem here is liability. as soon as an industry decides to advertise their cars as self-driving they're going to get into really serious not legal trouble but legal waters. one major auto maker has told me has seen proposals from google

for partnering with the auto maker, the lawyers said no, the advertising of a driverless car was just too scary. >> a setback for hurricane katrina 75ers. actor brad pitt's make it right foundation has built some houses that are falling apart. >> converse says his ninth ward home is rotting. >> we started noticing the mold growing and turning black. >> the make it right foundation said some of the highly efficient new homes were built with wood infused with glass.

>> the only downsize from that is because everything is new and hasn't been through trial and error. >> this new wood is made without chemicals so it's better for the environment. but the problem is, it can't withstand water, that's a big problem in a place like new orleans. some environmental specialties say the wood may not be a perfect product but the effort is admiral. >> everybody is looking for new products, things that don't biodegrade like glass. >> one thing that we learned after katrina was that just using standard wood in houses that's not treated in any way and not protected, sort of, you know, makes it are business. if nobody is out there pushing the limits trying to use more sustainable products then we're not going to change at all. >> reports say the foundation is considering legal action and

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>> time now for friday art. our weekly segment. and before air travel, and the internet, the photographs in the national geographic gave readers

a window on the world. well, more than a century after the society's founding we talked to the photo editor who helped sort through the images, to create the book, "national geographic, around the world in 125 years." >> i think almost immediately, national geographic was keen to take its readers all around the world, to all the far flung countries of the world, the seven continents, they were very fearless and very determined to discover the world. the photograph of the photographer in the canoe was taken towards o end of the 19th century, the photographer was a man named george shiraz, he was a pioneering wildlife photographer. the games a person would go to to try to get a picture.

it's important the see the magazine i the context of pre-internet, pre-last travel, pre-24 hour news. this is how the people learned about the world. the woman pressed up against the window was taken in the 19th century. what's evocative of that photograph is it eludes to the hardship and poverty that people in third world or developing countries experience. and i think after at a certain period in the national geographic's history, probably in the late '60s its mission i wouldn't say change, but it certainly evolved to a certain extent. are people had-- the world had already been explored at that point and people became less

concerned about exploring places, the issue became about conservation sand what is happening to our planet. with this book what we've tried to do is really celebrate the vision of the national geographic, of their photographers for the last 125 years. >> that's rue golden of the national geographic. every year, everyone looks for things are country's gigantic ice sculptures. >> putting the finishes touches to this year's winter collection. the increasing fame of this ice festivals, in the northeast city of harvin, means competition is fetting tougher. >> people have been using more sophisticated tools.

growing steadily since it began at the turn of the century, the last few years have seen the fissments boom in the last -- festivity boom in the last-- festival boom in the last 15, 20 years. >> they want to go to interesting places. >> the increase in visitor numbers becomes apparent, that's guys much, siferl servant sao yang and the for the first sometime. it's their only holiday this year, from their inflative province in northern china. but we are already going to plan for next year. >> we warrant to go to ticked. >> awf that we want to go abroad.

partial relamb, i thid in 2014 is looking pretty road 80 now. rob mcblied, al jazeera, harvin. >> let's check out this kit from china how quickly he can solve a rubic's cube. china official say the he solved it. >> an undocumented immigrant and now pliedgessed for law, i'll -- licensed for law. i'll talk to sergio garcia. here's one last look at the weather with concern corriveau. kevin. >> northeast is earn parts of the united states. i don't think what's happening out here southwest, northwest. snow in the higher elevations

across parts of montana as well. things are going to approve by dorm. things will remain nice no. we gets about tuesday where we expect to sides a is bringing in something clouds. we may seem scum showers nor surgeon rks temperatures will be coming unfor you, not many going much above the mid 70s there but there is really not a lot of rain in the forecast. texas, we are going osee dallas look like this, 62 on saturday, watch those temperatures drop as we go through sunday. a high of about 36°, and temperatures coming bank considering. >> and we'll be back with the top story right after this. bls f

>> welcome back to al jazeera. i'm john siegenthaler. here are the top stories. hours after storms pounded the east coast, people in massachusetts are battling flooding. now water is trapped behind the seawalls. national guard has been deployed to help. jahi mcmatt imath is going e transported to a new facility. decision was made today. specifics of how she will be moved still being determined. >> more than 30,000 machinists at boeing are voting on a contract. the outcome could have a big impact. boeing