>> you're watching al jazeera america live from new york. i'm jonathan betz with the headlines. iran will begin to freeze its nuclear program in over a week. in return it will start to get billions in funds that will be blocked. the first $550 million will be paid february 1st. secretary of state john kerry says he's confident that syria's main opposition group will come to geneva to attend talks. john kerry met with top documents in paris to pressure the rebels. israelis by the thousands pay last reports to ariel sharon in jerusalem. after a state memorial service he'll be buried in southern israel next to his late wife.

>> anti-government protesters in thailand blocked intersections in bangkok. the government, which is claimed to be corrupt, is being urged to step down. >> frustration grose for thousands in west virginia, spending their fourth day without running water. no word on when tap water will be returned to 300,000 people. dozens have gone to emergency rooms, four have been hospitalized. those are the headlines this sunday. "america tonight" weekend is next on al jazeera america.

>> even, i'm joie chen, you are watching "america tonight," the weekend edition. tonight we consider the haves, the have not and how it seems that the haves are getting it over on the have not. this week the justice department announced a settlement with a mortgage banking giant taylor b whitaker and home mortgage merc. they agreed to pay the government $320 million but did not admit no loan violation and kickbacks. the settlement is cold comfort. they are both belly up and bankrupt. in "america tonight" investigation correspondent shyla macvicary introduces us to a whistleblower who tried for years to get the government to act. lisp. >> if you are in the market for a real estate deal consider this stone and stucko house, four bedrooms, three baths on the market for $143,000.

actually, you already own it. all of us do. thanks to a big fraud allegedly perpetrated against the u.s. taxpayer to the tune of hundreds of millions. to understand how it worked look no further than this county. a community less than an hour north-east of atlanta. the federal department of housing and urban development, you and me owns 77 homes. there are neighbourhoods with pvc piping is all that is left. >> the opener, it would be the strangest thing. he'd ride down the center of the hallway. it was like a kickback, a party kind of atmosphere. >> the party has been over for some time. if the u.s. government is able

to recoup the money stolen from it, you can thank comfort fredle. the mother of three worked at processor. >> i have been in banking sips "96, the starched shirt, suit and tie. i thought it was fun. i thought the atmosphere was fun, laid back. >> it took her a while to understand that not only was the work environment different home america mort im did business worked. >> it seemed odd to me. >> what did you see in the loan applications that persuaded you that something was wrong. >> a 31-year-old basher making $31,000 a month, and a couple of

girls making up documentation at, like, a copier and making it and putting it in a file. >> the alleged fraud centered around fha loans. a program run by the department development. >> if the loan goes bad or forecloses hud guarantees to a certain% that balance. >> so the government is responsible for the loan. >> correct. >> when home america wrote the loans to people that couldn't afford them, they knew the government would end up paying for them. >> i would think yes, that's what happen when a home foreclose, you turn a claim in to the government, the government pays the claim. the house goes into the market. qualify. >> by law, its mortgage companies and lepders responsible for making sure

guidelines are met. the guideline says you need one, two and three. then you have to have them, you can't skim one and two and put in three. they are to protect the borrower and the government. >> why would home america do this, what is in it for them? >> there's a bit of money. if you take 200,000 at three points, that's 6,000 like that, neighbourhood. >> 18 months into her job in home america in 2006, friddl, decided she had seen enough and called lawyer julie bragger is. this is flat-out fraud much whatever it took to do that was done. >> bracker specialises in suits helping the government to get back some funds.

the whistle blowers receive a percentage. friddle was the first of many who sought her out. >> who benefitted. >> the people that ran home america. they lead lavish lifestyles. >> the ceo of the company was greg hicks who for a while lived the high life. cording to his own deposition, he owned multiple motorcycles, shared a plane and owned a nightclub. he owns a home behind the gates on the ground of chateau eland an upscale wine development. friddle and others say his excesses included the loan business. he always's, "i don't care about

the rules, you wont go home until this is done, do it." >> another came forward saying: >> some of the company used her federal password to close loans, loans that she refused to close. people put in her password. in her name. >> that she never touched. >> that's correct. >> the email chain shows the employees alarm that loans were approved in her name. >> i didn't underwrite this file. has anyone else complained about their name put in as the underwriter. this. >> would she have approved the loans if she had the documents? >> no. in fact, there are emails to that effect. approved. >> it's alleged in a separate civil lawsuit filed by friddle and another, that he used the

company as a personnel piggy bank, paying for a lifestyle from company account. if i can ask, why is greg hicks not in prison. and not before the courts. >> i can't speak to greg hicks for a number of reasons. lawsuit. greg hicks declined to talk to us. his lawyer said he is not under criminal investigation. >> in his response to the civil complaint. hicks stated that he never knowingly created a false statement. home america is long gone. 2009. >> it made you feel like you were working for a crook. it was like an illegal feeling. >> i felt after i worked there, i was embarrassed to tell anyone that i worked there. >> friddle and the other whistle belower came forward and told the government what was going on in 2006. >> years before the subprime

implosion of 2008. but it took the government years to act. and at home america, it was business as unusual. >> so basically they were allowed to do business for two years. look. >> no. >> and no oversight. >> the writing was all over the walls. i don't know why it was ignored and not brought up, but i believe that we all pay the price for that. people with nothing to do with this, pay the price for it. >> an"america tonight" sheila macvicar tells us the whistleblower is entitled to a share of the money. since the company is in bankruptcy, she'll be lucky to see pennies on the dollar. >> to ambitious and reality we encouraged kids to do better than their parents. the dream may be beyond reach. a group left beyond in the recession are the millennials, facing double the unemployment

rate of the overall u.s. workforce. the fear of slipping into poverty is real for many young middle class americans. tonight in our ongoing series, the other america, we meet a young woman whose dream of a college degree and professional career crashed into a mountain of debt. >> i wish i could go back and have someone tell me one little thing about how it works out. i would do thing differently, 100%. i'm christina georgie, 26, and we are in oakland california. i was going to university in virgin. i went there for a year. i was studying fashion design. looked like i was going to

finish fast. i was thinking maybe three years i'd graduate. i felt like i wanted to go somewhere where someone would notice me so i could get a job out of school. i told my mum two weeks before i left, "hey, i'm moving to san francisco to go to school." i went to classes and i remember the first class i went to they gave me a list of supplies this long and everything was 50 to 100, so i covered all my living expenses with loans. i was like, "i can pay for all this stuff and i'll get an awesome job and pay it back like that." i have five messages, you have loans past due. >> my mum took out the initial first loan. she was, like, "this is expensive, you have to take out the rest", that's when i was

uh-oh. when i got the loan i thought i'd finish school. two years later, it started as a $25 loan. that was in august of 2006. i was going to sign up for the next semester, and i called them and said what is happening, i've taken out a loan before. i can't pay the loans unless i get the degree, and he's like, "that's not my problem", that's the moment i fell apart. i'm broke and can't pay the bill. the grand total $65,530. it went up overnight. now i don't have anything to show for my schooling except for a $65,000 bill. no degree. >> this is every month. i spend all of my money on the wells i need to pay and i'm like

at the grocery store with three credit cards on the phone saying, "how much is left in this?" nothing. how much is in this? nothing. $5, i can get one thing. >> i have $9 available in my checking account. but i have negative $12 in my savings for the fees that you pay. i don't save that much of my stuff from school. i have these pins. i saved the pins for my textile design class. >> i love putting the print down on the fabric, that hands on feeling. i wanted to do the fashion thing. mum was the only one behind it. aunts, uncles were like i don't know about that. but at the same time i wanted the education where i really know what i'm doing to get into the industry. >> for a long time i took the

ovt rich approach and put my head under the sand. how am i supposed to pay the loans back. i thought about writing the president a letter, "help me, i want to be a good citizen, i'm trying." it took me about two years to land a retail job. i feel like i went on 15 or 20 interviews throughout those two years, probably more. i submitted, like, 300 resumes. i started looking for retail job so at least i could - i thought maybe i can climb the ladder, maybe i can go this back way instead of doing it the school route. and that's when i go the job at nordstrum. i have been working in shoes for about two years. the company is huge on we take everything back. what really happens is they take it back from the employees so even if you wore it to a party and we sold it to you for an hour, we don't get

the commission, otherwise you get $12.50. if i didn't get the work check, i would have to sell most everything that i have. this is where i work. i'm about to go in and sell shoes, hopefully. i don't blame my mum at all. she was a single parent. she worked, like, three jobs, and had no idea. recently, actually i was talking to my dad about this on the phone, and i was like, "why didn't they tell anything?" his response was "god, yes, me too." hello, you are the one to tell me. no one said anything, nothing about one little thing about how it would have turned out. i had a good day. i sold a lot of shoes and had a lot of returns. i only get commission on $2,282. >> i just want to graduate.

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coming up this week on techknow. techknow's shini somara goes straight into the storm. winds of 150 miles per hour. but this twister is created in the lab. >> i'm at the national wind institute where they can actually recreate a tornado. >> now science and technology take on mother nature. >> who wins? >> it's completely fine. >> techknow. sunday 7:30 eastern on al jazeera america. . >> after haiti was struck by an earthquake sympathetic nations offered billions in support. it is home to a makeshift refugee camp and many struggles left for its future. one when the sun sets in tent city, a fear spreads for women refugees with a gentle knock on the doors offers what could be a stronger sense of security. "america tonight"'s

correspondent spent a day in the night with haiti's fearless women. >> this is delna. she is determined to protect these women. >> delna is an inspiration for a group called the fearless women. there's a hatian expression many hands lighten the load. in this tent city outside of porta prince these women are using the hand to knock on doors to bring the end to sexual abuse and violence in their communities.

>> what do you ask? >> it's so dark. so you'll walk through here and knock on every door. and arriving the same question to every home. clr >> so it's 11 o'clock at night in this camp, which has more

than 200 of these small shacks. as you can see, beside our light there's no light whatsoever, which means that it could be dangerous, especially dangerous because women are unprotected in the camps. >> a survey conducted after the quake showed that residents after tent cities like this were 20 times as likely to report sexual assaults as other hatian women.

>> there is danger here too. the fearless women. >> last year you had flashlights and you had whistles and you had solar panels, and this year, what happened to those things.

>> what do you do when you get a knock on the door and the person says, "yes, i'm a victim." what do you do?

>> special correspondent there for us from tent city. join us how to reflect on haiti adds recover ci is jonathan truck, author of "the big truck that went by how the world saved haiti and left behind a disaster", that tells the story. i know you have come back from

haiti, were there signs of progress, anything that you can advance. >> depends on how you want to measure progress. the easiest thing it to foengs on the fundamental conditions and promise of the response after the earthquake. that was in bill clinton and other words, to build back better. that has not happened. things have changed, it's been four years, people re-built the homes but that's an example. people who are leaving the camps and going back to homes like before are building them out of shoddy materials, they are the same lack of government oversight on how the instruction is undertaken, and ultimately the country and the capital city port au prince is as vulnerable today as years ago. >> one of the things we reported on is the colora epidemic that plagued haiti, and i wonder if you see signs that that is

tapped down in any way. >> the infection rates are too high. there's about 1,000 new cases a week. there are new cases appearing than at the beginning of the epidemic. some aid groups point to the good things they have done, providing medical care for those that are sick. this is the normal progression, you see a huge number of cases at the beginning and over time. the number of people infected will go done. because promised investments have not been made in water and sanitation, the hard important boring but essential work needed to make sure the epidemic doesn't surge, killing people with the horrible numbers in 2010 and 2011 - it is vulnerable.

because the evidence shows the united nations soldiers who came to haiti in october 2010, brought the disease and introduced it, the irony is that the people making the promise and not coming through are responsible for the epidemic in the first place. it's tough. >> you, yourself, invested so much personal time in the country, can you have an assistance of optimism about haiti's future. will you be back there again. i've said a lot and a lot of forehands in haiti. i'm -- friends in haiti. whether there's optimism, as long as people are alive and still going and doing everything they can to make the lives better, there's hope that things will progress in the way they have envisioned in the past. basically we know what to do. it's a matter of getting it done.

we know the earthquake mitigation techniques that have been done in los angeles, tokyo and other places. the optimism would be if someone better. >> it needs internal and external focus on the problem. thank you for being with us, jonathan catz. >> after the break three years after fukushima, can the people forced out of this community

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>> welcome back. it's been almost three years since explosions at the fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant spread a blanket of rai radiation over the japanese country side. can the government convince people to return home - will it

have any hope of subseeding. masami yoshizawa is a life-long rancher and his cattle are his life. he was buying supplies at a hardware store when the magnitude 9 earthquake hit. >> translation: there was a huge shaking. i rushed out into the parking lot of the store and heard reports of a 3 metre high tsunami. i was worried about my cattle, so i rushed back here. >> that's where he heard about the trouble at the nuclear power plant miles from his home. he lived close enough to fukushima daiichi to see it through binoculars. >> translation: i saw five or six helicopters in the air taking terms circulating over fukushima daiichi, and i heard an explosion, a noise sounding like it came from a battlefield. >> that sound was a hydrogen explosion caused by a meltdown

at fukushima daiichi's reactor one. everyone within 20km, some 12 miles of the plant, was ordered to evacuate. >> i could see the town-wide evacuation beginning on the 12th. i had 330 cows to care for. evacuate. >> as deeply tied as he was to the cattle, to this soil, it was a decision he came to fear would cost him his life. >> on 15 march there were explosions at reactor 2 and 4. that's when i started to think, "this is it, i'm done for." >> the multiple explosions blanked masami yoshizawa's farm. after seeing other farms abandoned he couldn't bring himself to leave. >> i heard animals crying out. this is what it looked like.

>> wherever i looked were scenes from a living hell. i couldn't do the same thing to my own cattle. >> masami yoshizawa has tested positive for internal exposure to the radioactive elements but is undergoing monitoring at a radiation research hospital and the levels have dropped. >> of course i was worried. being exposed to radiation is not a good thing. i'm not going to get historical or have a break down from it. fear of radiation is strong. masami yoshizawa is the exception. most people heeded the government's evacuation order and fled in waves. leaving ghost towns in their wake. we ventured into towns inside and around the exclusion zone

which remain empty today. eerily silent and frozen in time at the moment residents fled the quaking earth and incoming sea. many expected to return once the tuft settled and the water re-seeded. instead lopping-time residents stayed away, afraid of what many call the invisiblen my that haunts hundreds of square miles. >> the meteor is showing 3.2 microseekers of ratiatidiation. that's the highest we have seen. >> tens of thousands that fled the town have yet to return hope. the nuclear refugees are scattered throughout japan, living in temporary facilities like these. i talked with a resident from fukushima who barely escaped the tsunami. what was it that told you it was

time to get out of your house? >> translation: about 30 minutes after the earthquake i went to look at the river. i saw the tide rushing out to sea in advance of the tsunami. so we got out of the house. >> the tsunami destroyed the house. he has been living here and caring for his mother ever sips. >> i live in that room over there. it's pretty cramps. i want to go home, but can't because of fears of radiation from the nuclear accident. >> the may junior sakuarai is trying to convince others to come home. what was the worst point >> translation: before the

disaster 71,000 lived here. 1,000 tide in the tsunami. when the population dropped to 10,000 there was not a sole on the streets. that's when i wondered what would become of us. >> sakuarai never once considered leaving. >> translation: no good comes from agonising over the past. i focused on how to move the city forward into the future. >> the mayor devoted himself to making sure the city had a future, but it was a hard sell, radiation was high in many parts of minamisoma. >> we are letting evacuees know we are doing decontamination, anxietyies. >> sakurai's quest to rebuild his town has been helped by a

massive government-led effort to decontaminate the area. can you explain what is going on, what are the men doing? >> imagine radiation as snow that you cannot see. we remove all the fallen snow along with the dust, dirt and grime that sticks to it. >> to reduce the radiation all the topsoil must be scraped away and replaced. contaminated shrubs pruned, trees shut and moved. >> contaminated soil is dumped at hundreds of sites like this. to give you a sense of the scale of the operation. the bags here were taken from only 400 homes, but the city has plans to decontaminate 20,000 in all. keep in mind that this city occupies one small corner in a connecticut.

>> in spite of the multibillion decontaminatio decontaminationest, a third of the population is yet to return. many are skeptical that the government's plan will work. even masami yoshizawa, one of the stay. >> what do you make of the decontamination efforts? >> how do you change the area live. >> towns turned into chern oble. do. >> they won't return. >> this woman was living with her husband and children when the government ordered explosions. >> how worried were you.

>> enough to make me crazy. i used my sell phone to search the internet for news. i kept searching. fukushima, radiation, i kept searching. it nearly drove me crazy. >> after they were allowed outside she worried about the children. >> did your husband tell you it was safe to be in the city? >> he didn't tell me it was safe. i think he believed i overreacting. >> didn't you hear the government reports that said the city was safe to live in? >> i heard. i heard, but i didn't believe it. my youngest son had blood in his urine and stool. he had a cough. when i took him to the doctor,

he told me there was no link to radiation. all the doctors there said that. >> she constantly bathed her children and washed their clothes and took trips outside of fukushima whenever possible. >> translation: the problem with radiation is it's too out of the ordinary. it doesn't seem real. but it would have been horrible if anything happened to my children. when her husband ignored her fears and refused to leave for fukushima, the strap was unbearable, she filed for divorce. it's a marital discord so comment that the japanese have a name for it, nuclear divorce. >> translation: i felt if i stayed with him i wouldn't be able to keep my children from harm.

that's how i got here. >> here is a city far from fukushima, far from the worries of radiation. >> was it worth splitting the family? . ranslation: i don't know if it was the right choice, i don't know. but the best thing about being here is seeing my children outside playing. to not worry and see them like this makes me happy. >> do you believe that fukushima will be a safe place to live? >> not in my lifetime. not the same fukushima that existed before, where you could eat the food without worry. where you could drink the water interest the river. that would be wonderful. some day. >> when we return, we'll consider the broken families. "america tonight"'s michael okwu joins us to discuss the discord after the disaster. there's more to it, next.

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when you talk to experts and business people, psychologists from prefecture to prefecture they say it's happening on a mass scale, to hundreds of families. there are all kinds of people doing this. that's a young woman who took her two kids. we met an older woman, a traditional woman who wanted to leave town. she said, essentially, the levels are too high, she does not believe it's safe. her husband believes it is safe. this has long been their home. >> what do they do? >> she says, "i'm going stay in up to because my husband wants to stay here." despite she has children and grandchildren, she says, "i'm not going have the kids visit, it's unsafe for them." instead of seeing her children she stays with the husband. when you consider the families, a woman that stayed with her husband

and the woman who split up the family and took the kids >> i have family in japan, my brother and his family live in tokyo. the thing that struck me after the initial explosion and when we heard about the nuclear fallout is the level of trust my brother's family had in the government to tell them the truth, and the company, that no one is in danger. do you see it through fukushima and other areas. do you think there's a faith in the government, in the authority >>. >> it's a great question. yes, there is that faith. at the same time you can see it's dividing families, neighbourhoods, friends. some people really have firm belief in the government and all that they say. others are beginning to mistrust everything they say. there's a sense of propriety in japan.

there's a sense within your own context, if you are not performing fully to your duty, whether it is in your home or memory or at work, then you have failed completely. that is at large. when you look at the government, the fact as i have mentioned they are trying to decontaminate an area the size of connecticut. there are people in the country that say we should do the chern onle option much these areas a e cop tam nated -- contaminated, war our hands and leave. the government is not doing it. some say it's pride, others denial. individual families are battling with the sense of propriety much when there's a crisis like this is doesn't work, and they split. >> want the emotional cost, psychological cost. when you see the people there's

an invisible threat around them, they must life with the anxiety of this all the time. you talk to counselling professionals. these are reports. i did not get it. there are reports that those who work as professionals in counselling, in the three years since 3/11 - this is their 9/11 - there has been a rise in suicides. there has been a rise in domestic violence, alcoholism. it is clearly an issue that has troubled individuals and families. we think about in middle class america, whether or not to send kids to public for private school. is there enough money in the bank to take a holiday. they are talking about issues like whether to leave their homes or not. what is the danger of radiation. is it safe enough to get pregnant this year.

these are fundamental questions that any family has the right to ask. there are such splits within families that the families cannot survive. a point i wanted to make is for the first time fukushima's children topped the list, topped the charts for obesity in the county. why. the experts will tell you it's because of the comfort eating that has been going on since 3/11 and they have spent an amount of time at home avoiding radiation. >> maybe the family is giving them the sweets and junk food. what does it do for a family. >> fundamental issues. >> a great report. >> looking ahead here on

"america tonight," a trashed pacific. >> i think a misconception is that anything with japanese writing is from the tsunami. we have been finding numerous items, things from japan, united states as well. travels. >> absolutely. television, tyres, amazing. >> all that plastic in paradise 100 million dons. >> adam may travels to hawaii to learn more about the daily clean-up efforts. >> ahead in the final thoughts - it takes two. ♪ gimme a horse ♪

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these brothers are part of the american treasure series, americans dedicated to preserving our conditions despite changing times. their story begins in seattle washington. ♪ music ] ♪ went for a stroll >> we discovered at an early age that we are easily amused. that propelled us into finding things we like to do. ♪ bumblebee buzzing around the tree may appear to be your friend ♪ ♪ listen to the song >> if you put it in the category, it would be called old time music ♪ let the bumblebee bee ♪ a bumblebee will buzz, buzz, buzz ♪ ♪ that ain't all he does, does, does ♪

♪ i ain't the fool ♪ >> the louder the musing, a lot of music we love was recorded in the "30s. it's the novelify -- novelty that we love. >> yes, the novelty [ singing ] >> so old-time music and fun songs and, you know, nothing heavy, just nice. and that's what we're all about. [ laughs ] >> we are looking at brothers, we are twins i'm greg. >> i'm jerry. >> and i was born first. later.

>> and he'll never let me forget it. >> yes. ♪ i've been to the north and . >> in the early history of country music there has been siblings, duets. >> if you are siblings, you have the same voice, especially if you are twins. >> genetically matched >> exactly. that's what we say all the time ♪ by and by before i die ♪ going to marry me a girl with bright blue eyes ♪ >> we learnt from an early age that music was a fun thing to do. the thing about sold-time music is it's accessible. you can have a huge group of people playing and all have fun together it's a communal thing. >> it's totally

in the moment also. >> and, in fact, you don't need to know the tune. you can learn it on the fly. person. >> that's why a lot of people become musicians, because they don't have to talk at parties. it's extremely comfortable. you can sit for hours and be socialising. but you don't have to talk. >> just like a community of people around the state and the world that play the music and love it. >> we love playing for people. that's the most fun. >> it's so great when i play and it looks like people are enjoying it, and it comes back to you. you get more energy. >>

it's the feedback. >> so far we made $1. >> but we are playing for each other. and we crack each other up. ♪ gimme a horse, ♪ ♪ a great big horse msh and a big buckeroo ♪ ♪ let me wahoo-wahoo ♪ ♪ i never could sing ♪ but i could wahoo >> here is your chance, greg. [ singing ] >> catch your breath. on the stage we are having fun:

that's what we do. that's our message. we teach by example. we model. >> exactly. ♪ she hollered wahoo-wahoo ♪ ♪ wa-hoo. >> yes, the brothers of note. that's it for us here on poot. please remember that if you would like to comment on the stories you have seen, log on to the website aljazeera.com/"america tonight," you'll meet the team, tell us what you'd like to see on our nightly current affairs program. join the conversation on twitter or facebook. goodnight. we'll have more of "america tonight" tomorrow.

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