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this is al jazeera america. live from new york city, i'm tony harris. a convicted murderer on the run after escaping prison. ice and snow, the flight cancellations are already mounting. the dow falling more than 300 points on signs of weakness in the economy. and controversy over this coke ad, that aired during the
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super bowl. some calling it unpatriotic. a michigan man who laughed after he killed four people more than 20 years ago, is on the run right now. law enforcement agencies are looking for michael david elliot. elliot escaped last night from a prison in ionia, michigan and he escaped. police say he abducted a woman and drove her to middlebury. michigan. bisi onile-ere, do we know how he managed to escape? >> yes, i'm told tony, by authorities, that this man managed to escape going through two fences. apparently he was wearing a white kitchen outfit so he was able to blend in with the snow. just a short time ago we do have
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an update of the story, town in northern indiana, the car was found there. police continue their search. now again this all stems from elliot breaking out of prison in mid michigan last night, shortly thereafter he abducted as well as car jacked a woman by using a box cutter. and they traveled a short distance away, stopped near the indiana-michigan oborder, that's where she managed to get away and called police. unfortunately by the time the police got there, he had already fled in her jeep four-door liberty. he was spending life in prison killing four people, despite his history, this is a man who had no problems when in prison.
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take a listen. >> preliminary indications are he acted alone, he had no assistance, entirety a one man operation. this particular man had no institutional problems for many years. had a level 2 classification, wasn't he warden? that's a little step down. based on their performance in the institutions. nothing in this man's history would have indicated a high risk for escape. >> reporter: again, investigators stressing at this point that they believe that elliot was acting alone. investigators there at that mid-michigan prison they're also trying to talk to his prisoners or his fellow prisoners as well as go through his e-mails and other mail to figure out exactly where he may have ended up next. and authorities also stressing this afternoon because they don't nowhere this man is, if you just so happen to come across him, do not approach him, calm 9/11.
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tony. >> was this a maximum security prison where he was being held? and are authorities still of the opinion that he is in michigan or could he be out of the state? >> reporter: i'm told this was a maximum security prison. they don't believe he was in michigan. they have a feeling he may still be on foot and there's probably a really good chance that he's still in that area. >> bisi onile-ere, appreciate that thank you. a winter storm dropping snow on northeast, thousands flights have been cancelled, numerous accidents on the roads as you would expect. and there's already another storm on the heels of this one. let's check in with dave warren. another one on its way? >> take a little time to
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forecast. let's focus on what's happening now. here's the back edge of this storm. the radar shows the storm is very heavy, and this rain-snow line close to philadelphia and new york. heavy snow not that light fluffy snow. heavier snow that continues to come down. here is the back edge, it will be clearing out and ending in just the next couple of hours. in new england, storms off the coast. so it's all clear overnight tonight. the temperatures are right about freezing but will be dropping a bit as we look at the temperatures dropping down below freezing by 10:00 tonight and into the mid 20s, unsure surfaces and patchy ice, 2:00 o'clock we're at 17°. this storm will come up right behind it, already seeing winter storm watches as we expect the
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snow and ice to develop and tonight across the northeast. we'll look into that with the national forecast a little bit later. >> thank you dave. on wall street, wow, the trading day just wrapping up, not a good one, not for this first day of the dow. the blue chips fell into triple digit territory for the third time for the year. dropping 326 points. we'll talk about what prompted this selloff in al jazeera america. people have had their credit and debits cards breached add target and other retailers, to keep your information safe, maybe safer, representatives from government agencies and industry groups are testifying. , john terrett is there for us.
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what are we hearing from this panel so far. >> four expert witnesses we've just had the first witness, william floon ann noonan. he spent a very long time looking into cyber-crime. his message was that these preaches of security we're seeing at u.s. corporations, particularly the big 3, michael's the craft shop, neiman marcus, and target the really big one, these types of security breaches have been going over the last three years. the majorities of hits are coming from outside the united states and eastern european countries appear to be the location with russian interestingly enough being the cover language. mark warren is the senator from virginia, has had a lot to say on the issue as well.
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making it very clear that the responsibility to try and the stop this lies with the government, with the companies and with you and me, tony who use our debit and credit cards all the time. we must check our statement to see how that's going on there. this is what he has to say. >> government has a role to play. industry has a role to play. but as consumers we need to be more vigilant as well. >> reporter: and breaking news, tony, as well, white lodging which is a company on the west coast is telling us according to a report in the new york times, their computers have been hacked. they look for hilton and star woods. even going on today. >> it's continuing. what are lawmakers attempting to accomplish with these hearings? >> they want everybody on the same page. there's a hearing involving the
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cfo of target, that's the senate judiciary committee. they all want to be singing on the same hymn sheet here on capitol hill. jessica rich is the director of consumer protection and she was another expert win witness toda. while there are state laws to help stop this security breach going on, she said at the federal level that could be very helpful and something the congress could turn to swiftly. >> while we have tools and we're using them to address data security failures by companies it would be extremely helpful to have a federal law requiring security not just notification with civil penalties. >> that's her main message is really we need to get everybody in the congress moving in the same direction, to move swiftly to bring in appropriate laws to stop this from happening, tony. >> on the question of stopping
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this from happening can technology play a role here? >> it already exists. in asia and europe they don't have the type of credited we have here. -- credit cards here. chip and pin technology, so-called smart cards, these big companies are looking to get it here within the next two years. >> john, appreciate it, thank you. florida stand your ground law is facing a account failing-year-old jorngd davis, the black teenager was unarmed when he was killed in a dispute over loud music. natasha guinane, jury selection is underway and as it was in the trayvon martin case, florida stand your ground law will be on trial once again. >> it surely is tony.
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and just to give you a little bit of context. jordan davis was killed nine months after george zimmerman shot and killed trayvon martin. just in the case with george zimmerman the defendant in this case, michael dunn is expected to use a stand your ground defense. luceie mcbath often sits in her son's room to feel closer than him. >> people used to say jordan was my shadow. a good heart. he cared about people. and he had such a joy for life. >> 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 dunn pulled alongside them. he politely asked the teenagers to turn down their music. they complied at first.
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>> the music comes on live and let live and don't need any trouble. >> reporter: things quickly escalated. dunn pulled out a begun because i thought the teenagers had one too. >> he gets down. on the ground, and comes up with something, he says you're dead, (bleep). and i shot. >> dunn shot into the suv eight times killing davis. then he drove to his hotel, ordered a pizza and drove home the next day. police never found a gun in dunn's car. we spoke with high profile defense attorney roy black about the case. >> under the law, they actually don't have to have a weapon. it just needs to reasonably appear to the defendant that they had a weapon and were going
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to kill him. >> the cases have drawn many dpairns. >> he shot into a car with four youths in it. this is different than with zimmer. h-- zimmerman. >> he told his mother he felt like young black men had to be on their guard. >> he says i got to run, mom. nobody's going oshoot me. i'm going to be okay. >> she says she's feeling anxious as the trial starts, especially as she thinks the defense might portray her son. but she says martin's mother gave her some advice. >> you know the truth and you have to stand firm. >> we tried to speak with the dunn family. they refused. dunn recently settled a civil suit, for allegedly making defamatory comments about their son.
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tony. >> thank you natasha. thousands of documents involve the bridge-gate scandal evolve chris christie are turned over to a panel. david wildstein the man who ordered the closings. his attorney says there is evidence christie knew about the closings as they happened. let's talk to david shuster. >> tony first, phone records, e-mails in 20 different people at the port authority office. they will begin looking at these documents tomorrow. in the meantime, chris christ is getting hammered, the bizarre mearnl in which christie is trying to discredit wildstein. our the weedged, wildsteen
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allegation christie knew much more than he has acknowledged. federal prosecutors are already looking for evidence of a criminal coverup. over the weekend the governor trying to get back at wildstein distributed a 700 word memo to reporters, republican strategists declaring: in david wildstein's past people have described as tumultuous. and described as not productive. 16-year-old kid, he wildstein sued over a public high school election, and was accused of deceptive behavior. he was an anonymous blogger known as wally ed. after reading christie's claims they now like wildstein even more and like chris christie
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even less. after trying to make accusations over wildstein in his high school years. one investigator said talk about claim. if you are going to engage in character assassination it has to make sense. bloging anonymously and being controversy in high school that makes no sense. >> we have no idea what wildstein has here. we know the subpoenas are out but how much is this kind of back and forth hurting the governor? >> tony, that gets right to it. the jury is out about the original information, the governor by himself, for governor christie to decide okay he needs to go after a critic by talking where his deept isive foirks in high school, if that's
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the material that's going to discredit this guy, that says a lot about governor christie, that has a lot of people shaking their head hand sayings, american this guy isn't ready for the national stage after all. a high school student is in custody. 10th grade student armed with two rifles went to a school in moscow. he killed a teacher and a police officer and took more than 20 people hostage. the student eventually gave himself up. al jazeera paul brennan has more. >> it was a father going in for the son but the reality trpped it was a teenage boy, who went in looking for a geography teacher armed with two rief rifs and the fatality was a teacher
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and the alleged shooter has been taken into custody. the gun shots were heard by pupils who were rapidly evacuated and gave their eyewitness reports of what went on. about. >> translator: those are the windows of our classroom. we were told immediately to move away from the windows then everyone was led into the corridor. we were led into the performance hall. everything was crying. >> translator: everything was fast, there was panic. >> translator: mommy, save me, he has a rifle. it's i not a joke. i texted her to call the police. >> the teenager is taken into custody. we are told by the inthernl intl ministry that he is going to be
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examined by a psychiatric professional. what motivated this boy to do this may become evident in the next hours and days. the security shows how alert the police and the security forces are in russia so close to the sochi olympics. the schools were put on alert and lock down. there is really an appreciate -- appreciation that there is a high security status and they are not taking any chances. >> the united states is considering sending financial aid to ukraine, the u.s. an the european union are holding preliminary negotiations whether to send aid once the new government is formed. jennifer glasse is live with us.
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i'm going to get to that aid package in just a few minutes but the president is back on the job. what did he have to say today? >> we, senior vieshzs and really the most public things he said was warming about extremism. and a you know, really kind of dire words here, showing that he really is keeping the hard line here after taking four days of sick leave. it's a big week for the president tony. not only back at week it means he could resume negotiations with the opposition. the parliament immediacy tomorrow, they're expected to release some of the 160 activists who are in jail. president yanukovych, we're not sure where he's going ostand on things. extremism means he's still taking a position against the opposition. >> what about aid package between the u.s. and eu?
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>> european and u.s. aid is depending on revisions in processes here, procedures here to try and end corruption here. in they'd like to get in line with imf, international monetary fund, to get their help as well. the $15 billion aid package that u.s. russia offered creung, really ukraine in a tug of war between the ease and west, we don't believe that they can match that much, but financial help for now to try to move things forward as the political issue continues. >> coming up. philip seymour hoffman, the latest actor who has decide from
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an apparent overdose. and the domino effect on jobs.
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>> this was an ugly start to february. the dow falling 326 points. that is the biggest one-day decline since june. this is just since february, the blue chips have lost more than 1200 points in 2014. stocks lowered on a new report that says business stumbled in january. jennifer. >> thanks for having me on. >> that manufacturing report showed the slowest growth in that sector in eight months. and a big drop in new orders. the biggest, what, since 1980. how serious is all of this in combination? >> well, right now it doesn't
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look good. as you stated we haven't had numbers this low since may of 2013. but i think what it's showing, that along with the jobs report, the durable gts goods report, sd that we went into a very slow end of the year. but people are worried. >> jennifer didn't we get a nice pop fourth quarter gdp? i'm confused. >> we did. but the slow down, because we're still dealing with the staggering economy, the slow down is giving you pause. is the recovery losing its momentum? how is that affecting manufacturing jobs? >> that number about new orders seems particularly disturbing because these are businesses saying, look, i'm not placing orders into you, maybe the second quarter, that's particularly troubling isn't it.
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>> well, it is. also the end of the year, a lot of analysts also want to attribute this to weather. we should be in a holding pattern and see what the next numbers say. >> the january jobs report, coming out on friday. >> correct. >> what are the markets suggesting here? >> right now the markets are suggesting that it's just going to hold steady. as you nor there are a lot of people -- know there are a lot of people who have stopped looking for employment. the economy is sputtering, the last jobs report was weak. we are going to stay where we are which isn't good. we need to see an uptic in those numbers. >> hold on jennifer. you mean another john of about 70,,000 jobs created? >> about that. it has not been off to the races on this job creation. it just not what we need need to
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really gimp the economy that kick start. >> janet yellen will testify about the economy before congress next week. i can't wait for that. what's her biggest concern do you think moving forward at this moment? >> right now it's going to be joblessness. she has said that's a paramount issue. she knows it's connected to the economy. if we don't have jobs and get americans back to work the economy can't move forward. that's what she's passionate about and just what she needs to handle. >> jennifer streaks from washington thank you. >> thank you. >> nelson mandela's $4 million estate will being shared amongst his family, the understanding toes he was a member of.
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his third wife has the right to claim half his estate in the next 90 days. but mandela's family fought for control over his estate. up next on al jazeera america, why its popularity is rising and not just among celebrities. is.
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>> and welcome back everybody to al jazeera america. a man hunt is underway for a convicted murderer who escaped from a maximum security prison in michigan. michael elliot wore a white kitchen uniform to blend in with the snow. police say elliot may still be on foot. elliot was serving a life sentence for shooting and killing four people and burning down a house in 1973. figuring out how to protect your private information, this comes after millions of americans had their private data
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stolen, at places including target during the holiday season. bridge gate, e-mails messages and call records from 20 different people in the governor's office and at the port authority. an autopsy being conducted today into the death of oscar winning actor aphilip seymour hoffman. he was found dead with a sling e in his arm. envelopes containing what believed to be heroin were with him. in 2012 hoffman entered rehab to treat a heroin addiction. nationally. the dea has been cracking down on heroin abuse. jonathan betz has been looking into this for us here jonathan. >> the numbers are stunning.
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it's on the rise, not just philip seymour hoffman around corricory monteith. its users are also getting younger. but heroin is still less popular than cocaine and marijuana. overall though overdose deaths have tripled in the u.s. since 1990. now much of america's hoirn amen actually comes from mexico. yet it's the northeast and the great lakes region that consider heroin one of the biggest threats. in other parts of the country, meth or cocaine are considered to be bigger props but pittsburgh, vermont, even florida have all seen big spikes of heroin overdoses in recent years. why is heroin suddenly so popular? well frankly other drugs are
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harder to get. crack downs on prescription pills are more expensive. a lot of people start with the pills and move to heroin especially since a bag can cost as little as $6. yet it's extremely dangerous as we have seen. one in 4 become addicted, users underestimate its power and they overdose. >> let's talk about this a little bit more. robert parkenson, beach comber rehabilitation center in del ray beach. tell me why the number of heroin users has jumped 80% since 2007. >> crack down on the pill mill especially in florida. what you did is you crack down on the pill mills. but what they really forgot is the people using those pill mills. so you take away the pills and
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the addicts, they going to go to whatever opiate they can get and heroin is cheaper and easier to get. >> what does that mean for your business, treatment side of this, shutting down the pill mills going to heroin, what that is that meant for your business? >> well, it really didn't -- there's an increase. we've always had opiate addicts coming in. we've always seen it but what we're seeing now is a lot younger population coming in and they're using heroin now instead of the oxys and roxys what they are tell us is it's easier to get heroin than it is for a kid to try to buy beer or alcohol. >> an estimated -- jofn jonathas estimatinestimating 600,000 peo.
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it still lags behind people using marijuana and cocaine. is heroin abuse at this point in time a big enough problem to demand the kind of public attention that i think i hear you saying it needs? >> yes. i mean, it may be behind but it's quickly going to catch up. you know, we run a 16-bed facility in, i would say right now, 90% of our patients are opiate addicts. so heroin or opiates has gained in popularity. so i think you're going osee it pretty much overtake -- to see it pretty much overtake those two if we don't do something about it. >> and the something about it, is what? >> you know it's going to come from our side is that like i said before you stop the pill mills, you tries to go aft the
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suppliers -- after the suppliers and i don't think you have some success. you have to go after the demand. >> how do you do it? >> by offering people treatment. try to make treatment accessible, costly, you know because that's the best way you really have to stop this. you know, heroin was big in the i think '60s and '70s you know, and you know, then you started bringing on treatments, and at that time, you know, you seen heroin almost go away. so, you know, to me is, you got to offer people treatment. you cut these pill milsd -- pill mills down. great. you left over thousands of people addictto them and what did you do? you didn't add them any help. we were responsible. pill mills, the government was responsible for these people's addiction and you know shutting them down and not offering people any help is not going to
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work. that's why heroin's now on the uprise. you know. >> robert parkenson. robert is a directors of therapy at the beach comber rehabilitation center in del ray beach. thank you for your time. the u.s. abortion rate is at its lowest level since 1973 and at almost half of what they were that year. in a state where abortion laws are already difficult, tough, they are about to get even tougher. ben lemoin has more from an. >> maria cuevas ran an ob-gyn service in new orleans, for years, offering many services including abortions. >> it's the patient's choice not mine. >> terminating her med kate medd
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license. >> i wouldn't get a deficiency. no matter what. >> added more regulations under an emergency order. the new rules would go into effect in april. they are scheduled for discussion at a public hearing on tuesday. critics say the new rules include unrealistic requirements including mandating that clinics triple the size of procedure rooms. >> no currently operating facility has a clinic that large or that even comes close to that big. there's no medical necessity for that. it's not the -- it's bigger than the state now requires for ambulatory surgical centers where far more complicated procedures are performed. >> antiabortion activists say that abortion he are just as
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complicated as many other procedures and that the new regulations are vital for women's health and safety. >> they don't want women to know that they are going ohave this abortion. are they going to complain? are they going to report problems in these facilities? most reply not, it is their job to protect them from these abortion facilities. >> but there may be other motives as well. >> we have clarified we do not want abortion to be done in louisiana. that is the standing of louisiana law and the state has said that can be treated different than other services. >> is this an effort to to be abortion services completely? >> obviously. this is just another attempt by this administration to do a back door abortion ban. >> the louisiana health department did not respond to our request for an interview.
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ben lemoin, al jazeera, new orleans. >> video of our colleagues in cairo, appears to be shots by the arresting officials. peter greste, mohamed fahmy and baher mohamed have been held for over a month now. >> the privately held al jazeera channel broadcast, for the purposes of this people we've decided to use screen grabs rather than run the video. a voice thought to belong to a security officer is heard asking al jazeera acting bureau chief mohamed fahmy, about his accreditation and to which he answered, i was told the al jazeera english position is valid otherwise i would not have accepted the job. the beings ordeal on the video last been overlaid by
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incongruous music. al jazeera english's director of news, has condemned the video saying if this video was deliberately leaks it violates basic standards of justice. if it came out by mistake, the validation of the process is called into question. the team openly filed several packages and reports prior to their arrest. this is not an issue of accreditation. them not having full paperwork from the authorities in no way justifies their ongoing incarceration and treatment. they should be let go forthwith. rechtion that saw president hoz anhozany mubarak out icied.
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demonize and malign our journalists. it says this is the latest incident of incitement against the network and its employees. mohamed fahmy, peter greste and baher mohamed have been held for more than a month. the are network continues to ask for their immediate and unconditional release. >> research shows all 28 member states of the european union are guilty of padding government contracts, bribery and other practice pakistans. the study found the money lost could fund the eu for an entire year, construction happens at loam and regional levels, nuclear deal with world powers by this july.
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iran reached a temporary deal in november which gave it access to more than $4 billion in cash. today iranian state media said it received $550 million in a swiss bank account as part of the first installment. iran's foreign minister said it should stop accusing iran of building a weapon. >> the best guarantee that iran will never produce nuclear weapons is not limitation on iran's nuclear potential. because even a small power plant can produce a fuel for a weapon. if the country was termed to use it. >> another effort to save detroit's finances. maria innes-ferre joins us, maria.
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>> thanks tony. complicated deal involves detroit's prior pledge as collateral, to avoid defaulting on pension plan payments. a judge still needs to approve it. in ohio, an apartment building owner is in jail after a fire claimed the lives of two toaltoledo firefighters. dozens were at the courthouse for his arraignment. he is being held on a $5 million bond. in idaho dozens were arrested at the state capitol protesting for gay rights. the group were asking for, protections for gay and lesbian
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people. a police officer has been fired over a haircut. officer bernadette major giving a haircut to a woman under arrest. she cut off the woman's hair weave. the last thing you would do is go to jail and get a haircut. >> yeah yeah but you don't mess with the -- let me not say this. >> leave it at that. >> let's leave it at that. for centuries one piece of land has belonged to one family, for centuries. they farmed the land deeded to them by the bric british monarc. but a canadian farmer is putting up quite a fight. >> 85-year-old frank meyers drives around land that's been in his family for 215 years.
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>> 1798, we fought for the british. >> one of his abscess torres fled what is now the united states, the meyer family has farmed here ever since. no more. canada's government has exercised its rights. he won't go. >> i'm working for the people, so they have the food for years to come. but the bullies want to destroy everything. >> his supporters gathered at the site say they won't leave until government gives back the farm. >> frank probably knows every inch of this farmland in and out. he's worked it so hard, so long. and it's an emotional tie to the land. you got to love the land. >> silence is a terrible thing around you know, be constructive, speak up, stand
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together, you know, unite for a good cause and have each other's backs. >> for now they've delayed demolition of farm buildings. on a nearby hilltop, heavy equipment is ready to roll in again whether the orders are given. in canada, the government can ex appropriate as far as they pay are fair compensation. interit's meant to allow provinces and the federal government to get things done. >> this is king george iii of great britain. >> all around are remnants of one family paps mist and generations of --'s one family's history for generations. david and goliath, one man versus the canadian military. it's determined to proceed what's called a done deal,
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whatever frank meyers or his supporters say. daniel lack, al jazeera. >> blosht, there's another storm on -- believe it or not, there's another storm on the way. meteorologist dave warren is here. >> here's the storm we're tracking. this will be the computer forecast, it hasn't developed yet but it will. we're seeing snow, rain and mix in between. timing as it moves across the mid atlantic and the northeast, maybe the same track, freezing rain may be changing to rain. that rain-snow line could be a little bit further north. tuesday through wednesday, a foot in some areas half an inch as we wait the storm develop tony. >> this information from commercial featuring make the
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beautiful being sung in eight different lajs, can you not. -- believe it or not. >> cars believe it or not to speak to one another.
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>> al jazeera america is a stra
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>> welcome back everyone to al jazeera america. the winter olympics kick off in four days and today the olympic torch traveled through volatile caucasus region. it will reach sochi for the opening ceremonia ceremonies. police personnel have been deployed to protect the games but despite terrorist threats,
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visitors should feel safe. a pest company says it has been deployed to kill stray dogs near the olympics. the company doesn't say whether they kill the dogs and dispose of the carcasses. fire tome on social media. maria innes ferre is following that story. >> 20,000 comments on that commercial just alone. many of them criticizing coca-cola for airing a traditional american tune in eight languages. i want to show you a clip of that video. ♪ america america god shed his
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greats on thee [ foreign language ] >> now people set up this page on facebook boycott coke for antiamericannism. tell coke we will not stand for the proposition of deamericanizing, dear coke, your commercial is a slap to the faces of my italian and finnish an says torres who learned english. the coke ad should have been in english because we are all 100% english born. and not compromised by other languages. and then this comment, i wasn't offended, but then i don't have horrible friends. as for coca-cola it plans to launch a 90-second version of
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the ad in the sochi games. >> coke doubling down. maria, okay. self-driving cars may soon be a reality in the hopes of preventing collisions, new cars and trucks with technology that would allow cars to communicate with each other. could significantly reduce the deaths from car crashes. what is vehicle to vehicle communication? >> essentially it is a system whereby cars would automatically report each other's speed and location and sometimes even intentions, to other cars. and basically, warn drivers ahead of time before a dlition can occur. i actually had the opportunity to experience this kind of technology firsthand in a ford vehicle at the consumer electronics show in las vegas, last month, and here's what that
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looked like. >> right now we're simulating a scenario in which we would justing going normally through a green light. but now suddenly there's someone running the red. oh. and the cars communicate and warn each other basically that that's about to happen. so it's really a terrifying experience, you can go through a blind intersection and suddenly the technology beeps. we need to have systems that's not just warning a human driver but taking command of the car at that moment. >> how close are we to actually realizing this technology? >> we've seen some incremental strides. the real challenge is a legal one but the technology is pretty much there. volvo debuted a system called a road train system you would be driving along the highway and see a big rig truck specially designated to lead the road
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train, you would press the button and say yes and your car would automatically join a very tightly packed row of cars, take your hand off the wheel and not worry about it anymore. next step, after that five years, auto makers say it will be ten years we have cars that will train themselves. >> that was scary, approaching that intersection and it was the cars that signal. appreciate it. a look at the day taps top stories when we return. this is al jazeera merrick. al jazeera america. healthcare... ad guests on all sides of the debate. >> this is a right we should all have... >> it's just the way it is... >> there's something seriously wrong... >> there's been acrimony... >> the conservative ideal...
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>> this the live from new york city, we have a look at the top stories. this up withs an ugly start to february for wall street and the dow falling 326 points and that is biggest decline since june.
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they have lost 1200 points so far in 2014 and the stocks lower because of the report showing manufacturing growth stumbling in january. >> the police are hunting for a killer that escaped from prison. elliott car jack add keep after escaping from a prison in michigan and serving a life sentence for killing four people 20 years ago. >> autopsy is being performed today on philip seymour hoffman. he was found with a needle in his arm and they believe he died from on overdose. >> more dumeocuments are being turned over in the case of the bridgegate scandal in new jersey. congress is looking at the safety of the credit card data. the agencies are testifying at a
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senate hearing right now and the secret service is looking into the data breaches that affected tens of millions of americans. >> those are the headlines and tony harris and inside story is next on al jazeera america. that long awaited report on the keystone pipeline is being made public. it is not the support they need to end the argument. canada and u.s. oil is the inside story. hel

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