judge. >> good evening everyone. welcome to al jazeera america. i'm john siegenthaler in new york. verdict. schizophrenics homeless man, those accused of killing him learn their fate. shadow of the mountain. >> is it safe, the chemical leak in west virginia. the worry goes on. plus tickets arrive, the latest rocket test emergent supersonic plans, the reality for commercial space travel.

>> and we begin tonight with a verdict in a case that's drawn national attention. two california police officers accused of killing a mentally ill homeless man in 2011. the incident caught on tame. today the jury in orange county found the officers not guilty. brian rooney in burbank california with more. brian. >> john, the man's name was kelly thomas, 37 years old, schizophrenic man well-known to the fullerton police. he got in a confrontation and ended up dying five days later. today in court his family was absolutely shocked by the verdict. they were hugging each other there was videotape, and we'll get to that later. the family really thought they had a case here and the police

would be convicted. kelly thomas's mother talked to reporters afterwards. >> they got away with murdering my son. it's just not fair. so i guess -- i guess it's legal to go out and kill now. >> there were 34 minutes of surveillance video of this incident. and the case came down to an argument of what each side saw in that video. the police doing their job properly. subduing the man, who was apparently uncontrollable that night. or as the defense, as the prosecution said, that they were beating him up. and using expensiv excessive fo. both of them were acquitted of involuntary manslaughter, john. >> i understand there's a third man who will be prosecuted, what do you know about that? >> they were going to try a third officer involved in the incident but the prosecutor said after the verdict today he

didn't think it would be worthwhile given the results of this case to pursue that one and he's going to drop the charges. >> brian rooney in burbank thank you. live we'll speak with the father of kelly thomas the man who died after that confrontation with police. now after indonesia, after 400 years of silence a volcano is stirring to life in a terrifying way. farmers of devastated the falling ash is devastating their crops. the latest on mount sinavu from step vasson. >> it is erupting more and more frequently, we were much closer to the mountain and we were right in front of a huge eruption it was pretty scary i have to say and this is something the people here have been facing for the last couple

of months, for four months already this volcano has erupted and erupted more and more frequently. luckily so far nobody has died during the eruption, they are facing this imminent danger of this volcano every hour, the only protection is this mask to protection them from the ash. i can tell you, it is everywhere, skin hair all over killing all the crops they have. >> that's step vasson reporting. some of the hundreds of thousands of people urged not to drink the water can turn the tap on again. officials say the supply is now safe five days after a massive chemical leak left the water undrinkable, even untouchable. jonathan martin has the story. >> it's still a couple of days before all the residents are allowed to use their tap water. many surgeries have been put on

hold and they've been using water tankers for their supplies. for now for many people things are slowly getting back to normal. >> russ fuller is now relieved he has the okay he can use his tap water again. >> we bagged our faucets. that's the easy way for us to keep from messing them. >> just recently the officials lifted the do not use order that was given out thursday. >> i can use the water and do dishes. >> west virginia's governor says extensive testing shows levels of the chemical mchm are now below one part per million and meets federal standards. >> the numbers we have today look good and we are finally at a point where the do not use order has been lifted in certain areas. >> to keep the water system from being overwhelmed the restrictions are being lifted in phases. residents are being used to

flush out their plumbing system by running their faucets for 20 minutes. >> walk around here three four days without a shower you start smelling yourself. >> jack harrison says even though the officials say it's safe he'll wait a few days before drinking it. >> you never know. you want to stay here as long as you can and i don't want to take that chance right now. >> this is pretty hard to recover from. >> the water crisis forced keely to shut down her restaurant. she is now back to business. >> people are happy to have someone else make them food and drink a cold coca-cola. >> what impact this water crisis has had. meantime a federal investigation continues, officials are talking to this company, freedom

industries exactly when this happened and when they notified the proper authorities. >> jonathan martin reporting. new troubles for chris christie. the new jersey governor is dealing with another political crisis today less than a week from the so-called bridge gate scandal. officials are look at his ties to sandy relief funds. officials are seeing whether the governor improperly used government money on a sandy relief ad. the audit can take several months. in washington president obama responding to criticism from his former defense secretary robert gates. in a new memoir, gates questions the president's confidence in his own strategy in afghanistan. >> secretary gates did an outstanding job for me as secretary of defense. as he notes, he and i and the

team came up with a strategy that was the right strategy and we are continuing to execute and i think that what's important is that we got the policy right. >> gates served at defense secretary under presidents obama and george w. bush. tonight federal investigators are looking into why a southwest airlines jet landed at a wrong airport in missouri. the boeing 747 took off this afternoon with little runway to spare. lisa stark explains how it got there in the first place. >> federal aviation safety investigators are trying to figure out how two experienced pilots could have made that mistake. the captain on the southwest jet we're told had more than 15 years of experience with the airline. now they landed at the wrong airport about six miles away from branson, missouri airport the one they were supposed to go to. they landed at a small county airport the boeing kevin 47 coming in -- boeing 747 coming

in on an airway just half the length they were supposed to land on in branson. this had come from midway airport in chicago at a crew of 5. 6::30 p.m, dark, central time, the weather was good and there were air traffic controllers at branson, the pilots were in touch of them. it's unclear how they could have made the mistake, they could have come in for a visual landing and looked at the wrong airport and perhaps did not punch the right coordinates into the onboard computers. few feet short of this shorter runway, at the end of that runway was a steep embankment and then a highway. luckily the plane did stop in time, no passengers were injured although certainly they were quite inconveniented had to stay on the plane for about an hour and a half until they could be

bussed to the branson airport. the national transportation safety board has pulled the black boxes and trying to figure out how this mistake was made. the pilots are grounded until they can figure that out. >> lisa, thank you. the detroit auto show, unleashing new concepts to the world. total $360 million, good for a troubled city recovering from bankruptcy. jfali velshi spoke to allen molalley. >> ecoboost engines with turbocharging and all the improvement we are making in fuel mileage lower co2, all the

features that the truck owners really do feature. so it was a great day for ford and the truck. >> outside of ford 2013 was a real banner year in the u.s. auto industry. more than 15 million cars sold. was that better than -- i mean obviously you had forecast all along but what does that say to you about our economy here? >> i think it has a lot of very positive things to say. it was about where we thought it would be, less than 16, and we also think that based on the strength of economic recovery, expansion of gdp of around 2% for this year and an industry of between 16 and 17 million units in the united states. >> what did you do last week at ces, one of your guys said they were collecting information on drivers, cars have these black boxes like airplanes do.

is ford collecting data on me? >> absolutely not and we do not track where you are or where the vehicle is. and that was just mistakenly said, it was just not right. bigger conversation about the importance of privacy and we absolutely our number 1 priority is to focus on the privacy of our consumers and to help them with their driving experience. we absolutely do not keep track of data. >> ali velshi and allen molally, and now, standing tall, people in the central african republic where the people are fighting back. plus state of affairs, the french president is planning to lay out his plans for the the economy but a different affair could overshadow those plans. and surprising talks with the most interesting people of our time... >> parkinson's forced his wife to type his novels. >> not only was i typing badly, but i was hallucinating...

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>> th welcome back to inside story. i'm ray suarez. we're talking about judge in the central african republic sectarian violence has cild at least 12 -- killed at least 1200 people.

our correspondent barnaby phillips reports from the village of zaray some starting to return home. >> people have fled, houses burnt down. these villages have suffered attack after attack. but in this settlement near the town of bosangura hundreds of people arrive out of the bush for a visit from a u.n. official. they were hanging on his every word. >> we want to hear about your need. >> he was shown all that's left of the health center. everything taken by the seleka militia. these people don't have a government that can help them. any assistance has to come from outside. >> the institutions of the state here don't exist. there's no health infrastructure, no schooling infrastructure. they really have to step up in an unprecedented way, to respond

to what is an unprecedented situation. it's so long now that this country, the people are this country, have been languishing and without very basic infrastructure. and support. >> there's so much destruction, it seems that the villages have lost absolutely everything. and yet we have seen some signs of hope. after months of living in the bush, in fear, there are some people here who have decided to come home. nina is busy. she's come out of hiding. and now she has to tidy up around her looted house. but inside, there's almost nothing left. and nina is ra loan wit alone wo children. muslim herds men murdered her husband last month. >> i've been left alone to raise these children.

i hope there's peace and the village market reopens so i can try to make money to feed them. >> reporter: this is the village militia, they might be brave although they don't have much to fight with. they know if they don't protect themselves no one else with. barnaby phillips, al jazeera in the central african republic. >> tonight thailand is on the brink. there is a live image from bangkok right now, the streets are awash with people, they are demonstrators lark out at the government demanding immediate changes. and they have blockaded many streets in ban cot, trying to get the prime minister to quit before elections in february. warrior, statesman, those words being used to describe ariel sharon. died after eight years in a coma. vice president joe biden joined

other international officials. >> before the israeli parliament, they said good-bye. be. >> an exceptional soldier, a commander who knew how to win. a leader who breathed a dream, a man who charmed us all even during the most difficult hours. >> they remembered his long military career, his political fall and return to power. and the nickname he used all his life, arik. >> arik understood in matters of our existence and our security we must stand firm. >> he had a north star that guided him. a north star from which he never, in my observation, never deviated. his north star was the survival of the state of israel. >> the man israelis once dubbed

king arik for his battle field victories, was given a full military burial. he was not buried in jerusalem which he fought for so much, but on his farm. next to his wife, soldiers who fought for him, brothers who voted for him and former supporters who strongly resisted. >> he developed the gaza strip and then withdrew, it made no sense. >> police deployed a security blimp and early warning sirens. >> 800 police officers border police and undercover police that are working on a ground level. >> that security limited attendance but the funeral wasn't erupted. his sons read the hebrew prayer

for the dead. some palestinians today called a war criminal and who more than anyone in the last 50 years defined the israeli state. nick shifrin, al jazeera on the farm on the negev desert. >> just outside the town of suday rote, no injuries were reported in either attack. today there's a new development that could help the lives of hundreds of thousands of people affected by fighting in syria. the government and main opposition group have agreed to allow humanitarian aid in some part of the country. it comes as secretary of state john kerry and others. romantic scandals are not

new, but this one getting a ton of attention. inside this fire storm allegations of a love affair and ash-har quraishi reports. >> the timing of allegations of an affair between francois hollande and ak tres julie galet, love is political testify lon that doesn't stick. >> it's the attitude i would say of tolerance on the part of the french which clearly separates private life from public life but that could evolve. i mean that from the moment when private life enters into public space opinion might change so it's important for francois hollande that this affair doesn't drag on that it doesn't take up the headlines for a long time. hollande's office has called the allegation a breach of privacy,

doesn't seem to be affecting the opinion of much of the french public. >> his private life has not changed my opinion of him politically in any case. you need to know how to disassociate the man in the public from the human being. >> no, because my opinion is very negative on who he is and what he does. but that for me is his personal business and what matters to me is what he does to france. after that his private life, what does it matter? >> what does matter parissian pundits say is his record on the economy not his record in the bedroom. >> you wanted to impress the french by the fact that he was a moral man, a man of dignity, simplicity and moral ri rigor. now sudden the french are discovering that he is a regular

man. >> his partner valerie is in hospital, needs rest, ash-har quara beingsishi, al jazeera. >> william, welcome. >> hi. >> the president is supposed to talk about what he's got coming up for the economy, france's economy in the coming year. i heard the woman in that peace just say it's not about his personal life it's about what he has done to france or what he is doing to france. what has he done to france's economy? >> not much and that's the problem. that's why he is very, very low in the poll, the unemployment is high, there's a very low economy growth and that's what really matters and that's at the core of his low popularity, that his record is very low right now and the french resent that. it doesn't help that there's a love triangle going on, that's

not a big deal at least for now, it might become a big deal but not right now. >> what about will the scandal matter tomorrow? >> it will matter if he doesn't handle well. the french have you know not a moralistic view of politics. they don't elect a president to be a priest, apastor or the immaculate conception. they want him to take care of business. tomorrow he will have to explain you know what is his version of what happened whether he is going to deny or you know admit the affair. and he will try to move on. but it's extremely complicated not to talk about it, when he has his girlfriend in the hospital, it's hard to break up with her, that's with he wanted to announce, on friday, that they were breaking up but it's hard not to talk about it. >> i've heard over and over that the french don't care about the private lives of politician he.

but you just said you have to at least explain himself with regard to this is that right? >> they don't care as long as it's sort of a story that doesn't affect the images that are projected. the problem right now he looks weak he looks silly he has his girlfriend in the hospital, he doesn't know what to say in what happened, he looks goofy in his helmet, in his scooter going after hours meeting his other girlfriend. that affects him, his image. if what he does after hours doesn't affect his image, he looks a little silly political theater, drama comedy and it might turn into a nightmare for him. >> morals aside what you've described it's the way he has handled his private life that really seems to matter or could matter to fremple voters and french -- to french voters and french citizens.

what could be the impact of this affair? >> well, it could derail this presidency. he wanted to relaunch his presidency, have a more centrist approach and policy, right now everybody wants to know what he has to say about the story. it is a problem. >> give me a quick taste if you would of what the stories have been like in the french media. >> well enough. we haven't covered it much because it's just allegation. the big problem, that's why he has a problem. there is a security breach that is a problem. we want to know who owned the apartment and what happened there. and also and it's the problem of the story. on friday the elyssez palacais, on saturday we learned she was

hospitalized, the first ladies, she doesn't want to leave the elysses palace, if he can't take care of business at home, how can he take care of business in handling the presidency? that's what people are feeling today. >> one thing for sure it does sound supremely complicated, we hope you will come back and talk to us about it. guillaume, it is good to see you. >> cheers. >> now the government wants them to pray up. plus returning to tom's, george and jerry back to the day at the restaurant, we'll tell you why.

is. >> welcome back to al jazeera america. i'm john siegenthaler in new york and here are the top stories. some people in west virginia can use their tap water again.

five days ago, a chemical leak contaminated the water supply of 300,000 people. west virginia's governor says tests show that the chemical is still in the water but is diluted to federal safety levels in most areas. more questions today for a new jersey governor chris christie. authorities are still trying to see if he misused sandy cleanup money on a tv ad featuring him and his family. this just days after the bridge-gate scandal. the audit could take months. in california two former fullerton police officers have been acquitted in the death of a mentally ill homeless man. kelly thomas died five days after the videotape struggle with several officers. the verdicts against were returned this afternoon. and joining me this afternoon is the father of kelly thomas, ron thomas, in fullerton.

welcome. >> thanks for having me. >> what was your reaction to the verdict today? >> the reaction to the verdict took a lot out of me. i don't have much left after two and a half years. it took a lot out of me. i went into it expecting it could be not guilty, which doesn't mean innocent but i couldn't believe they were found not guilty on all four counts. it's just unfathomable. >> what do you think happened tonight? >> it's clear to me on the video what happened. kelly is in what's called contemp of cop. he got under ramos skin, ban terg with the cop and ramos didn't like it and i don't think they meant to kill him but certainly to beat him severely and that's what they did but he did die from it of course. >> you know we have seen

incidents where police officers are engaged in conflict with mentally ill people, it continues to be a problem in this country. i mean, does this say -- does this say more, does this also say something about what's going on with the mentally ill? >> well, i don't think so. i think -- and i've been a deputy sheriff here in orange county myself here in southern california. there's a certain breed of person that typically wants to be in law enforcement. some are professional and some aren't. some are just -- have a badge and a gun and throw their weight around. and you know but then there's a lot of really good officers too. and that's what we had here. we had that group of bad officers that could just get away with anything. do what they wanted to do. and -- >> what was the motivate? in your opinion? -- motive in your opinion? >> i don't think this was a motive, i don't think there was a motive at all.

like i said, context of cop. kelly was batting around back and forthwith ramos, ramos didn't like it. kelly wasn't afraid. our whole family on both sides is nothing but law enforcement. he wasn't afraid of cops he grew up with them all his life. ramos was just being a punk. they are both 37 years old. kelly just didn't want to take his mouth and ramos didn't want to take kelly's mouth so ramos going to teach him a lesson. i don't think there was a motive, i think a schoolyard bully ramos wanting to beat kelly up and he called his buddies to help him and it really got out of hand. so -- >> is this the end of this for your family? >> this ends another chapter. for me i've been a strong advocate all along for the homeless and mentally ill. and now also we're looking at

possible the federal government stepping in, you know the department of justice and i hope that happens. and but i'll continue with what i'm doing. and one of the main things i want to do is change the peace officer bill of rights. we need to know when these officers are disciplined and what for. and primarily here to have learned that ramos and sensinelli were terminated from the fullerton police force, for violating policies, that's key and i need to get that changed. >> ron thomas, thank you for joining us. we appreciates that very much. >> thank you john. >> a victim of ponzi schemes to write off their losses was struck down last night, and that means that people who were misled by ponzi scheme prairps e

perpetrators like bernie madoff. >> thank y of victims out there like myself. there are people out there in my shoes who have set aside lost years of savings, retirement and because the federal -- the state zi not in line in step with the

schemes or any type of investment law. >> let's help our viewers understand what happened to you. you lost almost $1 million in your life savings to a bernie me it was called the michael mccann scheme. older people were contacted to invest in his billionaire cat corporation. he posed as a successful rap producer, producing folks, concert overseas, concerts in alignmding hotels where he entertain court with

the victim. >> so you invested with him? >> i invested in it. >> was it a million? >> it was a little over aese wed saved throughout my lifetime, my retirement. >> the state of california is taxing you to the tune of $133,000 on the money you had stolen is that right? >> that's correct. >> it seems impossible. when did you learn that and what was your reaction? >> i invested in this scheme the latter part of 2007. it's 2007 as you recall the market was taking a tremendous slide. i was responsible for taking ony

investment but not so, it was an elaborate scheme. >> so back to the taxes you are going to have to pay $133,000 in taxes if you can and i assume that's difficult at this point especially since you've lost the money. so what do you hear from the legislature, that how do they defend keeping this sort of tax system going? fo the moneys i had

planned to live on. >> i'm sorry to hear that and clearly the legislature may not have had the final say on it. so there might be a change in the law going forward that could affect you. peyou.

bernice feel as though system has failed me. >> bernice, thank you. >> thank you. >> in mexico tonight, something derrick dangerous and almost unbelievable. the government states it will step in between vigilantes, taking over a drug cartel doing whatever is necessary to take control. rachel levin reports. >> heavily armed men in northern mexico are now a common site. liberated dozens of towns from a drug cartel known as the knights telknightstemplar. announced that mexico's federal government intends to pr restore order in the troubled state of

micuacan. >> the government will take care of the safety of the communities, therefore we invite them to cooperate with the authorities by sharing all the information they have to stop the criminals. >> president enrique penna nieto's government, security situation has continued to deteriorates. on sun, a first gun battle broke out between the government and the cartel. the shootout lasted for hours but there was only one person injured. cars and trucked on fire, protesting the arrival of over 100 vigilantes. they are forcibly recruiting young men. the vigilantes, claim the young men are backed by the cartel. disarming the vigilantes won't be easy because they refuse to

enter into negotiation unless the leaders of the cartel are arrested. rachel levin, al jazeera, mexico city. ousted from his post, gustavo petro, is banned from politics for 15 years. the ruling was ratified monday, not clear yet when it will take effect or who will take over running the columbiaian capital of at least 7 million people. the government says petro was out of control when he ordered to take over garbage collection in 2012. astronauts about the mission. plus a new ij and an incredible story about the so-called hand of god.

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judge it was a very mis. >> it was a very miserable week at home. as for monday things look very much better, that isn't going olast very long. all this in the gulf coast is making its way up north and freezing rain is going to be a problem again, especially for northern parts of new england, vermont, as well as new

hampshire, if you are driving make sure you take some extra time. i want to take you up here to parts of the northwest where we are dealing with quite a bit of wind. actually some places have seen hurricane-force winds and we're talking particularly up here towards montana and wyoming. we're now getting a little bit more snow in the picture and it also means it's going to feel like blizzard like conditions there. the wind warnings have started to subside a little bit but tomorrow we will pick up some of the same effect. a lot of nasty conditions here, that will be the problem. down here southwest red flag warnings that are in effect up along parts of california. you can see here in los angeles because of the drought situation, as well as the very low humidity, 13% right now, that is going to really couple in with the if a ana d toda -- a ana winds. los angeles you are at 19% and

that's what we're looking at today. >> start with one issue ad guests on all sides of the debate. and a host willing to ask the tough questions and you'll get... the inside story ray suarez hosts inside story weekdays at 5pm et / 2pm pt only on al jazeera america >> and now back to indonesia where an volcano has been erupting for four months sending 25,000 people running for cover. devastating the livelihood of

farmerfarmers whose crops are bg destroyed. step fasson, what's going on now? i think we're having some -- i think we're having some technical difficulty with step. we're going to try to get back to her in a little while. in the meantime we move on to this story. one small step for virgin galactic, one large step for space travel. ripped branson's space company made a giant leap, the spaceship ignited the engines, climbed to the middle earth atmosphere, for katy perry, angelina joe leah, brad pitt, they have all signed up for flights.

will they experience weightlessness? will they have to wear a space suit? here to answer these questions is lee roy chow, joins us from texas, former astronaut. lee roy great to have you with us. >> great to be here. >> tell us what you expect to happen when this flight actually happens. >> well, i think suborbital flight which is what virgin galactic is going to be doing. means you're going to be going out of the atmosphere, into space, exceeding 100 kilometers or 62 miles and just a few minutes the passengers will be in space and will be weightless before falling back to earth so they will experience what it feels to be weightless and what it feels like to be out of earth's atmosphere and blackness of space and a few minutes of spaceflight. >> it's about five minutes that they will be in that sort of situation. five minutes and what is the cost, $200,000?

>> i believe the tickets are somewhere around $250,000. maybe you know the early ones, the guys that got in first might have gotten a bit of a discount. i'm not sure. >> so 250 for about five minutes of quite a sight. i mean, is this -- is this the future, commercial space as we know it, or see it here, in these renderings from virgin galactic? >> well, i think this is the first step of commercial spaceflight with bringing tourists into space, bringing people into space. so it's an exciting thing even though you're only going to be in space for five minutes. i should back up a minute and say the actual flight will be longer. the space two has to take off underneath the flight of white knight 1. it takes some time to go that

high. then the ride will go pretty quickly, zoom into space like i said a little over 100 kilometers and you'll get five minutes or so thereabouts in the actual environment of space which is defined above 100 kilometers before falling back down into the atmosphere. but i think all in all it should be a pretty thrilling ride, especially the ones that go on the first flight, pioneering something that hasn't been done before. >> will they be weightless suborbital? >> they will be weightless when they come over the arc so for a few minutes they will be weightless. >> how competitive is this industry? >> you see commercial taking people up into space in its infancy, when and if virgin galactic get their first passengers up there, the russians have been taking the odd multimillionaire billionaire

into space every few years. they've taken seven people so far over the years but the price of an orbital stay aboard the international space station with the russians is quite a bit more and the market price is around $62 million so that makes $250,000 pretty small. but if you do it on a per-minute or per-hour basis i'm not sure. >> do you see see mom packing up the kids and taking them up on a space trip? >> you know i'm hopeful that day will come. what it will take is a break through in propulsion because the main cost in getting up into space is the cost of the rocket or the vehicle that gets you up there. if you are launching a commercial satellite these days you're going to be paying somewhere $100 million, and how many people you can get on a spacecraft then the numbers get big pretty quickly. they don't divide out to much smaller or to the range that the average mom and dad can afford

to take their family into space but i think it's natural for humans to be pushing the boundaries going further and i think those breaker throughs will come just as many break throughs we take for granted were unimaginable hundreds of years ago. i'm hoping that in the future spaceflight will become much more routine. as i said the virgin galactic the suborbital is the first step in getting tourists into space. >> lee roy chow, thank you very much for explaining the experience and what this will be like. >> my pleasure, good to be here. >> it's called the hand of god, the energized remains of a star, resembles a hand, the image captured by spectroscope, giving

us the high energy cloud material ejected from an exploded star, researchers can't say whether or not the hand-shape is an optical illusion. coming together, at least for a day, the story behind this picture. >> al jazeera's investigative unit has tonight's exclusive report. >> stories that have impact... that make a difference... that open your world... >> this is what we do... >> america tonight next only on al jazeera america

>> no doubt about it, >> no doubt about it,

>> alex rodriguez continues to fight major league baseball. now he is fighting his own uni union. michael eaves is explaining if you can. >> we expected this to go for a while, it's going for a while. an independent arbitrator clear an convincing evidence that alex rodriguez used performance enhancing drugs from lab biogenesis. rodriguez filed a federal lawsuit against the league as well as the players association of which he is a member in an attempt ooverturn his 162 game suspension. arbitrator fred horowitz based his rulings on the testimony of

paul b boche. >> he would put one of these trokys ten 15 before game time. a player could take it right before game time and by the time they get back into the locker room after the game and there was any possibility of testing, they would test negative. they would test clean. >> i spoke to a medical expert tonight who works with a professional sports team and also prescribes hormone replacement therapist and he says the hormone is bioidentically, unlike a anabolc steroids. he wasn't clear how it would clear the end of the game, because it would be impossible to distinguish the troky

testosterone. looking at tony bosche that he would be a snake oil salesman what he was telling alex rodriguez. >> what are they supposed to do? >> elevate your testosterone levels, when you get 40 to 50 years old, your testimon testose levels lower. >> they are keeping mlb from knowing and escaping the test. how did mlb get back into the game? >> if everybody knows the test it's easy to go into the lab and figure out how to defeat the test. ted bird covers major league baseball for baseball today and how the test needs to go beyond

the players themselves. >> the big step forward would be punishing the teams. the yankees benefit from alex rodriguez from taking the performance enhancing drugs, while being on the team. and now they benefit from him clearing all that payroll. there is no incentive for the teams to police themselves. until there is, there's no way to clear the game. >> holding the teams responsible for policing their own players illegal drug use would likely go a long way in ridding the games of peds, how about punishing the teams? >> what's the union's reaction? >> there is a little surprise, for the first time ever the player's union is headed up by tony clark who used to be a team mate of alex rodriguez. it is unfortunately, claim completely without merit and he

will aggressively defend ourselves and our members from these charges. the players association, has vigorously defended mr. rodriguez. i'm confidence that players association will prevail. tony clark. >> michael thank you very much. for nine years seinfeld was one of the most popular shows on tv and made to tom's restaurante most popular, called monk's on the show. there reportedly to film a episode of comedians in cars getting coffee.

i'll see you back here again tomorrow night. . welcome to al jazeera america. i'm john siegenthaler in new york. here are tonight's top stories. two former fullerton police officers have been acquitted in the death of a mentally ill homeless man. kelly thomas died five days after the struggle with police officers. the verdicts were returned this afternoon. new jersey governor chris christie, federal investigators investigating his ties to federal relief funds. looking to see if christie illegally used sandy relief funds for ads of him and his