interpreter welcome to aljazeera america. i'm del walters, and these are the stories we're following for you. interpreter it comes up with something, a shotgun. interpreter a test for florida's controversial stand your ground law. the trial beginning over the shooting death of a teenager. and protecting consumer financial data. security breaches involving millions of you, and seattle fans celebrating that big super bowl win over denver.

jury selection is set to begin in a trial that once again raises questions about florida's controversial stand your ground law. the case centers on the death of a black teen killed by a white man. 17-year-old jordan davis was unarmed. and he was shot over loud music. natasha, this case is drawing comparisons to the death of trayvon martin. interpreter it sure is, but others will say that there are similarities which will be unveiled in the trial. suspect is 47-year-old michael dunn. we learned a lot about it from letters tha that he wrote to relatives from jail.

and he lays out his version of events. he said he had never been "so scared in his life" and he thought that the teenagers would kill him and instead he killed 17-year-old jordan davis, and he also said what he thinks about the media attention in the case. i guess its news when someone dares not to be a victim. lucy mcbath often sits in her son's room to be close to him. interpreter people always said that jordan was my shadow. he cared about people. and he had such a joy for life. interpreter the life of 17-year-old jordan davis ended in this suv in 2012. he and three friends were at a jacksonville gas station when 46-year-old michael dunn pulled alongside of him. dunn was a tourist, visiting the city with his girlfriend. he politely asked the teenagers to turn down their music, and

they complied at first. interpreter the music comes back on, trouble. interpreter things quickly escalated. dunn told the police he pulled out a gun because he thought the teenagers had one too. interpreter this guy goes down on the ground and comes up with something, and i thought it was a shotgun, and he goes, you're dead. and quicker than a flash, i shot >> reporter: dunn shot into the suv eight times, killing davis. then he drove to his hotel, ordered a pizza and drove home the next day. the police never found a weapon in the teenager's possession. dunn is using florida's controversial it stand your ground law, and we spoke to attorney about the case. interpreter under the law they don't actually have to have a weapon. they have to reasonably appear

to have a weapon and they're going to shoot him. >> reporter: davis was killed nine months after george zimmerman shut and killed trayvon martin in florida. interpreter this is different than zimmerman, he was not injured in any way, and i think it's a much more difficult case >> reporter: when zimmerman was acquitted, davis was upset, he told his mother, he fet like young black men had to be on their guard. interpreter he said, i have to run, mom, nobody is going to shoot me, i'm going to be okay. >> reporter: she's feeling anxious as the trial starts, especially as she thinks the defense might portray her son. but her mother gave her advice. interpreter you have to stand firm. >> reporter: to give inflammatory comments about her son, and they say no matter what

comes out in the trial, they're fiercely going to defend his image. interpreter in the trayvon martin, it was front and center, and what about his parents? interpreter davis' parents have been very vocal about their desire to repeal stand your ground laws. 32 states have stand your ground laws on the books, and last fall, davis' mother joined trayvon martin's mother, and they testified before the judicial committee, exploring stand your ground allows, and davis' parents would like to see the laws repealed and this would be a fitting legacy for their son. interpreter janeson. janet yellen was sworn in a couple of hours ago, and she's premising ben bernanke, he will be a fellow at the books

institute, and congress is taking aim at the credit card. the banking industry and cumer groups. they are that those groups. lisa stark is in washington right now, and what do lawmakers hope to accomplish? they're talking about whether they need a national standard. 46 states and the district of columbia have their own standards but there are no federal standards, and as you mentioned, the secret service will be testifying, and we have had a look at their testimony. secret service will say that the quantity, quality and the complexity of these frauds is just increasing, and the investigation is very tough to undertake. they go all over the world when they try to trace back who broke

into the systems to try to steep these credit card and debt card numbers. there were in 2013, 600 breaches, 36 times more than 2012 and the target breach was one of the largest ever. the massive breach of the nation's largest retailer, could not have come at a worse time, at the busy holiday season. 46 million customer's records stolen. the online hackers. then it happened again, this time at neiman be marcus, data from about 1 million customers compromised. and now michaels, the largest arts and crafts store, announced that it may have been hit by hack,. it has caught the attention of washington, and it is there that hearings will be held today to try to figure out who is responsible for protecting

consumers from cyber attacks and how. expected to testify at the hearing, safeguarding consumer's financial data, will be the secret service, hunting down those who are responsible for the breaches at target and neiman mark us, and backing up the service. interpreteservice. i can confirm that we are trying to find not only the perpetrators of these data breaches, but the individuals and the groups exploiting that data with credit card fraud. also, wider use of heavily encrypted computer trips and pins. the technology would replace the stripe on the back of the credit cards, the likely source of the breaches.

right now, our system is really cold and insecurity. and when you put a chip on the cards, it makes it almost impossible for hackers to use the cards. >> reporter: as an added security, the pins, the new safeguards are already being used in asia and europe, where some companies saw credit card fraud decline by more than 70%. >> reporter: in the future, the hackers won't be able to take the simple data theft and turn it into credit cards, and fraud, and this will prevent that. >> reporter: now, consumers are vulnerable not only when they go in the store, but increasingly with online transactions. experts say that those cards with the chips won't really help in fact, so the committee will hear about some experiments with what is called a virtual credit card. you have one number and you use

it for an online purchase, and that number isn't good again. so all kinds of solutioning presented today. lisa, some of us remember good old cash. lisa stark. >> reporter: thank you. a new study shows that the abortion rate is lower in an in decades. louisiana, it has some of the toughest anti-abortion laws anywhere. >> reporter: maria couevas ran an o.b.g.y.n. clinic for years, with many services for abortion. if the patient has the baby, it's the patient's choice, not mine. >> reporter: couevas said that they had two clerical errors, a missing signature, and a blank

message of thousands of documents. i was told that there was nothing to do that i wouldn't get a deficiency. this was their job and they had to find something. >> reporter: then new emergency order. the new rules would go into effect in april. critics say that the new rules are unrealistic requirements, including tripling the size of procedure rooms. interpreter no currently operating facility has a clinic that large or even close to t anti-abortion says that it's as

complicated as others. they want people to know that they are going to have this abortion, and are they going to have problems in the facility? probably not, and that's why it's the state's job to make sure that these vulnerable women are protected. louisiana law has clarified that we don't want abortion louisiana. that's the standing of the louisiana law, and the supreme court has said that the state can treat abortion differently than other services. >> interpreter: iservices it way before there was an attempt for the anti-abortion ban >> reporter: they didn't respond to our attempt for an interview. interpretenew documents will bed

over in the so-called bridgegate scandal with chris christie. some of them have been granted an extension. his stafforded several lanes of the george washington bridge to be closed for days and caused traffic jams. interpreter> thjams. interpreter see hawks have the potential for a football dynasty, and some believe that peyton manning's run could be coming to an end. interpreter it's snowy and it's lucky that they avoided mother nature's wrath for a few hours. interpreter it could have been so much worse. >> reporter: do we have a dynasty in the making?

that's a young team. >> reporter: that's the key to the dynasties. when you look at the dynasties in the nfl, they're young. the average age is 26 years old and on top of that, russell wilson, we saw what he was able to do, he's only entering his third year in the nfl. and the russell wilson camp can't even start renegotiating his contract until the fourth year. so the seattle seahawks, they pick up the players very young, and 23 players were undrafted. so i believe that we have a dynasty in the making with the seahawks. >> reporter: the seahawks are young, but peyton manning is 37 years old and coming off of a brilliant season, but people are going to hang this around his neck, the loss, and does this affect peyton's legacy? >> reporter: unfortunately it

does, a cerebral aspect, if you follow this, they say it has tarnished his legacy. three super bowls and only one win, but you have 11 guys in the trenches and unfortunately, his obvious i have line dioffensiver him, and the team failed. >> reporter: you say failure, because that brought it in. and what happened? the entire week, getting folks here to met life stadium. and 15,000 people. and it ended up being 20,000 people that they needed to get here in a five hour span, and then after the game, it was a

complete mess. they brought in 20 buses from the new jersey transit and it didn't help. it took 25 hours. >> reporter: it sounds like pete carroll needed to run the transportation system. they are the super bowl 48 champions, and nita marks, thank you for your time. i'm john henry spitting from met life stadium. thank you. thank you, an autopsy scheduled for phillip seymour hoffman. he struggled with addictions, and the new york medical examiner will be conducting that autopsy. coming up, the ukrainian president called in sick, but thousands of protesters say they want him to stay away for good.

interpretethe ukraine's presidek to work today. and meanwhile, the opposition leader in lithuania, seeking medical treatment. he was abducted and tortured and left for dead last week. jennifer glasse is in kiev, and they are questioning his ability to lead.

>> reporter: yes, the opposition would like the president to step down or at least call early elections, and he has given indications that he will do that, and we have just heard from the foreign minister in kiev, and no consideration from him. and he pointed out how much the president has already succeeded. and president yanokovych will have to find a new prime minister. and they declined to take the job as prime minister. and president yanokovych could start direct negotiations with the opposition. they have had three sessions in the last week and a half or so, but have come really to know conclusions. and in parliament today, we saw the opposition leaders meeting with the members of yanokovych's party to try to lay out their condition. the opposition would like to overturn that and get it.

do we know of any meetings that have taken place? >> reporter: we do know that they laid out their positions and the opposition very clearly tried to persuade yanokovych's batter of regions to come over to their side. and the opposition said that the members of parliament recognized the government. but in parliament they voted on the side of the president. last week, the president went to convince his politicians, his parliamentarians to vote his way, and they pushed through an amnesty bill that pushed through parliament. and the opposition is changing that, to get a bill to relieve 160 opposition activists in kiev and the country. and they're hoping to get the parliament to look at changes to the constitution, to reverse the changes that president yanokovych made to give him

powers. they would like to go back to the older constitution to make it a share. interpreter jennifer, thank you very much. aljazeera is condemning a leaked video on tv that shows the arrest of two of our colleagues from cairo. they appear to be taken by the security officials who arrested the men, all of them are being held without charge now for over a month. and stephanie reports. >> reporter: the privately owned channel, the journalists held in their hotel run. the voice belonging to the security officer is heard asking mohammed about his accreditation to which he replied i was told

many times that our english position is valid, otherwise i would not have accepted the job. dramatic music, and what looks like a mobile phone camera picks up laptops, a microphone and printer and other things used by trade and judicial lifts the world over. aljazeera news has condemned the videos. saying that if this video was leaked, it vitals standards of justice, and if it came out by mistake, the process is called into question. they are also not operating in cairo secretly. the team mild several reports prior to their arrest. this is not an hue of accreditation. them not having their reports shows their incarceration, and they should be released forthwith. aljazeera arabic had their cairo

offices closed down by egyptian authorities, after a revolution that had hosni mubarak taken from power. accreditsations have not always been issued. aljazeera says the bizarre dramatization of the footage appears to demonize our journalists. mohammed fahi and mohammed have been held for a month. aljazeera calls for their immediate and unconditional release. stephanie decker, aljazeera. looking at business news, taking a turn for the worst. factories at the lowest level in months. and right now, the dow down 188

points, following the worst decline in blue chips in 32 years specifically. interpreter chrysler had it's best january assistance interstate. jeep soaring 38%. ford sales dropping, and the bad weather led to a drop-in demand. and the cold weather putting a freeze on gm. their stocks falling 12% in january and a programming change tonight. ali velshi talks about rebuilding the dream on aljazeera america. coming up next, the japanese alps is a cold mountain range to climb, and a region where a lot of couples are choosing to get married.

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america. i'm del walters. here are your headlines. congress looking at your credit card information. representatives from the industry and banking are set to testify in a few hour, and looking at the data theft from neiman marcus and michael's. janet yellen will be the first woman as chairman of the federal reserve. yellen is set to make her first report to congress next week. ukrainian president, yanokovych is back at work after being sick for several days. and at first new yorkers why excited about the super bowl, and now there's concern over another snowstorm. dave warren is here, and i know they're singing a song, what a difference a daypacks. yeah, down from the 50s, and i won't sing, but we're talking about the snow. there's a little bit of rain,

but now it has changed over to snow. and the visibilitied are down. the airports here, 3 to 4 hours delay here. jfk, the icing going on, and dc, less than an hour as the traffic causes the delays. visibilities are down, and that is because the snow is coming down. new york quarter mile, and philadelphia, half mile and that's where the snow is. once it comes down, the visibility decreases to a quarter mile. philadelphia, to the south it's rain, and to the north, it's heavy snow. this is not the light, fluffy snow, it is wetter snow, and its causing problems at the airports. but by 3:00, it will be ending and 5:00, it's clearing out and we get a brief break, because we're looking at another storm coming in, and that will impact this same area by tuesday night and wednesday. so we're all clear at least for tuesday. the next storm did bring needed rain to california.

but this spin here, that's low pressure, and it will move across the rockies and intensify just east of the rockies. this is tuesday now across the southern plains, and ice, and heavy snow, and maybe a foot of snow in some areas. by 6:00, it's beginning to move up to the great lakes, and wednesday, it's in the northeast. and you get the cold air coming in, big mix area, so be we could see ice with the freezing rain, maybe half an inch accumulation in pennsylvania. but the timing is early wednesday, and throughout wednesday, it begins to clear out and you get the dry air coming in, but the cold air is behind it. with the accumulation, ice and snow in the same area, and that will be tuesday and wednesday. dave warren, thank you very much. and when it comes to weddings, some couples want something special, but not in japan. four couples were married at the

japanese central house. they exchanged vows at 8500 feet. and it's in the coldest period of the year to promote winter. thanks for watching aljazeera america. i'm del walters. and "inside story" is next. this this believe deeply in the power of art to change the world. seegers' work and whether that spirit survivors today is the inside story. hello. i am ray sworees. pete seeger had about at it so long, plunging himself into theling passo